James Comey Readies Arguments for Claim of ‘Vindictive’ Prosecution on Charges of Threatening Trump
The former FBI director has a deadline of July 28 to mount his case for why the prosecution ought never to reach a jury.
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Iran Flew Commanders, Weapons to Houthis in Yemen Ahead of Blockade: Report
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Houthis ‘got snookered’ by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into starting a blockade of Saudi Arabia.
By LUKE FUNK
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Beijing Tests American Resolve With Latest Aggression in South China Sea
A retired Navy submarine officer tells the Sun that Communist China may be seeking to take advantage while America is preoccupied by its war with Iran.
By ALEX ZDAN
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The ‘Highly Educated, Downwardly Mobile’ Voters Fueling the Far Left’s Rise
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Instead of ‘I Lack the Votes,’ GOP Needs Swag-Worthy Message on Draining Swamp, Slashing Middle-Class Taxes for Growth
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NBA Shocker: LeBron James Accepts Meager Contract To Take His Talents to Philadelphia
The NBA’s all-time leading scorer will chase a championship with a record fourth team.
By GEORGE WILLIS
|Federal Judge Questions How the Pentagon’s New Testosterone Treatment Policy Differs From Transgender Ban
The order banning transgender troops said members of the armed forces ‘must adhere to health standards without the benefit of routine medical treatment.’
By LUKE FUNK
|WNBA, Union Meet About Reducing Excessive Online Abuse of Players
Union leaders want the league to do more to curtail death threats and racial slurs.
By GEORGE WILLIS
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Carr Vows To Hold Broadcasters ‘Accountable’ After NBC, ABC Declined To Air Trump’s Speech
CBS News originally only planned to stream the speech online, but abruptly changed course.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Sophie Cunningham Draws Backlash for Stance Against Transgender Athletes in Pro Basketball
The Indiana Fever star rejects ‘MAGA Barbie’ nickname while defending women’s sports.
By GEORGE WILLIS
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OpenAI Gone Awry: Company Confirms Autonomous Hack of Rival In ‘Unprecedented’ Cyber Incident
‘Advanced models can discover and exploit novel attack paths in real-world systems without source-code access,’ OpenAI says — even with restricted Internet access.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Britain’s New Prime Minister Willing To Cooperate With Americans on Bombing Missions From British Bases
Andy Burnham does not hesitate as did his predecessor despite Iranian threats to wreak vengeance ‘within the framework of self-defense.’
By DONALD KIRK
|Are Trump’s New Conditions for a Saudi Nuclear Deal Tied to Israel’s Rejoining the Iran War?
America could drop bunker busters on Pickaxe Mountain, while Israeli ‘boots on the ground’ could destroy what’s inside the facility, a nonproliferation scholar tells the Sun.
By BENNY AVNI
|Ukraine, Seeking To Bring War to Every Russian, Torches ‘Russia’s Amazon’
‘Striking at the most sensitive part of the comfort zone of ordinary imperial patriots and supporters of Putin,’ is how a Ukrainian official describes the tactic.
By JAMES BROOKE
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Eye Implant To Restore Sight Goes on Market in European Union
The ocular chip is paired with special glasses to help patients with age-related macular degeneration, which can lead to blindness.
By LUKE FUNK
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Pope Leo, His Church Splintered by Schism, Doubles Down on Anti-War Crusade and Global Disarmament
In a new book, the Bishop of Rome writes that ‘it is not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament.’
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Lebanon, Where Laws Ban Any Contact With Israelis, Is Seeking Peace With the Jewish State
President Aoun is eager to prove his army’s ability to combat and disarm Hezbollah, while Israelis skeptically stand by.
By BENNY AVNI
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Cassidy Says He’ll Support CDC Nominee After Changes to Agency’s Autism Statement
The updated website still says the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not evidence-based.
By LUKE FUNK
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Democratic Congresswoman Demands Investigation Into Trump Ties With Tate Brothers Accused of Rape, Human Trafficking
The two influencers are awaiting extradition to the United Kingdom after being arrested in Florida last week.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Ex-South Carolina Governor and Congressman Mark Sanford Announces Run for Lindsey Graham’s Senate Seat
Sanford was for years considered a rising star in the GOP — until he went missing for several days in 2009 and later admitted to having an affair in Argentina.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Trump’s ‘Patience Is Running Out’ With Thune on Failure To Pass SAVE America Act
The typically genteel majority leader is challenging the White House staff to come to the Capitol to start whipping votes.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Congress Split on War Powers Resolutions, With House Passing but Senate Rejecting Respective Measures
Democrats say the pressure campaign to end the war with Iran will not wrap up any time soon.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Thomas Jefferson’s Quintessential Aspiration for the Dollar
By JUDY SHELTON
For Democrats, the Inevitable Kamala Comeback Could Prove Prelude to DSA Takeover
By DANIEL McCARTHY
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‘Motor City’ Has a Novel Premise, But Follows a Familiar Route
The film’s wordless narrative is innovative and immersive but the story itself is an unoriginal crime melodrama and revenge tale.
By CARLOS SOUSA
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A Biography Tells the Truth About the Boy Who Fooled the Navy
Diane Diekman patiently establishes the facts of Graham’s life, verifying the story of a veteran who doggedly pursued what was owed to him.
By CARL ROLLYSON
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‘A Sad and Beautiful World’ Is Too Cloying for Comfort
Cyril Aris’s fiction feature debut shows signs of promise, but delivers schmaltz in spades.
By MARIO NAVES
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Economy
An ‘Open Scandal’ Is Seen at the Fed as It Fails To Address Questions Over Its Solvency — or Insolvency
Famed newsletter calls on the central bank’s new chairman to establish a special task force as a ‘truth and reconciliation’ repository.
By LUKE FUNK
|Canada Faces 50 Percent Tariffs as Trade Rep Invokes National Emergency at Senate Hearing
The trade representative says trade talks with Mexico and Canada could stretch into next year.
By LUKE FUNK
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Record 105.8 Million Americans Now ‘Not In the Labor Force’
The number of those ‘not in the labor force’ jumped by 832,000 in June alone and has grown by 2.5 million since the start of the year.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Electricity Prices Have Surged 18 Percent Since Trump Took Office Despite His Promise To Cut Them in Half
‘I will cut the price of electricity and energy in half’ in 18 months, the president said on the campaign trail.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Hillel Scrambles Amid Backlash After Jewish Campus Org Defends Harvard in Antisemitism Case
The top Jewish campus organization walked back a brief in support of Harvard just a day after Hillel’s attorneys filed the document in federal appeals court, saying the document had not been cleared.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
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Justice Department Investigates Harvard’s Financial Aid Program for Alleged Discrimination Against Americans
The review focuses on whether the university is illegally using foreign donations, particularly those from China, to provide financial aid to students on the basis of their national origin.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Trump Gutted the Education Department, Then Quietly Went on a Hiring Spree To Rebuild It
The administration that declared mass layoffs at the Education Department its ‘final mission’ is now scrambling to hire hundreds back — raising hard questions about whether the demolition was ever a plan at all.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|Justice
Trump Launches ‘Unprecedented’ Effort To Claw Back the $5 Million He Has Already Paid to E. Jean Carroll
The sex and advice columnist writes that she is ‘82 years old and has waited a very long time to receive her award.’
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Maduro Trial Date Set for June 1, 2027
Federal prosecutors accuse Mr. Maduro and his wife of conspiring with international drug cartels to traffic cocaine into the United States.
By MARIE POHL
|If Mamdani Moves To Arrest Netanyahu, the Mayor Could Be the One Guilty of Breaking the Law
Federal statute appears to preclude Hizzoner from siccing the NYPD on the premier of the Jewish state.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Date Set for Trump’s Bid To Resurrect Troubled Prosecutions Against James Comey and Letitia James
The Fourth United States Appeals Circuit will hear arguments in September over the fate of the two cases.
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