Continuing strikes by the U.S. and Iran and the threat of further escalation sent oil futures higher for a fourth straight session.

U.S. natural gas futures settled higher with the market looking to Thursday’s weekly storage report and keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Bertha as the system moves along the Louisiana coast toward Texas.

Claims from a 15-year-old boy were set to go to trial next week in Los Angeles, but the case has now been dropped.

Karen Carter was found with stab wounds in the Dordogne village she had lived in for over a decade.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., said Wednesday he does not consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani a Democrat, arguing the Democratic socialist – and others like him – are attempting to "hijack" the party and pull it away from its traditional values.

"He's not a Democrat, he's socialist, and we know that the whole socialist movement is attempting to hijack the Democratic Party and many of their values are not our values," Gottheimer said on "America's Newsroom."

"We know that he's against police and came out strong against law enforcement and [has] come out strongly against prisons in the United States, and they want to eliminate the United States Senate," he continued.

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"They have lots of views which are not in line with Democratic values. They're very anti-American, anti-Democratic, anti-capitalist, so asking me to understand a lot of their thinking, I can't."

The New Jersey Democrat's remarks came as he criticized Mamdani's defense of his pledge to honor an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit New York City this year.

Despite making it a tent of his campaign, Mamdani later fell back on the push to arrest Netanyahu, admitting he lacks the authority to do so.

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Mamdani instead called on the federal government to execute the ICC's arrest warrant if the Israeli leader pays a visit to the Big Apple.

"The mayor is clearly obsessed with this issue. He should probably be a little more obsessed with making sure that his city is running well and that he's picking up the trash and fixing the potholes," Gottheimer said.

"What shocks me about all of this is the double standard. We've got Iranian leadership that have been in New York. Obviously, Iran [is] a top enemy of the United States of America, the regime there [is] killing Americans, including soldiers... I don't understand. He doesn't go after them," he added.

The New York City mayor's office directed Fox News Digital to responses Mamdani made during an unrelated press conference Wednesday, in which he defended his push for Netanyahu's arrest.

"I made very clear, as I have before, that my interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity," he answered in part.

"And part of that is a reflection of a universal politics, and it is from a universal politics that I can look [at] October 7th and describe it for what it is, which is a horrific war crime. I can also look at Benjamin Netanyahu and see the way that he has orchestrated this genocide and also deem him to similarly be a war criminal, and I think, especially at a time when there are those in Washington who are discussing measures to take apart the International Criminal Court, what so many are looking for is a sense that there is, in fact, a rule of law across the—where there are crimes that are so grave that they offend all of humanity. And... I believe that we should hold those who perpetrate them accountable."

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said she is "centering the victim" after an 18-year-old woman was found shot dead Saturday inside a Boston home owned by the congresswoman’s husband.

The victim’s family identified her as 18-year-old Yoseliani Marte and said she died as a result of domestic violence. Boston police have not publicly identified her, confirmed that characterization or announced an arrest.

"As someone who has done the work advocating, you know, for accountability and healing for survivors of all crimes — yeah, my heart is heavy," Pressley said.

She continued, "I'm just really centering the victim right now. And that's what we all should be doing."

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The victim was found dead from a gunshot wound inside the home owned by Pressley’s husband Conan Harris, who she has been married to since 2014.

In a GoFundMe post, the family identified the victim and claimed that she died as a result of domestic violence. The mother also claimed that she allegedly knows who may be responsible, according to Boston 25 News.

"As the mother to an 18-year-old daughter, right now, excitedly planning to take her to college for her freshman year," Pressley explained.

BOSTON POLICE INVESTIGATE DEATH AT HOME OWNED BY REP AYANNA PRESSLEY'S HUSBAND

"I'm devastated for the impacted family."

Authorities have not yet publicly identified the victim, nor announced any arrests in relation to the death at the residence in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. Police reports obtained by Fox News Digital say the victim suffered from a single gunshot wound.

"This young girl, who we didn't know, 18 years old," Pressley said. "I’m sure had her own plans and dreams that have all been cut short."

A spokesperson for Pressley's office told Boston 25 News that neither the congresswoman nor her family were involved in the incident and that Pressley extends her deepest condolences to the family and loved ones impacted by the tragedy.

The home is a two-family residence that is rental property where neither Pressley nor Harris live. It is listed for sale at $1.15 million.

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It is still not clear at this time whether Marte lived at the home where she was found dead.

The mother also told Boston 25 News that she is focused on getting justice for her daughter and that "everything’s gonna come out," and "it’s all going to come to light."

The manner of death remains under investigation, Boston police said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky held "a good and important conversation" with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on July 22.

France has become the first country in the European Union to ban children under 15 from using social media after lawmakers approved sweeping legislation requiring platforms to block young users through age-verification systems, citing growing concerns over children's mental health and online safety.

"I had committed to it, and now it’s been voted on: social media will be banned for those under 15 starting back-to-school," French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Tuesday X post.

"Thanks to the parliamentarians," he added. "It’s up to the Constitutional Council to rule, then on to action to make this measure concrete and protect our children online."

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CNN reported Tuesday that France joins a growing list of countries moving to restrict children's access to social media, with Australia becoming the first nation to ban social media for users under 16 last year. The United Kingdom plans to introduce similar rules next year.

Spain, Greece and Denmark are also considering minimum age requirements. 

CNN reported that the French measure passed with overwhelming support in Parliament and now heads to Macron for his signature.

Australia requires platforms to take reasonable measures to keep children below the minimum age from creating or maintaining accounts, while French officials have pledged to introduce age-verification systems to enforce the legislation, according to the report.

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BBC reported that under the rollout plan, the law will first bar children under 15 from creating new social media accounts beginning in September, with age verification required for all new users.

Starting in January 2027, the requirement will expand to existing accounts, meaning all users in France will need to verify they are at least 15. According to the BBC, platforms will be required to use age-verification technology approved by France's privacy regulator.

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The CDC also advises pregnant women to reconsider traveling to the affected area, particularly if they're close to delivering their baby, because the virus can be passed to a newborn around the time of birth.

Travelers who develop fever, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, joint swelling or a rash during or after their trip should seek medical care, the agency said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the CDC for comment.

The advisory in Costa Rica is the latest in a series of chikungunya-related travel alerts.

Fox News Digital previously reported that the CDC issued a Level 2 Travel Health Notice for Bolivia earlier this year after a chikungunya outbreak in the country's Santa Cruz and Cochabamba departments.

The agency also issued Level 2 advisories for the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, as well as Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and China's Guangdong Province after chikungunya outbreaks.

Ashley DiMella of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.

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Amazon still dominates e-books too much. If Kindle was DRM-free, I would’ve ordered an X3 already.

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Two additional passengers also found trouble waiting for them after they returned from their cruise.

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Deputies stopped the unnamed travelers as they disembarked and determined that both were on felony probation but allegedly had left the country without receiving permission from their probation officers, Ivey said.

The sheriff said the two would be enjoying stays at their respective "lodges" once probation officials completed the required paperwork.

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Authorities did not identify those passengers or disclose the crimes for which they were on probation.

The sheriff’s office did not identify the ships or cruise lines connected to the six passengers.

"Whether you’re from Florida or Alaska, if you come to Brevard County and break the law…or in this case have a warrant…you better believe that we will lock you up!!" he said.

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The Kyiv Independent asked people on the streets of Kyiv how they assess the military leadership shakeup, what changes they expect under Drapatyi's command, and whether they believe Fedorov should continue shaping Ukraine's defense policy.

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Rogers has shared the results of its network performance and experience during the recently completed 2026 FIFA World Cup. According to the carrier, attendees used 510TB of data at the stadiums and at surrounding events like watch parties and fan zones across the 13 World Cup matches in two cities (six in Toronto, seven in […]

Precious metals settled higher, with sentiment shifting to a more optimistic outlook.

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser.


‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 248 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, Editing, Forms, Images, JavaScript, Media, Navigation, Networking, Rendering, SVG, Scrolling, Security, Storage, Web API, Web Inspector, WebDriver, and WebRTC.

The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is compatible with machines running macOS Tahoe and macOS Golden Gate, the newest version of macOS.

The ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings to anyone who has downloaded the browser from Apple's website. Complete release notes for the update are available on the Safari Technology Preview website.

Apple's aim with ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while it is designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download and use.
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S&P 500 is close to flat as investors await technology earnings

U.S. stock market moves were muted, with the Nasdaq composite slipping and the Dow industrials edging higher.

Rangers intend to contest a four-match touchline ban given to manager Derek McInnes for describing as "disgusting" the decision to award Celtic a late penalty at Motherwell in May.

Italian authorities shut down an anonymous online effort that asked the public to report the locations of Israeli tourists, Italian Jews and businesses believed to have ties to Zionism, drawing condemnation from senior government officials and Jewish leaders who compared the initiative to fascist-era persecution.

"I think we’re going back to the 1930s, to hunting Jews," Walker Meghnagi, president of the Jewish Community of Milan, said after the Google form began circulating on social media and messaging platforms.

The questionnaire said it was intended to "map Zionist tourism," property purchases and what it described as "Zionist neo-colonization" in Italy, according to reports. It asked users to identify Jews, Israelis and people believed to be connected to Zionism at hotels, vacation rentals, businesses and other public places.

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"The online mapping of so-called 'Zionist tourism,' rightly denounced by the president of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, is an aberrant initiative, in direct violation of fundamental human rights and the constitutional principles on which our nation is founded," Italian Senate President Ignazio La Russa wrote in a statement, as translated to English.

"No form of cataloguing of persons on the basis of their religious belief or their connection with Israel is acceptable or justifiable. Behind all this lies a profound anti-Semitism that must be unanimously, firmly, and determinedly rejected," he added. "We cannot remain motionless in the face of such serious facts that recall the ghosts of the past. To the Jewish Community all my closeness."

The form was removed following the intervention of Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, Italy’s national coordinator for the fight against antisemitism, according to Italian and Israeli media reports.

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"This form is intended to record cases of Zionist tourism, property purchases, and, more generally, Zionist neo-colonization in Italy," the questionnaire stated.

It said the information collected would be received by the Global Sumud Movement, an activist network associated with flotilla efforts to reach the Gaza Strip, and would remain confidential. Respondents were asked to provide sources so the reports could be verified and used to coordinate unspecified "initiatives."

The Global Sumud Movement denied commissioning the form or knowing about it before the controversy erupted, according to The Jerusalem Post.

"Zionism is one of the issues we work on, but we do not hunt Jews, and we know nothing about this questionnaire," the group told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "We did not commission it and had not even seen it before it was taken offline."

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The organization said it learned about the questionnaire through news reports and reserved the right to take further action, including issuing a formal statement.

According to La Repubblica, later sections of the form asked respondents to name locations where Jewish or Israeli visitors had been seen and to indicate whether local organizations or activist groups were already "managing the phenomenon."

Meghnagi warned that collecting and circulating such information could encourage extremists to target Jews and Israelis.

"What is happening today shows that there are unbalanced individuals out there, and if this kind of message spreads widely enough, you are certain to find someone willing to act on it," he said. "For this reason, mapping where Jews are is extremely serious."

Alessandro Morelli, an Italian deputy secretary of state, ripped the form as "abhorrent" and said those responsible should not go unpunished.

Daniel Siad, whose name appears in the Epstein files thousands of times, denied knowledge of the threat Jeffrey Epstein posed.

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Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company.

The automaker is disputing news reports that partial labor strikes by the Hyundai Motor union at the world’s largest automotive plant in South Korea were spurred by concerns about the company's planned deployment of humanoid robots in the United States starting in 2028. A company statement shared with Ars describes the union’s demands as focusing on compensation-related issues such as wage increases, bonuses, and an extension of workers’ retirement age.

“Potential deployment of robots in Korean production facilities is not part of the current labor-management discussions,” according to the Hyundai statement. “Hyundai Motor Company remains committed to constructive engagement with the union and to reaching an agreement that supports the long-term interests of both employees and the company.”

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New York City socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely mocked by conservatives on social media Tuesday after announcing that one of his campaign platforms, arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isn’t a tool he has at his disposal.

In a video post on X that was viewed over 36 million times, Mamdani called Netanyahu a "war criminal" while conceding that New York City could not enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for the Israeli leader’s arrest on its own despite the mayor saying he had looked at exploring avenues to do so.

Mamdani has often said on the campaign trail and as mayor that he wanted to arrest Netanyahu over what the mayor calls a "genocide" in Gaza.

While Mamdani’s post was well received by many on the political left, conservatives on social media quickly mocked the mayor over the situation while taking issue with his determination to enforce the ICC warrant, which the United States government does not recognize.

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"Trying to find where Mamdani called for the arrest of the Hamas terrorists who plotted the October 7th attacks," Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted on X. "Disgusting and Disgraceful."

"This may be the most horrific package of lies against the State of Israel ever promoted by a government official," former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman posted on X. "Even Hamas does not lie to this extent! It is despicable and entirely unbecoming a mayor of New York City. To those who voted for this Jew-hater, shame on you."

"Zohran Mamdani calling Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal is utterly ridiculous," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., posted on X. "The same crowd that rushes to condemn Israel never has much to say about the terrorists who started the war, massacred civilians, raped women, kidnapped children, and still hide behind their own people. Mamdani wants the headline that comes from attacking Netanyahu, not the consistency that comes with confronting Hamas."

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"The mayor of New York is just straight up promoting antisemitic blood libel courtesy of Hamas propaganda from an official government social media account tonight," New York City Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino posted on X.

"As I was saying… he doesn’t have the authority," US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz posted on X. "More political theater."

"I had a dead homeless body in front of my apartment, but the mayor’s focused on playing Model UN," Sam Raus, David Boaz Resident Writing Fellow at Young Voices, posted on X. "What a joke."

"Zohran Mamdani admitted tonight that he has zero legal right to arrest Netanyahu," political commentator Eyal Yakoby posted on X. "Like everything that he does, it was all just an act for clicks on social media."

Although Mamdani acknowledged he could not arrest Netanyahu as mayor, he called on the federal government to execute an International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if the Israeli leader visits New York.

"I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," he said.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Mamdani answered more questions about his position and said, "my interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity."

Mamdani was asked at one point what he would say to those who are disappointed that Netanyahu can't be arrested by authorities in New York City.

"I'm simply saying that this is a city where, if anyone feels a level of frustration or opposition, protest is something that we will always respect," Mamdani said. "I leave it to New Yorkers themselves to make that decision and when it comes to Palestinian New Yorkers who are disappointed, I understand it because we are talking about someone who has been charged with crimes against humanity, someone who has visited this city on many an occasion and who has be welcomed by previous mayor and I want to make it very clear that that welcome ends with me."

Mamdani continued. "I will not be welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu or any other war criminals when they come to this city, and I do believe that our federal government should join the International Criminal Court and ensure that there is accountability when it comes to crimes against humanity."

Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz contributed to this report.

Justin Crawford, who pinch-ran for Alec Bohm, was on third base, while Realmuto was on second base. Right fielder Brandon Marsh was up against closer Tanner Scott.

Marsh hit a weak ground ball to third base, and Crawford started to go home but stopped after a few steps.

Interim Phillies manager Don Mattingly said postgame the contact play was on, which means Crawford was supposed to run home no matter what. However, Crawford said the contact play was on unless the ball was hit to third base.

So Crawford, now caught between third base and home plate, got in a rundown. Realmuto ran to third base but inexplicably turned around to go back to second base when he saw Crawford run back to third base.

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Mookie Betts tagged Crawford out and then whirled and fired to second baseman Tommy Edman to nab Realmuto going back to second, completing a chaotic 5-2-6-4 double play to end the game.

Phillies announcer John Kruk was in disbelief after seeing Realmuto run back toward second base.

"Oh no, JT! Oh no," Kruk said.

Realmuto said postgame it was a bad baserunning play.

"Just a bad baserunning play, really," Realmuto told reporters postgame. "We were going on seeing it through there, and once (Crawford) gets in the rundown and I'm on third base, there’s no reason for me to go back to second. Just a lack of judgment. You can't make two outs on that play. I’ve just got to stay in scoring position."

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"Just a lapse in judgment. I thought Crawford could get out of the rundown for some reason. The chances of that are so small, you just can't take that chance there of making two outs on one play."

Realmuto said he should have played it through in his head before it happened and been more proactive in his preparation. Mattingly said he wasn’t sure what his star catcher was thinking.

"I don’t know what JT was thinking there, honestly, because he got to third," Mattingly told reporters postgame.

"With contact on," Mattingly said, "just hoping (Crawford) stays in (the rundown) long enough to get Marsh to second, and you end up in the same spot."

"I’m not quite sure what he’s thinking. I don’t know if he thought that (Crawford) was going to get back or they were going to let him get back. It’s something we’ll talk about."

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The baserunning blunder comes in the midst of a down season for Realmuto. The three-time All-Star catcher is hitting just .215 with seven home runs, which well below his career batting average of .268.

The Phillies (56-46) will look to bounce back from the tough loss and take the third game of the three-game set against the Dodgers (64-38) on Wednesday at 6:40 p.m. ET.

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Maduro and his wife, who were seized and bought to the US earlier this year, deny the weapons and drug charges against them.

The New York City mayor instead called on US authorities to act on International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister.

Gold settled 1.9% higher, up for a second-consecutive session, and silver rose 2%, up for a fourth-consecutive session.

Apple today released the second public betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, allowing anyone with a compatible device to download and test the new software. The second betas come a week after Apple seeded the first betas.


You can get started by signing up on Apple's beta website and then opting in to the public beta by going to Settings > General > Software Update and choosing the ‌iOS 27‌ or ‌iPadOS 27‌ Public Beta option.

‌iOS 27‌ introduces Siri AI, a more capable version of ‌Siri‌ that can search the web, access your personal information, see what's on your screen, and take actions in and across apps. ‌Siri‌ in ‌iOS 27‌ is more similar to Claude or ChatGPT than the prior version of ‌Siri‌, with a dedicated ‌Siri‌ app for back-and-forth conversations. You can use ‌Siri‌ AI if you have a device that supports Apple Intelligence.

Apple updated the Liquid Glass design that debuted last year, adding a slider to adjust the transparency level and refining its look. There are new AI features in many of Apple's apps. Visual Intelligence moved to the Camera app and supports new features like getting the nutritional information for a meal or splitting a bill, and ‌Siri‌ is able to generate text for you or help you refine your writing with Write with ‌Siri‌.

There are new AI photo editing tools in the Photos app, Safari can organize your tabs automatically, and you can create Shortcuts and Safari extensions using natural language commands. AirPods have custom EQ, the Home app supports 4K video cameras, and there are new child safety controls for parents.

Apple made dozens of improvements to device performance, and everything feels faster, even on older iPhones. Apps launch quicker, AirDrop transfers are faster, the keyboard loads quicker, and more.

Additional information on the new features in ‌iOS 27‌ can be found in our dedicated iOS 27 roundup, with info on ‌iPadOS 27‌ available in our separate iPadOS 27 roundup.
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That has led to speculation that Schumacher is the odd man out. He is, however, coming off a season-best finish at Nashville.

After the race, he told Pockrass that he feels there's a high chance he will be on the grid in 2027.

We'll see how it shakes out, because this has already been one of the crazier IndyCar silly seasons in recent memory, with even the likes of Christian Lundgaard — who has two wins on the year and his fifth in the standings — hunting for a new ride for 2027.

Apple today released the second public beta of macOS Golden Gate, allowing non-developers to test the software ahead of its fall release. You can sign up to test the update on Apple's beta website, and then download it by going to System Settings > General > Software Update and toggling on the macOS 27 beta.


‌macOS Golden Gate‌ includes the same Siri AI features as iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, but you get to ‌Siri‌ through Spotlight with a Command + Space keyboard shortcut. ‌Siri‌ can search the web to answer questions, look through your personal data like photos, emails, and messages to help you find what you're searching for, and complete actions in and between apps. There is a dedicated ‌Siri‌ app, and you can hold ongoing conversations with ‌Siri‌.

Apple brought Visual Intelligence to the Mac, so ‌Siri‌ can look at what's on your screen and answer questions about it.

The Liquid Glass design introduced last year has been updated, and Apple added a slider for controlling overall system transparency. Liquid Glass opacity has been changed so it better diffuses complex content, and other design changes bring more depth and separation to the UI so it's easier to tell which window is active.

Apps now feature uniform toolbars with headings and controls that are easier to read, and windows no longer have such dramatically rounded corners. Sidebars are no longer floating and extend edge-to-edge, plus window positioning is more consistent across external displays.

Write with ‌Siri‌ is able to generate text from scratch, correct your grammar, or give you feedback on your writing, and there are new AI editing tools in the Photos app. In Shortcuts, you can create automations with natural language requests, and search has been improved in Mail and Messages. Apple made multiple performance improvements across ‌macOS Golden Gate‌ for a faster, smoother experience even on older Macs.

More on the new features in macOS 27 can be found in our macOS Golden Gate roundup.
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This week's letters come from readers reflecting on the dismissal of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. An American military veteran argues the decision may harm the country's reform movement, and a British scholar urges Ukrainians to preserve military reforms while avoiding divisions that could benefit Russia.

Apple today released the second public betas of tvOS 27 and watchOS 27, giving Apple TV and Apple Watch users a chance to try the new software ahead of its fall launch. There's also a new HomePod Software 27 beta for the ‌HomePod‌ and HomePod mini.


You can sign up for Apple's public beta testing program on the beta website, and then download the updates through the Settings app on each device.

‌watchOS 27‌ adopts Siri AI, and you can use ‌Siri‌ from your wrist as long as you have an iPhone that supports it. ‌Siri‌ AI can access your personal information, answer all kinds of questions, and complete tasks for you. There is a dedicated ‌Siri‌ app that's front and center on the watch in the new dynamic app grid that comes up when pressing the Digital Crown.

There's a new gesture for selecting a widget in the Smart Stack, plus Apple added Smart Stack suggestions for finding a parked car, accessing a transit card, and getting a birthday reminder.

Workout Buddy works without your iPhone nearby, treadmill run and walk distances are tracked more accurately, and Apple added a unified Find My app that also supports Precision Finding.

tvOS 27 has a redesigned Podcasts app, Hi-Res Lossless audio and AutoMix song transitions in Apple Music, and easier profile switching. With performance improvements, apps launch faster, animations are speedier, and devices connect more quickly when AirPlaying content.

More on what's new in the updates can be found in our watchOS 27 roundup and Apple TV roundup.
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Key developments on July 22:

• Ukraine protests to continue despite Syrskyi's firing as organizers demand Fedorov's return
• Warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries burn as Ukraine strikes Krasnodar, Stavropol regions
• 13 more Russian shadow fleet vessels struck in Azov Sea and Black Sea

The MP for Bolsover has spoken about how she was groomed and raped as a teenager.

A Memphis pizza restaurant that drew national attention after refusing to serve National Guard members says business is booming instead of busting, with supporters flocking to the restaurant in what some have dubbed a "buy-cott" after conservative activists called for a boycott.

Miles Tamboli, owner of Tamboli's Pasta & Pizza, said he refused to serve the Guardsmen on July 11 because he opposes the federally led Memphis Safe Task Force, arguing the use of National Guard troops in local law enforcement has made the city less safe rather than more secure.

The company faced severe backlash online after refusing service to four uniformed members of the Memphis Safe Task Force. Tamboli told Fox News Digital July 15, "I stand behind that decision completely." The Guardian reported Tuesday that the response locally has been supportive.

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"The Italian 'junt' (in Memphis parlance) opened with a full house and had a line waiting by 5.30pm," The Guardian reported. "Waitstaff said the shop was never that crowded that early; extra crew was brought in to help. Business is up ‘a great amount,’ Tamboli said. The packed house on Friday was evidence."

One customer, Sarah Jones, said, "While I do not blame the National Guard for being in Memphis since it was not their choice, I stand by businesses refusing service as a form of resistance and protest."

Another customer, Carol Bigam, a retired FedEx worker, said, "If you have a business — a small family-owned business — that says, ‘You know what, I’m sorry, I can’t serve you, I just don’t believe you should be here,’ it really should be OK. Is he not allowed free speech? He was very professional about it. Give me a break, man."

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Tamboli told Fox News Digital July 15 that he opposes the Memphis Safe Task Force, a federally led initiative established in September 2025 by President Donald Trump to stop violent crime in the city.

The task force combines local police with agents from various federal agencies, the Tennessee National Guard and state troopers to enforce public safety laws.

"What the Task Force has actually done is make this city harder to live in," Tamboli said. "Its own records show that the overwhelming majority of its arrests began with routine traffic stops, not violent crime. Families in this city are now afraid to drive to work, afraid to take their kids to school, afraid to be seen. Our own schools reported that fear drove children to stop showing up to class.

"And this month, a 20-year-old Memphian named Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by National Guard troops during a foot chase, with no body camera footage and no answers for his family," he continued. "None of that makes us safer. It makes us less safe, and it does the most damage to the people who were already struggling."

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Tamboli said, "Business the week after roughly doubled our normal volume. It was the busiest stretch we've had in this building, with a line out front before we opened most nights. I hear the real question in yours, whether this is a blip, and it isn't. The support hasn't slowed down, I expect it to last, and I'm running my business like the lasting increase it is. The records exist, and I stand behind every word of this, and I'm not going to turn my private sales reports into a public document."

He said he does not believe conservative customers have stopped coming to his restaurant.

"I see every message, every email and every phone call that reaches this place, and I have not heard from a single regular customer telling me they won't be back," Tamboli said. "Not one. I don't track anyone's politics and my register doesn't record it, and I serve every guest who walks through my door the way I always have. The one exception is the uniformed deployment, and that was the entire point.

"Here is what I'd rather you spend your ink on. Four people are dead at the hands of this task force since it came to Memphis, in a city where violent crime had already fallen to a 25-year low before they arrived. One of them, Tyrin Johnson, was 20 years old. Another, Jonah Neal, was in the middle of a mental health crisis when a federal agent killed him, and I'd bet most of your readers have never heard his name.

"If a president sent soldiers and federal agents into your town, and four of your neighbors ended up dead, you would not be asking a pizza owner about his Friday sales," Tamboli continued. "You would be asking why it happened, and you would be furious and you would be right to be. That is the outrage this deserves, and it is missing only because it is happening here and not somewhere the country is used to watching.

"A small business owner using his First Amendment right to run his place by his own conscience is about as American as it gets," he added. "The people trying to punish that speech, the ones review-bombing me and the ones cheering the government on, are the ones who walked away from the Constitution they claim to love. You do not get to wave the flag and boo free speech in the same breath."

The deposed leader, accused by U.S. authorities of narcoterrorism conspiracy, has said he is innocent. His lawyers have indicated they will challenge the charges.

We all have stuff that comes up in our lives that we file away in a keep-to-ourselves section of our brain. Having a horrible case of diarrhea that ruins your honeymoon isn't one of them.

That's a story you not only tell everyone, it's one that you run out and make sure the news is aware of. Otherwise, you're faking it through answering the question "how was your honeymoon?"

Nobody wants to put themselves in that situation. The moment you let it slip to one person that you had diarrhea so bad you ended up in the hospital, everyone is going to want to know about it.

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Getting the news involved makes that far less awkward of a situation. Now, instead of your friends and family being the only ones who know that your marriage got off to a crappy start, the whole world can learn about it.

It's some personal housekeeping mixed with a public service announcement. Newlywed Gretchen Pleuss is the hero most of us aren't brave enough to be.

She caught Cyclosporiasis during her honeymoon at Yellowstone National Park and a couple of days into the camping trip was glued to the toilet with a bad case of the runs.

"It was just like incessant diarrhea. It was watery and constant," she told 12 WISN. "I felt fine until we got out here, and a couple days into camping here, I started having symptoms."

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Pleuss' symptoms included stomach pain that got so bad it landed her in the hospital. That's where doctors confirmed that she had the Cyclospora parasite.

She wasn't about to let the incessant diarrhea keep her from trying to enjoy her honeymoon. Sure, it was ruined by constant trips to the bathroom and a visit to the hospital, but the couple was staying positive.

"It's still our honeymoon, so we're making the best of it," Pleuss said. "Our vows said in sickness and in health, so we're just getting an early start on that."

They're also getting an early start on having some stories to tell. For as long as they're married, they'll always remember their diarrhea-filled honeymoon, a marital test right out of the gate.

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It's not like Tiger hasn't tried to rattle his son for moments like he faced Wednesday. Remember, Earl Woods famously used to throw golf balls and coins at his son to throw off his concentration. Charlie has faced similar warfare.

TIGER WOODS BREAKS MONTHS-LONG SILENCE WITH PATRIOTIC MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGE, SALUTE TO LATE FATHER

However, after the way this Junior Amateur ended, Tiger needs to start snapping his iPhone camera in his son's backswing. It's back to the drawing board for the Woods' family.

Animal spirits explain why the property market is such a drag on the country’s consumer sentiment.

Xbox has expanded its backward compatibility program to PC, with four original Xbox games available to start. As part of this, BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Fuzion Frenzy have launched on PC. Notably, Xbox says this marks the first time this quartet of games has (officially) […]

Southern Brave produce a remarkable fightback to begin their Hundred campaign with a hard-fought eight-run win against Welsh Fire in Southampton.

It is the third such event that the president has attended since the start of the war with Iran.

Mykhailo Drapatyi's appointment was met with celebration among Ukrainian military personnel and protesters, while Russian social media users contrasted Ukraine's political system with Russia's and warned about the new commander-in-chief, describing him as someone who "hates (Russian soldiers) and hates them consistently."

TAMPA, FL- While Lane Kiffin was contemplating his move to LSU from Ole Miss, Jon Sumrall was making a different decision on his coaching future beyond Tulane.

Sure, while they both were deciding whether to take a different job, the circumstances surrounding the moves were not on the same wavelength in terms of coaching in the SEC.

The conversation surrounding the coaching carousel will be discussed for decades, most likely being taught in business ethics classes on college campuses in the future.

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For Kiffin, he had to decide on whether taking the LSU job was worthy enough for him not coaching Ole Miss through the college football playoff.

As for Jon Sumrall, he was making a decision on which opportunity in the SEC would be the better fit.

Was it going to be Auburn, or Florida? Obviously, we know how that part turned out, with Sumrall now entering his first season as the Gators' head coach. Taking to the podium on Wednesday morning in Tampa, the conversation about whether both Kiffin and Summrall were dealing with the same type of dilemma was spurned by a question about his decision to leave Tulane.

While Kiffin and Sumrall have discussed the situation numerous times since last December, there was one part of the process that the two coaches did not agree on.

They were not the same situations, at all.

"I'd say no two decisions are alike, right," Sumrall noted. "Lane and I are friends, and talked several times during the process in October and November about what it was looking like about how things were going to unfold.

"Lane said 'you and I are going through the same thing' and I'm like, 'No Lane, we're not. If you leave, you're leaving an SEC school to go to an SEC school'. I was leaving Tulane. But, it was challenging to do it, but I wouldn’t have done it any other way. I wanted to make sure I left Tulane the right way. If any university told me I couldn't coach in the playoff game I don't think I would've taken the job just because I couldn't leave the team I had coached all year."

No, he's not wrong, though I'm sure Kiffin will have a rebuttal on Thursday when he takes the podium as the LSU head coach.

If the incident that transpired during the Florida head coach's news conference had taken place during a team meeting, the reporter whose phone started playing an interesting choice of music would have been kicked out of the room in Gainesville.

Luckily, this hilarious moment took place during the third day of SEC news conferences, far away from the meeting rooms just up the road from Florida's campus.

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While speaking on his decision to leave Tulane, it just so happened that a reporter was away from his computer, and could not make it in time during Sumrall's press conference to turn it off. This led to a funny exchange with the Gators head coach, while he was also poking fun at Lane Kiffin.

"You would be kicked out of our team meeting, I swear," Sumrall said to the room. "Like you're lucky I'm not going throw this podium right now. That drives me crazy. I would say who is that, but I'm not going to embarrass anybody."

There might not be a more authentic coach in the SEC, besides Pete Golding, then Jon Sumrall, as both of them make their conference debuts this season.

Also, if you thought either coach was going to get through a press conference without cussing at least once, you most certainly lost that bet on Wednesday in Tampa.

Georgia coach sounds off: If Congress won't act, SEC should just break away from NCAA and govern themselves

While speaking about Golding, the Gators head coach had nothing but praise for the Ole Miss ball coach, while also making light of Tulane being destroyed by the Rebels twice last season with two-different head coaches.

"Pete is going to be himself. He's not going to change," Sumrall mentioned about Pete Golding. "I have an appreciation for that. You have to be authentic. I think he's going to do a phenomenal job. Really do. Happy for his opportunity there.

"Watching him, those teams to me...you know, we played them the first time at Tulane and they beat the sh*t out of us. We played them the second time, different head coach, still beat the sh*t out of us."

I for one welcome the coaches who don't put a filter on their words. Give me an authentic coach, no matter the situation, and I'll show you a guy that will at least become a popular leader among fans.

We'll see what Golding has in store, but the SEC clearly forgot the dump button during their Media Days this week, thank goodness.

The closing of the chokepoints at Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and the Black Sea collectively imperils roughly a quarter of the world’s oil supply.

The man went from punting for the Colts to being one of the most powerful figures in the media and did it a shockingly short period time.

Now, he's putting himself out there again with an entire album. If you're going to swing, you might as well swing for the fences and that's what McAfee is doing.

It will be fascinating to see what comes on Aug. 14 with McAfee albums. The one guarantee is it will generate plenty of attention. That's a guarantee you can take to the bank.

Let me know your thoughts at David.Hookstead@outkick.com.

The insurance market's chairman said the CEO's conduct "fell significantly below the standards expected of him".

US judge sets June 2027 trial date for Venezuela's Maduro

Drug testing at cycling's biggest race, the Tour de France is in the spotlight following a series of night-time anti-doping tests on the sport's biggest names.

Fox News Digital previously reported that shark experts have urged beachgoers to stay alert this summer as sightings increased along several U.S. coastlines.

Marine biologist Mike Heithaus of Florida International University told Fox News Digital that shark bites remain unusual, even during the busy summer beach season.

"People should always be aware of local conditions and listen to lifeguards, but shark bites are very rare," he emphasized.

He recommended that people avoid murky water, that they stay away from areas where large schools of fish are visible and that they avoid places where other people are actively fishing.

Apple is testing new Mac mini configurations with mismatched M6 and M5 Pro chips, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, but he did not provide a release timeframe.

In a similar move last year, Apple updated the Mac Studio with mismatched M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.
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In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable to do so.

President John Adams was one of the most vigorous proponents of commissioning private vessels for national ends. His administration issued letters of marque and reprisal during the so-called "Quasi-War" with France in the final years of the 18th century. These letters created the legal distinction between privateering and piracy.

One of the letters signed by Adams, dated November 1799, authorized the use of a merchant ship to "subdue, seize, and take any armed French vessel" found near US coastal waters of "elsewhere on the high seas." France also routinely used privateers against US shipping at the time.

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Attorney Ben Crump revealed that the results of an independent autopsy into Nolan Wells' death are "inconclusive" as a former medical examiner said the findings aren't consistent with a "cover up" or any wrongdoing.

Crump announced the independent autopsy's results on Wednesday at the NAACP National Convention in Chicago, stating that an area of "red discoloration" was found on Wells' head. He said Dr. Roger Mitchell, who performed the autopsy, couldn't come to a conclusion "pending further investigation." The official autopsy hasn't yet been completed.

"Why is this dark red here in the back of his head?" Crump said. "This pathologist cannot rule out if any intervening non-accidental factors contributed to or caused the death of Nolan Wells."

When asked by Fox News Digital about the case, forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said the head injury doesn't point to foul play.

"So that could be from bumping into something in the water. There's a lot of debris in the water, for example. It depends how deep it is, but it's describing a really superficial impact that could have happened before death or after death," Baden said.

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"What he's describing is a minor injury that could be... totally innocent," Baden said.

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Baden said Mitchell was "reaching for straws" in the independent autopsy report, adding that the findings are consistent with accounts from local law enforcement that his death was accidental and no foul play was involved.

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Wells, 18, initially disappeared July 4 after he went with friends on a boat trip to Horn Island, which is a barrier island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Officials and search crews searched for two days before a National Park Service ranger located his body on July 6 while on the island's northwestern tip.

Officials haven't released a cause of death as officials continue to investigate.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani declined Wednesday to say when he learned the city had no authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after repeatedly campaigning on a promise to detain the Israeli leader if he came to New York.

Pressed over whether the now-abandoned arrest threat amounted to "political theater," Mamdani said his administration had reviewed the applicable laws and concluded that only the federal government could execute the International Criminal Court warrant.

"It’s clear that the city does not have the authority to execute this warrant," Mamdani admitted at a New York City Hall news conference Wednesday, urging the federal government to act on the ICC warrant even though the U.S. is not a member of the ICC and does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction in the U.S. or over Israel, which is also not a member.

With the Trump administration already fully rejecting his call to arrest Netanyahu for being a "war criminal," Mamdani called for New Yorkers to take to protest "if anyone feels a level of frustration or opposition."

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"I believe that this is an arrest warrant that should be executed, and also that I would follow the laws that we had, and I would be respectful of those laws," he added. "And that is why I asked my administration to review of all applicable laws. And I believe, however, in that same finding, that the United States government does have the ability to both joining the International Criminal Court and executing that work, and that is something that I want to see happen."

Short of that, Mamdani suggested that people protest when the Israeli leader visits for the United Nations General Assembly, potentially in September.

"This is a city where, if anyone feels a level of frustration or opposition, protest is something that we will always respect," Mamdani told reporters. "I leave it to New Yorkers themselves to make that decision."

The mayor was repeatedly asked why he did not resolve the legal question before taking office, given that experts had challenged the legality of his arrest pledge during the campaign.

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Mamdani would not provide a date for when his administration informed him that the city lacked the power to carry out the ICC warrant.

"That’s a review that I asked them to do," he said. "They made it clear that this is not possible through applicable law."

Mamdani said Palestinian New Yorkers disappointed that he cannot fulfill his arrest promise had reason to be frustrated, declaring that Netanyahu would no longer be welcomed by City Hall.

"I understand it because we are talking about someone who has been charged with crimes against humanity, someone who has visited the city on many an occasion and who has been welcomed by previous mayors," Mamdani said.

"I want to make it very clear that that welcome ends with me," he continued. "I will not be welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu or any other war criminals when they come to this city."

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Mamdani also faced questions over criticism that his focus on Netanyahu created a one-sided account of the Israel-Hamas war.

Asked directly whether he considered Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack to be genocide, Mamdani did not use that term.

"I consider Oct. 7 to be a horrific war crime," he said. "I’ve considered it to be something that should be deeply opposed with every single fiber of our being."

Mamdani said his approach was rooted in what he called the "universality of humanity," arguing that officials should not "pick and choose which crimes against humanity we oppose."

The mayor also said he would support honoring ICC warrants against Hamas leaders as well as Netanyahu.

"My interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity," Mamdani said.

He accused Netanyahu of having "orchestrated this genocide" in Gaza and described the Israeli prime minister as a "war criminal." Israel has repeatedly rejected genocide allegations and condemned the ICC case as illegitimate.

Mamdani said he remained committed to protecting Jewish New Yorkers, including those who disagree with his position.

"My responsibility to them is to ensure that they are cherished, they are celebrated and they are safe in their city," he said, "and that never are they made to feel as if their opinions on any one issue is the precondition for that safety."

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s abandoned pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu divided House Democrats, with some backing his proposal while others said the mayor lacked the legal authority to carry it out.

"Arrest him," Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., told Fox News Digital. "He’s a war criminal."

Throughout Mamdani’s campaign, he repeatedly insisted that he would order the New York Police Department (NYPD) to enforce the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and arrest Netanyahu for his role in the war in Gaza.

MAMDANI GOES BACK ON CAMPAIGN PROMISE, SAYS NYC CAN'T ARREST NETANYAHU

But Mamdani finally acknowledged his inability to do so as the city lacks the "independent legal authority" to do so. On Tuesday night, he took to social media with a video calling on the federal government to execute the warrant by the ICC to arrest Netanyahu, also stating to be "equally clear" that the prime minister is "not welcome in New York City."

"I think that whether or not he has the authority about it, I don’t really have an opinion on," Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn., said. She continued, "But I do think that Netanyahu is a war criminal."

"I wish that we had a country that didn’t excuse war criminals," Lee said.

Tlaib also offered Mamdani help with the arrest as she wasn’t sure if he had the authority to complete the arrest.

"I don’t know if it applies to citizen’s arrest," she said. "If he needs help, tell him to call me."

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Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was one of the few House Democrats that Fox News Digital spoke with who immediately shut down the idea that Mamdani would be able to pursue this arrest under any avenue explored by the city, arguing it would violate a treaty with the United Nations.

He said, "There's a treaty under which the U.N. is lodged in the United States. Pursuit to that treaty, any diplomat can come to the U.N. and be immune from process."

The U.N. Headquarters Agreement is a 1947 treaty between the United States and the United Nations that governs the legal status of the U.N. headquarters in New York and provides protections for foreign officials attending U.N. meetings.

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The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, nor is it a party to the Rome Statute, which requires member countries to arrest individuals wanted under ICC warrants.

Mamdani’s call on the federal government to arrest Netanyahu comes after President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social on Monday that the prime minister "will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio also recently threatened to "dismantle" the ICC as he claims the court’s force of international law is overreaching its powers and "threatens every aspect of our political and legal system."

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday took a major step toward setting up the United States to be the global leader in wireless innovation, which Chairman Brendan Carr believes will make wireless both faster and cheaper for consumers. 

The FCC voted to adopt rules to auction 160 megahertz of spectrum in the Upper C-Band by July 2027, which combines terrestrial wireless operations across the entire C-Band to create a single "super-band" spanning 440 megahertz (3.70-4.14 GHz) of prime, mid-band spectrum. While the details are technical for most Americans, Carr said he is simply fulfilling the Trump administration’s agenda. 

"One of the things that President Trump did right off the get-go was restore U.S. leadership in wireless. During the Biden years, we fell drastically behind other countries when it came to making spectrum available," Carr told Fox News Digital. 

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Indeed, the U.S. fell behind countries like China during the 5G rollout during the Biden era. But Carr said the passage of Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut authorized and directed the FCC to bring more airwaves into the commercial marketplace, in order to both increase speeds and drive down prices. 

"When most people pick up their smartphone, they usually don't think why it works or what it takes to make it faster or better. But the FCC is now poised to do exactly that by bringing more spectrum, usually invisible airwaves that your phone actually operates on, and push more of that into the commercial market, so we get more competition, faster speeds, more downward pressure on prices," Carr said. 

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The order adopts competitive bidding procedures, allowing wireless providers to bid on wireless licenses. 

"That's expected to raise many billions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury, anywhere between $30 to $60 billion or more," Carr said. 

"So, it's going to be a good win for consumers in that they get faster speeds and better price services," he continued. "It's also a win for the government as well, because we're raising significant revenues by doing that."

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, also celebrated the move, saying it will "result in better coverage and faster speeds for consumers."

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The order reconfigures 160 megahertz of the Upper C-band in the contiguous United States for terrestrial wireless flexible use in 3.98–4.14 GHz, with a 20-megahertz guard band at 4.14– 4.16 GHz, according to the FCC. It also folds the Lower C-band and Upper C-band into a single 3.7 GHz Service from 3.7–4.14 GHz in the contiguous United States for terrestrial wireless flexible use and largely harmonizes the licensing, operating and technical rules across the entire band.

The FCC said this promotes "a successful co-existence environment with adjacent band radio altimeters through the adoption of specific technical measures and a carefully coordinated timeline for the introduction of terrestrial wireless operations in the Upper C-band starting in December 2030 that aligns with forthcoming radio altimeter retrofit requirements to be issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)."

The accord approved by President Trump opens the door to uranium enrichment in the kingdom.

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The French aerospace company booked sharply lower orders in the first half of the year as the group didn’t log a single booking for its Rafale fighter jet, though its Falcon business aircraft remained popular.

Cunningham faced so much backlash over the re-share that she released a statement.

"To my teammates, friends, family, supporters and fans, you know that I stand with all people, especially my fellow athletes. I do not judge, but support all races, religions, sexual preferences and gender equity. We all have a place in this world to compete and I hope we are able to grant everyone that opportunity fairly." she wrote.

Cunningham has emerged as one of the biggest stars in the WNBA over the last year, especially among conservatives.

Riley Gaines, who tied with Thomas at the 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships, told Fox News Digital on the last day of June, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold state laws that keep biological males out of women's sports, that she hoped the ruling would be a "clarion call" for athletes like Cunningham to speak out in support of protecting women's sports.

"Let this be a clarion call, not just to Simone, but to every, I think especially elite female athlete, professional female athlete, the likes of Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham, Serena Williams, to link arms," Gaines said.

Jay Feely, who spent 14 seasons as an NFL kicker for six teams, took a big step toward becoming a United States congressman representing a district that includes parts of Phoenix and most of Scottsdale by winning an Arizona Republican primary Tuesday night.

Feely defeated former state Rep. Joseph Chaplik and businessman John Trobough in a race in which he had the endorsement of President Donald Trump but was accused by his opponents of not being conservative enough.

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Feely will face the winner of a still-uncalled Democrat primary between former state Rep. Amish Shah and former broadcast journalist Marlene Galán-Woods in the general election.

"Why did I decide to run for office? It is a desire to leave this country better for our children and our grandchildren," Feely told his supporters at his victory celebration. "That's it in its core.

"You know, what we're doing is fighting for the future of this country. I truly believe that. When you look at the two parties, they've never been further apart ideologically. Never. And the Democrat Party has embraced Democratic socialism.

"They have chosen to move further to the left. They are talking about abolishing the border. They're talking about abolishing the police department. They are talking about abolishing the Senate now. They want to get D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood.

"The things that they are talking about are changing the very foundation of this country, and what has made it great for 250 years. And we're not going to let it happen."

The Democrats spent approximately $7 million in their primary race, which illustrates how important they believe getting the right candidate to face off against Feely would be.

Feely, making his first bid for public office at age 50, was also well funded for his primary battle and, not surprisingly, at lot of that cash came from the sports world.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell contributed $7,000, which is the legal maximum for an individual.

Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill similarly gave $7,000 to lead a handful of owners joining the Feely cause. Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank ($3,500), New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft ($7,000), Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross ($5,000) and Denver Broncos owner Rob Walton ($7,000) all contributed.

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam also donated.

Former players similarly helped fund Feely's campaign. Former quarterbacks John Elway, Rich Gannon and Trent Green contributed. So did Jeff Saturday, Todd Heap, Richie Incognito, and Pro Football Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher.

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And this: Charles Barkley contributed the maximum $7,000.

Feely should expect a tough campaign and close race in the coming months regardless of his opponent.

District 1 was reliably red from 1953 to 2009, but massive population growth over the years and a 2022 redrawing of the district's lines turned it into a race Democrats won five times starting in 2013 and believe they can flip this year after losing in 2022.

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"The land of the possible. Yeah, absolutely. It's always [going to] fall a little short, but that's just it. It's the world of becoming. We're becoming a more perfect union, always, rather than we just are one," Grammer said.

Grammer said that most of the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence "ended in ruin" by sacrificing everything for the nation. He added, "Some of their children were murdered, some of their wives were raped," and said their spirit of resilience in hard times remains today.

"They paid the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate one. And they would probably do it again. And I think that sort of character is what still is in most of us. I believe in America that way," Grammer said.

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face's servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says it considers the unintended infiltration an "an unprecedented cyber incident" and is working with Hugging Face on new protections to prevent a recurrence.

Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion last week that it said involved "unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by our services." The AI data clearinghouse said it used its own LLM-driven analysis to identify "a swarm of tens of thousands of automated actions" from an "autonomous agent framework." That agentic swarm exploited a flaw in Hugging Face's data-processing pipeline to gain the ability to run code as a processing worker, eventually escalating to high-level access to the company's cloud and server clusters.

At the time, Hugging Face said the LLM being used in the attack was "still not known." But OpenAI took responsibility for the intrusion Tuesday evening, saying it came about during an internal test involving the recently released GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model." The models were being tested against the ExploitGym benchmark, an independent testing suite based on hundreds of real-world security vulnerabilities.

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Mamdani had told the New York Times earlier this month that he and the city’s legal department were discussing arresting Netanyahu if he comes to New York City for the U.N. General Assembly in September. President Donald Trump on Monday told Netanyahu in a social media post that he 'will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.' The post did not directly mention Mamdani.

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Android 17 includes a wireless native migration experience for transferring more types of data from an iPhone, making the process of switching to an Android device easier.


Google says the upgraded method allows Google Accounts, passwords, Wi-Fi credentials, and eSIMs to be transferred. It also supports photos, videos, contacts, messages, and calendars, like the prior version of the switching tool. Data transfers require an iPhone with iOS 26.3 or later.

Both Apple and Google had to implement iPhone and Android transfer tools that work without an app to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act. When you set up a new Android smartphone or iPhone, there are now simple built-in options to transfer data from a competing platform. Before the on-device transfer options, Google and Apple offered apps for moving data.

The Digital Markets Act requires services to offer data portability to prevent lock-in to an operating system. It also forced Apple and Google to implement a simplified eSIM transfer process.

Android 17 with the new data transfer method has been rolling out to select Pixel devices since June and will also come to Samsung's newly announced Galaxy Z Flip8 and Z Fold8 smartphones.
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U.S. stock market moves were muted, with the Nasdaq composite slipping after Tuesday’s chip-stock rally, while the Dow industrials edged higher.

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"That’s exactly why I speak out today," she concluded. "Children deserve laws that protect them. They shouldn’t have to become adults before realizing the law should have protected them all along."

The caption also included a call to support California Assembly Bill 1267, which aims to permanently end child marriage by setting the minimum legal age for marriage in California to 18 with no exceptions.

Stodden and Hutchison got married in 2011 despite their 34-year age gap. They split up and got back together a few times before officially calling it quits in 2016, although divorce papers were not filed until March 2018, with the divorce being finalized in March 2020.

She announced their divorce in an Instagram post featuring her wedding photo, calling it "an emotional day," but assured her fans "it’s for the better."

"I look back at this picture and feel absolutely taken advantage of," she wrote. "I’ve been scared to even speak up about feeling groomed or being verbally abused during the almost 10 year marriage because I was a child and he was 50 when we married but I’m a woman now and it’s time for me to put my big girl pants on and speak on this matter."

She continued: "I’ve felt completely trapped, manipulated and at times abandoned by adults // growing up in such an environment — it became a lonely and dark place."

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Fox News Digital reached out to Sanders' office for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Along with Platner, Sanders has campaigned for and endorsed Melat Kiros in Colorado and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, who have both criticized Israel for committing an alleged "genocide" during its war in Gaza.

Sanders was also one of several Democratic members of Congress who have supported efforts to cut $3 billion in aid to Israel.

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"Right now, it’s easier for people to come across the border than to go through the bureaucratic process," Moulton said.

Moulton's congressional website states that he supports comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border, curbs illegal immigration, expands legal pathways and provides a path to citizenship. In January, he backed legislation intended to allow ICE officers to be prosecuted for misconduct.

Rep. Moulton is challenging Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in the state’s Sept. 1 Democratic Senate primary. A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll conducted June 18-23 found Markey leading Moulton 41% to 35% among likely Democratic primary voters, with 23% undecided. The poll had a 5.1-point margin of error.

Patel accused the sheriff's department of keeping the bureau "out of the investigation" for four days after Guthrie's disappearance.

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Nanos has disputed Patel's account, saying the FBI was notified promptly and worked alongside investigators.

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Authorities in the Guthrie case have said the unidentified person seen outside her home was believed to be between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall.

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The sheriff's department is urging residents who live near the crime scene to review home security or neighborhood surveillance footage that may help identify the suspect.

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Anyone with information about the home invasion is asked to call 911 or submit an anonymous tip to 88-CRIME.

The FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the investigation.

Apple has finished development of a new iMac that it plans to release later this year, according to a report today from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The updated iMac is one of 11 new Mac models that Apple plans to release over the next two years or so.


The next iMac will unsurprisingly have a newer chip, but the report did not indicate if Apple plans to use the existing M5 chip or the upcoming M6 chip. Apple has never released an iMac with its higher-end "Pro" or "Max" chips.

No major design changes have been rumored for the next iMac, so it will likely continue to have a 24-inch LCD screen. However, the report said Apple is planning a subsequent iMac with an OLED display for release "further in the future."

The current iMac with the M4 chip was announced in October 2024. The desktop computer did not receive an M5 chip upgrade last year, so the model coming this year would represent the first refresh in two years. The report said the iMac will continue to come in two configurations, with varying CPU/GPU core counts and ports.

Apple discontinued the Intel-based iMac Pro and 27-inch iMac models in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and the computer has only come in a 24-inch size since then. Over the years, there have been rumors that an iMac Pro with at least a 30-inch display and Apple silicon might be released one day, but nothing of that sort has materialized.

Apple raised prices on all Macs last month amid rising memory chip costs. In the U.S., the iMac now starts at $1,499, up from $1,299.
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The No. 2 leader in the House of Representatives has confirmed plans for a fourth "big, beautiful bill" that would tackle government waste and abuse of federal dollars.

"If you're a single waitress, working three shifts at a diner, Democrats voted against you keeping your tip money … so that they can give that money to fraudsters in Minnesota who were sending it to terrorist organizations," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital, referring to Republicans' first sweeping party-line budget bill that President Donald Trump dubbed his "one big, beautiful bill."

"It's insane, but that was really going on. There’s more of it. We want to root that out. So we're gonna move yet another reconciliation bill to focus on things like rooting out waste and fraud, to give that money back to taxpayers."

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The budget reconciliation process allows the party in power in Congress to pass sweeping fiscal policy legislation while completely sidelining the other side — in this case, Democrats.

It does so by bypassing the Senate filibuster — which needs 60 votes to overcome — allowing the upper chamber to line up with the House's own simple majority threshold.

But the measures in a reconciliation bill must adhere to a strict set of rules, such as not touching Social Security and only including policies that would affect the federal budget.

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Congressional Republicans have passed two reconciliation bills so far, one focused on Trump's tax priorities and another replenishing funds for the president's immigration crackdown.

The GOP is working on a third that would add some $95 billion in federal spending over the next 10 years. It includes $73 billion toward the U.S. war with Iran, $12 billion in aid for American farmers, and $10 billion for states to implement election security measures that were part of the SAVE America Act.

But some House fiscal hawks are threatening to oppose the measure over its lack of spending cuts to offset those dollars.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought both pitched a fourth bill during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning in a bid to assuage those concerns, multiple people told Fox News Digital.

Scalise's comments are the first public confirmation from a member of House GOP senior leadership that such a bill was in the works.

"We want to move that as soon as we finish reconciliation 3.0. So when we were working on reconciliation 2.0, we were already starting to put together 3.0, but we waited until we passed 2.0. Then we went right to work on this latest reconciliation bill," Scalise said.

Trump isn’t the first to suffer from it, and seeking ‘balance’ in 2026 is as foolish as it was in 1776.

The first Fox News Power Rankings of the 2026 midterm elections and a new poll both indicate an extremely close contest between longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Troy Jackson, the candidate set to replace ex-nominee Graham Platner as the Democratic challenger, in what's expected to be a premiere Senate battleground.

The Fox News Power Rankings, which gauge the competitiveness of elections using data, reporting and analysis, ranks the showdown in Maine as a toss-up. The midterm ballot box battle is one of roughly a dozen Senate contests that will determine if the Democrats win back the chamber or if Republicans hold onto their slim majority.

Meanwhile, a Pine Tree Poll conducted over the past seven days by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center indicates Jackson with a slight three-point edge over Collins among likely general election voters in Maine.

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Jackson, a former Maine Senate president, is on a glide path to replace Platner at Saturday's Maine Democratic Party nominating convention in Bangor, after winning the vast majority of the 500 voting delegates chosen this past weekend by Democrats in the state's 16 counties. And most of Jackson's top rivals for the nomination backed him after dropping out of the race on Sunday.

While the delegates on Jackson's slate are not required to support him at the convention in Bangor, Maine, he is now considered all but certain to secure the nomination.

A fifth-generation logger and a one-time conservative Republican who became a Democrat over two decades ago, Jackson came in third place last month in Maine's Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Platner dropped out earlier this month, amid calls from top Democrats in Maine and across the country to immediately exit the race following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated. Platner denied the report but stepped aside.

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Jackson, who had campaigned alongside Platner during the primary, quickly made the case that he was the best equipped candidate to grab the mantle of the progressive and populist movement that had backed Platner.

Along with Platner, Jackson had the support of progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont as he ran for governor, and he is currently backed by Our Revolution, the group born in 2016 out of Sanders' first presidential campaign.

Jackson, similar to Platner, is running on a platform aimed at working-class voters. He backs raising taxes on billionaires, the universal healthcare system known as "Medicare-for-all," abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he opposes military aid to Israel at a time that Democrats are increasingly divided on support for America's longtime Middle East ally.

Collins, as she runs for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, is facing a rough political climate for Republicans, amid GOP President Donald Trump's underwater approval ratings, persistent inflation and what polls indicate is an unpopular war with Iran.

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The senator, known as a moderate Republican who at times has voted against Trump, last month received bipartisan praise after reaching a milestone by casting her 10,000th consecutive Senate vote.

But Democrats are taking aim at Collins over her comments that she didn't regret her 2018 vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, despite his crucial vote four years later to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.

And following the fatal shooting in Maine earlier this month involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Democrats heavily criticized the Senate Appropriations Committee chair for her support for ICE funding.

But Collins has a history of defeating the Democrats' efforts to oust her from the Senate.

Six years ago, she trailed Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, the then-Maine House speaker, but the senator ended up winning re-election by nearly 9 points.

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Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the U.S. Senate. That means Democrats would need a net gain of four seats in the midterms to retake the majority, which they lost in the 2024 elections.

The Senate race in Maine, along with battles for Republican-controlled Senate seats in Alaska, Iowa and Ohio, are ranked as toss-ups in the Fox News Power Rankings.

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Democrats are targeting "politically homeless" young people by offering them a sense of belonging, conservative activist CJ Pearson warned, arguing that the left is aggressively steering Gen Z toward socialism and DEI.

"When I look at why young people are at least flirting with socialism right now, I think it's because they're politically homeless. I think they're looking for a place where they feel heard, where they feel seen," said Pearson.

Pearson’s warning comes as he launches Next250, a political action committee aimed at organizing young conservatives, registering voters in swing states and countering support for socialism and DEI among Gen Z. The PAC also plans to spend $1 million on digital ads targeting young and minority voters in Georgia.

Pearson said Democrats have been more aggressive than conservatives in reaching young voters who feel politically alienated or uncertain about where they belong.

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"The left is vigilant," he said. "Every single day, they are trying to indoctrinate America’s young people. Every single day, they’re trying to pollute their minds with untruths and just downright delusion."

Pearson pointed to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has embraced the democratic socialist label and supported government-run grocery stores, rent freezes and universal child care.

The movement also gained ground when three congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani — Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier — won their Democratic primaries.

"What I am saying to my generation who are looking at folks like Mamdani as potential solutions to a problem," said Pearson.

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Pearson said he sees a similar dynamic at play in the debate over diversity, equity and inclusion, arguing the policies have fostered what he called the "soft bigotry of low expectations."

"The left loves to put young Black men like me in boxes. I'm a young Black man who grew up in the Deep South to a mother who chose life, who was raised by his grandparents," said Pearson.

Despite what he described as the left’s assumptions about his background, Pearson said the values he learned growing up — including faith, patriotism and a strong work ethic — made conservatism a natural fit.

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Since taking office, the Trump administration has sought to roll back DEI initiatives throughout the federal government, arguing the programs promote discrimination and merit should guide hiring and admissions decisions.

Pearson said he is building on his success organizing events for young conservatives to launch Next250, a political action committee aimed at countering support for socialism and DEI on college campuses.

His PAC will go head-to-head with the ideology embraced by younger students by rallying conservatives in deep blue areas and swing states for voter registration.

He sees partnering with fraternities and sororities as a way to build a force capable of pushing back against socialism and DEI.

"We're going to take this MAGA party on the road. We're going go to swing states like Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa. And we're going to throw these events and we're going to welcome young people around to them and we are going to have voter registration. We are going get them to the polls," said Pearson.

He added that the left's embrace of socialism and DEI candidates has already backfired for them.

The left wants to "accuse us being a Nazi. Well, that man had a Nazi tattoo on his chest and Democrats had no problem with it," said Pearson referencing former Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner who withdrew his candidacy after a bombshell rape allegation.

Pearson also plans to deploy $1 million for digital ads that target both young and minority voters in his home state of Georgia.

"America has been on a generational run, a 250-year run that was marketed by innovation, opportunity, and truly the hallmark and the pillars of the American dream. But if the left gets their way, there will not be another 250 years," said Pearson.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon doubled down on the DOJ's demand for New Jersey's voter registration data Wednesday after Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill's public revelation that around 6,600 noncitizens were added to the rolls through the motor-voter process.

Dhillon’s letter to Sherrill came as a slew of lawmakers called for audits and bipartisan cooperation to address the findings, while the Justice Department noted it remains in litigation against Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell seeking New Jersey’s electronic voter database.

"Ensuring that U.S. citizens' votes are not illegally diluted by noncitizens' votes is of paramount importance," Dhillon wrote.

"We therefore write to formally request additional information to assess New Jersey's compliance with various federal statutes, as provided in our July 7, 2026, letter to the Lieutenant Governor. As we stated in that letter, we stand ready to help New Jersey election officials comply with the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, as outlined in our memorandum titled, Federal Law Requirements for State and Local Election Officials."

DEMOCRAT NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR SAYS THOUSANDS OF NONCITIZENS DISCOVERED ON VOTER ROLLS, PURGED

Dhillon noted that about 400 of the roughly 6,600 noncitizens New Jersey said were mistakenly registered to vote and cast ballots.

She gave Sherrill five days to provide the names, personal information, registration dates and precincts of the 6,600, as well as the methods and times by which the 400 who voted cast their ballots, while treating the letter as a legal preservation-of-records request typical in litigation.

With the DOJ already engaged in litigation against Caldwell and the state, Dhillon said she would notify the judge in that case of the new development as the department continues to seek statewide voter registration lists from states including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

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When reached for comment, the DOJ provided a separate letter Deputy Attorney General Jesus Osete sent to Caldwell and New Jersey Division of Elections Director Donna Barber on Wednesday, again requesting electronic voter registration data.

Osete said the DOJ has grounding to "ascertain New Jersey's compliance with the list maintenance requirements" of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

He added that the New Jersey Division of Elections must also verify that no additional noncitizens are registered on the state's voter rolls.

The letter was filed as an exhibit in the Justice Department's ongoing lawsuit against New Jersey seeking access to the state's electronic voter registration database.

Meanwhile, the French technology contractor that works with the State Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) said late Wednesday that responsibility lies not with the MVC but with the Department of State, led by Caldwell, and the Division of Elections.

Sherrill spokesman Sean Higgins slammed the DOJ in comments to Fox News Digital on Thursday, saying the Trump administration has a "long history of weaponizing" the agency for political purposes and of attempting to "overturn election results."

"Governor Sherrill has been clear that she will use all the legal tools available to her to protect New Jerseyans' personal information," Higgins said, pointing again to Sherrill's public remarks Wednesday and noting the governor's "disgust" at the vendor and former Gov. Philip Murphy's administration.

IDEMIA said in a statement it has worked with the MVC for four decades to process eligible individuals seeking to register to vote when conducting drivers licensing business.

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"IDEMIA’s role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote," said the company — whose American base is in Reston, Virginia.

"Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."

Meanwhile, the top Republican on the state's Judiciary Committee said she has tried multiple times to press the issue of voter-roll integrity with Democrats — who control all branches of government — since 2019.

"I have been warning... New Jersey needed stronger safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections," state Sen. Kristin Corrado, R-Totowa, said.

"I sent six separate letters raising concerns and calling for action and introduced legislation that would have provided a commonsense safeguard by preventing the MVC from prompting non-citizens to register to vote but my warnings were repeatedly ignored by the Democrats," she said in a statement that included some of the letters sent to the Murphy administration.

"Now we are learning that a catastrophic government failure allowed thousands of non-citizens to be registered to vote, and suddenly everyone is acting surprised," she said.

The DOJ appeared to signal that the New Jersey case strengthens the Trump administration's push for stronger election integrity measures nationwide as multiple states continue to resist requests for information sharing.

Karen Carter was found with stab wounds in the Dordogne village she had lived in for over a decade.

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Pat McAfee didn't cost Ryan Clark his job. Ryan Clark lost his job because he brought nothing to the table for ESPN, beyond an occasional headache because he said something stupid.

ESPN chose to cut ties with a liability, and put more money into an asset. That's not a new or novel concept.

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The deaths of 52 people on the Clipper Endeavor led to the introduction of mandatory pre-flight safety briefings.

One of the charges listed, "PC667.5(C)-ENH-VIOLENT FELONY ALLEGATION" or California Penal Code 667.5, which reveals the suspect may have been charged in a previous felony case.

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As for the victim, Summers was a local artist who managed the Art of Santa Cruz art gallery, which is now closed for the remainder of the week, the New York Post reports.

"Our hearts remain with Rachell's family, friends, and all those affected by this tragic and senseless act of violence," the police department said in a social post.

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Stocked with food that expired years ago and lined with dusty shelves, some New York City bodegas and delis have allegedly been operating as fronts for organized Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card-skimming schemes, using hidden devices to steal information and ultimately taxpayer-funded benefits, according to an expert who is sounding the alarm.

Criminals attach hidden skimming devices to checkout payment terminals to capture EBT card data while using pinhole cameras or keypad overlays to record customers' PINs, according to the FBI. The stolen information is then used to create counterfeit cards and drain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, costing consumers and financial institutions more than $1 billion each year.

"A large percentage of these convenience stores are actually EBT ATMs," Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Government, told Fox News Digital "Their sole purpose is to traffic cards, not sell food."

Speaking after joining the Secret Service on a recent fraud operation in New York City, Talcove continued: "I saw firsthand a can of tuna that expired three years ago. I saw firsthand pancake syrup that was two years expired, sardines that were expired. What struck me is the industry that is built around trafficking these EBT cards, taking away money from individuals and their families that actually need it."

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According to the Secret Service, the agency's New York Field Office conducted a three-day operation across Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens in June that uncovered 35 illegal skimming devices and prevented an estimated $36.5 million in fraud, marking its fourth anti-skimming operation in New York City this year.

Eligible households receive monthly SNAP benefits on an EBT card, which works like a debit card and is used to buy eligible food at authorized retailers, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Talcove said he saw multiple stores on the same block with shelves stocked with expired food, which led him to believe some were operating primarily to facilitate EBT fraud rather than as legitimate grocery sales. During the operation, the Secret Service uncovered skimming devices on checkout payment terminals that can capture EBT card data that criminals can encode onto counterfeit cards for unauthorized purchases or withdrawals.

"The logical question you ask yourself is, 'How can there be enough economic activity to sustain stores that are all selling the same thing and they're very small?'" he said.

Talcove said "that's not why they're there," adding the condition of many stores led him to believe some businesses were operating primarily to facilitate EBT fraud rather than as legitimate grocery stores.

"They're there to not provide nutrition because across the street is a wonderful supermarket with fresh food and fresh fish and produce and shelves that aren't dusty that don't sell food that's expired," he said.

Although the fraud may appear to be carried out by only a small group, Talcove said it runs much deeper than that.

"You start looking at these groups and you very quickly realize they're criminal and they're organized," he said.

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Michael Peck, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service's Criminal Investigative Division, told The City Reporter in June that criminals have packed as much as $1.2 million in stolen cash into dishwashers before shipping it overseas, and that the runners installing skimming devices earn about $150.

The City Reporter, citing the Secret Service, also reported that many of the organized crime groups behind the EBT skimming schemes originate in Eastern Europe and are "living large off the scam, renting $10,000-a-month apartments and Lamborghinis."

However, Talcove said the fraud extends beyond bodegas and delis, arguing many other retailers fit "into this category." He also said the SNAP program does not require itemized purchase records, making suspicious transactions harder to detect.

"I've got firsthand insights into one that was pretending to be a store, but it was actually a laundromat," he said. "I'm looking at one right now on the West Coast that is pretending to be a store that is actually a strip club accepting EBT."

Talcove called the fraud the "perfect scam," citing weak identity verification, outdated card technology, and limited purchase records.

"Number one, you're not going to get caught, number two, the government never runs out of money, and number three, the SNAP program has fundamental flaws in its administration," he said.

But Talcove said the "real victim here" is the families on SNAP who don't receive the food they need, something he said he witnessed firsthand in New York City. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 250,000 retailers nationwide are authorized to accept SNAP benefits.

"The problem there is they have families," he said. "They have children that are hungry and the money that was intended to go to the child is being diverted to something that it was never intended to do."

Emphasizing the impact, Talcove said hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being lost while criminals take advantage of those "who show up every day, that try to do the right thing."

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"They're transnational in nature," he said. "They are taking advantage of our empathy because they understand that you're not gonna stop somebody from getting an EBT or SNAP benefit, because who would want to take food away from the hungry?"

Talcove proposed "a concerted effort" to remove suspicious stores from the SNAP program, upgrading EBT cards to chip technology, strengthening identity verification, and monitoring large purchases to detect potential fraud.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, a New York City Department of Social Services spokesperson said EBT skimming is a "nationwide crisis," saying the city has been working closely with state officials and law enforcement to help "vulnerable" New Yorkers who may be impacted.

Just this month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the state will begin replacing current EBT cards with more secure, chip-enabled cards in early 2027 to help stop fraud.

Following five years of investigations, Talcove praised the Secret Service but argued arrests alone won't solve the problem.

"It is just so part of the ecosystem now," he said.

Talcove said "once you see it, you can't unsee" the "unconscionable" fraud where businesses disguise themselves as normal stores while operating as something else entirely.

"How is it that a laundromat is pretending to be a place where you can buy food?" he said.

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Republican outrage went into overdrive after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that the state had mistakenly registered 6,600 noncitizen voters, prompting calls for an immediate end to automatic voter registration through the New Jersey Motor Vehicle System (MVC).

Sherrill announced on Tuesday that a "serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office." Sherrill said preliminary analysis indicates that 400 individuals voted due to the error.

Republican state Sen. Declan O'Scanlon told Fox News Digital that New Jersey Republicans have been raising concerns about the MVC registration system for years and "each time we were reassured that this ‘could never happen.’"

"It happened, and it’s worse than anyone expected," he said.

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In light of the error, O’Scanlon called for a pause on all voter registrations through the MVC until a thorough investigation is completed for every registration processed through the system. He emphasized that beyond any software glitch, when state Democrats "made it law for noncitizens to obtain driver’s licenses, Republicans warned that this very problem could occur."

"If we know that more than 6,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote over two years, why on earth would we stop the investigation there? This system has been in place for years. We should be reviewing every registration processed through the MVC over the last decade," he told Fox News Digital. "Until that thorough investigation is complete, the MVC should suspend all voter registrations."

In a Tuesday news conference, Sherrill emphasized that the mistake did not occur while she was in office. She criticized her predecessor, former Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, the MVC and the state’s software contractor, IDEMIA, for their alleged role in the scandal.

"It's unacceptable that the vendor released software with such a glaring error. It's unacceptable that the MVC took a year to get this issue fixed, and it's unacceptable that no one in the previous administration brought this to light," said Sherrill.

IDEMIA, however, released a statement pushing back on Sherrill’s assertion that its software is to blame.

The company said that its role is to "transmit information through the motor vehicle system" and that the New Jersey Department of State’s Division of Elections "is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote."

This comes as President Donald Trump and Republicans push for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which proponents say would crack down on noncitizen voting.

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Vice President JD Vance called on New Jersey senators to vote in favor of the SAVE America Act, writing in a tongue-in-cheek post on X, "If only there was a way to stop this type of ‘software error’ that allowed non-citizens to vote in our elections."

"I hope Senators @CoryBooker and @SenatorAndyKim will join us in voting to pass the SAVE America Act to ensure that only eligible American voters can participate in New Jersey elections, and all elections across the United States," wrote Vance.

New Jersey’s junior U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, however, said during an interview with MSNBC that "this is something that needs fixing, but it’s not this widespread systemic problem that Trump has been using and weaponizing to try to push forward a very extreme agenda," according to Breitbart.

Kim said that "this is unacceptable and this needs to be fixed immediately and needs people need to be held accountable," but added, "We also need to make sure that we’re looking at the problems in the right size, that this is not akin to what Donald Trump was talking about."

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Ally Triolo, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, reacted by telling Fox News Digital that "Democrats’ refusal to acknowledge that the thousands of noncitizens found on New Jersey’s voter rolls represent exactly the kind of election integrity failure President Trump highlighted last week proves one thing: their hatred of the President matters more than doing what is right for voters and securing American elections once and for all."

Back in the state capitol in Trenton, New Jersey Assembly Republican Leader John DiMaio called for both a halt to automatic MVC registrations and a "top-to-bottom" audit of the state’s voter rolls. He believes the problem "is much more pervasive than 6,600 noncitizen voters."

"New Jersey Republicans have been sounding the alarm for years that the automatic voter registration process at the MVC was highly problematic," said DiMaio. "Until citizens are 100% assured that not one illegal resident will be mistakenly or intentionally registered to vote, the automatic process should be immediately halted."

He also called on Sherrill to "put politics aside for once and focus on election integrity" by cooperating with the federal government to "get all the non-citizens off the rolls."

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In the state senate, Minority Leader Anthony Bucco told Fox News Digital that many of the issues stem from "the fact that New Jersey has been allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license since 2020."

"Over six years ago, Trenton Democrats chose to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses despite our opposition, and they placed voter registration in the hands of the MVC—an agency with a long history of administrative failures," he explained.

New Jersey Sen. Kristin Corrado, who serves as ranking member of the state Judiciary Committee, said that before the scandal broke out, she had sent six letters to the Murphy administration warning of voter registration issues.

"Democrats wrote this law, Democrats implemented this process, and Democrats failed to fix the obvious problems that followed," she said. "Now we are learning that a catastrophic government failure allowed thousands of non-citizens to be registered to vote, and suddenly everyone is acting surprised."

Republican Assemblyman Greg McGuckin likened the 400 illegal votes to "negating the votes of U.S. citizens."

"The problem is much larger than Democrats are willing to admit," he said.

Fox News Digital reached out to Sherrill, Murphy, Kim, Booker, New Jersey Senate President Nicholas Scutari and General Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin for comment.

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As we enter day three of SEC Media Days, the discussion continues to center around issues that are only tangentially related to what will happen on the field in 2026.

Everyone seems to be so preoccupied with whether the SEC will secede from college football that they forget we have an actual season to play in less than a month and a half.

Fear not, SEC fans. I'm here to talk some actual football with you all, and on today's dockett, I'll be keying in on five freshmen who will have the biggest impact on the field this fall.

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Year in and year out, SEC teams recruit some of the best high school football prospects in the world, and 2026 was no different.

Plenty of blue-chip freshmen will see the field this coming year, but here are five first-year players you really need to keep an eye on.

I realize it may seem like I'm not going out on a limb picking the highest rated cornerback in the class of 2026 to make an impact early, and you're right.

But this isn't supposed to be a vehicle for hot takes, and former five-star Brandon Arrington is the real deal, so it's only natural that he finds himself on this list.

He might be the freakiest athlete on Texas A&M's roster, which is saying a lot considering the stockpile of talent they possess, but Arrington has every tool a DB could ever want.

He's 6-foot-2 with long arms and runs a blistering 10.21 in the 100-meter dash. That's STUPID fast.

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The Aggies may have plenty of veteran leadership on defense, particularly at cornerback with the likes of Dezz Ricks, but Arrington is still good enough to break into the rotation as a true freshman.

If you like watching super athletic defensive backs (and I don't know why you wouldn't), then keep an eye on this young man.

Not many people outside of hardcore recruiting fans knew who Jayden Woods was prior to the 2025 season.

All he did was lead the defensive line in snaps played, tie for the team lead in sacks, and earn Freshman All-SEC honors for his efforts.

I bring up Woods because KJ Ford profiles as a similar type of player from a recruiting perspective, and their trajectories after arriving on campus have paralleled each other quite nicely.

Ford is slightly bigger at 6-foot-4 and 250 pounds and has the ideal body type for an SEC edge rusher.

Reports out of spring camp and summer workouts have indicated that Ford has been a monster both on the field and in the weight room, which is exactly what many were saying about Woods this time last year.

If there was ever a player from Florida's 2026 recruiting class that had Freshman All-SEC written all over him from day one, it's KJ Ford.

The Georgia Bulldogs have become somewhat of a tight end factory since the turn of the decade.

With players like Brock Bowers, Darnell Washington, and now Oscar Delp littering NFL rosters, UGA is slowly becoming TEU, and that trend looks like it will continue with their latest titan of a tight end.

Kaiden Prothro was one of the most sought-after tight ends in the country last recruiting cycle, choosing the Bulldogs over the likes of Alabama, Florida, and Texas.

It's easy to see why, too, as Prothro possesses a monstrous 6-foot-6 frame to go along with great long speed and massive 10-inch hands.

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Translation: he's a jump ball touchdown waiting to happen.

While he lacks the requisite beef to be an inline blocker in the SEC as a freshman, his athleticism and length will make him nearly impossible to keep off the field.

Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo has to be salivating at the idea of using Prothro as a chess piece in his system, and the rest of the SEC likely just developed a migraine thinking about this young man in red and black for the next three or four years.

I heard so many people say Alabama just can't recruit like they used to, but after looking through their 2026 class and seeing mutants like Cederian Morgan, I can't see why anyone would say something like that.

Morgan could have gone anywhere in the country but chose to stay in state and play for the Tide, and Kalen DeBoer has to be thanking his lucky stars every night for that.

If you thought Ryan Williams was a beast as a freshman, Morgan might be even more college-ready at this point in his career from a physical standpoint.

He has the size you look for in a dominant number one receiver (6-foot-4 and 220 pounds), and has verified track speed and a silver medal in the Alabama 6A high jump to go along with it.

Bama will be looking for some firepower to help out one of their inexperienced quarterbacks this fall, and I can't think of a better option than a 6'4" Olympic-level athlete to throw the ball to in a tight spot.

Expect Morgan to see plenty of action early and often this fall, and I believe he will make the most of those opportunities.

If you've been paying attention to me since the start of SEC Media Days, you knew this was coming.

Jared Curtis was all set to go to Georgia before a change of heart found him staying put in Nashville to play for the hometown Vanderbilt Commodores.

Players of Curtis' pedigree don't pick the Vandy baseball cap off the table at the signing ceremony very often, but this could maybe signal a changing of the guard.

Regardless, Curtis has prototypical size for an SEC-ready quarterback at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds and possesses a big arm as well as the creativity to make plays happen when the pocket breaks down.

He's an above average athlete as well, which he may need if things don't go according to plan early in his career at Vanderbilt.

Offensive coordinator Tim Beck was able to mold Diego Pavia into a Heisman finalist, so I will be very intrigued to see what he can do with a five-star ball of clay like Curtis.

There will be growing pains, but by the end of the season, I truly believe Jared Curtis will be one of the hottest freshman in the country.

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Apple is working on a new MacBook Neo with two key upgrades, including an A19 Pro chip and increased RAM, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The updated MacBook Neo is one of 11 new Mac models that Apple plans to release.


With the A19 Pro chip, the second-generation MacBook Neo should have 12GB of RAM, up from an A18 Pro chip with 8GB of RAM in the current model.

The report suggested that the next MacBook Neo will also have new color options. Existing finishes include Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo.

While the report did not indicate when the next MacBook Neo will be released, the first half of next year seems likely. The current MacBook Neo was released in March of this year. In the U.S., the laptop initially started at a breakthrough $599 for the general public, but Apple raised the starting price to $699 last month.

You can still get a MacBook Neo for as low as $599 in the U.S. through Apple's education store, so long as you are a verified college student or meet other eligibility criteria, or if you opt for a certified refurbished model.

Apple previously said the MacBook Neo was in high demand, but it remains to be seen how the $100 price increase might impact sales. Even at $699, it is still the most affordable MacBook, coming in well below the MacBook Air's increased $1,299 starting price. The company's next quarterly earnings report will be released on July 30.
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However, the sun was directly in second baseman Oswald Peraza’s eyes. So Grissom, in a very unconventional move, fired the ball into the dirt halfway between him and second base so Peraza could catch the ball on the bounce and avoid the sun.

Peraza fielded Grissom’s bounce pass easily, turned and fired a strike to first baseman Nolan Schanuel to complete the slick double play.

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The double play was a highlight in a game filled with strong pitching and defense during the team’s win. Angels starting pitcher Walbert Ureña threw six innings of one-run ball, striking out five hitters while giving up six hits. Ureña lowered his ERA to 2.78 with the performance.

The Angels jumped on the Cardinals early, as five of their 10 hits came in the first inning. Designated hitter Jorge Soler got the scoring started with a two-run double, Grissom drove in Soler with a line drive to right field, and right fielder Jo Adell punctuated the five-run first inning with a two-run home run.

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For the Angels, it was their fourth straight win, which is tied for their longest winning streak of the season. The Cardinals are trending in the other direction, as they have lost 10 of their last 14 games.

The Angels (41-61) will look to complete a three-game sweep of the Cardinals (51-49) when they play the final game of the set on Wednesday at 4:07 p.m. ET.

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Ukraine and Moldova have demonstrated strong progress and dedication, and we believe the EU should continue advancing their negotiations without unnecessary delays," Lithuania's EU representation told the Kyiv Independent.

The Ukrainian government's resignation last week has become something of an annual ritual. Each iteration is presented as a fresh start, yet together they point to a far more significant problem — a persistent crisis of governance.

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Senate Republicans are warning that a new policy push from a far-left group gaining momentum in politics would unravel the Constitution, and could leave them without a job.

As a progressive surge threatens to rewrite the core of the Democratic Party, earlier this month the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which scored early victories in primary elections across the U.S. over the last several weeks, unveiled its vision for government.

Among the three main pillars was a call to abolish the Senate in favor of an expanded House of Representatives with multiple parties in a bid to effectively eliminate the age-old two-party system that has dominated American politics and representation for over two centuries.

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"I mean, we are important," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., quipped to Fox News Digital. "[It’s] pretty disgusting. I mean, you know the Senate is here so we can represent all — make sure all the states are represented. So, yeah. I think the Founding Fathers were pretty smart."

While the number of members in the House of Representatives depends on the population of every state, the Senate is the great equalizer where every state, regardless of size or population, receives two senators to represent them in the upper chamber. 

The progressive swell during this midterm cycle, so far, has largely been contained to the House, where DSA-backed candidates toppled longtime Democratic incumbents in New York City and Colorado last month.

But one candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination in the Michigan Senate race, has tenuous links to the DSA from events the organization has sponsored that he’s attended. They've also not formally endorsed him in his battle against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich.

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Still, he has the backing of two of the top DSA-aligned lawmakers in Congress: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y.

The DSA’s program, dubbed Workers Deserve More, was officially launched last week on a call with DSA members and called to eliminate the upper chamber of Congress.

One of the group's top organizers, Michaela Branagan, contended, "Well, why do we have a Senate?"

"A lot of people are going to see that, and they’d be, like, ‘Wait a second. What’s so great about the Senate?’ I mean, I’m not sure about this, but I’m pretty sure the only popular senator is Bernie Sanders — because he ran for president as a Democratic Socialist," Branagan said on the call.

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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital that the DSA ought to test their vision of governance far from where anybody could see it.

"Maybe a little pilot project on an island nation where the entire world experiment is on somebody's shoulders, like, ‘ooh, I didn't get that one right,’" Tillis said. "My God. I'm pretty happy with being the exceptional nation on the planet right now. I'm into course correction, a little tuning there, trimming the sails, but not sinking the boat."

And Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, questioned "where did this group of geniuses come from in America?"

He argued that the midterm election, and the schism within the Democratic Party, was turning the battle into not being about the GOP versus Democrats, but rather "people who hate this country versus people who love this country."

Moreno, who was born in Columbia before moving to Florida with his family as a child, said that he learned there was a "very specific reason the Senate was created" after his mother made him to read the Federalist Papers before obtaining his citizenship.

"I think if somebody goes through that exercise they're going to say, ‘What were these guys thinking? Like, why was the Senate created? Why is it the way it is?’ They’ll understand it," Moreno said. "They also, remember, want to abolish the electoral college."

"Basically, they just want to have a Cuban dictatorship in America," he continued. "It hasn't worked out so well for Cuba."

Drapatyi becomes Ukraine's third commander-in-chief since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

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Embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., is under active criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, Fox News has learned.

A source familiar with the matter told Fox News that the DOJ is investigating the Florida lawmaker, though the specifics of what he is being investigated for are unknown.

Mills, who serves on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees, has separately been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee regarding allegations of campaign finance violations, sexual misconduct, and dating violence.

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Mills faces allegations of domestic abuse from an incident in February 2025 and a separate case of blackmail from July that same year, where he allegedly threatened to release explicit images of a romantic partner.

Mills has denied any wrongdoing and hasn't been charged with any crimes.

The House Ethics Committee released a statement in April stating that its investigation into Mills that began in November 2025 was still ongoing. The panel noted at the time that its inquiry involves "sexual misconduct and/or dating violence."

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The traditionally secretive panel did not specify a timeline for when it plans to wrap up the probe.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., also filed a motion to expel Mills in April. The resolution accused Mills of misrepresenting his military service, sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations and illicit involvement in federal contracts as a member of Congress, among other charges.

Mills was first elected in 2022 and was re-elected in 2024. He is seeking a third House term this November.

Fox News Digital’s Adam Pack and Leo Briceno contributed to this report.

Apple is preparing to refresh every Mac it sells over the next two years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.


The plans come amid a Mac resurgence, with sales projected to climb for a third consecutive year, partly thanks to a growing following among users who lean on the machines for demanding, agent-based AI workloads.

The wave of new Macs will begin this fall with a refreshed entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and the first new iMacs in two years. Here's everything coming, according to the report:

• Refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro (entry-level) (Fall 2026): Among the first Macs with the new M6 chip; codename J804.


• Mac mini (timing dependent on memory supply): New model in testing with M5 Pro and M6 chips.


• Mac Studio (timing dependent on memory supply): New model in testing with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips.


• Refreshed iMac (Fall 2026): First new iMacs in two years; codenames J833 and J834.


• High-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook (End of 2026 to Early 2027): All-new design with an OLED touch screen; M5 Pro and M5 Max chip options; codenames K114 and K116.


• Refreshed MacBook Air (Early 2027): 13-inch and 15-inch models similar to the current machines; codenames J913 and J915.


• 14-inch MacBook Pro (entry-level) (2027): 14-inch model resembling the high-end K114 and K116 design but with a standard M7 chip; codename K104.


• Refreshed MacBook Neo (timing unclear): New budget laptop using an A19 Pro chip and more memory; part of a periodic refresh cycle with new colors.


• Follow-up high-end MacBook (End of 2027 to Early 2028): Successor to K114 and K116, moving to M7 Pro and M7 Max chips.


• OLED MacBook Air (2028 earliest): A future version of the MacBook Air with an ‌OLED‌ panel, implicitly with a redesign.


• OLED iMac (timing unclear): New iMac model with an ‌OLED‌ screen, matching the technology coming to MacBook and ‌MacBook Air‌.

Development of the refreshed iMacs and the entry-level ‌MacBook Pro‌ is reportedly complete, though the machines aren't expected to ship until the fall. The high-end MacBook with the ‌OLED‌ touchscreen remains the most notable model on the roadmap, and Apple is said to be testing it internally with macOS 27.1, which is scheduled for release at the end of October.

The Mac mini and Mac Studio have become popular among users running AI applications thanks to their processing power, but demand has been outstripping supply and new orders for some current models reportedly won't ship for at least three months. Apple CEO Tim Cook said in April that it could take "several months" for those machines to reach a supply-demand balance. As a result, the timing of successors to those machines is currently unclear.
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Another added, "People just have no idea! Think of it as a human stranger moving in on your personal space for a selfie and you don’t know them at all!"

A third added, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 🙄"

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He argued the project grew in price only because it was redesigned to be "approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal," which he said, "would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations."

Trump said the original proposal carried a $200 million price tag, while the expanded project "will be something less than 400 Million Dollars."

"It will be magnificent, safe, and secure!" Trump wrote, adding that the ballroom is "coming in ahead of schedule, and under budget!"

Russia says it struck Ukrainian ports and ships

Ben Thompson today, writing about the OpenAI security incident and more:

The fact that models do what humans say is cold comfort if the models are in the hands of bad actors. That, though, simply emphasizes the point that the best defense against powerful models is equipping defenders with powerful models of their own.

There may need to be multiple tiers of model access. ChatGPT and Claude should be well-aligned with many guardrails to prevent casual, mainstream users from getting led astray. But powerful models need to exist too, for researchers and security experts.

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Thousands of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters are continuing to protest in the capital, Delhi, despite heavy rains overnight.

The comment comes a day after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Drapatyi's appointment as he faced pressure from mass protests in Kyiv and across the country to dismiss former Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

Daniel Siad, whose name appears in the Epstein files thousands of times, denied knowledge of the threat Jeffrey Epstein posed.

Gold prices extended gains, supported by a softer U.S. dollar and technical buying as investors closely watched developments in the Middle East.

Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight.

SpaceX plans Texas data center expansion, The Information reports

Five House Democrats broke away from their party leaders on Tuesday night to vote with Republicans on a measure cracking down on transgender participation in school sports.

The House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, an annual bill setting military and national security policy each fiscal year.

Among those that prevailed was an amendment led by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to block students born male from participating on girls' athletic teams at schools run by the Department of War (DOW).

HOUSE NARROWLY BACKS ALLOWING TROOPS, PENTAGON WORKERS TO CARRY PERSONAL GUNS ON MILITARY BASES

The vast majority of Democrats — 203 of them — voted to allow transgender participation, save for Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Shomari Figures, D-Ala., Don Davis, D-N.C., Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Terri Sewell, D-Ala.

The amendment was adopted in an overall 221 to 203 vote, with all Republicans voting in favor.

DOW-run schools serve the dependents of active duty military personnel and civilian department employees throughout the world and parts of the United States.

All four senior leaders in the House Democratic Caucus, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., voted against the amendment.

Tuesday night's vote shows how the issue of transgender participation in school sports — and topics surrounding transgender youth overall — is still fueling division within the Democratic Party.

"Men are not women. Men will never become women. Yet male athletes are stealing medals, invading locker rooms and putting girls in the hospital, all in the name of gender ideology. Our NDAA amendment would end this nonsense," Mace said of her amendment on Tuesday.

'WOKE' MILITARY ACADEMIES TARGETED IN NEW BLUEPRINT FOR SWEEPING WARFIGHTING OVERHAUL

"It would ban biological males from competing against biological women in Department of Defense Education Activity schools. Our warfighters' daughters deserve better than this."

Although it passed the House, the amendment and the NDAA overall are far from becoming law. Both chambers of Congress must pass identical versions of the sweeping bill before it gets to President Donald Trump's desk.

The agreement would fulfil a long-held Saudi ambition but could attract concern in Israel and from some US lawmakers.

Spain, France battle wildfires as intense heat grips southern Europe

Oil prices slightly trimmed earlier gains as investors closely watched developments in the Middle East amid escalating attacks between the U.S. and Iran and threats to Red Sea shipping by the Houthi rebels.

US quarantined citizens at New York military base after return from Congo, sources say

While most of Samsung’s July 2026 Unpacked event focused on new phones, the company took some time to share details about its upcoming smartglasses designed in partnership with Google and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. Samsung’s “intelligent eyewear” will come to the U.S. and South Korea this fall, though the company hasn’t shared […]

Instead of looking for a single "anti-inflammatory" food, people should focus on an overall healthy eating pattern, McIntyre said.

"The exciting part of nutrition research is seeing how foods may support health in new ways, but one small study shouldn't outweigh decades of evidence," she said.

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"For most people, the biggest payoff still comes from consistently eating a colorful, varied diet rather than chasing the latest nutrition headline."

Researchers said they hope to build on the findings with larger studies to better understand how food-based interventions could help manage chronic inflammation.

All of the ships were travelling to or from Saudi ports before changing course, ship-tracking data shows.

It's a big year for the young prince, who will start secondary school at the elite Eton College in September.

A convicted heroin trafficker's appeal could upend one of the federal government's most-used gun laws after a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider its constitutional foundation, weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas urged lower courts to take a fresh look at whether Congress had the authority to enact it.

The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire, a case that could determine whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it enacted the federal law making it a crime for convicted felons to possess firearms.

The case stems from an appeal by convicted felon Curtis Squire, who was charged after police found a handgun in his New Orleans home while executing a search warrant. While his appeal began as a Second Amendment challenge, the case has evolved into a broader question: whether Congress had the constitutional authority under the Commerce Clause to criminalize firearm possession by convicted felons at all.

SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY LIMITS USE OF GUN LAW USED TO PROSECUTE HUNTER BIDEN

The appeals court's decision marks a significant shift in the case and the first major appellate response to Thomas' recent concurrence in United States v. Hemani, in which he urged courts to reconsider the constitutional foundation of federal law.

For decades, courts have upheld the law because Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce, even if the only connection is that the gun crossed state lines before the defendant possessed it.

But Thomas argued that goes too far, writing in Hemani that the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress only "to regulate the buying and selling of goods and services trafficked across state lines," not "activities wholly separated from business, such as gun possession."

MAJOR APPEALS COURT DECLARES NEW JERSEY AR-15 BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN LANDMARK SECOND AMENDMENT RULING

He also rejected the long-standing theory that Congress may regulate firearm possession simply because the firearm once moved in interstate commerce.

"Congress cannot regulate the possession of every thing that ever traveled across state lines," Thomas wrote, warning that such an interpretation risks converting Congress' limited commerce authority into "a general police power of the sort retained by the States."

He concluded that the issue "merits a closer look in an appropriate case."

"The Court, and lower courts, should revisit the constitutionality of §922(g)," Thomas wrote.

The Fifth Circuit's decision to rehear Squire suggests at least some judges agree that question warrants fresh consideration, though the move sharply divided the court.

Judge Stephen Higginson, who dissented, warned the case has evolved from a narrow Second Amendment dispute into a much broader challenge to Congress' power under the Commerce Clause, one that could have far-reaching consequences for federal law.

INSIDE TRUMP'S UNPRECEDENTED BATTLE PLAN TO EXPAND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS THROUGH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

He said striking down Section 922(g) would be "a significant departure from existing, settled, and binding Commerce Clause jurisprudence" and could "mark the start of a new, severely contracted Commerce Clause era."

"Can the federal government no longer criminalize possession of child pornography? Of explosive materials? Of biological weapons?" Higginson asked. "Past the Title 18 level, do we lose regulations on financial transactions? On intellectual property? On endangered species?"

"All told, this case hazards untold consequences for federal law," he concluded.

Eric Wessan echoed Higginson, saying the case now presents fundamental questions that extend beyond the Second Amendment.

"The case began as a Second Amendment as-applied challenge but now has been reframed to raise core questions about federal power," Wessan told Fox News Digital. "A ruling could significantly reshape Second Amendment jurisprudence, longstanding Commerce Clause precedent, and the scope of federal criminal law."

"If the Fifth Circuit finds that the law exceeds Congress's authority, it could potentially affect millions of Americans, interstate regulation, and the balance between federal authority and constitutional limits," Wessan said.

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Squire was indicted after police found a handgun inside his New Orleans home while executing a search warrant during a shooting investigation. Although the firearm was never tied to the shooting and related state charges were dropped, federal prosecutors charged him under the statute because of his extensive criminal history, which included convictions for drug trafficking, firearm offenses, burglary, obstruction of justice, and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

Before pleading guilty, Squire argued the statute violated the Second Amendment as applied to him under the Supreme Court's decisions in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and United States v. Rahimi. He contended historical tradition protected his right to possess a firearm inside his home.

A three-judge Fifth Circuit panel rejected that argument in June, before Thomas' concurrence in Hemani, holding that Congress may constitutionally prohibit individuals convicted of dangerous crimes, including drug trafficking, from possessing firearms in their homes. The panel emphasized that its ruling was narrow and did not decide whether people convicted of non-dangerous offenses could be permanently disarmed.

The president’s threat is the latest indication that he is planning to escalate the conflict.

Netflix Canada has revealed the full list of movies and shows coming to its platform in August 2026. Highlights include The Whisper Man starring Adam Scott and Robert De Niro, The Outer Banks (Season 5) and The Last House with Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. Coming soon Mousetrap (KR) — Netflix Series Netflix Minigolf — Netflix Game August 1 Blackwater […]

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Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi took over as Ukraine's commander-in-chief on July 21 after President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Oleksandr Syrskyi, elevating one of the military's

The British company agreed to a secondary share sale that boosted its valuation by around 50%.

The late Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said to me once that "we don’t do a lot in Congress. But when we do it, we do it all at once."

That is kind of where we find the House of Representatives today.

Today is the penultimate day in the House before the August recess. In fact, the House may not be here much at all until after the election.

So that’s why the House is trying to cram EVERYTHING into today.

HOUSE GOP VOTES TO PUNT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BATTLE TO AFTER NOVEMBER MIDTERMS

Let’s start with what the House approved late last night. It approved a stopgap spending bill, renewing all funding at current levels to avoid a fall shutdown in October. The bill would run through Dec. 4.

Fiscal conservatives liked the bill because it "kind of" saves money by simply renewing the current spending. By nature, these temporary bills do just that. They don’t add in new spending. So – in a way – that kind of holds the fiscal bottom line.

But looming over everything is the touchstone of the GOP’s agenda. That’s the SAVE America Act. The House today plans to advance a budget framework and prospectively include the SAVE America Act later on. The Senate must also adopt the same framework so it can use the special budget reconciliation process – which is immune from filibusters. But the House and Senate can’t get to the meat and potatoes of the bill without adopting the framework. That’s why today is so important.

What’s in "Reconciliation 3.0?" House Republicans will likely dump the SAVE America Act into the actual bill. They will also load up the bill with tens of billions to cover the war in Iran and restock the Pentagon with munitions. Money for agriculture programs will be in there, too.

SENATE PLOTS PERMANENT END TO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS WITH BIPARTISAN PUSH

But here’s the rub. House and Senate Republicans aren’t on the same page. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., says his body will likely consider the House-approved government funding plan. But that needs 60 votes and is subject to a filibuster. Most Democrats will reject the House’s interim spending plan since they weren’t involved in drafting it.

But that’s where Reconciliation 3.0 comes in.

"We will hold that, subject to obviously, being able to move a continuing resolution to fund the government. It's a possibility, that if necessary, we could pull that budget resolution passed by the House and use it to fund government," said Thune when pressed by yours truly yesterday.

In other words, the Senate won’t take up the House’s Reconciliation 3.0 plan any time soon. Many Senate Republicans have been cool to another reconciliation plan from the get-go. But Thune knows Senate Democrats will balk at the House’s stopgap spending bill. So he may use the reconciliation package to bypass Democrats and fund the government this fall.

Remember that reconciliation is NOT subject to a filibuster. Thus, 60 votes are unnecessary.

TRUMP INTERVENES AS HOUSE GOP REVOLT PUTS SAVE AMERICA ACT AT CENTER OF SPENDING SHOWDOWN

However, this is something of a negotiating tactic by Thune. He knows Democrats don’t want Republicans to pass their own spending plan via budget reconciliation. He also believes it’s a bad precedent to resort to reconciliation to pass appropriations bills to keep the government open. So, he will hold the ball for now.

This means that money to plus-up depleted programs and pay for the war in Iran is stalled for months. Maybe until at least December. That could be a problem at the Pentagon if the conflict drifts on.

Finally, the House plans to vote on a separate bill today to ban its members from trading stocks. Congress passed – and President Obama signed into law – the STOCK Act 14 years ago. That law prohibits lawmakers and aides from using "inside information" collected on the job to play the market.

However, today’s bill goes a step further. It outright prohibits House members from trading stocks.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., opposes this version of the bill. That’s because he wants a stock ban to apply across all of government. But that’s not what the House is poised to tackle today.

So this is an especially ambitious day in the House. Money for the Iran war and SAVE America Act swing in the balance.

And if you’re wanting to understand what Congress may face this fall, today’s action will give you a clue.

The vendor that Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed for a "software error" leading to illegal voting in the Garden State denies wrongdoing and is instead pointing its finger back at the state.

IDEMIA is a French multinational company that provides identity-related security services. Sherrill appeared to divert any government blame for 6,600 noncitizens being added to the voter roll onto the software company used by the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

The company said, ultimately, that the voter registration buck stops with the state.

"The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote," IDEMIA said. "Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections."

NEW JERSEY REMOVES 6,600 PEOPLE FROM VOTER ROLLS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE TO CAST A BALLOT FOR 2024 ELECTION

IDEMIA said that for more than 40 years the software company has worked with the New Jersey DMV Commission to "support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver's license or state-issued identification card."

"IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system," it added in a statement.

But the actual process for getting on the voter rolls in New Jersey is up to the state, IDEMIA insists.

The state and the company will no longer be working together after the scandal. 

Sherrill announced Tuesday that a "serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office."

NONCITIZEN EX-KANSAS MAYOR PLEADS GUILTY TO ILLEGALLY VOTING MULTIPLE TIMES

Sherrill also said that about 400 noncitizens registered to vote in this manner actually cast ballots.

The news caused a major firestorm, as Democrats for years have insisted that it is impossible for noncitizens to vote, and have sharply rebuked Republicans pushing for stricter voter ID laws and for suggesting that election security is a cause for concern.

"These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," according to Sherrill.

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She stressed three times in the same statement that while the "error" occurred under the previous administration, headed by Democrat Phil Murphy, she ordered her administration's attorney to look into the matter and remove the illegally-registered voters from the rolls.

"Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted," she said. "They were registered as Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state."

"I am appalled by the reckless failures that allowed this to happen and the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time," she said, emphasizing for the third time that the improper voting didn't happen on her watch.

Sherrill and the Democratic Party were torn to shreds by state and federal officials alike, along with conservative pundits, in the wake of the news.

"This is another example of Democrats failing to secure elections. If Democrats would embrace voter ID – which has broad public support – the MVC’s voter registration failures would have been corrected at the ballot box," said NJ Assembly Minority Leader John DiMaio, R-Hackettstown. "New Jersey needs voter ID, because citizens deserve confidence in election results and Trenton Democrats have proven they do not respond to known problems in the voter rolls."

The Trump administration weighed in, too.

"Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly said it is impossible for noncitizens to register to vote, let alone cast a ballot. Time and again, they have been proven wrong. As President Trump has said, there is nothing more important than the integrity of our elections," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. "And this latest incident underscores the absolute necessity of the SAVE America Act. American voters deserve to have confidence that our elections are safe and secure."

"In the same speech where she admits over 6,000 non-citizens were registered to vote, Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill says that President Trump's address on election integrity is a 'bizarre conspiracy theory about fraud,'" the Republican National Committee said on X.

Reached for comment, Sherrill's office told Fox News Digital: "We will let Governor Sherrill's remarks yesterday and her disgust at the failure of the outgoing vendor and previous administration speak for itself."

Fox News' Charles Creitz and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

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The American soldier believed to have been killed in Jordan during an Iranian attack is being remembered as living a "life of courage and selflessness." 

The Department of War announced that Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, is one of the three soldiers believed to have been "killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an enemy attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base" in Jordan. U.S. Central Command said over the weekend that the service members died as CENTCOM and partner forces "defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks." 

"Sgt. Rampersad lived a life of courage and selflessness. New York, and our nation, are safer because of brave Americans like her who answer the call to serve," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement. "May we honor her memory, remember her sacrifice and keep all who loved her in our prayers." 

"My heart is with her family, loved ones and the soldiers who stood beside her as they grieve this unimaginable loss," Hochul added. 

ARMY IDENTIFIES VICTIMS KILLED IN JORDAN AIR BASE ATTACK 

The Department of War said the incident leading to Rampersad’s death is under investigation and that she was previously identified as missing. The other two soldiers believed to have been killed in the attack were identified as 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas. They were in Jordan supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the international campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. 

"Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!" Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. "This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military." 

PENTAGON IDENTIFIES ARMY SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION DURING IRAQ OPERATION 

Rampersad was assigned to 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, Ansbach, Germany, and served as a 25U Signal Operations Support Specialist, according to the Department of War. 

"Today, we mourn the loss of Sgt. Angel Rampersad," Brig. Gen. Glenn Henke, commanding general of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said in a statement. "We extend our deepest, most heartfelt condolences to her family and all those who are navigating this unimaginable loss. The 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command is grieving, and we will continue to support one another as we process this tragedy." 

The Department of War said Rampersad enlisted in the Army in March 2019 and earned awards including the "Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the Army Service Ribbon." 

Fox News Digital’s Eric Mack contributed to this report. 

Trying to find the humor in people lecturing me about X, as if I don’t know after joining Twitter 20 years ago and working directly with all the major Twitter client app developers whose products were destroyed… But in fairness, my about page also glossed over this. I’ve added an extra sentence to it that helps:

But there were frustrations with Twitter too, a period that is documented at length in my book Indie Microblogging. I quit Twitter in 2012 as a statement of principle against closed, developer-hostile platforms.

FIRST ON FOX: The powerful House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed three left-wing nonprofits in an investigation into more than $39 million that flowed from Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham to the groups, Fox News Digital has learned.

In three letters dated July 21 and obtained by Fox News Digital, the committee accused the three nonprofits of failing to turn over a "single responsive document" to earlier requests for information.

The committee, led by Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., issued the subpoenas to the People’s Forum Inc., a New York-based activist hub; BreakThrough News, a left-wing nonprofit media outlet; and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, which says its work is anchored in "national liberation Marxism."

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The legislative action emerges as far-left nonprofits face growing scrutiny from law enforcement agencies, policymakers and federal agencies for their alleged roles in promoting communist propaganda, engaging in money laundering schemes and fomenting discord and even political violence. Last week, Secretary of State Rubio convened a summit of 65 nations to counter "far-left terrorism.

On Monday, the State Department released a 100-page report on a network of U.S. organizations that allegedly promote propaganda for the communist regime in Cuba.

The panel said it is investigating whether existing laws governing tax-exempt organizations adequately protect against foreign influence — and whether Congress needs to change those laws. The letters cite a five-part Fox News Digital investigation published in March that exposed the flow of $285 million from Singham into a sprawling international network of nonprofits, activist groups and media operations.

"Your responses have failed to include a single responsive document and misrepresented both the scope and purpose of the Committee’s oversight," the nearly identical letters state. "Accordingly, the Committee is invoking compulsory process to obtain the requested materials."

Singham network

The panel alleges that Singham channeled money through shell companies and donor-advised funds before reaching the three tax-exempt groups. Such arrangements, the committee said, can allow foreign-linked funding to pass through intermediaries that "by design, obscure the original source of the contribution."

Singham is an American-born technology tycoon and longtime Marxist activist who sold his software company, ThoughtWorks, for an estimated $785 million in 2017 and now lives in Shanghai. He has since poured hundreds of millions of dollars into organizations advancing socialist and communist causes in the United States and around the world, according to Fox News Digital’s investigation.

The Fox News Digital investigation found Singham pumped $22.44 million to People’s Forum, $16.76 million to Tricontinental and $1.098 million to Breakthrough BT Media Inc., a parent of its media arm. The committee cited Fox News Digital reporting.

In a hearing earlier this year on malign foreign influence on U.S. nonprofits, Smith said Singham maintains business ties with people and companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party and works alongside a Chinese propaganda company.

The committee first sought records from the People’s Forum in September 2025 and from BreakThrough News and Tricontinental in February.

After attorneys for the organizations refused to comply, the panel issued narrower requests on May 4.

The committee asked for records about foreign-linked funding and projects whose finances the groups managed. It also sought contracts tied to foreign people or organizations, communications with Singham about the groups’ finances or operations, contacts with other foreign interests, foreign donors who gave more than $5,000 and grants sent overseas.

Attorneys for the organizations argued that the committee lacked a sufficiently clear legislative purpose, improperly invoked the Foreign Agents Registration Act and infringed on First Amendment rights, according to the committee’s account of their objections. BreakThrough News also invoked freedom-of-the-press protections.

WATCH: In rare footage, Neville Roy Singham critiques 'fascism' of the West while supporting CCP and Xi Jinping

INTEL EXPERT SAYS SINGHAM NETWORK IS MORE THAN A NONPROFIT SCANDAL—IT'S A SECURITY THREAT

The attorneys later argued that the committee had "changed materially" the purpose of its investigation without adjusting its demands, leaving the organizations unable to determine whether the requested records were relevant.

Attorneys for the People’s Forum also compared the investigation to a "witch hunt" by the House Un-American Activities Committee of the 1950s and questioned whether the Ways and Means Committee had jurisdiction to investigate potential issues involving the Foreign Agents Registration Act, according to the panel’s letter.

The committee rejected those arguments, maintaining that it is investigating the organizations’ finances and structures — not their political views or reporting — and whether tax-exempt laws allow foreign-linked money to move through intermediaries without public disclosure.

"The Committee’s inquiry here is directed at financial arrangements and organizational structure, specifically whether existing tax-exempt law adequately guards against foreign-influenced funding networks of the kind documented in public reporting about Mr. Singham’s activities," the letter to the People’s Forum states.

The panel said the organizations’ failure to produce "a single responsive document" left it with no choice but to compel their compliance. The subpoenas require the groups to turn over the requested materials by Aug. 7.

Smith told Fox News Digital that the subpoenas would help expose whether America’s tax laws and charitable sector "have been exploited to advance the CCP’s influence operations inside the United States."

"The American people deserve to know whether the CCP has exploited America’s tax-exempt sector to advance its agenda," Smith said. "The Ways and Means Committee is acting on two fronts: exposing the networks that exploit our tax laws and advancing legislation to close those loopholes for good."

Singham network faces broader federal scrutiny

The subpoenas represent the latest government scrutiny of Singham’s financial network.

On June 29, Fox News Digital reported that a federal grand jury in Manhattan was investigating alleged financial crimes involving Singham and organizations he funded. The investigation, launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, is examining possible wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, according to sources familiar with the matter.

No charges have been announced.

Fox News Digital’s five-part investigation documented $278 million flowing from Singham through a Goldman Sachs donor-advised fund and two now-defunct shell companies to six core U.S. nonprofits, including the three organizations now facing congressional subpoenas.

The investigation mapped 223 transactions totaling $591 million as money moved through successive layers of a network spanning 67 core organizations across five continents. Those organizations partnered with hundreds of additional groups, producing a wider network estimated to encompass roughly 2,000 nonprofits, activist groups, think tanks and media organizations worldwide.

Organizations within the wider network have appeared across a range of activist campaigns, including anti-Israel demonstrations, pro-Cuba actions, opposition to immigration enforcement and protests targeting artificial intelligence and data center development.

WATCH: People's Forum leaders walk away when questioned about funding protests

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can't be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it is an extended object.

So if a photon is only partway through the process of reflecting from a perfect mirror and you yank the mirror away, what happens? The answer, from a trio of Norwegian physicists, turns out (arxiv.org link) to be more complex than I expected.

A photon divided?

Let’s first talk briefly about dividing and combining photons. If this were a common experience in our lives, then shining a single color of light through a piece of glass or reflecting it from a surface might cause photons to divide or combine. This would lead to an amazing array of colors: Our universe would be the most fantastic and legal LSD trip you could imagine. But this doesn't generally happen, hence LSD.

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Viral bodycam video shows transgender University of Central Florida student Jarrett Vick being pepper-sprayed, tased and arrested after a confrontation with campus police escalated when the student accused an officer of misgendering.

The Feb. 5, 2025, footage shows the blue-haired student shouting at an officer inside a campus building after police reportedly responded to a disturbance. A UCF Police Department spokesperson said officers had responded to reports that a student was involved in a verbal altercation with several juveniles and became combative with officers when they arrived, according to Storyful.

"What’s the problem?" the officer asks at the start of the video.

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"Why do you let those kids get away with this? They are not supposed to be here," the student responds, according to the footage.

The officer then warns the student to calm down or face being placed in handcuffs and taken to a Baker Act facility, which is reserved for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. "F--ing try it!" the student yells back.

The officer can later be heard calling for another unit. "Can we get another unit… he is having a breakdown."

The student immediately objected to the officer’s pronoun use. "She! She! Just say the right pronoun!" the student screamed.

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The pronoun dispute continued even as officers tried to put the student in handcuffs. At one point, an officer warned, "I’m gonna spray him," referring to his pepper-spray, before the student became enraged. "Don't say him!" the student yelled at the officers.

"OK, her. I'm going to spray her," the officer said as he scuffled with the student with handcuffs in hand.

"Thank you," the student said while allegedly continuing to resist arrest.

As the officer had his pepper-spray deployed, and was calling for Vick to calm down, the student began pleading for help from a nearby university administrator.

"Stop! Josh, please!" the student could be heard yelling in the footage as cops tried to wrestle Vick to the ground.

"Can you please just tell them to use the right pronouns?" the student also requested of the administrator amid the altercation. "Please, you know it’s causing me a lot of distress."

As police tried to take the student into custody, the video showed the student resisting orders to get on the ground.

Vick was eventually tased and handcuffed before being placed in a patrol vehicle. In the aftermath, one officer can be heard saying the out-of-control student threw a closed fist, grabbed an officer’s microphone and kicked an officer during the struggle.

The student was arrested and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer with violence, according to a UCF Police Department spokesperson cited by Storyful. Vick pleaded not guilty to the charges, and Orange County records listed the cases as closed, according to the New York Post.

The UCF spokesperson told Storyful that the student was enrolled at the university in spring 2025 but is not a current student and did not graduate from the school.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran on Wednesday of flying members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into Yemen, saying Tehran’s actions helped ignite a renewed confrontation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

"They decided to send direct flights from Tehran into Yemen, carrying IRGC elements and others into the country," Rubio told reporters. "And the Saudis responded to it."

Rubio did not identify the flights, specify how many IRGC personnel were allegedly transported or provide evidence supporting the allegation.

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He made the remarks while attending an annual gathering of Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers in Manila, Philippines, where the U.S.-Iran conflict and threats to international shipping were among the central security concerns.

The Houthis have declared a blockade targeting Saudi-linked vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, threatening to widen the conflict and disrupt another critical global trade route.

The rebels say they are targeting ships connected to Saudi Arabia or traveling to and from the kingdom’s Red Sea ports in retaliation for Saudi restrictions on Yemen and a recent attack on the airport in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa.

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The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia for the airport attack, which they said was intended to stop a flight carrying Houthi leaders home from Iran. Rubio disputed that account and alleged that Tehran was using direct flights to transport IRGC personnel and others into Yemen.

The Houthis later launched missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport, marking one of the most serious confrontations between the two sides in years.

Rubio said U.S. officials had spoken repeatedly with Saudi officials during the past week about the Houthi threat.

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"Anything that restricts shipping through the Red Sea would be problematic for the same reasons that the Strait of Hormuz is problematic," Rubio said. "So we’re watching that closely."

Saudi Arabia’s military has vowed to keep Bab el-Mandeb open and respond firmly to Houthi threats against commercial vessels using the waterway.

The narrow strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and serves as a major shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal. Around 12% of global trade and roughly one-quarter of worldwide container traffic normally pass through the route.

Its importance has grown as the U.S.-Iran conflict has sharply curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia has increasingly relied on Red Sea export routes to transport oil to international markets.

The Houthi-run SABA news agency claimed six vessels had altered course after receiving warnings from the group, a claim that could not be independently verified.

The Houthis say the blockade is limited to Saudi-linked shipping. During their earlier campaign connected to the war in Gaza, however, the rebels attacked more than 100 vessels, including ships with little or no apparent connection to Israel.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the latest Houthi threat had not materialized.

"So far, it hasn’t happened," Trump told reporters. "I think that if there is something like that, we’ll just have to take care of business."

Rubio’s accusation came as the U.S. military carried out an 11th consecutive night of strikes against targets in Iran. U.S. Central Command said the latest targets included aircraft hangars and drone storage sites.

Speaking to Southeast Asian leaders, Rubio also warned that allowing Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz, collect tolls and attack ships that refused to comply would set a dangerous precedent for international waterways around the world.

"If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll and, if you don’t pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent which will repeat itself in other parts of the world, including in this region," Rubio said.

Rubio said Iran’s support for the Houthis reflects a broader pattern of backing armed groups across the Middle East.

"The Houthis, Hezbollah, the militias in Iraq, Hamas — this is what Iran spends its money on," Rubio said. "It’s not on its people. It’s on supporting terrorist organizations and destabilizing actors in the region."

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Wildlife photographer Matt Addington recently went viral after sharing a video from Alaska that shows a massive brown bear sow casually grazing her way to within inches of his camera equipment.

In the 16-second clip, Addington sits low in the grass as the bear slowly approaches. She stops beside his enormous camera lens, sniffs around and continues eating as if the photographer sitting directly in front of her is barely worth acknowledging.

For the millions of people who watched online, the scene was equal parts incredible and terrifying.

For Addington, though, it was something else entirely.

"Contrary to what the millions and millions of people who have chimed in on this think, it honestly was one of the most surreal and peaceful encounters that I’ve ever had," Addington told OutKick Outdoors.

Despite sitting at the feet of what he called "the ultimate apex predator on the North American continent," he said there was never a moment when he felt afraid.

"There was never a moment of fear or anxiety," Addington said. "This was the complete opposite. It was, again, one of the more peaceful, serene, surreal moments that I’ve ever had."

That doesn’t mean Addington believes all bear encounters should be treated so casually.

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He explained that this particular encounter took place in Katmai, where the bears had abundant food and the sow was contently grazing on sedge grass. Addington was also accompanied by experienced bear-viewing guides Scott and Jackie Stone, and the group took deliberate precautions to avoid startling or interfering with the animals.

The bears initially stood roughly 100 to 150 yards away before slowly grazing closer. The group positioned itself upwind so the bears could smell them, spoke normally to announce their presence and allowed the animals to move freely.

"We didn’t go marching or barging in and say, ‘We’re going to get as close as we can to this bear,’" Addington said. "Everything that we do as photographers — and Scott and Jackie would say this 1000 times over — is to stay back enough that you let bears be bears."

In this case, the sow simply decided to keep eating until she was nearly on top of him.

"She happened to want to just keep curiously eating right up to my feet," he said. "Which was, again, insane."

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The internet, of course, had plenty of theories about what it was watching.

Addington said he received thousands of comments in a matter of days accusing him of using AI to fabricate the footage. Given how quickly AI-generated animal videos have flooded social media, he understands the skepticism — even if it is misplaced here.

"I’ve got 45 minutes of 6K footage on two different cameras that will prove otherwise," Addington said. "That would be pretty hefty AI."

And he has no plans to trade the real wilderness for a computer screen anytime soon.

"I feel fortunate that I do get to go out with a real camera and have these real experiences," he said. "I’ll continue to seek those over building something on the computer any time."

An avid outdoorsman based in Minnesota, Addington photographs wildlife across the world, including bears, lions, elephants, elk and white-tailed deer. His work also stretches into hunting, fishing, agriculture, outdoor lifestyle campaigns and portrait photography.

Still, even for someone who has stood near lions, been charged by rhinos and photographed bull moose from below, having a giant brown bear eat grass off the foot of his boot is a tough day at the office to beat.

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FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP bill would create new barriers to birth tourism in the United States after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a blow to President Donald Trump's agenda.

Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., is introducing legislation proposing criminal penalties for people residing outside the U.S. who travel to the country solely for the birth of their children. It would also make it a crime to misrepresent that purpose when entering the country.

Fine told Fox News Digital that the Supreme Court's ruling spurred his new bill.

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"What we need to do to work around this situation is make it extremely unpleasant for people to come to the United States to create an anchor baby," Fine said. "And to anyone who disrespects our nation that much that would come here in order to create a paperwork American, should go to prison and should never be able to come to America ever again."

The bill would not eliminate birthright citizenship. Instead, it would impose prison terms of 10 to 25 years on adults who are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents and who travel to or facilitate travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth.

A federal judge would also be required to issue an order of deportation against those parents which, in theory, would make it significantly harder for that child to stay within the country.

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"You may have a baby and that baby may be able to stay in America, but you won't. And I think what we need to do is make it as unappealing as possible to have a baby illegally in the United States in order to reduce the desire to do it," Fine said.

Fine said birthright citizenship rights created an "existential crisis" for the United States.

"We won't have a country if anyone who wants can show up here anytime and have a baby, which by the way, becomes effectively a ward of the state — because who do you think pays for everything associated with that illegal immigrant baby? You're saddling the American taxpayer with hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars of cost," he said.

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Birthright citizenship is guaranteed under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a right the Supreme Court reaffirmed late last month. Supporters of the decision say birthright citizenship is a core tenet to the American ideal of equality and promoting assimilation into U.S. society.

But opponents have said that the right to be born an American inside the country's borders has been misused and abused both by people entering the U.S. illegally and wealthy foreigners seeking a foothold within the U.S.

A /Ipsos poll taken in June showed 55% of respondents were opposed to ending birthright citizenship, while 41% were in support.

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This week is proving to be one of those moments where I feel like there are too many ugly losses to justify following my picks. I still put my nose to the grind and find the winners, but yesterday I took an under that was obliterated pretty quickly.

Monday, I had a loser on the Minnesota Twins almost instantly. Putting these out publicly can be difficult, but I remind myself that the next win is around the corner and I've been more profitable than in debt for betting. Let's try and get out of this mini slump with a win between the Washington Nationals and Colorado Rockies.

The Nationals are the talk of a lot of trade scenarios at the moment. They are 51-51, which is significantly better than most people expected them to be at this point in the season. There are only two issues — one, you can't really expect them to win the division because all of the teams (save the New York Mets) are good this season; and, two, this team was expecting to be bad this year, so the original plan was to trade pieces away and build for the future.

The team has been really good on the road this season, which is surprising. They are 31-20 away from home. Looking to improve on that mark is Cade Cavalli. For the season, Cavalli has a 6-4 record with a 3.78 ERA, and a 1.31 WHIP. His ERA is a bit lower on the road, but nothing all that remarkably different. He has a decent mixture of outs from strikeouts, flyballs, and ground balls. He has posted quality starts in four of his past five outings, but also has two starts of less than three innings in two of his past six. Only Troy Johnston has hit against Cavalli and he is 0-for-3.

The Rockies are about as bad as expected. Some were predicting them to be the worst team in baseball, and that seems a bit far. The Mets and Angels might compete for that this season. Still, the Rockies have very little to be excited about this year. They are 41-62 for the season, but are at least successful at home with a 24-28 record. They have some interesting trade pieces themselves as Hunter Goodman and Jack McCarthy might be of interest to multiple playoff pushes. This Rockies team needs to build their farm system, so it does make sense to trade some players away.

The bigger issue is that they will always need pitching. The team has never really had a reliable arm in the rotation. Sure, they signed Mike Hampton years ago, but that didn't go great. It does seem like even when they try to make a splash in free agency for hitters, it doesn't work out (read: Kris Bryant). It is far too early to say Gabriel Hughes will be reliable, but today's starter does look good in his first few games for the Rockies. He has allowed just five earned runs over 14.1 innings (two starts and one relief appearance).

I was able to grab a win on the Reds when they faced Hughes the other day and I think we can get another one here. The Rockies aren't a great hitting team, and despite them being better at Coors Field, I don't think they are going to do well against Cavalli. Part of what I like about the Nationals is how Cavalli mixes pitches and can get outs in many different ways. Pitching at Coors is always an issue, but I'll be taking the Nationals to win this one.

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The rumors haven't left much to the imagination, but Samsung has unfurled its 2026 foldable lineup today. There are three models for the first time in Samsung's eight-gen foldable family, including the top-of-the-line Z Fold 8 Ultra. That phone is the successor to last year's Galaxy Z Fold 7, but the Z Fold 8 is new—the company's first wide-body foldable designed for media over multitasking. And then there's a new, thinner flip phone, plus a pair of smartwatches.

You can preorder Samsung's new hardware today, but the component shortage has made these already spendy product lines more expensive this year. Even the Z Flip 8 is now well over a grand, and the Ultra costs almost twice as much.

The Z Fold 8 Ultra has the same basic form factor as the last few Samsung tablet-style foldables. A 6.5-inch OLED on the outside is about the same ratio as a standard smartphone screen. Open it up, and you get an 8-inch display that's roughly twice as wide. That makes the main display close to square.

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Gill broadened his criticism beyond self-described Democratic socialists and progressives, arguing that mainstream Democrats have allowed far-left ideas to become normalized by refusing to challenge them.

"I think your average rank-and-file Democrat in the House right now recognizes that the Democratic socialists are no longer the fringe in their party. That is the mainstream. That's where their base is, and they're not going to speak out against that, because they don't want the backlash from their base," he said.

Gill added that mainstream Democrats are now facing the consequences of years spent elevating increasingly progressive ideas such as anti-capitalism and criticism of police, arguing many leftist lawmakers are now "reaping what they've been sowing for so long."

Ten years after Austria's government seized the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, the building will officially be inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. would "take care of things" if Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis follow through on threats to impose a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia, as his administration reportedly backed Riyadh's renewed military campaign against the group.

His comments came after the Houthis announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia Monday, only days after Saudi forces struck Sanaa International Airport and after Iran reportedly instructed the group to prepare to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the U.S. attacks Iranian power infrastructure.

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"So far, it hasn't happened, might happen, but we take care of things," Trump said in the Oval Office. "If something like that happens, we take care of it."

Saudi forces targeted the airport Monday after an Iranian Mahan Air flight carrying Houthi officials back from Iran was forced to divert, according to Axios. A U.S. official told the outlet the aircraft was believed to be carrying weapons, missile components and Iranian military personnel intended for the Houthis.

Trump's warning comes as the administration has expanded military operations against Iran while the Houthis threaten to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea. The developments have fueled concerns that Washington could become increasingly involved in efforts to secure one of the world's most important maritime trade corridors while simultaneously confronting Iran in the Persian Gulf.

The prospect of simultaneous disruption at the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb has become one of the biggest concerns for global shipping markets: Together, the routes normally carry roughly one-third of global seaborne oil trade and serve as critical arteries for energy shipments between the Middle East, Europe and Asia, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.

The Houthis already have shown they can disrupt one of the world's busiest shipping corridors. Since late 2023, the group has carried out more than 190 attacks on commercial shipping, forcing major carriers to abandon the Red Sea route in favor of the far longer trip around Africa.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sought Trump's approval before launching the latest strikes against the Houthis — and that approval was granted, according to the Axios report.

The White House could not be reached for comment. The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command declined to comment.

For years, the Houthis have evolved into one of Iran's most effective regional partners, allowing Iran to pressure global commerce while avoiding a direct military confrontation with the United States or its allies. The group has repeatedly launched missiles and drones at commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea, disrupting international shipping and forcing vessels to reroute around southern Africa.

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Although direct fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis largely subsided following a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022, the group continued expanding its missile, drone and maritime capabilities with Iranian support. The exchange of Saudi airstrikes and Houthi missile attacks marked the most significant cross-border escalation between the two sides in roughly four years.

Bridget Toomey, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, said the latest escalation was driven by Saudi concerns that Iran and the Houthis were attempting to establish a dangerous new status quo by opening a direct air link between Tehran and Houthi-controlled Sanaa.

She said such flights would create an easier route for Iran to move weapons, drones and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps advisers into Yemen, posing a threat not only to Saudi Arabia but also to broader U.S. and international security interests.

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"A direct air connection between Tehran and Sanaa would be a serious threat, not just to the international community, but also to Saudi Arabia," Toomey told Fox News Digital.

Rather than signaling a return to the yearslong Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, Toomey described Riyadh's response as "a measured escalation" intended to demonstrate it would not allow such an air bridge to become normalized.

That objective appeared to shape one of Saudi Arabia's most consequential strikes this week.

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden, is one of the world's busiest maritime choke points. Nearly 15% of global seaborne trade passes through the corridor each year, making it a critical route for commercial shipping and energy supplies moving between Asia and Europe.

The latest threat comes as commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has also faced disruption amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran. While the two waterways are separated by hundreds of miles, together they form the principal maritime corridor linking the Persian Gulf with Europe. Serious disruption to both would place additional pressure on global energy exports, increase shipping costs and deepen supply chain disruptions.

Toomey said the Houthis occupy a unique position within Iran's regional network because of where they are located.

"They're crucial to Iran's broader ability to expand the conflict," she said. "Iraqi militias or Hezbollah don't sit on a maritime choke point."

Still, she cautioned against viewing the Houthis simply as an extension of Tehran, noting that Iran's command and control over the group has historically been less direct than its relationships with some of its other proxy organizations.

Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum, said Trump's backing of the Saudi operation and his latest warning to the Houthis point to an administration willing to support regional allies while confronting Iranian-backed groups that threaten maritime commerce.

"The Iranians are trying to project power. The president is supportive of any effort to limit that projection," Roman told Fox News Digital.

Roman said the airport strike reinforced Saudi Arabia's long-running effort to prevent Iran from establishing a direct supply corridor into Houthi-controlled Yemen.

"We're certainly not going to allow you to have any shipments to reinforce the Houthis," he said.

If the campaign continues with Washington's backing, it would place one of Iran's most strategically valuable regional partners under renewed military pressure while increasing the cost of Tehran's broader effort to project power across the Middle East.

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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are staking out their position as congressional permitting talks heat up with a sweeping legislative package aimed at lowering energy costs, strengthening grid reliability and speeding up the construction of new energy projects.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., will introduce the 96-page "Permitting Our Way to an Energy Resurgence (POWER) Act" on Wednesday, describing it as a "discussion draft" as the panel continues to hear feedback from lawmakers and industry stakeholders.

The measure combines nearly 20 Republican proposals that would streamline approvals for pipelines, transmission lines, power plants and manufacturing projects while addressing rapidly growing electricity demand tied to artificial intelligence data centers.

Beyond permitting, the mammoth legislation seeks to shield ratepayers from price hikes by requiring data centers to bear the costs of grid upgrades.

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The legislation would also give dispatchable power plants priority over intermittent sources such as wind and solar in interconnection queues, expand federal regulators' authority to keep power plants online and overhaul portions of the Clean Air Act.

"To win the race to AI dominance, onshore jobs, and deliver reliable and affordable power for families, America needs a permitting system that works for their communities," Guthrie said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

"The POWER Act cuts the red tape holding back American energy, protects hard-working families from higher electricity costs, and keeps the lights on for generations to come," he continued.

Guthrie said the energy package is the result of months of collaboration among GOP members across the committee.

"For too long, burdensome regulations that fail to meet the moment have held back American innovation and growth," he said. "I’m proud to introduce commonsense legislation that will make energy more affordable for every American."

The legislation’s introduction comes as bipartisan negotiations over permitting reform have long proven elusive, despite widespread acknowledgment of the need for reforms to the federal government’s complex permitting process.

It is unclear whether House GOP leaders will bring Guthrie's package to the floor before the midterm elections. Lawmakers have less than two dozen legislative days left on the calendar heading into November.

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Among the package's most consequential provisions is legislation from Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio, that would check the federal government’s ability to issue far-reaching environmental regulations.

His measure requires federal agencies to submit major actions affecting electricity generation to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for review to ensure they do not negatively impact grid reliability.

Republicans say Balderson's Reliable Power Act is intended to ensure burdensome regulations from agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency do not jeopardize the nation's power supply.

Another marquee proposal, authored by Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., would require large commercial electricity users, including data centers, to front the full cost of infrastructure upgrades.

The provision effectively codifies Trump’s "ratepayer protection pledge," under which large companies committed not to pass data center development costs on to everyday consumers through utility rate hikes.

"America must build the energy infrastructure necessary to win the global AI race and outcompete adversaries like Communist China — but hardworking families should never be forced to subsidize that growth through higher electric bills," Evans said Wednesday after the measure advanced out of committee with bipartisan support as a standalone bill.

The package also includes several other long-standing GOP energy priorities, including Evans' FIRE Act, which would shield states from Clean Air Act penalties tied to wildfire prevention efforts such as prescribed burns and brush clearing.

That provision has taken on renewed urgency after Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed a swath of the United States over the weekend, with some GOP lawmakers slamming the country’s forest management.

"We observed evidence of stability or regression of the pancreatic cysts in association with the induction and durability of KRAS-specific T-cell responses," he said in the release. "However, larger studies are needed to demonstrate that this effect was in fact due to the vaccine."

The authors noted the study was limited by its small sample size and because it was not designed to determine clinical efficacy.

Fellow senior author Elizabeth Jaffee, MD, deputy director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, commented that prevention and interception "save lives and reduce the morbidity associated with cancer development and progression."

"This is especially important for cancers whose early-onset frequency is increasing and for which we do not have effective methods for early detection," she added in the release.

Jaffee noted that this research highlights the need for more funding to support developing strategies for preventing cancer in high-risk individuals.

"More studies are needed to find the best vaccine approaches, the best targets and the ideal timing for vaccination," she said.

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A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use.

“Although the Army CIO announced in May 2026 that they were offering unlimited tokens, by mid-June the Army CIO pool was exhausted of tokens and had to re-establish limits,” the email reads. The email goes on to say that although the Army has chosen to renew token usage at “its current levels,” it’s unclear “if the Army CIO pool will be renewed after 1 Oct.”

The Army uses Ask Sage, a multimodal generative AI platform where users can run different large language models (LLMs), including Alphabet’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Apparently the whole Army burned through the whole year of tokens for just one service,” says an Army employee who spoke to WIRED anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

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Spain midfielder Gavi does not think Argentina's Leandro Paredes should be suspended for his part in the fracas after the World Cup final.

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Viral influencer Clavicular revealed his thoughts on "incel culture" — an online subculture of mostly young, heterosexual men who identify as "involuntary celibates," and are often stigmatized as misogynistic — as well as modern dating culture amid his controversial streaming antics.

The 20-year-old internet personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity for the July 21 episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity." When asked about his content strategy and his views on women, Clavicular defended his "looksmaxxing" movement and accusations that it promotes "incel culture."

"People will often try to associate looksmaxxing with incel culture and being super resentful of women, when it's actually the antithesis of that, right?" he said. "Looksmaxxing is trying to escape inceldom, if anything, so for that link to try to be made makes no sense to me whatsoever."

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"Looksmaxxing" is a strict health regimen that is meant to perfect one's appearance, and includes practices such as taking stimulants and bone smashing, which Clavicular describes as striking your facial bones with a hammer in an effort to stimulate bone growth.

The streamer also mused about how incel culture may be affecting the dating scene and connections between men and women.

"Every time I talk about hypergamy and why the dating market is hard, I'll talk about how maybe women on dating apps will go for the top profiles and this and that," he said. "But then I'll also say right after, you know, can you really blame them with the generation of men that's out there for them? So I think it's a problem on both sides. It's not just women, it's not just men — it is holistic."

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Clavicular was previously pressed about whether he identifies as an incel during a tense sit-down interview with "60 Minutes Australia" correspondent Adam Hegarty in April. He lashed out at the reporter and criticized the question.

"I mean, how could you ask me that question as a follow-up after you asked me about my relationships to women?" he replied. "I mean, that’s quite literally the worst sequence of questions I think I’ve ever heard." 

Hegarty repeatedly pressed Clavicular about his alleged ties to the incel community and his connection to fellow internet personality Andrew Tate, but he denied any links to the group.

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"I’m not linked to that group in any way," he countered. "Looksmaxxing is self-improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals — to dissociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense."

Clavicular ended the interview abruptly, storming off the set.

Conversely, Hannity left Clavicular with some encouraging words after their wide-ranging conversation, wishing him "all the success in the world" and advising him to be "careful."

The controversial viral star was arrested in March on a battery charge after police alleged he instigated a fight between two women and posted the video to social media. The incident sparked additional concerns about his treatment of women, especially on his livestreams.

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For over two years, the Palestinian Football Association, headed by Jibril Rajoub, has aggressively lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA to suspend Israel from international competition. Rajoub and the PFA have repeatedly cited the mounting death toll of Palestinian athletes and the destruction of sports infrastructure in Gaza as grounds for an immediate, indefinite ban.

The campaign reached a boiling point at recent FIFA Congresses. However, following extensive legal reviews, FIFA's Disciplinary Committee ultimately rejected the PFA's demands to suspend Israel entirely.

Instead, FIFA recently opted to impose a fine on the Israel Football Association (IFA) for unrelated disciplinary breaches and ordered the Israeli team to display a "Football Unites the World – No to Discrimination" banner during upcoming matches.

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The IFA was fined 150,000 Swiss francs (approximately $190,700) for multiple breaches of anti-discrimination obligations. Additionally, FIFA ordered the IFA to implement a mandatory anti-discrimination prevention plan and required the Israeli team to prominently display "Football Unites the World – No to Discrimination" banners during upcoming matches.

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You open your inbox and see a message about updated security policies. Nothing about it screams scam. The email looks polished, the wording sounds official and the button promises a quick way to review the changes. That is exactly what makes it dangerous.

LastPass is warning users about a newly identified phishing campaign that uses lookalike domains and a fake DocuSign page to lure people into downloading suspicious software.

The good news is that LastPass says its systems were not affected. The bad news is that scammers are counting on you to trust the logo, overlook the web address and click before taking a closer look. Here is what to watch for before one routine-looking email puts your entire password vault at risk.

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LastPass phishing scam starts with a routine policy email

The phishing email comes from hello@lastpassnewsletter.com. Its known subject line reads, "Action Required: Review Updated LastPass Security Policies." Inside, the message claims LastPass has made service policy changes. It mentions enhanced SaaS monitoring. It also claims administrators can reset master passwords and that the admin console has improved.

Those details make the email sound like a real company notice. However, the sending domain belongs to the attackers. LastPass says lastpassnewsletter[.]com has no affiliation with the company. The email includes a Review & Access Terms button. That button creates the next layer of the trap.

Clicking the button sends you to lastpasscompliance[.]com. The landing page copies the look of DocuSign and claims a document is ready for review. That choice makes sense from a scammer's perspective. Many people receive electronic signature requests at work or while handling personal paperwork. A familiar layout can lower your guard before you inspect the web address.

We have seen the same trust trick in other fake DocuSign email scams. The brand name gives the request a sense of legitimacy, even when the sender and domain do not match. LastPass says Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Cloudflare classified the phishing site as malicious. The page also prompted visitors to download software that claimed to work on Windows and macOS.

LastPass was still investigating the download when it published its warning. Therefore, you should treat the file as dangerous and avoid opening it. The site also displayed a live support chat box, although it was unclear whether the chat worked. The malicious page had gone offline by the time the campaign was reported. However, attackers can quickly replace blocked domains with new ones.

LastPass users are not the only targets. Bitwarden customers have received similar messages from hello@bitwardennewsletter.com. Those emails directed recipients to bitwardencompliance[.]com. The matching format suggests attackers may be reusing the same campaign structure across password manager brands.

That matters because password manager customers present an attractive target. One stolen master password could put many saved accounts at risk. Multi-factor authentication may still block access, depending on your security settings.

A password manager remains valuable protection. In fact, autofill can help expose a fake website because the manager should recognize the legitimate domain. You can compare current options in our guide to the best password managers for 2026 at cyberguy.com

This campaign follows other LastPass-themed phishing attempts from earlier this year. In January, fake messages warned that users had only 24 hours to back up their vaults before maintenance. Then, a March campaign used fabricated email threads about unauthorized account access.

Both approaches relied on urgency to push people into acting before they verified the message. The new compliance notice uses a calmer approach. It looks like paperwork rather than a crisis. That may make it especially effective because policy updates feel normal and boring.

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A few careful steps can keep one convincing email from turning into a much larger problem.

Delete the message or report it as phishing. Do not reply. Avoid opening its links or downloading the file it offers.

Use the official LastPass app or type lastpass.com into your browser. Check for account notices after you sign in through the trusted route.

Lookalike domains often add a trusted brand name to words such as "newsletter" or "compliance." Check the website address before the first slash. A legitimate LastPass address should end in lastpass.com, such as support.lastpass.com, rather than merely containing the word "LastPass."

A password manager may refuse to fill your credentials on a fake domain. Treat that as a warning. Do not copy and paste the password to get around it. Instead, close the page and access your account through the official app or website.

Use a trusted device and go directly to LastPass. Change the master password immediately. Then review your vault for unexpected activity, as LastPass recommends. Next, change passwords for sensitive accounts stored in the vault if you see signs of access. Start with email, financial accounts, cloud storage and social media. Use a different password for every account.

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Do not open software offered by a security notice you reached through email. If you already opened the file, disconnect the affected device from the internet. Then use strong antivirus software to inspect it. Our current best antivirus protection guide at cyberguy.com can help you compare tools that block malicious websites and dangerous downloads. It also covers protection against malware. You can also follow these steps after you clicked a suspicious email and entered information.

Enable multi-factor authentication for your password manager and other important accounts. An authenticator app or security key can add a barrier if someone steals your password. However, never approve a login request you did not initiate. A second security step only helps when you treat unexpected prompts as a warning.

Scammers often use information from data broker sites to make phishing emails feel more personal. That could include your phone number, home address, relatives or past employers. A data removal service can help find and remove some of that information from people-search websites. It will not secure a compromised password manager, but it may give scammers fewer details to use in future attacks. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com

Forward questionable LastPass-branded emails to abuse@lastpass.com. LastPass says no one from the company will ever ask for your master password.

What makes this scam dangerous is how normal the email looks. Most people expect password manager alerts to sound urgent. This one arrives dressed up as a boring policy update, which may make you less likely to question it. The biggest red flag is the web address. A company name inside a domain does not mean the company owns it. Before entering a master password or downloading anything, close the email and open the password manager directly. Your master password protects everything stored in your vault. Treat any request for it like someone asking for the keys to your house.

Have you ever received a security email that looked so real you almost clicked? What made you stop and take a closer look? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com

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Despite his blunt remarks, Harris remains signed on for two seasons of "Dutton Ranch," and it remains unclear whether he is seriously considering leaving the series.

Sheridan's latest chapter in the "Yellowstone" universe debuted on Paramount+ in May.

The series picks up with fan favorites Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) as they trade Montana for South Texas, where they're determined to build a ranch — and a new life — from the ground up.

Joining Reilly and Hauser is an ensemble cast that includes Harris, Annette Bening, Finn Little, Juan Pablo Raba, Jai Courtney, J.R. Villarreal, Marc Menchaca and Natalie Alyn Lind.

Fox News Digital reached out to Paramount, Sheridan and Harris for comment.

Samsung today debuted its latest foldable devices, including the Galaxy Z Flip8, the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, and the new Galaxy Z Fold8, which has a design similar to what we're expecting from the foldable iPhone coming this September. We were able to take a look at the new Samsung foldables ahead of launch.


The Galaxy ZFold 8 Ultra has a 6.5-inch cover screen when closed, and an 8-inch display when it's unfolded. Both displays are OLED with 120Hz refresh rates. The device is just 4.1mm thick when open.

Samsung included a three-camera setup with a 200-megapixel wide lens, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide lens, and a 10-megapixel telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and 30x Space Zoom. There are also two selfie cameras, one on the cover screen and one on the main display.

Samsung's Z Fold8 has a 7.6-inch display when open and a 5.5-inch display when closed, and it looks like Samsung read the foldable iPhone rumors and beat Apple to it. It has a passport-style form factor, so it's not as tall as prior Samsung foldables. It's wider and more square than the designs Samsung used in the past.

The aspect ratio of the unfolded Z Fold8 makes it feel similar to using an iPad mini, which feels more natural than using taller foldables. It's a size that's perfect for watching videos or running two apps side by side. The Z Fold8 gives us a pretty clear look at what the Apple foldable will look like and what it will feel like to use.

Samsung is reserving higher-tier specs for the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra. The Z Fold8 also has a three-camera setup, but with lower-end camera options. Both devices support the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, and offer up to 16GB of RAM. Samsung is also releasing the Galaxy Z Flip8, which has a 6.9-inch display when unfolded and a 4.1-inch cover screen when closed. The Flip8 doesn't open like a book, and instead has a clamshell design.

Samsung is now offering foldables in three sizes and two form factors, and it has had multiple years to refine its foldable designs. Samsung is on its eighth-generation devices, while Apple's first foldable hasn't launched yet.

Along with new foldable smartphones, Samsung also launched the Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Galaxy Watch9, which have the same round display that Samsung watches have used for several years. The titanium Watch Ultra2 is 47mm, while the Watch9 is available in 40mm and 44mm sizes.

Samsung's watches offer a bioelectrical impedance analysis, reading body composition from the wrist. They also have heart rate tracking, sleep apnea detection, and other features that mirror what's available on the Apple Watch.

Samsung's new Galaxy foldables and smartwatches are available for pre-order starting today from the Samsung website.

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The public's reaction to the family drama, however, remains open to interpretation. While some experts believe the repeated rejection of Pitt's surname could become part of his public legacy, others contend the developments may instead generate sympathy for the Oscar-winning actor.

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The president’s party has lost an average of 25 U.S. House seats in Trump-era midterm elections. Given that Democrats only have an edge on the generic ballot and in party affiliation, so far, they look like they’re on track for an "average" night.

Republican redistricting wins change that calculation. The GOP is likely to bank about a dozen seats from new district boundaries drawn by Republican-controlled state legislatures, up to nine of those in Florida and Texas alone.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom scored his party an extra three to five seats after voters approved his gerrymandering referendum, but overall, the GOP won this battle in what now looks like a redistricting "forever war."

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Together, this adds up to a small Democratic lead in the House. They start with 211 races in their categories, or seven short of the 218 they need for a majority. If they win more than a handful of toss-up races, they will have enough to flip the chamber.

There is enough room for the Republicans to maintain control on a good night for the party. Since toss-up races tend to be won and lost together, they could even improve on the slim majority they currently enjoy.

Redistricting is at the heart of many key races this year, but the top of the ticket in each state, candidate quality and ground game are still important themes. Here are five districts to watch.

The 17th district, up in the Hudson Valley, is the quintessential median district: a place that, on any given day, could swing in either direction.

Voters elected Republican Mike Lawler here by 6 points in 2024, but also voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris by 0.3 points, making it one of the rare ‘crossover’ districts of that election, and arguably the top target for Democrats in a more favorable political environment.

The party got moderate and combat veteran Cait Conley through the primary, despite competition from a progressive challenger, and she’s charted a center-left, anti-Trump course to flip the district. She’s one of the top 10 fundraisers in competitive districts this quarter.

Lawler won’t go down without a fight. He has Trump’s endorsement but disagrees with him at times, including over his refusal to sign a bipartisan housing bill.

This is a competitive race in a blue-leaning year, so it starts at Lean D.

Democrats fought hard to elect Gov. Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania in the last midterms. This time, they’re in the driver’s seat. Shapiro has the support of 53% of voters in a July poll, and the GOP isn’t likely to invest in flipping it.

The House is a different story. The Keystone State is tied only with California for the largest number of highly competitive districts: four across the state, all on the east side.

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The seventh district is notable for its candidates: Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, the Republican who flipped the district in 2024 and whose mother, Milou, is a popular state representative in the Lehigh Valley, and Bob Brooks, a local firefighter who enjoys the endorsements of both Shapiro and Senator Bernie Sanders.

The race offers a clear look at whether a Democrat who seems to have unified both wings of his party can also appeal to White working-class voters who have swung toward the GOP during the Trump era. It’s a toss-up.

Republicans took a knife to North Carolina’s district boundaries last year to make this seat, in the northeast corner of the state, more Republican.

Under the new lines, the district has fewer Black voters, and that includes the seat’s current congressman, Rep. Don Davis, a moderate Democrat whose home in Snow Hill was moved to the 3rd district.

Davis is still running in the first district these midterms (congresspeople don’t have to live in the districts they represent), where he will face Republican and retired Army Colonel Laurie Buckhout, a pro-Trump conservative who is leaning into her military experience.

It’s a close race by many measures, including fundraising, with both candidates raising $1 million in the last quarter.

Republicans will flip the seat on a good night, to be sure. But in what looks like a favorable cycle for Democrats, it’s not yet clear that the GOP has an edge. It starts as a toss-up.

Alabama’s second district is currently home to Rep. Shomari Figures, a Democrat who flipped the seat for the first time in over a decade after a federal court ordered the state to redraw it with a higher Black population in 2023.

He probably won’t occupy it much longer.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling to narrow a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in April, Gov. Kay Ivey restored the original map; White voters now make up nearly two-thirds of the district’s population.

Figures is still running; he’s likely to face Trump-endorsed state Rep. Rhett Marques in the general election in a race that the National Republican Congressional Committee is investing in.

It’s a redistricting win for Republicans, and a Likely R pickup in the forecast.

Other redistricting efforts might not yield such clear-cut results.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new map could yield up to four more Republicans in November, but it depends on what kind of night the GOP has across the country.

As the Wall Street Journal pointed out in April, "making a blue district more Republican means making a red one less Republican." (Florida’s 26th district is a great example of the latter, though it’s still ranked Solid R in this forecast.)

The delicate balance has also meant creating new Democratic-incumbent districts that, yes, have more GOP-leaning voters in them, but not so many as to guarantee a flip.

Florida’s 14th district is a perfect case study. Under its new lines, it would’ve voted for President Trump by 11 points in 2024. Given Florida’s rightward drift, it would usually start as a likely GOP pickup.

That’s not the case this year. Incumbent Democrat Kathy Castor doesn’t have a competitor yet, but she has $1.5 million in cash on hand and support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, so she’s not out of this fight.

It’s a Lean R race.

Tomorrow, the full governor’s forecast, with rankings for Iowa, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, Wisconsin and 30 other states.