Grand jury finds DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida  —  A state grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation …

RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate  —  Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’  —  Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr …

ICE Agent Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight  —  The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.  —  An immigration officer facing state charges in connection …

More than 800 missing, including 65 Americans, as Nepal flood deaths mount  —  Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse.

CIA Chief's Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO  —  Warning comes after new U.S. intelligence assessments indicated Russian president could launch a limited assault  —  The surprise visit by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to Moscow this week was to deliver …

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform  —  By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta's platforms.

Greer Suggests US Needs to Consider Bans on Canadian Goods  —  Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade.  Sign up here.  —  The Trump administration's top trade negotiator suggested the US ought to consider banning some Canadian goods, injecting another threat into a trade dispute between Washington and Ottawa.

ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted  —  A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump's mass deportation campaign.  They included people married to U.S. citizens …

A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images.  Some Republicans see a pattern.  —  Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff.  The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.  —  Summary

‘Thin Air,’ Real Money: Donald Trump's Crypto Products Have Left Investors at Least $4.7 Billion Underwater  —  Introduction  —  “I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air,” President Donald Trump tweeted in July 2019.

Trump Unravels as Leaks Reveal How Aides Feed Him Crackpot Poll Hopium  —  Donald Trump is reportedly instructing advisers to spend big on midterm ads ... about himself.  Sources leak to The Atlantic that Trump advisers are telling him the real reason the polls look so bad is that voters are unaware of his many stupendous successes.

Trump's Coming Midterm Crashout  —  First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry.  Not to get all alarmist, but the last year celeb deaths started piling up like this was 2016—and look how that year turned out.  Happy Thursday.  —  Don't miss out on the Good Fight Tour!

Trump keeps boosting data centers, even as other Republicans grow critical  —  The president is defending the data center boom as GOP officials across the country turn against projects that have angered voters.  —  Summary  —  As voters in both parties grow anxious about the rapid build …

Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges  —  The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.  —  A sailor who jumped from the USS Abraham Lincoln …

Trump's Department of Education Deletes Bizarre Social Media Post Appearing to Liken Him to Hitler  —  The Department of Education on Wednesday blasted out a wild social media post that seemingly compared President Donald Trump and his administration to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

There Is a Sickness Worse Than Wokeness  —  There was a moment — it was brief — when I thought the era of peak woke, or what Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently referred to as “Woke 1,” could lead to a free speech renaissance in this country.  —  in the midst of a shameful …

Not American Enough  —  GOP lawmakers are pushing to restrict the rights of naturalized and dual citizens—including their ability to run for office.  —  For carlos alemán, the pinnacle of the dozen years since he became a U.S. citizen was the night in 2020 when he was elected to serve on the city council of Homewood, Alabama.

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says  —  A civilian geography professor was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute …

US Says Troops Review Will Speed Up Europe Taking on Own Defense  —  The US aims to “advance and accelerate” the transfer of responsibility for most of Europe's own conventional defense as Washington continues a review of its troop presence, a top Pentagon official said.

Postal Officials Say Trump's Mail-Ballot Push Will Create Widespread Errors  —  President Donald Trump's push to have the U.S. Postal Service screen voters for eligibility in the midterm election is running up against tight deadlines that some officials are warning will cause massive errors and disenfranchisement.

Edwards Sends Letter Refuting Ethics Censure: ‘Poetry Is Not Sexual Misconduct’  —  Embattled North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards sent a 22-page letter to his colleagues defending himself against sexual harassment allegations that led to his decision to not run for reelection in November.

State Department Advances Trump Crackdown on ‘Far-Left Terrorism’  —  Critics say the Trump administration's focus is disproportionate, as analysts raise alarms about the growing strength of far-right movements.  —  The State Department on Wednesday designated three groups based in Europe …