News From Around the Web
#10 Washington Post Takes Heat for Story Fretting Pro-trump Billionaires Shaped ‘Shooting Narrative' - Hanna Panreck and Kristine Parks for Fox News, and Rob Schneider on X
The Washington Post is taking heat for a story that said "pro-Trump billionaires have helped shape shooting narrative" following the attempted assassination of former President Trump. "The right-leaning business community on X, including Elon Musk and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, used their megaphones to endorse Trump and fuel storylines about Saturday’s attack," the Washington Post report said. Trump was nearly assassinated on Saturday after a bullet grazed his ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The WaPo story also named David Sacks and Shaun Maguire, venture capitalists, who slammed the report on social media.
#9 Elon Musk Says He’s Moving SpaceX, X Headquarters From California to Texas - AP News, and Raw Alerts, Elon Musk, and Wall Street Apes on X
Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California.Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company’s rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco. He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change the “final straw.” “I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote...
#8 Hillbilly Elegy Reveals JD Vance as a Man of Contradictions: ‘I View Members of Elite With an Almost Primal Scorn’ - Sheila Flynn for Independent, and Max Meyer, Darla Shine, and Ryan James Girdusky on X
In 2016, not even five months before US voters chose a bombastic businessman as their president, JD Vance introduced himself with frank modesty to the world in the first few pages of his memoir—admitting he was “not a senator, a governor, or a former cabinet secretary. “I didn’t write this book because I’ve accomplished something extraordinary,” he explains in Hillbilly Elegy’s introduction. “I wrote this book because I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me … poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.”
#7 Vance, Harris Set for High-Voltage Showdown - Alex Gangitano and Julia Mueller for The Hill, and Chanel Rion OAN, Darren Grimes, and Cryptid Politics on X
President Trump’s decision to select Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate sets the stage for a potentially high-voltage match-up between the senator and Vice President Harris. Both are staunch defenders of the men at the top of their respective tickets, though they haven’t always been in the past. And while they have other similarities, including their vigor and command of policy, they also have clear differences that will be in the spotlight leading up to a possible debate showdown in late summer.
#6 Senators to Receive Briefing on Trump Assassination Attempt - Ramsey Touchberry for Washington Examiner, and The Hill on X
Federal law enforcement officials will provide an all-senators unclassified briefing on Wednesday about the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Briefers will conduct a senator-only conference call in the afternoon that will include officials from the FBI, Department of Justice, and Secret Service, according to the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who requested the briefing. The call will come as lawmakers are on recess for the week and away from Washington, D.C., in addition to mounting frustration over lingering questions about apparent security failures that nearly led to Trump’s death...
#5 Mike Johnson Answers Whether Garland Will Be Impeached, Outlines Second Trump Term Congressional Agenda - Henry Rodgers for The Daily Caller, and on X
peaker of the House Mike Johnson shared his concerns on moving forward with an impeachment of Attorney General Merrick Garland and outlined what a second term under Trump would look like for Congress in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller. Johnson said he’s “not sure” if Garland’s conduct rises to the level of impeachment in his interview with the Caller at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee. He also said that, if Republicans win a sizeable Congressional majority and the White House, their top priorities will be hemming up the border, restoring American leadership abroad and unleashing the American economy...
#4 RFK Jr Apologizes After Leaked Phone Call in Which Trump Seems to Offer Deal - Martin Pengelly for The Guardian, and LudwigNverMises, and Robert F Kennedy Jr. on X
The independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr apologised to Donald Trump on Tuesday, after Kennedy’s son posted video and audio of a call between the two men in which Trump made bizarre remarks about vaccines and babies, as well as appearing to offer Kennedy some sort of political deal. “When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer,” Kennedy said. “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologise to the president.” The call was apparently made before Trump and Kennedy’s later meeting on Monday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, reportedly to discuss the possibility of Kennedy endorsing Trump...
#3 Comer to Subpoena USSS Director for July 22 Hearing - Juliegrace Brufke for Axios, and The Trump Train and NY Post on X
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is set to subpoena Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear at the panel's July 22 hearing, a committee spokesperson tells Axios. Why it matters: The spokesperson characterized Comer's move as a bid to head off any attempt by Cheatle to backtrack on her appearance at the hearing, which will examine federal law enforcement's handling of Saturday's assassination attempt against former President Trump. The big picture: Republican chairmen of committees with jurisdiction over federal law enforcement are growing increasingly frustrated with repeated failed attempts to lock down briefings for their members, sources familiar with the matter told Axios...
#2 Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted in Bribery Trial; New Jersey Democrat Found Guilty of Accepting Gold Bars and Cash - Caitlin Yilek for CBS News, and Benny Johnson, John Stossel, and Bob McCormack on X
Sen. Bob Menendez, a powerful New Jersey Democrat, was convicted Tuesday in a sprawling bribery scheme in which he was accused of selling out his office for lucrative bribes, including cash and gold bars. A federal jury convicted Menendez on all 16 felony counts after prosecutors portrayed him as the puppet master of a complex bribery plan that involved two foreign governments and three New Jersey businessmen. The verdict marks a remarkable downfall for the longtime senator who sat atop the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee and beat separate bribery charges in 2017. It has renewed pressure on him to resign, including from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. A growing number of his colleagues have said they will vote to expel him if he does not step down...
#1 Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Marco Rubio Among Night 2 Speakers at the Republican National Convention - Brad Luck and AP News for News 4 New York, and Jeff Hunt, CBS News, and Charlie Kirk on X
The Republican National Convention heads into its second day Tuesday in Milwaukee — now with Donald Trump officially as its presidential nominee. Trump energized the crowd Monday night by entering the arena with a bandage on his right ear after being injured during an assassination attempt Saturday. Expect more speakers Tuesday to mention what they described as the former president's strength and resilience after the shooting at his rally in Pennsylvania. Tuesday night's theme is "Make America Safe Once Again.”
And Now for Something Special 
A Juice Company Dumped Orange Peels in a National Park. Here’s What It Looks Like Now - Upworthy Staff
In 1997, ecologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs approached an orange juice company in Costa Rica with an off-the-wall idea. In exchange for donating a portion of unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste — a nature preserve in the country's northwest — the park would allow the company to dump its discarded orange peels and pulp, free of charge, in a heavily grazed, largely deforested area nearby. One year later, one thousand trucks poured into the national park, offloading over 12,000 metric tons of sticky, mealy, orange compost onto the worn-out plot. The site was left untouched and largely unexamined for over a decade. A sign was placed to ensure future researchers could locate and study it...
