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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump says he's “close” to decision on “massive attack” against Iran  —  President Trump told Axios on Thursday that he is seriously considering restarting major combat operations in Iran — including strikes that would be bigger than the ones carried out during “Operation Epic Fury.”
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Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Saudi Nuclear Deal Subject to Forming Israel Ties  —  US President Donald Trump said a civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia would be contingent on the kingdom normalizing ties with Israel, throwing cold water on a landmark deal his administration finalized just a day earlier.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A nuclear deal for the Saudis.  A media blackout for Kushner's corruption.  —  On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.  The Saudi government has been aggressively seeking such a deal for years …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Surges Forces Toward Middle East, Giving Trump Options to Expand Iran War  —  The influx of troops, medics and weaponry follows the deaths of three American soldiers in Iranian attack at a base in Jordan  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Saudi Arabia nuclear deal hinges on Israel pact, Trump says
Washington Post:
Trump adds condition to Saudi nuclear deal: Normalizing relations with Israel
Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
House again passes resolution seeking to halt military action in Iran as some Republicans defect  —  The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain.
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Calen Razor / Politico:
‘Do the math’: GOP budget hits wary Senate  —  Presented by IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Dems force Iran war powers votes  — AI cyberattack spurs bipartisan legislation  — CDC vote jams Cassidy into a quandary  —  With help from Jordain Carney  —  Speaker Mike Johnson successfully …
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House rebukes Trump's war in Iran  —  The House on Thursday passed a resolution to rein in President Trump's military campaign in Iran. … - Four Republicans — Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Tom Barrett (Mich.), Warren Davidson (Ohio), Thomas Massie (Ky.) — voted in support of the measure along with every Democrat.
Politico:
Trump's Iran trap
Discussion: New Republic and Associated Press
CNN:
Secret Service agent on Vance's detail suspected of leaking information is put on leave amid internal review  —  JD Vance Federal agencies Media US elections  —  A Secret Service agent on Vice President JD Vance's security detail is under internal review and has been put on administrative leave …
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Luke Barr / ABC News:   Member of Vance's protective detail subject of investigation, Secret Service says
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Voters want major change amid economic and political discontent  —  Latest survey shows Trump approval stuck near record low  —  Several findings in the latest Fox News Poll show voters are unhappy and want major change, which bodes well for Democrats in November …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
July 2026 National Poll: Democrats with 11-Point Generic Ballot Advantage  —  Home Polls July 2026 National Poll: Democrats with 11-Point Generic Ballot Advantage  —  Opposition to data centers growing; majority think US spending too much on Israel aid  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
What's More Unpopular Than Starting a War?
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Badly Screws Susan Collins as Maine ICE Death Takes Darker Turn  —  Not long after a federal agent killed a Colombian immigrant in Maine last week, Senator Susan Collins rushed to declare that she'd privately talked to Donald Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Discussion: Wonkette
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. deploys B-1 bomber as attacks on Iran intensify  —  The U.S. military used a B-1 long-range bomber on Tuesday to strike Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran, U.S. officials said. … - Using B-1 bombers, which can carry two dozen 2,000-lb. bombs or dozens of cruise missiles …
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New York Times:
What Visuals Show About Recent Damage to U.S. Military Sites in the Middle East
Discussion: Reuters, The Hill and Lawfare
Associated Press:
Houthis attack 2 Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, threatening to open a new front in the Iran war
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Judge says Trump's attack on mail voting is ‘unconstitutional,’ legal challenge can continue  —  A federal judge in Massachusetts has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) targeting mail voting, setting the stage for the challenge to proceed.
Politico:
'We're getting into an ugly phase': Trump's new tariffs are angering voters and U.S. allies alike … Tariffs are back — and they couldn't come at a worse time for the GOP.  —  Some Republicans fear the eye-popping new levies President Donald Trump threatened to slap on Canada …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Jordan accuses Smith of lying to Congress in criminal referral to DOJ  —  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) late Wednesday recommended criminal charges against former special counsel Jack Smith, pushing to tee up a prosecution of the man that led the criminal cases against President Trump.
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W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Will Democrats pick Harris or a socialist?  Primary calendar may give early clue  —  A bombshell poll out of New Hampshire showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a tight fight with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic presidential nomination contest …
Discussion: HotAir, CNN, New York Times and Instapundit
Daniel Han / Politico:
Noncitizens voting in New Jersey could face criminal prosecution, DOJ official says  —  It"s up to Gov. Mikie Sherrill's administration to decide if the state will hand that list over  —  President Donald Trump's Department of Justice wants to know the identities of the approximately 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey's voter rolls.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Democrat Senate Super PAC targets 4 Republican seats  —  The Democrats' main Senate super PAC is booking another $54 million in TV ads for the midterm campaign's final stretch, targeting four Republican-held seats. … - Republicans' last major advertising reservation was aimed largely …
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn  —  New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction  —  Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and others would release staggering levels …
Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal:
Stock Market Today: Oil Prices Jump After Houthis Claim Attacks on Red Sea Tankers  —  Brent crude tops $98 and bond yields hover near 2026 highs  —  Oil prices are racing back toward $100 this morning after Tehran-backed Houthi militants claimed attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea …
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg and Joe.My.God.
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Financial Times:
Trump Media fast feed for president's posts sparks Wall Street backlash  —  New venture has raised questions as financial firms decipher risk of paying for advanced access to market-moving feed  —  A Wall Street backlash is mounting over a proposal by Donald Trump's social media company …
Paul Krugman:
Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism  —  The useful narcissism of the new class of oligarchs  —  Republicans have settled on their midterm argument: Democrats are all Communists.  As an election strategy, this is as lame as it is ludicrous.  But there is a small kernel of political reality underlying …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
MAGA Rallies Around Andrew Tate  —  Despite the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them.  —  Can MAGA Fight the Charges Against Andrew Tate?  —  PROMINENT MANOSPHERE INFLUENCERS and accused sex traffickers Andrew …
Discussion: MS NOW, NewsMax.com and Axios
Kristen Gelineau / Associated Press:
What a reporter learned covering the impact of USAID cuts on aid workers-turned-sex workers in Nepal  —  Associated Press reporter Kristen Gelineau, who has been covering the impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts, reported and wrote the story of how the cuts have prompted scores of unemployed aid workers …
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Amish Shah Wins Democratic Primary in Swing Arizona House District  —  Dr. Amish Shah, who beat the choice of the party's House campaign arm, will face Jay Feely, a Republican, in a battleground district that covers parts of Phoenix.  —  Dr. Amish Shah, a moderate Democrat …
New York Times:
Iran, China, Canada?  A Defense of Trump's Grand Strategy  —  A Pentagon official argues that “people can no longer take the United States for granted.”  —  Is President Trump's grand strategy unraveling?  The United States is at war with Iran, China is ascendant, Russia and Ukraine …
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
Trump Can't Stop Pretending the Iran War Is Over  —  DONALD TRUMP GETS AWAY WITH LYING most of the time.  But sometimes reality is so stark and serious that he can't escape it.  That's what happened in his first term, when he pretended that COVID would quickly disappear.  —  Now it's happening in the Persian Gulf.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘New York Times’ alleges White House abuses legal system to intimidate reporters  —  The New York Times will argue in a federal court hearing Thursday that the White House is abusing the justice system to fish for its reporters' sources in a story that outraged President Trump.
Steve Vladeck / One First:
Bonus 239: The Fifth Circuit's “Precedential Stay” in Sosnava Rodriguez  —  The New Orleans-based court of appeals once again did the Trump administration's bidding on immigration detention—this time through an unexplained procedural move that ... I've never seen before.  —  ∙ Paid
Scholars for Redistricting Reform:
Letter to Congress: End the Redistricting Wars by Adopting Proportional Representation  —  Gerrymandering persists because single-member districts allow it.  —  ·  —  Just now  —  An Open Letter to Congress:  —  The redistricting wars have thrust America's gerrymandering problem into a new and alarming phase.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Wall Street Firms Are Paying $100,000 a Month for a Fast Track to Trump Posts
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
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CBS News:
Navy withholding sailors' service history, in another curb on Pentagon press access
Politico:
Cassidy will support Trump's CDC nominee
Discussion: STAT and National Politics
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The Smithsonian reeks of communist ideologies that our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of
Discussion: News Talk 105.9 and Breitbart
Danielle Bensky / USA Today:
I'm an Epstein survivor. Todd Blanche isn't fit to be Trump's AG.
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Examiner
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Jerry Wu / Politico:
Trump backs Iraq's prime minister. Some Republicans want to see results.
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