Florida Politics reports: U.S. Sen. Rick Scott told Fox Business viewers that he agrees with President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil, concurring with Trump about the “witch hunt” against former leader Jair Bolsonaro. “Well, the trial is a witch hunt. It clearly is, and you look at what’s happening in free speech in Brazil, it …

The Associated Press reports: On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless. “I cannot describe the pain …

The Texas Tribune reports: State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Attorney General Paxton is currently running against U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican primary. He has been the attorney general since 2015. In 2023, he was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives on allegations …

CNN reports: His legal fees for defending against lawsuits brought by several former employees continue to be covered largely by New York taxpayers four years after he announced his resignation as governor. As of early July, the state had expensed $20.5 million for the legal defense of Cuomo and several officials who worked in the executive chamber from three ex-employees …

Yahoo Finance reports: Ferrero announced Thursday it will buy cereal maker WK Kellogg for a price tag of $3.1 billion, or $23 per share. This deal will bring brands including Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, and Tic Tac together with cereal brands like Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops. This deal comes nearly two years after Kellogg split into two companies, WK Kellogg …

The New Republic reports: A right-wing commentator who has possibly tweeted about Hooters more times than anyone is now Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Malaysia. Nick Adams is an Australian who arrived on the U.S. political scene in 2016 as an early Trump supporter. He fell in with the Turning Point USA crowd and became an American citizen in …

The Hill reports: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved an amendment to the annual Justice Department funding bill aimed at blocking the Trump administration from keeping the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The committee voted 15-14 to adopt language that seeks to block funding from being used to relocate the headquarters from its current J. Edgar Hoover Building site …

The Washington Post reports: The Social Security Administration is surging staff to its customer service phone operations in the latest effort to address a massive influx of calls that has overwhelmed its struggling 1-800 number. The agency said it is temporarily reassigning about 1,000 customer service representatives from field offices to work on the swamped toll-free phone line, increasing the …

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s budget plan guts federal science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by an external group. Particularly at risk is the category of basic research— the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health …

“Epstein, what happened? And who the hell is this guy? The stuff that has not been emphasized enough. This all was possibly a guy who was working for the Central Intelligence Agency and was engaging in sexual blackmail, blackmailing our adversaries. And we still have leverage over our adversaries. And that’s why they can’t reveal all the information. “Am I …

Politico reports: As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader. David Richardson, the agency’s acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the nation’s deadliest floods in the U.S. in the past 25 years, upending a long practice of FEMA leaders making themselves visible …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, made the ruling after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant …

NOTUS reports: The industry is clearly one of the big winners from President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy law, and no private prison is better positioned to take advantage of the influx of funding than the two biggest contractors, GEO Group and CoreCivic. Individuals and PACs affiliated with those companies also invested millions during the 2024 election cycle in Republican …

“Americans have questions about geoengineering and contrails. They expect honesty and transparency from their government when seeking answers. For years, people who asked questions in good faith were dismissed, even vilified by the media and their own government. This ends today.” – EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, responding to nutbag calls to investigate the supposed weather control that the cult is …

“I think the files existed at one time. I think they were destroyed in the previous administration. I think if they’d ever had anything on Trump, it would have been out day one under the Biden administration. I think there’s some very prominent people. There’s Hollywood people. I mean, I think there’s world leaders too. “And would it have caused …

From my January 2025 report: Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho, known for his political activism and his criticism of the Cuban regime, faces an increasingly complicated situation. He is currently in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detained at the Broward Transition Center, Florida. However, his case has taken an unexpected turn, not only due to rumors …

The Daily Beast reports: A devout MAGA mom holed up in a detention center in the Mojave Desert says her support for President Donald Trump is unwavering, despite his ICE goons locking her up. Arpineh Masihi was born in Iran but has been in the United States since she was 3 years old. She became a target for Immigration and …

Axios reports: The chorus of MAGA outrage has only intensified since the Justice Department and FBI released a memo on Sunday finding no evidence that Epstein was murdered, had a “client list” or had blackmailed powerful figures. Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Steve Bannon — influential Trump allies who have feuded with the president at times — are among those …

The Hill reports: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered an organizer of President Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally at the Ellipse to pay $2,000 a day until she complies with a subpoena for records about her involvement in the event. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks said Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren’s “pattern of disregard and non-engagement” has unnecessarily delayed proceedings in …

NBC News reports: And when asked about the steep Medicaid cuts in the bill, Hawley continued to criticize them. Hawley said his “goal” is to ensure the provider tax changes, which will limit state reimbursement for Medicaid, don’t go into effect in Missouri — even as he helped to pass a piece of legislation that will do just that. It …