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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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

Exclusive: US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say  —  The U.S. military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran, a U.S. defense official …

Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute  —  The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.  —  Brevard County deputy sheriff Michael Fultz resigned from the force …

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.

Edwards Mounts His Defense: ‘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.

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.

‘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'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!

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.

Wyoming Voters Oust GOP Faction that Wants to Crack Down on Elections  —  It's an unusual sight in the Trump-era GOP: In many of Wyoming's state primaries last week, Republican voters chose candidates who defended the state's voting systems and election workers, over those who amplified the president's lies about voter fraud.

Scoop: U.S. close to striking “massive” deal for Venezuelan oil fields  —  The Trump administration is in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the South American country's enormous oil resources, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

Big tech has itself to blame for the data center backlash  —  This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🤖 Subscribe to PN 🤖  —  You do not, let us be clear, have to hand it to Greg Abbott.  —  After years of promoting …

Biden Derangement Syndrome  —  Even the Trump sycophants realize that they're in big trouble  —  Many errands this week, so a short post today  —  Click on a White House “fact sheet” about the economy and you will see the pop-up above.  Yes, Trump's lackeys are still peddling claims …

Pirro's special grand jury probing D.C. schools, city oversight of youth  —  The unusual investigation appears to have a broad scope.  Prosecutors have contacted D.C. Public Schools personnel to question them about truancy and graduation rates.  —  Summary

Republican Efforts to Prosecute Fauci for Contempt Are Hitting a Wall  —  Some administration officials are skeptical whether the current approach is procedurally sound enough to indict the retired public health official  —  A Republican push to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for contempt …

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.

Uefa prepares criminal complaint against Fifa's Infantino  —  Governing body of European football seeking documents from Joshua Kushner's investment firm  —  European football's governing body Uefa said it is preparing a criminal complaint against Gianni Infantino over the Fifa president's failed plan …

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.