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YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Dana Bash presses Doug Burgum as he deflects on Patriot Front march: Lindsey Granger | RISING

OPINION: Lindsey Granger gives her lens on a group of white nationalists marching through DC over the weekend, and the response from the Trump administration. #PatriotFront #WhiteNationalist #LindseyGranger

AXIOS (Neil Irwin) - Inflation measurement tweaks make for sunnier data

Changes to the methodology underneath the Federal Reserve's go-to inflation measure are on track to make the numbers look a couple of ticks better later this year. Why it matters: The changes are entirely defensible on technical grounds and should make the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index better able to mirror overall price dynamics over time. - But coming at a fraught moment — when the independence of statistical agencies has been attacked and the Fed has overshot its inflation target for half a decade — the optics aren't great. State of play: The Bureau of Economic Analysis, which calculates the PCE inflation measure, announced late last month the methodological changes to how price changes are calculated in three…

AXIOS (Herb Scribner) - Trump's FIFA call sours World Cup visitors' goodwill

World Cup fans' romance with America has soured after FIFA suspended a red-card ban on U.S. striker Folarin Balogun for the match against Belgium. Why it matters: Soccer officials and fans allege that FIFA is bending its own disciplinary rules under political pressure from President Trump — raising questions about whether the sport's governing body is giving the U.S. a boost due to the president's close relationship with FIFA president Gianni Infantino . Catch up quick: FIFA ultimately used Article 27 of its disciplinary code — which allows its independent disciplinary committee to suspend all or part of a punishment and instead place a player on probation — to suspend Balogun's red card. - FIFA initially said the red-card…

BABYLONBEE (Babylon Bee) - 'Yeah, But It's A Dry Heat,' Says Arizona Man Who Is Currently On Fire

TEMPE, AZ — Local man Frank Benden, who was currently engulfed in flames, assured friends coming to visit that the 107-degree temperatures in Arizona weren't that bad because it's a dry heat.

REDSTATE (Rusty Weiss) - Backlash Erupts After Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Branded ‘The People’s Champion’ in Latest Vanity Project

WAR (Commander, Submarine Squadron 15) - Retired Submariner Commemorates Both Bicentennial, Semiquincentennial in Guam

Fifty years after raising the national colors in Guam for America's bicentennial, retired Navy Cmdr. Allan Riggs returned to the island to commemorate the nation's 250th birthday alongside a new generation of submariners.