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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
CNBC:
Global shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump's Hormuz toll plan
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.”
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New York Times:
ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After 2 Killings in a Week  —  Agents fatally shot a man in Houston and another in coastal Maine, both in their vehicles.  The killings were the latest in a string of ICE shootings during President Trump's second term.
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.
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
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
Mike Johnson Is Plotting a Narrow, Fast Reconciliation Bill  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House are hoping to push a narrow reconciliation bill through the House by the end of next week that would include very few Republican priorities and focus mostly on defense and farm aid, multiple sources told NOTUS.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:   Jim Jordan explores immigration deal with hard-liners amid floor impasse
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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Cate Brown / The Guardian:
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court  —  US secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations  —  Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the International criminal court …
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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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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 …
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
NBC News:
Supreme Court justices ask Congress for additional security funding  —  Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are testifying before Congress as judges throughout the judiciary have seen an uptick in threats.  —  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices are testifying before Congress …
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.
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”  —  Yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled the Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew.  This new unit in NYC government will hire dozens of tech specialists charged with making the city services work better for the public.
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
Reuters:
Mexico files criminal complaints in US over migrant deaths in custody  —  Mexico has begun filing criminal complaints with state prosecutors in the United States over the deaths of its citizens in U.S. immigration custody and during enforcement operations, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Discussion: RedState
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Giant Iran War ‘Participation Trophy’ For Trump Appears On National Mall  —  Anonymous artists installed a 10-foot monument satirically honoring Trump for starting a war with no “military strategy, diplomacy, or measurable outcomes.”  —  WASHINGTON — A 10-foot “participation trophy” …
Shannon K. Kingston / ABC News:
Rubio expands plans for high-level meeting focused on ‘far-left terrorism’  —  Officials will lay the groundwork for “coordinated action,” documents say.  —  Marco Rubio, Secretary of State looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine …
Discussion: American Greatness and Townhall
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public  —  “A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.” … Meta's camera-equipped “AI Glasses” are so divisive that some adopters are now leaving their expensive smart glasses at home, as Engadget reports.
 
 
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Consumer prices rose 3.5% annually in June, less than expected as energy prices eased
Eric Cortellessa / Time:
Trump's Ex-Campaign Manager Is Running An Israeli Influence Operation Targeting the MAGA Base
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Mara Gay / New York Times:
The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
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