CNN reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government. President Donald Trump suggested …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Studios sources tell us that Superman is at least a $200M global start at 60K global screens, split evenly between domestic and overseas. Stateside, we’re hearing that presales are at $20M, which is ahead of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($118.4M) and behind Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($106.1M). Stateside, rivals, some tracking firms and …

The Daily Beast reports: “Bannon is in the Epstein files,” Musk wrote Tuesday, in response to a post by Trump ally Roger Stone, who noted that Bannon—a White House chief strategist during Trump’s first term—regularly spent time with Epstein even after the financier’s 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges. Bannon was revealed in 2021 by the New York Post to have …

Wired reports: On Sunday afternoon, Michael Meyer, the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel. “Due to the recent weather weapon deployed against Texas, which resulted in a high number of child murders, efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated,” Meyer, who is commonly known as Lewis Arthur, wrote. Hours …

“You ask—I’m going to use your words—’Who’s to blame?’ Know this: that’s the word choice of losers. Let me explain one thing about Texas. And that is, Texas—every square inch of our state—cares about football. “You could be in Hunt, Texas; Huntsville, Texas; Houston, Texas; any size community that cares about football, high school, Friday night lights, college football, or …

People Magazine reports: Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich is engaged. The 36-year-old senior White House correspondent said “yes” to Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in a romantic proposal in France, on June 29. Heinrich tells PEOPLE that the Pennsylvania congressman, 51, popped the question at sunrise in the middle of a lavender field in Valensole, a picturesque hilltop town in Provence. Reflecting …

404 Media reports: In March, Trump issued an executive order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity To American History,” demanding public officials ensure that public monuments and markers under the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction never address anything negative about American history, past or present. Instead, Trump wrote, they should only ever acknowledge how pretty the landscape looks. Last month, National …

The Associated Press reports: More than 160 people are believed to be missing in Texas in the aftermath of the flash floods that killed more than 100 over the July Fourth weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday. Abbot said many of those who are not accounted for were staying in state’s Hill Country but did not register at a camp …

Politico reports: Never mind Russia, North Korea and Iran, a majority of Canadian citizens now see the neighboring United States as the “greatest threat” to their country. Fifty-nine percent of Canadians view the U.S. as a major risk, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, as President Donald Trump continues to suggest that Canada should become …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk jabbed President Donald Trump on Tuesday, suggesting the president was no longer trustworthy after his administration concluded that the conspiracy theories surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were false. “How can people be expected to have faith in Trump if he won’t release the Epstein files?’ wrote Musk to his 222 million followers on X. Musk …

Axios reports: Copper prices notched record highs Tuesday after President Trump signaled plans to impose a 50% tariff on the commodity. The price of copper figures into a wide variety of goods, including building construction, electronics, transportation equipment and industrial machinery. Copper futures were up more than 9.5% at 3:08pm to $5.51 per pound. At one point today, the commodity …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government. The justices lifted San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston’s May 22 order that had blocked large-scale federal layoffs called “reductions …

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: In letters to Japan’s Prime Minister and South Korea’s President, Mr. Trump huffs and puffs again about bilateral trade deficits, which he mistakenly thinks are a sign of foreign exploitation. “We must move away from these longterm, and very persistent, Trade Deficits,” he says. Hence the new 25% tariffs, starting Aug. 1. What …

CBS News reports: Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, arrested last week in Miami-Dade on assault charges, was transferred to South Florida’s new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, the singer confirmed in a phone call. He and other detainees claim they are enduring inhumane conditions at the site, including lack of access to water, inadequate …

CNN reports: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has ended its emergency response to H5N1 bird flu, citing a drop in cases. “As reports of animal infections with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus (“H5N1 bird flu”) have declined and no human cases have been reported since February 2025, on July 2, 2025, CDC’s H5N1 emergency bird flu …

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, DC, to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule. “We could run DC. I mean, we’re looking at DC,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, where he …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump was apparently all buddy-buddy with President Barack Obama at the late Jimmy Carter’s funeral, even imploring his erstwhile nemesis to play golf with him. The High Lord of MAGA apparently tried to woo his Democratic predecessor by “enticing him with descriptions of Trump’s courses around the world,” according to an advance copy of …

“Lori Chavez-DeRemer is our Secretary of Labor. And the H2A visa program, all of the programs that ensure to moving in seasonal ag workers are under Secretary Chavez-DeRemer. She has been working around the clock with her team. But I can’t underscore enough. There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move …

“As a general area of policy, we should not be dropping gigantic tariffs, particularly on countries that we are trying to ally against China. Japan is threatened by China. South Korea is threatened by China. We should be trying to draw those people in, not trying to alienate them outward so that they are going to trade more with China. …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday said he would not provide an “amnesty” program that would offer help to farms and migrant farm workers, but did announce a new program intended to support the agriculture industry. Trump has heard complaints from the agriculture industry in recent weeks that massive raids have disrupted their businesses. “There’s no amnesty,” Trump said. …