The Big Ben Show: Brit Hume, Nancy Mace

Plus a warning on Iran and the Economy from the NYT/Siena poll

This week’s episode is here — YouTube, Apple, and Spotify links below:

✍️ Feature

Mexico Hammers Fentanyl While US Overdose Deaths Drop

🌍 Foreign

• The Spectator: Economic Fate Will Be Decided in the Strait of Hormuz

• Wall Street Journal: With Castro Indictment, Trump Bets His Venezuela Playbook Will Work in Cuba

• Wall Street Journal: Israel-Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Attacks Intensify

• Politico Europe: NATO Allies Downplay U.S. Troop Withdrawals

🏛️ Domestic

• Wall Street Journal: Mortgage Rates Hit a Nine-Month High in Blow to Prime Buying Season

• Axios: Democrats Release 2024 Autopsy

• Politico: Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Finds Party Lost Touch With Voters

• Politico: Moderates Push Back on GOP Weaponization Fund

• Punchbowl News: Senate Republicans Buck Trump

• Wall Street Journal: Trump on Collision Course With GOP Over Controversial $1.8 Billion Fund

• New York Times: Trump’s Arch Project Wins Approval

• Axios: Feeding Our Future Fraud Ringleader Sentenced

• New York Magazine: John Fetterman’s Israel Politics Are Roiling Democrats

• The New Yorker: A Republican Bloodbath in the Texas Senate Primary Is Giving Democrats Hope

• New York Post: DHS Reveals Stunning Number of Illegal Migrants Deported or Self-Deported

• New York Post: Judge Drops Charges Against Virginia School Administrator in Teacher Shooting Case

• Daily Wire: The County D.A. Handing Out Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Cards

• Daily Wire: Trump Was Right About Hyperbolic Climate Models

• Daily Wire: The Worst-Case Emissions Scenario That Turned Out To Be A Lot Of Hot Air

📰 Media

• Daily Wire: Murderer Fan Club Ghouls Are The New Courtroom Journalists

• Hollywood Reporter: Jimmy Kimmel Says “Never Watch CBS Again”

• Hollywood Reporter: Spotify Launches AI-Generated Personalized Podcasts

💻 Tech

• New York Times: Jeff Bezos Defends Trump’s Second Term

• MSN: Data Centers Could Actually Be Good for Your Hometown

• Wall Street Journal: SpaceX Prepares Starship V3 Launch

• Axios: White House Postpones AI Executive Order Signing

🧬 Health

• The Cut: Vanessa Trump Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

• MSN: Trump And Mark Cuban End War Of Words To Tag Team America’s Drug Pricing Crisis

✝️ Religion

• Graphs About Religion: Does Religion Make You Happier? Yes, So Does Money.

• Wall Street Journal: Falling Birth Rates Are a Mystery

🏈 Sports

• House of Strauss: Thunder Derangement Syndrome

• The Athletic: Knicks-Cavaliers Game 1 Turns Into James Harden Show

🎭 Culture & Hollywood

• Daily Wire: Eat This, Not That! — Make Brown Bag Lunches Great Again

• Variety: Jeff Probst Reveals ‘Survivor 50’ Finale in Spoiler Mishap

🪶 Quote

“Don’t just build a net worth — build a life.” — John Coleman