Republicans are swamping House and Senate races with an unprecedented flood of late ad spending as the party tests whether hundreds of millions of dollars can buy it some reprieve from the eroding political environment that’s threatening longtime Republican states and districts.
Since the start of September, Republicans have made more than $700 million worth of new advertising bookings in congressional races alone, according to an NBC News ******* ysis of data from AdImpact, a political ad-tracking firm. That’s new money on top of what had already been committed to those races in ad reservations made over the summer.
By comparison, Democrats booked more than $430 million in new ad reservations across those races last month.
The disparity is greatest in the battle for the Senate majority, where almost 7 of every 10 newly booked advertising dollars are coming from Republicans. That’s led by a massive, late investment in the Senate race in Texas, where Democrat James Talarico is threatening a longtime Republican seat and the GOP has poured in almost $150 million in new ad dollars to back up its nominee, Ken Paxton.
The gap is smaller in the House, where a bit less than 6 in 10 of those new ad dollars are coming from the GOP.

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Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed suggested that reporters press him about the Israel-Hamas war because of his name and his faith.
Speaking on Detroit Public Radio's "MichMash" podcast, El-Sayed pushed back on host Zach Gorchow's line of questioning about the Israel-Hamas conflict, suggesting that his name and Muslim faith play a role in the media attention surrounding the issue.
"You've been asked many times whether you support a two-state solution regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and you generally say you support equal rights to self-determination for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians," Gorchow said. "Can you tell us, what does that mean?"
Michigan Dem Hopeful Abdul El-sayed Jabs Cnn Giving Him 'Non-consensual Colonoscopy' In Recent Interviews
Michigan U.S. Sen candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, speaks with media after a debate at WoodTV studios on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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KINSHASA, July 8 (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Wednesday that suspected Ebola cases had been reported ‌in a new province, highlighting the expansion of the ‌ongoing outbreak as deaths hit 600.
The outbreak, declared on May 15, has so far infected 1,759 people across the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu, according to the government's latest situation report published Wednesday night.
But that case total does not include two cases ‌in Kisangani, the ⁠capital of Tshopo province and one of Congo's biggest cities, the situation report said.
One of those cases is ⁠linked to the health zone of Niania in Ituri province, where the first cases were reported. But the second case "does not appear to have a geographic link" beyond Kisangani, it said.
The positive test results ‌are in the process of being validated by confirmatory testing, after which they will be included in the official case total, it said.

Realbotix's humanoid robots are designed to be highly realistic.
I visited the company's headquarters in Las Vegas to see for myself.
Aria, the robot, surprised me with her sense of humor, but struggled with emotional awareness.
When I walked into Realbotix's headquarters in Las Vegas, technicians crowded around humanoid robots fresh from a trade show, replacing worn motors and repairing facial glitches.
The maintenance offered a reminder that behind the company's lifelike robots are machines still learning to navigate the real world.

PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) - French Green party lawmakers have announced plans to file a no-confidence motion against the government over its handling of a severe ‌heatwave in late June, as the country braces for a third possible bout ‌of extreme temperatures next week.
It was not immediately clear if the motion would be put forward this week or early next week.
• When asked about the motion, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said on Wednesday: "Obviously, it's going to be filed. It is a political manoeuvre." "There is a government managing the crisis and there are political forces fueling the crisis by introducing the motion," Bregeon told reporters ‌after a meeting of the French ⁠Cabinet.
• The bid to topple Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's minority government is unlikely to succeed without the backing of other opposition parties, including ⁠the far-right National Rally or the Socialists. The Socialists have not supported any of the no-confidence motions filed against Lecornu since he took office last year.
• Cyrielle Chatelain, who leads the Greens in the National ******* embly, said on Tuesday the motion would be filed to protest at the ‌government's "lack of preparedness not only for the heatwave we have just experienced, but especially for the one that is coming."

Nearly 170 million people from Texas to Maine are under heat alerts for dangerous triple-digit temperatures. The oppressive heat is pushing power companies to the limit and forcing major cities to change plans heading into the July 4 holiday weekend. It comes as crews continue to battle dozens of wildfires in the West. NBC's Shaquille Brewster reports from Chicago and TODAY's Al Roker tracks the forecast.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's president on Tuesday dismissed an Israeli proposal to designate violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide, and turned the accusation back at Israel by pointing at the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was responding to a measure approved Sunday by Israel's Cabinet. The proposal still requires parliamentary approval and comes amid deteriorating ties between Israel and Turkey.
Turkey has fiercely lobbied to prevent countries from officially recognizing the mass deaths of Armenians around 1915 as genocide, even as Armenians have pushed for it.
Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
"We pay absolutely no attention to the slanders against our country by this criminal network, which has the blood of 73,000 innocent people of Gaza, mostly children and women, on its hands," Erdogan said in a televised address following a Cabinet meeting.

By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday said it will ban the import of more equipment ‌from a group of Chinese manufacturers, the latest move by Washington ‌to crack down on Chinese-made electronic gear.
The move expands an FCC ban imposed in 2022 on new models of telecommunications and video surveillance equipment made by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua, citing U.S. national security risks.
The ban now includes old models, not just those designed starting in late 2022, of equipment used for "public safety, ‌security of government facilities, physical ⁠security surveillance of critical infrastructure, and other national security purposes," the FCC said.
The expanded ban is set to take effect ⁠in early July. The FCC said the action "is necessary to protect national security by mitigating risks to the U.S. communications sector."

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