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12:50 PM ET, July 17, 2026

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The White House:
Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems  —  For years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems.  We are releasing a series of previously-classified U.S …
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Just Did More Damage to American Elections Than China  —  His speech was a mashup of charges that aren't supported by the documents he released.  —  President Trump addressed the American people tonight and told them that their elections are at the mercy of foreign actors—especially China.
CNN:
Trump's speech claiming US election vulnerabilities, annotated  —  President Donald Trump tried to convince Americans in a primetime address Thursday night that their elections are vulnerable to fraud and need immediate attention.  While he did not repeat his frequent mantra that he actually won …
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands  —  Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration's demands to feed …
Paul Krugman:
Trump Can't Get No Respect  —  His biggest lie wasn't about elections  —  Donald Trump surprised me last night.  I expected to hear lurid lies about the 2020 election.  What he offered instead was mostly dreary innuendo that convinced nobody.  —  Which is not to say that his speech was free of lies.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Palm Beach Post
New York Times:
Takeaways From Trump's Address Claiming Election Vulnerabilities  —  Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president's claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.  —  President Trump said his address on Thursday night was about building public confidence …
Axios:
Trump's dark warning on U.S. elections: 4 takeaways  —  President Trump cast American elections as under siege Thursday night, describing a system riddled with vulnerabilities that hostile foreign actors and unauthorized immigrants are exploiting. … - Build support for his SAVE America Act …
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Trump's Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show That Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Also Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Federal Mandates
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
The ‘Doom’ Computer Game Was Part Of Trump's Wild And Baseless ‘Election Security Nightmare’  —  Things got really weird during President Donald Trump's big speech on “election security” Thursday night.  —  The centerpiece of the event was a document dump that was posted to the White House website …
Politico:
Trump's anticlimax, and Katz vs. Katz
Discussion: New Republic
Politico:
Ahead of Trump speech, DHS says it found thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls
Matt Cohen / Democracy Docket:   ‘That was some bull****’: State election chiefs condemn Trump's long-debunked election lies
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech
Calen Razor / Politico:
Capitol agenda: Trump leans in on his SAVE America pitch
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Raw Story
Reuters:
White House weighs releasing controversial intel on China and US elections, sources say
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
What to know about the Save America Act that Trump is pushing
Tom Durante / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Completely Ignores Trump's Election Speech — Doesn't Mention It Once in 3-Hour Show
Discussion: Slate and The Hill
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Trump pushes debunked election lies, demands SAVE America Act in primetime speech
Capital Weather:
Wildfire smoke invades DC area with some of the worst air quality on record … As a cold front pushed a dense plume of wildfire smoke from Canada southward, the DC area awoke Friday to widespread very unhealthy (code purple) to hazardous (code maroon) air quality.
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Ben Noll / Washington Post:
Wildfire smoke will linger and spread this weekend.  See which cities are most affected.  —  The smoke pouring into the U.S. made Detroit, Chicago and D.C. among the world's most polluted major cities as of early Friday.  —  Summary  —  Huge amounts of wildfire smoke continued to pour …
NOTUS:
Trump Is Weighing Backing Darline Graham for a Full Senate Term  —  President Donald Trump is considering backing Darline Graham for the full Senate term to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, two sources tell NOTUS.  —  Darline Graham was appointed …
Discussion: Semafor, CBS News and NewsMax.com
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Samuel Benson / Politico:
Darline Graham is considering running for her brother's Senate seat in South Carolina
Discussion: Associated Press
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez drops out of the governor's race  —  Rodriguez's exit, which comes in the wake of campaign finance issues, shakes up an already wide open Democratic primary in the battleground state.  —  Wisconsin Democratic Lt. Gov. Sarah Rodriguez said Friday …
Discussion: Associated Press, NOTUS, Townhall and WPR
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:   Francesca Hong might be the first-ever socialist governor. How would she govern?
Chris Marquette / Politico:
After Tillis' demands, Todd Blanche meets with Jeffrey Epstein's victims  —  Hours after Sen. Thom Tillis demanded acting Attorney General Todd Blanche meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, President Donald Trump's nominee to permanently lead the Justice Department did just that.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Kuwait says Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage  —  Kuwait said Friday that Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage to the station.  In Kuwait, about 90% of drinking water comes from desalination …
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Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
Trump's primetime speech won't air on ABC or NBC  —  President Donald Trump's highly anticipated primetime address to the nation on Thursday, July 16, will not be airing on all the major networks.  —  The White House did not elaborate on why the president would be addressing the nation …
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity
Johanna Alonso / Inside Higher Ed:
Homeland Security Limits How Long International Students Can Stay in U.S.  —  International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted.  The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy. … The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday scrapped a long-standing policy …
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’  —  A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.”  It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.
Associated Press:
Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite  —  Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of the widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.
The White House:
Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism  —  Today, the Trump Administration convened senior officials from governments around the world to launch an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.
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NBC News:
Substance FBI agent saw in van of man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was salt, family attorney says  —  An FBI search warrant application said an agent found bags in the van that he believed could contain drugs, which was disputed by the DA and a group representing the victim's family.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The depressing sameness of ICE murders
Discussion: The Bulwark
 
 
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Cyclospora cases are spreading. Why don't we know more about it?
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Reuters:
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
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Discussion: PinkNews
Wall Street Journal:
Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown
Discussion: New York Times
Garrett Downs / CNBC:
Democratic socialists top MAGA candidates among voters in CNBC's All-America poll
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