Deadline reports: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently shared their beef with the Japanese video game company in a letter to Nintendo president, Shuntaro Furukawa, over its depiction of the character Cow in Mario Kart World, which released in June on Switch 2. PETA’s SVP of Marketing Engagement, Joel Bartlett, wrote in part in the letter: …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not”, after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land. Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Putin had offered to freeze most front lines if …

The Washington Post reports: When President Donald Trump took office this year, the United States already commanded the largest immigrant detention system in the world, with the capacity to hold close to 50,000 migrants. Right away, his administration set a goal of doubling it. An internal planning road map obtained by The Washington Post shows for the first time exactly …

The Wall Street Journal reports: National Guard troops stationed in Washington, D.C., are reportedly preparing to carry weapons after initially being deployed without them. The move follows President Donald Trump’s call earlier this week to “take back” the capital from what he described as violent criminals. Roughly 800 guard members have been in the city since Tuesday, performing administrative duties …

JESSICA TARLOV: “Trump said at first, ‘I have 30 days,’ [on DC police takeover] and then he said, ‘Well, I can make it a national emergency and then it would be forever. I could do it. I don’t know if I will.’ He pardoned all of these January 6ers who beat the crap out of police.” GREG GUTFELD: “They didn’t …

Politico reports: The State Department on Saturday announced that it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza, pending a “full and thorough review” of the process to issue temporary medical visas to individuals from the war-torn strip. Conservative firebrand Laura Loomer appeared to take credit for the decision on Saturday, saying that the announcement came “following the release …

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins publicly addressed plans to fight against the New World screwworm, which has disrupted the livestock and cattle industries. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, New World screwworms is an invasive species that burrows fly larvae into fresh wounds of living animals like …

The Guardian reports: Russia’s reaction to Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been nothing short of jubilant, with Moscow celebrating the fact that the Russian leader met his US counterpart without making concessions and now faces no sanctions despite rejecting Trump’s ceasefire demands. “The meeting proved that negotiations are possible without preconditions,” wrote former president Dmitry Medvedev …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive intervention in the U.S. technology sector has come even though his financial disclosure forms show significant holdings in some of the companies most directly affected by his efforts, including Apple and Nvidia. Trump’s latest investment filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed that he owned between $615,000 and $1.3 …

NBC News reports: A group of state legislators who stayed at a hotel in St. Charles, a suburb outside of Chicago, endured two bomb threats on different days. It reached point that the Texas lawmakers quietly switched hotels and made an internal pact to keep those details private. Even more concerning to them was what their families were dealing with …

The Roys Report reports: A former intern at Life.Church, one of the largest megachurches in the country, is facing federal charges for allegedly possessing dozens of videos and images of child sexual abuse—some featuring infants and toddlers. Federal agents arrested Austin Sewell, 25, on July 24, after searching his home in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. He has been charged with receipt …

NPR reports: Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between Trump and Putin in Anchorage. Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the …

“I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great. And it’s good when, you know, two big powers get along—especially when they’re nuclear powers. We’re number one. They’re number two in the world. And it’s a big deal. That’s a big deal! You never want to even mention that word, the word nuclear, but …

KELLYANNE CONWAY: “Look, everything came up Trump and the U.S. today. Look at the setup behind them. It says ‘Pursuing Peace.’ Do you think Vladimir Putin wanted to stand in front of a banner on U.S. soil, a foot shorter than the U.S. president in front of words, saying ‘Pursuing Peace’? That’s the goal here. Donald Trump was not being …

Newsweek reports: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has spoken with US President Donald Trump, as well as other world leaders, following Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Zelensky has also confirmed that he will meet with Trump in Washington on Monday. Posting on Telegram, Zelensky said he had spoken with Trump for about an hour one-on-one, …

CBS News reports: Air Canada suspended all operations as more than 10,000 of the airline’s flight attendants went on strike early Saturday after a deadline to reach a deal passed. Canadian Union of Public Employees spokesman Hugh Pouliot confirmed the strike had started after no deal was reached, and the airline said shortly after that it would halt operations. “We …

CNN reports: Hurricane Erin is rapidly intensifying as it tracks above the northeastern Caribbean Saturday, churning up rough surf and sending rain and gusty winds to islands south of its path. Erin was a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 mph as of Saturday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. Erin is located about 150 miles northeast …

The Washington Post reports: For more than 47 years, a D.C.-area family has made the medals for the Kennedy Center Honors — gold-plated medallions outfitted with satin ribbons in rainbow colors and presented to luminaries. James Baturin, an 86-year-old retired marking device manufacturer, said he, his wife, Mila, and their two kids assembled more than 255 awards — mostly from …

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in Washington blocked the Federal Trade Commission from carrying out investigative demands against Media Matters for America, ruling Friday that the agency was likely violating the left-leaning media watchdog group’s First Amendment rights. U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan issued a preliminary injunction against the probe, finding that the FTC’s demand for documents …

“We were told we would have an opportunity to put questions to both leaders after a joint press conference in the event the meeting went well enough that they could set the stage for a second meeting.  And President Trump said if that didn’t happen, he was likely to call off the joint presser and just address the media solo …