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Trump dismantling US guardrails, warn former security officials
Financial Times: “There’s a lot of good reasons not to say anything,” said Julia Curlee, former CIA analyst who is a member of the group.…
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Spy cameras on Navy drones secretly sent data to China
Telegraph: The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a…
Inside school investigations frozen under Trump: Racial slurs, sexual harassment and more
Washington Post: The Education Department was in talks with dozens of districts at the end of the Biden administration. The cases have stalled…
America’s new oligarchy
Financial Times: “Now the tycoons are taking to being in government themselves,” says Ro Khanna, a Democratic member of the House of…
Israel rejects Trump’s Gaza peace plan, saying no withdrawal until Hamas disarms
CNN: But in his first remarks directly addressing the plan, Netanyahu said: “I want to be precise here: Israel rejects the 15-point document.”…
How drone ‘hellscape’ might stop Chinese invasion of Taiwan
New York Times: The goal is to use them to help locate and attack Chinese forces approaching the island, relying on Taiwanese soldiers trained…
Trump: “We are low keying it” with Iran—AND MORE
Axios: “We are low keying it,” Trump said during a brief phone call. He stressed that Iran “is in very bad shape” economically and has no…
Revealed: British PM Burnham adviser’s ‘irresponsible’ China links
Telegraph: Aide co-founded think tank with ex-Xinhua employee whose state media background was wiped from internet before launch…
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
The Guardian: An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received…
‘Is she even allowed to be doing this?’: Inside federal judge’s side gig running PR firm
Politico: Jennifer Mascott, a former conservative law professor who sits on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, was deeply involved in daily…
He had tenure. The New School laid him off anyway.
New York Times: Professor Sanjay Reddy had been bluntly critical for years about how his university, the New School in New York City, managed…
Pentagon strips security clearance from former Air Force secretary
Washington Post: Trump administration officials accused Frank Kendall of disclosing “classified information regarding Air Force One’s capabilities.”…
Senate narrowly approves Blanche as AG, capping tough confirmation fight
Washington Post: “Mr. Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this, but the choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche,” Cassidy…
Trump amps up pressure on billionaire Sargeant to exit Venezuela
Bloomberg: The Treasury Department on Friday froze the assets of Sargeant’s offshore company that participates in Venezuelan oil-producing…
Trump increasingly frustrated with his Homeland Security Secretary
Wall Street Journal: The frustration reached a peak in early August when Mullin, speaking in Oklahoma City at a meeting of the National…
Iran demands concessions from US as it nears Strait of Hormuz deal with Oman. Pentagon presses defense firms to build weapons as Iran war depletes stocks—AND MORE
CNN: Iran and Oman have each signaled they are close to a deal on managing the key waterway, but Iranian officials insist the strait will not…
Top US general in Europe abruptly removed from command
ABC: Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, commander of the Army’s V Corps, was removed from command in recent days, according to a service spokesperson,…
Argentina renews US$19 billion China currency swap, brushing off Washington’s pressure
SCMP: Buenos Aires locks in the yuan line until 2031, months after the US Treasury Department offered a rival facility…
DOGE’s claim of $110B in savings was vastly inflated and riddled with errors: GAO
ABC: A new review by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found the site’s claim of $110 billion in taxpayer savings was vastly inflated…
State Dept wants Palantir’s advice on free speech and “countering digital surveillance”
The Intercept: The Trump administration tapped a surveillance giant with a record of attacking the press to advise the State Department on…
Ex-Pentagon employee described seeing ‘translucent triangle’ fly overhead in 2023 UFO sighting
New York Post: The summary report adds that the UFO “looked like a perfect triangle … without any extra wings, fins, or any bubble for the…
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