The Unspun News for American Citizens · Friday, July 31, 2026 08:37 AM EDT
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Executive Summary
The war found new addresses this week. Iran answered Wednesday night’s U.S. strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites with Thursday salvos into Kuwait, Jordan, and Egypt — a worker killed in Kuwait, two gas vessels burning at Damietta, five missiles intercepted over Jordan. The U.S. strikes had themselves answered Iran’s intercepted Tuesday attack on a base in Jordan. American and Saudi jets hit Iranian-backed militias in Iraq; the militias counted at least 20 dead. Early Friday, IRGC drones struck a Kuwaiti airbase that hosts U.S. forces. Brent settled near $85.
The Senate came one vote from forcing the war question, 49-50 against advancing Kirsten Gillibrand’s war-powers resolution, with three Republicans crossing. An AP-NORC poll released the same day found two-thirds of the country calls the war not worthwhile. The Commerce Department reported growth slowed to 1.5 percent in the second quarter — the war and tariffs cited as drags — while the Fed’s preferred core inflation gauge eased to 3.4 percent. Hackers reached the controls of more than 30 Minnesota water systems; investigators suspect Iran. A divided Ninth Circuit restored bond hearings for immigrants arrested inside the country. Rand Paul’s committee set a contempt vote on Anthony Fauci for next week.
In the war Russia began in 2022, an overnight barrage killed at least eight Ukrainians — and Poland said the object that cratered a field near Lublin was likely a Russian cruise missile. NATO’s commander pledged to defend alliance territory. In Cairo, Hamas negotiated disarmament terms for the first time; mediators want a signature within days. Amazon’s cloud quarter and Apple’s soft guidance split the AI trade after hours. The country meets the moment with a war answering back across new borders, a Senate one vote short of its own war power, and an economy cooling under the bill — three tabs open on the same ledger.
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