Bringing Trump 'Joy'

In today’s news, the controversial relationship between the 80-year-old Trump and his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp is back up top.

The Daily Beast published two letters allegedly written by Harp that indicate the unusual intimacy of their relationship.

I’m not going to characterize it any more than that. Read the report and draw your own conclusion.

HEADLINES:

• Natalie Harp’s Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full (Daily Beast)

• Natalie Harp Worked At White House For Over A Year Without Security Clearance, Report Says (Forbes)

• The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp (Atlantic)

• Trump increasingly lashing out at allies as victory in Iran war proves elusive (WP)

• Weary Aircraft Carrier Heads Home From the Middle East (NYT)

• FBI thwarts an alleged ISIS-inspired plot to bomb New York Capitol building (NBC)

• So About That Iranian Cyberattack on Our Water Supply (Slate)

• Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory (CNN)

• Nato jets blow up suspected Russian sea drone near gas facility (Independent)

• Croatia orders detention of Ukrainian man wanted in Germany for Nord Stream blasts in 2022 (AP)

• FBI seizes former Congressman Eric Swalwell’s devices in sexual misconduct investigation (BBC)

• The End of the European Summer (New Yorker)

• Jennifer Hegseth’s Hands-On Role in Her Husband’s Pentagon (NYT)

• Tearing Down the Wall Between Church and State in Texas (Money Trail)

• More than 2,300 Mexicans sent to Guatemala and Honduras as Trump ramps up third-country deportations (AP)

• Kentucky Gov. Beshear Keeps Pushing for Info on McConnell’s Health. He Says He’s ‘Heard Absolutely Nothing Back’ (Time)

• ICE Arrests Captain in New York Boat Accident That Killed 2 (NYT)

• The housing market is on pace for its worst year since 2011 (BI)

• Paramount’s Purchase of Warner Bros. Could Cost 4,500 TV and Film Production Jobs and Hurt a Damaged Indie Film Biz (IndieWire)

• Harry and Meghan to return to the press ‘lion’s den’ they sought to escape (Reuters)

• The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA (WSJ)

• As the Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past (NYT)

• San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest tech talent market (LAT)

• Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts (ArsTechnica)

• When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data (MIT)

• Don’t mistake chatbot intelligence for consciousness (Economist)

• Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt. (Reuters)

• Dad’s Driving Directions Hinge On Where Old Shell Station Used To Be (Onion)