Pentagon Cyberdefenses Weak, Report Warns

“Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s classified documents case released new photos showing what they called the ‘haphazard manner’ in which Trump stored boxes of documents that federal agents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022,” CNBC reports.

“House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) got a clear warning Tuesday from the chamber’s top two GOP leaders: If you don’t fix your data privacy bill, it’s on track to die in your committee,” Politico reports. “McMorris Rodgers followed by announcing that she would advance the bill anyway.” “The Washington State Republican’s decision to buck the advice of Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) threatens to set up an unusual clash between party leaders and a committee chair over a bill that McMorris Rodgers has deemed a high priority before her retirement at the end of this term.”

“The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will impose inflation penalties on 64 prescription drugs for the third quarter of this year, lowering costs for certain older Americans enrolled in Medicare,” CNBC reports. “President Joe Biden has made lowering U. S. drug prices a key pillar of his health-care agenda and reelection platform for 2024.

“The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including Covid-19 and election security,” the AP reports. “The justices threw out lower-court rulings that favored Louisiana, Missouri and other parties in their claims that officials in the Democratic administration leaned on the social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view.”

“The number of migrants crossing the U. S. southern border illegally has dropped more than 40 percent in the three weeks since President Biden announced broad restrictions on asylum claims,“ the Washington Post reports. “U. S. agents have taken fewer than 2,400 migrants into custody per day over the past week, down from more than 3,800 at the beginning of June, according to the latest Department of Homeland Security data.