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Cuckoo

Plus: Stay-at-home daughters, stealthers for Senate, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 7.8.2026 9:30 AM

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Things heat back up with Iran: Earlier today, Iran attacked U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. These attacks were in response to our own Tuesday attacks on multiple targets within Iran, as well as our revocation of a waiver that had suspended sanctions on the sale of Iranian oil. And all of that was carried out in response, per the Pentagon, to Iranian attacks in the days prior on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

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"To me, I think it's over," President Donald Trump said about the ceasefire, calling the leaders of Iran "cuckoo."

"You want to know the truth?" he told reporters. "They're scum. And, so we don't like them. I don't like them. And they're evil people," he said at a NATO summit in Turkey.

At the same summit, Trump implied he'd like to remain in NATO and reupped his idea that the U.S. should acquire Greenland, saying "Greenland is very important for the United States, but it's not important for Denmark." (Danish leadership pushed back.)

No stealthers for Senate: On the heels of the allegations from Maine woman Jenny Racicot that Democratic candidate for Senate Graham Platner had raped her, another woman added to her account of what Platner had done to her in a former relationship.

Lyndsey Fifield, who dated........

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