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 …

Trump officials ask Supreme Court to let ballroom construction continue  —  The request escalates the legal fight over the controversial project to the nation's highest court.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for it to complete …

World War Two memorial in Washington vandalized with bubbles and graffiti  —  The World War Two memorial in Washington was vandalized with bubbly soap and graffiti on Thursday, prompting vows from the U.S. government to find the perpetrator.  —  The fountain bubbled over with suds and someone painted …

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch  —  Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.  —  Summary  —  Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources …

Bernie Sanders has a response for progressives upset over Hong's loss in Wisconsin … Sen. Bernie Sanders says he can't be everywhere at once — even though some of his allies want him to be.  —  Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost by less than 4,000 votes in Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary …

U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln … The U.S. will be applying economic measures “that have never been seen on Iran,” according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.  —  “It will be a combination …

Little Thefts, Big Charges: Trump's Justice Dept. Targets Lesser Fraud  —  As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.

How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart  —  Reporting Highlights  — Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false positives.

It's not just young Democrats who like lefty candidates  —  I have published four long articles this week — and done approximately one trillion interviews about the primary polls in Wisconsin and elsewhere (and recording for NPR's Weekend Edition today) — and am quite tired.

Drunk Trump Aide Busted Playing With Sex Toy in Bizarre Video  —  NOT SAFE FOR WORK  —  The longtime Trump aide was caught having a little too much fun.  —  A deputy assistant to President Donald Trump was caught on camera drunkenly playing around with a sex toy hours after attending a children's hospital benefit gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Farage won in Clacton.  But there are bigger tests to come  —  Probe into party leader's finances resumes with Labour government now leading in the polls  —  Nigel Farage declared victory in the Clacton by-election on Friday.  But as he cancelled a major speech planned for later in the morning …

New White House Memo Calls for Foreign-Built Warships, Return to Steam Catapults on Ford Carriers  —  This post has been updated with a statement from the Shipbuilders Council of America.  —  President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to consider foreign-built warships and auxiliary vessels …

Olympian Asks Court to Bar Prosecutors From Reviving Reflecting Pool Charges  —  Citing comments by President Trump, David Hearn raised the prospect of “prosecutorial harassment.”  —  Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn filed a motion on Thursday night seeking to bar federal prosecutors …

The presumption of irregularity  —  There has been lots of talk in recent months, including from federal judges, about the ways in which the Department of Justice has lost the “presumption of regularity” that is generally afforded to government lawyers.  —  This week has raised …

Four Things State and Local Prosecutors Can Do to Combat Federal Corruption  —  On Monday, the president's former personal lawyer was sworn in as the country's top lawyer.  As the history books will note, by all appearances, Attorney General Todd Blanche got the job because of his fealty …

Retail sales unexpectedly fall in July as government tax refunds fade  —  Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July as a boost from government tax refunds faded.  Retail sales slipped 0.6% last month, the biggest drop since May 2025, from a revised gain of 0.2% in June, according to Commerce Department data released Friday.

Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network  —  Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes …

Judge drops Nevada case against electors accused of forging certificate in 2020 election  —  The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state's 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday.

Hugh Hefner reported Jeffrey Epstein to FBI for alleged rape of Playboy Playmate  —  Editor's Note: This story contains discussions of rape or sexual assault that may be disturbing.  Reader discretion is advised.  If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted …

Small Businesses Despise Trump's Tariffs — For Good Reason  —  Mere hours after the Trump administration's latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses that had already defeated prior White House tariff shenanigans, most notably at the Supreme Court.

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.

Dems sharpen their Trump oversight targets  —  A fresh wave of calls for oversight is reinforcing the likelihood that alleged conflicts of interest will be a top target for Democrats should they retake power in Congress next year.  — Take a letter sent yesterday from Sen. Elizabeth Warren …

Trump stops short of endorsing Bibi as his campaign falters  —  When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met in the Oval Office two weeks ago, the president asked the Israeli prime minister how he was doing in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 election.  — Netanyahu paused.

Scoop: Trump team tells GOP to lean in on health care  —  President Trump's top political hands had some surprising advice for Senate Republicans last week: Talk more about health care. … But Republican message testing from Trump's own pollster suggests candidates are better off focusing elsewhere.

Judge shows signs of frustration with DOJ attorneys over handling of Epstein files  —  The judge said he had “absolutely no desire” to go down the road of holding government attorneys in contempt, but he gave a history lesson on when he has done so.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing …

GOP finds its next progressive target in Minnesota  —  Republicans have a new name on their growing list of progressive midterm targets: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, fresh off a landslide Senate primary win. … - That means portraying some progressive Democrats who've won statewide primaries as national foils.