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Trump asks Supreme Court to step into dispute over mail-in voting executive order

July 27, 2026 / 4:36 PM EDT / CBS News

By Melissa Quinn

Washington — President Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to intervene in a 23-state challenge to his executive order that seeks to impose new restrictions for mail ballots and directs the Homeland Security Department to create lists of eligible voters.

The request for emergency relief to the Supreme Court comes after a federal appeals court on Sunday left in place a lower court decision that blocked implementation of key provisions of the president’s executive order in nearly half the states ahead of the November midterm elections.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the district court’s injunction is “extraordinary” because it prevents federal agencies from taking steps to implement Mr. Trump’s directive, which he said “merely sets forth general policy guidance” and aims to promote election integrity.

“The Executive Order functions only to direct the President’s subordinates to take appropriate and lawful action to implement the President’s policy objectives,” he wrote. “By stopping the relevant agencies and officials from implementing that Order with respect to the November 2026 federal election, the injunction operates as ‘an improper intrusion by a federal court into the workings of a coordinate branch of the Government.’”

Mr. Trump signed the executive order at issue in the case in March. The measure directs the Homeland Security secretary to compile and send to each state a “state citizenship list” of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. It also instructs the U.S. Postal Service to come up with new rules for mail ballots, including requiring them to be marked in a specific envelope and allowing mail ballots to be sent to voters on their state’s list.

Days after the president rolled out his directive, a group of 23 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit arguing that the executive order is unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who sits on the federal court in Massachusetts, sided with the states in June and barred the Trump administration from implementing provisions related to mail ballots and the state citizenship lists for the Nov. 3 federal elections in the 23 states that sued.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit then declined to let the Trump administration move forward with the executive order.

Sauer argued that Talwani’s injunction was “premature,” since federal agencies are only working to put together plans to put the president’s executive order in place.

He said the states’ challenge is to “hypothetical” agency action, and the president is allowed under the law to direct his subordinates to consider “appropriate” action.

“The harms to voter integrity in that election if the government’s policy is not in place cannot be undone even if the government later prevails on the merits of its appeal,” Sauer wrote.

Newly released Biden audio recordings include references to ‘classified’ material and struggles with memory

2026-07-27T23:49:59.240Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/politics/biden-audio-clips-ghost-writer-classified

Audio clips released by the right-wing Oversight Project on Monday of former-President Joe Biden’s conversations with his biographer, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, appears to support what former Special Counsel Robert Hur found in his 2024 report: Biden disclosed classified material, was forgetful and continued to possess classified material after leaving his post as vice president.

In the audio tapeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ-4dWVwWsFI, Biden can be heard cavalierly discussing the notes he kept from his time as vice president as he showed them to Zwonitzer.

“They didn’t even know I had this,” Biden said while apparently showing the ghostwriter his old notes as reference points in their discussion of allegedly classified foreign policy matters during his VP days. The information is still redacted in the audio clips.

The tapes were released by the Oversight Project, a branch of the conservative think-tank powerhouse Heritage Foundation, who had successfully sued the Justice Department to release them. Biden had fought the release to no avail, ultimately deciding to stop the battle by withdrawing his legal challenges on Monday.

In multiple instances in the audio tapes, Biden has trouble remembering dates and information during the interviews with his ghostwriter. In the Hur report, Biden is aptly described as an elderly man “with a poor memory.”

Hur ultimately decided not to bring a case against Biden in part because of Biden’s cooperation, which supported the notion that he had not intentionally broken the law but instead did so mistakenly. But Biden’s poor memory and elderly disposition also weighed into the decision and how a jury might respond to such prosecution.

A representative for Biden declined to comment on the release of the audio clips.

“Since March 2024, the Oversight Project and the Heritage Foundation fought tooth and nail to bring these tapes to light,” the group said in a statement on Monday. “Together, we defeated both the Biden-led Justice Department and his high-price private attorneys. These tapes we are releasing today should have come out a long time ago.”

Biden said to his ghostwriter that he had “just found” classified documents and then proceeded to lay out his case for why in 2009 he argued against then-President Barack Obama sending troops to Afghanistan.

“So this was – I, early on, in ’09 – I just found all of the classified stuff downstairs. I wrote the President a handwritten 40-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Iraq – I mean, to Afghanistan on the grounds that it wouldn’t matter, that the day we left would be like the day before we arrived” Biden said.

In another interview with the ghostwriter, Biden referred to classified information, but the context was unclear.

“And then — and then the next thing I have here is — this is classified,” Biden said.

Biden said former President Barack Obama used to really “get pissed” at him over disagreements on how to handle the economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

“I was a really lonely voice on housing, I was a lonely voice on the middle class. I mean, I thought we should be much more aggressive than putting these guys in jail and the bankers,” he said. “I mean, he used to really get pissed at me,” he added, referring to Obama.

He said the reason the administration did not do more was because Obama his allies were “subconsciously” beholden to “Silicon Valley.”

“I think the reason why we didn’t do more, by the way, is because I think that — this is a harsh thing to say — But I think subconsciously, at least, Barack and his guys were beholden to Silicon Valley,” he said. “And the valley guys didn’t want the shit that I — you know, I wanted,” he said.

Biden also said that Obama backed away from a “promise” to appoint Larry Summers to the Federal Reserve because the prominent economist was a “liability.”

“He was, you know, Harvard and women,” Biden told Zwonitzer. Summers, who once served as Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and as president of Harvard University, has caught backlash over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Biden said that one thing he wasn’t focused on while the administration was trying to save the economy was “how rapidly the economy was changing.”

“I wasn’t focused on robots and artificial intelligence and, and digitalization and Moore’s law. I mean, it was all about — and I really believed that, and I still believe it, that we could bring back the manufacturing in America,” he said.

The tapes also included a several-minutes-long recollection from Biden of a lunch meeting with Obama, where Biden said the then-president gave him advice about whether he should run for president in 2016.

“He said it’s my decision to run or not. It doesn’t have to do with the field,” Biden recalled.

Biden indicated that Obama questioned whether his vice president could win the nomination over Hillary Clinton, saying that it would “really be an uphill battle,” according to Biden.

“The fact is that he didn’t think it was doable at that time, that I could, that I could actually go out and get the nomination,” Biden said. “That was my read at the time.”

It’s not clear from the recording when the meeting between Biden and Obama took place, though Biden provided the details to his ghostwriter just days before the 2016 election, on November 3, 2016.

Biden talked to the ghostwriter about various other meetings he had with top advisors strategizing about whether he should announce a run, how he should frame his candidacy and when he should announce.

Biden talked to the ghostwriter about various meetings he had with top advisors strategizing about whether he should announce a run for president, how he should frame his candidacy and when he should announce. In the audio recording, Biden does not specify the year the meetings took place.

“Consensus is that it’s no longer a question about is the race doable, it is, the question was when would I need to show my hand to be plausible, he said.

In another meeting, Biden recalled one of his advisers telling him, “you have the ability to be a unifier, a reassuring skill. Hillary is divisive and Bernie is too angry.”

Biden also discussed with aides what some of his challenges as a candidate would be and one mentioned his gaffes as one of the many obstacles he would have to overcome.

“Gaffe issue, is like a virus. I’s dormant, when you make a mistake again they’ll bring it up” Biden said, appearing to be reading from his notes.

“I can’t read my own writing” the former president said at one point.

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中国官员促日本提供在华遗留化武线索 加快处置进程

2026年7月28日 07:22 / 联合早报

日本持续处置在华遗留化学武器之际，中国外交部亚洲司司长刘劲松敦促日本提供有效的埋藏线索，并全方位加大投入，加快处置进程。

据中国外交部亚洲司微信公众号“亚洲雄风”消息，刘劲松上星期天（7月26日）赴吉林省敦化市，督导哈尔巴岭日遗化武处理作业，实地查看化武挖掘回收和销毁情况，并检查安全管理工作。

刘劲松与日本作业现场负责人及主要代表会面时说，日遗化武是日本军国主义在侵华战争期间犯下的严重罪行，日本应切实履行国际公约和双边协议义务，向中国提供有效日遗化武埋藏线索信息，加大投入，全链条加快处置进程，“早日彻底清除日遗化武毒害，还中国人民以净土”。

据日本共同社此前报道，日本内阁府6月17日参加有关日军在华遗留化学武器处理项目的专家会议。专家报告显示，中国东北地区新发现两处埋有炮弹的地点，使日军在华遗留化武地点增至11处。

日本内阁府透露，吉林省哈尔巴岭埋藏最多数量的化武，政府将在2027年11月底前完成相关化武处理项目工作。

根据1997年生效的《禁止化学武器公约》，日本有义务销毁在华遗留化武。1999年7月，日中双方就销毁遗弃化学武器的基本框架达成共识，并签署了备忘录。日本内阁府的资料显示，截至去年3月底，总计已销毁约11万8000枚化武。

根据公约规定，这项计划原定应在2007年完成，但目前销毁计划已多次逾期，销毁作业目前仍在推进。中国外交部近几个月多次要求日本加大投入，加快日遗化武处置进程。

中国孟加拉启动延宕多年工业园区项目 望创数万就业岗位

2026年7月28日 07:50 / 联合早报

孟加拉星期一（7月27日）启动靠近港口城市吉大港的中国经济工业园区建设。图为摄于当天的中国经济工业园区。 （法新社）

孟加拉星期一（7月27日）启动靠近港口城市吉大港的中国经济工业园区建设。这个延宕多年的孟中合作项目，预计将吸引外资并创造数万个就业岗位。

据法新社报道，孟中两国官员当天为中国经济工业园区举行启动仪式。这座占地800英亩的园区，早在10多年前已达成建设协议。

目前，孟加拉正寻求扩大工业生产和吸引外资，北京也通过大型基础设施项目不断扩大在南亚的经济影响力。

孟加拉财政与规划部长乔杜里（Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury）说，工业园区将助力孟加拉国实现到2034年发展成万亿美元经济体的目标。“我们期待在高科技晶片、医疗设备和制造业等领域获得战略投资。”

中国驻孟加拉大使姚文形容，这座园区是两国合作的旗舰项目，目前已有超过100家中国企业派团考察。

姚文说，园区目前已吸引约5亿美元（6.4亿新元）的潜在投资，预计将在成衣、电动车、电池和医疗设备等领域创造约10万个就业岗位。

孟中两国2014年为这个项目签署谅解备忘录，但由于委任开发商、落实融资及取得行政审批等工作延误，项目多年来进展停滞。孟加拉国总理拉赫曼（Tarique Rahman）今年6月访华后，项目重新获得推进动力。

孟加拉国上月撤销2015年授予印度的蒙格拉港经济区开发权，并将这个占地110英亩的项目转交中国开发。这座工业园区随后正式启动。

Fox News Poll: Cool your servers! Voters reject data centers

July 27, 2026 6:00pm EDT / Fox News

More favor the slow approach over rapid AI development

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Trump touts economic benefits of data center contracts

President Donald Trump details how data centers are transforming local economies while speaking at the Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters.

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While U.S. tech companies race for AI dominance, the latest Fox News nationwide survey finds voters hitting the brakes on data centers, as more prefer taking time to address local concerns than rushing expansion to maintain a competitive global edge.

By a 40-point margin, voters oppose building data centers in their area to support artificial intelligence (30% favor, 70% oppose).

MAGA supporters (46% favor) and Republican men (45%) are the groups most likely to favor data centers, while White women with a college degree (84% oppose) and liberal voters (80%) are the most opposed.

FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS WANT MAJOR CHANGE AMID ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCONTENT

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Among those favoring data centers, 60% cite economic benefits, including jobs, economic growth, community investment, and tax revenue as the reason for their support. Another 21% point to technological benefits, saying the centers are useful, necessary, or important for future progress. Just 2% say staying ahead of competitors is the primary reason for their support.

Those opposing data centers emphasize a different set of considerations. Half (50%) say environmental issues are their main concern, including energy and water use, pollution, noise, and overall environmental impact, while far fewer mention quality-of-life concerns (14%), economic effects (11%), or simply having a negative view of AI (11%).

FOX NEWS POLL: SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR BOTH VOTER ID LAWS AND MAIL-IN BALLOTS

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While data centers are broadly unpopular, views of artificial intelligence technology itself are somewhat less negative. Overall, 45% view AI favorably versus 54% unfavorably, underwater by 9 points. In April, it was -11 points.

Positive views of AI are higher among MAGA Republicans (55% favorable), voters with graduate degrees (52%), conservatives (50%), and men (49%) than among Democrats (41%), those without a college degree (43%), liberals (37%), and women (40%).

Nearly 8 in 10 voters prefer slower data center construction to address environmental and community concerns, while 2 in 10 favor building them as quickly as possible to maintain a competitive advantage over China and other countries.

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While majorities across the board prefer the slow adoption of the centers, MAGA Republicans (36%) and very conservatives (35%) are the most likely to prioritize rapid expansion to maintain international competitiveness.

AI won’t find an ally in the under 30 crowd

Although younger voters are often viewed as more tech-savvy, that does not translate into warm views of artificial intelligence.

Voters under age 30 are the least likely to view AI favorably, at 38%, compared with 48% of those ages 30-44 and 44% of those 45 and over.

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Regardless of differences in views of AI, attitudes toward data centers are pretty consistent across generations. Roughly 7 in 10 in every age group oppose building data centers, and about 8 in 10 prefer slowing construction to address environmental and local concerns.

Conducted July 17–20, 2026, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,003 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (70) and cellphones (681) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (252). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. The survey includes an oversample of 200 voters aged 18–29, bringing the sample size for that subgroup to 350 (±5). Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling errors, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.

Biden tapes, released after legal battle, include references to notes containing classified material

2026-07-27T17:07:00-0400 / CBS News

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Audio recordings that former President Joe Biden fought for years to keep private have now been released.

The roughly 70 hours of audio recordings, shared with CBS News, were cited in a 2024 special counsel’s report, which said Biden kept volumes of notes at his home that included classified information.

Biden, now 83, is at one point in the recordings heard telling his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer: “Some of this may be classified … So, be careful. I’m not sure … It’s not marked classified but —”

At another point in the recordings he says again: “The next thing I have here is, um, this is classified …”

The recordings were made while Biden worked with his ghostwriter on his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” No classified material was ever alleged to be in the published book.

The tapes first became the topic of intense scrutiny and controversy when they were referenced by Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur in a February 2024 report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur began investigating after documents that were marked classified, dating back to his time as vice president, were found in his home and private office. He ultimately did not recommend charges.

Hur also characterized Biden as “struggling to remember events,” exhibiting “diminished faculties” and having “painfully slow” conversations as early as 2016. On the tapes, Biden speaks haltingly at times. If he is struggling with his memory during that period, the signs of it are subtle.

At one point, Biden seems to lose his way, saying: “Alright — what was I going to ask you? Something else… Uh… um. Oh gosh. I can’t think of anything else.”

The recordings were released after a two-year court battle by the Oversight Project, a conservative nonprofit that says its goal is to “expose and root out corruption in government.”

Biden’s legal team had initially sought to enjoin the release, but after a series of adverse rulings, declined to pursue the matter further.

CBS News has reached out to an attorney for Biden on the matter. At the time of the Hur report, Biden told reporters: “I did not share classified information. I did not share it with my ghostwriter.” He added that he wasn’t aware how boxes containing classified documents ended up in his garage.

Recordings shared with CBS News include Biden describing to Zwonitzer potentially classified meetings, including “a big meeting with the CIA and everyone,” “a big meeting down in the Situation Room,” and “a long meeting where DOD brief … POTUS.”

In an Oct. 10, 2016, recording, he tells Zwonitzer that he has notes that the White House was not aware of.

“I have extensive notes over this period of time… They didn’t know I have this,” he said.

Biden also says in a Feb. 16, 2017, recording, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs” — a comment that Hur cited as evidence Biden had classified material in his Virginia rental home, despite leaving office a month earlier. Hur called his tone “matter-of-fact” and said he may have quickly forgotten about the documents.

But Biden appears to be more cautious in some recordings, telling his ghostwriter about the “non-classified part of my discussion with POTUS” on Nov. 3, 2016, while he was still serving as vice president.

Hur investigated whether Biden illegally stored and shared classified information, and highlighted examples in his report, including Biden, then age 75, showing Zwonitzer “classified notes from a National Security Council meeting” of the Obama administration.

But Hur concluded the Justice Department would be unlikely to achieve a conviction, in part because the jury would side with Biden, viewing him as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

Justifying his decision not to prosecute, Hur wrote that “Mr. Biden’s recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.”

“For these jurors, Mr. Biden’s apparent lapses and failures in February and April 2017 will likely appear consistent with the diminished faculties and faulty memory he showed in Zwonitzer’s interview recordings and in our interview of him,” the report said.

Last year, the Justice Department released audio recordings from Biden’s 2023 interview with Hur’s team. At times, Biden spoke in a hoarse and halting tone, and he struggled at one point to remember the year when his son Beau died and the year when President Trump was first elected.

Questions about Biden’s age and mental acuity dogged him throughout his term, flaring up when moments of slurred speech, apparent vacancy or tripping on stairs were caught on camera. The White House repeatedly sought to downplay those concerns, highlighting Biden’s command during key events such as his final State of the Union address.

But Biden’s run for a second term ended abruptly after he appeared slow and confused during a disastrous June 2024 debate with then-candidate Donald Trump.

Classified documents were found in Biden’s home and office several months after classified materials were found at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Biden called Mr. Trump’s handling of those materials “totally irresponsible” in an interview with “60 Minutes.” In Mr. Trump’s case, a separate special counsel decided to file charges against him, which were later dismissed. Hur said there were “several material distinctions” between the cases, including that Mr. Trump was accused of obstructing justice.

The Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project’s sister nonprofit, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act on Feb. 9, 2024, asking for the “records relied upon by Special Counsel Hur in drafting passages in the Report relating to President Joseph R. Biden’s memory and mental faculties.”

When the Biden administration’s Justice Department failed to turn over the files for a month, the Oversight Project sued in Washington, D.C., federal court to compel the audio’s release.

Jeff Clark, the Oversight Project’s vice president of litigation, told CBS News that when Mr. Trump took power, the Justice Department agreed to hand over the files.

But Biden’s own lawyers joined the legal case and prevented disclosure, until a federal appeals court ruled against Biden on July 20.

In a statement, the Oversight Project called the ruling a “complete and total victory.”

Biden received an $8 million advance for the 2017 book, and plans to release a sequel, “Promise Me, America,” in November, detailing his presidency, his 2024 reelection run and the decision to step aside.

Daniel Klaidman contributed to this report.

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail voting

2026-07-27T20:11:27.436Z / CNN

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the administration to move forward with implementing a sweeping executive order aimed at mail voting that lower courts blocked in nearly two dozen states — setting up a major elections dispute at the high court months before the midterms.

Trump’s order would give the US Postal Service and the Department of Homeland Security new roles in screening state voter rolls for potential non-citizen voters.

Signed in March, the president’s directive would require states to submit lists of eligible mail voters to the US Postal Service, which would be barred from sending ballots to anyone not on those lists. It would also require states to use individualized ballot tracking barcodes on ballot envelopes. And it would “prioritize” federal prosecution of state election officials who send or receive ballots to non-citizens or others ineligible to vote.

Despite revelations this month that about 400 non-citizens had cast improper ballots in New Jersey elections, improper voting remains exceedingly rare, and the administration has never provided evidence of widespread fraud on a scale that could influence the outcome of an election. Trump has for years nevertheless touted conspiracy theories about voting as a way to discredit the 2020 presidential election that he lost.

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In its appeal to the Supreme Court on Monday, the administration framed its executive order as “general policy guidance” and stressed that the Postal Service had not finalized any regulations.

Twenty-three Democratic-led states challenged the order, noting that the Constitution leaves the running of elections largely to states, not the White House. A federal district court blocked its implementation for this year’s election in the states that sued, and the Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision over the weekend.

Two of the three appeals court judges in that decision were appointed by former President Joe Biden. A third judge, who Trump named to the bench last year, agreed with part of the court’s decision but would have allowed some of the president’s executive order to take effect.

Despite its ostensible scope to just about half the country, the ruling effectively puts the USPS directives on hold nationwide, because the agency is unable to implement Trump’s order in some states but not others, according to court filings. A dozen Republican-led states have intervened in the case to defend the executive order.

In addition to the directives for USPS, another section of Trump’s order instructs Homeland Security to provide lists of state residents it believes are eligible to vote, though the government has acknowledged in court that its own databases of US citizens are incomplete.

Rather than defend the merits of its executive order, the Trump administration has instead argued that the Democratic states challenging it sued prematurely because much of Trump’s effort has yet to be implemented.

“The executive order is an intra-branch directive from the president to his subordinates — which, of its own force, does not change anything at all about elections in any state,” US Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court in the appeal. “It does not require the states to do (or refrain from doing) anything at all.”

The administration asked for an immediate “administrative” order to put the lower court decisions on hold.

But the 1st Circuit reasoned that local election officials have already had to devote resources away from preparing for this year’s election to figure out how to comply with the executive order. And some of them have already purchased ballot envelopes for this year’s election.

“Given their limited resources, the states’ efforts have necessarily entailed a diversion of staff time and attention from other pressing election-related tasks – such as preparing public-education materials for voters and rolling out new voting technology – to coordinate the implementation of the changes articulated in the EO,” the appeals court wrote.

US Circuit Judge Joshua Dunlap, a Trump appointee, agreed that the states should be allowed to sue over the envelope requirements. But he would have allowed DHS to create and send the lists of voters it believes are eligible to the states because the order technically doesn’t require state election officials to do anything with that information.

Even before the March 2026 order, the Trump administration was ramping up efforts to use federal immigration data to hunt for non-citizens. However, the DHS citizenship data program that has been commonly used in that exercise is known to turn up false positives, prompting fears that eligible voters will be wrongly purged from the voter rolls.

Trump’s emergency appeal marks the first time the administration has raced up to the Supreme Court with a short-fuse request since March — only the third such appeal this year. That is a marked departure from last year, when the administration filed nearly 30 emergency appeals on what critics have called the court’s “shadow docket.”

The court requested a response to the administration’s appeal on August 3.

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Georgia man who ran toward Capitol with shotgun pleads guilty

July 27, 2026 / 5:54 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A Georgia man who charged at the U.S. Capitol armed with a loaded shotgun and wearing body armor and camouflage clothing pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally carrying a firearm, court records show.

Carter Camacho, 18, of Smyrna, Georgia, told police officers who apprehended him outside the Capitol on Feb. 17 that he intended to confront members of Congress and “scare them into speaking the truth,” according to federal prosecutors. But he didn’t make it into the building, and nobody was injured.

Camacho is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 8 by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C. He has remained jailed since his arrest.

Camacho pleaded guilty to two counts: illegal possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds and receipt or distribution of child pornography. The latter charge stems from a search of his phone after his arrest.

Surveillance video captured Camacho exiting a parked car and running toward the west side of the Capitol, the side that is adjacent to the National Mall, with the shotgun in his hands. He complied with Capitol Police officers’ commands to stop and get down on the ground.

“This individual was challenged by United States Capitol Police officers in order to drop the weapon, which he did comply with,” U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said in February.

Sullivan had said the man, whom he didn’t name at the time, was wearing a tactical vest and had tactical gloves. He said the shotgun was loaded, and the man was carrying additional rounds. Officers found a Kevlar helmet and a gas mask in his vehicle, Sullivan said.

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Camacho told police that he purchased the shotgun for “home defense” less than a week before he drove from Georgia to the Capitol, prosecutors said. He also said he had left pepper spray and other tactical gear in his car “just in case I don’t want to shoot anyone,” according to prosecutors.

“He further indicated that he considered using the shotgun to breach a door to be able to enter the Capitol,” they wrote.

Kaia Hubbard contributed to this report.

Senate clears way for Trump’s top spy as key anti-terror program remains in limbo

July 27, 2026 6:24pm EDT / Fox News

Clayton’s confirmation vote Tuesday would end a standoff that let the key FISA counterterrorism program go dark

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Jay Clayton grilled on 2020 election claims in DNI confirmation hearing

Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill, highlighting Democrats pressing Clayton on his stance regarding 2020 election claims and his delayed testimony, a move orchestrated by President Donald Trump over the SAVE America Act.

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President Donald Trump’s pick to run the nation’s intelligence agencies is one step closer to clinching the job, and puts the Senate ever-closer to jump-starting a key counter-terrorism tool in the process.

The Senate advanced Jay Clayton through a key hurdle Monday night to be the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI). It comes after former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s sudden exit from the position to care for her cancer-stricken husband.

The largely partisan 51-43 vote to move Clayton, who formerly chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) during Trump’s first term, comes after he narrowly squeaked out the Senate Intelligence Committee on a 9 to 8 vote.

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United States attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton, nominee to be director of national intelligence, testifies during his confirmation hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 15, 2026.(Anadolu via Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., challenged Democrats to support Clayton during the broader, final vote, but expected them to resist as they have with several other Trump nominees through his second term.

“One might think that we’d be seeing some bipartisanship from Democrats on this nominee,” Thune said. “But Democrats are playing the same partisan games with this qualified nominee as they have for so many of President Trump’s picks.”

“It’s a funny thing because Democrats have made no secret of their disdain for the current acting Director of … National intelligence,” he continued. “In fact, Democrats were so worked up over the president’s temporary choice for this position, they allowed our nation’s most important counterterrorism tool to go dark for the first time ever.”

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The Senate will now vote on confirmation Tuesday, putting an end cap on an arduous process to replace Gabbard. When she announced her exit from the position, Trump hastily installed Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte to lead the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies in the interim.

That came as the Senate was nearing a vote on a bipartisan deal to keep the nation’s top counter-terrorism tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), running ahead of its expiration.

But Democrats, who railed against Pulte and accused him of being an unqualified loyalist who would weaponize the intelligence community against the president’s enemies and try to dismantle it, walked away from the deal after Trump torpedoed Clayton’s previously scheduled confirmation hearing.

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Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte attends a kick-off celebration for the “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall in Washington, DC, June 24, 2026.(Jemal COUNTESS / AFP via Getty Images)

Less than 24 hours before Clayton’s penultimate test, Pulte announced on X that he had completed his fourth round of layoffs as DNI.

“Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of ODNI, re-focusing ODNI on national security, the law, and the statute,” Pulte said. “As of this evening, we just finished a 4th round of thoughtful, measured layoffs. Thank you!”

The Section 702 program has since been steadily going dark, with new authorizations caught in a legal void until lawmakers reauthorize the program that has been used to thwart deadly terror attacks, including halting a mass-casualty terror plot at a Taylor Swift show in Vienna, Austria.

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Last week, only Republicans on the panel voted Clayton out of committee after he failed to satisfy Senate Democrats’ questioning on who won the 2020 election, his knowledge of Gabbard’s raid on the Fulton County, Georgia election offices, and subpoenas against New York Times reporters that his were submitted by him in his role as the top prosecutor in New York’s Southern District.

Those subpoenas were voluntarily withdrawn by the Department of Justice last week, two days after Clayton was confirmed by the panel.

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

特朗普称美伊谈判进展良好 但伊朗邻国继续遇袭

2026年7月28日 06:59 / 联合早报

特朗普7月27日晚到密歇根州出席竞选活动，他告诉现场民众，美国和伊朗“正在进行非常友好的谈判”。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普称，美国与伊朗正在进行“良好的谈判”，双方有可能就解决冲突达成协议。

尽管特朗普态度乐观，但德黑兰方面似乎迅速试探了美国暂停军事行动的底线——沙特阿拉伯、约旦、伊拉克均报告了无人机袭击事件。

路透社报道，特朗普星期一（7月27日）飞往密歇根州出席竞选集会，他在空军一号上对随行美国媒体说，美伊谈判进展“良好”。

他说：“我们谈得很顺利。我认为很可能会取得进展，如果谈得成，那很好；如果谈不成，我们就恢复两天前做的事。”

特朗普过后在密歇根州的竞选集会告诉民众：“你无法收买他们，你必须打败他们，我们会狠狠地痛击他们。但我们先看看结果如何。目前，双方正在进行非常友好的谈判。”

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华盛顿25日突然暂停对伊朗持续两周的空袭行动，这是特朗普在这场持续五个月的冲突中，最新一次的战略急转弯。

伊朗外交部发言人巴盖伊27日称，双方仍通过调解方传递信息，伊朗并未放弃外交努力，但有关伊朗主动要求谈判的报道是“捏造的”。他说：“这不符合我们的天性。”

同日晚些时候，伊朗武装部队哈塔姆安比亚中央司令部指责美国威胁伊朗领海内的船只和油轮，并“试图实施非法海上封锁”，称此举“构成地区冲突升级”。

与此同时，沙特阿拉伯称击落多架瞄准境内石油设施包括首都利雅得的无人机，这些无人机是伊朗支持的武装组织从伊拉克境内发射，并表示沙特保留做出还击的权利。

伊朗在也门的盟友胡塞武装则说，他们袭击了向沙特红海主要港口延布输送石油的“东西管道”，这是为报复沙特无人机入侵。