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8:35 PM ET, July 20, 2026

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The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Additional Tariffs on Canada  —  DEFENDING AMERICAN WORKERS AND ENSURING FAIR TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed three Proclamations pursuant to Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose additional 50% tariffs on certain goods …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump slaps additional 50 percent tariffs on Canada  —  President Trump slapped an additional 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods in response to what the administration said were “discriminatory” trade measures from Canada on Monday.  —  A senior administration official told reporters …
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over autos, alcohol and cheese  —  President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.
Sophia Cai / Politico:
Trump looks past Canada and Mexico for Gianni Infantino  —  EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey — President Donald Trump stood shoulder to shoulder with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during the FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey — but his eyes were elsewhere.
NBC News:   Trump imposes 50% tariffs on dairy, alcohol, and cars from Canada
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump imposing 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods over alleged trade discrimination
Discussion: New York Times and NewsMax.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives  —  The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president's new Air Force One.  The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Scripps News:
Trump says Qatari-gifted Air Force One will be ‘maxed out,’ appearing to confirm security issues
Associated Press:
Officials sought phone records of NYT journalists and their relatives in an effort to unmask sources
Discussion: Just Security
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
G.O.P. Boxed In on Iran War as Trump Sidelines Congress  —  Republicans now face a worst-case political scenario of being asked to fund an unpopular war over which they have exercised little oversight.  —  President Trump has yet again circumvented the legislative branch as he orders American forces …
Discussion: 19FortyFive
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
The United States Has Always Been At War With Eastasi— I Mean, Iran  —  The chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee goes full Orwell  —  My last post on the uncertain future of liberalism sounded a touch more pessimistic than I intended.  The truth is, at the Liberalism Conference …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CNN
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House GOP leaders scrambling to set up a briefing on Iran war developments
Discussion: The Economist
Kevin Frey / MS NOW:   Republicans back Trump's legal theory to continue the Iran war without congressional approval
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War  —  Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.  —  In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed …
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Joe Walsh / CBS News:
Iran War Updates: U.S. launches 10th night of strikes after 3 U.S. troops killed, nearly 100 injured in recent weeks
Politico:
FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip  —  FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation.  —  It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America's top adversaries.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home  —  The 28-year-old Mexican man who was killed while running from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week was visiting the country on a valid tourist visa.  —  Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was in a car with three …
Washington Post:
Democrat set to replace Platner in Maine led state Senate with a temper  —  Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal.  —  Summary  —  Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Maine Senate Race, Democrats Go From Chaos to Coronation
DVIDS:
NORAD INTERCEPTS MULTIPLE AIRCRAFT VIOLATING TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS IN NORTHEAST REGION  —  Story by 2nd Lt. Tyler Turnmire  —  CONR-1AF (AFNORTH and AFSPACE)  —  TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - NORAD F-16 fighter aircraft intercepted multiple general aviation aircraft that violated …
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Spain Humiliates Trump After He Refuses to Get Out of Victory Photos  —  Spain's World Cup-winning team have made it abundantly clear that they did not want Donald Trump in their victory photos.  —  The official account for Spain's national football league shared an altered image …
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Bloomberg:
Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Vows to Protect Ships From Houthis  —  The Houthis, an Iran-backed Yemeni group, vowed to impose a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, prompting the military coalition in Yemen that's led by the kingdom to say it had taken steps to protect vessels sailing the Red Sea.
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Maureen Tkacik / American Prospect:
The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump's Potemkin Gas Stations  —  Five years ago, a manager for a Virginia gasoline distributor opened an invoice for more than 200,000 phantom gallons of gas they had no record of selling.  Truckers on contract with a chain of gas stations …
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Associated Press:
The men behind Trump's $3.47 gas: An NFL coach, a GOP fundraiser and two New Jersey brothers
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
New Republic:
Trump's Plot to Rig Midterms Gets So Unhinged that Even Fox Is Rattled  —  During his prime-time speech dissembling endlessly about our elections, Donald Trump raged at news organizations for refusing to carry him live.  Then his Homeland Security secretary also smeared the media, a sign Trump's fury continues to deepen.
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Lawfare:
Everything Trump's Election Speech Did Not Prove
Discussion: Washington Times
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
DOJ's Reflecting Pool “Vandalism” Case Falls Apart With Pool Draining  —  The Trump administration's case against the former Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is about to fall apart.  —  Following the draining of the Reflecting Pool last week …
Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
US Vice President JD Vance announces birth of son  —  U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, welcomed their fourth child, a boy, on Sunday.  —  Vance said the baby, Alec Neel Vance, was born on Sunday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have Taken Over a Prison  —  And they're vowing to fill it with trafficked children.  —  ∙ Paid  —  PROMOTERS OF QANON and other lurid pro-Trump conspiracy theories will head to California next month to visit a women's prison.
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy  —  Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture - which no one commissioned - would raise ‘millions’ of dollars  —  A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money …
NBC News:
Sen. Darline Graham says she is running for a full 6-year term after Trump urged her to jump into the race  —  President Donald Trump said that he had given his “complete and total endorsement” to Graham, who was appointed to finish her late brother's Senate term.
Thom Jensen / NBC News:
United Airlines employee threatens to call ICE on Bay Area family at SFO  —  A viral video captured the confrontation during a ticketing dispute, leaving the family fearing detainment upon their return from Canada. … A Bay Area family flew back from Montreal, Canada …
Associated Press:
Trump administration opens investigation into Harvard's financial aid for international students  —  The Justice Department is investigating whether Harvard University is allowing Chinese donors to create scholarships that exclude American students, adding to the barrage of federal inquiries …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Will a Sex Scandal Matter in an Arizona House Race?  —  The contest in a deeply religious part of the state is a test of the power of a Trump endorsement.  —  It is a sprawling and tawdry tale: a former county sheriff accused, among other things, of sexting women outside his marriage …
James Corrigan / Telegraph:
Bryson DeChambeau threatened to call Trump during Open penalty row  —  American was ready to involve the US president after being found guilty of ‘inadvertently improving lie’ during second round at Birkdale  —  Bryson DeChambeau warned officials at The Open that he was ready to call President Trump …
Tiago Rogero / The Guardian:
Nicaragua's president says country will not hold any more elections  —  Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition  —  Nicaragua's long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has said the country will hold no further elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Al Jazeera
 
 
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