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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Michigan votes in key Senate primary as Democrats battle over party’s future
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old former public health official, has led in recent polls against his moderate rival, US representative Haley Stevens, a 43-year-old who first came to Congress after flipping a red seat.
A flood of more than $40m in outside spending has come into the race to support Stevens or attack El-Sayed, including from groups associated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a pro-Israel lobby…
The Michigan US Senate seat is critical for Democrats in their dark-horse quest to retake the upper chamber, where Republicans currently hold 53 of the 100 seats…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/michigan-senate-race-abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens
3 FBI agents fired over Trump investigation get broad backing in lawsuit against administration | PBS News
"The Bureau simply cannot function if individual Special Agents must choose whether to accept a lawful assignment that could later get them fired, or alternatively to reject it and become subject to firing for insubordination...”
Crews building Trump border wall in drought-hit New Mexico ordered to stop drilling wells
Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/trump-border-wall-new-mexico-wells
Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’…
Oh Look, Another Far-Right Extremist at the Pentagon – Mother Jones
Overbaugh’s enthusiasm for Christian nationalist ideals is also apparent in his endorsement of Stephen Wolfe, author of the 2022 book The Case for Christian Nationalism, published by Canon Press, which Wilson founded in the 1980s. In this book, Wolfe argued in favor of a “civil magistrate” to govern the United States, who “must restrain and punish the public expression of false religion, blasphemy, and heresy.” At a conference a few years back, he argued, “If we say that America is a Judeo-Christian country, then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”
Last week, Wolfe announced a new project called The Institute of Christian Politics, a training program based in North Carolina “to help lay the intellectual foundation for a renewal of serious Protestant leadership and to prepare gifted young men for responsible service in American institutions and public life,” according to its website. In a video announcing the project, Wolfe tells viewers that Christians “are making real progress in electoral politics and the practical work of government. We have office holders, staffers, organizers, writers, and institutions that train people in the practical art of politics.” But, he says, there is more to be done in connecting “talented young Christians” to “the institutions that shape public thought and national leadership.” That, he says, is where his new project comes in. In response to Wolfe’s tweet announcing the project, Overbaugh replied, “How can I help?”..
Trump is lifting protections in America’s largest marine protected areas : NPR
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean. President Trump is rolling back their protections...
https://apps.npr.org/troubled-waters/
Why Michigan election results could take a while
More than 1,500 city and township clerks count and report their own results, then send them to county clerks, who consolidate and pass totals on to the state. That means the state can't receive a county’s totals until every precinct in it has reported. These results can get to the state at vastly different times...
Did Fauci’s private diary entries contradict his public stances on lab leak, masks, school closures? – PolitiFact
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private COVID-era writings, providing a glimpse into Fauci’s thoughts on the pandemic response. On July 29, as senators questioned him on supposed discrepancies, Fauci took the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times.
We examined claims that said Fauci contradicted himself on issues of COVID-19’s origins, school closures and mask mandates. Fauci’s diary entries revealed that he deliberated the developing information, and that his private stances largely aligned with what he said publicly…
https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/03/fauci-diary-lab-leak-masks-school-closures/
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’ - POLITICO
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders...
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