Appeals Court Says Trump Cannot Build White House Ballroom Without Congressional Approval
The president is vowing to appeal what he says is an ‘unjust’ ruling.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Where Analysts See a Mysterious Business Model, Motorists Just See Cheap Gas
Trump has promoted the network of Freedom Fuel gas stations that popped up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey shortly before the July 4 holiday.
By DAVID JONES
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PETA Wants To Replace Jersey Shore’s Hermit Crab Races With Robots
‘Just as New England no longer promotes whaling but sells everything that celebrates whales, Ocean City has a similar opportunity to transition toward compassion.’
By ALEX ZDAN
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America’s Economy Is Booming Right Now, and It Does Not Need a Dose of Democratic Party Socialism
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Trump, Heading Into the Midterms’ Homestretch, Urges GOP To Focus on Dangers of Communist ‘Destruction’
DEAN KARAYANIS
Democratic Socialists’ Call for Public Ownership of Businesses Is Echoed on Today’s Populist Right
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Scientist Sues Employer That Denied His Religious Accommodation Request for a Fossil Fuel-Free Retirement Plan
The plaintiff, a member of the United Methodist Church, says his religious convictions prohibit him from investing in fossil fuel companies.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Fauci Contempt Referral Easier Said Than Done
The decision on whether to charge Dr. Fauci criminally with contemptof Congress will rest with the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, or a grand jury if she decides to let one be the final arbiter.
By ALEX ZDAN
|Minnesota Prosecutor Implores Abbott To Extradite ICE Agent Detained in Texas More Than Two Months Ago
The Hennepin County attorney says the governor’s signature is the hurdle to getting the ICE agent sent back to Minnesota.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Congressman Fed Bitter Pill After Online Complaint About Drug Coverage Denial
In a terse slap by reality, physician-turned-lawmaker Greg Murphy says CVS blocked insurance coverage of a medication he’d been taking for years.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Meta AI Model Hacks Another Company After Escaping Containment During Test
The event adds to a list of incidents in which AI models have hacked into other companies in recent weeks.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Former New York City Grocery Chain Owner Questions Viability of Mamdani’s Plan for City-Backed Stores
A former Morton Williams co-owner says it will be ‘extraordinarily difficult’ to meet demands to pay best-in-class wages while offering 30 percent discounts on key items.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Foreign
By Welcoming a Taliban Delegation, the EU Throws Shade on Its Own Afghan Policy
While falling short of diplomatic recognition of Afghanistan’s brutal rulers, experts say the meeting allows the group to claim international legitimacy.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|Test Marks Big Step in Taiwan’s Bid To Challenge Beijing as World’s Leading Drone-Maker
Congressman McCaul, visiting Taiwan, said he is ‘very optimistic’ about Taiwan companies replacing Chinese firms in an area that is increasingly vital to America’s global interests.
By DONALD KIRK
|Pope Leo Shrugs Off Schism, Goes for God and Glamor as Matthew McConaughey and Patti Smith Pay Homage
The Bishop of Rome meets the two celebrities while the Catholic Church suffers its worst schism since 1870.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Amid Bombs and Bellicosity, Iranians Face New Threat: a Shortage of Tea
The same conditions that have slowed oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted tea shipments from India, driving up the price of a long favored beverage.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Muslim Morocco and Christian Spain Arm Wrestle Over Ceuta
Videos of the border breach bolster anti-immigrant parties in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
By JAMES BROOKE
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Cambridge University Professor Jason Arday Caught Plagiarizing — and Uses AI To Submit His Resignation
The academic allegedly lied on his resume and lifted more than 100 passages for his doctoral thesis.
By SHARON KEHNEMUI
|Politics
Todd Blanche’s Nomination at Risk as Lisa Murkowski Announces Her Opposition
With Mitch McConnell absent, the acting attorney general cannot afford to lose a Republican vote.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Tucker Carlson Leads MAGA Breakaway Faction, Eyes Third-Party Run in 2028
Carlson describes Trump as appearing ‘uniquely weak’ and functioning ‘more like a hostage to foreign interests.’
By JOSEPH CURL
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El-Sayed, Stevens, Hold ‘Unity Rally’ as General Election Campaign Kicks Off in Michigan
The moderate congresswoman pledged her support for the Senate nominee shortly after he was declared the winner of a bitterly fought primary.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Coming Tillis Memoir Depicts Top Trump Administration Figures as ‘Grifting Sycophants and Useful Idiots’
The North Carolina senator, who is retiring this year, has been bucking the president at critical moments since his return to the White House.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Committee Votes on Party Lines To Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress
The contempt resolution brought by Senator Rand Paul finds Dr. Fauci did not have grounds to exercise his Fifth Amendment privileges against self-incrimination during his July 29th testimony to the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
By ALEX ZDAN
|Opinion
To Understand Socialism’s Rise Across America, Consider Far Left’s Capture of Pittsburgh
By SALENA ZITO
The Right Way for Trump To Fix the Redlining ‘Shakedown’ of Banks
By HOWARD HUSOCK
Meta’s Workforce Academy Heralds a Renewed Emphasis on the Dignity of Labor
By SALENA ZITO
Iran or Not, the Dow Just Broke Another Record
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Dissecting Vincent Price, Horror’s Flamboyant Gentleman
Drew Pisarra imagines an acting legend who specialized in playing out-of-control characters consigned to purgatory.
By CARL ROLLYSON
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‘Hungry Women’ Unevenly Takes Aim at the Patriarchy
Melissa Maney’s play can’t be faulted for its passion or curiosity but its lighter moments can be as clunky as its preachier ones.
By ELYSA GARDNER
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In ‘Late Fame’ Willem Dafoe Proves a Timely Delight
Kent Jones’s fine Arthur Schnitzler adaptation finds humor amid its Manhattan melancholy.
By MARIO NAVES
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Economy
Small Watch Company Becomes Face of Battle Against Trump Tariffs
A company co-founder says the tariff policy has been highly erratic and has left small businesses like his struggling.
By LUKE FUNK
|Democrats Fume as Oil Companies’ Profits Surge Amid the War in Iran
The companies attribute the windfall to good management but Democrats accuse them of gouging consumers with $4-a-gallon gas blamed on the war.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Federal Reserve Weighs Shift to Electronic Payments as Gen Z Gawks at Check-Writing
One advocate for checks says business and consumers still need and use them.
By LUKE FUNK
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Number of Amazon Workers on Food Stamps Triples as Company Spends $200 Billion on AI
‘No one who works for a company making billions in profits should be living in poverty,’ Senator Bernie Sanders says.
By JOSEPH CURL
|Education
History Professor Sneaks Hidden Text Into Assignment, Discovers Near Universal Cheating in Midterm Exam
‘I just got tired of reading AI responses,’ Alcorn State professor Jason Gibson tells the Sun.
By LUKE FUNK
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Hillel Scrambles Amid Backlash After Jewish Campus Org Defends Harvard in Antisemitism Case
The top Jewish campus organization walked back a brief in support of Harvard just a day after Hillel’s attorneys filed the document in federal appeals court, saying the document had not been cleared.
By JENNIFER DOHERTY
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Justice Department Investigates Harvard’s Financial Aid Program for Alleged Discrimination Against Americans
The review focuses on whether the university is illegally using foreign donations, particularly those from China, to provide financial aid to students on the basis of their national origin.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Justice
Was ‘Oxferd Comma’ a Typo — or a Plot To Camouflage Investigation Into Whether Trump Was a Russian Agent?
The probe, launched in 2017, probed whether the firing of Director James Comey of the FBI was ordered by the Kremlin.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Blanche Nomination Back on Track as Cassidy Announces He Will Vote for His Confirmation
The Louisiana senator says the acting attorney general is ‘not perfect,’ but that he ‘knows the law’ and is a ‘hands-on administrator.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Blanche Pledges To Make Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions ‘Permanent’ in ‘Every Single State’
The likely soon-to-be attorney general has faced questions from anti-abortion rights groups about the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Jack Smith Agrees To Testify About Trump in Bid To Thwart Criminal Charges
The special counsel, who refuses to plead the Fifth against self-incrimination, will appear before lawmakers as the prospect of a prosecution looms.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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