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    Watch now   BREAKING: SCOTUS Rejects Trump's E. Jean Carroll Appeal Again, Trump Threatens to Bomb Key US Ally, DHS Bulldozes National Park Aaron Parnas Aug 17 Good morning, and happy Monday. Today’s rundown covers a lot of ground: the Supreme Court just denied Trump’s second attempt to overturn the $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict, even as a separate $83 million appeal from that case still looms. Trump threatened to “bomb the s--t” out of Oman , a key backchannel partner in the Iran war, right as his own 60-day deadline for a peace deal quietly expired with nothing to show for it. Federal contractors are bulldozing Big Bend National Park under a $960 million contract, and Trump picked yet another fight with a female journalist (this time misspelling the insult). It’s a lot, and I’m going to walk you through all of it. Before I do: this newsletter exists because I refuse to stop reporting, even when the Pentagon and the White House would rather I did. The Navy has d...

  ADVERTISEMENT New from CommonWealth Beacon POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Just a month after Gov. Maura Healey signed a $63.4 billion budget for fiscal year 2027, the quasi-public Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has laid off 11 people as federal and state policy whipsaw the green energy sector. Plus, signature upheaval in Rachael Rollins’ district attorney bid and a Hanscom hangar retrofit. Jordan Wolman and Chris Lisinski report.  excerpt:  A $40 million question at Hanscom The developers of a controversial and high-profile effort to add 17 new hangars for private jets at Hanscom Field airport have closed on a $40 million loan to retrofit one existing hangar, according to a bank document reviewed by CommonWealth Beacon —though progress on the larger project remains stalled. The developers have finalized the financial transaction with Needham Bank to fund construction of one hangar previously used by the Navy, confirmed Rick Muse, director of operations for the Hanscom redeve...