In this briefing:

• Trump Says US-Lebanon Flights Can Resume, Pledges Help for That Country After Meeting Its President

• Oil Prices Jump 4% as Rubio Says Iran 'Not Serious' About Peace Talks

• Trump: U.S. 'Not Finished at All' in Iran Pickaxe Mountain Strike Coming 'Pretty Soon'

• AI and the Rise of the Universal Entertainment App

• State Officials Preparing If Fed Government Tries Interfering with Running Elections

• OpenAI Says Hugging Face Breach Caused by One of Its Models

• Can AI Ruin Something as Innocent as Birdwatching?

• Iran War Has Cost U.S. $37.5 Billion So Far, Hegseth Says

• What Bill Clinton May Have Been Telegraphing with His ‘MAGA-Adjacent’ Baseball Cap

• Trump Says U.S. Will Strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site ‘Very Heavily’

• Ted Cruz Agrees with Kamala Harris’s Comment About Election Security

• Trump Puts Taxpayer-Funded Org on Watch Over ‘Climate Fraud’

• Momentum Melts Up for Best Day on Record; Bonds Dumped as Everything Else Pumped

• The Fight Inside Trump’s State Department Is About Power—Not Expertise

• Software Error Improperly Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote, N.J. Gov. Says

• Trump Exposed the Cracks in Our Elections; the Media Proved His Point

• What Time Is SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 Launch on July 23?

• Will SpaceX Buy Tesla? Musk May Soon Offer Clues on His Plans