Happy 65th Birthday, Barack Obama! Celebrate with These Throwback Photos of the Former POTUS — People

The former president of the United States turns 65 on Aug. 4, 2026

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Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching. — The Washington Post

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

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UFC’s White House spectacle led to losses of around $30m, company reveals — Guardian US

TKO Group Holdings said the lavish, invitation-only Freedom 250 card cost the UFC about $30m despite attracting 8.2m viewers in the US

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Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds — The Associated Press

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration improperly ended a multi-billion-dollar program for clean energy projects.

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The extent of Trump’s foreign policy humiliation is now clear — The New World

The US president has failed over Gaza, Ukraine, Iran and China – and America looks diminished and declining Western officials were, in private, apprehensive before Nato’s Ankara summit. Would Donald T...

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Kash Patel Loses Lawsuit Against Man Who Called Him “Googly-Eyed” Chud

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.”

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It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now — Scientific American

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this w...

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Trump's AG pick off life support after key Republican rebels relent — Fox News

Todd Blanche's AG confirmation has new life after Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said they were satisfied with the deal to kill the anti-weaponization fund.

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Bryson DeChambeau argued Open Championship penalty, threatened to call Trump — The Palm Beach Post

Bryson DeChambeau threatened officials at the Open Championship that he was going to call Donald Trump after he was penalized during the second round.

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Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland — The New Yorker

“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.

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Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military — The Atlantic

The secretary of defense is sending the message that Black service members are not welcome.

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Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro over decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case — NBC News

The president maintained his claim that the pool had been vandalized after Pirro’s office said new evidence showed the damage resulted from a “botched installation.”

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The GOP’s Big Red Scare Is Really Stupid — New York Magazine

No, Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in primaries isn’t a Bolshevik revolution.

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ICE detentions set Trump-era high in July, as immigration crackdown widens — CBS News

Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown.

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Here's what supercharged the monster wildfires in Spain and France — Grist

Over the past week, hundreds of thousands of people in France and Spain fled their homes, many in the dead of night, carrying only what they could. In the coming days and weeks, as evacuation orders l...

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How the Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case Fell Apart — The Atlantic

Federal prosecutors searched for evidence and found that “a botched installation” was to blame.

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Opinion | Trump appears to order the government to lie on behalf of tariffs — The Washington Post

The president moves to subvert the Supreme Court — and the truth.

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MyPillow Guy the Front-runner in Minnesota GOP Primary — New York Magazine

Mike Lindell won’t win the general election against Amy Klobuchar, but he may sell some more pillows.

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'Daily Show's Desi Lydic roasts Fox News' response to Anthony Fauci's diary — Mashable

"This guy is completely obsessed with himself."

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House push to integrate defense industries of Israel, U.S. draws scrutiny — The Washington Post

Critics of the legislation fear that, if adopted, it would give Israel veto power over U.S. weapons systems.

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Opinion | McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous — Guardian US

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

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A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought — Esquire

Let’s hope the vice president’s is so unlikeable that it keeps him from climbing the ranks any higher.

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Here’s where Trump has canceled wind farms – and how states are pushing back — The Christian Science Monitor

President Donald Trump directed the U.S. government to pay billions to stop wind energy projects from going forward. In response, states have sued.

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Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? — FORTUNE

July 27, 2026, 12:00 PM ET Tobias Lütke, cofounder and chief executive officer of Shopify, speaks during the Toronto Tech Week 2026: Homecoming event in Toronto on May 27, 2026. Shopify CEO Tobias Lüt...

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Trump defends ‘anti-weaponization’ fund, further complicating Blanche nomination — NBC News

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn have been holding up Trump’s pick for attorney general, seeking assurances that the controversial weaponization fund is dead.

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