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Close advisers also want him to prioritize the most pressing issue facing voters, concerns about the cost of living, which have been exacerbated by the war.

Meanwhile, facing the risk of tariffs on top of war-related costs, EU lawmakers are today voting on whether to back a trade deal reached with the U.S.

last year.

Our Kim McRaehl is in Brussels.

To cushion against changes in U.S.

policy, EU lawmakers have made the bloc's tariff cuts conditional on Washington fulfilling its side of the bargain.

And while President Trump's tariff decisions, military strikes and sudden policy shifts over the past year have often moved markets, our reporting shows that there have been several occasions in which unusual trades have hit the tape just ahead of major announcements.

You may have heard on the show about one trader who made more than $400,000 in profits after placing a series of bets on Polymarket about the timing of Nicolas Maduro losing power in Venezuela, with the last one coming just an hour before Trump announced his capture.

And as journal reporter Alexander Osipovich explains, that's not the only unusual trade.

Democratic lawmakers have called for an investigation into the trades, saying they resemble corruption.

The White House has denied that its officials were involved in any sort of illegal insider trading and called such speculation baseless.

Thank you.

A sharp slowdown in immigration is reshaping some of America's biggest cities.

New census figures show that the L.A., San Diego, and Miami areas all shrank in the year through June 2025, and half of the 50 largest metro areas lost more people than they gained from the rest of the U.S.

Strong growth is continuing elsewhere, though, with several mid-sized and smaller cities across the Carolinas, Texas, and Mountain West growing at four times the national rate or more.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

's pick for Surgeon General has hit a standstill in her confirmation process.

We report that healthy food advocate Dr. Casey Means currently lacks enough GOP support to advance out of the Senate's health committee and faces additional hurdles in the full Senate.

However, the White House hasn't dropped her nomination, given her support from Kennedy as well as other members of the Make America Healthy Again movement, with an official saying that skeptical Republicans could still be brought around.

And the U.S.