Tuesday’s Mini-Report, 7.14.26
Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The ongoing war: “The U.S. … carried a new round of strikes on military targets in Iran ahead of its blockade of Iranian ports, a U.S. official told MS NOW. … U.S. Central Command later confirmed it the strikes, saying in a statement, ‘an additional round of strikes against Iran to continue degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.’”
* Encouraging news on inflation, but for how long? “Consumer prices posted their biggest decline in more than six years during June as a sharp swoon in energy prices provided at least temporary relief from this year’s inflation surge, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.”
* In Minnesota: “Federal prosecutors turned over key evidence long sought by Minnesota investigators in their ongoing probe into the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against an immigration enforcement crackdown earlier this year, state prosecutors announced Monday.”
* Carroll gets paid: “Writer E. Jean Carroll finally has the $5 million — plus interest — that a jury ordered President Donald Trump to pay her in damages in one of her two cases against him, after Trump fought the payout for years. Court records posted Tuesday show a transfer of $5,625,005.48 to Carroll’s legal team took place the day before.”
* The lawsuit challenging Team Trump getting the Endangered Species Act: “Shortly after the new rule was published in the federal register Tuesday, the law firm Earthjustice, alongside more than half a dozen other environmental groups, filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Seattle against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries (also known as the National Marine Fisheries Service).”
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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