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8:00 PM ET, July 4, 2026

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New York Times:
Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin  —  A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.
Discussion: Raw Story
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump says Netanyahu “knows who the boss is” ahead of possible WH visit  —  President Trump told Axios Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked him for a meeting at the White House, and that it could take place as early as next week after Trump returns from the NATO summit.
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Zen Reading / Haaretz:
Report: Trump Says Netanyahu 'Knows Who's Boss,' Washington Meeting Possible Next Week  —  U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking with Axios, said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘get along very good,’ and that the two could possibly meet next week, for the first time since …
The Moscow Times:
Leningrad Region Port, Oil Terminal Hit in Major Ukrainian Drone Attack  —  Russia's second city of St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region came under a large Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure struck, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said.
Discussion: Reuters
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Associated Press:
Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg oil terminal in latest long-range attack on Russia
Paul Sonne / New York Times:
In Battlefield Visit, Putin Vows to Take More of Ukraine
Discussion: Sputnik News, spiked and NewsMax.com
Sophia Barnes / NBC4 Washington:
Masked men with Confederate flags seen chanting, marching, riding Metro in DC … Masked men, some carrying Confederate flags, were seen marching in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July.  —  “Reclaim America, reclaim America,” the crowd was heard chanting in a video captured near Union Station …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Democrats Clash With Trump, as Political Tensions Rise on America's 250th  —  Gavin Newsom and Wes Moore, potential 2028 contenders, cast President Trump's record as a betrayal of American ideals, while the president disparaged their party as extreme.  —  Patriotism met partisanship as America celebrated its 250th birthday.
Discussion: The Maine Wire
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
At Mount Rushmore, Trump Veers From Patriotism to ‘Communism’
Safiyah Riddle / Associated Press:
Paul Pelosi in hit-and-run in Napa County wine country, car left with major damage, authorities say  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's husband was involved in a hit and run on Friday in California's wine country that left one car with “major damage,” according to local authorities …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler  —  I found myself gazing at George Washington's teeth the other day.  —  They weren't wooden, as lore has it.  On a trip to Mount Vernon, which I had somehow never visited as an adult, even though my hometown is named after him …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Prepares July Fourth Address as Heat Tops 100 Degrees in D.C.  —  Festivities include military flyovers and a record-setting fireworks show  —  WASHINGTON—America is ringing in its 250th birthday in the nation's capital with a record-setting fireworks show, military flyovers, a speech by President Trump—and a heat wave.
Politico:
DOGE self-deletes on July 4th.  The grand experiment fell apart long before that.  —  President Donald Trump's cost-cutting commission that once plunged the government into chaos is nearing its destiny — becoming a former federal initiative.  —  Up for debate: how and when the end …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Sam McNeil / Associated Press:
A Belgian diamond group is gifting Trump a lavish ring after that industry won tariff relief  —  Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter T's next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.”  Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman's logo.
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Conservatives rage over re-funding of Planned Parenthood  —  Planned Parenthood's beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans' failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Sophie Brams / The Hill:
Trump sneaks in Nobel Prize jab while touting America's achievements  —  President Trump slipped a familiar grievance into his remarks at Mount Rushmore on the eve of the nation's 250th birthday, complaining about not having won a Nobel Prize.  —  The aside came as Trump rattled off a list …
Discussion: Mediaite
Maggie Miller / Politico:
AI security questions loom over NATO summit  —  President Donald Trump enters the annual NATO leaders' summit in Ankara next week with powerful leverage over the military alliance: The U.S. has the world's most advanced artificial intelligence technology and can decide which of its allies gets access.
Toluse Olorunnipa / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Getting Tired of Losing Election Cases  —  Earlier this year, President Trump claimed a new area of expertise: election law.  “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject,” Trump wrote on social media, and found an “irrefutable one” that he would soon present.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Targets Not Just Georgia's Vote, but Also Trust in Elections
Discussion: Mediaite and MS NOW
 
 
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Celebrating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico:
Bipartisan coalition of state AGs take on tech over age verification
Discussion: NewsMax.com
New York Times:
This term, Justice Alito delivered major wins for conservatives on voting rights, immigration and guns. He's given no indication that he's ready to step down.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Associated Press:
Iran begins dayslong funeral for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in war
Washington Post:
Iran's regime survived the war and is now savvier, ruthless and more hard-line
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
The Trump admin went so far Thursday night that even Judge Reed O'Connor put a case on hold
Discussion: Advocate
 Earlier Items: 
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
What America gets right
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Kean's depression disclosure prompts questions about mental health stigma
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots
Wall Street Journal:
Wars Are Blurring Lines Between Corporate and National Security
Tom Schaller / Public Notice:
Declaring War on The Declaration
New York Times:
Trump Pardons Violators of the Clean Air Act and a Major Donor
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing

 
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