A.M. Edition for July 21. The European Union is changing its tune as trade talks with the U.S. take a turn for the worse. WSJ editor Dan Michaels explains what this could mean for the world’s largest trading relationship. Plus, how Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been trying to convince President Trump not to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell. And why taxing the super rich can backfire on governments, as the U.K. seems to be learning to its detriment. Azhar Sukri hosts.
For the past two weeks, President Trump has been trying and failing to get his supporters to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor for The New York Times, and Shawn McCreesh, a Times White House correspondent, explain why MAGA won’t let go of this scandal, how the president misread his own base — and what all this shows about the limits of Mr. Trump’s power.
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The Trump administration pushes for the release of grand jury testimony in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, but that might not be enough to satisfy its base. Dozens more Palestinians have died at aid sites, according to Gaza’s health ministry. And WNBA players make a public demand for a raise.
Some of the most venerated objects in many different religions are holy relics.
Relics offer a tangible connection to significant figures in various religious traditions, and they are often highly prized and sought after.
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Learn more about relics, their authenticity, and the historical business surrounding them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Michael #1: Distributed sqlite follow up: Turso and Litestream
Michael Booth:
Turso marries the familiarity and simplicity of SQLite with modern, scalable, and distributed features.
Seems to me that Turso is to SQLite what MotherDuck is to DuckDB.
Mike Fiedler
Continue to use the SQLite you love and care about (even the one inside Python runtime) and launch a daemon that watches the db for changes and replicates changes to an S3-type object store.
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As artificial intelligence programs become more widely accessible, so too do increasingly sophisticated deepfake scams that take advantage of the technology. Earlier this month, the State Department confirmed reports that an imposter pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio reached out to at least five high-ranking government officials. It wasn’t the first time a member of the Trump administration had been impersonated by AI; in May, the White House confirmed a similar incident involving Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. But these days, you don’t even have to be a big-name politician to end up on the wrong side of a deepfake scam. If your image and voice exist on the internet, enterprising bad actors might be able to use them against you. Reporter David Gilbert, who covers disinformation and online extremism for Wired, joins us to talk about the risks deepfakes pose to the public and how all of us can protect ourselves.
And in headlines: President Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for $20 billion over an article claiming he sent a lewd birthday card to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Israeli troops killed dozens of Palestinians seeking food in Gaza Sunday, and CBS is pulling the plug on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’
