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In this briefing:

• Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Moscow with plan to end war ahead of visit to Kyiv

• Trump: U.S. May Strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site ‘Very Soon’ ‘Not a Thing They Can Do About it’

• Trump calls Iran conflict ‘small potatoes’ and defends Vance’s position that it’s not a war

• Clancy trial ends in hung jury after attorney’s attempt to avoid mistrial fails

• Trump Drops Blunt Take After Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocks

• OpenAI agents turned German website into message board – Reuters

• Obama-Appointed Judge Throws Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Plan Into Limbo

• Georgian National Charged in Connection With $1.3 Billion Healthcare Fraud Scheme

• Families fight to sue Roblox

• Young people aren’t just broke. They’re forced to buy what used to be free.

• Three reasons the EU chief’s Greenland trip matters as Trump renews pressure

• Philippines Vice President Sara Duterte posts bail after arrest

• Tesla Rolls Out Cybercab Rides—and the Feds Roll Out an Investigation

• Measles Is Spreading. But Is the Disease Becoming Less Severe?

• ‘It Is No Longer I Who Live but Christ Who Lives in Me’: Popular British YouTuber Gets Baptized

In this briefing:

• Hawaii Governor Declares Emergency Ahead of Incoming Pacific Hurricanes

• Gas Prices Surge Just Before Labor Day, as Diesel Hits Record High

• Israel Takes Its War on Palestine into the AI Age

• Vance Blames High Gas Prices on Iran Shipping Attacks; Netanyahu Says Toppling Regime Israel's Main Mission

• Vance Says Iran Fight Isn’t a ‘War’ as Trump Tries to Navigate Unpopular Conflict as Election Nears

• Nvidia's Investments Grow to $99 Billion as Chip Giant Expands Its Reach

• The Left Has Found Its Next Trump Villain

• Vance Gives Blunt Midterm Pitch: ‘Elect The Common-Sense People’

• Local Mom Dragged Into Court For Trying To Expose Underhanded Data Center Deals

• Trump Picks Adam Telle as New Acting U.S. Army Secretary

• Cancel Culture vs. Mother Teresa

• Court Says Trump Admin Lost Before the Supreme Court and Has Now Lost Once Again

• Series of New Reports Detail Alleged Turmoil Inside the Pentagon, Including Army Secretary’s Resignation

• Lindsay Clancy Defense Wants to Remove Juror It Says Won’t ‘Listen to the Law’ Amid Deadlock

• Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

• Who Owns the Beach? A Heated Battle Plays Out in the Florida Panhandle

• Wall Street Worried About GOP in Midterms — and It’s Partly Due to Home Depot, McDonald’s

• How Two Men Were Rescued from a Flood-Stricken Nepali Power Plant

In this briefing:

• Three Dead, Three Cops Wounded After Minneapolis High-Rise Shoot-Out

• Rescue Efforts Continue as Nepal-China Flood Death Toll Surpasses One Thousand Two Hundred Seventy

• EPA Proposal Could Leave the Public in the Dark on Data Center Plans

• Brain Implants Fuel U.S.-China Bioscience Rivalry

• Nvidia to Buy Open-Source AI Platform Hugging Face for Thirteen Billion Dollars

• Trump Says U.S. Prepared to Hit Iran Anytime We Want After Very Heavy Attack

• Xi Visits Egypt as China Seeks Deeper Influence Across the Mideast

• Hidden China Risks Are Emerging in Americas Multibillion-Dollar AI Data Center Boom

• Trump Signs Stopgap Bill to Fund Government Through Midterms

• Trump's Tacky Coin

• Who Is Really Paying for American Politics?

• Rocket Issues Delay First-Ever Private Mission to Venus: We Are Awaiting Neutron Readiness

• Two Hundred Thousand Chinese Bots Are Hiding on X — Built to Control What You Think

• Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked Again; Insane Karen Arrested for Aggravated Intimidation of Jurors

• Feminist Activist and Journalist Gloria Steinem Dies at Ninety-Two

• Maine Supreme Court Rules Mom Can't Teach Her Daughter the Bible or Take Her to Church

• You Spent Too Much on Your Wedding

In this briefing:

• Trump: Iran Could Be Totally Wiped Out

• Lindsay Clancy Jury Fails To Reach A Verdict, Judge Orders Them To Keep Deliberating

• Zelensky Threatens Every Airline in Russian Airspace

• As US Forces Hit Iranian Targets, Bessent Claims Hormuz Will Be Worthless Piece of Water in 2 Years

• Uber Plans 10% Workforce Cut to Trim Management Layers

• OpenAI Gets Cautious as Anthropic Courts Customers Ahead of IPOs

• The American Nationalization of Venezuelan Oil

• House Votes to Condemn Socialism, with 8 Democrats Joining Republicans

• ICE Nabs Over 2K Illegal Migrants Across NY in ‘Operation Rotten Apple’ — Including Child Rapists, Killers

• Angry Father Disabled Daughter Tears Sanctuary Democrats House

• Greenland: The Potential Cost of U.S. Ambitions

• Bill Gates is Freaking Out Over AI — So Why Did He Just Spend Hundreds of Millions on This?

• Americans Hate Both ‘Lake America’ and Trump’s Trade War with Canada

• Apple Maps Follows Google in Renaming Lake Ontario

• Judge Rules On Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial, Death Penalty

• USS Lincoln Docks Near Thai Beach City of Pattaya After Its Middle East Deployment

• Rabid Baby Goats Send Health Officials Scrambling to Find Everyone Who Cuddled Them

In this briefing:

• Two Dead, At Least One Missing After Grand Canyon Hit by Flash Floods

• India’s Modi Presses Putin to Wrap Up Ukraine Invasion: Move Away from Endless War

• Global Bond Sell-Off Deepens Amid Inflation Fears

• Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail

• Top US General Says No Plans to Deploy Troops to Polling Sites in November

• Trump Considers Strikes to Preempt Iran as Huckabee, Leiter, Vance Address Jewish GOP

• Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Resigns from Post

• Vance to El-Sayed: Keep Usha’s Name Out of Your Mouth

• Democratic Committee Urges Congress to Defund ICE, Free Illegal Migrants

• EU Targets ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Under Censorship Law

• Chinese Shipper COSCO Collects Intel for Beijing with Concealed Equipment, US Officials Say

• Made in America: How AI Is Keeping This U.S. Factory Competitive

• Fleeing Data Center Backlash at Home, American AI Startup Sets Up Shop in Saudi Arabia

• This Top School Says AI Has Shredded College — and Every University Is Next

• Florida Government Orders Removal of All Flock Cameras on State Roads

• Experts Say Any Trump FCC Rebuke of Kristen Welker Won’t Stand Legally

• Pentagon Quietly Hired MAGA Influencers to Push Hegseth’s Agenda: Report

• A 30-Year Wait for Justice in Tupac’s Killing Ends with a Murder Conviction in Under 3 Hours

• Dems’ Demonization of Trump to Blame for Rise of Socialism

• Democrats Talk Masculinity on Campaign Trail After Years of Trump’s Bravado

• Football Power Struggle Caused FIFA World Cup Plan Fallout, Says Kushner

• The ‘Red-Green’ Distraction

• Abdul El-Sayed Has a Deleted 9/11 Tweets Problem

• How McDonald’s Big Mac Proves Americans Are Much Richer Than Most Europeans

In this briefing:

• US Resumes Iran Strikes After Observing Preparations To Mine Hormuz Strait

• Russia warns of ‘massive strikes’ on Ukraine energy infrastructure

• Nepal on high alert for fresh flooding as death toll rises past 900

• Dozens Evacuated From Grand Canyon After Flash Flood Hits Creek Leading to the Colorado River

• Spain’s Sanchez says Russia, Israel spread disinformation on Ceuta crisis

• Google Maps switches to

• Singapore is scrambling to stabilize birthrates. Experts say there are lessons for the U.S.

• Is it safe to eat lettuce yet? What to know as cyclosporiasis outbreak lingers

• In the Age of AI, What Should Schools Teach?

• Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.

• Trump posts AI-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island ‘blown to smithereens’ hours after first US strikes in a month

• Novak Djokovic loses in opening round of U.S. Open for first time, falling to Mariano Navone in 5 sets

• Whistleblower Alleges Letitia James Abused Power

• Prediction market startup Kalshi permanently bans ex-US lawmaker Santos from trading

• Meta to pay $17 billion over social media harms — but who’s really responsible?

• ‘What a glorious dawn launch’: Why the Roman Space Telescope’s picture-perfect liftoff beyond Earth is such a big deal

In this briefing:

• Nepal Floods Death Toll Climbs to 626, with 2,400 Still Missing as Rescue Efforts Continue

• Trump Announces ‘Biggest Oil Deal in World History’

• ‘Goods Are Not Coming In’: Tehran Braces for Unrest as Trump Intensifies Economic Offensive

• Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE Custody Facing a Final Removal Order, Sources Say

• ‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario’

• Tennessee Governor Pushes to Rename Nashville Airport After Dolly Parton

• Baby Stuck in Legal Battle Between Bio-Parents and Surrogate Mother Survives Emergency Heart Surgery

• Transgender Doll Use Elementary Schools Funding Probe

• Meta’s $18 Billion Settlement Puts TikTok and YouTube Next on the Firing Line

• Trump Loses Longshot Bid to Erase Hush Money Conviction

• How the Other Half Homeschools

• Former White House Teleprompter Operator Ordered to Turn Over Profits, Pay Fine Over Insider Trading

• EXCLUSIVE: Fauci’s Institute Worked Hand In Glove With CIA, New Documents Confirm

• ‘It’s Going to Be Beautiful’: President Trump Signs Order to Create US Space Academy

• Televangelist Says Demons Harvested Her Eggs to Create ‘Hybrid Child’ — But That’s Not Even Her Most Shocking Claim

• How China’s Attempt to Ban a Book Backfired

• College Football 2026 Predictions: Three Picks to Win the National Championship

• Hungry Bears Wander into US West Homes, Shops in Record Numbers

In this briefing:

• Satellite Images Show How Bedrock and a Glacier Collapsed Before the Floods

• Nepal Declines Foreign Rescue Help After Devastating Flood, South Korea Says It Is Negotiating

• 'We Got the Job Done': CENTCOM Chief Says Mines Cleared, Hormuz Shipping Routes Open

• Barron Trump lives ‘reclusive’ life amid threats from Iran, assassination attempts on his dad, murder of Charlie Kirk

• Norway's King Harald V Dies, Succeeded by Son

• Judge Blocks USPS Rule Tightening Mail-In Voting

• US Court Backs Anthropic Over Pentagon

• Chinese Government Ships Spotted in Record Numbers Off Taiwan in July

• Canada Conservatives Push Back on Carney's Economic War with America

• Frequent Flockers. Repeat Searches Prompt Officer Firings, Arrests

• Local Hero Barry the Beekeeper Electrifies the Room with Anti-Flock Speech at Council Meeting

• Inside the Democratic Task Force Preparing for If Trump Interferes in the Midterms

• Trump to Skip NYC 9/11 Ceremony, Go to Pentagon

• Judge Halts Another Democrat Scheme to Rig State Congressional Maps

• ‘Terrorist’ Censored from 9/11 Stories by Canadian Public Broadcasting

• U.S. Military Uses Laser to Shoot Down 3 Cartel Drones at Southern Border, Pentagon Says

• What We Know About 3 Secret Service Officials Put on Leave Amid Investigation into ‘Potential Misconduct’

• Toyota Sales Fall for Six Straight Months on Weak China Demand

• Malaria Outbreak Kills 2 Airport Workers in Germany After Mosquito Sneaks Aboard Plane

• The Town Council Race Was Tied. The Three of Spades Called It.

In this briefing:

• Glacier Collapse Triggered Catastrophic Nepal Flash Floods That Unleashed 'Tsunami From The Sky'

• 15 New York Sheriffs Sue to Stop Hochul’s New Sanctuary Provisions

• ICE Arrests of People Without Criminal Records Hit Record High, New Data Shows

• Secret Service Spokesman, Two Others Suspended Amid Leak Probe

• Trump’s Strength in Primaries is Clear. The Midterms Pose a Different Test.

• “Allyship” and “Birthing People”: Democrats Confront Vocabulary Problem

• Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion, Report Says

• Fed’s Go-To Inflation Measure Holds Steady at 3.7 Percent in July

• Judge Blocks Ohio Proof-of-Citizenship Law for Voters

• School Districts Face a Back-to-School Math Problem: The High Price of Diesel

• How to Stop Chinese, Russian Support for Iran’s War Efforts

• All the Ways Instagram and Facebook Are Changing for Teens

• Racism Isn’t Fueling Power Outages in Gary, Indiana. Incompetent Black Leaders Are.

• Six Months of the Iran War – As Told Through Trump’s Social Media Posts

• Vanity Fair Drops Writer for Winking, Smiling at Camera During Lindsay Clancy Trial

• Here’s What to Expect from Each Stage of the Partial Lunar Eclipse Tonight

• Stuck in Space: How NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore Stayed Grounded in Christ Despite the Unexpected

• Yayoi Kusama, Who SPLASHED Polka Dots Across Art World, Dies at 97 in Tokyo

• Dolly Parton Never Had Kids. She Still Exemplified Motherhood.

In this briefing:

• ‘In the Arms of Jesus’: Country Legend Dolly Parton Has Died at 80

• More than 50 Kidnapped as Violent Gang Attack in Haiti Leaves 47 Dead

• Deadly Flash Flood and Mudslide Cause Casualties in Nepal and China

• Iran, Oman Edge Toward Strait of Hormuz Reopening Plan, but Tehran Demands U.S. Lift Blockade

• One U.S. Dollar Now Costs 2 Million Rials in Iran, and Here’s What It Can Buy

• CIA Director Makes Rare, Secret Visit to Moscow

• World Stocks Inch Up as Oil Drops on Hormuz Hopes Ahead of Data, Nvidia Results

• Three Secret Service Officials Put on Leave Amid Probe into Potential Misconduct

• Why Young Men Are Done with Mike Pence’s Conservatism

• Royal Society Blames Climate Change on Free-Range Eggs, Floats Rations

• Trump-Endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone Overcomes Rep. Ralph Norman in South Carolina GOP Senate Runoff

• In Headache for Republicans, Second Dan Sullivan Advances in Alaska Senate Race

• Stanley Druckenmiller Makes AI Writing a Billionaire Flex

• Mom of Two Children Who Were Among 8 Family Members Killed in Montana House Massacre Speaks Out About ‘Honoring’ Slain Kids

• Dolly Parton’s philanthropy was based on ‘her belief in the goodness of people’