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CENTCOM and Trump say US forces are hitting IRGC targets near Hormuz; Pezeshkian offers to revive the Islamabad MoU if Washington moves first.

Berlin names Russia for the 4 Aug Leipzig drone plot, shuts the Bonn consulate, and lifts the national threat level to high.

Blumenthal releases a USPS whistleblower file: a rushed ballot portal and a zero-percent batch rule could strand midterm mail ballots.

Searchers asked for a total blood moon. NASA’s 96.3% deep partial left a copper Moon with a silver northern sliver — last eclipse of 2026, not totality.

Judge Rita Lin made her March block on the Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist permanent, calling it First Amendment retaliation, not sabotage. Appeal expected; a D.C. case remains.

AP/Guardian letters contradict RFK Jr’s Senate claim that a 2019 Samoa trip had “nothing to do with vaccines.” Wyden seeks a DOJ referral; HHS denies a lie.

Trump ordered Lake Ontario renamed “Lake America.” Carney, Ford and Hochul say it stays Ontario.

Nepal’s flood death toll is 489, Reuters and the BBC said Friday, up from a morning police figure of 469. Rasuwa helicopter rescues paused when a barrier lake overflowed. About 1,000 people are missing.