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Furious Trump overturns suspension of ICE traffic stops amid MAGA criticism
CNN: Neither Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin nor Homan alerted Trump to the pause on traffic stops before…
July 15, 2026
Officials asked to turn over phones at White House as Wiles, Patel lead intensifying leak probe
CNN: Chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s closest aide, and FBI Director Kash Patel helped personally…
July 15, 2026
U.S. and Iran exchange strikes for fifth straight day. Some ships refusing US-military guided Hormuz transits after attacks—AND MORE
New York Times: The United States launched fresh attacks against Iranian targets on Wednesday, hours after Iran targeted…
July 15, 2026
Luftwaffe chief warns Europe has ‘no time’ to counter Putin without US weapons
Politico Europe: “Developing our own capabilities takes time. Right now, we do not have time,” Neumann said. His…
July 14, 2026
Secretive Silicon Valley startup tries to quash interview, says it’s definitely not working on growing brain-free “organ sacks”
Futurism: “It’s just pretty much a heart, lungs, and everything that you would find in a body,” Gilman…
July 14, 2026
Fake KGB defector’s Tale
Filip Kovacevic: In the early 1960s, the foreign intelligence branch of the Lithuanian KGB, formally known as the…
July 14, 2026
Trump paid $2 million by South Korean company facing trade investigation
New York Times: The document offered only a cryptic explanation for the payment, stating that it was part…
July 14, 2026
ICE ordered to cease most vehicle stops after 2 killings in week
New York Times: The order comes after ICE officers killed two people over the past week, in Houston…
July 14, 2026
China purges top official over corruption and sex charges
New York Times: Mr. Ma, a former party secretary for China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, is now the…
July 14, 2026
Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
The Guardian: Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, launched a campaign to dismantle the international criminal court…
July 14, 2026
Supreme Court justices push Congress to boost security funding: “Threats have come very close”
CBS: “For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the…
July 14, 2026
Johnson govt wasted £10bn on PPE, UK Covid inquiry finds
The Guardian: Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in…
July 14, 2026
26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave
Associated Press: Many of these scores and ratings “by design, cannot be accumulated by an employee who is…
July 14, 2026
AI lawsuits expose gaps in conventional insurance, says report
Financial Times: A report by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, co-authored with researchers from Anthropic and OpenAI, says…
July 14, 2026
DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis calls for US-led body to test ‘frontier’ AI models
Financial Times: “We’ve already seen the challenges frontier models pose for cybersecurity, and other threats including nuclear and…
July 14, 2026
RIP the US state department
Financial Times: Diplomats warn of a crude politicisation and a purge of experts in an “America First” culture…
July 14, 2026
US military smartphones targeted through roaming and ad tech
Financial Times: Middle Eastern mobile networks were repeatedly hit with cyber attacks to track the locations of US…
July 14, 2026
Trump says Thursday address will focus on ‘free and fair elections’
CNN: “But it’s really big news,” he continued. “It’s really, really big news, and our country has to…
July 14, 2026
E. Jean Carroll officially receives more than $5M from Trump in sexual abuse, defamation judgment
CNN: The transfer to Carroll’s attorneys was confirmed on the court docket Tuesday. Carroll’s lawyers said in a…
July 14, 2026
US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
The Guardian: According to the budget data, the US has paid out $81bn (£61bn) in tariff refunds so…
July 14, 2026