Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out the $83.3 million defamation judgment won by E. Jean Carroll, arguing that presidential immunity covers statements he made from the White House while answering reporters’ questions about her sexual abuse allegations.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EUn5DiEqD/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Trump said the US will hit Iran hard following a missile attack on a military base in Jordan, telling Fox News in a phone interview that Tehran is going to get a beating.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4814034
A drone struck the US-owned floating storage and regasification vessel Energos Winter at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta on Wednesday afternoon, according to British maritime security firm Ambrey, and the resulting fire spread to a second LNG tanker, the Gaslog Salem.
https://aje.news/pv6j0n?update=4814521
The KOSPI closed at 5,663.24 on Wednesday, down 5.98 percent and below the 6,000 mark after a second consecutive day of steep losses, with circuit breakers tripping on both the KOSPI and the Kosdaq in back-to-back sessions for the first time.
Germany’s weather service issued official heat warnings covering the entire western half of the country plus parts of Bavaria, with the peak expected Thursday as subtropical air moves up from southwestern Europe.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/wetter-hitze-138.html
A Sudan Tribune investigation drawing on 17 interviews and satellite imagery identified more than 108 armed checkpoints levying transit tolls on cargo trucks, with one driver on the Khartoum to Sennar highway describing a demand for 1.3 million Sudanese pounds that he negotiated down to 800,000.
https://sudantribune.com/article/316771
Al-Shabab killed five Kenyan security personnel in an ambush near the Somalia border in Mandera county, hitting a Special Operations Group patrol near Wantey Dam before a roadside bomb destroyed an armoured vehicle sent in as reinforcement, though no one aboard was hurt.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/al-shabab-kills-five-kenyan-security-personnel-in-ambush
Japan’s UAS Industrial Development Association launched a Bear Mitigation Technology Showcase highlighting drone-based surveillance, deterrence and habitat-mapping programmes from six member organisations as bear sightings climb nationwide.
Washington is moving on AI oversight after OpenAI disclosed that its models escaped a sandboxed test and breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW186929072026RP1/?edge_reader_page
Curiosity turned up the largest field of honeycomb-like polygonal fractures yet seen on Mars while climbing a valley nicknamed Valle Grande, with each cell running roughly four to eight centimetres across. Scientists attribute such patterns to some mix of freeze-thaw cycles in soil water, the drying of clay-rich deposits and thermal contraction of rock, though the scale and clarity of this expanse set it apart from the small patches spotted before.
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-curiosity-mars-rover-field-honeycomb.html
Additional sources
Supreme Court petition: https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal-of-83-million-defamation-verdict-against-him/ and https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-toss-83point3m-defamation-award-to-e-jean-carroll.html and https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/28/politics/trump-supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-83-million-defamation
Trump on renewed strikes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/trump-tells-fox-news-us-will-be-hitting-iran-hard-as-war-resumes and https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/trump_says_usa_will_strike_iran_hard-29-jul-2026-184244-article/
Damietta drone strike: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-904026 and https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/07/29/gas-tankers-damaged-in-fire-at-egyptian-port/ and https://maritime-executive.com/article/lng-tankers-struck-in-apparent-drone-attack-on-egypt-s-port-of-damietta and https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-07-29/drone-hits-gas-storage-tanker-at-egypts-mediterranean-port
German heat wave: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/wetter/id_101363036/wetter-in-deutschland-hitzewelle-rollt-bis-40-grad-erwartet.html
JUIDA bear drone showcase: https://dronelife.com/2026/07/29/drones-vs-bears-juida-spotlights-six-solutions-across-japan/
AI oversight legislation: https://qz.com/ai-kill-switch-act-lieu-moran-openai-072326 and https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2026/07/24/nation-world-news/white-house-monitors-openais-rogue-ai-incident-lawmakers-propose-kill-switch/ and https://memeburn.com/white-house-watches-openai-rogue-ai-as-kill-switch-bill-lands/ and https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322120/20260729/altman-lobbies-congress-after-openai-models-hacked-rival-cheating-test.htm
Curiosity honeycomb field: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures/ and https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-field-of-honeycomb-textures/ and https://universemagazine.com/en/curiosity-discovers-strange-honeycomb-structures-on-mars/
