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NTD Evening News (July 21): Trump Classified Documents Trial Set for May 2024; AI Companies Commit to Safeguards at Biden Meeting

A federal judge in Florida on July 21 scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer of Trump’s for over a decade, is settling a lawsuit he brought against the Trump Organization in 2019….


IN-DEPTH: DeSantis Seeks Campaign Boost in Deep Red Utah, Where Conservatives Are Wary of Trump

There is little doubt that a Republican will garner Utah’s six electoral votes in the November 2024 presidential election, but who that nominee will be is a question to be determined during the state’s March 5, 2024, GOP primary, one of 15 contests that will be staged nationwide on that “Super Tuesday.” Seven months before…


FBI Wrongly Searched Surveillance Data for US Senator’s Name, Court Finds

FBI employees and agents inappropriately searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a state senator and a U.S. senator, said a court opinion that was released Friday. The newly disclosed finding is included in the release of a 117-page order (pdf) declassified on July 16 by the federal judiciary’s foreign intelligence surveillance court in April—a…


Blinken Calls for Engagement With China After State Department Hack

The United States’ top diplomat is calling for increased diplomatic engagement with China’s communist regime following a massive hack of State Department emails by China-linked cybercriminals. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration would redouble its efforts to engage diplomatically with communist China following the hack of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government…


Speaker McCarthy to Host Bipartisan ‘Sound of Freedom’ Screening at Capitol

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will host a screening of “Sound of Freedom,” a film about a human trafficking rescue operation, on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. Scheduled for July 25, the screening will also be attended by Jim Caviezel, the movie’s starring actor, and Operation Underground Railroad’s Tim Ballard, who inspired the film….


‘Sound of Freedom’ Breaks Expectations, Hits $100 Million at Box Office

Despite a bevy of negative articles from mainstream media outlets like Rolling Stone and Bloomberg News, the anti-child-trafficking movie “Sound of Freedom” has generated $100 million at the box office since it made its debut several weeks ago. The low-budget film featuring actor Jim Caviezel is based on the life of Tim Ballard, the founder…


Texas Man Accused of Abducting, Raping Teen Girl; Driving Her to Long Beach

A man who allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint in Texas, then repeatedly sexually assaulted her while driving her to Long Beach, where she was rescued by waving a “help me” note to passersby, was indicted on July 20 on a pair of federal charges. Steven Robert Sablan, 61, of Cleburne, Texas, was charged…


US Mortgage Rates Fall in Biggest Decline Since March

U.S. mortgage rates dropped from an eight-month high, after nearing 7 percent last week, as inflation slows ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting. The Fed’s aggressive interest-rate hike policy sent mortgage rates well above 7 percent last year, causing the once booming housing market to crash. Rates have been slow to decline from the nearly two-decade high,…


The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?

All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive balance sheet?…


ANALYSIS: The Fed Is Raising Rates, but What About the $8.3 Trillion Balance Sheet?

News Analysis All financial eyes will be on next week’s policy meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The futures market is penciling in a quarter-point increase to the benchmark federal funds rate. But while all the focus among economists, investors, and market analysts is on interest rates, what about the Federal Reserve’s massive…