President Trump on Tuesday said he has no regrets over his attacks on House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore, which have renewed accusations of racism against the president.
During his first session with reporters since launching the attacks, Trump said people in “corrupt” Baltimore are “living in hell” and insisted his comments have nothing to do with race.
“I’m the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” Trump told reporters at the White House before traveling to Jamestown, Va.
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Want a personal signed letter from the President? President Donald Trump has been known to have aides to print out versions of tweets about him he likes so he can sign them and mail them to the author, a close ally has said.
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told Politico that after Trump had liked one of his tweets, a printed-out copy of it complete with Trump’s signature arrived at his Congressional office address in Washington, DC.
Gaetz framed the print-out, which now hangs on the wall.
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President Donald Trump told reporters today that he is “the least racist person there is anywhere in the world,” standing by his comments on the city of Baltimore and his attacks against Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD).

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill today barring Trump from the state’s primary ballots if the president does not release his tax returns. In a statement announcing the move, Newsom said that California has a “special responsibility to require this information” as the state is home to “one in nine Americans eligible to vote.” The measure also requires all gubernatorial candidates to release their tax returns in order to appear on the primary ballot. “These are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards, and to restore public confidence,” Newsom said.

“Auschwitz is here in every city in Palestine,” Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub told Kuwaiti TV earlier this month.
Speaking to Kuwaiti TV channel Sawt Al-Arab on July 8, Rajoub equated the Nazi death camp to Israel’s “systematic policy, with barbaric and racist living conditions and conduct in order to cause physical and mental harm to these prisoners.”
This was not the first time Rajoub has made the comparison. In February 2019, during a protest against a U.S.-led conference in Warsaw to discuss peace and security in the Middle East, he stated that “in every city in Palestine, from Rafah to Jenin, there is an Israeli Auschwitz to massacre Palestinians.”

On Friday, Apple confirmed that the company has eavesdropping practices similar to Google’s and Amazon’s, but never disclosed that fact in its privacy policy.
Apple samples a small number of recordings of interactions with its voice assistant Siri, which is used by millions of Americans on their iPhones, Apple Watches, and other iOS and Mac devices. According to the whistleblower, that includes “countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, and so on.”
Apple says that the recordings aren’t associated with a specific Apple ID, meaning that no one listening would actually know who was on the other end, but it does send information like device location.

More than 100 million credit card applicants had their personal information compromised in the Capital One hack announced Monday, illustrating once again just how vulnerable consumer data can be even for the most security-minded organizations.
The hack, one of the largest ever against a financial services firm, comes just days after the credit-reporting company Equifax reached a $700 million settlement with U.S. regulators over the high-profile 2017 cyberattack that exposed the data of 147 million people.

An international team of researchers has traced an unusual 2017 radioactive release that blanketed a large part of Europe to Russia.
The cloud was not harmful outside of Russia, according to the paper published in scientific journal PNAS, but researchers said there may have been a more serious fallout in the direct proximity of the release site.
Russian authorities have repeatedly denied responsibility for the release of the ruthenium-106 isotopes, and the delay in identifying the suspected origin site has robbed scientists of crucial evidence it would need to help prevent another massive leak, the researchers said.

The youngest senator in Congress, and one of its toughest crusaders against Big Tech, proposed legislation Tuesday meant to curb social media addiction by regulating the techniques that prolong engagement on the platforms.
The bill by freshman Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. – the Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology (SMART) Act – would make it illegal for social media companies such as Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat to use infinite scroll, autoplay video or techniques like Snapchat’s “streaks,” which reward a user with badges for repeated use.

Nearly 4,000 weapons were confiscated and thousands of people arrested on weapons-related charges in the first half of 2019, according to a report by the Israeli police on Tuesday.
According to the report, some 3,661 weapons were confiscated, 2,704 people were arrested for shooting-related crimes, and 3,447 were arrested in a total of 3,568 cases pertaining to illegal arms dealing in the first six months of 2019.
Approximately 80 percent of all weapons seized were in Arab communities, according to The Jerusalem Post.
“Police operations were conducted across the country as a result of quality intelligence and undercover operations,” the police statement said.