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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no “client list,” committed suicide … - The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and “enhanced” versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Musk tweaks Trump with Jeffrey Epstein post  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk trolled President Trump early Monday with a post knocking the administration for making no arrests related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.  —  Musk, Trump's former ally-turned-foe, posted an image to the social platform X of …
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump's Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn … Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.  I'm your host, Greg Sargent.  —  So Republicans succeeded in passing President Trump's big bill enshrining his agenda …
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Calen Razor / Politico:
Capitol agenda: GOP turns toward DOGE cuts and a shutdown cliff  —  Republicans finally got their “big, beautiful bill” across the finish line.  Now they're turning to their next urgent tasks: codifying billions in spending cuts and avoiding a government shutdown.
Discussion: Semafor
Maya Goldman / Axios:
Trump bill's health effects won't be felt until after midterms  —  President Trump's tax and spending bill sets in motion nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other health policy changes that could loom over the midterm elections.  — But the real effects likely won't be felt until well after the ballots are cast.
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
Republicans just cut Medicaid. Will it cost them control of Congress?
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:
Live Updates: Desperate Search for Missing in Texas Floods as Death Toll Passes 50
CNN:
Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Johnson on Texas floods: ‘We feel just as helpless as everyone else does’
Discussion: Washington Times
Max Tani / Semafor:
Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story  —  The Scoop  —  The afternoon before a long holiday weekend isn't always the best time to drop a major scoop.  But the New York Times did not want to wait to publish its story about Zohran Mamdani's application …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread  —  Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.  —  Summary564
Discussion: Popular Information and USA Today
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Tesla shares drop 7% in premarket trading after Elon Musk says he is launching a political party … Tesla shares fell in premarket trade on Monday after CEO Elon Musk announced plans to form a new political party.  —  The stock was down 7.13% by 4:27 a.m. E.T.
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Musk says he's forming a new political party after split with Trump over tax cuts law
New York Times:
From Food Aid to Dog Chow?  How Trump's Cuts Hurt Kansas Farmers. … Wheat grows so prodigiously here on the Kansas high plains that in 1953 the surplus birthed one of the Cold War's big ideas: Food for Peace, a federal government program that delivered the excess bounty to a hungry postwar world.
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The Trump Administration Wants to Close Down Key Weather Labs Across the Country  —  The National Severe Storms Laboratory sits on a campus of radar equipment and office buildings at the University of Oklahoma, off a state highway in Norman.  It's responsible for radar breakthroughs …
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears  —  The president is again threatening higher tariff rates on a dozen foreign nations, as a deadline elapses this week for making trade deals.  —  President Trump is set to rekindle economic pressure on America's trading partners this week …
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John Bowden / The Independent:
Scott Bessent spars with CNN host over whether Trump's tariffs count as trade deals
Washington Post:
Trump's $5 million ‘gold card’ visa might never happen  —  The president and his aides have exaggerated the likelihood that such a program can be legally implemented and have made no effort to introduce legislation that would be needed.  —  Summary0  —  Over the past four months …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Potential 2028 GOP contenders already making moves … Now several ambitious Republicans are signaling they see an opening to offer themselves to primary voters as the future of the party.  — “Everyone knows Trump has one term left, and I would say its a wide-open opportunity,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
If We Don't Stand With Ukraine, What Do We Stand For?  —  ON JULY 1, THE PENTAGON REPORTEDLY canceled a shipment of weapons for Ukraine, including artillery ammunition, rockets for the HIMARS system, weapons to shoot down Russian airplanes and helicopters, and, most crucial of all …
Discussion: Foreign Affairs
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Frightening Dream House of Zoran Mamdani … After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool.  —  So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn't really mean …
 
 
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Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
The Progressive Paucity Agenda—From Mamdani in New York to California
Discussion: Washington Times
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
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Politico:
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Daryna Krasnolutska / Bloomberg:
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Discussion: Reuters and The Kyiv Independent
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German Lopez / New York Times:
Nearly Half of America's Murderers Get Away With It
Peter Beinart / New York Times:
Israel Is Fast Alienating the Democratic Base
Politico:
Trump's effort to deport pro-Palestinian activists goes to trial
Discussion: Reuters and Associated Press
Anas Baba / NPR:
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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