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Fed Hawk Down Someone go check on the health of the Fed hawks. The wind has been taken from beneath their wings. The benign inflation report released Wednesday confirms earlier data suggesting there is no need for a rate hike from the Federal Reserve later this year. The consumer price index climbed 0.1 percent in July compared with June. That followed the prior month’s 0.4 percent decline. Although the year-over-year rise in CPI is still uncomfortably high at 3.4 percent, this was the second month in a row in which it headed down. The three-month annualized rate is now just…
A coalition of pro-life organizations sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche ahead of his confirmation on Saturday, urging him to enforce an 1873 anti-obscenity law to prohibit sending abortion pills through the mail. The Comstock Act is a federal law that banned sending “obscene material” by mail, including any “article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” However, the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) issued legal guidance after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022 stating that the law does not prohibit the mailing of certain abortion drugs if the sender does not intend for them…
Republican PACs have spent millions of dollars on ads for Francesca Hong in the Wisconsin gubernatorial Democratic primary — but she doesn’t believe it’s because they see her as the weaker option for GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany to face in November. “They’re not supporting ads talking about issues,” she told me. “We’ve been an issue-run campaign.” Read the full article here
Firefighters have said Israeli drones and munitions have repeatedly sparked blazes in forests, olive groves and farmland since the June ceasefire Lebanese firefighters have accused Israel of intentionally igniting wildfires across southern Lebanon using drones and various munitions. They reported to the Guardian that both drones and incendiary weapons have been repeatedly employed to set fire to forests and agricultural land.Large areas of woodland, olive groves and farmland have burned in the nearly two months since the June 17 ceasefire largely halted fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Hussein Fakih, the head of civil defense in the Nabatieh region, estimated that…
AI-Generated Image by Grok Who wants to be filmed all the time? The struggle between new, useful tech gadgets and the objections that these new capabilities raise is a field expected to grow in the next few years, and make many lawyers very wealthy. One such example is the Meta AI-Glasses. In principle, it seems a great idea to pack so much computing power in a pair of glasses for our benefit. But once you start to compute the legal and ethical objections that this gadget raises, it becomes a much less clear question. Today (12), a German advocacy group…
The government of Syria announced this week that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia that would result in Moscow handing over control of a critical airport and part of a seaport to Damascus. Russian officials celebrated the agreement on Tuesday as an “important step” in building a foundation for a functional relationship between their government and the rulers of Syria, who came to power defeating close Russian ally Bashar Assad in the Syrian Civil War. The government of Russia, under strongman Vladimir Putin, developed a close and long-term relationship with the Assad regime that resulted in significant…
A report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association shows that gun-controlled Chicago has more murders thus far this year than all major cities in pro-gun Florida combined. The report was released August 5, 2026, at which time it indicated Chicago had 211 murders for the year. By contrast, Florida’s major cities–Miami, Orlando, and Tampa–had a combined 29 murders during the same time frame. Specifically: Eight murders in Miami, ten murders in Orlando, and eleven murders in Tampa. The number of robberies in Chicago also eclipsed the total number witnessed in Florida’s major cities. There were 2,168 in Chicago versus a…
Turnout in Wisconsin’s hotly contested gubernatorial primary is lower than many Democrats were hoping. Democratic strategists note turnout this afternoon in Madison was down, which could be a drag on progressive state Rep. Francesca Hong. They’re also watching to see how much Hong and state Sen. Kelda Roys split the Dane County vote. That could help Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Still, turnout in Milwaukee and across the state has been lower as well, according to Democratic party officials. Voters in the city of Milwaukee had returned 26,739 absentee ballots by shortly after 2 p.m., which is down from similar…
The prosecution is reportedly close to slapping national security charges on close aides to the PM over the so-called Qatargate affair Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to decide whether to charge two close aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged lobbying on Qatar’s behalf, local media has reported citing sources.The so-called Qatargate affair erupted early last year, when Israeli Channel 12 dropped a bombshell investigation alleging that the closest advisors to the PM were paid by Doha to promote Qatari interests to the top security and political authorities in the country. The investigation implicated Yisrael Einhorn, Ofer…
BND logo – Wiki Commons Can Germany beef up its intel game without treading on constitutional protections? We have been reporting since late last year on TGP about how Germany, besides being engaged in an overhaul of its armed forces, is also working to upgrade its intelligence capabilities to face the dangerous new world that we’re living in. So, today (12), the German cabinet approved new powers for its intelligence services to ‘hack communications and disrupt foreign adversaries’ operations’. Chancellor Merz’s cabinet approved a set of measures to expand intelligence agencies’ powers https://t.co/Z8Zf3MDZVk — Bloomberg (@business) August 12, 2026 Reuters reported:…