Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026 PM

Kitchen Briefs - July 28, 2026 PMIran’s Deputy Foreign Minister says Iran will take any action to control the Strait and has no plans on negotiating with the USSaudi Arabia air defences have intercepted and destroyed several drones launched from Iraqi territory attempting to target oil facilitiesOil prices are going down againNetanyahu says he had an excellent meeting with TrumpNetanyahu then declined to meet with ZelenskySenators John Cornyn and Thom Thillis have demanded that the anti-weaponization fund be formally killed to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney generalColt Gray, the suspect in the Georgia school shooting was sentenced to life without parole todayA new DHS rule took effect, allowing federal officers to refer asylum applicants directly to Immigration Judges without initial interviews ICE has begun arresting people with expired visas at airports, including spouses of American citizens and workers with pending status applicationsThe Energy Department selected Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah, and Idaho as potential hosts for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation CampusesThis administration has killed at least 221 people in 67 boat strikes and the DEA has assessed that cocaine flow hasn’t actually decreased at all. Boats have just taken a different routeA federal judge in Illinois ruled today that the state cannot offer in-state tuition to public colleges to students who are immigrants here illegallyThe DOJ spent $900K renovating its Washington headquarters which included cleaning, new light fixtures and 6 giant banners of TrumpThe president of FIFA announced today his plans to create a $20B company to run the World Cup with private investors and the Kushner brothersA video has gone viral of a 16 year old Ryder Williams, a lifeguard in Santa Cruz, California rescuing a 10 year old at Seabright Beach over the weekendAI companies, including Anthropic, are buying up used and rare physical books in bulk to scan for training data, then destroying them, exploiting a legal loophole that treats digitizing a purchased book as "transformative" fair use