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10:55 AM ET, July 13, 2025

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NBC News:
Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files  —  The Epstein files — and calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to be fired — dominated a conservative conference in Tampa this weekend.  —  TAMPA, Fla. — On the weekend President Donald Trump decided to pick his biggest political fight …
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David French / New York Times:
MAGA Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Jeffrey Epstein  —  Last week President Trump's Department of Justice delivered a blow to one of the foundational beliefs of the MAGA movement, one that helped carry him back to the White House.  —  In an unsigned memorandum, the department declared …
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Trump posts support for embattled Attorney General Pam Bondi
Ashley Oliver / Fox News:
Inside Dan Bongino's tense meeting with White House officials over Jeffrey Epstein fallout
Washington Post:
ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens  —  The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of people being sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.  —  Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants …
New York Times:
Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response  —  As a warming planet delivers more extreme weather, experts warn that the Trump administration is dismantling the government's disaster capabilities.  —  In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump …
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says Trump wants FEMA ‘remade,’ not dismantled  —  Noem and Trump have previously floated getting rid of the agency, which administers emergency relief.  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and New York Times
Michael A. Cohen / MSNBC:
Trump and Noem's attacks on FEMA blew up in the most predictable way
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
DOJ drops charges against Utah doctor accused of throwing away COVID vaccines, distributing fake vaccination cards  —  The Justice Department moved to dismiss charges against a Utah plastic doctor charged in connection with a COVID-19 fraud scheme, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Saturday.
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Mark Thiessen / Associated Press:
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses  —  The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.
Discussion: USA Today and Newsweek
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Bondi says all charges against doctor who allegedly destroyed COVID vaccines have been dropped
Discussion: CBS News and Salt Lake Tribune
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Associated Press:   Justice Dept. fires more prosecutors, support staff involved in Trump prosecutions, AP sources say
Jacob Rosen / CBS News:
Justice Department purge continues, firings include Trump classified document case investigators and Jan. 6 prosecutors
Discussion: New York Times
Peter Baker / New York Times:
From Science to Diversity, Trump Hits the Reverse Button on Decades of Change  —  President Trump has moved aggressively to reopen long-settled issues and to dismantle long-established institutions as he tries to return to what he considers better times.  —  NEWS ANALYSIS
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
America Would Be Better Off If Trump Won in 2020  —  When Donald Trump's megabill passed the Senate, consummating nearly a half-year of aggressively reactionary policymaking by the 47th president, a colleague commented that “it's like the Biden presidency never happened.”
Discussion: Althouse
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
Discussion: USA Today
Donald Judd / CNN:
Trump says he's considering revoking Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship, reigniting decades-long feud  —  President Donald Trump reignited a decades-long feud with comedian Rosie O'Donnell Saturday, taking to his Truth Social platform to write he was considering revoking her citizenship.
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New York Times:
Trump threatens to strip Rosie O'Donnell of U.S. citizenship.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Al Jazeera
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Trump threatens to revoke US citizenship of longtime critic Rosie O'Donnell
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Trump's paranoid security state  —  America's top national security agencies have been using polygraph tests, seeking employees' communications and threatening criminal investigations, all in the name of ferreting out leakers or ensuring loyalty. … - Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino …
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users' ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.  —  Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company …
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
xAI issues lengthy apology for violent and antisemitic Grok social media posts
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
California farmworker dies after chaotic federal immigration raid, family says  —  Jaime Alanis Garcia died days after falling some 30 feet during a chaotic raid on Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California, according to his family.  —  A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during …
New York Times:
ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds … Thousands of new deportation agents deployed into American cities.  A doubling of detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled.  Miles of new border wall, along with surveillance towers equipped with artificial intelligence.
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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries  —  Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”
Discussion: Slate
Charles Homans / New York Times:
Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights.  Winning Them Back Won't Be Easy.  —  The party's vanguard position got ahead of voters in 2024, and the internal debate now underway reveals an uncertainty on how to adapt.  —  OUT OF POWER  —  The party's vanguard position got ahead of voters in 2024 …
Wall Street Journal:
How the Tragedy at Camp Mystic Unfolded, Cabin by Cabin  —  Amid chaos from the flood, campers huddled with young counselors—many unaware of the devastation just yards away  —  Amelia Moore, 14, had been awakened about an hour earlier by a clap of thunder so near that it shook her cabin at Camp Mystic.
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Patience on Tariffs Runs Thin as Nations Jostle for Deals  —  US trading partners trying to navigate the final weeks of negotiations before President Donald Trump's so-called reciprocal tariffs hit are facing a leader who has made clear he's lost patience with talks.
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Aamer Madhani / Associated Press:
Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1, rattling major US trading partners
 
 
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Washington Post:
Secret Service failed to stop Trump assassination attempt, Senate report says
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New York Times:
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Associated Press:
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