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The Hill   President Trump said Friday he would consider pardoning attorney Michael Cohen, while complaining about how the legal system treated his former fixer. Trump was asked about whether he would pardon Cohen, who was the star witness in the 2024 New York hush money trial, since he recanted everything he said. “It was illegal what they did,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One to Dallas. “What they put him through was incredible.” READ THE FULL STORY     

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CBS News   Kevin Reddington, the lawyer for Lindsay Clancy, said on Wednesday he will ask for the case against his client to be thrown out after hearing from several jurors in the case. Reddington told “CBS Mornings” he will present a motion to dismiss on Sept. 29 at a previously scheduled status hearing. “It will be a motion to dismiss based on what’s called double jeopardy grounds, because there’s no … manifest necessity,” Reddington said. “You have to have a manifest necessity to declare a mistrial for obvious reasons — the invested time that the jurors put into it, the court, the staff, the defendant, the prosecution, everybody.” READ THE FULL STORY     

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Apple   Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone. Opened, it is the thinnest iPhone ever, with a 7.6-inch inner display that provides a large canvas for viewing content, gaming, and multitasking, and a special nano-texture finish that minimizes glare for an unparalleled viewing experience. Closed, the 5.4-inch outer display delivers 90 percent of the screen area of iPhone 18 Pro in a compact, pocketable design. Both displays share the same aspect ratio, so content scales proportionally, ensuring visual continuity. iPhone Duo is built to last with an innovative hardware design and a precision hinge that offers a smooth, satisfying feel with every use. Powered by the new A20 Pro, iPhone Duo features an advanced thermal management system with a custom-designed vapor chamber and a dual-battery architecture, delivering pro performance and impressive all-day battery life. READ THE FULL STORY     

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The Hill   The U.S. military struck “multiple” Iranian oil tankers linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Tuesday in response to “more” attempted Iranian missile launches at U.S. Navy warships, a U.S. official told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. It is unclear which U.S. Navy warship was targeted. U.S. forces struck an oil tanker near Kharg Island, located in the northern Persian Gulf, Tasnim News Agency, a semiofficial news agency affiliated with the IRGC, reported Tuesday. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Convicted murderer Karmelo Anthony expressed his dislike of “black b*tches” and said he preferred President Trump over Joe Biden in a series of recently revealed text messages obtained by The Daily Mail. Prosecutors did not present the texts in evidence during Anthony’s trial for the murder of fellow teenager Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas, area track meet on April 2, 2025. Among the many disturbing messages contained in the court documents is one message from Anthony to a friend in which he claims that he “f***ing [despises] black bitches.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CNBC   The Trump administration expressed “profound concern” Tuesday about Ford Motor ’s ties to Chinese companies that it believes could be detrimental to the Detroit carmaker and U.S. automotive industry. In a letter addressed to Ford CEO Jim Farley, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy questioned the automaker’s strategic trajectory with Chinese companies “as it pertains to American national automotive manufacturing integrity, supply chain exposure, and reliance on technologies of foreign adversaries.” Ford, which regularly touts its position as the top-producing automaker in the U.S., called the letter a “wrongheaded attempt to capture headlines.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Iran is set to announce a “restricted zone” close to the Strait of Hormuz following recent exchanges of fire between the U.S. and the Middle Eastern country. According to a Sunday report by Press TV, an Iranian state media outlet, a new restricted zone was set to be declared near the strait within the next few days, Iran’s top security official said. All vessels coming into the zone that are not cooperating with the Iranians will be put on a sanctions list. Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, said Sunday night on television that the zone “will begin from the U.S. Navy’s blockade line and extend into parts of the Persian Gulf,” per Press TV. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Federal investigators examining why an Amazon cargo jet barreled off a runway at Miami International Airport and into vehicles, killing at least five people, are likely to focus on a crucial moment in the landing: whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. Video of Sunday’s landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. Aviation experts said investigators will seek to determine exactly where the plane landed and, if it was beyond the normal touchdown zone, why the pilots did not abandon the landing and circle back for another attempt. Investigators will also examine the plane’s speed and braking, weather and wind conditions, the aircraft’s mechanical condition and other factors that could have contributed to the deadly overrun. The National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team led by Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy to Miami, where she is expected to give the agency’s first briefing on the investigation Monday. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   An armed man was arrested after charging toward the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said. Acton was not injured, but campaign officials said multiple people were hurt. The suspect, identified as Patrick Havas, 38, of Canfield, Ohio, “aggressively shoved his way through the crowd toward Acton while holding a cell phone up,” Mahoning County Sheriff Jerry Greene told CBS News. While he was rushing forward, Havas allegedly knocked over two older people on mobility scooters, causing one of them to fall to the ground, Greene said. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   In just over a year, the foreign-born population in the United States has declined by 2.9 million amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, according to Census Bureau numbers reviewed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). An analysis of the numbers by the CIS adds that the population of illegal migrants has declined by an “unprecedented” amount. “Since January 2025 when President Trump took office the government’s monthly household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows an unprecedented 2.9 million decline in the foreign-born population — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors, and illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the illegal immigrant population has fallen 2.3 million,” CIS writes. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The Department of Justice (DOJ) is expanding its investigation into beef affordability in the U.S. to include eight of the largest grocers in the country. Earlier this week, the DOJ posted to social platform X that its Antitrust Division sent letters to these eight grocers over the retail price of beef: Kroger Publix Walmart Albertsons Aldi Ahold Delhaize USA Costco Amazon “Beef prices are a critical concern to Americans, and a priority for this Justice Department,” the department wrote. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Employers across the U.S. are likely to face sharply higher health insurance costs next year, which could drive up how much workers pay for medical coverage, according to a recent survey. Health benefits consulting firm Marsh projects that the total health benefit cost per employee, which measures both employer and employee premium contributions, will rise by an average of 8.2% in 2027, the steepest increase since 2003. That forecast factors in cost-saving steps employers plan to take, such as raising deductibles, which typically lower monthly premiums for employees but increase their out-of-pocket costs. Without those measures, employers said their health plan costs would increase by 11% on average, according to Marsh. READ THE FULL STORY  

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TruthSocial   During a heated exchange on Wednesday’s Piers Morgan: Uncensored between Ronna McDaniel and Cenk Uygur, the former Republican Party Chair revealed socialist firebrand Hassan Piker is the nephew of progressive pundit Cenk Uygur. CLICK TO WATCH  

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SCOTUSBlog   The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Boston that blocks the government from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that the order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani “partially nullifies the Postal Service’s efforts to address the risk that the federal mails will be used to perpetrate voter fraud—a particularly pernicious species of fraud that dilutes the votes of lawful voters, prevents election results from reflecting the will of the American people, and undermines ‘public confidence in the integrity of the electoral process.’” Thursday’s filing was the second time in less than six weeks that the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court seeking to clear the way to implement restrictions on mail-in voting. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directed federal agencies to take a series of steps on mail-in voting. The first provision instructs the Department of Homeland Security to create lists of the adult U.S. citizens in each state and to send those lists to states at least 60 days before a federal election.…

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NBC News   The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s redrawn congressional map cannot be used in this year’s midterm elections, dealing a blow to Republicans. The court ruled that a referendum on whether the state can use the map going forward must be included on the November ballot, meaning Missouri’s fall elections will take place under its previous district lines. The new map was designed to draw one of the two Missouri Democrats in Congress, longtime Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, out of his seat. READ THE FULL STORY  

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The Hill   A new poll released Wednesday showed that Americans’ perception of corruption in the U.S. government has hit a record high. The survey, conducted by Gallup, found that 89 percent of respondents answered affirmatively to the question, “Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?” That number was up 10 percentage points from 2025 and marked the highest percentage since the survey started in 2006. “This ought to concern all Americans,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Wednesday on the social platform X about the poll. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Elon Musk addressed a virtual session of the G20 yesterday, laying out predictions on AI, humanoid robots and regulation. According to Musk, within 10 years, 1 billion humanoid robots will outproduce all of humanity. CNBC reports that Musk covered four topics: power constraints on AI, the technology’s economic potential, humanoid robotics, and how governments should regulate emerging tech. Robotics is where Musk got more specific about mechanics. He described humanoid robot usefulness as the product of three factors: AI software, the onboard AI chip, and electromechanical dexterity, particularly in the hands. All three are improving exponentially, he said. Once robots start manufacturing other robots, growth turns recursive: slow at first, then explosive. He called his own ten-year forecast conservative, projecting well over a billion humanoid robots, each roughly five times as productive as a person. Combined, that fleet would outproduce all of humanity. This physical layer, he argued, not the digital economy, is where he expects overall economic output to grow by a factor of ten or more. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Meta announced privacy updates to its artificial intelligence-powered glasses after reports that users of the device were filming people without their consent. The glasses include an LED light that signals when filming has started. Meta said it recently disabled the glasses’ cameras if the light is physically tampered with. The light previously had to be blocked before filming started to lock the recording function. Now, recording is disabled if a user starts filming and then covers the light, according to Meta. “These investments are already having a deterrent effect — companies that were offering LED tampering services have shut down because the camera now deactivates when tampering is detected,” the company noted in an email to CBS News. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The House on Tuesday passed a measure to extend government funding into December, averting a shutdown in the final stretch of the campaign ahead of the November midterm elections. The Senate approved the short-term bipartisan funding bill in early August before its five-week recess, but the House was already on its lengthy summer break. The House, which returned Monday, passed the measure in a 370 to 48 vote after GOP leaders fast-tracked the bill, requiring two-thirds majority support for passage. Funding is now set to expire on Dec. 11, more than a month after the midterm elections, when the balance of power in the House and Senate for the next two years will be decided. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz will be “worthless” to the oil industry in two years. Speaking to Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow on the sidelines of the Group of 20 finance ministers’ summit in North Carolina, Bessent argued the key waterway is “not a choke point” for the U.S. In 2024, the country imported roughly half a million barrels of crude oil per day from Persian Gulf countries through the strait, accounting for 7 percent of total U.S. crude oil, according to the Energy Information Administration. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Aviation experts are raising serious national security concerns about ensuring that the U.S. government properly vets risks from companies that provide air traffic control (ATC) technologies to China, pointing out that the U.S. could be vulnerable to cyberattacks if such companies are permitted to design or operate American ATC systems like the new common automation platform (CAP). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last November that it was seeking proposals to revolutionize how ATC officials receive flight data and move aircraft between facilities with a “single, state-of-the-art platform” referred to as a CAP, as part of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s plan to build a brand-new ATC system. In April of this year, industry outlet Air Current reported that the companies on the FAA’s short list included U.S.-based Leidos and RTX, Spain’s Indra, and France’s Thales. The companies were among those reportedly asked to present their versions of a CAP to agency officials at their Washington, DC, headquarters. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   The Trump administration cracked down on 270 fraudulent commercial driver’s license (CDL) driving schools for failing to enforce English proficiency standards for migrant truckers and other violations after 239 deaths have occurred. The agencies are cracking down on fraud surrounding the illegal migrants receiving CDL’s, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Monday. Duffy criticized the Biden administration for getting rid of “long standing safety rules that make sure we get well qualified drivers driving big rigs,” and for allowing truck driving schools “to self-certify.” READ THE FULL STORY     

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CBS News   Two deaths have been confirmed and some 15 people were believed to be missing Monday morning in Grand Canyon National Park after parts of the canyon were hit by major flash floods over the weekend. The raging waters swept boulders, infrastructure and other debris into the Colorado River after a storm dropped a huge amount of precipitation in a very short period of time, officials said. The body of a 46-year-old man was recovered Sunday evening near Crystal Rapids on the Colorado River, the National Park Service said, without providing any additional information. On Monday, the park service said a second body had been recovered. The NPS called for anyone who knew of hikers or backpackers who were in Bright Angel Canyon or the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, when the flash floods hit, to provide information to park authorities. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   A trio of House Democrats introduced legislation on Monday to block President Trump from renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” — which he signed an executive order to do so last week amid his trade war with Canada. The legislation — titled the “Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act” — proposes prohibiting the president, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and federal officials acting under presidential authority from changing the names of the five Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Ontario. “We filed all of the necessary papers, documents, everything else. We’ve notified all of the various people you have to notify,” the president said Thursday in the Oval Office. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Thursday marks Karoline Leavitt’s last day on the job, after a historic 20-month run as the youngest press secretary in White House history. Leavitt caught up with reporters on her last day on the driveway on the North Lawn of the White House, telling them it is “bittersweet” to depart her post. “It’s very bittersweet,” Leavitt told reporters. “I‘ll miss you guys. I know that’s probably not something anyone would expect me to say, but obviously it’s been great working with all of you.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Technology giant Nvidia is entering the election spending arena, launching a new corporate political action committee funded by employees. Nvidia filed a statement of organization Thursday, with the PAC’s official name being the Nvidia Corporation Employees Federal Political Action Committee. The super PAC, first reported by Bloomberg Government, will be funded by eligible employees who can give up to $5,000. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged in a Minneapolis shooting during Operation Metro Surge has been released from a Texas jail, the Associated Press reports. The release follows a federal judge’s Wednesday denial of Minnesota’s request for a temporary restraining order to halt Christian Castro’s release. The shooting occurred the night of Jan. 14, when a Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by officer Castro, and two others were arrested. Castro was charged in Minnesota with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime. Castro accused the man of assaulting him with a broomstick and shovel before the shooting, but investigators say footage from a nearby camera helped prove that was a lie. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   A Maryland judge Wednesday blocked an effort that would have proposed a constitutional amendment to redraw the state’s congressional districts to residents, marking another setback for Democratic redistricting efforts. Judge Robert Thompson ruled against House Bill 2100 — signed into law by Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Aug. 5 — calling the wording in parts of the proposed ballot question “intentionally misleading, and this should disqualify the ballot question as currently written.” “The court has no choice but to enjoin the board of elections from including ballot Question 3 on the general election ballot for November 3, 2026,” Thompson wrote. READ THE FULL STORY     

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Breitbart   Torrential rains and swollen rivers caused massive floods and dangerous landslides in Tibet and Nepal on Wednesday, sweeping away villages and destroying crucial roads and bridges. The death toll stood at 95 on Wednesday, with hundreds of people missing, including some 341 foreign nationals. According to Chinese state media, the flash floods began at around 9:00 a.m. local time in the border region of Nepal, quickly spilling over into Tibet’s Gyirong county. The first report of the disaster came from a border checkpoint that was obliterated in a matter of seconds, as recorded by horrified onlookers: READ THE FULL STORY     

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CBS News   President Trump hasn’t settled on a replacement for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, whose last day is Friday, according to administration officials close to the situation. Responsibilities for holding White House press briefings will rotate for now, the sources said, with top administration officials heading to the podium, not members of the White House press and communications staff. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been looking at potential replacements for Leavitt, but the process is ongoing with no front-runners yet, two of the sources said. Republican commentator Scott Jennings’ name had been floated, but Jennings was unlikely to be the final choice. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Canada on Tuesday announced that it is imposing tariffs of up to 50% on about $20 billion of U.S. imports, aiming to match the Trump administration’s recently announced import duties on Canadian imports. “Today, I’m announcing Canada will match the U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar, up to 50% on $27.6 billion of imports from the United States of America,” Canadian Minister of Finance and National Revenue François-Philippe Champagne said in a press conference to announce the measure. “For each product, our tariff would match the U.S. tariff on the same type of good.” The amount of goods impacted by the new tariffs, announced in Canadian dollars, translates to about $20 billion in U.S. dollars. The tariffs will focus on steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics that are targeted by the measures announced by the Trump administration. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Haitian gangs killed at least 47 people and injured more than 22 in a brutal massacre inside a church on Sunday night. The Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported that the deadly church massacre occurred in Kenscoff, a hillside commune overlooking the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince. Per the newspaper, the neighborhood and its outskirts were under drone surveillance for several days after gangs had gained ground. Gang members opened fire inside a local church that had been serving as a shelter for displaced people. The U.N. reportedly detailed that at least 47 were killed, and more than 22 were left wounded, noting that the figures could change. According to Le Nouvelliste, Johnson “Izo 2” Andre, the leader of the violent 5 Segonn (“5 Seconds”) gang, has claimed responsibility for the Kenscoff massacre. 5 Segonn is part of the broader Viv Ansanm (“Living Together”) gang coalition led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The Trump administration has threatened to demolish the Kennedy Center if a judge determines that the renowned performing arts center cannot close for a two-year renovation. In court filings on Monday, Justice Department attorney Brantley T. Mayers repeatedly referred to the Kennedy Center as a “decrepit” structure in dire need of renovations led by the Trump administration. Mayers said without renovations, the site will “deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday announced Operation Economic Outcast, the Trump administration’s ramped-up push to use economic tools to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with Iran. “Today, at President Trump’s direction, the United States Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecedented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its enablers,” Bessent said. “In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries. Today, in that same spirit, we are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe.” The operation expands the categories for secondary sanctions on entities and countries that transact with Tehran and also introduces new sanctions across a variety of vital sectors, including digital assets, gold, aviation, technology and shipping. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The state of Nevada is suing the federal government over its plans for Colorado River water use reductions, saying its cuts are too steep. Nevada sued Monday after the federal government finalized its 10-year framework for planned cuts on Friday. The Colorado River provides water for agricultural, municipal and industrial uses for seven states in the Western U.S., including Nevada. READ THE FULL STORY     

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State Department   Today, I authorized the formal rescission of Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST), following the conclusion of the mandatory 45-day Congressional notification period.   I have also delisted Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). These actions represent another historic step by President Trump to give the Syrian people a path to prosperity. In the past year the Trump Administration has taken unprecedented steps to provide sanctions relief for the benefit of the Syrian people.  The historic June 2025 Executive Order ‘Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions’ accelerated the process of sanctions relief for Syria, including by terminating the Syria Sanctions Program and the national emergency with respect to Syria, and directing reviews on various Syria-related sanctions and terrorist designations. These actions were all taken in recognition of the positive actions taken and further commitments by the Syrian government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa to fully distance Syria from acts of international terrorism.  In the past year, the Government of Syria has taken significant steps to counter terrorism, to include formally joining the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in November and conducting operations to disrupt the terror networks of ISIS, al-Qa’ida, Hizballah, and Iran-aligned groups.  Rescinding Syria’s designation…

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CNN   The number of US service members wounded since the start of the Iran war has passed 750, according to the Defense Department’s war casualty database. The Pentagon updated the database on Wednesday, recording more than 50 additional wounded soldiers, as talks between Tehran and DC to end the conflict remain at an impasse. When totals in The Defense Casualty Analysis System for “Overseas Operations” are combined with totals for Operation Epic Fury, 18 service members have died and 757 have been wounded since the US launched the war against Iran on February 28. READ THE FULL STORY 

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The Hill   The head of the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, Ed Martin, is leaving the department, capping a chaotic tenure in the Trump administration. Martin, who also served as the U.S. pardon attorney, has been at the center of a string of controversies since the earliest days of joining the administration, including failing to advance as a nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. “Ed Martin has been with me from the very beginning, and done an incredible job as an Attorney, Director of the Weaponization Working Group, and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social in announcing the departure. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   The Department of Justice said on Friday that TikTok and China’s ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle claims that the social media platform violated U.S. children’s online privacy laws. The agency sued TikTok in 2024, alleging that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting and retaining data from its young users without notifying parents or obtaining their consent. The lawsuit, which stemmed from a Federal Trade Commission investigation, claimed that TikTok had knowingly permitted children to create accounts and interact with adults on the platform since 2019. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   A paper published in Science on Friday found that China’s rapid construction of solar panels has damaged the environment and reduced biodiversity, especially among birds, who have lost habitat space plus foraging and breeding grounds to the vast fields of photovoltaic cells. The Science paper — produced by researchers from China, Vietnam, and the United States — began with the required genuflections towards the renewable energy industry but admitted that “clean energy also will have a large footprint on nature.” Researchers studied over 2,000 counties in China and found those with the most solar panels experienced “reductions in bird diversity, primarily due to land conversion.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CNBC   President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed frustration that the Federal Reserve isn’t cutting interest rates, insisting that solid economic data shouldn’t stop the central bank from adopting an easier policy stance. As he has done in the past, Trump accused Fed officials of having political motives, though he excluded Chairman Kevin Warsh, whom the president nominated to the top position earlier this year. Trump said Warsh is doing a “great job” in a position he began in May, succeeding Jerome Powell whom the president regularly badgered for not lowering rates faster. Powell remained on the board as a governor. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   President Trump on Wednesday announced he’s nominating Dr. Heidi Overton, a physician and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy at the White House, to be the next head of the Food and Drug Administration. Overton, who earned her doctor of medicine from the University of New Mexico, has worked closely with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said she has helped them “to deliver on the MOST TRANSFORMATIVE Health Agenda in History.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is privately funding a hand recount and audit of Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary, which he lost by roughly 11 percentage points. Lindell in a statement Wednesday cited multiple “irregularities” that he said were caught by his team during election night — including what were described as vote totals that moved backward during the reporting, unusual synchronized vote totals across all seven Republican candidates and counties reporting more votes than were cast — as the reasoning behind the audit. He added the recount will include “designated observers stationed throughout the hand-counting process.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   President Trump said Tuesday that there is no ongoing dialogue with Iran to end the war, and no discussions scheduled. His son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner told Fox News on Monday that Iran is “not showing any interest” in striking a deal that “makes sense” for the United States. Nearly six months into the conflict, the U.S. and Iran remain locked in a standoff over control over the Strait of Hormuz. A commercial vessel was struck by an “unknown projectile” while transiting the strait on Tuesday, according to the British military, resulting in one casualty and causing damage to an engine room. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey chastised Israel on Tuesday for carrying out strikes on a Syrian airbase, saying they “constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability.” READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond surpassed 5.3 percent on Tuesday before a slight downtick, foreshadowing an increase in borrowing costs across the country. The 30-year bond yield is 5.284 percent as of Tuesday afternoon, after opening at 5.308 percent and peaking at 5.337 percent earlier in the day. That marked the highest yield for 30-year Treasury bonds since April 2007, when yields reached 5.44 percent. After falling by two-tenths of a percentage point from the beginning of this year to late February, around the start of the Iran war, the 30-year bond yield has persistently increased. Meanwhile, a poll published in early July suggested a vast majority of Americans believed they were living through an affordability crisis. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   Democrats in blue states across the country have swamped their legislatures with an avalanche of nearly 250 pro-migrant bills to thwart President Donald Trump’s immigration and deportation policies. A review by the left-wing State Futures organization discovered 242 pieces of legislation in 32 states, of which about a fifth have already passed, OregonLive reported. The bills have been enthusiastically supported by state Democrats, but many have been opposed by legal action by the federal government. In some blue states, though, some of the measures have even been vetoed by Democrat governors who fear the measures go too far. READ THE FULL STORY   

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CBS News   U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.2%, up from 3.6% the year before. That’s an estimated 155,000 children nationally during the 2025-26 school year. It’s the fourth consecutive year that the national average exemption rate has reached a new record, and the vast majority are parents withholding shots for nonmedical reasons. Exemptions increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia. READ THE FULL STORY   

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The Hill   Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said the Department of Justice believes Congress has already granted President Trump the authority to construct the White House ballroom under existing presidential authority. “We don’t believe we have to go to Congress. We believe Congress has already given us the authority to do what we’re doing,” Blanche said during a Sunday appearance on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday.” “Many presidents have done a tremendous amount of work to the White House, as they should, and Congress has authorized them to do so,” he added in discussion with anchor Shannon Bream, a lawyer criticized by Trump after the interview aired. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   A federal judge has blocked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from reviewing state databases of truck drivers as it seeks to remove illegal migrants from the trucking industry. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga issued an administrative stay preventing DHS from accessing the records of 17 million commercial truck drivers from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. Judge Trenga’s order came after a lawsuit was filed by 21 Democrat-controlled states claiming that the government has no right to the information and would need individual subpoenas for each and every record, according to Freight Waves. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Breitbart   President Donald Trump’s administration is taking action in the case of a surrogate mother who refused an alleged request from the baby’s biological parents to abort him once he was diagnosed with a severe heart defect. The case involving surrogate mother McKenna West and the child whom she called baby Gabriel, has drawn a lot of attention, Fox News reported Thursday, noting West has since traveled to Texas where she gave birth on Wednesday. “The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights told Fox News Digital Thursday it is sending a letter to Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center outlining their obligations under federal disability civil rights laws as doctors make treatment decisions involving baby Gabriel,” the outlet said, noting that before he was born, the baby was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. READ THE FULL STORY   

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