Today's Headlines: Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at 71 from a ruptured aorta, just hours after returning from Ukraine where he'd met with Zelensky and signed a new sanctions deal against Russia — the internet immediately blamed the Russians, his office says it was heart disease. South Carolina's governor will appoint a replacement to finish his term, a special Republican primary is set for August 11th, and Nancy Mace — who came in last in the governor's race one month ago — is already considering running against Democratic candidate Dr. Annie Andrews, which would be must-see television. On a related note, Mitch McConnell's office finally released an actual photo proving he's alive, which matters more than usual this week since Graham's death made the Republican Senate majority even thinner. On the war beat, Trump bombed 140 targets across Iran on Saturday night, Iran responded by firing missiles and drones at US bases across Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and the UAE, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a statement promising revenge "whether he himself is dead or alive," which is ominous enough without needing to name Trump specifically. In election shenanigans, Trump fired all three members of the Election Assistance Commission by email ahead of the midterms and the DOJ is deploying election monitors to swing jurisdictions in six states. Meanwhile, Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly asking job candidates to bring Apple prototypes to interviews and having a former Apple employee download technical documents on a company laptop before jumping ship, which tracks with everything anyone knows about Sam Altman. A parasite called cyclosporiasis tied to contaminated produce has infected nearly 3,000 people across 31 states with prolonged diarrhea as the main symptom, the CDC is investigating. And finally, the bipartisan housing bill Trump refused to sign automatically became law after he failed to veto it within 10 days, because he either doesn't know or doesn't care how bills work.

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Politico: Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness,’ his office says

WaPo: Lindsey Graham dies of aortic dissection, preliminary medical report says

NYT: Lindsey Graham Was Facing Re-election in November. What Happens Now?

X: Jake Sherman | Mitch McConnell Statement 

NBC News: Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms

Newsweek: Map shows states where Trump admin is deploying election monitors

WaPo: US strikes Iran again as it tries to limit attacks on ships on the Strait of Hormuz

NBC News: Dozens hospitalized with cyclosporiasis as cases of gastrointestinal illness spike in 31 states

CNBC: Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'

The Hill: Bipartisan housing bill becomes law after Trump’s signature snub

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Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell is still missing with zero health updates, Elaine Chao's spokesperson says she left for China two days before he was hospitalized and has since returned. Mitch’s absence is now actively complicating Senate business since he sits on the Appropriations Committee that needs to pass a government funding bill by September 30th — so the republicans need him conscious and present, which remains unconfirmed. In other news, The Secret Service apparently made Trump swap planes leaving Turkey out of "an abundance of caution" over Iran escalation concerns about how quickly the Qatari hand-me-down was retrofitted, despite Trump insisting the plane is fine. Meanwhile the  White House columns are now covered in a tarp printed to look like the White House, which is a real thing that exists. On the Immigration beat, ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national with no criminal record who had lived in the US for decades and was on his way to work, with federal officials claiming self-defense and no footage to back it up — and Mexico is now reportedly planning to file criminal complaints in the US over multiple ICE custody deaths, because apparently diplomatic complaints weren't getting through. In Texas, Ken Paxton, AG and Republican Senate candidate who literally just created a voter fraud tip line, appears to have voted at an address he hadn't lived at for over a year across six elections including the primary that made him the Republican nominee — information that only surfaced because of his divorce filings — and spent July 4th weekend in England with his alleged mistress, patriotic. On the cost of living beat, Walmart is cutting grocery prices by 12%, DeBeers is making its deepest diamond price cuts ever now that lab-grown diamonds have broken their monopoly, and the government is quietly changing how it calculates inflation in a way that will make the numbers look slightly better going forward, with timing that is, shall we say, convenient.

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WLKY: Sen. Mitch McConnell's wife releases statement amid his hospitalization

WaPo: How Mitch McConnell’s absence complicates the Senate’s business and war funding

ABC News: Secret Service urged Trump to depart Turkey on old Air Force One as a security precaution, sources say

The Daily Beast: White House Gets Tacky Tarp Over Trump’s New Project

AP News: Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston

Axios: Mexico threatens legal action over citizens' deaths in ICE custody

The Texas Tribune: Ken Paxton’s voter registration may violate Texas election law

SA Current: Republican Ken Paxton spotted with alleged mistress in England over Independence Day weekend

WSJ: Walmart Lowers Prices on Thousands of Items, Including Beef and Coca-Cola

Bloomberg: De Beers Makes Diamond Price Cuts for Shrinking Buyers Club

Axios: Measurement tweaks will make inflation data look better

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Today's Headlines: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear had to write his own senator a letter asking if he's alive, after Trump blew up the cover story that multiple Republican senators had "just spoken to McConnell" by telling reporters on Air Force One that he has "no idea" what condition Mitch is in. The clock is ticking to August 4th, when Kentucky's Democratic governor loses the ability to appoint a replacement, and the suspicion is that McConnell's office is very deliberately running it down. Graham Platner dropped out of the Maine Senate race Wednesday night with an 11-minute video blaming corporate media, the Democratic Party, and "large forces" — notably not himself — and Maine Democrats are now holding a 600-person convention to find a replacement for a must-win seat. At NATO, Trump declared the Iran ceasefire over, threatened to cut off all trade with Spain, begged for Greenland, called Zelensky "President Putin," reminded everyone he's number one on TikTok, and then wrapped up by affirming the US's "ironclad commitment" to Article 5 — so the summit ended better than it started, barely. He also had to fly home on the old Air Force One instead of his Qatari hand-me-down, and when asked if it was due to an assassination threat, didn't deny it but said he's "number one on Iran's kill list," just like TikTok. In a rare moment of actual consequences, Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll her $5.8 million damages award after his appeals ran out, leaving him with a remaining balance of a mere $83 million. And Prince Harry lost his privacy lawsuit against the Daily Mail along with Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and others, with the group potentially owing $50 million pounds in attorneys fees.

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Yahoo: Trump Blows Up Claims That Mitch McConnell Is Healthy

NYT: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell

X: Graham PLatner Suspends Campaign

Press Herald: Maine Democrats planning 600-person convention to replace Graham Platner

The Guardian: Sabre-rattling to ‘tremendous love’: erratic Trump dominates final hours of Nato summit

NBC News: Judge orders release of the $5.8 million payment Trump owed E. Jean Carroll

The Guardian: Prince Harry and other claimants could face £50m legal bill after losing phone-hacking case | Associated Newspapers

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Today's Headlines: Graham Platner still hasn't dropped out of the Maine Senate race despite Bernie withdrawing his endorsement and a second sexual assault allegation — this time from an ex-girlfriend who says he removed condoms during sex without her consent, which is classified as sexual assault in several countries — and his campaign's response was to call it politically motivated and bring up Brett Kavanaugh. Even better, Platner is now reportedly negotiating what he wants in exchange for leaving, including demanding his replacement come from Bernie's political orbit, while the Maine Democratic Party has told his campaign they have no role in the process. Trump is at the NATO summit in Turkey where he's mad at the alliance, mad at Meloni again, wants Greenland again, appeared to fall asleep and needed Erdogan to physically steer him around the room, and seems willing to sell Turkey the F-35 jets Netanyahu specifically asked him not to sell — so the girls seem to be fighting. Meanwhile the Iran war Trump declared over at Versailles last month is very much back on, with Iran attacking three ships in the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, the US responding with "powerful strikes," and the administration revoking the sanctions waivers that allowed Iran to sell oil, making the memorandum of understanding worth approximately nothing. And Trump announced he's building a granite helipad on the White House lawn, paid for by Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky, with no timeline for completion, because a helipad is what matters while the world is on fire.

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WaPo: Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex

WaPo: Bernie Sanders calls on Graham Platner to drop Senate bid

WaPo: Trump’s NATO-bashing casts shadow over U.S. pledge to defend allies

Axios: Trump signals openness to selling Turkey F-35 fighter jets

CNBC: U.S. resumes 'powerful strikes' on Iran after Hormuz Strait ship attacks, CENTCOM says

Axios: U.S. revokes Iran oil waivers after attacks in Strait of Hormuz

AP News: Trump says he's building a White House helipad for a new, more powerful Marine One

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Today's Headlines: The US lost to Belgium 4-1 in the World Cup Round of 16 despite Trump personally calling FIFA to get Balogun's red card suspension reversed, which worked, and Belgium won anyway — so the meddling was both successful and pointless. On the election beat, Graham Platner, who won Maine's Democratic Senate primary a few weeks ago despite a Nazi tattoo is now facing a heavily corroborated sexual assault allegation so severe that nearly every major backer including Hasan Piker and Ro Khanna immediately called for him to drop out — Democrats have until July 27th to find a replacement if he exits by July 13th, which they should probably get moving on since Maine is a must-win Senate seat. In other news, Trump is headed to the NATO summit in Turkey this week, which he only agreed to attend because it's hosted by Erdogan, one of his last real NATO allies, with Netanyahu already lobbying him ahead of arrival to rein in Erdogan's anti-Israel rhetoric. Trump also rang the stock market opening bell from the Oval Office to celebrate the launch of Trump Savings Accounts, which devolved into rants about crypto, Biden, and World Cup red cards, and the preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson — the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk last September — began yesterday in Utah, with Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk's parents, Donald Trump Jr., and Jack Posobiec all in the courtroom. Meanwhile, the DOJ accidentally sent the sealed second volume of Jack Smith's classified documents report — the one Trump has spent over a year keeping hidden — to the defense lawyers of the former prosecutor currently being prosecuted for leaking that exact report, and the only reason it's still secret is because her lawyers were more careful with it than the government was. On AI, Meta's AI safety strategy involves paying adults to pretend to be teenagers and feed suicide and sex prompts to competitor chatbots, which they describe as "comprehensive AI safety benchmarking," and OpenAI is reportedly offering the US government a 5% stake in the company. Finally, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral drew over a million people this week while his son and successor Mojtaba — wounded in the airstrike that killed his father — didn't attend any of the ceremonies. It’s giving Mitch energy.

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Yahoo Sports: USA vs. Belgium score, World Cup live updates: U.S. looks to mount comeback as Christian Pulisic is subbed out in second half

Politico: Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her

Axios: Scoop: Netanyahu asks Trump to rein in Erdoğan ahead of NATO summit

WaPo: After America’s 250th, Trump will test how far he can push NATO allies

PBS News: WATCH: Trump officially launches Trump Accounts for kids, ringing Wall Street opening bell

Financial Times: OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake 

WIRED: Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs 

TNR: DOJ Accidentally Gives Jack Smith Report to Person They’re Suing

AP News: Prosecutors argue the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk should stand trial

AP News:Mourners throng funeral procession in Tehran for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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Today's Headlines: Trump's July 4th celebrations were a disaster on every front — his Mount Rushmore speech was cancelled by a hailstorm, the National Mall events were evacuated due to severe wind and rain with guests sheltering in the African American History Museum, and his record-breaking fireworks show was obscured by its own smoke, leaving DC with the worst air quality in the world by 7am. Making it worse, Democrats released a report alleging Freedom250 was a wire fraud scheme that redirected donor money from the legitimate bipartisan America250 celebration, pressured corporate donors to switch their commitments, and diverted $75 million of the $100 million Congress allocated to parts unknown. White nationalist group Patriot Front also showed up in matching outfits, so all in all a great party. On Donaldtella’s pet projects, former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, 67, was indicted on a felony destruction of property charge for pulling up liner that was already peeling — the first of at least 11 people facing legal consequences for being near a broken pool — while Interior Secretary Doug Burgum insists vandals cut gashes in it without producing a single frame of surveillance footage, and announced they'll use the same contractor to fix what the same contractor broke. On the World Cup beat, Trump called FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to get suspended American soccer player Folarin Balogun unsuspended from the World Cup, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee conveniently reversed its decision, and Trump celebrated on social media seemingly unbothered that a championship won this way won't be considered legitimate by anyone. On Mitch, it emerged that his wife Elaine Chao traveled to China to meet with the vice president just three days after he was hospitalized with cardiac arrest, with photos of her in Chinese state media discussing US-China relations. And finally, Mallory McMorrow dropped out of the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, leaving establishment-backed Haley Stevens against Bernie-backed Abdul El-Sayed ahead of the August 4th primary.

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CNN: DC experiences ‘Code Red’ air quality after massive fireworks display

MSNow: White nationalists march in D.C. on July 4th

AP News: Democrats accuse Trump-linked fundraisers of fraud over diverted donations for America's anniversary

NYT: David Hearn, Olympian Canoeist, Is Indicted After Arrest at Trump’s Reflecting Pool

AP News: Trump's administration won't seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 

Yahoo: Ominous New Scaffolding Goes Up at Trump White House

NBC News: U.S. star Folarin Balogun eligible to play vs. Belgium after FIFA suspends red card ban

The Daily Beast: Mitch McConnell’s Wife’s Bizarre Move After CPR Drama Revealed

Axios: McMorrow suspends Michigan Senate bid in shock move

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Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell has apparently been on death's door for three weeks and nobody thought to mention it — Punchbowl News reported yesterday that he was found unconscious after likely suffering a heart attack, with EMS dispatch audio referencing CPR in progress for a cardiac arrest, while his office has been telling us he's "working closely with staff," which is one way to describe being in a hospital after cardiac arrest. Harvey Weinstein is also in Bellevue Hospital with heart failure as a complication of pneumonia after being rushed from Rikers, awaiting his September sentencing for sexual assault. America's 250th birthday celebration is upon us, with Trump promising the world's longest fireworks show starting at 10:30pm, plus a speech he's calling a rally that he promised to deliver even if it's 107 degrees, so happy birthday to us. Trump also took his Qatari hand-me-down plane on its inaugural flight to North Dakota for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening, where he compared himself to Teddy Roosevelt without quoting him once, interacted with an AI version of Roosevelt, floated giving himself the Medal of Honor for "taking on Russia Russia Russia," and bragged about winning the Iran war. Meanwhile, Former CIA Director John Brennan is suing the DOJ to prevent them from destroying evidence related to Trump's revenge investigations into him, which is the correct move and the only language Trump can read. Democratic panic is setting in after DSA candidate Melat Kiros, 29, beat 29-year incumbent Diana DeGette in Colorado's congressional primary — with Colorado's attorney general Phil Weiser also beating establishment favorite Michael Bennet in the governor's primary. And the Trump administration lifted its restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos, which it banned weeks ago for cybersecurity concerns, while simultaneously asking OpenAI to restrict its new GPT-5.6 Sol model for national security vetting, because the administration's relationship with AI safety is whatever is most convenient at any given moment.

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NY Post: Mitch McConnell was found 'unconscious' in DC home last month, may have suffered heart attack

TMZ: Harvey Weinstein Suffers Heart Failure at Rikers Island, Sources Say

WaPo: Trump’s July 4 fireworks to start much later and last much longer

AP News: Retrofitted Qatari jet takes flight as Air Force One for Trump's trip to North Dakota

NYT: Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks for Order Forcing Trump Administration to Preserve Records

NBC News: Colorado Senate Primary Election 2026 Live Results: Hickenlooper, Gonzales and More

CNBC: Anthropic says Trump admin has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Today's Headlines: The Supreme Court ended its term with three rulings: birthright citizenship was technically upheld 6-3, but the fine print is alarming — the actual split on birthright citizenship itself was 5-4, Kavanaugh wrote a wink-wink concurrence suggesting Congress could legislate it away, and Thomas wrote a 91-page dissent about an explicit constitutional sentence, so Trump immediately announced he wants Congress to start ending it today. The Court also ruled 6-3 to uphold state bans on transgender female athletes in women's sports, setting precedent for 25 other states, and lifted federal limits on coordinated party spending in elections, which is a major practical win for Republicans who spend more through super PACs. Meanwhile, NPR briefly reported that Samuel Alito was retiring, retracted it ten minutes later, and veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg — who has covered the court for four decades — had to personally apologize to Alito, which is an institutional mistake of historic proportions. On the corruption beat, Trump reportedly made at least $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoins alone — $600 million from World Liberty Financial, $600 million from memecoins — bringing his Bloomberg net worth to $7.6 billion, which is a remarkable glow-up for someone who needed help posting bond for a court verdict last year. The New York Times reported that the Trump administration convinced Kazakhstan to give a US mining company — in which Trump's sons and Howard Lutnick's sons have stakes — access to tungsten reserves, then gave that company $1.6 billion in federal funding to mine it, and that Trump and Lutnick family businesses have financial ties to at least 14 companies receiving or under consideration for nearly $9 billion in federal minerals funding. The Atlantic reported that Trump's 250 pardons are actively in motion, with a former official describing the volume of requests as "batshit crazy," $2 million apparently being the going rate, and foreign nationals from India, Greece, Turkey, and France reportedly told their cases are under consideration. Congress left for July 4th recess early after the SAVE Act failed again, won't be back until July 13th, and Mitch McConnell has now been missing for nearly 20 days — with the suspicion that his office is running out the clock to August 4th, when Kentucky's Democratic governor can no longer appoint his replacement if something were to happen.

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NYT: Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Efforts to End Birthright Citizenship: Live Updates

NYT: Supreme Court Allows States to Bar Transgender Athletes From Girls’ Sports

NYT: Supreme Court Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates

CNN: ‘I am so, so sorry’: NPR reporter explains SCOTUS retirement error

The Atlantic: The White House Considers Granting 250 Pardons for the Nation’s Birthday

Bloomberg: Trump Reports at Least $1.4 Billion in 2025 Crypto Earnings

NYT: Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. 

WaPo: GOP rebellion over Trump’s elections overhaul leads House to recess for July Fourth early

WaPo: Congressman says depression diagnosis caused months-long absence

Yahoo: Few details known on Mitch McConnell’s health 2 weeks after hospitalization

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Today's Headlines: Clarence Thomas showed up to Congress yesterday and was all sus about why, though Politico reported Republicans say he was there for the special members-only doctor's office. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that mail ballots postmarked by election day can be counted even if they arrive up to five days later — not what Trump wanted, who went off on the justices despite his own voters benefiting equally — and separately declined to hear his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, meaning he has to pay her $5 million. The Court also overturned the 91-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent, allowing Trump to fire FTC commissioners without cause and setting a standard that applies to basically every federal regulator except the Federal Reserve Board, meaning he still can't fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook like he wanted. More major rulings are expected this week on transgender athletes in sports, campaign finance, and birthright citizenship, which the administration is determined to end. In other news, Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia, now running Trump's "National Design Studio" alongside DOGE veterans, has reportedly been quietly rebuilding government websites — including passport applications, TrumpRX, and a White House-controlled mirror of vote.gov — with tracking code that records and replays every click, scroll, and keystroke and sends the data somewhere off the public internet, so that's normal. Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal investigation found that over 1,000 viral Polymarket betting videos showing people winning big were entirely staged — Polymarket paid influencers to post fake wins using a password-protected dupe website that mimicked real trades, then paid clippers to spread the videos, racking up 140 million views of completely fabricated winnings. And finally, Comcast announced it's spinning off NBCUniversal — including Bravo, SNL, Law & Order, the theme parks, and Peacock — to focus on broadband, and investors loved it, sending shares up over 4% after a rough year.

Resources/Articles mentioned: 

The Daily Beast: Clarence Thomas, 78, Busted on Mystery Medical Visit

SCOTUS Blog: Justices uphold state law allowing for late-arriving mail-in ballots

The Hill: Supreme Court won’t hear Trump’s bid to overturn Carroll sexual abuse verdict 

SCOTUS Blog: Supreme Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner and overturns major restraint on presidential power | SCOTUSblog

SCRIPPS News: Eight cases await Supreme Court ruling as major opinion day arrives Monday

The Guardian: ‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears | Trump administration

WSJ: They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real

WSJ: Comcast Plans Company Split as Competition Escalates

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Today's Headlines: Trump's America 250 Great American State Fair opened on the National Mall in the rain, the power went out, the ferris wheel didn't work, there was no fair food, at least 10 states declined to send delegations, and Trump called it "packed to the brim" — the North Carolina booth displayed a Confederate flag overlay on a video loop before sponsors pulled out, which is on brand for an event whose main attractions were a Turning Point USA booth and a broken ferris wheel. Trump also unveiled a limited edition passport featuring his own face with the words "welcome, but be good!," announced plans to renovate a DC golf course starting September 1st, and personally inspected Lafayette Park to ensure it will have exactly 47 maple trees because he's the 47th president. The administration also announced the "Patriot Games" — aka the Hunger Games — a high school athletic competition on the National Mall in August where kids from each state compete for a $250,000 scholarship they split two ways, streaming on ESPN. The Iran war is back on: Trump announced strikes on Iranian targets after an attack on a commercial tanker, threatened to "militarily complete the job," Iran responded by asserting full control of the Strait, threatening to halt negotiations, and launching drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait — while Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement requiring Israel to withdraw if Lebanon verifies Hezbollah has been fully dismantled, with the US committing $100 million in humanitarian aid. On the Russia beat, coup rumors against Putin got louder this weekend as Russia continues losing in Ukraine, Putin has dramatically increased his personal security, and former Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov — once seen as Putin's potential successor — died at 73, with his death announced first by a basketball organization he was honorary president of, which is suspicious to say the least. In other news, a new CNN analysis found that Americans in Democratic congressional districts live longer, with nearly 70% of House Democrats representing districts where life expectancy exceeds the national average versus over 70% of Republicans representing districts where it falls below, alongside higher rates of diabetes, obesity, and uninsured residents in Republican districts. Mississippi passed a law creating a registry of undocumented immigrants to share with ICE, covering fewer than 30,000 people out of nearly 3 million state residents. And finally, a dangerous heat dome is forecast for the central and eastern US just in time for July 4th celebrations, so happy 250th America.

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Newsweek: Map Shows States Skipping America 250 Fair

News Observer: Confederate flag fuels fresh controversy over NC at national ‘State Fair’

WaPo: Organizers remove Confederate flag image from N.C. booth at fair on the Mall

Forbes: Trump’s Patriot Games: What We Know About Nationally Televised Event

NYT: White House Releases Images of the Trump ‘Patriot Passport’

WaPo: Work on East Potomac Golf Links overhaul will begin Sept. 1, Trump says

DW: How real is a coup threat against Russia's president?

MSN: Putin faces internal strains as ally Ivanov dies at 73

Axios: U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes as Trump threatens to "complete the job"

WaPo: Iran insists it has sole control of Hormuz, ignoring Trump’s threats

AP News: Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks

MS Now: Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement after marathon talks

AP News: A new law could create a list of immigrants illegally living in Mississippi. Advocates are alarmed

CNN: Americans now live longer in Democratic-held House districts. Here’s why

NYT: A ‘Heat Dome’ Could Bring Triple- Digit Temperatures to the Midwest and Eastern U.S. 

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