Across the country: In NY, a man was arrested for planting multiple homemade bombs across Manhattan, and four people were killed in a Midtown mass shooting; In GA, a mass shooting in Atlanta left one dead and ten injured; In MI, a man stabbed eleven people at a Walmart before being subdued by bystanders; In OH, three officers were ambushed in Lorain, and multiple white victims were attacked in downtown Cincinnati; In FL, a judge blocked the DOJ from unsealing Epstein grand jury files, and Epstein’s former attorney died; In CA, a water utility reported six million cyber intrusion attempts from Chinese IPs.

National-level developments: Microsoft cut off all China-based support staff from U.S. defense contracts following disclosure of unauthorized access; Chinese hackers breached over 400 global targets, including the U.S. nuclear agency, via a SharePoint exploit; Intel.gov was reportedly hacked, exposing search logs tied to CIA surveillance; The Department of Transportation spent $80+ billion on DEI grants, delaying air traffic system upgrades; A declassified report accused the Obama administration of knowingly pushing false Trump-Russia election claims; Starlink suffered a global outage on July 24; The U.S. fertility rate dropped to 1.599 in 2024, marking a new low despite rising births among older women.

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