NewsBrevity & Co. — July 22, 2026

In this briefing: • Trump Says US-Lebanon Flights Can Resume, Pledges Help for That Country After Meeting Its President • Oil Prices Jump 4% as Rubio Says Iran 'Not Serious' About Peace Talks • Trump: U.S. 'Not Finished at All' in Iran Pickaxe Mountain Strike Coming 'Pretty Soon' • AI and the Rise of the Universal Entertainment App • State Officials Preparing If Fed Government Tries Interfering with Running Elections • OpenAI Says Hugging Face Breach Caused by One of Its Models • Can AI Ruin Something as Innocent as Birdwatching? • Iran War Has Cost U.S. $37.5 Billion So Far, Hegseth Says • What Bill Clinton May Have Been Telegraphing with His ‘MAGA-Adjacent’ Baseball Cap • Trump Says U.S. Will Strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site ‘Very Heavily’ • Ted Cruz Agrees with Kamala Harris’s Comment About Election Security • Trump Puts Taxpayer-Funded Org on Watch Over ‘Climate Fraud’ • Momentum Melts Up for Best Day on Record; Bonds Dumped as Everything Else Pumped • The Fight Inside Trump’s State Department Is About Power—Not Expertise • Software Error Improperly Registered 6,600 Noncitizens to Vote, N.J. Gov. Says • Trump Exposed the Cracks in Our Elections; the Media Proved His Point • What Time Is SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 Launch on July 23? • Will SpaceX Buy Tesla? Musk May Soon Offer Clues on His Plans