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(CNN)Apple customers could soon get a look at the next generation of iPhones.

Apple sent out press invites on Wednesday for an event on September 7, where the company is widely expected to unveil the new iPhone 14 lineup.

The company's invite, which is always closely scrutinized for hidden meanings, features the night sky in the shape of the Apple logo and the tag line: "Far out."

The event is set to be broadcast on Apple's website from Apple Park, the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California. In recent years, Apple has done most of its events virtually because of the pandemic.


Apple is rumored to unveil a larger iPhone 14 and to ditch the much-disliked notch around the front-facing camera. It could also upgrade the cameras on the phone.

Apple will also likely announce a release date for its latest mobile operating system, iOS 16. At its annual developers conference in June, Apple unveiled a number of changes to iOS 16, including a revamped lock screen and the ability to edit or unsend messages


New York (CNN Business)If nothing else can be said with certainty about Donald Trump after a week of coverage filled with speculation about the purpose of the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, it is that he still has the biggest cable TV news channel, Fox News, solidly behind him. He also has the editorial boards of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, two other major platforms owned by Rupert Murdoch, on his side so far.


One reason that matters is that both newspapers carried editorials highly critical of Trump in the wake of the last hearing by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Furthermore, CNN and others like the Washington Post reported on and analyzed what appeared to be widening cracks in the relationship between the former president and the Murdochs. Whatever the nature of that relationship might be behind closed doors, the opinion hosts and writers of Murdoch's properties were firmly in Trump's corner in the wake of the Monday search, particularly Fox. There was neither hesitation nor mixed messaging. Fox hosts were all in with Trump against what the former president characterized as "weaponizing" of the Justice Department against him.


With its audience of as many as 3 million viewers a weeknight for some of its prime-time programs, Fox also essentially handed the platform over to voices from MAGA world to stoke the anger against the FBI, Justice Department and White House.

Among the most egregious abdications of editorial control involved Fox giving the former president's son, Eric, a forum to say without any pushback or evidence, "I know the White House as well as anyone, I spent a lot of time there, I know the system, this did not happen without Joe Biden's explicit approval." (A White House spokeswoman denied that President Biden had knowledge of the search ahead of time.)

"Mar-a-Lago search shows the swamp's Trump obsession," a Wall Street Journal opinion column said. The sub-head read: "An FBI raid against a former president should never happen."

The New York Post featured an opinion column headlined: "FBI Trump raid exposes Washington's secrecy shams." The lead paragraph quoted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a staunch Trump supporter, saying the search showed the Justice Department's "intolerable state of weaponized politization."


Then on Thursday, the editorial boards of both Murdoch outlets published opinion pieces that took aim at Merrick Garland for his lack of transparency about the search.

The rest of the right-wing media was right there in lockstep.

Eric Trump was on Newsmax with the same talking points, telling host Greg Kelly he was "pissed off," because "what this administration did is just unthinkable."

As inflammatory as some might consider Watters' talk of "war" and Eric Trump's declaration of anger, they were mild compared to what was being said in digital space with frequent calls to "lock and load," as charted by CNN's Donie O'Sullivan.

There were widespread calls for armed warfare on behalf of Trump across social media. One NBC News report said, "in the minutes after news of the search broke, users on pro-Trump forums like TheDonald, a Reddit-like website that was used to provide logistics before the Capitol riot, urged immediate violence, asking questions like 'When does the shooting start?' and calling upon Trump to summon militias."

This is another layer of media support for Trump that flexed its muscles this week on behalf of him, and it certainly seemed far more visible and threatening than it did during his campaign in 2016 -- if it even existed then.

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