Steve Witkoff, the United States’ special envoy to the Middle East, on Friday visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza, one of three such locations near which hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent weeks trying to reach scarce food supplies. #CNN #News

President Donald Trump issued a rare threat of nuclear escalation on Friday, saying he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be strategically positioned near Russia in response to what he said were aggressive remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, the country’s former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council. #CNN #News

Family members of Virginia Giuffre — one of the women who accused Epstein of sex trafficking and who died by suicide earlier this year — and other accusers of Epstein and Maxwell reacted to the news with “horror and outrage,” saying that it “smacks of a cover up.” #CNN #News

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. #CNN #News

President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused, without evidence, of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.” #CNN #News

The BLS’ monthly labor report Friday showed that the US economy added only 73,000 jobs in July, far below expectations. It also sharply revised down the employment growth that had been previously reported in May and June – by a combined 258,000 jobs. #CNN #News

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History last month removed a board that referenced President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit on the American presidency. In a statement to CNN, The Smithsonian Institution said the decision, which was first reported by The Washington Post, was made after a review of the museum’s “legacy content” this year. #CNN #News

Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida, has been moved to a lower-security federal prison camp in Texas. #CNN #News

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Mike Huckabee, ambassador to Israel, inspected aid delivery sites in Gaza today. Yesterday in Jerusalem, Witkoff met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing growing global pressure to allow more food and medical supplies into Gaza. #CNN #News

Republican Rep. Bryan Steil faced tough questions and booing by attendees of a town-hall style event in Wisconsion. Audience members confronted Steil on topics including the economy, immigration policy, and the war in Gaza. #CNN #News