Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected  —  Wholesale prices rose far more than expected in July, providing a potential sign that inflation is still a threat to the U.S. economy, a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Thursday showed.  —  The producer price index …

Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.  —  A video showed a man repeatedly calling a group of officers “fascists” before throwing a sub sandwich at one.  —  A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent who was patrolling Washington this week …

Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was bystander outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says  —  The White House said E.J. Antoni was in town for meetings unrelated to Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau …

“Alarming”: Trump's Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier … President Trump's vaunted dispatching of troops into Washington, D.C., has managed to be both buffoonish and authoritarian.  Thus far it has involved little more than handfuls of National Guard members standing around and taking selfies.

Republican Senator Says He Doesn't Wear Seatbelt in D.C. Because He Fears Being Carjacked: 'I Don't Buckle Up'  —  Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said he does not wear a seatbelt while driving in Washington, D.C., lest doing so prevent him from acting quickly in case he's carjacked.

Trump Privately Dismissed Epstein Victims as ‘Democrats’  —  The president and his administration are struggling to bury the scandal around their handling of the convicted sex offender's case  —  Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress, and the president's allies across right-wing media …

Scoop: White House suspicious of Lewandowski's “temp” work  —  Corey Lewandowski doesn't want to clock out of his temporary government gig.  So, administration officials believe, he's avoiding clocking in. … - But administration officials tell Axios they believe Lewandowski …

First lady Melania Trump puts Hunter Biden on $1B notice over ‘false, defamatory’ Epstein comments  —  The Daily Beast retracted an article and James Carville apologized after publishing similar claims  —  EXCLUSIVE: First lady Melania Trump is putting Hunter Biden on $1 billion notice …

Kari Lake defends VOA cuts in court after warnings from Capitol Hill  —  As Trump lieutenant tells a federal judge she is following the law in dismantling the international broadcasting agency, emails obtained by The Washington Post show staff on Capitol Hill warned her about overstepping.  —  Just now

Defending Trump's Orders Leaves DOJ Lawyers Showing Strain, Seeking Delays  —  Mass departures from the US Justice Department and a rising flood of lawsuits are squeezing government lawyers defending administration policies, with signs of strain spilling into court.

The GOP is betting Latino Trump voters will keep them in power.  That's no sure thing.  —  The congressional maps Republicans are drawing to boost their chances of keeping control of Congress depend on, to varying degrees, preserving their gains with Hispanic voters.

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’  —  CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover.

Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.  —  He never made it home.  —  Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York.  He never made it home.  —  A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman's persona.

Behind Wall Street's Abrupt Flip on Crypto  —  The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.  —  Not long ago, bank executives would compete with one another to be the loudest critic of cryptocurrencies.

In Search of Furious Liberals  —  If angry liberals don't exist, they will be manufactured  —  Sorority rush dances are back, and liberals are FURIOUS.  —  If you don't believe me just listen to Joe Kinsey - a guy whose schtick appears to be ‘Temu Barstool Sports’ - who had the originating post …

The WaPo's Opinion Odyssey … Last month, as The Washington Post weathered an exodus of staffers opting for buyouts, Karen Attiah logged on to X with an observation: “So... officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section,” the award-winning journalist wrote.

Zelenskyy faces his ‘moment of maximum pressure’  —  Weakened at home, the Ukrainian president must try to shape the Alaska talks from afar as battlefield losses mount  —  Volodymyr Zelenskyy was still reeling from the most serious domestic political crisis of his presidency …

Playbook: Buttigieg responds to Gaza criticism  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  Good Thursday morning.  I'm Adam Wren.  Send me your tips: Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...  — Pete Buttigieg tells Playbook what he really thinks about Israel and Gaza.

Israel courts MAGA influencers amid Gaza backlash  —  The Israeli government is courting popular MAGA influencers in an effort to address Republican divisions over the war in Gaza, where scenes of violence and starvation have fueled global outrage. … Even within the traditionally pro-Israel GOP …

A GOP divide is growing over Trump's redistricting play … These strange divisions underscore the complex political dynamics of the president's latest power play.  It's become a loyalty test that could boost Republicans' chances of keeping their trifecta in Washington …

“Competitive authoritarianism” and America's slide toward it  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  🌍🌖 Subscribe to PN 🌖🌍  —  Last week, Trump announced that he wants to change the census so that it excludes undocumented immigrants.

Putin praises Trump's peace efforts and floats potential nuclear deal at Alaska summit  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Trump administration's “energetic” efforts to stop the war in Ukraine and hinted that Moscow and Washington could strike a deal on nuclear arms control during their summit on Friday in Alaska.

Republican Ex-Candidate Sentenced to 80 Years in Prison for Shooting Plot  —  Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, was found guilty in March of orchestrating the attacks against state Democrats.  —  A former Republican candidate for a State House seat …

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse  —  The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested.  Experts say it's an “attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible.”

Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities  —  Arts and sciences typically cohabitate.  Should they?  —  Things are going badly for universities.  They are in the crosshairs of an erratic and aggressive government willing to threaten anything in its path.

Netanyahu Sets off Firestorm of Protest  —  The Israeli government's prosecution of a war that has long since outlived any military purpose, its deliberate policy to restrict food from entering Gaza, its refusal to recognize the mass starvation it precipitated (let alone take responsibility for it) …

Law Firms That Settled With Trump Are Pressed to Help on Trade Deals  —  Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.  —  Two of the law firms that reached deals with President Trump this year …

Wiles intervened to save RFK Jr.'s top vaccine aide … Trump's reversal demonstrated the limits of Loomer's influence and marked a fragile win for Kennedy in pursuing his plans to overhaul U.S. regulation of vaccines and drugs — and confirmation that the White House still sees Kennedy …

Trump's Revenge Campaign Has a Weakness  —  American criminal law appears to be a less flexible tool than he'd hoped—at least for now.  —  In november 2017, less than a year into his first term as president, Donald Trump publicly confronted a depressing reality.

Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it.  —  And they haven't  —  This afternoon, a three-judge panel in the D.C. Circuit signed off on the Trump administration's efforts to block funds for foreign assistance that have been appropriated by Congress.

'He doesn't feel safe': Family speaks out after teen with disability is mistakenly detained by federal agents  —  The boy's mother said one agent told them the mistake amounted to an “exciting story to tell.”  —  The mother of a 15-year-old California boy who was briefly detained by federal agents …