Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted (abcnews.go.com)
Conservative Organizations Are Quietly Scurrying Away From Project 2025 (theintercept.com)
THE MORE PEOPLE learn about it, the more unpopular and politically toxic Project 2025 has proven to be. This has led the Trump and Vance campaign to attempt to distance itself from the effort. Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller now says he had “zero involvement with Project 2025,” despite appearing in a promotional video....
Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows (www.404media.co)
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65% of Democratic Voters Want Biden to Step Aside: Poll. (www.commondreams.org)
House Progressives Rip GOP for Siding With Credit Card Giants on Junk Fees. (www.commondreams.org)
US military to dismantle ill-fated Gaza aid pier, saying it is ‘mission complete’ (www.theguardian.com)
Vice Adm Brad Cooper, deputy commander at US Central Command, told reporters in a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday that the pier had achieved its intended effect in what he called an “unprecedented operation”....
US Floats Tougher Trade Rules to Rein In China Chip Industry (www.bloomberg.com)
U.S., Israel, Palestinian Authority hold secret talks on Rafah crossing (www.axios.com)
Boeing Seattle factory workers to send 'strong message' at strike sanction vote, union says (www.reuters.com)
Boeing’s Washington state factory workers will vote on Wednesday on whether to give their union a strike mandate as they seek a 40% raise in their first full negotiation with the planemaker in 16 years....
US court overturns Alaska oil lease sale in a win for environmentalists (www.reuters.com)
A federal court in Alaska overturned on Tuesday night an oil and gas lease sale that had been mandated by the Biden administration’s signature climate law as part of a political compromise, on grounds that the U.S. government violated the law when holding the sale....
Trump Media Made a Deal That Could Secure a Major Financial Windfall for the GOP Candidate. (www.propublica.org)
UnitedHealth Reports $7.9 Billion in Q2 Profits After Protesters Arrested. (www.commondreams.org)
Exiled Chinese businessman convicted in US fraud case. (www.voanews.com)
Jiaai Zeng Died Weeks After Starting Work at an Oklahoma Marijuana Farm. His Family Wants Answers. (www.propublica.org)
White House Launches Fifth Investing in America Tour to Highlight How President Biden’s Agenda is Lowering Costs, Creating Good Jobs, and Revitalizing Communities Across the Country. (www.whitehouse.gov)
Iran rejects accusations implicating it in plot to kill Trump. (www.voanews.com)
Why Bernie Sanders Is Thanking Elon Musk. (www.commondreams.org)
SEC Awards More Than $37 Million to a Whistleblower. (www.sec.gov)
Biden Says He’d Consider Dropping Out if a ‘Medical Condition’ Emerged (www.nytimes.com)
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Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro is released from prison and is headed to Milwaukee to address the RNC (apnews.com)
Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was released from prison on Wednesday after completing his sentence for a contempt of Congress conviction and is expected to speak hours later at the Republican National Convention....
Customers are furious with Sticker Mule’s pro-Trump mass SMS blast (www.theverge.com)
tl;dr: The CEO said he was pro-Trump and he didn’t like the shooting. Certainly not a smart thing to say but not entirely bad, right? Well, he said it to the all the customers via their mailing list.
Rep. Adam Schiff calls on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race (www.nbcnews.com)
Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished in 1944 after a deadly California port explosion (apnews.com)
The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and exposed racist double standards among the then-segregated ranks....
German court sentences dual German-Russian citizen to six years and nine months in prison for selling electronics to Russian companies for military use in violation of sanctions (www.reuters.com)
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Nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw, new AP-NORC poll finds (apnews.com)
Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him....
