How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms  —  Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.  —  Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster …

Spain says huge surge across border into enclave has reversed, half of migrants go back  —  Spain said on Friday that it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with thousands of people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.

Faced with Blanche dilemma, Trump chooses revenge  —  President Donald Trump has a choice: allow changes to a controversial court settlement and secure the confirmation of his former personal lawyer as attorney general, or thumb his nose at a pair of his few remaining Republican critics in Congress.

The Bond Market Doesn't Like Bullshit  —  The Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve meets every six weeks to set interest rates — specifically the federal funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks lend each other money.  The Fed funds rate has little direct economic significance …

How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman  —  This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts.  —  Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent at The New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner and an author …

Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic  —  The Trump administration has a new tactic for trying to isolate cases of alleged voter fraud — digging into the IP addresses of those who went online to register to vote.  — The FBI recently obtained the IP address …

‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump's Unprecedented Fundraising Operation  —  Meredith O'Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president's desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects  —  WASHINGTON—Almost every night in the White House …

Camp David, the president's rustic Maryland mountain retreat, through the years  —  President Donald Trump is leaving behind the gold-accented White House on Friday for a Cabinet meeting at rustic Camp David in Maryland's mountains.  The retreat, about an hour northwest of Washington …

The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal  —  The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.  —  I've had Heidi Blake's lengthy New Yorker exposé about Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan open in a browser tab for over a month.

New York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running ‘illegal gambling operation’ … New York state sued prediction market platform Kalshi on Friday, alleging that the company is running an “illegal gambling operation.”  —  In a case filed in a Manhattan state court …

Trump will be ‘very disappointed’ if Israel obstructs his Gaza plan, US official warns  —  Comments come after Netanyahu's office says Israel can't accept disarmament proposal approved by Hamas, which official says triggered 14-day sprint to set implementation timeline

'It's beyond embarrassing': Ken Martin and the DNC have a 2028 problem, donors warn  —  Major Democratic donors are getting really anxious about 2028.  —  The Democratic National Committee has a massive cash deficit heading into November, and Chair Ken Martin is facing a growing onslaught …

G.O.P. Kills Bid to Expand I.V.F. Access in the Military  —  In a notable shift, Republican senators voted unanimously against a proposal to expand the military's coverage of fertility treatments.  —  Republicans in Congress have quietly blocked a proposal to expand military health coverage …

Chevron and Exxon earnings soar as Trump threatens price interventions  —  Rise in profits comes amid increasing political scrutiny ahead of US midterm elections  —  ExxonMobil and Chevron reported second-quarter earnings worth a combined $26.5bn, as they cashed in on surging crude and petrol prices caused by Donald Trump's Iran war.

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations  —  In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment …

Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service  —  The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump's dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.  —  The John F. Kennedy Center …

A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon  —  A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.  The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday …

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom.  Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble? … the first full day of the second Trump administration — Larry Ellison woke up in his 33-bedroom, 34-bathroom oceanfront mansion in Florida, got into his Gulfstream jet and headed up to Washington.

Cheap gas won't save Trump, now at a new all-time approval low  —  This post is free to read, but if you want to support my independent data-driven political journalism and get premium posts like these sent to your inbox 2x a week, become a paying subscriber to Strength In Numbers today.

Senate GOP close to cutting deal to avoid shutdown  —  Senate Republicans are close to cutting a deal with their Democratic counterparts to avoid a government shutdown and rein in a proposed rule from the White House budget office that would give Trump appointees more power …

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran  —  Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border.  Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran.  Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam.  Google's own satellite imagery underneath all three.

Trump Redistricting Foe to Leave Post Under Fire From Right  —  President Donald Trump celebrated on social media after Indiana State Senate president Rodric Bray said he wouldn't stand for re-election to the post, after Bray defied him over redistricting US House seats to give the party an advantage in this year's midterms.

RELATIVE ATTRACTION: Troy Jackson's Longtime Lover Is His Second Cousin  —  Logger-Turned-Senate Hopeful Troy Jackson and Longtime Squeeze Lana Pelletier Are Second Cousins by Blood — and the Pair Has Never Bothered with a Marriage License  —  The tiny St. John River Valley town of Allagash …

Josh Shapiro shoots his shot  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Happy Friday morning.  The late Andrew Breitbart said politics is downstream from culture.  Today, we explore how one potential 2028er is working upstream, driven by his love of sports.  Get in touch.

In Trump's Economy, Job Gains Go to Women.  That's Not an Entirely Good Thing.  —  Despite the administration's best attempts, the diminishing status of many American jobs is driving a spike in women's employment.  —  It didn't quite make the same splash as Jackie Robinson's first game in 1947 …

Pulte lingers as intel chief while senators say it's time for ‘the temp’ to move on  —  Bill Pulte may be out of a job, but he hasn't walked out the door.  —  The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jay Clayton to be the new director of national intelligence (DNI), replacing Pulte in a role President Trump …

Tax returns show California's Newsom earning between $1.7 million and $2 million annually  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife made between $1.7 million and $2 million annually from 2022 through 2024, and they paid about half a million a year in federal and state taxes, according to tax returns released by his office.

Divided Democrats face a moment of truth in Michigan  —  Democratic socialists look like they're about to rack up a stunning new victory: Their candidate in Michigan's Senate Democratic primary has the momentum heading into Tuesday's primary. … The Michigan primary brings the ideological clash to its biggest stage yet.