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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump's Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms — A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could ‘derail’ midterms — The U.S. Postal Service could “derail” the midterm election if it continues rushing out “untested” technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, a newly released whistleblower report warns.
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Straight Arrow, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The Maine Wire, IJR News and Little Green Footballs
Axios:
USPS whistleblower warns new ballot system could fail — A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower is alleging the agency defied court orders while rushing to build a new ballot system that could reject thousands of mail ballots. … - The system stems from an executive order signed by President Trump …
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Postal Service work to comply with Trump's executive order is rushed and sloppy, a whistleblower contends
Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:
‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting - live
‘Dangerous power grab’: top Democrats decry USPS system that could thwart mail-in voting - live
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NOTUS
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
College student steps into highway traffic, is killed after losing TPS — Pierre Damas Bel's family said he took his own life after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle monitor. — Summary
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Capital B News, The Signorile Report, The Parnas Perspective and twitchy.com
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Jessica Orozco / SpringfieldNewsSun.com:
Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say — A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Cincinnati.com, The Haitian Times, New Republic and The Post Millennial
Politico:
2 House Democrats vote to salvage GOP agenda — A pair of House Democrats voted to rescue the Republican legislative agenda Tuesday as GOP leaders faced an internal revolt, an extremely rare crossing of party lines that pushed a key procedural vote through a closely divided chamber.
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IJR News
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrats fume about GOP's anti-socialism bill — House Democrats are grumbling that Republicans are setting one last political trap for them before November by attaching language touting their marquee voter ID legislation to a resolution denouncing socialism.
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, NewsMax.com, Truthout and The Hill
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House votes to pass short-term funding bill and prevent a shutdown before the election — The legislation, which already passed the Senate, now goes to President Donald Trump to become law, checking off the main item on Congress' to-do list ahead of the midterms.
Tampa Bay Times:
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa — Yasmany Moreno thought he was being transferred. Again.The 32-year-old Cuban who traveled between Tampa and Miami for work had already spent more than a year in immigration detention centers across the United States.
Associated Press:
Live updates: US and Iran exchange fire after abrupt end to month without military action — Explosions seen over Jordanian city of Aqaba as Iran says it is retaliating for U.S. strikes — Explosions have been seen over the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba as Iran says it is retaliating for U.S. strikes.
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Ben Finley / Associated Press:
US says it's hitting targets in Iran as hostilities flare again after month with no military action
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Axios:
Why Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned — Two key reasons led to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation, announced Monday: the feeling that his modernization initiatives were being blocked, and the chaos created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's firing of senior generals.
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The Atlantic:
Dan Driscoll's Parting Shot
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Paul Krugman:
The Plot to Steal Venezuela's Oil — A scam that is both vile and deeply stupid — The United States has an ugly reputation in Latin America — a reputation that, I'm sorry to say, is mostly well deserved. Our government has a long track record of supporting dictators …
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
The secret history of Trump's Venezuelan oil baron
The secret history of Trump's Venezuelan oil baron
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MS NOW, New York Post, NOTUS, The Atlantic, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, The Hill, Semafor, Wall Street Journal, NewsMax.com and Financial Times
Oliver Darcy / Status:
CBS' El-Sayed Scandal … At 8:18 a.m. on Monday morning, CBS News published a post on X that immediately drew an avalanche of criticism: “As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001,” the post said, “Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan …
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Ewan Palmer / The Daily Beast:
MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hit With Furious Staff Backlash
MAGA-Curious CBS Boss Hit With Furious Staff Backlash
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Daily Kos, The Washington Free Beacon, Townhall, The Gateway Pundit, HotAir, Fox News, CBS News and New York Post
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism. — Vice President JD Vance put his relationship with Tucker Carlson back in the spotlight this week when he was asked about the right-wing podcaster's history of promoting antisemites at a meeting of Jewish Republicans …
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New York Times, Mediaite, The Post Millennial, Jewish Insider, IJR News, Instapundit and Washington Post
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Mickey Djuric / Politico:
‘Stop doing memes’: Carney urges US to drop theatrics — Canada's prime minister said talks can resume once the Trump administration ‘starts being serious.’ — OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney still sees a path to a mutually beneficial trade deal with the U.S. — once Washington stops playing games.
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The Hill, Daily Kos, New York Times, Canadian Press, The Independent, New Republic, Associated Press, RedState, CNBC, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
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Politico:
Canada grinds Trump's Greer
Canada grinds Trump's Greer
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Heartland Signal, The Hill, The Guardian and Washington Examiner
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
MapQuest app reaches No 1 on US Apple list after defying Trump's Lake Ontario order — Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting 'we're not changing it' — A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario …
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump approval stuck at lowest level of political career: Survey — President Trump's approval rating has remained stagnant at the lowest point between his two presidencies, according to a new poll. — The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey shows that Trump's approval rating has remained at 33 percent …
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MS NOW, Reuters, NewsNation and New Republic
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
A Familiar Media Failure — There are only two parties, and only one election; legacy media is once again creating false impressions about the stakes; Democrats once again aren't helping their own cause. — ∙ Paid — Wherever you fall on the question of whether Abdul El-Sayed …
Marianne LeVine / Wall Street Journal:
An $88,600 Photo With Trump: GOP Hopes to Raise Millions During Convention — Republican National Committee plans pair of high-dollar fundraisers during this month's midterm convention in Dallas — WASHINGTON—Republicans are planning to raise millions of dollars during the coming GOP midterm convention …
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Washington Examiner and Houston Public Media
Frank Kendall / New York Times:
The U.S. Military Must Learn to Say No to Trump — I attended a military retirement ceremony last month at which Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the presiding officer and featured speaker. It was eerily, even alarmingly normal.
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Anna Betts / The Guardian:
Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump — British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’ — Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator who was arrested last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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NOTUS, Mediaite, Washington Post, The American Conservative, Mother Jones and PinkNews
Governor Kathy Hochul:
Governor Hochul Calls on the Trump Administration to Stop Defunding the Police and Deliver the $87 Million in Federal Counterterrorism Funds Still Owed to New York — Trump Administration Recklessly Cut New York's Counterterrorism Funding by $187 Million Last Year
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Politico, Washington Examiner and Daily Kos
Reuters:
Trump birthright curbs may prompt US passport checks on parents — The U.S. State Department has proposed requiring parents applying for passports for their children to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit birthright citizenship.
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Newsweek, Breitbart, IJR News and The Atlantic
Politico:
White House prepares for Democratic investigations — President Donald Trump, his family and officials in his orbit are preparing for a Democratic takeover next year — even though the president remains publicly optimistic that his party will retain control of Congress.
Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg:
Zelenskyy Threatens to Shut Air Traffic Over Russia With Drones — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned airlines to avoid Russian airspace as he threatened to respond to Moscow's escalating missile attacks by crowding its skies with drones. — “Russian airspace will effectively be closing …
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Washington Examiner, Reuters and Al Jazeera
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
Mullin says DHS could deploy to polling sites for ‘specific’ threats, arrests — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin provided more details Tuesday about the kinds of operations which would see immigration agents enter polling places, as Democrats have worried the Department …
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Fox News, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Independent, RedState and National Politics
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America's Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 — A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. — Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer who plowed his fields behind Belgian draft horses …
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Saul Austerlitz / Liberal Currents:
Bending the Knee at Yale … This spring, I stood in a tent on Yale University's Old Campus, surrounded by classmates marking the occasion of our 25th college reunion. The tent was full of spouses and bored children and the half-eaten remnants of lunch, and thankfully everyone was wearing name tags …
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
We Found Her: The Most Absurd General-Election Candidate in America — It was a close call, but it sure looks like Donald Trump is going to get his East Wing ballroom, at least for now. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that construction could continue.
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NBC News:
What to watch in Massachusetts: From the Politics Desk — Plus, JB Pritzker and the myth of Malört. — By The Politics Desk … Massachusetts primary puts Democrats' generational divides on display — By Bridget Bowman and Ben Kamisar — Today's primaries in Massachusetts …
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Bloomberg, Scripps News, UPI, The Hill, ABC News, New York Times and Reuters
Paul Wiseman / NOTUS:
U.S. Job Openings Rose Slightly in July — Employers posted slightly more job openings in July but the American labor market remained sturdy in the face of higher costs that are squeezing household budgets. — U.S. job openings ticked up to 7.27 million in July from a revised 7.18 million in June …
Margaret MacMillan / New York Times:
A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren't Ready. — When a storm is coming, there will always be signs. The wind might suddenly drop. The tide goes out farther than usual. Streamers of clouds sail across the sky. — It's possible to misread or even ignore these signs …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Financial Times:
Russia secretly helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles — Leaks reveal programme behind one of the most significant known transfers of military technology from Moscow to Tehran — Russia has been secretly helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles …
