🔵 NYPost Enters California

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Citizen Frank
August 04, 2025

Good morning. It’s Monday, August 4.

New York Post Media Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., will launch a new, daily Los Angeles-based newspaper called “The California Post” in early 2026.

It’s a ripe market, and one in which NYPMG — home to the New York Post, Page Six and Decider — already has a leg up.

Los Angeles is home to the second-largest concentration of Post readers, per News Corp.

 
 

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to arrest and expel the Texas House Democrats who fled the state to avoid a redistricting vote if they do not return by Monday afternoon.

Dozens of Texas’ Democratic state representatives arrived in Chicago Sunday night to stall the vote. Shortly after Abbott released his statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus issued a simple response, writing: “Come and take it.”

The statement also described Republicans’ proposed districts, which would potentially secure five new GOP U.S. House seats in next year’s midterm elections, as a “racist mid-decade redistricting scheme.”

Rep. Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican with a large national profile, on Monday declared her candidacy for Palmetto State governor.

“I’m running to put South Carolina first,” Mace, a three-term House member who represents a coastal congressional district in the state’s Lowcountry, said in a statement shared first with Fox News Digital.

Mace, as she launched her campaign, argued that “we can continue doing the things we’ve always done,” as she took aim at what she called “weak leadership” in the state.

The Kremlin is trying to stall President Trump’s momentum on ending the war in Ukraine by claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to a face-to-face sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — but only if vague conditions are met, officials in Kyiv said.

Putin “does not rule out the possibility of holding such a meeting,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian media on Monday — months after the Russian dictator stood up Zelensky for direct talks in Turkey at Trump’s behest in May.

But Putin would only meet Zelensky if “the necessary work is done at the expert level and the appropriate distance is overcome,” Peskov added, without detailing the alleged conditions.

House Speaker Mike Johnson visited a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday as part of a private visit to Israel organized by a pro-Israel advocacy group, according to two Israeli officials.

While many Republican Congress members have visited West Bank settlements, it is highly unusual visit for a speaker of the house to do so.

Johnson’s unannounced trip with a group of Republican lawmakers to Israel and was only made public after Israeli ministers issued statements about their meeting with the delegation.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was awarded an interim pay package of 96 million shares of the company over the weekend. The shares would be worth about $29 billion.

Tesla stock climbed about 2% Monday.

The company said in a filing Sunday that the pay package would vest in two years as long as Musk continued as CEO or in another key executive position.

Cambodia announced Friday it will nominate President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after he helped bring the Cambodia-Thailand border conflict to a ceasefire agreement.

“He should get the Nobel, not only for his work on Cambodia but also elsewhere,” said Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chanthol in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We acknowledge his great efforts for peace.”

The ceasefire agreement came soon after Trump warned Cambodia and Thailand last week that neither nation would reach a U.S. trade agreement if their border fighting didn’t stop.

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