Google says Russian-linked campaigns represented the majority of the content it terminated in the second quarter of this year. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/tag-bulletin-q2-2025/

These VOA newscasters and reporters were given visas because there weren’t experienced broadcast journalists in the US with native level skills in such languages as Bambara, Lao or Georgian. But since Kari Lake wiped out nearly all VOA’s 48 language services there are indeed no jobs for them now.

Nearly 300 NASA scientists and current and former employees of the space agency have issued a declaration that warns budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety. https://nasawatch.com/activism/the-nasa-voyager-declaration/

WREG - An Ole Miss freshman football player is dead following a shooting outside a house where a party was underway in Memphis. Authorities say four other men were wounded by gunfire. https://wreg.com/news/local/one-dead-after-five-people-shot-in-cordova/

MLK Jr.’s family calls for the FBI files released today to be "viewed within their full historical context." https://www.archives.gov/research/mlk

Lawyers representing Mario Guevara, the CPJ, Free Press and the Georgia First Amendment Foundation are to hold a news conference tomorrow as they work for the release of the Atlanta-based journalist from ICE custody. https://cpj.org/2025/07/media-freedom-civil-rights-groups-to-hold-press-conference-about-prolonged-ice-detention-of-journalist-mario-guevara/

Times of Israel - The IDF appears to have heavily bombed the Syrian general staff command building in Damascus in a major airstrike. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/footage-shows-idf-heavily-bombed-syrian-military-hq-in-damascus/

Politico - White House removing Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president’s weekend trip to Scotland. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/journal-removed-white-house-pool-epstein-00465548

(AP) — The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people. https://www.kob.com/ap-top-news/trump-administration-says-it-wont-publish-major-climate-change-report-on-nasa-website-as-promised/

More than two dozen countries (but not the US), in a joint statement, call for the war in Gaza to end now. https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2025/07/joint-statement-on-behalf-of-26-partners-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories.html

Wired - DOGE 2.0, a new iteration of the organization that, post-Musk’s formal participation, is still very much present and continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies. https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/

Elon Musk has officially informed the FEC of the establishment of the America Party. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00910323/1898441

France 24 - Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter/X says it “has not acceded to the French authorities' demands” to access its recommendation algorithm and real-time data “as we have a legal right to do.” https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250721-musk-x-denies-french-allegations-of-algorithm-manipulation

bdnews24 - A Bangladeshi military training jet has crashed on a private school’s campus in Dhaka. At least 19 people are dead and 50+ injured. https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/ac7ebcd3536a

Haaretz - The Israeli air force has attacked Hodeida port in Yemen, which is controlled by the Houthis. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-21/ty-article-live/israel-at-war-day-654/00000198-2ac1-dc83-a1f9-7bd5787d0000