The Daily Mail reports: An effort is under way among some Pentagon officials to denounce Pete Hegseth as unfit to serve as Defense Secretary. Since May, drafts of a letter have been circulating among high and mid-level military brass and civilian workers to ‘Let the American public know this guy has no clue what he’s doing,’ one of them told …

The Independent reports: French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron have filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens over the far-right influencer’s “relentless and unjustified smear campaign” falsely accusing Brigitte of being a man. The 219-page defamation complaint filed in Delaware state court on Wednesday accuses Owens of proliferating “demonstrably false” claims through her platforms, including in an …

NBC News reports: Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is skipping a bid for governor and will instead run for re-election after President Donald Trump urged him to do just that, giving Republicans a battle-tested incumbent in one of the most competitive House races in the country — and clearing the way for one of Lawler’s House colleagues to run for governor …

Bloomberg News reports: The European Union plans to quickly hit the US with 30% tariffs on some €100 billion ($117 billion) worth of goods in the event of no deal and if US President Donald Trump carries through with his threat to impose that rate on most of the bloc’s exports after Aug. 1. As a part of a first …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump is angry. His team is exasperated. The Republican-controlled House is in near rebellion. Trump and his closest allies thought they’d spend the summer taking a well-earned victory lap, having coaxed Congress into passing the megabill, bullied foreign governments into a slew of new trade arrangements, convinced NATO allies to spend billions more on collective defense …

The New York Times reports: A Long Island man was indicted on Tuesday for making homemade bombs, which the authorities said he planned to set off in New York City. Michael Gann, 55, of Inwood, N.Y., made the bombs last month with chemicals he bought on the internet, and then brought them to Manhattan, the authorities said. He stored some …

Florida Politics reports: One of Florida’s most outspoken supporters of Israel just landed a spot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The House Republican Conference appointed U.S. Rep. Randy Fine to the committee responsible for oversight and legislation on foreign aid, national security, war powers and other international affairs. “It is an extraordinary honor to join the House Foreign Affairs …

The Denver Post reports: A Colorado pastor and his wife face dozens of charges connected to a cryptocurrency scam that investigators say they used to deceive and steal from their Christian community, according to the Denver district attorney’s office. Eli, who ran the online-only Victorious Grace Church, and Kaitlyn Regalado were indicted by a Denver grand jury on 40 felony charges …

Newsweek reports: The Trump administration announced another round of new immigration form fees Tuesday, affecting those filing paperwork seeking to halt deportation proceedings, and people seeking initial Temporary Protected Status (TPS). President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act included provisions for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) to increase certain fees immigrants pay when applying for visas, permanent …

“They want to do anything to get us off the subject of making America great again. And we’re not going to put up with it. And remember, don’t let them forget, it’s so important, Obama cheated on the election. Look, the camera just went off. [This is a lie.] Obama, the red light just went off. Can you believe these …

Mediaite reports: Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and firebrand MAGA commentator, will guest co-host Fox & Friends Weekend for the first time on Saturday and Sunday. Fox News confirmed to Mediaite that Kirk would guest co-host alongside Rachel Campos-Duffy and Charlie Hurt. Kirk, a prominent pro-Trump podcaster, founded Turning Point USA in 2012 as a conservative student …

Reuters reports: U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters. The supplies have been stuck for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in the Belgian …

Axios reports: Majority Leader John Thune warned senators in a closed-door lunch Tuesday to be ready for possible votes on nominations next weekend — potentially taking them into August, three sources familiar with the discussion tell Axios. Thune is caught between President Trump’s demand to cancel the August recess and a conference desperate to campaign, fundraise and talk to voters …

“James Comey’s FBI rigged the Hillary Clinton investigation so we would, you know, we would never know how badly she damaged our national security when they didn’t probe those crucial thumb drives. What a colossal cover-up this has been. It is a huge cover-up. They’ve tried to push a narrative that basically they want to change our country that’s something …

The Hill reports: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) on Tuesday slammed the GOP for dodging a vote that would call for the release of files related to deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Republican leaders this week scrapped their legislative plans and headed early into a long summer recess — all to avoid votes on the Epstein saga. …

“We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40 or 50%, not 60% – which would be great. We gonna get em down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%. These are numbers not even thought to be achievable. Because I used a certain talent that I have and convinced the drug companies that you have no choice. The drug companies …

“Where’s Tulsi? She’s like, hotter than everybody. She’s the hottest one in the room right now. Speaker, she’s hotter than you right now, speaker. She’s the hottest person in the room right now, speaker. She found out that Barack Hussein Obama led a group of people and they cheated in the elections and they cheated without question. She has all …

The Daily Beast reports: Another GOP member of Congress has had what appears to be a health scare, with septuagenarian Senator John Kennedy freezing during a Fox Business interview on Tuesday. During an interview with host Larry Kudlow, 77, about the Trump administration’s crackdown on sanctuary cities, Kennedy started to make a point about how Jesus loves immigrants before trailing …

“We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it. Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to …

Reuters reports: A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on White House access by Associated Press journalists after the news organization declined to refer to the body of water long called the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America as he prefers. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the …