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ICE involved in Maine shooting, official says

(Newsweek) A person was killed Monday in a shooting in Biddeford, Maine, involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel, according to Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau. Fecteau, a Biddeford resident, said in a statement shared on Facebook that a shooting occurred in the city and that one person was killed. He said ICE was involved and that the Maine State Police and the Department of Public Safety were responding to gather additional details.

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How Lindsey Graham, Eager to Serve Trump, Became a Useful Idiot for Putin

(Mother Jones/David Corn) Within moments of the early Sunday morning announcement that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had died, there was much obvious commentary about his journey from Trump foe to Trump suck-up. During the 2016 GOP presidential primary, when Graham was competing with the onetime reality TV celebrity, he blasted Donald Trump as a “demagogue” and a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” He urged voters to tell Trump to “go to hell.” He predicted his party would be “destroyed,” if it nominated Trump. Yet after Trump won, Graham became a full-fledged Trump lackey.

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Trump election task force to begin releasing classified intel documents

(MS NOW) A new White House task force reviewing thousands of pages of classified intelligence and law enforcement documents for evidence of irregularities in U.S. elections is expected to begin releasing documents within weeks, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter told MS NOW. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, whose acting chief, Bill Pulte, has been accused by Democrats of politically weaponizing federal government information, will be part of the effort. Democrats say that Trump has placed Pulte in the position so that he can aid Republicans in the midterm elections and potentially limit voting by Democrats.

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US congressman says 'IDF is lying' about his detention by settlers and soldiers

(The Guardian) Ro Khanna accused the Israeli government and military of “lying” on Sunday about the US congressman’s detention by armed settlers and Israeli soldiers during a recent visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Khanna – a California Democrat – had posted video evidence on social media of Israeli settlers and soldiers blocking the path of his convoy on Wednesday in the South Hebron hills, near the village of Zanuta, where Israelis have driven Palestinians from their homes in what Amnesty International calls a government-backed “ethnic cleansing campaign”.

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Congress to grill Goldman Sachs executive over newly revealed Epstein ties

(The Independent) Goldman Sachs senior counsel Kathryn Ruemmler is scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday as lawmakers examine her past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, renewing scrutiny of the Wall Street firm's decision to retain her after documents released by the Justice Department detailed previously undisclosed contacts with the convicted sex offender. Ruemmler stepped down as Goldman Sachs' chief legal officer and general counsel at the end of June after the documents became public.

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States Prepare Lawsuit to Block Paramount's Merger With Warner Bros.

(NY Times) A group of states are preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as soon as this week, according to four people briefed on the plans, a legal challenge that would create a major obstacle for one of the biggest media mergers in history. A draft of the lawsuit currently circulating argues that the $111 billion deal would harm competition in the market for so-called tent pole films, the expensive blockbusters that make up a large portion of studio revenues, among other claims, two of the people said.

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The Human Cost of DOGE's War on U.S.A.I.D.

(New Yorker) The seven-hundred-plus thousand that have been estimated to have died at the end of a year since the U.S.A.I.D. closure comes from a couple of different sources. One is a Boston University estimate. A separate one comes from an international study published in The Lancet, looking at the impact U.S.A.I.D. had over the past twenty years—saving ninety-two million lives—and projecting, based on the cuts that have occurred, how many deaths have occurred, and they came up with a very similar number.

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Less than a month's supply: Europe's jet fuel stocks are wafer thin as Iran tensions flare

(Reuters) Europe has imported jet fuel from the U.S. and Asia, raised its refiners' output and drawn on stocks to keep planes flying – and yet it remains the region most exposed as renewed Middle Eastern tension raises the risk of further ‌supply disruption. Britain, France and Germany are particularly vulnerable in a continent where decades of refinery closures left it more reliant than most on Middle Eastern shipments via the Strait of Hormuz.

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The New York nurses replaced by AI: 'It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care'

(The Guardian) After nearly four decades in her job, Shuler is one of 12 nurses who was laid off Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), which represents nurses at the hospital. The layoffs at Montefiore come in the wake of a massive nurses strike across several hospitals in New York City in January 2026. The new union contracts written after the strikes included safeguards against AI.

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