Politico Playbook reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign proclaimed a “reset” yesterday as it laid off more than a third of its staff and promised a more focused message alongside a leaner operation. “Ron DeSantis loves being the underdog and he’s ready to prove everyone wrong again,” campaign spokesperson Andrew Romeo wrote in a messaging memo. But behind the …

The New York Daily News reports: A massive construction crane atop a high rise in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards caught fire and collapsed, striking the building across the street before plummeting more than 45 stories onto the street below Wednesday morning. Terrified pedestrians scrambled for cover as a plume of thick black smoke could be seen for miles. The crane caught …

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: It’s official: Ohioans will vote on abortion access this November. A proposed amendment to enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution submitted enough valid signatures to make the November ballot, the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office announced Tuesday. That means Ohio will be the only state in the nation voting on reproductive rights this year. The …

Axios reports: House Democrats are preparing a resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) after his office linked to a website that has posted Holocaust denial content, Axios has learned. The resolution targets Gosar for “using taxpayer money to spread resources to pro[-Hitler], Holocaust denialism.” This Sunday’s edition of Gosar’s weekly newsletter, This Week with Gosar, included a link to …

Mediaite reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who is currently polling in the single digits — told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that he is “confident” he will be the next president of the United States on Tuesday. Reacting to conservative commentator Dave Rubin’s suggestion that Ramaswamy has been coordinating with Trump to attack their mutual Republican primary rival …

“This is really about control. That’s what it’s really about. The reason they want you to go from a gas stove to electric stove is, eventually they can control that stove. They’re already doing that in some towns in California – controlling the thermostats. They can turn it down when they want to. You look at electric cars, they’ll be …

CNN reports: A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.” A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – …

The Associated Press reports: The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees (37.8 degrees Celsius) two days in a row. And meteorologists say that could potentially be the hottest seawater ever measured, although there are some issues with the reading. The initial reading on a buoy at Manatee Bay hit 101.1 degrees (38.4 …

Newsweek reports: Former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has admitted to making “false” statements regarding election workers the former president claimed had tampered with ballots in the 2020 presidential election count in Georgia. In a court filing on Tuesday, the former mayor of New York conceded that he had made the statements and had published them to third parties, but …

The Washington Post reports: For nearly a decade, Tuberville has described the World War II exploits of his father, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., in a relatively consistent way — that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, that he participated in the D-Day landing and that he lied about his age to join the army. News …

Media Matters has the transcript: GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): Remember we said we were talking about bombing the cartels? And people were going, “No, no, no, that’s an act of war, that’s in another country.” Yeah, but we do that to terrorists as well, and this is kind of a terrorist activity. And the thing is, now, we see this at …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump will return a set of ancient coins and ceramic oil lamps to Israel’s government after reports last week that Israeli officials were pressing to retrieve them. The items were not removed from the White House by Mr. Trump, like the classified documents that led to his indictment on federal espionage …

Billboard Magazine reports: Following a satire site posting a story that Luke Bryan, in solidarity with his friend Jason Aldean, has asked CMT to pull his music videos from the channel, posters on social media have run wild with the untrue story. On Friday (July 21), satirical website Uplifting Today posted a story with the headline, “Luke Bryan pulls his …

The New York Times reports: A Colorado man convicted last year of conspiring to defraud people who donated money to build the kind of border wall championed by Donald J. Trump was sentenced Tuesday to five years and three months in prison. The defendant, Timothy Shea, began working with a disabled veteran named Brian Kolfage. In early 2019 Stephen K. …

Axios reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 campaign fired an aide this week who secretly created and shared a pro-DeSantis video that featured the candidate at the center of a Sonnenrad, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis and still used by some white supremacists. Nate Hochman, a speechwriter on the DeSantis campaign and a former writer for National Review, …

A reminder about the movie via NPR: Jim Caviezel has been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of elites is abusing and killing children to extract a substance called adrenochrome. In press appearances promoting Sound of Freedom, Caviezel continues to spout QAnon falsehoods. On a recent episode …

C-SPAN has the transcript: On July 19, 2023 federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I’m going to submit this Court ruling into the Congressional Record, and now I’m going to read you what the judge found. On page 43 the judge wrote Miss Carol testified …

Politico reports: The Republican presidential primary sweepstakes continue. In the dash to amass enough donors to make it onto the August debate stage, another GOP presidential candidate, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, is offering gift cards in exchange for donations. Anyone who donates $1 to Suarez’s campaign will receive a $20 gift card. The Miami mayor previously offered supporters a chance …

New details via the Associated Press: The chain reaction crash happened before 8:15 a.m. when traffic slowed on Interstate 75 in Chattanooga, causing four cars in the motorcade to hit one another, police said. All the vehicles involved in the crash were government vehicles taking DeSantis and his team to his scheduled event, police said. A female staff member who …

The Washington Examiner reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke on the House floor Tuesday, renewing impeachment articles for President Joe Biden and pushing to clear the record of twice-impeached former President Donald Trump. Greene has sponsored multiple articles of impeachment against Biden since he entered the White House in January 2021, and in her newest calls, she cites information …