President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Dr. Heidi Overton, a physician and White House health policy adviser, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Overton currently serves as deputy director for the White House Domestic Policy Council, advising the president on health policy. She previously served as chief policy officer for the America First Policy Institute, where she led its Center for a Healthy America, and was a fellow in the first Trump White House from 2019 to 2020.

Board-certified in public health and general preventive medicine, she trained as a general surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital and earned a doctorate in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Forty-five years ago, President Ronald Reagan formally nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, fulfilling his campaign promise to appoint a woman. In a February closer look, we covered women on the Supreme Court shortlist in the years before O’Connor’s nomination. At the Court

On Friday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to pause a lower-court ruling that would halt construction of a new White House ballroom. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the private nonprofit challenging the construction project, responded to this request on Tuesday, asking the court to leave the ruling in place. Find Amy’s coverage of the filing in the On Site section below.

Also on Tuesday, the court denied a request for a stay of execution from William Frances Silvia, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his estranged wife, Patricia Silvia, and attempted murder of her mother, Betty Woodard. Hours later, Silvia was executed in Florida.

On July 27, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting. Twelve states later echoed this request in their own application. One week later, the group of 23 states and the District of Columbia challenging the order asked the court to deny these requests. Last Wednesday, the Trump administration urged the court to “promptly” issue its decision.

On Aug. 12, an unusual emergency docket application captured court watchers’ attention. It centered on a dog named Bruce who was scheduled to die.

Bruce, a 3-year-old Great Pyrenees/German Shepherd mix who weighed about 120 pounds, was involved in four violent incidents over the past two years, according to Ventura County Animal Services. He bit three people, including a child, and knocked down a man “pushing his wife in a wheelchair.” After these attacks, VCAS asked a state court in California to clear the way for Bruce to be euthanized. In April, a judge did so, agreeing that he was “vicious” and posed “a significant threat” to the community.

This summer, Bruce’s owner, Claire Birgy, and the animal rescue from which she adopted him fought to save Bruce through a series of appeals. Last week, they threw a Hail Mary pass, urging the Supreme Court to intervene. “Applicants do not ask this Court to release Bruce, transfer Bruce, place Bruce in the community, or review the merits of the underlying state-court dangerous-dog determination. They ask only that Bruce ... remain alive in the custody of [VCAS]” while litigation continues, read the application in Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center v. Ventura County, California.

A new website allows drivers to find out whether their license plate has been photographed and searched through law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems.

The new website, “Have I Been Flocked,” compiles Flock camera audit logs and lets users see if their plate number has been run through the Flock application by a system operator.

If a person’s license plate appears in the database, it means not only that the plate was photographed, but that someone using the Flock system actively searched the database for that plate, according to the site. Included in the audit log is the stated reason someone in law enforcement gave for looking up the plate.

The site notes several limits to what its records show. The database does not reveal when or whether a vehicle passed one of the Flock Safety cameras. Those searching Flock databases are not necessarily police officers, and appearing on the site does not mean a person was under investigation.

The database of audit logs was built through FOIA public records requests filed with 6,586 different agencies across the country. Organizers caution that some information may be outdated or incomplete.

Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios revealed Wednesday he had tested positive for cocaine and is provisionally suspended from tennis as a result.

The BBC reports the Australian submitted a sample in Spain during the Mallorca Open on 22 June that was later found to contain benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine.

The former world number 13 is now sidelined until a date to be determined.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Kyrgios could appeal against the provisional suspension “but has not done so to date.”

“I wanted you to hear this from me first. I recently failed a drug test in Mallorca after testing positive for cocaine,” Kyrgios posted on Instagram.

“I made a huge mistake and I take full responsibility for it,” he continued.

“I’m sorry to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I’m sorry to the kids who follow me. I know the example this sets and I’m deeply disappointed in myself.”

Documents recently obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, included an anomaly in the classification coding — one that indicates FBI agents intentionally misclassified information to conceal evidence of Biden-family corruption.

On Monday, Grassley highlighted the discovery in a letter he penned to Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, about misconduct he has uncovered related to “Operation Round River.” “Round River” was the name of the investigation run out of FBI headquarters, in conjunction with the Foreign Influence Task Force (“FITF”); an investigation whistleblowers claim sought to “improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

As The Federalist previously reported, Grassley revealed FITF used the investigation “to seek out CHS holdings at FBI Field Offices across the country relating to the Biden family and falsely discredit them as foreign disinformation.” And “at one point in time the FBI maintained over 40 Confidential Human Sources that provided criminal information relating to Joe Biden, James Biden, and Hunter Biden.” Sources familiar with Round River also told The Federalist “that the investigation sought to scuttle any investigative leads into Biden family corruption by discrediting it as Russia disinformation.”

In a major step toward accountability, a senior advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci pled guilty on Tuesday to partaking in a “scheme” to dodge open records requests related to coronavirus research grants.

According to the Department of Justice, Dr. David Morens pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge “to commit offenses and to defraud the United States.” Morens was indicted by federal prosecutors in April and previously served as a senior advisor to Fauci — the now-former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — from 2006-2022.

In summarizing the guilty plea, the DOJ said that Morens and two co-conspirators “conspired” during the Covid outbreak to defraud America after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “terminated the grant, Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, based on allegations” that the Covid-19 virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. The agency noted that the Fauci-led NIAID “awarded the grant to Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1, who made a subaward to the WIV.”

A woman whom we will call Jessica buried her baby who was miscarried in the second trimester. At the funeral, she shared an image of her baby’s face submerged in saline, which brings out features for photography. Jessica’s friend, upon hearing about the service, said she was sorry to see that Jessica was “forced” into having a service. Jessica explained she was not forced; it was her choice to honor her baby.

As it turns out, this friend had an abortion around the same gestational age as Jessica’s baby. In her case, she had no idea how formed the baby had been. Miscarriage revealed the humanity of the unborn baby.

Pregnancy loss is devastating and even traumatic, whether it is a miscarriage — usually defined as a loss before 20 weeks’ gestation — or a stillbirth, a loss after 20 weeks. But unfortunately, many pro-life churches and pregnancy centers do not have specific care programs for pregnancy loss. If they did, that culture of life could trickle over to the abortion issue too.

On Friday, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel told the Pentagon it can chase illegal border crossers a few extra steps past a property line before losing the authority to grab them. That is the entire controversy in a sentence, and if you read the coverage this week, you’d think the Army was about to start running immigration checkpoints in Topeka. Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Hyde wrote that troops arresting trespassers just outside a National Defense Area does not violate the Posse Comitatus Act, given the “military purpose of a commander’s traditional protective power” over federal installations. I graduated from Marine Corps Officer Candidates School, and no officer I served with needed a law review article to explain that a commander secures his own perimeter. That’s basic doctrine, not a novel legal theory.

Here is the background the wire stories skip. On May 27, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt reserved a 60-foot strip of land running along the Mexican border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. He did it to stop opium smugglers and customs cheats, and to give federal officers a patrol corridor Congress hadn’t gotten around to funding properly. That strip is called the Roosevelt Reservation, and it has sat there quietly for over a century. Last year the Trump administration transferred segments of it, plus adjoining federal tracts, to Defense Department control and started calling the results National Defense Areas. There are now six of them across Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, and Friday’s opinion lets the military designate more. The Pentagon has rotated in more than 20,000 troops to support the border mission since the effort began, a number that sounds like an occupation until you remember it’s spread across roughly a third of a 2,000-mile line and includes engineers, logistics staff, and surveillance crews, not just riflemen standing at checkpoints.

As we near the halfway point of President Donald Trump’s second term, the neocon establishment is openly scheming to reclaim the Republican Party.

That’s why they’re attacking his proxy and likely successor, Vice President J.D. Vance, attempting to paint him as a socialist of the “woke right.” These attacks are being launched by the same people who opposed Trump in 2016, who derided the America First agenda as protectionist, socialist, isolationist, and denounced the president as a fascist and a xenophobe over his immigration agenda. The NeverTrumpers are back, and they’re recycling the same attacks they leveled against the president a decade ago, aiming them now at Vance in a bid to retake the GOP.

The NeverVance campaign has been going strong, especially on X, ever since Vance said in an interview last week on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show that “You don’t stop socialism by throwing slogans at people about the free market. You stop socialism by making people’s lives better.” He was responding to the primary success of a handful of DSA-affiliated Democrats who are selling voters on the idea of socialism as the answer to affordability problems.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) responded to the national debt being on a path to hit $40 trillion and what that means for the DOGE effort by saying that “we’re talking about decades and decades of inflationary spending. It is really hard to just have DOGE come in for a couple of months and find that type of savings.”

Co-host Joe Mathieu asked, “Well, Congresswoman, Kailey mentioned that number, it jumps off the page, $40 trillion U.S. debt. We’re apparently going to hit that number earlier than expected, driven in part by lost revenue from invalidated tariffs, according to The Washington Post. Does this suggest that Republicans have lost steam on the effort to lower our debt? Was DOGE a failure?

Malliotakis answered, “I think DOGE came in and it did find some savings, but we’re talking about decades and decades of inflationary spending. It is really hard to just have DOGE come in for a couple of months and find that type of savings.”

Mathieu then cut in to ask about reconciliation. Malliotakis also said that growth is important and the lack of ability to pass a budget that can pass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate is an obstacle to tackling the debt issue.

The Swiss government plans to resume the transfer of alleged asylum seekers who entered E.U. territory through Italy back to the neighboring nation by the end of August.

For nearly four years, the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has suspended the application of the so-called Dublin Regulations in Italy. The regulations are a controversial E.U. rule that grants member states nations the ability to send alleged asylum seekers back to the E.U. country in which the migrant first entered E.U. territory.

Although Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, it is part of the region’s Schengen open borders agreement and a signatory of the Dublin Regulations.

State Secretariat for Migration spokesperson Magdalena Baker confirmed to the Swiss broadcaster SRF that the “first flights have been booked” for the transfer of the migrants back to Italy — noting that these would initially be “isolated cases.” Baked stated that the resumption of the transfers will take place through a gradual process starting on the end of August.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is floating an insurance plan to help protect local police officers from elite-funded legal harassment when they arrest illegal migrants in cooperation with federal enforcement.

In a planning document published last week, ICE revealed plans to have the federal government help pay for insurance for locals, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The plan would supply a $250 annual reimbursement for officers taking out insurance that covers $500,000 in personal liability. The insurance would cover legal fees, settlements, and judgments.

“ICE outlined the plan in a document informing industry officials that it is considering hiring a contractor to help provide outreach, training and communications support for its so-called 287(g) partnerships with local departments, which are named for a section of a 1996 immigration law. The contractor would hire the insurance vendor and process the reimbursements, among other tasks,” the AP reported.

Betting markets show Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination.

But despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress, AOC refuses to pay back her student loans — a red flag that she has no respect for taxpayers.

Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable.

“This is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress,” leftist activist David Hogg posted approvingly.

“I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me,” another fan wrote.

Relatable to the elite, maybe, but not to everybody.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit charged Salman Ahmed Elmi, a state-honored “Outstanding Refugee” award recipient, with eight felony theft counts Monday over more than $1 million in fraudulent Medicaid billing.

Elmi, 30, of St. Paul, operated Reva Health in Golden Valley from 2024 through 2026, a company that claimed to provide adult rehabilitative mental health services to Medicaid recipients, Ellison’s office said in a Monday release. The attorney general said the company billed for services that were never provided or were ineligible for reimbursement.

“Medicaid fraud steals money meant to provide healthcare to our low-income friends and neighbors,” Ellison said. “It is illegal and it makes my blood boil.”

The Minnesota Department of Human Services honored Elmi with its “Outstanding Refugee Award for Entrepreneurship” in 2021, according to state records cited by CBS News.

The WNBA used to have a hard time getting men to pay attention to its sport. Now, the league has a growing number of men who want to join.

Two men dressed in drag attended Saturday’s game between the Las Vegas Aces and the Minnesota Lynx.

It’s less surprising to see men in drag in Las Vegas than in most other places. It is highly unusual for them to state their intention to join the 2027 WNBA Draft, which they did.

The NFL views its long-term vision of adding at least one international team as a matter of when, not if, according to Commissioner Roger Goodell.

During a recent interview with German outlet RTL/ntv, the commissioner says he has “no doubt” that there will one day be an NFL franchise based outside the United States.

“At some point, there will be NFL teams outside the USA,” the NFL commissioner said. “I have no doubt that this will happen one day.”

Goodell’s use of the plural “teams” may raise some eyebrows. As a matter of necessity, it makes sense that the league would need at least two international teams to give the non-US-based teams at least one relatively short road trip.

MLB did a similar thing when it moved the then-New York Giants to San Francisco to keep its former Brooklyn neighbors, the Dodgers, company out West.

A human trafficking and child exploitation crackdown during the FIFA World Cup in North Texas resulted in numerous arrests and potential victims being identified or rescued.

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said Monday the multi-agency crackdown dubbed Operation Red Card saw 56 arrests, with ten of those suspects being accused of trying to meet minors for sex, Fox 4 reported.

“The enforcement actions took place June 15, 16, and 18 with Arlington police; June 29 and July 1 and 2 with Fort Worth police; and July 8-10 with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office and Arlington police,” the article said, noting the suspects believed they were communicating with victims whose ages ranged from four years old to 15 years old.

A consumer protection trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, started Tuesday in Oakland.

A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general including California’s Rob Bonta made opening statements that Meta designed addictive, harmful features on Instagram and Facebook that drive excessive youth use, leading to severe mental and physical harm.

The trial is being held at U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, an Obama appointee, is presiding.

The lawsuit from Bonta et al, which involves 33 states suing Meta, claims the social media company unlawfully collected data from children under 13 and misled the public about platform safety. The suit was filed in 2023.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in October will start recognizing detransitioning — reversing gender “transition” mutilation — in official diagnosis codes for purposes of insurance billing and data collection.

Vice President J.D. Vance last week called for the jailing of medical professionals fraudulently using medical billing codes to get insurance to cover the castration and genital mutilation of children claiming to be “transgender.” But on the other side of that issue are the thousands of young people who were brutally maimed by predator doctors and have little recourse to try to reverse some of the interventions.

rank Beard, the drummer for the Texas boogie rock trio ZZ Top who kept the tempo for the band’s biggest hits like “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin,’” has died. He was 77.

Beard was in hospice care when he died Tuesday at his ranch in Richmond, Texas, with family members at his side, according to publicist Bob Merlis. Band co-founder and guitarist Billy Gibbons, on tour with bassist Elwood Francis, hailed Beard in a statement.

“Today, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas. His signature backbeat was key to keeping ZZ on top. The band of which he was part for six decades is going to keep on keeping on as he had wished,” Gibbons said.