Arizona escalates probe into alleged efforts to swing election for Trump  —  PHOENIX — Arizona's top prosecutor is ramping up a criminal investigation into alleged attempts by Republicans to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state by signing and transmitting paperwork …

First on CNN: Secret Service concludes cocaine investigation, no suspect identified  —  The Secret Service has concluded its investigation into the small bag of cocaine found at the White House and has been unable to identify a suspect, two sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Biden jokes that Wagner Group leader should be wary: 'I'd keep my eye on the menu'  —  President Biden on Thursday jokingly warned Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to watch what he eats following a failed coup in Russia last month after Prigozhin briefly led a revolt with his private military.

New York Is Ordered by Appeals Court to Redraw House Map  —  The decision, if upheld, could allow Democrats to shift as many as six G.O.P.-held seats in their direction.  Republicans vowed to appeal.  —  The Latest  —  A New York appeals court on Thursday ordered the state's congressional map …

Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings in revised filing  —  In a revision to an earlier filing, the Republican presidential hopeful showed specific income from foreign ventures, speaking fees and real estate  —  Former president Donald Trump disclosed new details …

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists  —  On March 15, 2022, an email appeared in the inbox of the election director of Forsyth County, Georgia, with the subject line “Challenge of Elector's Eligibility.”

F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill  —  The price of the pill, which has not been announced, will determine how affordable it will be when it becomes available in early 2024.  —  Pam Belluck has covered reproductive health for more than a decade.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting  —  Page Six regrets to report that a press dinner to boost Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign devolved into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting on Tuesday night.  —  The White House hopeful attended …

The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers  —  The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date  —  The Federal Trade Commission has opened an expansive investigation into OpenAI, probing whether the maker …

Former crypto CEO arrested on fraud charges  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Trade Commission also filed charges.  —  U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network …

Top donors start giving Tim Scott a look after souring on DeSantis  —  Billionaire Ronald Lauder met with the South Carolina senator.  Others in the check-writing class are also showing interest.  —  With Ron DeSantis stalling in the Republican presidential primary, some wealthy donors …

Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment  —  Proponents of the measure to enshrine a guarantee of sex equality into the Constitution are using a creative legal theory to try to resurrect the long-stalled amendment.  —  Reporting from Capitol Hill

Floods, fires and deadly heat are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink  —  The world is hotter than it's been in thousands of years, and it's as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing.  —  The warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont, where two months of rain just fell in only two days.

GOP megadonors Liz and Dick Uihlein just lost another battle...  ...over leaf-blowing regulations in their hometown.  —  Republican megadonors Dick and Liz Uihlein have lost some big battles over the years, but the latest one hits close to home.  Literally.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children  —  Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay …

How Our Efforts to Bring Competition To Television Unknowingly Helped Create the Fox Disinformation Machine  —  For what little it may, or may not, be worth at this point, Preston Padden, Ken Solomon and Bill Reyner wish to express their deep disappointment for helping to give birth …

Revealed: Florida Republicans target voter registration groups with thousands in fines  —  Fines on list given to the Guardian were levied by agency created at Ron DeSantis's behest to investigate voter fraud, which is rare  —  Florida Republicans have hit dozens of voter registration groups …

Trump-supporting Ohio lawyer admits voting twice in past elections: ‘Accidents do happen’  —  An attorney in Ohio who has donated money to former President Donald Trump acknowledged this week that he double-voted in past elections, but he says he only did so accidentally.

House to Vote on Abortion Access for Military, Bowing to the Far Right  —  G.O.P. leaders acceded to the demands of ultraconservatives to use the annual defense policy bill to lodge cultural grievances and protest continued U.S. support for Ukraine.  —  Reporting from Washington

Trans people's rush to alter their Kansas licenses created a ‘safety concern,’ a judge says  —  A state-court judge has declared that the nearly 200 transgender people in Kansas who rushed in recent weeks to change the sex listings on their driver's licenses created an immediate “public safety concern.”

The head of the GOP is still elevating 2020 election skepticism  —  RNC chair Ronna McDaniel won't say the election was fair because, given her position, she can't  —  A particularly easy question for a fourth-grade social studies test would be to ask who won the 2020 presidential election.

Gallego rakes in $3.1 million as Kari Lake mulls Senate bid in Arizona  —  Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) announced on Thursday that his Senate campaign pulled in more than $3 million in the second quarter.  —  The Arizona Democrat is looking to win the seat currently held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema …