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Trump slaps additional 50 percent tariffs on Canada  —  President Trump slapped an additional 50 percent tariff on certain Canadian goods in response to what the administration said were “discriminatory” trade measures from Canada on Monday.  —  A senior administration official told reporters …
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Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over autos, alcohol and cheese
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War  —  Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.  —  In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed …
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Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen Vows to Protect Ships From Houthis
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G.O.P. Boxed In on Iran War as Trump Sidelines Congress  —  Republicans now face a worst-case political scenario of being asked to fund an unpopular war over which they have exercised little oversight.  —  President Trump has yet again circumvented the legislative branch as he orders American forces …
Discussion: NBC News and 19FortyFive
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U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives  —  The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president's new Air Force One.  The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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Trump says Qatari-gifted Air Force One will be ‘maxed out,’ appearing to confirm security issues
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FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip  —  FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation.  —  It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America's top adversaries.
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GOP senator recites Declaration of Independence — next to a Confederate flag  —  When Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, took the stage during the recent July Fourth weekend to recite the Declaration of Independence, there was one notable image just steps away: the Confederate battle flag.
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home  —  The 28-year-old Mexican man who was killed while running from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week was visiting the country on a valid tourist visa.  —  Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was in a car with three …
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Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave  —  Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country's 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.  —  President Trump quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications …
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QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Have Taken Over a Prison  —  And they're vowing to fill it with trafficked children.  —  ∙ Paid  —  PROMOTERS OF QANON and other lurid pro-Trump conspiracy theories will head to California next month to visit a women's prison.
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Sen. Darline Graham says she is running for a full 6-year term after Trump urged her to jump into the race  —  President Donald Trump said that he had given his “complete and total endorsement” to Graham, who was appointed to finish her late brother's Senate term.
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Tate Brothers to Stay in Jail as New Details About Charges Emerge  —  In court documents unsealed on Monday, British prosecutors accused the “manosphere” influencers of choking women, sometimes until they passed out, and then raping them.  —  The influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate …
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State Dept. again deems Cuba a threat amid talk of U.S. push for regime change  —  A new report claims Havana influenced “the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa” and accuses the Democratic Socialists of America of Cuba ties.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration issued a report …
Image Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
DOJ's Reflecting Pool “Vandalism” Case Falls Apart With Pool Draining  —  The Trump administration's case against the former Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is about to fall apart.  —  Following the draining of the Reflecting Pool last week …
Discussion: Raw Story, Forbes and Associated Press
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Image Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Spain Humiliates Trump After He Refuses to Get Out of Victory Photos  —  Spain's World Cup-winning team have made it abundantly clear that they did not want Donald Trump in their victory photos.  —  The official account for Spain's national football league shared an altered image …
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Democrat set to replace Platner in Maine led state Senate with a temper  —  Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal.  —  Summary  —  Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator …
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Nicaragua's president says country will not hold any more elections  —  Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition  —  Nicaragua's long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has said the country will hold no further elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power.
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United States Seizes More than 1,000 Internet Domains Used to Illegally Stream World Cup 2026 Matches  —  For Immediate Release  —  The Department of Justice announced today the successful seizure of more than 1,000 domains that were engaged in the unauthorized streaming of matches …
Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Wire
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Everything Trump's Election Speech Did Not Prove  —  After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn't found it.  —  annabower.bsky.social  —  @juliacurlee.bsky.social  —  noupside.bsky.social  —  michael-feinberg.bsky.social
Discussion: Washington Times
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Scoop: Chuck Edwards gifted pink and blue handguns to young female staffers  —  Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) gave two young female staffers each a personalized handgun as a present while they worked in his office in 2024, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the gifts.
Discussion: Raw Story
Image Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy  —  Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture - which no one commissioned - would raise ‘millions’ of dollars  —  A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money …
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Cornyn and Tillis in discussions with White House to get Blanche across the finish line  —  Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn — both Republicans spurned by the Trump administration for not being adequately loyal — are now being actively courted by the White House to confirm a key Cabinet official.
Discussion: American Prospect
 
 
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