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Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/medicare-drug-subsidies-part-d.html

>Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.

> President Trump nominates Adam Candeub to head the DOJ Antitrust Division.
> Candeub previously authored a Heritage Foundation report calling for the criminalization of online pornography to "protect marriage and promote human flourishing."
> Advocates for enforcing federal obscenity laws (such as the Comstock Act) and state-level prosecutions against porn sites and major platforms like Google that distribute explicit material.
> Supports age verification mandates and proposed using online surveillance (like analyzing digital activity) to enforce restrictions.
> Takes an expansive view of antitrust law: argues FTC/DOJ should consider social media's impact on mental health and happiness, not just traditional economic harm or consumer prices.
> If confirmed, Candeub will oversee ongoing DOJ antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech giants including Google and Apple.

https://reason.com/2026/07/22/trumps-new-doj-nominee-wants-to-ban-online-porn-and-prosecute-big-tech/

Trump recalls friendship, spats in eulogy for Lindsey Graham

To President Donald Trump, who eulogized the late Sen. Lindsey Graham Tuesday afternoon, the longtime lawmaker from South Carolina was a good friend, a once maligned rival presidential candidate, a decorated statesman and a vital ally when it counted.

The president commemorated Graham, who died earlier this month due to a heart issue, in a speech at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C., that sought to portray him as a titan of the Senate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-lindsey-graham-eulogy-01013726

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https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/07/27/mcconnell-shares-second-photo-amid-absence-says-he-will-not-attend-kentucky-political-event/

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us-appeals-court-rules-trump-cannot-implement-mail-in-voting-order-2026-07-25/

BOSTON, July 25 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to implement in 23 states his executive order that aims to tighten rules for mail-in voting ahead of November elections that will decide control of Congress.
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's request to lift an injunction several Democratic-led states secured on June 25 from a lower-court judge who concluded that key parts of the Republican president's order were unconstitutional.

In asking the court to pause U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's ruling while it pursues an appeal, the U.S. Department of Justice had argued
, opens new tab that because government agencies had yet to finalize actions and policies to implement Trump's directive, any lawsuit challenging his order was premature.
The appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling, rejected that argument.
"As the district court reasoned, the (executive order) lays out a clear set of rapidly approaching deadlines by which states must coordinate with federal officials and comply with new voting procedures — all while the states must also ensure that their officials and the public understand the evolving set of rules that would govern the upcoming September and November elections," the judges wrote. "The Plaintiff States have no practical choice but to respond to the (order) now."
Before Talwani ruled, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., rejected a related effort by Democrats to block Trump's order on similar grounds. The Justice Department warned that absent a ruling in its favor from the 1st Circuit, it may be forced to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/us/florida-executions-james-duckett-dominick-occhicone

>Two Florida death row inmates are scheduled to be executed hours apart on Tuesday, which would mark the first time in more than six decades the state puts to death multiple people within a single day, as state officials continue to ramp up executions.

This follows a previous story, where Jesus Christ, the son of a middle-eastern god, received the death penalty.

>“I’m not shocked anymore by the number of death warrants that are being signed, but it struck me as a kind of rupture to the system that we would execute two people within six hours from one another,” said Father Dustin Feddon, a Catholic priest who has been visiting prisoners on Florida’s death row for more than a decade.

>Feddon currently ministers to James Duckett, who is scheduled to be executed at noon on Tuesday. Duckett has spent more than three decades on death row after being convicted of murdering 11-year-old Teresa McAbee in 1987.

>Hours after Duckett’s death, the state plans to execute Dominick Occhicone, an 80-year-old man who would be the second octogenarian ever executed in the US death penalty’s modern era, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). He was convicted of double-murder in 1987 for killing his former girlfriend’s parents, Raymond and Martha Artzner.

>The scheduling of two executions – both via lethal injection – in one day comes as Florida has accelerated its pace of executions, even as other states have abolished or paused the practice. Under the administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida executed 19 death row inmates in 2025 – a record high, and more than double the state’s previous record in modern history, according to DPIC. It has already put 10 prisoners to death this year.

>The majority of immigration officers who faced charges were accused of sex offenses or crimes against children.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-terrifying-explosion-of-sex-offender-ice-agents-revealed/

>Federal immigration agents have faced a record number of sex crime charges since President Donald Trump returned to office. The Ohio Immigrant Alliance study, titled They Walk Among Us, logged 59 ICE and Border Patrol officers charged or convicted of sexual or violent offenses since 2006, the Daily Beast’s investigative Substack PunchUp reports. Sex crime allegations accounted for 50 of them, and 37 involved child victims. Of those cases, 25 date from 2025 and 2026 alone. The previous highest annual peak was six, in 2020—another Trump year. “These are not people who should be given guns and free rein,” said Lynn Tramonte, the alliance’s executive director, who wrote the report. David Brouillette, the agent who shot dead Johan Sebastián Durán, 26, in Biddeford, Maine, this month, had been accused by two ex-wives of choking, threats and violence. The alliance faults the hiring blitz and training cuts made under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, 54. It wants Congress to freeze both agencies’ budgets and rescreen every officer.

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https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-trump-forced-labor-fd55d81461c38892a03c322bfcc46e95
NEW YORK (AP) — Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again.

Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced Thursday that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners.

The tariffs, implemented under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for what the Trump administration says is countries’ failure to prevent imports produced by forced labor, cover 99% of U.S. imports. Critics say the goal is less to prevent forced-labor imports and more to replace the worldwide tariffs that Trump imposed last year that were struck down by the Supreme Court in February. They came just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs — that had also been challenged in court — expired.

Educational toy company Learning Resources, which was part of the tariff lawsuit that won in the Supreme Court, filed a new suit along with several other small businesses in the Court of International Trade on Friday over the current round of tariffs.

The second lawsuit was filed by Burlap and Barrel, a New York-based spice company, and Collective Horology, a watch retailer based in Ventura, California. They are represented by Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian advocacy group.

Both lawsuits argue that the government didn’t adequately establish its case against each specific economy or spell how the tariffs will eliminate the specified practice they are being levied for, as required by Section 301.

https://www.notus.org/congress/heritage-foundation-employee-faces-drug-possession-charge-after-capitol-hill-screening

A Heritage Foundation employee faces a drug-possession charge after a security screening at a Senate office building turned what tested presumptively positive as cocaine and fentanyl, according to court records.

Capitol Police officers detained Matthew Christopher Wingate on July 14 after he entered the Russell Senate Office Building and placed his bag on the X-ray belt as part of routine screening, according to an affidavit filed in Washington, D.C., superior court.

Wingate is the government-relations director for defense and foreign policy at the Heritage Foundation, and previously worked as a national security adviser for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and a military legislative assistant for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), according to Legistorm.

An officer observed an image consistent with a pistol magazine inside the brown briefcase, and a secondary screening found a magazine with 10 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, the affidavit states.

Officers placed him under arrest, the affidavit states. That was apparently because of the magazine. Firearms and ammunition are generally prohibited from being carried into Senate office buildings.

Officers ran a check through the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Registry Unit, which confirmed Wingate held a valid license to carry a firearm in D.C., the affidavit states.

A crime-scene officer discovered a plastic sandwich bag in the exterior pocket of the briefcase containing four capsules and three blue-pressed tablets, the affidavit states. Field testing of the blue pills, which were imprinted with the letter “A” on one side and “7 6” on the other side, returned a presumptive positive result for cocaine and fentanyl, the affidavit states.

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/politics/laura-loomer-ukraine-zelensky-trump

For years, Laura Loomer’s unflinching support for President Donald Trump was matched only by her fervent opposition to the US assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia.

The far-right figure has accused Ukrainian soldiers of committing war crimes and President Volodymyr Zelensky of faking his Jewish faith. She once encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to seize the entire country.

Yet, on Friday, Loomer released an exceedingly friendly 45-minute interview with Zelensky recorded in Kyiv where she praised the country’s drone tactics, acknowledged she spread falsehoods about the war and expressed regrets for amplifying narratives that benefited Russia.

“I was bamboozled by Russian propaganda,” she told Zelensky, “and I came to believe a lot of untrue things about Ukraine.”

The admission marked a stunning reversal by one of Trump’s most loyal allies — one the president appeared to immediately embrace. On Thursday, Trump shared a promotional clip of the interview on Truth Social and wrote: “Very good!!!”

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https://www.nine.com.au/world-news/usa/trump-announces-re-election-bid-in-rambling-address-to-washington-media-20260725-p60ihj.html


> Donald Trump has announced he will run for president in 2028 during a rambling speech to the Washington press corps.

>Trump was speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner when he appeared to make the announcement.

>Even Donald Trump himself did not seem excited by his own re-election announcement.
>“I won three times, now I’m gonna do it again,” he said, while putting on a cap that read “Trump 2028″.

>“I’m gonna do it again. It should be easy.”

>He went on to add that he won in 2020 but the election was rigged.

>The 80-year-old was met with a smattering of applause, but even he did not seem excited by the moment.

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/cecilia-vega-cbs-news-trump-22358885.php

Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News.

The East Bay-raised former Chronicle and ABC7 News correspondent opened up about her final few months at the newsmagazine during the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference & Expo in New Orleans on Thursday, July 23, when she appeared in a conversation with John Quiñones, her former colleague while she was the senior White House correspondent at ABC News.

Vega, 49, said she was particularly disturbed by attempts by CBS News executives to shape her coverage after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis in January, alleging she was pressured to include events that “never happened” and slant stories toward Trump administration talking points.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/oracle-wins-10-year-pentagon-software-contract-worth-up-to-7-billion.html

The Pentagon on Thursday announced a contract with Oracle worth almost $7 billion over a decade, a big win for the software maker, which has been punished by investors this year. The stock rose about 3% in extended trading.

The contract covers the use of Oracle software in on-premises data centers for branches of the military, the U.S. intelligence community and the Coast Guard, according to a statement. The Central Intelligence Agency was Oracle’s first customer. A five-year base period for the contract includes perpetual and subscription-based software licenses, maintenance and consulting, according to one description.

Kirsten Davies, the Department of Defense’s chief information officer, said in the release that the agency is saving at least $441 million for taxpayers “by fundamentally improving how we procure on-premises Oracle capabilities.”

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth estimated that the Iran war, which began in February, has cost the U.S. $37.5 billion.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has long been a supporter of President Donald Trump, reportedly contributing $45 million to a nonprofit backing Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Ellison was among the first guests to appear in the White House during Trump’s second term, announcing plans for Stargate artificial intelligence data centers in the U.S. Trump supported Oracle taking a stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, and in May, the Defense Department announced agreements with Oracle and other tech companies around AI deployments in classified networks.

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https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-economist-interview-2000790016

Elon Musk sat down with the editor-in-chief of the Economist for a taped interview that went live Thursday. The Tesla CEO has been avoiding normal journalists recently, even cancelling a planned interview with CNBC earlier this month. And it now seems pretty obvious why. Musk has a hard time answering normal questions about his often fascist and sometimes incoherent worldview.

The interview started cordially enough, with Economist editor Zanny Minton Beddoes asking Musk about his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence. Musk said many things that he’s said before, including that AI will deliver an age of abundance, where “anyone can have anything they think of.”

Musk insisted that AI will exceed human intelligence in five years and that humans will no longer be in charge of the world in 10 years. Beddoes pressed Musk several times on what that means and how his companies will continue to exist. The billionaire rambled on and on in a way that didn’t really stand up to any scrutiny.

“If you have vast numbers of robots with vast amounts of digital intelligence, you have a sort of a quasi-infinite economy,” said Musk. “The future is going to be very, very different from the past. There’s no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we’re going to experience here.”

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https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/07/24/historic-american-church-destroyed-in-deliberate-arson-attack/