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Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump's Name on Building  —  The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge's order to remove his name.  —  The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain  —  USS George Washington is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for more than 250 days  —  The U.S. is preparing to send the aircraft carrier USS George Washington to the Middle East to replace …
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Angie Orellana Hernandez / NOTUS:
Lawmakers Respond to Reports of Jaw-Dropping Conditions Aboard U.S. Aircraft Carrier  —  Lawmakers are demanding answers after a series of jaw-dropping reports outlined what sailors and their families claimed were deteriorating conditions aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln …
NBC News:
USS Abraham Lincoln to be replaced amid poor troop conditions  —  The swap of aircraft carriers in the Middle East comes as U.S. military leaders worry about troop morale with no end to the Iran war in sight.  The USS George Washington is set to replace the Lincoln, a U.S. official said.
Discussion: The Independent
Ross Adkin / CNN:
Lawmakers demand answers about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions as reports emerge of sailors attempting to jump overboard
ABC News:
Democrats demand answers about conditions aboard USS Lincoln
Sammy Westfall / Washington Post:
As poor conditions are reported on USS Abraham Lincoln, Democrats demand answers
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
TV Star Is Shock Frontrunner to Replace Karoline Leavitt  —  SPIN CYCLE  —  The president is turning to an unlikely source for his new press secretary.  —  A shock name is considered the favorite to replace Karoline Leavitt as the next White House press secretary.
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Daily Mail:
Insiders reveal painful real reason behind Karoline Leavitt's decision to QUIT ‘thankless’ White House... and Trump's pleading messages
New York Post:
Karoline Leavitt's possible successors emerge after WH press secretary's surprise departure
Mark Arsenault / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Dismisses Federal Antisemitism Case Against Harvard  —  What We're Covering Today  — Harvard: A federal judge threw out the Trump administration's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University on Thursday, a blow to the government's efforts to force the university into a settlement.
Discussion: KQTV-TV
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
DOJ's antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard dismissed
New York Times:
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown  —  The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.  —  Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty in federal stalking case related to health insurance CEO killing: Report … Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty Friday in his federal criminal case, where he is charged with stalking in connection with his alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson …
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New York Post:
Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty to federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO
M. Gessen / New York Times:
What's Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All  —  On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver's license.  She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letters when Senate Bill 244 …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
I re-analyzed the raw data from Wisconsin's primary polls.  Here's what actually went wrong.  —  This is a follow-up post to yesterday's article about the polls in Wisconsin.  In that piece, I argue that polling primaries is a big challenge, and distinct from polling general elections …
Marcus Weisgerber / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions  —  The Navy spent years fighting the president's push to go back to steam catapults  —  President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers …
Associated Press:
U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a ‘horrific act of terror’  —  JERUSALEM — The U.S. Ambassador to Israel condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Associated Press:
White House border czar defends ICE electric shock gloves as tools to avoid deadly force  —  White House border czar Tom Homan defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement's plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks, calling them a tool to help officers end confrontations without using deadly force.
Washington Post:
Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats … The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program, The Washington Post has learned.
Tyler Monroe / Media Matters for America:
Fox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summer  —  Since June 25, Fox has dedicated at least 206 segments to the WNBA … Since June 25, Fox News has devoted at least 13 hours and 34 minutes of programming to the WNBA, much of which criticized the league …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Vanity Fair
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Doug Feinberg / Associated Press:
WNBA denounces ‘bad-faith’ transgender debate and says league has no eligibility issues
New York Times:
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes.  Then It Parked Them.  —  The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights.  But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.  —  Starting last fall, the Department …
Washington Post:
U.S. military has lost roughly 25% of its Reaper drones as Iran war depletes arsenal  —  The aircraft, which cost up to $50 million each, have seen heavy use around the Strait of Hormuz — but they are relatively easy targets for Iran and its proxies.  —  Summary
Politico:
‘I was not briefed’: Andy Beshear says Trump sidelined him on Kentucky data center plan … Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the Trump administration kept him out of the loop last month as it rolled out plans for a $100 billion data center campus on federal land in his state …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Rep Melts Down Over Campaign Cash From Alleged Wife-Beater  —  NO BACKING DOWN  —  The New York Republican accused the press of playing “the typical Washington media game.”  —  A Republican lawmaker wouldn't commit to returning campaign cash he got from a MAGA congressman accused of domestic violence.
Washington Post:
Prescription drug prices record sharpest drop in more than 60 years  —  While overall medical costs continued to rise, prescription drug prices fell by 3.1 percent in the year ending in July, the steepest annual decline since 1963.  —  Summary  —  Prescription drug prices recorded …
Discussion: Pluribus News, Newsweek and Breitbart
Paul Krugman:
Why Isn't the Price of Oil Even Higher?  —  Donald Trump is not a well man.  He is, unfortunately, also President, which means that we all pay a price for his inability to accept reality.  Notably, while he insists that he has “total control over the Strait of Hormuz,” …
Discussion: Quartz and UPI
Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:
Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes  —  “The changes to CMS's guidance will result in the disenfranchisement of nursing home residents.”  —  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under Trump appointee Mehmet Oz, changed their guidance on voting in nursing homes last month.
Discussion: Forbes and Staff Stories
Alejandro Santos Cid / The Texas Tribune:
U.S. attorney confirms that FBI tests didn't find meth in van driven by man fatally shot by ICE in Houston  —  Aaron Reitz did not reveal what FBI testing found in bags taken from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van after his July 7 shooting death.  Other men in the van said the bags contained salt.
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Senate-passed government funding bill gets warm House reception  —  In a sign of momentum for efforts to punt government funding talks beyond the midterms, House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx predicted Thursday that a Senate-approved stopgap spending measure could pass in the House.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Texas 2026 Poll: Paxton and Talarico Deadlocked in U.S. Senate Race; Abbott Leads Hinojosa by Four Points  —  Economy, immigration top issues among Texas voters  —  A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media survey of Texas likely voters finds the U.S. Senate race in a dead heat …
 
 
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Russian Blockade of Major Ukrainian Ports Threatens Global Grain Supplies
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Federal Register:
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
After Supreme Court Losses, Trump Keeps Pushing
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Mike Allen / Axios:
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