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Inside Fauci’s private diary: What he wrote about Trump, TV personalities and celebrities

Anthony Fauci's diary entries reveal candid opinions about Trump, Mark Meadows, Jake Tapper and celebrities he encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Jersey noncitizen-voting mess is tip of an iceberg Mikie Sherrill hopes you won’t notice

It look like Mikie Sherrill’s scapegoating, stonewalling and sidestepping is about trying to protect...

We need more police before the Olympics — no more excuses

The Olympics are coming — and LA doesn’t have enough police. That was already...

Fast Takes: Mamdani can’t define working class, don’t blame AI for your problems and more

Mayor Mamdani, tribune of the “working class,” couldn’t  “define” it with any specificity, marvels...

California Attorney General Sabotages Voter ID Proposal

Rob Bonta is trying to doom a popular attempt at improving election integrity.

Carney: Canada ready to respond if new Trump tariffs enacted

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday during a press conference that Canada is prepared to respond to President Trump’s threat of 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods if intensified negotiations for a comprehensive trade agreement fall through. “We’re ready because we have been focusing on what we can control,” Carney said. “If these tariffs,...

UK House Speaker touts stability amid political churn 

House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle landed in Washington this week, arriving just as the United Kingdom cycled through yet another prime minister. "We're overachieving on Prime Ministers," he said during an interview at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C., comparing the churn to London buses: "They all come at once." Though the...

Paramount Skydance agrees to hold off on Warner Bros. merger 

Paramount Skydance said Friday that it has agreed to delay the company’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery amid a pending lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general to block the merger. The company and the attorneys general said in a court filing that both sides have agreed to halt the merger until a judge’s...

Whitmer endorses Stevens in Michigan race 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) made a surprise, last-minute endorsement for Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) over progressive Abdul El-Sayed in the open Michigan Senate race on Friday — highlighting Democratic angst over the possibility of a far-left victory in the Aug. 4 primary. “As governor, I've had one strategy: Get things done. And that strategy informs...

OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fear on what’s next for AI

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story OpenAI, Hugging Face breach stokes fears on what's next for AI Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology startup Hugging Face. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File The...

Platner recruiter: Reddit posts ‘should’ve been a red line’

Morris Katz, the Democratic strategist who helped recruit Graham Platner to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine, reflected on the string of controversies that led up to Platner’s decision to exit the race. In a podcast interview with The New York Times’s Ezra Klein released Friday, Katz addressed resurfaced Reddit posts the Democratic candidate...

Live updates: Trump’s new tariffs set to take effect; DNC panel picks SC to kick off 2028 primaries

A panel of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday chose South Carolina to lead the 2028 primary calendar. Nevada came in second, and New Hampshire, which had long served as the first-in-the-nation primary state, came in third, when it came down to a vote.  President Trump's 10 percent tariffs are set to expire Friday,...

Ex-federal prosecutor on Jack Smith developments: ‘This is preposterous’

Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann called House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan's (R-Ohio) recommendation of criminal charges for former special counsel Jack Smith “preposterous.” In an interview on MSNOW with Jen Psaki, Weissmann added, “You cannot read this letter and in any way view this as perjury.” He is referring to Jordan’s accusation that Smith made...

Cyclospora outbreak linked to lettuce expands to 9 states

Federal health officials have linked cyclospora outbreaks in four additional states to the same iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico that has sickened thousands of people in the Midwest.  The new states are Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. They join Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia as part of the country’s largest known cyclosporiasis...

Trump presses Thune to move reconciliation framework before August recess as tensions mount

President Trump on Friday pressured Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to immediately take up a House-passed budget resolution to advance critical funding for the Iran war despite Thune’s statement on Thursday that the measure doesn’t have 50 votes to pass the Senate. Trump turned the screws on the Senate GOP leader to act on...

Elon Musk says he backs ‘normal people’ when asked about support for ‘far right’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is pushing back on the idea that he supports the "far right," quipping in a recent interview that he backs "normal people" and slamming the media for its coverage of conservatives. In an interview published by The Economist Thursday, editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes suggested Musk "supports not just the...

US exceeds measles cases in all of 2025 by July 2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) tally of 2026 measles cases has officially surpassed the annual total of last year, with more then 2,300 cases reported from across most of the country. As of July 23, the CDC has confirmed 2,318 new measles cases in 2026, compared with 2,289 total cases detected in...

Democratic panel picks South Carolina as first primary state

South Carolina is expected to be the first state in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary contest after the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) rules and bylaws committee voted Friday to approve it as the initial battleground. The committee's recommendation will now go to the entire Democratic National Committee, which will consider the matter in Austin, Texas,...

Trump fires back at EU over Google’s $1B fine, launches probe

President Trump on Friday slammed the European Union for fining Google over allegedly violating its digital competition law, stating the "illegal and highly discriminatory practice" will be probed in a trade investigation. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This...

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