Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex  —  The campaign for the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine called the allegation “categorically false and politically motivated.”  —  Summary  —  An ex-girlfriend of embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner told …

Mideast Live Updates: Iran Launches Attacks Across Gulf After Latest U.S. Strikes  —  Iran's armed forces said they had targeted 85 U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait.  The U.S. said its strikes were in response to what it said were Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump says he ordered cutting off all trade with Spain  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had ordered his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off all trade with Spain, calling Madrid a “terrible partner” in NATO.  —  Trump was speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte ahead …

Justice Department Threatens Top Election Officials Over Noncitizen Voting  —  The letters come amid President Trump's effort to tighten election rules to prevent a problem that doesn't exist: widespread noncitizen voting.  —  The Justice Department sent letters to at least 10 states …

ICE officer fatally shoots Mexican man in Houston during traffic stop  —  The incident appears to mark the first deadly shooting by federal immigration officers since Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis in January.  —  Summary  —  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on “illegal voting.”  He may have violated Texas election law.  —  The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”

911 calls: Haitian father shot in head while driving children to church in Springfield  —  A man who was shot in the head in his car on the south side of Springfield Sunday, July 5, appeared to have been on his way to church with his children, according to 911 calls.

Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal  —  The university has been in talks to resolve investigations into its admissions practices.  The law school's dean and some faculty have argued a deal could compromise its independence.  —  The dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty …

MAGA Loves Trump's World Cup Meddling—Until We Lose  —  WHILE MUCH OF THE SOCCER WORLD was aghast that Donald Trump would meddle in the World Cup—prodding FIFA to suspend the one-game ban of American striker Folarin Balogun—pro-Trump media figures were delighted.

Health Insurers Are Proposing to Increase Premiums Again  —  Rena Bumbray-Graves' doctors told her late last year to start using a CPAP machine at night.  She was struggling to breathe from lung scarring caused by three pulmonary embolisms.  —  The 63-year-old from Woodbridge, Virginia …

Exclusive: US commanders bypassed warnings about outdated intelligence ahead of strike that hit school in Iran, sources say  —  The Middle East National security Federal agencies US military  —  Senior US military commanders bypassed warnings in critical databases that intelligence …

Mitch McConnell's absence is throwing Trump's Pentagon budget boost in doubt  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell's three-week hospitalization and uncertain health status is threatening to upend the defense budget process at a critical moment ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump weighed in on Cabinet squabble over ride for July Fourth flyover  —  The president encouraged acting attorney general Todd Blanche to fly on one of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman's jets despite the FAA's prior objection to the planes.  —  Summary  —  A dispute among Cabinet officials …

Exclusive: Republicans juice spending to protect Senate “red wall”  —  Republicans are dramatically boosting campaign spending on Senate races in red states that, until recently, looked safely out of Democrats' reach in the November midterms. … - Republican candidates are locked in tough races …

Under Trump, the agency at the center of the global AI tech race has slowed to a crawl  —  China hawks in Washington are raising alarms that the Trump administration agency tasked with slowing China's access to advanced U.S. technology is failing at its job.

Hungarian public media outlets halt broadcasting in post-Orbán shake-up  —  Péter Magyar hails ‘end of propaganda broadcasts’ as Kossuth radio and M1 TV channels suspend transmission  —  Hungarian public media outlets close to Viktor Orbán have suspended broadcasting …