Top Stories: Dems Go Full Throttle On Kamala After Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race

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Top Headlines

• ICJ declares Israeli settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal, calls for rapid withdrawal (Semafor).*0

  • Finally headed to Washington, Netanyahu is flying into a political tempest (TOI).

  • Israel kills dozens as it steps up Gaza bombardment (Reuters).

    • We volunteered at a Gaza hospital. What we saw was unspeakable (Politico).

  • Israel army says signs increasing that Hamas Chief Deif killed (AFP).

  • Israel conducts airstrikes on Yemeni port in retaliation for Houthi drone attack (WAPO).*5

Dems Go Full Throttle On Kamala After Biden Drops Out Of 2024 Race

• January 6th and the Butler shooting: Parallels, comparisons and beneficiaries (The Bias@).

• Trump tells rally crowd to stop booing the press about Butler shooting: ‘No, no, they covered it fairly’ (Politico@).

  • Trump’s team wasn’t told about reports of suspicious person before rally shooting, sources say (CNN).

  • Secret Service says it denied earlier Trump requests for more federal resources (NYT).

• Top Trump adviser praises ‘fucking badass’ female Secret Service agents amid far-right furor over servicewoman (CNN@).

• Mayorkas stacks 45-day independent panel probing Butler shooting with ex-senior DHS officials (AP).

  • Secret Service director set to appear before House Oversight over Trump shooting (Politico).

    • First congressional Democrat calls for Secret Service director to resign (Axios).

      • House Homeland chair joins calls for Secret Service director to step down (Axios).

  • Secret Service’s lack of red dot pistol optics puzzles SWAT officers (TWZ).

• Post-RNC, Trump's favorability surges to 40% from low 30% range (ABC).*

  • Inside the Trump campaign’s hidden ground game (WSJ).

  • Trump hosts first rally since narrowly surviving assassination attempt: ‘Took a bullet for democracy’ (WSJ).

  • Utah Gov. Cox endorses Trump (Deseret News).

• Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton reveals Biden didn't recognize him.*1

  • As Biden ends campaign, focus shifts to health for remainder of his term (WAPO).

    • Manchin doesn’t want Biden to resign presidency (AP).

  • Hunter Biden drops Fox lawsuit following President Biden's withdrawal from 2024 race (CNN).*6

  • Harris rapidly starts building her Capitol Hill coalition (Axios).

    • Top Hollywood donors already writing checks, ‘excited and motivated’ for Kamala Harris after Joe Biden’s exit (Deadline).

• Musk says time and date of Biden’s announcement has been well-known for a week (raw).

  • Musk says all of Vivek Ramaswamy’s predictions ‘have come true’ (raw).

  • Squaring Elon Musk’s EV future with Donald Trump’s EV knocks (WSJ).

• CrowdStrike glitch exposes fragility of global tech systems and calls for new safeguards (CNBC).*2

  • CrowdStrike flaw causes widespread disruptions in federal agencies, including DHS (FedScoop).

    • Many state, city government services disrupted by CrowdStrike outage (StateScoop).

    • Hospitals around the world hobbled by massive tech outage (Bloomberg).

• Recent ruling on SEC suit intensifies doubts on CrowdStrike’s logic error claim amid global disruptions (The Bias).*

  • CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say (Reuters).

• Fake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers (BleepingComputer).

  • CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes (The Register).

• Corporate America retreats from social activism amid right-wing backlash (CNN).*3

• Security fears escalate amid pre-Olympics violence and plots(ABC-Australia).*4

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