Across the country- MS, LA, TN, WV, SC, and OH deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to support federal policing operations; IL was identified as a possible next site for Guard and federal law enforcement deployments; AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, LA, NE, NV, NM, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, and WY prepared Guard mobilizations to assist DHS; and in IN, the Seventh Circuit upheld an injunction blocking the state’s 25-foot police buffer law. Also, AZ suffered a major dust wall caused by monsoons leading to widespread power outages. Nationally- Russian and Iranian cyber actors escalated attacks on U.S. infrastructure, including a ransomware hit on Colt Technology and a data breach at Allianz Life exposing 2.8M customers; Apple and Google released emergency updates to fix critical security flaws; the “Godfather of AI” warned AI could surpass human intelligence, causing unemployment and existential risks; and the DOJ sought to limit 2nd Amendment relief in a TX-related case, narrowing injunction scope in Elite Precision Customs v. ATF and setting a national precedent that could limit 2nd Amendment protections to only those listed in lawsuits against the DOJ.

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