Coverage centers on Canadian wildfires and evacuations, U.S. political developments including Justice Department leadership, Fed rate speculation and Trump's renewed effort to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, plus Senate races in Maine and Michigan. Other threads include Jorge Messi's death, Iran negotiations, Sri Lankan prison violence, and a Michigan salad contamination scare.

Financial Times
@FT · 7M followers
The profile of super-prime buyers has radically changed — and agents aren’t keeping up, writes Jo Eccles: https://t.co/L1x9q2lLMo? https://t.co/59pS235c4w

The New Yorker
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Todd Blanche has been running the Justice Department’s day-to-day operations as the acting Attorney General since March, 2025, following Donald Trump’s firing of Pam Bondi, in April—and the department’s performance “has been nothing short of disastrous” since he took the reins, https://t.co/yrQrXMLQRS

CBS News
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Jorge Messi, the father of Argentinian soccer legend Lionel Messi, has died at 68. https://t.co/tcI8aePcnN

Los Angeles Times
@latimes · 3.8M followers
The Trump administration wants to relinquish federal control of Head Start. Why critics fear that could upend the program. https://t.co/5oLIzwO9ak

Daily Caller
@DailyCaller · 1.2M followers
🚨 Earlier this week, President Trump nominated Julia Nesheiwat, wife of U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz and Homeland Security Advisor in his first administration, as Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic. https://t.co/pU2ApWmZOC

AFP News Agency
@AFP · 2.4M followers
🇨🇦 Faced with another summer when wildfires have scorched millions of hectares of land and blankets of smoke have disrupted daily life nationwide, Canada is trying to limit the annual devastation https://t.co/TnAJv5bUKI https://t.co/KTFiIfDxOp

Bloomberg
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July’s surprisingly weak jobs report coupled with a possible cooling in inflation next week may lead the Fed to hold interest rates steady at its next meeting, says Bloomberg Economic’s @AnnaEconomist https://t.co/n077VrLEKX

CDC
@CDCgov · 5.5M followers
CDC monitors important health issues affecting American Indian and Alaska Native youth. A recent study found that high school students who drink soda or sports drinks 4 or more times a day are less likely to visit a dentist each year, while those who drink water 3 or more times a https://t.co/sjZANvcLEB
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