“James Solomon, a 41-year-old city councilmember elected with the support of anti-machine progressives, will be the next mayor of New Jersey’s second largest city,” Politico reports.
“Solomon won Tuesday’s runoff to lead Jersey City, besting disgraced former Gov. Jim McGreevey. Both men are Democrats but from different parts of the party.”
Matt Van Epps (R) is projected to defeat Aftyn Behn (D) in a special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ.
All polls are now closed in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district special election race.
Leave your reactions in the comments as results come in.
President Trump said his administration could attack accused drug traffickers who traverse Latin America by land “very soon,” which would mark an escalation in the U.S. military’s campaign of lethal strikes on alleged drug boats, CBS News reports.
Said Trump: “You know, the land is much easier… And we know the routes they take. We know everything about them. We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live. And we’re going to start that very soon, too.”
President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to fight a war with Europe if attacked and accused the continent’s leaders of trying to sabotage peace efforts, calling recent proposed changes to a U.S. peace plan for Ukraine “absolutely unacceptable,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Trump administration canceled a slate of interviews set to start this week with a group of finalists to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve as President Trump again suggested he had made up his mind about who should lead the central bank,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by immigrants from 19 countries it restricted from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people,” the New York Times reports.
“The pause applies to people from Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, Somalia and others banned by Mr. Trump in June who are seeking status from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that oversees the immigration system.”
Donald Trump’s favored candidate, Nasry Asfura, lost his lead in Honduras’ ongoing presidential vote count, falling behind a rival Trump attacked as a “borderline communist,” Bloomberg reports.
“During a video appearance at a reunion of his former federal cost-cutting team, Elon Musk predicted that the country is at the start of a ‘great 12-year span’ composed of the second Trump administration followed by two consecutive JD Vance terms,” Politico reports.
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday was given a final copy of the completed Defense Department Inspector General report that examined his sharing sensitive military information on a Signal group chat back in March,” NBC News reports.
“The much-anticipated report is expected to become public as early as this week.”
Bloomberg just published an excellent documentary that takes a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to argue a case before the Supreme Court.
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“A new Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, will target undocumented Somali immigrants, as the president has ramped up attacks against the community in recent days,” CNN reports.
“Lawrence Summers has been banned for life by the American Economics Association in a further blow to the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president stemming from recent revelations about his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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“President Donald Trump argued Tuesday that former special counsel Jack Smith’s final report — chronicling the criminal case against him for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — should never be made public,” Politico reports.
“President Donald Trump appeared to be having difficulty staying awake as members of his Cabinet took turns singing his praises on Tuesday,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Trump frequently leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as his secretaries told him how well he was doing.”
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