Sen. John Fetterman says he's a "loyal Democrat" who stands with Israel and doesn't seem to believe he'll be primaried.

Some experts worry that as AI systems continue to advance, they'll eventually design and write their own successor models, learning to circumvent human-imposed safeguards and becoming increasingly difficult to constrain. www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/t...

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AI company Anthropic says that during routine testing some of its models accessed the internet and hacked into three separate organizations’ systems – and that it didn’t notice the models had done so ...

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The Trump administration is defending its new Medicaid rule that can require critically ill and potentially terminally ill patients to prove they're too sick to qualify for a work requirement exemption. A judge declined to block the rule for now, but the lawsuit will continue.

The whole Fauci facade is really just Rand Paul holding a grudge and Fauci hurting the president's feelings in his personal diary. That's about it.

Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times during his 2022 deposition in the NY AG's civil fraud investigation. Several of his closest associates, including Michael Flynn, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and Roger Stone, also did so during the January 6 investigation.

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Republicans: Dr. Fauci pleaded the fifth so he is guilty. Also Republicans: Trump pleading the fifth doesn’t mean he’s guilty.

The world's wealthiest individual is once again deploying his fortune to influence the 2026 midterm elections in favor of Republicans.

A sudden loss of over 3 GW of data center power triggered a voltage ripple that raced across the nation's largest electric grid, causing lights to flicker across the East Coast for 11 minutes.

CNN's latest poll puts Trump's approval at a record-low 78% among Republicans, 24% among independents and 6% among Democrats. This is why they're trying to distract and make voting difficult.

Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Deb Houry says the CDC has become too political to trust under its current leadership and urges people to rely on their own doctors and local health departments for more factual, science-based information.

According to a recent CBS News/YouGov poll, 58% of respondents said President Trump's policies are making them worse off, while 13% said they are making them better off.

The Trump administration reduced the official U.S. death toll from the Iran war from 18 to 14 by removing the three Americans killed in Jordan and one service member killed in Iraq from the official casualty list.

While most states fought Trump's demand for sensitive voter information, a handful simply handed it over. Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming all complied.

David Axelrod said Trump's DOJ targeting of NYT reporters over the Qatari plane story wasn't about national security, it was about Trump's own insecurities.

Nearly a dozen U.S. troops were wounded so severely in Iranian missile and drone attacks that they had to be urgently evacuated to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. (NYT)

National security analyst David Sanger says oil flows are now cut off or restricted through two major straits, pushing up prices for Americans and leaving the world significantly worse off than it was before the war.

"...any conduct that undermines the trust and confidence between a protectee and their protective detail is 'fundamentally incompatible' with our mission and will not be tolerated."

The Trump administration is asking Congress for another $1.5 trillion to fund a war that's been going on for nearly six months without congressional authorization, well beyond the War Powers Act timeline, while families struggle to keep gas in their cars and food on the table.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Trump's presidential library foundation disclosures appear to show up to $21.5 million in missing or unexplained funds and expenditures.

The U.S. launched another round of strikes against Iran tonight, targeting military capabilities tied to attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. There was no mention of strikes on the Iranian sites responsible for the attacks that killed several U.S. service members.

The FBI has said it will no longer investigate confrontations involving ICE agents. Those investigations have, at times, uncovered evidence of misconduct by DHS officers. If this policy takes effect, it would further weaken independent oversight of ICE.

"The U.S. is planning for a wider war," according to a U.S. official. But the official also warned that dwindling air defense and long-range munition stockpiles could limit any expansion of U.S. operations. "We do not have enough to safely sustain operations."

U.S. military service member in Iraq killed during controlled detonation of Iranian drone.

Law enforcement officers across the U.S. have been accused of using Flock license plate cameras to illegally track people... from stalking romantic interests, to monitoring women seeking abortions as they travel across state lines. (Mother Jones)

The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen to 316.5 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983, after another 3 million-barrel weekly drawdown, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The Blue Angels pilot behind the viral low flyover says it was a miscalculation, not an intentional stunt, and is "shaken by what happened."

ICE shared Medicaid data on millions of people with Palantir after federal health officials improperly disclosed the information. The data, which also included records belonging to U.S. citizens, was used in ICE's ELITE app to identify people who may be subject to arrest.

The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel caution, citing escalating tensions in the Middle East and the potential for security threats affecting Americans overseas.

U.S. officials are reportedly questioning whether China and Russia are helping boost Iran's strike capabilities by providing targeting and other military support, with Tehran deploying high-speed, maneuverable missiles that are far more difficult for U.S. defenses to intercept.

At least two more U.S. service members were killed after Iran launched a series of attacks against U.S. allies across the Middle East, in a war the White House claimed months ago had significantly diminished Iran's military capabilities and would last only a few weeks at most.

DHS's statement claiming "250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states" was based on an unreliable method that produces a very large number of false positives, significantly overestimating the true number, while providing no evidence that any of them actually voted.