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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/trump-e-jean-carroll-payment

Donald Trump’s latest effort to delay the release of more than $5m in court-held funds that he owes E Jean Carroll failed on Wednesday.

The US president asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan late on Tuesday not to order the release of these court-held funds, which a jury awarded Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him; this money also includes interest. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

Less than 24 hours later, Kaplan issued an order directing the disbursement of this money. Within an hour, Trump filed paperwork indicating that he is appealing this decision.

“The Clerk is respectfully directed to disburse … the value of the principle Judgment, which amounts to $5,000,000.00,” Kaplan’s order said. “The Clerk is further respectfully directed to disburse … the value of the post-judgment interest”.

Trump had deposited this multimillion jury award, plus 11% interest, into a court-controlled account about six weeks after Carroll’s win. For this money, which now totals about $5.8m, to be released, Kaplan had to order directing the court-controlled fund to do so.

Trump’s failed request stems from the supreme court’s 29 June decision not to review his appeal of this case. Trump had asked for the supreme court to weigh his appeal after lower courts repeatedly rejected his fight against this verdict.

After the supreme court denied hearing his appeal, Carroll’s legal team asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan to issue an order directing the release of these funds.

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Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0v9l9x0g8t

Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage has resigned from his parliamentary seat of Clacton, triggering a by-election in the area that he will stand in.

The Sunday Times reported over the weekend Farage had not properly declared support from long-time ally George Cottrell, which reportedly included payment for security and social media staff.

He also remains under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner for not declaring a £5m gift he received from Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based British cryptocurrency investor, before his election.

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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/09/congress/chuck-grassley-kash-patel-fbi-spending-00991819

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) asked FBI Director Kash Patel to provide more details on his use of taxpayer resources in May, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) revealed in a letter this week, as questions continue to swirl over Patel’s financial stewardship of the agency.

The embattled FBI director has long faced allegations that he is using the perks of his office for personal gain, after news outlets reported last year he used government jets for personal travel and surrounded his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, with SWAT team protection at public events.

Patel’s trip via agency jet to the Winter Olympics in Milan this February, in which he partied with the American men’s ice hockey team after they won gold, led to yet more questions.

Patel has repeatedly publicly denied that his use of government resources is inappropriate.

“This abuse obviously comes at the expense of the American taxpayer and ongoing Bureau operations as it ties up Bureau aircraft, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, and agents in ways so outrageous that even congressional Republicans can no longer ignore them,” Durbin and Raskin wrote in their letter.

In a letter from Grassley sent in May, which was viewed by POLITICO, he asked Patel to “provide a list of each flight you took on an FBI aircraft, including the departure and destination,” as well as the cost of each. He also asked Patel to explain why the bureau purchased BMWs rather than Chevy Suburbans for personal transport — and to provide a full cost breakdown of the financial impacts of the maneuver.

Raskin and Durbin — the ranking members on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees — are seeking answers to many of the same questions highlighted by Grassley, they wrote in their letter.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/execs-confused-horrified-huge-ai-135718505.html?guccounter=1

By now, it's clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is if it replaces vast swaths of the human workforce with machines that run 24/7.

The bad news is that this situation has created a world-historic financial market that, by some metrics, is looking worse than the run-up to the Great Depression. The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry's current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.

According to a new survey from "Big Four" accounting firm KPMG, a significant number of corporate executives are reeling from sticker shock over new usage-based AI pricing schemes. Though enterprises could once count on AI companies to subsidize the price of large language models via flat-rate contracts, that's no longer a given, as the rising cost of computational power forces the entire tech sector into a defensive posture.

The KPMG report, initially flagged by the Register, surveyed 2,145 senior execs across 20 countries, finding that an astonishing 29 percent of them had no idea where the growing costs associated with AI were coming from.

A further third confessed that their own cluelessness about AI economics was a barrier to successfully deploying AI in the workplace, the Register notes.

"As usage-based pricing models become more common, many organizations are still building the capabilities required to forecast, monitor, and manage AI spending effectively," the report authors write. Translation: one third of execs had no plan for how to actually use AI productively, a fact which is becoming increasingly clear now that the meter is running.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/dna-evidence-from-charlie-kirk-assassination-disputed-by-defendants-lawyers

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lawyers for the suspect accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk are expected to keep questioning the reliability of DNA testing that prosecutors said links the defendant to the suspected murder weapon when a weeklong hearing continues Wednesday.

A member of Tyler Robinson's defense team interrogated a DNA analyst from the FBI on Tuesday about the techniques she used to connect Robinson to a rifle found wrapped inside a towel at Utah Valley University, where Kirk was shot in September while speaking to a crowd.

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https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/houston-deadly-ice-agent-shooting/285-e7f8edab-ef71-4de3-a748-933bc6308453
HOUSTON — A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning by federal agents in Houston's East End, according to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

They said the incident unfolded just before 7 a.m. near the intersection of Canal Street and Wayside Drive.

An ICE spokesperson said officers were trying to pull over a vehicle as part of a "targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien."

They said the driver of the vehicle they tried to pull over, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried to get away. ICE officials said Araujo is here illegally from Mexico.
Investigators said Araujo rammed into an ICE vehicle and refused to follow orders. They also said he tried to "weaponize" his vehicle and run over an officer.

Federal officials said the officer opened fire in self-defense during the incident, and Araujo was struck. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

KHOU 11 News obtained surveillance video that shows part of the interaction. The video shows what appears to be ICE agents around a man on the ground next to a white truck. The video doesn't show what happened beforehand.

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I'm not talking about the soldiers dying from easily preventable diseases either

This is probably related to why we can't penetrate Iran

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/07/pentagon-erectile-dysfunction-pills/

The US military prescribed a record-breaking number of erectile dysfunction drugs to active-duty troops in 2025, despite upholding a ban on gender-affirming care for trans service members.

Newly released data from the Pentagon, obtained by the New York Post through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows 108,332 prescriptions for erectile dysfunction were dispensed to active military personnel last year.

More were provided to the wider military community, which includes dependents of service members and veterans, with 639,355 prescriptions in 2025.

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https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/turkeys-erdogan-gives-nato-leaders-revolver-conundrum-after-summit-2026-07-09/

MADRID, July 9 (Reuters) - Belgium's prime minister was a little surprised on landing back home from Wednesday's NATO summit in Turkey to find that he had a handgun and ammunition in his luggage.

After NATO leaders gathered for Wednesday's fractious summit in Ankara, their host, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, handed each an unusual parting gift: a vintage revolver, along with live ammunition indicating it was not just for show.

Erdogan wanted to showcase Turkey's defence industry, which has become a key export and foreign policy tool.

Images shared by the office of Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda showed what appeared to be the Gumusay .357 Magnum, a rare six-shooter produced by Turkish arms maker MKE in the 1990s.

It was set in a wooden display box featuring Turkey's flag and the NATO logo as well as a placard inscribed "Gumusay, the first revolver-type handgun produced in our country" in Turkish and English.

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The Associated Press survey found growing dissatisfaction with Israel’s wartime leadership, even as the New York mayor remains divisive over his views on Israel

https://forward.com/news/836468/mamdani-netanyahu-american-jews-poll/

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose outspoken criticism of Israel has made him a frequent target of Jewish and pro-Israel advocates, is viewed more favorably by American Jews than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a new poll released Tuesday.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey of 1,022 Jewish adults nationwide, conducted from June 11 through June 17, found that 44% of American Jews hold a favorable opinion of Zohran Mamdani, compared with 39% who view him unfavorably. By contrast, just 32% of respondents said they have a favorable opinion of Netanyahu, while 59% said they have a negative view of the longtime Israeli leader

The poll suggests that Mamdani’s positions on Israel have not prevented him from maintaining a net-positive image among American Jews overall.

Mamdani won just 26% of the Jewish vote in last year’s mayoral election. Since taking office, he has faced scrutiny from Jewish leaders and Zionist organizations over his sharp criticism of Israel and embrace of Palestinian activism that is shaping his tenure as leader of the city with the largest population of Jews outside Israel. Mamdani refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and said he wouldn’t travel to the country. He has also pledged to order the arrest of Netanyahu if he visits the city on his watch, complying with an ICC arrest warrant. That will be tested in September when Netanyahu arrives to speak at the United Nations General Assembly.

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It is confirmed that FIFA is rigging the World Cup in favor of trump.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trump-calls-world-cup-ref-155642863.html

Donald Trump confirmed that he requested a review of last week’s red card penalty given to U.S. forward Folarin Balogun during the World Cup, saying the penalty was “very unfair” and the referee responsible is “very suspect.”

“I’m a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. And I understand sports really well. Really well. And that wasn’t a foul. That wasn’t even an infraction,” he told reporters at the White House.

Trump went on to say that he didn’t know what a red card was before the penalty against Balogun was made. Once he understood that it would take Balogun out of the next match, he personally intervened because “we have to have our best players.”

“All I did, all I did, I asked for a review ’cause I didn’t think it was a foul. And again, I’m good at this stuff. I didn’t think it was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes who crashed into each other and got entangled,” he said.

Trump also called into question the integrity of the referee, while offering no details to support the accusation.

“This referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past,” he said. “I don’t want to say that because I don’t like to create controversy. But very suspect.”

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https://www.axios.com/2026/07/07/iran-resumes-hormuz-attacks-us-officials

Iran's military fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, two U.S. officials tell Axios.

The IRGC attacked a third commercial ship on Tuesday morning, a U.S. official said.

Why it matters: The reported attacks threaten to unravel a memorandum of understanding signed less than three weeks ago under which Iran agreed to halt attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

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In a stunning rebuke to Obama's threat that "Those jobs aren't coming back", Toyota investing $3.6 billion in Te xas plant, moving most Tacoma pickup production from Mexico
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toyota-3-6-billion-texas-plant-san-antonio-tacoma-pickup-production-from-mexico/

USMCA NOT BEING RENEWED YAY!

Toyota said Monday it will shift most production of its mid-size Tacoma pickup truck from Mexico to the United States as part of a $3.6 billion investment in its San Antonio, Texas, plant. The transition from Toyota's Tijuana, Mexico, facility will take roughly four years, the Japanese auto giant said.

The announcement comes just days after Washington declined to renew a North American trade pact with Mexico, as well as Canada, fueling uncertainty for businesses.

Toyota said in November it planned to invest as much as $10 billion in the United States over the next five years.

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Treasonous Shitweasel McConnell to have corpse desecrated for another month. Good.

"High level source close to the White House tells me, 'Mitch McConnell is officially brain dead. He’s not coming back,'" the political commentator claimed via X on Monday, July 6.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/mitch-mcconnell-is-officially-brain-dead-laura-loomer-claims-after-speaking-to-high-level-white-house-source-he-s-not-coming-back/ar-AA27lP4G

His team still refuses to disclose his medical diagnosis or the exact cause of his unconsciousness, whether he suffered a heart attack as the EMS audio suggests, the name of the medical facility where he is being treated, or a projected timeline for his discharge.

“SpokespersonRobert Steurer would not disclose whether McConnell remains hospitalized, whether staff has communicated with the senator since he was found unconscious, or what his diagnosis is. When asked for additional information, he merely pointed to the same statement released more than a week ago,” reported The Daily Beast.

https://newrepublic.com/post/212717/republicans-donald-trump-hoards-cash-midterms

President Donald Trump is sitting on a more than $350 million war chest, but Republicans are starting to feel shortchanged, Politico reported Monday.

MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, hasn’t spent directly on a race since March, when it spent $17,900 to back Georgia Representative Clay Fuller’s campaign. Since then, MAGA Inc. has only given $560,000 to MAGA KY, which used it to back Ed Gallrein’s challenge against Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie.

Trump has openly mocked mounting concerns about affordability, and actively downplayed Republicans’ efforts to address it. Now, Republicans are frustrated that the president hasn’t spent a dime to convince voters that his party actually cares about them.

“We didn’t leave our most powerful missiles on the ships when we were trying to crush Iran. Money is the political equivalent in politics,” a GOP lobbyist and donor told Politico. “The electorate’s mindset on the economy is normally locked in stone by Labor Day after a summer of backyard conversations and paying for summer vacation gas.

“Now is the time to sell the message—America 250, the world loves America, the Democrats are crazy left again, and we sealed the border,” the lobbyist added.

Beyond sorely neglecting Republican candidates in November’s midterm elections, in some cases, Trump has actively undermined them.

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Demonstrators in white supremacist attire protest on Capitol Hill
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/04/patriot-front-white-supremacist-protests-july-4-00987020

Demonstrators donning the logo and insignia of Patriot Front, a white supremacist group, were seen protesting in the Eastern Market neighborhood and on Capitol Hill on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.

Sporting white masks, sunglasses and Patriot Front’s signature tan caps, the protesters carried Confederate, Patriot Front and upside-down U.S. flags as they marched through Capitol Hill. The group was also photographed riding public transit on Saturday morning.

Outside Union Station, demonstrators chanted phrases including “Life, liberty, victory!” and “Reclaim America!” — slogans regularly used by the group.

The demonstration unfolded as tourists and Americans alike flocked to the “Salute to America” celebration on the National Mall, which will culminate in a speech by President Donald Trump and a fireworks show expected to last for a record-breaking 40 minutes. The Trump administration has made the nation’s 250th anniversary a top priority over the past few months through high-profile initiatives like the Great American State Fair and restoration work at the Reflecting Pool.

Later, anti-Trump demonstrators were filmed walking toward the White House carrying a large Declaration of Independence banner and chanting “8647,” a slogan calling for Trump’s removal from the presidency.

Patriot Front was founded in 2017 by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who split from the alt-right organization Vanguard America in the aftermath of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Patriot Front’s website describes the group as a “fraternal, nationalist, activist organization” and writes that “Our people, born to this nation of our European race, must reforge themselves as a new collective capable of asserting our right to cultural independence.”