The Associated Press reports: The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using …

Indianapolis’s Fox affiliate reports: The next Alligator Alcatraz is coming to Indiana. Gov. Mike Braun announced that the state will work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house illegal immigrants at the Miami Correctional Facility in Bunker Hill, north of Kokomo. Kristi Noem, director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Tuesday that up to 1,000 beds will …

CBS News reports: Crime decreased in every category in 2024, including murder, violent crime and motor vehicle thefts, according to data released by the FBI on Tuesday. It reflects a trend experts have been tracking as reported numbers of violent crimes continue to drop from a spike immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic. The FBI’s report did not venture to say …

The Hill reports: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday used imagery from “South Park,” which had dedicated its season premiere to mocking President Trump, to encourage recruitment for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ahead of the show’s next episode, which deals with Trump immigration enforcement. All the characters in the ICE vehicles were depicted wearing masks covering the …

Just in via press release: Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that the continued refusal to perform legislative duties by Texas House Democrats who broke quorum constitutes abandonment of office and that he will pursue a court ruling ensuring that their seats are declared vacant. Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows has given members until Friday, August 8, to …

“Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local ‘youths’ and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has turned his TV kiss of death on a new target: CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King. The president reposted a New York Post article that quoted a source claiming King was in danger of losing her job at CBS amid falling ratings for the morning show and internal fears over their “woke” coverage. Trump …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from diverting money funds from a multibillion-dollar grant program aimed at providing infrastructure to protect communities against natural disasters. The injunction was issued by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston, following a July 31 hearing. Twenty mostly Democratic-led states sued the administration last month, …

CNN reports: The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives. The new hiring number includes 126 new positions that were previously approved and will apply to “front-line mission critical” personnel, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official …

Axios reports: President Trump’s former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta was not one of the former government officials subpoenaed Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee over the Jeffrey Epstein probe. As a federal prosecutor in 2008, Acosta approved a highly controversial non-prosecution agreement that allowed Epstein to serve minimal time in prison and shut down the federal investigation into his alleged …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose tariffs of up to 250 percent on pharmaceutical imports, the highest rate he’s discussed to date. “We’ll be putting a, initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals,” Trump told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “But in one year, one in a half years maximum, it’s going to go to 150 percent, and then it’s …

Reuters reports: The Trump administration plans as soon as Tuesday to formally axe a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week, two people familiar with the matter said. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal human resources agency that implemented Musk’s push to slash the …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the …

Just in press release: U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel encouraging federal cooperation with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and state law enforcement to investigate potential criminal acts, including bribery, and hold accountable legislators who have fled the state in a shameful attempt to stall the legislative process in the …

Raw Story report: Trump’s agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, doubled down in a Fox Business interview on Tuesday on prior comments that people at risk of losing their health coverage due to new Medicaid restrictions should just go work on farms. “You’ve suggested that Medicaid people, if they got a work requirement under the new rules, they should go work on …

Judicial commentary site Balls & Strikes reports: Eric Tung, 40, is a well-credentialed establishment conservative: a University of Chicago Law School grad who clerked for then-Judge Neil Gorsuch, Justice Antonin Scalia, and now-Justice Gorsuch again, and is now a partner at Trump-friendly firm Jones Day, where he often represents clients in the cryptocurrency industry. Tung is a self-described originalist: At …

ABC News reports: One full “day” on the moon is two weeks of light followed by approximately two weeks of darkness (in Earth time). Nuclear energy, referred to as fission surface power, or FSP, in the directive, is a “sustainable” and “high-powered” energy source that can survive through the lunar night and be deployed on other celestial bodies, like Mars, …

Just in via press release: Attorney General James Uthmeier is taking legal action against multiple online pornography websites acting in violation of Florida law by not requiring age verification before accessing adult content. Last year, Florida enacted HB 3, requiring commercial entities that distribute sexually explicit material online that is harmful to minors to verify that individuals attempting to access …

“They brought down their tariffs, so they paid $600 billion and because of that, I reduced their tariffs from 30% down to 15%. They gave me $600 billion and that’s a gift. They gave us $600 billion that we can invest in anything we want. The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do …

Politico reports: Democrats’ best bet to flip a Long Island House seat that’s been red for more than a decade looks great on paper. Chris Gallant is a Black Hawk pilot, Army veteran, national guardsman, former air traffic controller and union leader and volunteer firefighter. He’s also a gay millennial, political newcomer and Long Island native. Now, Gallant is looking …