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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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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump-aligned board votes to put his name on the Kennedy Center — again
Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal:
Kennedy Center Board Votes to Add Trump's Name to Building Facade
Discussion: CNBC and CBS News
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War Strain
Sammy Westfall / Washington Post:
As poor conditions are reported on USS Abraham Lincoln, Democrats demand answers
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Rolling Stone
ABC News:
Democrats demand answers about conditions aboard USS Lincoln
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 …
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The White House:
Rebuilding the United States Navy and America's Shipbuilding Industrial Base  —  THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET  —  THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws …
USNI News:
New White House Memo Calls for Foreign-Built Warships, Return to Steam Catapults on Ford Carriers
Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Trump orders the Navy to return to an older system of launching jets off aircraft carriers
Discussion: Breaking Defense and 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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Nia Prater / New York Magazine:
Who Might Replace Karoline Leavitt as Press Secretary?
Daily Mail:
Insiders reveal painful real reason behind Karoline Leavitt's decision to QUIT ‘thankless’ White House... and Trump's pleading messages
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: A Senate battle looms in Michigan  —  The GOP nominee has an edge in the Senate race, while the Democrat is favored for governor  —  In Michigan, while more Democrats than Republicans are concerned about their candidates' ideological views, Democrats are also more engaged …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:   Fox News Poll: Economic anxiety and candidate concerns define Ohio Senate race
Associated Press:
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
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 …
Discussion: MPR News and Reason
Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals  —  The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have long relied on private-sector hackers to help with national security missions.
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 …
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
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 …
Politico:
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 …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
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.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
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:
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.
Reuters:
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 …
Discussion: Associated Press, UPI and Fox News
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
White House says more than 40 nations help China dodge tariffs  —  The European Union, Mexico, Canada and Japan are among the biggest offenders.  —  Chinese companies are increasingly routing shipments to the United States via other nations to avoid President Donald Trump's tariffs, the White House said Thursday.
Discussion: The Hill, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg and Semafor
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 …
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump and Musk Rekindled a Relationship That Seemed Beyond Repair  —  With much at stake for both men in the midterms, Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans  —  As cabinet secretaries, business executives and President Trump's family members boarded Air Force …
 
 
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Jenna Monnin / NOTUS:
Francesca Hong Didn't Run Broadcast Ads. Did It Cost Her Wisconsin?
Discussion: The Hill and MS NOW
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
ICE keeps racking up losses at the appeals courts on mandatory detention
Wall Street Journal:
Top Democrat Targets Supreme Court for Changes
Discussion: Washington Times and RedState
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump's growing White House tab
Discussion: Truthout, Scripps News and MS NOW
 Earlier Items: 
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Senate-passed government funding bill gets warm House reception
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Russian Blockade of Major Ukrainian Ports Threatens Global Grain Supplies
Discussion: Semafor and Foreign Policy
Mark Arsenault / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Federal Government's Antisemitism Case Against Harvard
Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:
Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes
Discussion: Forbes and Staff Stories
 

 
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