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Number of nights of consecutive bombing: 7. Number of press briefings in that time frame by any defense official to explain to the American people what is happening on their behalf: 0.

Really awful, dark, foreboding developments in the Middle East over the last 24 hours

Taco Bell should just lean into this and call it a weight loss plan. Too gordito? Have a GORDITO!

Remember when Freedom250 spilled some diesel on the National Mall in May? It cost the National Park Service nearly $2 million to clean that up, according to the rushed, no-bid contract I just found.

AP: Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address pbs.org/newshour/polit…

A point to consider before Trump's speech about foreign interference in US elections is that our own intel community notes a key component of foreign interference is to do things that the undermine "public confidence in the electoral process"—which Trump will do in this speech

ICE shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine. This is the 2nd time in a week the agency used deadly force pbs.org/newshour/natio…

@PressHerald it appears there was a three year old girl (reportedly the victim's daughter) on the scene when the shooting took place, wearing Bluey pajamas pressherald.com/2026/07/13/sho…

“We are living through this epistemological crisis right now and it is … really, really dangerous,” @TimAlberta said. Referring to Americans outside of Washington, D.C., Alberta added, “These are people who have reached the conclusion that no one is looking out for them.”

“The company — which owns titles like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Buffalo News and the Omaha World-Herald — has asked its newspapers to run a three-story package about Hoffmann on their front pages over the holiday weekend, starting Friday.” x.com/jeremymbarr/st…

Scientists create cells that can eat, grow and reproduce, and they're open-sourcing the process. (so far they only function for about 5 generations) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NPR retracts story that Supreme Court Justice Alito is retiring, saying it was published in error:

REP. KEAN: tells House he was diagnosed with depression. Says "it is so much more" than feeling sad.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits.

MIAMI (AP) — More than 100 Venezuelans deported from the US hours before earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapses.

Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.: *Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village. *Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village. *Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him. *Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him. I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/rus…

Top White House official @StephenM reacted to the Supreme Court decision today regarding temporary protected immigration status for Syrians and Haitians, saying, “It’d be crazy for us to say that Haitians shouldn’t live in Haiti, it’s their country." More:

General Chris Donahue has spent his career leading from the front, earning the respect of Soldiers, Allies, and senior leaders across the Joint Force. Secretary Hegseth’s decision to force him out says far more about Hegseth than it does about General Donahue. This is yet another unforced error from a Secretary leading the Pentagon with bro-culture bravado rather than restraint, humility and careful stewardship of the finest fighting force in the world. Strong leaders are not threatened by accomplished commanders. Weak ones are. His paranoid micromanagement of senior military leaders and promotion lists is pure insecurity dressed up as reform. He is more interested in purging people he perceives as insufficiently loyal than empowering proven patriots who can actually lead. This is not reinvigorating the warrior ethos. This is not a leader prioritizing merit. It’s sophomoric. It’s unserious. And it’s bringing great harm to our Department of Defense. Our military deserves steady, serious civilian leadership. Right now, it’s getting the opposite. notus.org/congress/top-g…

President Trump awarded Dr. Fauci a medal for his work on operation Warp Speed, which saved countless lives globally.