Trump rejected $227m in disaster relief to blue states after FEMA OK’d the money The president has consistently rejected disaster aid to Democrat-led states, according to a recent analysis The Independent UK · Jul 29
Netanyahu Pushes Plan To Wean Israel off Us Military Aid Within a Decade Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to phase out Israel's reliance on US military aid within a decade, proposing a new memorandum of understanding and joint development funds. International Business Times UK · Jul 29
FIFA's $20 Billion World Cup Plan Sparks Global Backlash. UEFA Says Tournament 'Is Not FIFA's To Sell' FIFA's ambitious plan to bring private investors into the commercial operations of the FIFA World Cup has ignited one of the biggest governance disputes in modern soccer. International Business Times · Jul 29
Senate unanimously passes resolution opposing pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell Longtime Epstein associate serving 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking crimes has exhausted series of appeals The Guardian - US · Jul 29
Texas senator who Trump betrayed exacts his revenge over Todd Blanche nomination ANALYSIS: Trump humiliated John Cornyn in the worst possible way. Now, Eric Garcia writes, the Texan has the chance to turn the tables The Independent UK · Jul 29
Trump demands another $10M from Congress to cover his disastrous Freedom 250 event costs Democratic senator wants a ‘full accounting’ for Freedom 250’s spending after the administation’s latest request for a ‘bailout’ The Independent UK · Jul 29
Epstein victims claim AG nominee Todd Blanche told them to ‘get to the point’ during face-to-face Blanche met with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse earlier this month after a Republican senator called for it The Independent UK · Jul 29
Morning Mail: headwinds for green revolution, Football Australia’s Fifa deadline, Fauci takes the fifth Anti-wind campaigns eat into popular support for renewable power sources; federation must decide whether or not to join World Cup selloff The Guardian - AU · Jul 29
John Cornyn’s unmet demands imperil Trump’s U.S. attorney general nomination Texas’ outgoing senator has insisted on written assurance that President Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” is dead as a condition for voting to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination. The Texas Tribune · Jul 29
More than 1,200 AI workers are asking for Washington’s help to build an AI slowdown plan The statement, signed by senior executives at competing companies, calls on the government to help build the tools needed to pace frontier AI development. Fortune · Jul 29
Economic Development Subsidies Create a Lot of Jobs—Mostly for Lobbyists According to a newly published study, states that issued "extraordinarily large" economic development subsidies saw more lobbyists located in the state capital. Reason · Jul 29
Takeaways from Anthony Fauci's COVID-era diaries Dr. Anthony Fauci's private COVID-era diary became a focal point in a Senate hearing led by Sen. Rand Paul The Independent UK · Jul 29
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will spend even less time behind bars as prison release date moved up again The disgraced music mogul’s release date has been changed multiple times The Independent UK · Jul 29
Trump insists Andy Burnham will ‘open up North Sea’ for oil drilling US President Donald Trump has claimed that Prime Minister Andy Burnham told him he would "open up the North Sea" for oil drilling, asserting that this action would make the UK "a really rich country" due to vast reserves. The Independent UK · Jul 29
Evening Standard · Jul 29 Donald Trump says Andy Burnham told him he will ‘open up North Sea oil’ The US president, who is a vocal supporter of fossil fuels, argues the move would make the UK ‘a wealthy country’.
The Guardian - US · Jul 29 Trump’s pick for US attorney general Todd Blanche in jeopardy as vote postponed Republican John Cornyn says he will not back nomination without written confirmation $1.8bn slush fund is dead
The Independent UK · Jul 29 Trump says Burnham will ‘open up North Sea’ for oil drilling US president claims new prime minister confirmed UK would allow more drilling
The Conversation · Jul 29 Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…
The Independent UK · Jul 29 Trump says he was busy Wednesday morning watching Fauci plead the Fifth a whopping 111 times President tells reporters he watched entire hearing, during which Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to every single question, even as his war with Iran continues to rage and amid continued economic pain for Americans
International Business Times · Jul 29 The Fed Did What Investors Anticipated. Stocks Plunged Anyway And Nasdaq Entered Correction Territory Stocks plummeted on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged.
The Guardian - US · Jul 29 Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag
The Independent UK · Jul 29 Judge weighs bid to block or reverse transfers of transgender inmates into a segregated prison unit A federal judge is concerned that the Trump administration has violated a court order by transferring several incarcerated transgender women to a segregated prison unit
The Independent UK · Jul 29 America is clear: It doesn’t like older lawmakers (but keeps voting for them anyway) The recent death of Sen. Lindsey Graham and hospitalization of Sen. Mitch McConnell has reignited debate over whether lawmakers are too old to serve
Barchart · Jul 29 Dollar Falls as FOMC Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged The dollar index (DXY00 ) fell to a 1-week low on Wednesday and finished down by -0.48%. The dollar tumbled on Wednesday after the FOMC kept interest rates unchanged. The dollar moved higher briefly early on Wednesday after crude oil prices surged more than +6% when President Trump said the...
The National (Scotland) · Jul 29 Andy Burnham will 'open up the North Sea' for oil drilling, Donald Trump claims DONALD Trump has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham told him that he would 'open up the North Sea' for oil drilling