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Axios

Trump shrugs off concerns about USS Abraham Lincoln [4d]
Americans' wanderlust hits new heights [4d]
Dorm rooms are tiny. The dorm decor economy is not. [4d]
Retail sales slump in July [4d]
Consumer sentiment dips, especially among Republicans [4d]
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO [4d]
OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh [5d]
America has more majority-minority rural counties than urban and suburban ones [5d]
AI scrambles the political map [5d]
Data center backlash echoes fossil-fuel politics [5d]
GOP finds its next progressive target in Minnesota [5d]
Trump stops short of endorsing Bibi as his campaign falters [5d]
Scoop: Key W.H. national security aide Andy Baker is departing [5d]
A convergence of biological risks [5d]

Salon

Phoebe Bridgers has a song for every feeling [4d]
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson [4d]
HBO’s “Lanterns” questions what makes a hero—and who gets to be one [4d]
We’re all amateur food safety inspectors now [5d]
The worst White House press secretary of all time [5d]
The Flock uprising is just the beginning [5d]
Time for James Carville to sit down and shut up [5d]
Paxton, Talarico tap contrary versions of God and Christianity in appeal to Texas voters [5d]

The Drudge Report

Colombia's New President Wants More U.S. Military Help Fighting Cartels... [4d]
The exodus from Israel... [4d]
FALL PREVIEW: Time running out on Trump's agenda with Congress... [4d]
Forecasters warn of 20 inches of rain! [4d]
Dolly Parton abruptly skips event over 'health concerns'... [4d]
Trump Family's WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL Gets Preliminary Approval to Launch Bank... [4d]
ADMITS KILLING [4d]
So Hot That Nuke Plants Being Forced to Power Down... [4d]
Near Mount Rainier, mysterious sightings continue to baffle... [4d]
ASTON MARTIN Launches $2M Supercar to Revive Fortunes... [4d]
REPORT: Bill Gates' Daughter Clearly Has Traitor Inside Her Startup Who's Trying to Destroy Her... [4d]
MANGIONE FACES LIFE IN PRISON [4d]
He was the CEO. Now he runs wine bar... [4d]
DOJ expands military's power to detain migrants... [4d]
People on OZEMPIC getting 'zombie filler'... [4d]
SAYS HE'LL DECLARE STRAIT OF HORMUZ USA 'PRETTY SOON'... [4d]
Golden visa firm says 'plan B' passports going middle class... [4d]
Republican Senator Brags About Long Brainstorm Sessions With AI Chatbot... [4d]
Low water in Rome drought-hit Tiber River exposes ancient ruins of Nero's Bridge... [4d]
LAMBORGHINI unveils most powerful production car ever... [4d]
New Poll Sounds Alarm Bells In Michigan For Dems... [4d]
CAMBRIDGE professor found dead after plagiarism scandal... [4d]
Commander-In-Chief's Callous Response As US Sailors Throw Themselves Overboard In Iran war... [4d]
'Not nearly long enough'... [4d]
BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka, Kushner... [4d]
EARTH, WIND & FIRE drummer placed into coma after backstage incident... [4d]
Mummies Being Sold On FACEBOOK In Bizarre Black Market... [4d]
US national debt to hit $50 trillion soon... [4d]
Virginia congressman's meeting with trans Dems erupts into profanity. Then he walked out... [4d]
Drone crashes in Romania after flying undetected at 'very low altitude'... [4d]
NETANYAHU BRANDS UK 'ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF BRITAIN'... [4d]
Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight small fire near his Idaho ranch... [4d]
Military schools put new emphasis on Western civ and Christianity... [4d]
CONE... [4d]
Planet's strongest heat dome will tower over USA... [4d]
HOT LIPS FOR FOX? [4d]
Basic supplies run short; Sanitation going awry! [4d]
WAR FOR NOTHING? US says lower oil prices, not Iran's nuclear program, are top priority... [4d]
Potential Vulnerability in Stock Market... [4d]
Consumer sentiment plunges... [4d]
MANGIONE FACES LIFE IN PRISON [4d]
Companies that kept DEI policies thrive despite threats... [5d]
Carefree dreams of 'summertime' fading in swelter... [5d]
Lala could become first hurricane to make landfall on Hawaii's Big Island... [5d]
You may have seen your last 8 p.m. sunset of 2026... [5d]
People on OZEMPIC getting 'zombie filler'... [5d]
Mangione set to appear in court for expected guilty plea... Developing... [5d]
Two slicks appear in Gulf as huge oil spill off Oman threatens disaster... [5d]
Administration Asks Supreme Court to Greenlight White House Ballroom... Developing... [5d]
Key national security aide departing White House... [5d]
Study Finds Spouses Who Exercise Together Fight Less, Talk More... [5d]
The woman accused of assassinating Ukrainian defector in Crimea... [5d]
Inside Russia's Giant Push to Upend a Tiny Country... [5d]
Federal Job Cuts Making Wildfires Harder to Fight... [5d]
Tate Brothers' Lawyer on Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their Release... [5d]
New trend of injecting banned peptides to 'optimize' body... [5d]
Retail sales slump as consumer spending falters... [5d]
'Golden Age' Economy Pitch Fizzles With Voters... [5d]
Maine's Luxury Market Looking More Like the Hamptons and Nantucket... [5d]
An Unlikely Emergency Appeal to Supreme Court from a Dog Named Bruce... [5d]
NATO jets shoot down drone over Latvia... [5d]
Even Claude in the Dark About Amodei's Wife -- and Her Influence at ANTHROPIC... [5d]
TRUTH SOCIAL sale of fast access to Trump posts draws legal concerns... [5d]
Little Thefts, Big Charges: DOJ Targets Weathered Food Truck? [5d]
President Orders Navy to Restore OLD Tech on Carriers, Costing Billions... [5d]
PAPER: Dems having 'sexy socialist summer'... [5d]
Anxiety about AI becoming political force in midterms... [5d]
The $121 Billion in One-Time Gains Boosting Big Tech's Profits... [5d]
TOP BET [5d]
Concerns Grow Over Conditions on Navy Carrier... [5d]

The New Republic

ICE Refused to Give Detainees Medical Treatment After Gas Leak [4d]
ICE Agents Mock Army Wife They Tried to Deport [4d]
FDA Only Now Goes to Mexico to Investigate Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak [4d]
The Huge Problem That’s Causing Trump’s Supporters to Turn on Him [4d]
“No, They’re Not”: Trump Reacts to Families Concerned About Sailors [4d]
Fox Hits Trump with Crushing Polls—and Wrecks Fox’s Own Pro-Trump Spin [4d]
Families of Sailors Detail Horrific Conditions as Iran War Drags On [4d]
Andrew Tate’s Defense Is Pure A.I. Slop [4d]
Trump Treasury Is Deleting an Anti-Corruption Database [4d]
Fish Are a Big Deal in This Senate Race [4d]
Why Don’t Leftie Candidates Do Better Among Working-Class Voters? [4d]
The Bipartisan Backlash to Trump’s Bulldozing of a Texas Landmark [4d]
Trump Temporarily Drops Reflecting Pool to Freak Out Over New Vandals [4d]
Top Trump Priority Gets Surge of Support … From Dead People [4d]
Trump Orders Navy to Spend Billions of Dollars Undoing Years of Work [5d]
Trump Sec. Flails When Fox News Wrecks Key Claim About Hormuz Strait [5d]
Transcript: Fox Hits Trump with Brutal Polls as Aides Feed Him Hopium [5d]
Democrats Want to Party Like It’s 2006 [5d]
In Furious, The Serial Killer Is Not The Real Villain [5d]
Trump Wants to Cut Taxes for the Rich. Again. [5d]
The Left Is Building Power. That’s Why Dems Are Slamming “Woke One.” [5d]
Fox Hits Trump with Brutal Polling as Aides Privately Soothe His Anger [5d]

Talking Points Memo

Business Models, Coherence, And Not Being an Agitated, Sickly Lab Rat [4d]
Today’s Census Attacks Mirror a Century Old Republican-Led Constitutional Crisis [4d]
CIA Behind Mystery Strikes on Ecuadorian Fishing Boats [4d]
Background on the Breakdown of the Trump-Netanyahu Love Affair [4d]
Is Paramount’s Merger-Hungry David Ellison Making it Up As He Goes? [5d]
OLC’s New Opinion on Executive Privilege Is a ‘Devious Tactic’ to Cover Up Trump Admin Corruption [5d]
What’s Huckabee Up To? [5d]

Politico

Trump seeks to boost New York Republicans with tough-on-crime message [4d]
Trump has a plan to break China’s mineral grip. It needs workers first. [4d]
Trump’s demands threaten Navy's progress [4d]
U.S.-Iran ceasefire set to expire with talks at a standstill [4d]
Pirro files felony charges over bubbles and graffiti at WWII memorial [5d]
BBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suit [5d]
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal court [5d]
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow his White House ballroom construction [5d]
Hiding your use of AI is about to get much harder — thanks to Brussels [5d]
Republicans are attacking Democrats as vegans on the campaign trail [5d]
The Trump administration is reducing legal pathways for immigrant kids to stay in the US [5d]
Farage’s victory over Binface won’t silence his critics [5d]
Trump Won A Quiet Victory Over Markets [5d]
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics [5d]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Still Here [5d]
The left’s California problem [5d]
Who are the biggest social media stars in Congress? [5d]

The Hill

Rove: Trump must stop ‘gaslighting’ Americans over economy [4d]
Senate investigates kids safety issues in online game Roblox [4d]
Gov. DeSantis latest to not support Rep. Mills ahead of Florida primary [4d]
USS Abraham Lincoln returning home [4d]
USS Abraham Lincoln controversy likely to loom over Pentagon [4d]
USS Abraham Lincoln controversy likely to loom over Pentagon [4d]
Judge lifts order on Somalia TPS, clearing way for deportations [4d]
Military to reimburse service members freezing eggs, sperm [4d]
Accused Olympian seeks protection from future Reflecting Pool charges [4d]
Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory [4d]
USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home, acting Navy secretary says [4d]
Trump celebrates return of US missionary kidnapped in West Africa [4d]
Son of former Mexican president challenges Trump after visa revoked [4d]
Trump administration unveils tariffs on drone imports [4d]
Watch live: Trump touts federal crackdown on crime at New York rally [4d]
Trump: USS Abraham Lincoln family members not concerned about conditions [4d]
Fry throws support behind Darline Graham’s Senate bid after primary loss [4d]
EPA sued for approving semiconductor chemicals that may pose health risks [4d]
RFK Jr. says he’s seen ‘boxes and boxes’ of McDonald’s on Trump plane [4d]
14 years later, Congress still hasn’t delivered a solution for Dreamers [4d]
Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting [4d]
Federal surveillance operation targeted progressive groups, unions in Minnesota, documents show [4d]
Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Pretty funny’ some people are freaking out about decision to freeze eggs [4d]
How not to fix the War Powers Resolution [4d]
Soldiers killed in Fort Hood chopper crash identified [4d]
Pirro announces charges in WWII vandalism case [4d]
How many people actually have cyclosporiasis? Why it’s so hard to track [4d]
FDA assigns highest-risk Class I status for recall of nearly 1.6 million cartons of eggs [4d]
The Mecca agreement’s message to Washington [5d]
Vance urges DOJ investigation into hospitals over billing for transgender care [5d]
Trump on WWII memorial vandalism: ‘We are on their trail’ [5d]
Bessent teases severe economic action against Iran [5d]
Muslims in public office are not a threat to America. The attacks on them are. [5d]
Court backs Trump on rescinding de minimis tariff exemption [5d]
America is finally turning the corner on overdose deaths. Washington is about to squander it. [5d]
2 tankers attacked while sailing through Strait of Hormuz [5d]
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow White House ballroom construction [5d]
Where the last 8 p.m. sunset of 2026 has already happened, and which cities are next [5d]
Mark Kelly on aircraft carrier catapult order: ‘Donald Trump knows nothing about this stuff’ [5d]
Live updates: Trump visits New York to tout decline in crime [5d]
The Democratic Party needs a ‘Sister Souljah moment’ to counter social democrats [5d]
Trump ally Nigel Farage beats Count Binface in special UK election [5d]
Don’t let socialists sabotage a Democratic comeback [5d]
US-Japan moves to bolster the Yen set a precedent for currency interventions [5d]
The war in Cuba has already begun [5d]
Why nutty candidates are underperforming their polling so badly [5d]
Daylight saving time battle pits Senate GOP against Trump [5d]
Trump faces near-impossible task of replacing Karoline Leavitt [5d]
Judge drops Nevada ‘fake electors’ case from 2020 presidential election [5d]
Interior investigating vandalism at WWII Memorial [5d]
White House accuses over 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs [5d]
Trump directs Navy to return to steam catapults on aircraft carriers [5d]
Schwartz faces Trump’s vaccine test [5d]

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