Today's five.

A former national security adviser just pleaded guilty to keeping "diary-like" classified notes after leaving the White House, which is an extremely expensive journaling habit. Bolton, 77, admitted to one count of retaining national defense information in a Maryland federal court and faces a $2.25 million fine plus up to five years in prison — though he's fighting the jail time. Bloomberg and The Hill kept it procedural. Mother Jones led with the comparison nobody else wanted to make: Trump's case was dismissed; Biden wasn't charged. Bolton's lawyer will presumably argue context. The DOJ will presumably argue otherwise.

The National Mall now has a Ferris wheel, a rodeo, and a replica of Trump's proposed arch, which is one way to celebrate a nation's 250th birthday. The 16-day Great American State Fair opened Thursday as part of the White House-backed Freedom 250 semiquincentennial — and immediately became a test of whether "Great American" means what the organizers think it means. Pennsylvania cited taxpayer costs and couldn't find sponsors. Other Democratic-led states also skipped. NPR led with the divisions; regional outlets led with the putt-putt and the Grand Ole Opry stage. A high school history teacher called it a reflection of how divided the country is, which is a lot to read into a Ferris wheel.

Congressional Republicans are in open civil war over a bill they believe will save them in the midterms, which is a lot of faith to place in a photo ID requirement. Twenty-five House members are refusing to vote for anything until the SAVE America Act passes. Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill to pressure the Senate. McCarthy is cheering him on from the sidewalk. RealClearPolitics — not a skeptical outlet — called the underlying premise "entirely unfounded." The Senate is scrambling. The House is frozen. The midterms are approaching regardless.

Red-light camera tickets for right turns are now essentially suspended in Miami Beach, which is a quiet admission that maybe they were always more about revenue than safety. The city is pausing citations at nearly all intersections — not because of a court ruling, not because of a crash study, but because state lawmakers have been trying to kill these cameras for years and the pressure apparently landed. There's no replacement enforcement mechanism. There's no timeline. Florida Politics noted the state-level fight has been going on for years. The cameras are still there. They're just not doing anything. Which raises the obvious question of why they were doing the thing they were doing.

Congress is trying to clean up college athletics and the people who made the mess are fighting back hardest. A bipartisan bill setting national standards for athlete compensation passed the Senate Commerce Committee 19-9 in mid-June — a real vote, a real margin, a real step. But the biggest college sports conferences are opposing it, which tracks, since they're the ones who spent years insisting amateurism was a noble principle right up until courts told them it wasn't. Supporters say the bill would "restore order in college athletics." The conferences apparently prefer the current disorder, where they set the terms.