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#1 Trump-Backed Andy Biggs Wins GOP Nomination for Governor and Other Arizona Primary Takeaways - David Wright and Katie Doran for CNN, Ed Bradley, Polling Source, Sunshine American Driven, NewsFadio WHAM 1180, and Bloomberg Government on X
Rep. Andy Biggs will win the Republican nomination for governor in Arizona, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, setting up a November clash with Democratic incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs in the battleground state. The win for Biggs, a close ally of President Donald Trump who secured his coveted support, is an affirmation of the president’s grip on GOP politics following an uneven run of presidential endorsements this cycle. Trump’s picks scored further wins down the ballot on Tuesday, including in the race to replace Biggs in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, where the president’s backing helped a controversy-laden candidate capture the Republican nomination...
#2 Ossoff Challenges Hegseth on Cost and Duration of Iran War - Al Jazeera, The Tennessee Holler, LanaQuest aka RosaSparks, FOX 5 Atlanta, June Dey, Adrienne Bradley, and InfoGram on X
Senator Jon Ossoff challenges Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over past claims that Iran’s military had been ‘destroyed’ and rendered ‘combat ineffective,’ questioning whether those claims were accurate as US forces continue operations against Iran...#3 ‘This Bill Is a Trojan Horse’: GOP Pushes Voter Suppression Under Cover of Insider Trading Ban - Brad Reed for Common Dreams, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Jake Sherman, Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Mary Miller, and Dr Stephen Skoly - RI CD-2 Candidate on X
Democrats on Capitol Hill and voting rights advocates on Tuesday sounded the alarm about Republicans in the House of Representatives trying to push through voter suppression legislation under cover of passing a ban on congressional stock trading. According to a Tuesday report from Roll Call, House GOP leaders recently added “unrelated language” to what was a bipartisan bill banning congressional stock trading that would “require voters to produce photo ID at the polls, a signature issue for President Donald Trump.”
#4 House Passes Stopgap Funding Bill, Months Before Shutdown Deadline - Katherine Tully-McManus and Jennifer Scholtes for POLITICO, Mario Díaz-Balart, CBS News, NEWSMAX, and The Washington Post on X
The House passed a government funding bill Tuesday night that would extend funding for all federal operations through the midterm elections — a move made months ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a shutdown. The 220-205 vote was largely along party lines, with Speaker Mike Johnson managing to keep his extremely narrow majority mostly together to advance legislation that would fund the government through Dec. 4. Top House Republicans hope moving the funding measure so early in the process will put Democrats on defense in the impending government spending fight, before voters head to the polls this fall. Republicans plan to highlight Democrats’ votes against federal funding in the midterm campaigns...
#5 DOJ investigating Rep. Cory Mills - ABC News, Jonathan Martin/Mychael Schnell, Breaking 911, Bale Dalton/Carol Leonnig, The Florida Pundit, and The Blaze on X
The Justice Department is investigating embattled Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The investigation is in part about his finances, according to sources. Mills' office did not respond to ABC News' request for comment. MS NOW first reported the investigation. Further details about the investigation were not immediately clear. Mills was elected to the House to represent Florida's 7th District in 2022 and reelected in 2024. He serves on the House Armed Services and Intelligence committees. Last November, the House Ethics Committee voted to establish an investigative subcommittee to examine allegations that Mills violated campaign finance laws and engaged in sexual misconduct and dating violence...
#6 Zelenskyy Replaces Ukraine’s Top General After Days of Protests - Aidan Stretch for CBS News, Financial Times, Kyiv Post, CNN International, and New York Post on X
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday that he will replace his top general, Oleksandr Syrskyi. The latest shakeup follows six days of protests against last week's ouster of Ukraine's Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov. Zelenskyy removed Fedorov from his post last Wednesday, citing an irresolvable feud between the defense minister and Syryski, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces. "I wanted unity very much. The sides did not achieve it. And that isn't just their problem, but mine as well. I do not absolve myself of responsibility," Zelenskyy told journalists in Kyiv last week...
#7 Trump Gives Generic Drugmakers 2 Years Before Tariffs Climb to 200% - NEWSMAX, Reuters, Reuters Legal, Bloomberg, and Cointelegraph on X
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a phased tariff plan for imported generic drugs, giving manufacturers two years to move production to the United States before steep import duties take effect. In a Truth Social post, Trump said imported generic drugs will continue to face a 0% tariff beginning Aug. 1 for two years. He said the tariff would then increase to 100% for one year before rising to 200%. "This is done in order to RESHORE Generic Pharmaceutical Production into America, with a penalty to those Companies that decide not to build Plant and Equipment within the stated period of time given to them...
#8 OpenAI Admits Model Escaped Containment And Hacked Hugging Face To Cheat On A Test - Tyler Durden Zerohedge, Smart Science, Vaibhav Sisinty, Doge Designer, and NEXTA on X
In a blog post, OpenAI said the evaluation was designed to operate in a highly isolated environment with restricted network access. The models, however, found a way to gain internet access through a zero-day vulnerability in an internally-hosted third-party software, OpenAI said. Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure. This one was different from anything we had handled before in one important way: it was driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system – and we detected and dissected it largely with AI of our own...
#9 Democrat New Jersey Governor Says Thousands of Noncitizens Discovered on Voter Rolls, Purged - Fox News, Bob Fu 傅希秋 Ethan Block/David Wildstein/Bill Kelly, Lawyer for Law/Western Lensman, iDenville, and PrettyinPink11/Lee Zeldin on X
New Jersey's Governor announced Tuesday afternoon that thousands of noncitizens were registered to vote in her state — and some cast ballots in past elections. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said that a "serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were not U.S. citizens between June 2023 and June 2024, almost three years prior to my taking office." "These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," according to Sherrill...
#10 Feds — and a Country Music Star — Slam Hochul’s Push to Blanket Upstate NY Farmland With Solar Energy Panels: ‘On-Brand Elitism’ - Chadwick Moore for New York Post, Lee Zeldin, Alex Fasulo/Governor Kathy Hochul, Assemblyman Scott Gray, Keshia Clukey, and Eric Daugherty/AuntLizR on X
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support of sprawling solar energy fields in rural upstate New York has caught the ire of three federal agencies — and one country music star — who are demanding answers about the state’s “rush” to approve projects “without fully accounting for their long-term costs.” USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins and EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, along with country singer John Rich, have co-signed a letter skewering the Hochul administration’s industrialization of prime farmland for solar energy complexes while potentially strapping costs to rural communities...
