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Here in DC, the Trump administration rails against the radical left while others call for calm The sound in a newsroom changes from a low, busy hum to a loud, intense clamour when big stories break. On Wednesday afternoon, when the first indications that Charlie Kirk had been shot while addressing a student gathering in Utah started pinging online, that volume switch was flicked.

In an evening social media post about a supremely partisan battle that could reshape American political power for generations, President Trump sounded ebullient. "Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself," Trump wrote, of the nation's most populous red state pushing a mid-decade redistricting plan designed to win more Republican seats in Congress and protect Trump's power through the 2026 midterms. "Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing," Trump wrote - nodding to a potential proliferation of such efforts across the country.

Tether is the most captivating story you've never heard of. A first mover in the stablecoin space, Tether's flagship product has grown to a monster $167 billion in market cap with just around 200 employees and $13 billion in profits last year, making it one of the most successful corporations on the planet. (And it was cofounded by a Mighty Duck, but that's a story for another time.)

After all the hype around the Alaska summit, all we got was a 12-minute press conference that said very little of substance. No end to the war, no sanctions.

European leaders find reasons to hope after a coordination call with Trump, but their fate depends on the outcome of his meeting with Putin in Alaska tomorrow.

Some of the documents refer to the company using DeepSeek in this," Professor Brett Goldstein from Vanderbilt told The Register. "But once we published the documents they started stripping references to the technology from [the] website very rapidly.

Josephine Guilbeau described the Israeli-imposed hunger crisis in Gaza as a deliberate and evil decision to starve children, comparing it to a weapon of war.

Trump stated on Truth Social that the U.S. will impose a 19% tariff rate on the Philippines, down from a 20% tariff he threatened starting August 1. In return, he mentioned that the Philippines would have an open market and the U.S. would not pay tariffs.

The catastrophic data leak in February 2022 endangered the lives of up to 100,000 Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in Britain from the Taliban.

Sen. Bernie Sanders has described the Republicans' reconciliation bill as 'disastrous', asserting that it will worsen the already broken U.S. health care system.

Gergen reflected on the power of rhetorical questions, stating, "It's one of those things that you sometimes strike gold. When you're out there panhandling in the river, occasionally you get a gold nugget."

Historical polling data from Gallup shows that the last time a U.S. president had the approval of a majority of voters was in July 2021.

I think I'll have a major statement to make on Russia on Monday.