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"That is exactly the type of humbling experience that is important for actors," the "Odyssey" star quipped.

"That is exactly the type of humbling experience that is important for actors," the "Odyssey" star quipped.

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The 11-year-old royal showed off a nautical charm bracelet at Wimbledon over the weekend, echoing a treasured piece Diana rarely wore in public.

The 11-year-old royal showed off a nautical charm bracelet at Wimbledon over the weekend, echoing a treasured piece Diana rarely wore in public.

Florida was again preparing Tuesday to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who is one of three older inmates set to die in the span of a month.

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President Trump on Tuesday backed off his proposed 20% toll for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in favor of investment deals that Persian Gulf states will ink with the US.

The beef had been brewing for some time.

Graham's Final Mission? Trump Backs Hard-Hitting Russia Sanctions Package

Apparently the late Senator Lindsey Graham's hawkish neocon legacy will continue to reverberate from beyond the grave. The 71-year old lawmaker died Saturday night "from a brief and sudden illness" - immediately after returning from Ukraine where he had toured drone and weapons factories.

President Trump is expected to support the passage of a new bipartisan Russia sanctions package that was long spearheaded by Graham, according to CNN citing a White House official.

via Associated Press

The South Carolina senator spent years trying to finally advance it across the finish line, but the Trump administration entered the White House loudly pushing diplomacy with Moscow and the idea that a swift end to the over four-year long war could be achieved by Trump's direct mediation and negotiating prowess. The policy reached an apex with the Trumpm-Putin Alaska summit, but failed to take off from there.

Instead, the world is currently witnessing the war's biggest escalatory phase in years, especially given the nightly major Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian energy sites and infrastructure. Russia's aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities, including on the capital, has in turn stepped up.

The sanctions legislation would be America's toughest anti-Moscow move yet, greatly expanding on the original Sanctioning Russia Act:

Rather than requiring a presidential determination that Moscow had rejected peace efforts or violated a peace agreement, many sanctions would automatically take effect within 30 days of enactment.

The revised legislation would substantially broaden sanctions beyond Russian officials and financial institutions to include investment, sovereign debt, shipping, energy exports, uranium imports, financial messaging services, and other sectors of Russia's economy.

The legislation would also authorize the president to impose steep tariffs on imports from countries that continue purchasing Russian oil, natural gas, and uranium.

Pro-Ukraine hawks are salivating, with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, having announced that passing the bill would serve as a "fitting memorial" to Graham and everything he represented.

"There can be no more fitting memorial to Lindsey, his legacy, or the causes he fought for, than to pass this legislation and realize his long-held dream of an independent and secure Ukraine," she said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) agreed. He told reporters Monday that passing the legislation "would be a great legacy, great tribute to Lindsey."

Lindsay Graham (2022) about NATO's proxy army fighting a long war:
- "I like the structural path we are on here. As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and economic support, they will fight to the last person" pic.twitter.com/gJTDWM8YJ9

— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) July 13, 2026

GOP Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio said Sunday on Face the Nation, "This bill would be an important symbolism to say, 'We're going to be with Ukraine.' And I certainly hope the Senate moves it this week." Yet such a passage is only going to more deeply embed the United States in a lose-lose proxy war with Moscow which could soon spiral dangerously into a WW3-style nuclear armed confrontation.

Tyler Durden Tue, 07/14/2026 - 11:25

Trump's Election Integrity Efforts Meet Resistance In Courts

Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump's efforts to overhaul U.S. voting systems have been stymied by court orders finding that his tactics were legally flawed.

People vote in the mayoral election in Washington on June 16, 2026.Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

During his second term, Trump issued two executive orders on election integrity. Among other provisions, they required proof of citizenship and asked multiple federal agencies to compile a list of eligible voters in each state.

Some courts blocked his actions, saying that the requirements intruded on Americans' privacy rights and could exclude eligible voters. At least one court ruled in Trump's favor, however, creating a conflict between two judges.

Here's what to know about Trump's efforts and the legal battles surrounding them.

Trump's Orders

The president's first executive order, signed in March last year, mandated proof of citizenship when registering to vote and blocked funding for states that didn't adequately enforce election laws.

Trump also ordered the Secretary of Homeland Security to give state and local officials access to free, "appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered."

The administration did that by modifying the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. That system was already being used to track the citizenship status of foreign-born residents in the United States since 1986.

The new system allowed users to simultaneously check data of multiple individuals - the old system did not. It also added more data from the Social Security Administration.

Trump issued a second order in March 2026, directing multiple federal agencies to compile a list of eligible voters in each state, and mandated that the United States Postal Service only send mail-in ballots to voters on that list.

That order required cooperation from multiple agencies to compile a list of eligible voters in each state.

All of those initiatives were hit with lawsuits by groups alleging they violated privacy rights, could exclude eligible voters, or were an overreach of executive authority.

Federal Voter List

After Trump's order to compile a national list of eligible voters, a host of states and the District of Columbia - led by California - sued. Meanwhile, Florida, Texas, and other red states joined on behalf of the government.

Massachusetts District Court Judge Indira Talwani ruled on June 25 that "the Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," and his executive order did not cite any law giving him that power.

In her ruling, she said the Elections Clause of the Constitution lets state control their election laws, and Congress only had a limited power to override those laws, not the president.

"Both Congress and the President lack any role regarding voter eligibility," she wrote.

The new rule might accidentally exclude eligible voters, Talwani wrote, because "the federal government may be unaware of name changes (such as when a woman changes her name at marriage) or residence changes (where a citizen moves from state to state)."

She also struck down a provision of Trump's order requiring states to hold onto election records for five years, since Congress already set the retention time at 22 months under Title III of the Civil Rights Act.

Updated Citizenship Verification Database

Data concerns also led a judge in Washington to block Trump's updated verification database.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled on June 22 that the new system violated the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Social Security Act.

"All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens," she wrote in her ruling.

The Privacy Act prohibits "nonconsensual disclosure of any information that has been retrieved from a protected record," and the Social Security Act restricts sharing of social security numbers.

The laws contain exceptions for "routine use," but Sooknanan said those don't apply in this case. The social security data were originally collected for work verification and benefits purposes, not to determine citizenship, she said.

Texas, which joined the case on behalf of the government, argued that another exception applied: The records could be used when they are part of a law enforcement action. But Sooknanan noted that exception required DHS to make a written request to the Social Security Administration, which did not happen in this case.

The government argued that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 overruled the other statutes.

That law says no federal, state, or local law can be used to "prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual."

But Sooknanan ruled that law didn't apply.

"Nothing in this provision permits the Federal Defendants to create a new system of records with complete disregard for the Privacy Act's protections," she ruled.

Clash of Courts

Last December, while the case before Sooknanan was still playing out, DHS entered into an agreement allowing Florida, Ohio, Idaho, and Indiana to use the new system.

On July 8, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell said the government needed to abide by that agreement.

"This Court is not bound by Judge Sooknanan's order, and with all due respect, the Court disagrees with the conclusions in that order," he ruled.

"The Court implicitly found that the modifications were not inconsistent with federal law when it approved the settlement agreement. The fact that another district judge subsequently concluded otherwise does not somehow undo that implicit determination."

In response, Sooknanan refused to pause her ruling. Instead, she ordered the government to use the system for those four states.

She also criticized DHS for not informing her of the Florida settlement and effectively using it as a workaround.

The government has appealed Sooknanan's order.

Proof of Citizenship

Chief District Judge Denise J. Casper ruled on June 24 that the president's order requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration didn't stand up under the law either.

Like Talwani, Casper said the Constitution didn't give the president control over elections.

Casper ruled the requirement might impose a "significant barrier for otherwise eligible voters, and that sections of the executive order are unconstitutional.

"On the other hand," she wrote, "there is no evidence in this record of widespread 'illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error' within American elections, which the Executive Order purports to safeguard against."

States Refuse to Hand Over Voter Rolls

The DOJ is also currently engaged in multiple legal battles to obtain unredacted voter lists from states. In April, it announced a suit against Idaho, the 30th state to face such legal action.

The DOJ had invoked Title III of Civil Rights Act to obtain the voter rolls, and inspect them for improperly registered voters.

That statute says state election officials have to hold onto any records that "come into" their possession for 22 months. Those records have to be turned over the U.S. Attorney General, and "made available for inspection," if the AG makes the demand in writing, and specifies "the basis and the purpose" of the request.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the statute didn't apply because Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson had compiled the voter rolls herself via her staff - they had not "come into" her possession.

The majority also found that the DOJ stated a "basis and purpose" for the request, but it did not state them in a single letter.

The DOJ requested an en banc rehearing, meaning before the entire Sixth Circuit, of the case.

Tyler Durden Tue, 07/14/2026 - 11:05

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