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Politico:
Internal DOJ messages bolster claim that Trump judicial nominee spoke of defying court orders … Bove has said that he never advised anyone to violate court orders. DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case — Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” …
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CBS News, The Hill and The Guardian
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton — In a statement, Angela Paxton said she moved to end her 38-year marriage “on biblical grounds,” citing “recent discoveries.” — State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Lauren McGaughy / KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station:
State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — State Sen. Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. — On the social media site X, Angela Paxton posted she was seeking divorce “on biblical grounds.”
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and wife announce divorce on ‘biblical grounds’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and wife announce divorce on ‘biblical grounds’
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New York Magazine, Axios, WTOP News, Mediaite and New York Sun
Gus Saltonstall / West Side Rag:
A Baseball Coach Says He Fended Off ICE Agents Questioning Kids on the Upper West Side — After coaching baseball on the west side of Manhattan for more than 20 years, Youman Wilder says he had a first-of-a-kind experience at the end of last month. — Wilder was leading a group …
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Raw Story
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Nick Miroff / The Atlantic:
Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement. He praises the bravery and fortitude …
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Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
Who actually is the President of the United States right now?
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The Independent and Esquire
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order despite Supreme Court ruling — A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability …
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump's order seeking to end birthright citizenship
Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump's order seeking to end birthright citizenship
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Joey Safchik / KNSD-TV:
ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court … A grandmother planning to document ICE arrests at the San Diego courthouse instead became the story Tuesday after video of her own arrest began circulating. — An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her.
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San Diego Union-Tribune
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump nominates ‘alpha male’ MAGA firebrand to serve as ambassador to Malaysia … Adams, born in Australia, served in local government before being formally condemned by his colleagues and threatened with suspension from the Liberal Party for conduct “likely to embarrass or cause damage to the reputation” of the party.
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The White House
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump nominates self-described ‘alpha male’ influencer Nick Adams as ambassador to Malaysia
Trump nominates self-described ‘alpha male’ influencer Nick Adams as ambassador to Malaysia
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas … As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash floods and some 170 remain missing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has both denied that DOGE cuts …
Jake Offenhartz / Associated Press:
Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child's birth in New York.
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Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal:
Mahmoud Khalil Seeks $20 Million From Trump Administration
Mahmoud Khalil Seeks $20 Million From Trump Administration
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The Guardian and New York Sun
Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
The Ketanji Brown Jackson Dissents Reveal an Important Truth About the Supreme Court — Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing …
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Fox News, Raw Story, The Lid, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, New York Sun, Blaze Media, CNN and twitchy.com
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
When Power Is Not Currently An Option, You Might As Well Tell The Truth
When Power Is Not Currently An Option, You Might As Well Tell The Truth
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CNN, Washington Post, Washington Times, The Daily Caller and Slate
Thomas Frank / E&E News by POLITICO:
FEMA leader is a no-show after deadly Texas flooding … As the Federal Emergency Management Agency responds to the deadly flooding in Texas, one key resource is missing: the FEMA leader. — David Richardson, the agency's acting administrator, has not been to the site of one of the nation's deadliest floods …
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Laura Sullivan / NPR:
New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic
New data reveals FEMA missed major flood risks at Camp Mystic
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New York Times, HousingWire and Raw Story
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
They took away Linda Yaccarino's blue check! — Ex-CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, seems to have left the company on good terms. That is to say, Elon Musk has not disparaged her yet, and we know that he is not known to mince words about his adversaries. But now, we have the teeniest …
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Jaryn Crouson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Education Dept Ends Free Tuition For Illegals — The Department of Education (DE) on Thursday revoked a Clinton-era rule that allowed illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funds for technical and career schools. — The Clinton administration's rule allowed illegal aliens …
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Wall Street Journal, DOL, RedState, NewsMax.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, Blaze Media and The National Pulse
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Cops Probed Trump Terror Chief, 22, Over Teen Love Triangle — EYEBROW-RAISING — Police were called in after a threatening message was sent to a child by the ex-gardener chosen by the president to lead a key homeland security post, The Daily Beast has learned. — EXCLUSIVE
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Raw Story
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty — Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, in a highly unusual use of the tool. — Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Religious Rebellion Against Mass Deportation — Donald Trump posted a new “tariff letter” yesterday, and this one was notable because it didn't follow the template of the others. Yes, it included the standard complaints about “Brazil's Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers” …
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Associated Press and Staten Island Advance
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Some of Iran's Enriched Uranium Survived Attacks, Israeli Official Says — The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes. — Israel has concluded that some of Iran's underground stockpile …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Reuters
Politico:
Joni Ernst is the next GOP senator on retirement watch … Many will be watching closely for clues next week when Ernst files new campaign fundraising totals. She raised just over $1 million in the first quarter of 2025, a solid but not overwhelming number for an in-cycle senator.
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party — During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win elections. It's destroying them now. … July 10, 2025 — 5:40 AM — A few months ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a press conference with an almond farmer …
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New York Times, HotAir, The Bulwark and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Billy Bush Says He Warned of ‘Animal’ Trump Comments Years Before Scandal — BUS BEAST — The host phoned a producer in 2005 after the president bragged about seducing co-anchor Nancy O'Dell. — Former Access Hollywood anchor Billy Bush says he warned NBC that President Donald Trump …
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Mercury News, The Hollywood Reporter and Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Casey Michel / The Atlantic:
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This — The White House has seen its share of shady deals. Ulysses S. Grant's brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market. Warren Harding's secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons …
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Alternet.org
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump loses appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse, defamation verdict … A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday upheld a civil jury verdict that found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, and which ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.
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Alternet.org
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Greg Abbott accused of trying to ‘fix’ midterms for Republicans by redrawing congressional maps — Texas governor unveiled plan to redraw state's districts in a move opponents are calling ‘an egregious gerrymander’ — The fight for democracy is supported by
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Democracy Docket, Townhall, The Texas Tribune, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Daily Signal, Democrats, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, Off the Kuff and NBC News
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Held Talks on Pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell: Biographer — WHITE HOUSE JITTERS — The president agonized over what Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice would reveal upon her arrest, author Michael Wolff said. — President Donald Trump weighed pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell for fear …
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Raw Story, TMZ.com, New York Post, House Inhabit and The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali
The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge — The dismantling of Harvard's diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.
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New Republic, HotAir, Above the Law and The Hill
Mike Stone / Reuters:
Trump to use presidential authority to send weapons to Ukraine, sources say — President Donald Trump for the first time since returning to office will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power frequently used by his predecessor, two sources familiar with the decision said on Thursday …
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Newsweek, The Kyiv Independent and Washington Examiner
Nathan Taylor Pemberton / New York Times:
Democracy — If you want to know where Republican politics is heading, look at the memes. Since the start of its second term, the Trump administration and its G.O.P. surrogates have been crashing out online. — Like an unhinged Zoomer, they've relentlessly posted sadistic memes …
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RNS
Reuters:
Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says — Grok AI will be available in Tesla (TSLA.O) vehicles next week “at the latest”, the EV maker's CEO, Elon Musk, said in a post on X on Thursday. — Musk's AI startup xAI launched Grok 4, its latest flagship AI model, on Wednesday.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump's New Go-To Response: 'I Don't Know' — The president has taken to passing the buck when asked about the chaos his administration is unleashing on America and the world … When he was asked on Tuesday who ordered the aid to be paused in the first place, Trump delivered what has become …
Tim Cunningham / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is not a clown. I should know. … Tim Cunningham is the board president of Clowns Without Borders, a nonprofit that performs clown shows for communities facing hardship. — Allegations that President Donald Trump is a clownish figure are not hard to come by.
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New York Post, HotAir, Breitbart, Townhall, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Instapundit, The Washington Free Beacon, Newsbusters, Fox News, Not the Bee and Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA — Trump tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space program on an interim basis … After Donald Trump pulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the post, the president announced Duffy would be the interim NASA administrator.
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Dylan Gwinn / Breitbart:
Ex-UFC Star, Green Beret Tim Kennedy Admits to ‘Unintentionally’ Falsifying Military Record — Former UFC middleweight star and U.S. Army Green Beret Tim Kennedy has admitted to a “serious mistake” in implying “directly or indirectly” that he had been awarded a Bronze Star with V for Valor during his military service.
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TMZ.com, Military and Veteran …, Daily Caller News Foundation, PennLive and MMA Fighting

