Friday's Links

HEADLINES:

• Russia-U.S. exchange is the largest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War. (WSJ)

• 3 newly freed Americans are back on US soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia (AP)

• Evan Gershkovich lived his journalism dream before his nightmare began (WP)

• Harris campaign says it raised $310 million in July, doubling Trump’s haul (CNN)

• What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Race in America (Politico Mag)

• The 1970s Berkeley Black cultural center that shaped Kamala Harris’ political imagination (Slate/Berkeleyside)

• How will Kamala Harris' presidential bid figure in to legislative and state races? (NPR)

• What polling shows about the top VP contenders for Kamala Harris (AP)

• JD Vance’s policies for parents are even more sinister beneath the surface (MSNBC)

• Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children? (NYT)

• JD Vance Called Democrats a “Childless Cabal,” But We Did the Math (Mother Jones)

• How Trump’s Ideas Could Seriously Mess With Your Financial Life (NYT)

• After Years of Raising Prices, Food Companies Hit Consumers’ Limits (WSJ)

• The Michigan Supreme Court has shot down an effort by Republican lawmakers to weaken minimum wage and paid leave laws that voters were set to pass by ballot initiative six years ago. The “adopt and amend" maneuver used by Republicans thwarted the will of the people, the court found. [HuffPost]

• For Iran and Hezbollah, calibrating response to Israeli strikes leaves no room for error (AP)

• The Tehran assassination has changed the game (ABC)

• Security forces fire tear gas as anti-government protests break out across Nigeria (AP)

• To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands (Nieman)

• In world first, EU's sweeping AI law enters into force (AFP)

• AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech (Verge)

• Mark Zuckerberg has brilliantly cornered us (Business Insider)

  Frightened Olympic Divers Still Unable To Desynchronize Movements Days After Event (The Onion)

• Frightened Olympic Divers Still Unable To Desynchronize Movements Days After Event (The Onion)