Old yeller: Biden's private fury  —  In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point.  In private, he's prone to yelling.  — Behind closed doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him.

The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department  —  Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.  —  The New York Times said on Monday that it would disband its sports department and rely on coverage …

Putin held post-mutiny talks with Wagner leader Prigozhin and his fighters - Kremlin  —  President Vladimir Putin has held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders to discuss the armed mutiny Wagner attempted to mount against the army's top brass, Putin's spokesman said on Monday.

Men are lost.  Here's a map out of the wilderness.  —  I started noticing it a few years ago.  Men, especially young men, were getting weird.  —  It might have been the “incels” who first caught my attention, spewing self-pitying venom online, sometimes venturing out to attack the women they believed had done them wrong.

Playbook: A new way to make Biden officials pay  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK — Today: President JOE BIDEN meets with British PM RISHI SUNAK and KING CHARLES III in London.  The Senate returns from July Fourth recess. ...

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at Florida federal prison: AP sources  —  Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida.

Right-Wing Websites Connected to Former Trump Lawyer Are Scamming Loyal Followers With Phony Celebrity Pitches  —  A mysterious network called AdStyle is placing ads with fake endorsements from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Elon Musk on conservative sites based in the U.S. and abroad.

Hill Harper, ‘Good Doctor’ Actor, Enters Senate Race in Michigan  —  Mr. Harper is challenging Representative Elissa Slotkin from the left and will have an uphill climb in a heated Democratic primary race in a 2024 presidential swing state.  —  Hill Harper, an author and actor …

This is the hometown of San Francisco's drug dealers  —  SIRIA VALLEY, HONDURAS — Thirty-five hundred miles southeast of San Francisco, a dirt road in Honduras shared by pickup trucks and oxcarts cuts through mostly abandoned farmland.  On the outskirts of a small village …

Scoop: GOP plan targets foreign dark money for 2024  —  House Republicans are working on new legislation to prevent foreign nationals from influencing America's political process, Axios has learned. … - Now House Republicans are trying to flip to script and draw attention to foreign donations …

Erdogan Makes Turkey's E.U. Bid a Condition of Supporting Sweden's NATO Membership  —  The Turkish president's surprising new demand was bound to frustrate other leaders in the military alliance one day before a high-profile summit.  —  ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey …

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement … Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.

FAU poll shows Trump still routs DeSantis in Florida and a partisan split on Disney World  —  Curiously, Trump's lead appears to have dwindled by 7 percentage points since the most recent FAU and Mainstreet poll in April, which took place before Trump's June 13 indictment on federal charges.

America Is Doing Just Fine  —  The United States deserves a robust defense.  —  As Americans celebrated the Fourth of July by watching baseball, fireworks, and Joey Chestnut hammering home his 16th win in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, poor Uncle Sam labored through …

Democratic state senator launches challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas  —  Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez entered the state's US Senate race on Monday, becoming the second high-profile Democrat vying to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz next fall.  —  Gutierrez, a long-time state lawmaker …

The Case That Could Be Fox's Next Dominion  —  Tucker Carlson, before he was sidelined by Fox, repeatedly endorsed a conspiracy theory about an Arizona man, who may sue for defamation.  Legal experts say it would be a viable case.  —  Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted …

What Do Bidenomics and the President's Grandchild Have to Do with Each Other?  Everything.  —  Joe Biden recently unveiled the term “Bidenomics” to express and encompass the positive economic news—and there's a lot of it—that he hopes will lift him to reelection.

Vivek Ramaswamy is paying supporters to find him donors  —  The longshot GOP candidate is launching a program to pay participants a cut of any money they raise.  —  It now pays to be a supporter of Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential bid — at least for those who can convince their friends to click a link and donate.

‘A deranged ploy’: how Republicans are fueling the disinformation wars  —  Several actions by the far right in the last month could result in a flood of conspiracy theories before the 2024 election  —  federal judge in Louisiana ruled last week that a wide range of Biden administration officials …

Steve Bannon ordered to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees to firm that represented him in subpoena fight  —  A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena …

Former reporter suing CNN for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination  —  Saima Mohsin says she was disabled after reporting injury and told she did not have ‘the look’ for presenting  —  A former CNN reporter is suing the news channel for unfair dismissal and racial discrimination …

The Republican Party's Debate Rules Make It Impossible for Trump to Lose  —  From polling minimums, loyalty pledges, and the GOP's refusal to cooperate with the Commission for Presidential Debates—every scenario looks rosy for the ex-president. … Appearing in the Republican presidential primary debates is no small feat.

How today's Twitter has made conservative boycotts more successful  —  A question that has been eating at me recently: Why in the world are conservative boycotts suddenly working?  —  I mean, in general, politically motivated boycotts rarely work — people get bored or their opponents stage “buycotts” that cancel out their efforts.