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 …

Woman arrested after second world war memorial in DC vandalized  —  Suspect faces two felony charges after memorial filled with bubbles and spray-paint reading ‘Clean hands Dirty $’  —  A woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with the vandalization of the second world war memorial …

Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships  —  Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service members across multiple ships and even multiple branches.

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 …

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 …

Reform UK's Nigel Farage beats a slate of fringe candidates in election boycotted by major parties  —  Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction to continue  —  The president wants to the justices to act before a court ruling that would block construction goes into effect.

A Green Light for Crooks  —  The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.  —  Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country.

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.

Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud  —  Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House.  —  Good.  —  The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth …

How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart  —  It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota's U.S. attorney's office, received an urgent email from Washington.  —  The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases …

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’  —  Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’  —  The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK …

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.

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.

Consumer sentiment dips, especially among Republicans  —  Public opinion about the economy appears to be souring further this month, per the preliminary release of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index. … - The index fell to 51, from 55.2 in July.

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in CEO's killing  —  Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.  —  Mangione, 28, entered the plea at a hastily scheduled hearing in Manhattan federal court …

Schools serving US military families put new emphasis on Western civilization and Christianity  —  The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort …

Trump Pressured Russell Fry to Endorse Darline Graham for Senate — So He Did  —  The president has been focused on the race since the death of Lindsey Graham in July.  Ms. Graham, the late senator's sister, is competing against Representative Ralph Norman in a runoff on Aug. 25.

Senior White House National Security Aide Andy Baker to Exit  —  White House deputy national security adviser Andy Baker plans to leave his post in the coming weeks, according to a person familiar with the matter, depriving the Trump administration of one of its foreign policy decision makers.

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.

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.

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 …

US nuclear negotiator Ernest Moniz: ‘Iran has the home-court advantage’  —  The architect of the 2015 deal with Tehran on how to prevent a new Middle East arms race  —  I arrive early for my lunch at The Bombay Club, one of Washington's power-dining establishments located just a stone's throw from the White House.

UK a ‘tinderbox’, says Burnham, as he calls in military and bans disposable barbecues - UK politics live  —  PM also says fire and rescue services will be given more cash  —  Burnham calls in military and bans disposable barbecues as wildfires burn in heatwave  —  Futile Clacton byelection has done Farage no favours

Trump tariffs send drone stocks flying  —  American drone companies got a sudden lift in the stock market Friday after President Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on imported drones. … - “President Trump's drone tariff program will protect the national security of the United States …