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2:00 PM ET, July 14, 2026

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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Backs Off 20% Strait of Hormuz Fee  —  The decision comes just a day after the president floated the idea of charging other countries shipping cargo through waterway that Iran has sought to control  —  President Trump's Iran strategy abruptly reversed course Tuesday when he announced …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Keeps Bombing, Nothing Keeps Changing.  —  The National Mall has a new feature.  No, not the once-again-drained Reflecting Pool.  And no, not the mysterious gash the president insists some vandal (or “Vandal") made in it—the length of which has grown, somehow, to 300 feet since the last time he complained about it.
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East, threatening a return to all-out war
Financial Times:
Washington and Tehran send warnings by missile
CNBC:
Global shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump's Hormuz toll plan
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Jennie Taer / The Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: ICE Orders Agents To Cease All Vehicle Stops After Recent Shootings … Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas.  —  Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told “no more vehicle stops for now.”
NBC News:
ICE tells officers to stop pursuing people in cars as pressure to arrest is blamed for fatal shootings
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Clarissa-Jan Lim / MS NOW:
E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump's $5 million — plus interest  —  Writer E. Jean Carroll finally has the $5 million — plus interest — that a jury ordered President Donald Trump to pay her in damages in one of her two cases against him, after Trump fought the payout for years.
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
GOP's Ron Johnson shares, then retracts, a conspiratorial ‘rumor’ about Mitch McConnell  —  We've known for a month that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was hospitalized, but neither he nor anyone on his team has been willing to say why.  Over the weekend, McConnell finally took steps …
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Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction
Discussion: PREVAIL and LGBTQ Nation
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Jim Jordan explores immigration deal with hard-liners amid floor impasse  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said Tuesday he is negotiating with a key GOP holdout in hopes of drafting an immigration bill that can help unlock the ongoing floor impasse.  Jordan (R-Ohio) said he is speaking …
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Reese Gorman / NOTUS:   Mike Johnson Is Plotting a Narrow, Fast Reconciliation Bill
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Hakeem Jeffries says he will oppose bid to cut off Israel aid  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told fellow Democrats Tuesday he will oppose an amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel, wading directly into a contentious issue that is dividing the party.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The See-No-Evil Supreme Court … The Roberts Court accelerated its assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the Reconstruction amendments this term, leaving only the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship intact—and that by only one vote.  Across multiple cases dealing …
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
New York to impose the country's first statewide moratorium on data centers  —  New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.
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Jake Johnson / Truthout:
Marco Rubio Threatens to “Teach” the ICC the “Full Meaning of American Resolve”  —  The secretary of state announced what he characterized as a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court. … US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced what he characterized as a …
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Cate Brown / The Guardian:
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Blanche Was a Driving Force in Retribution Campaign, Emails Show  —  The cooperation of Todd Blanche in President Trump's retribution against enemies will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday.  —  Todd Blanche, then the Justice Department's No. 2 official …
Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:
Trump to shrink 2 Utah national monuments by 90%  —  Utah Gov Spencer Cox praised the move, citing Antiquities Act limits on monument size as coal and uranium deposits open up  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrinking the size of two national monument areas in Utah on Monday.
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Alex Kirshner / Slate:
Graham Platner Was the Perfect Twitter Candidate  —  Elon Musk's X transformed his campaign into a political mirage. … It should now be well established that Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a right-wing fever dream in which Democrats rarely win elections legitimately, Donald Trump is popular …
José Olivares / The Guardian:
‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds  —  Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’  —  It's been a brutal tactic deployed …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Democrats lead by 26 points among “double haters” in the 2026 House midterms vote  —  One in five Americans rates both parties unfavorably.  These voters lean Democratic and say Trump has hurt the economy  —  ∙ Paid  —  Americans have never liked their political parties less.
Discussion: THE FARCE
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Miller's Wife Melts Down Over What's Sitting on Trump's Desk  —  STICKY FINGERS  —  The president failed to hide the embarrassing item while appearing before the press.  —  Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, failed to see the funny side …
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
CBS News:
Republicans consider future of Lindsey Graham's Senate seat as Darline Graham Nordone fills in  —  Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, will serve out the remainder of his term.  Meanwhile, Republicans are discussing potential candidates who could compete …
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Trump reveals who he's eyeing to replace Lindsey Graham  —  Trump called Rep Russell Fry an ‘outstanding’ and ‘very talented person’  —  President Donald Trump teased who he may like to see as a long-term replacement for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as a special election to lock in a candidate for the seat fast approaches.
Reuters:
Pollution from Musk's unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities  —  Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee than it has publicly acknowledged, and the pollution is hitting predominantly …
more at Techmeme »
Fox News:
‘Did you call 911?’  Tuberville recounts Graham's frantic final phone call  —  A Senate Republican added further detail to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's, R-S.C., final moments thanks to an unlikely connection.  —  Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., revealed that it was a former member …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations following Epstein revelations  —  Warren Buffett confirmed he has stopped donating money to the Gates Foundation, following revelations about interactions between the Microsoft (MSFT.O) co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
The Iran war and McConnell's absence are complicating government funding talks  —  The stalled negotiations are a particular issue for Sen. Susan Collins, who chairs the committee responsible for writing funding bills and faces a tough re-election race in November.
Discussion: Reuters and MS NOW
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
How Low Would Sam Alito Go?  —  Brace yourself for LEGAL judicial election interference, and another heist.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Catching up with post-vacation news over the weekend, I happened upon this somewhat mortifying story about NPR's veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg …
NOTUS:
The Bizarre Court Battle Trapping Trump's Voter Database  —  Two federal judges have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to do the opposite thing, at the same time.  This summer, conflicting court rulings over the use of Social Security numbers in a citizenship database have created …
Discussion: Democracy Docket
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump backtracks on plan to charge 20 percent fee for ships traveling through Strait of Hormuz  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday walked back threats to charge a 20 percent fee on all cargo ships that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway that has been central to the renewed U.S.-Iran conflict.
Cate Brown / The Guardian:
Trump ballroom donor to lead state department's $200m Armenia fund  —  Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project  —  Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago, will serve as chairman …
Stephen Neukam / NOTUS:
The Race to Become the Democratic Left's Next Power Firm  —  Behind a string of recent leftist victories in Democratic primaries across the country is a growing ecosystem of progressive media consulting firms and strategists positioning themselves ahead of a wide-open 2028 presidential cycle.
 
 
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Marissa Payne / USA Today:
Buttigieg won't rule out 2028 presidential bid as he rallies in Iowa
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Health Dept. Rescinds Freeze on $10 Billion for 5 Democratic States
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Exclusive: Trade Rep. Greer pushes Europe to ease tech regulation
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. faces Hatch Act complaint after intervening in congressional races
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and STAT
Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News:
Rubio expands plans for high-level meeting focused on ‘far-left terrorism’
Discussion: American Greatness and Townhall
Reuters:
Mexico files criminal complaints in US over migrant deaths in custody
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Mara Gay / New York Times:
The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The World Made Anew … With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place …
Kat Lonsdorf / NPR:
Trump's National Guard deployment in D.C. has been extended until 2029
Discussion: MS NOW
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won't Say How
Alec Dent / Washington Post:
Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90
 

 
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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash

Robert Hart / The Verge:
The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users
 
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