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ABC News:
White House teleprompter operator made more than $100K betting on Trump's speeches: Sources  —  Gabriel Perez is in settlement talks with federal regulators, the sources said.  —  Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Nicholas Kerr  —  President Donald Trump read …
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Madison Muller / Bloomberg:
Kalshi Will Offer Sports-Style Betting on Drug Trial Results  —  Kalshi to Offer Betting on Drug Trial Results  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 63.68% Playback Rate  — captions off, selected  — English  —  This is a modal window.  —  Unmute
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times:
White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says
Discussion: NPR
Nathan Bomey / Axios:
White House teleprompter operator investigated over alleged Kalshi trades on Trump speeches
Discussion: The Hill and NewsMax.com
Politico:
‘Scared s-tless’: Republicans brace for Trump's primetime speech  —  President Donald Trump is promising to reveal “really big news” on election security.  Many Republicans wish he wouldn't.  —  The president's speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House …
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Vaughn Hillyard / MS NOW:
Election denial activists briefed at White House ahead of Trump's primetime speech  —  The session, convened by Cleta Mitchell and closed by nondisclosure agreements, presented material one attendee described as recycled from conservative media.  —  The White House hosted …
John Sakellariadis / Politico:
House Dems warn of weaponized intel ahead of Trump's speech  —  Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are urging the nation's top spy chiefs to stop President Donald Trump if he tries to declassify cherry-picked intelligence material that unfairly sows doubt about the 2020 election during his primetime address Thursday evening.
Justin Glawe / Zeteo:
A Pro-Trump Private Investigator Is Investigating Elections in Georgia
Discussion: The Atlantic and CBS News
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Georgia's Senators Ridicule Trump's Election Fraud Claims
Discussion: ABC News
NOTUS:
Trump Can't Stop Talking About the Thing That Trips Him Up Most
The Portland Press Herald:
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer  —  An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.  —  Community:  —  4 min readFont size +
Discussion: Centralmaine.com and ABC News
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Bangor Daily News:
Ex-wife ID's ICE agent who fatally shot man in Biddeford  —  The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed a Colombian man in Biddeford this week has been identified.  —  David Brouillette, 37, reportedly admitted to firing the shots that claimed the life …
Washington Post:
Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say  —  President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.  —  Just now  —  The lining of the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting …
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Politico:
Thom Tillis tells Todd Blanche to meet with Epstein victims — or don't expect his support  —  Sen. Thom Tillis said Thursday his vote to confirm attorney general nominee Todd Blanche is contingent on Blanche meeting with victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
AG pick Blanche to meet with Epstein survivors after 2 GOP senators hedge on nomination
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Can This Pseudo-Journalist Destroy American Democracy?  —  DONALD TRUMP'S PRIMETIME ADDRESS Thursday is shaping up to be a grab bag of conspiracy theories, all of them intended to help Republicans take control of the midterms.  He might declare that Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are somehow fake senators …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Media to Sell Faster Access to President's Social Posts  —  New service will let traders and investors pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts  —  President Trump broke with tradition by posting near-constant policy decisions and market-moving news on his social-media platform.
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle  —  President Donald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between …
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post  —  WASHINGTON — Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, engaged in sexual relationships with at least two House staffers and his “very flirtatious” …
Radley Balko / New York Times:
ICE Is Out of Control.  Here's What to Do About It.  —  In the span of a week, federal immigration enforcement agents took the lives of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian man shot in Maine, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican man gunned down in Houston.
Reuters:
Iran tells Houthis to close Red Sea gateway if US hits power network, sources say  —  Iran has asked Yemen's Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies.
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The Texas Tribune:
FBI suggests migrants' van in fatal Houston shooting had meth.  A lawyer says it was salt.  —  TAKE OUR CONTENT — PLEASE!  — YOU'RE WELCOME TO REPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE FOR FREE AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW OUR REPUBLISHING GUIDELINES, WHICH INCLUDES USING OUR CANONICAL URL AND PIXEL TRACKER ON YOUR STORY PAGES WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
Discussion: New York Times and KVIA-TV
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CNN:
GOP Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law  —  Race & ethnicity Social media Senate election US elections  —  Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has built a national profile as a combative, Trump-aligned online provocateur …
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Republicans take first step to move $95B party-line package  —  Reconciliation 3.0 is on the move in the House.  House Republicans advanced their budget plan out of committee Thursday afternoon — the initial legislative step toward clearing their third party-line budget reconciliation package ahead of the impending August recess.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Fox News and Roll Call
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Lauren McGaughy / New York Times:
Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio  —  The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas recently bought three condominiums at a luxury resort in Utah …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
ICE says all its offices will have body cams in 60 days  —  Half of all ICE field offices across the U.S. now have body cameras for agents, with the rest expected to get them within 60 days, according to the Department of Homeland Security. … But pressure for more scrutiny of agents' actions …
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Axios:
How a fuming Trump reversed ICE's pause on vehicle stops
Helen Huiskes / The Hill:
Tillis goes scorched-earth on SAVE America Act, threatening to stall it  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), a retiring Republican who has become one of the most vocal critics of the Trump administration in his party, delivered harsh words for President Trump's top-priority voter ID legislation …
Department of Homeland Security:
Trump Administration Issues Final Rule to End Foreign Student Visa Abuse  —  Student visa extensions are only available with rigorous vetting  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the publication of a final rule that officially eliminates the …
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Brandon Gomez / CNBC:
U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressure on food companies … The U.S. grocery slowdown is becoming harder to ignore.  —  Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices.
Lauren Hartley / The Daily Beast:
Racist Attacker Lunges at ‘Today Show’ Host After Storming Studio  —  STUDIO HORROR  —  The man, who was looking for beloved weatherman Al Roker, managed to get past security before lunging at Craig Melvin.  —  A man has been arrested after he managed to slip past Today show security before lunging at host Craig Melvin.
 
 
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United States Department of State:
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