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 who threw sandwich at law enforcement was DOJ employee, Bondi says  —  Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday …

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.

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 …

Checkpoint with ICE agents met by protesters in D.C.  —  Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars at a busy intersection for seat belt violations and broken taillights.  —  Tensions over President Donald Trump's deployment of federal law enforcement erupted on a busy Northwest …

DeSantis announces plans for second immigration detention facility dubbed ‘Deportation Depot’  —  Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed “Deportation Depot” at a state prison in north Florida …

1. Trump's job approval and views of his personal traits  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  — Trump's Tariffs and ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Face More Opposition Than Support as His Job Rating Slips  — 3. How Americans view the Trump administration's tariff policies and the GOP's budget and tax bill

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 …

ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time  —  Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information …

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.

We Found It!  The Flimsiest MAGA Conspiracy of All Time.  —  The fraud fugitive running amok in right-wing media  —  IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A SIMPLE Fox News appearance for Bill Barr.  On Tuesday, Donald Trump's former attorney general went on the cable channel to praise his former boss …

Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch is rivaling Joe Rogan.  Does it have staying power?  —  Ben Meiselas is pacing in front of his home in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles, talking on the phone with one hand, a Starbucks coffee cup in the other.  —  He wraps his call.

“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.

“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.

‘Everyone Is So Scared’: Inside The Smithsonian As Trump Attacks Art, History  —  A culture of fear has taken hold at the prestigious D.C. museums as White House officials “ensure alignment” with Trump's preferred version of American history.  —  WASHINGTON — Staff are censoring content they fear could upset President Donald Trump.

Social Security has existed for 90 years.  Why it may be more threatened than ever  —  When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. “an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.”

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.

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

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 …

The Auctioneer and the Treasury Chief: Billy Long's Quick Fall at the I.R.S. … Within days of being sworn in as the I.R.S. commissioner, Billy Long began to lose his grip on the role.Kenny Holston/The New York Times  —  The meeting between Billy Long and President Trump in the gilded Oval Office …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …