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Saudi-led coalition said it hit Houthi sites and destroyed targets that were threatening Red Sea ships

Iran-backed Houthi rebels vowed to retaliate against Saudi Arabia on Saturday after they accused the kingdom of targeting civilian infrastructure, as the Middle East war widens across the region.

Riyadh struck Houthi military targets in Hodeida in Yemen on Friday, with rebel media reporting two wounded after the Yemeni group announced a maritime blockade of the top oil producer and hit its ships.

President took aim again at ‘fake media’ despite praising journalists and attacked opponents in rambling speech

Donald Trump, who has regularly attacked the press over its coverage of him and his presidency, praised journalists for doing an “amazing job” as he addressed the White House correspondents’ dinner.

A day after the Trump administration abandoned, for now, an extraordinary bid to subpoena reporters over their coverage, the US president attended the rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner – an annual celebration of press freedom – in Washington on Friday evening.

Zelenskyy says defence industry event should not have taken place; US influencer Laura Loomer visits Kyiv. What we know on day 1,613

A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine’s Kyiv region has killed 10 people and ⁠injured almost 100 at ⁠the site of ​a defence industry event that Volodymyr Zelenskyy said should never have taken place. Pictures posted online by the Ukraine Emergency Services showed teams sifting through piles of rubble at the site north of the capital, adjacent to several houses, after Friday’s attack.

“Of course, the cause of this attack ⁠is Russian missiles, nothing but Russian terror,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. “However, we have said a thousand ​times that under these wartime conditions, with such ‌an enemy, it is absolutely unacceptable ‌to hold any weapons exhibitions with large crowds of people, especially near residential buildings.” The event, hosted by a ‌drone manufacturers’ association, was taking place in an area a short drive from the outskirts of the capital. The acting governor of Kyiv region, Ruslan Oliynyk, said that a day of mourning would be observed on Saturday in the region.

The rightwing US influencer Laura Loomer has visited Ukraine and met Zelenskyy, who says he expects to meet Donald Trump in Washington next week. In an interview with Loomer, the Ukrainian president said he would probably attend the funeral of senator Lindsey Graham and hold talks with Trump. Loomer interviewed Zelenskyy in the garden of the presidential palace in Kyiv – a remarkable move for the online provocateur who has previously minimised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amplified Kremlin propaganda to her nearly 2 million followers on social media.

In the interview Zelenskyy said cooperation between ⁠Kyiv and Washington on drones would include a US factory to produce the unmanned aerial vehicles using Ukraine’s ⁠advanced technology. He said Ukraine wanted to build quickly on an initial agreement on drones clinched ⁠with Washington. Ukraine has excelled ​at drone innovation as it ‌has pursued asymmetrical warfare ‌against Russia during their four-year-old conflict, and Kyiv has shared its advances ‌with some allies.

“Important technology. This is what we have. And America has great technology. Our drone deal is win-win,” Zelenskyy said. “We will build a great factory in the United States. We want to [have] lines of production.” In Washington, a source familiar with the matter said details of an agreement were still being worked out ​ahead of Zelenskyy’s talks with Trump, scheduled for Tuesday, according to a White House official.

In eastern Ukraine, a Russian aerial bomb attack ⁠killed five people and injured nine in the city of Sloviansk, regional governor Vadym Filashkin ​said on Friday. He later said ​that a new Russian strike on ​the city in the evening injured 16 people and damaged residential buildings. In the northern Sumy region, a ​Russian drone strike ​killed two people, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Telegram. And in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian strike set fire to a shopping centre, injuring a number of people.

On the Russian side, the acting governor of the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, reported on social media early on Saturday a “massive enemy drone attack” on the city of Belgorod. “Sadly, there are wounded, who have been promptly taken to hospitals,” he said. “There is damage and fires on the streets, which fire crews are extinguishing.”

A wave of Ukrainian attacks on warehouses belonging to Wildberries – Russia’s largest e-commerce company and the country’s answer to Amazon – has brought the war closer to ordinary people, Pjotr Sauer writes. The strikes have destroyed billions of dollars worth of goods made, sold and bought by everyday Russians and devastated small businesses.

The interrogation, including the questions about child sexual abuse images, was "a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick's connections" to the movement against Cop City, according to the motion.

Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights. [...]

Agent Findley and several others repeatedly asked Tunick to open his phone during the interrogation, telling him they would seize it if he did not. When he finally provided a passcode, "the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart", according to the motion.

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Two inbox items from Thursday, presented without comment:

July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's office:

18 CHARGED IN CONNECTION TO UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY ON HOWARD AND WASHBURN STREET

Today, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that 18 individuals have been charged in connection to an unsanctioned and unpermitted block party in SOMA. [...]

The DJ eventually stopped performing and left. [...] Within an hour, many of the same people from the earlier gathering reconvened on the unit block of Washburn Street and began a second unsanctioned and unpermitted block party with a crowd of approximately 200 individuals.

July 23, 2026 Press release from San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey's office:

SUPERVISOR MATT DORSEY, CITY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS LAUNCH WEST SOMA ENTERTAINMENT ZONE

Supervisor Matt Dorsey's office, in partnership with Mayor Daniel Lurie, the SOMA West Community Benefit District, the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, launched the West SoMa Entertainment Zone to support local businesses, strengthen neighborhood nightlife, and bring more activity to the West SoMa neighborhood and its commercial corridors.

Entertainment zones authorized by Senator Scott Wiener's SB 76 (2023) and SB 969 (2024) allow cities and counties to designate outdoor areas where open alcoholic beverages may be consumed during permitted events. Under this framework, the West SoMa Entertainment Zone allows participating restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries to sell "to‑go" drinks for enjoyment on the sidewalk within marked boundaries.

That first press release is some copaganda defending SFPD's insanely dispropotionate and violent actions during Pride. Mission Local:

For the past six years, Stud Alley, an unsanctioned block party, has been held in SoMa on the Saturday evening of Pride. Police this year arrived at the first gathering on Kissling Street at about 11 p.m. to disperse the crowd, and arrested two participants. The party then re-formed a few blocks over and, after issuing dispersal orders a second time, police arrested another 18 people. [...]

Trans March organizers met with Mayor Daniel Lurie on July 13 about Pride weekend arrests at the Trans March and the Stud Alley party, and presented a letter signed by more than 1,500 people blasting the police response at the march. They demanded the charges against Trans March defendants be dropped, though Lurie is not responsible for the DA's charging decisions. District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder has sent two letters of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department demanding drone footage of the arrests and other information about the police role at both the Stud Alley party and Trans March.

In the courtroom this morning, the line of defendants stretched nearly out the room. The judge and defense attorneys expressed surprise at the charges, which were announced around noon on Wednesday. "I just found out about this at 4:15 yesterday," the judge told the courtroom.

Outside the courtroom, defense attorney Jeff Wozniak reassured the crowd of defendants. "We haven't seen charges like this in 30 to 40 years," he remarked.

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15 incredible DOS classics you can play in your browser

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