Trump Fires Official Over Jobs Report, Echoing an Authoritarian Playbook  —  In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn't like and promote his own version of reality.

Texas Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP's control of Congress  —  By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a Republican plan that would give the GOP five more seats to protect their narrow House majority.  —  Just now  —  Democrats in the Texas legislature …

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge  —  President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.  —  Just now

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine  —  How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.  —  The digital deluge is a familiar annoyance for anyone on a Democratic fundraising list.

Trump Is Very Mad at Charlamagne Tha God for Talking About Epstein  —  “I think this Epstein thing is going to be a way for traditional conservatives to take their party back,” the radio host said on Lara Trump's Fox News show  —  Donald Trump is angry and lashing out at radio host …

DOJ is walking back the White House's goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day … It's not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration's single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law.

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students  —  Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization.  —  SaveComment  —  The Trump administration is using rules, policies and formal agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Trump's Tariffs Are Making Money.  That May Make Them Hard to Quit. … Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore.  Even before the latest tariffs set in, revenue from taxes collected on imported goods grew drastically this year.Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

DNC chair says Democrats will start process of setting 2028 primary calendar this month  —  Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin said on Sunday that the party will begin deliberating the 2028 primary calendar later this month at a meeting in Minneapolis.

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die  —  Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead.  What happens when they get it wrong?  —  Two days after Jeff Fargo's mother died, he lay in bed, crying, at home in Nevada and opened his laptop to ChatGPT.

Laura Loomer Attack on West Point Appointee Reflects Larger Fight Over Trump  —  Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy.  Then a right-wing activist stepped in.  —  Hours after West Point pulled its offer to have her teach cadets …

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds  —  Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks.  Republicans are more complimentary of their party …

McCloskeys win back AR-15 rifle 5 years after Black Lives Matter protest confrontation  —  The St. Louis couple who went viral in 2020 for wielding guns as Black Lives Matter protesters marched outside their property have regained possession of their semiautomatic rifle.

The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds  —  The requests have come in letters, emails and phone calls.  The specifics vary, but the target is consistent: The U.S. Department of Justice is ramping up an effort to get voter data and other election information from the states.

Prince Andrew and Donald Trump's Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed  —  GROSS  —  An explosive new book heaps more shame on the disgraced prince.  —  Donald Trump allegedly handed Prince Andrew a list of masseuses after the two men engaged in a sick conversation about “p—y.”

A Tiny Conservative News Outlet Pioneered the Attack on Higher Education  —  Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college campuses.  The online site's cause has gone from fringe to mainstream.  —  Around the height of the pro-Palestinian campus protests last year …

You know who loves the Epstein scandal?  President-in-waiting JD Vance.  —  So is it that hard to believe Vance is watching Trump digging his Epstein hole deeper and deeper and thanking his lucky stars for the president's incompetence and history of loutish behavior?

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein  —  Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women  —  On 2 July, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against the music mogul Sean Combs, accused of horrific sexual abuse …

Ghislaine Maxwell, Elizabeth Holmes, And Jen Shah Are At The Same Texas Prison  —  Jeffrey Epstein's famous confidante, the disgraced founder of Theranos, and the former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City are all serving time at Bryan Federal Prison Camp.  —  As demands for President Donald Trump …

Wall St and Silicon Valley ride high as tariffs hit Main Street  —  Banks and Big Tech are booming but slowing US growth is hurting other companies across the board  —  A divide is widening in the US economy as the biggest banks and technology groups shrug off Donald Trump's tariffs …

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity  —  Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffs, but Trump's increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored  —  Donald Trump's frequently bizarre public appearances …

‘Knives out’: Switzerland descends into blame game after US tariff shock  —  President Karin Keller-Sutter under fire for failed trade talks with Trump administration  —  A blame game has erupted in Switzerland after the US announced an unexpected 39 per cent tariff rate on the Alpine country on its national day.