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7:35 AM ET, July 14, 2025

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Axios:
Trump to announce “aggressive” Ukraine weapons plan  —  President Trump will announce a new plan to arm Ukraine on Monday that is expected to include offensive weapons, two sources with knowledge of the plans tell Axios. … - U.S., Ukrainian and European officials hope the weapons will shift …
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New York Times:
Trump's Willingness to Arm Ukraine Puts Him Closer to Biden Approach  —  President Trump is expected this week to formalize a new plan to sell American weapons to European allies, who would pass them onto Kyiv.  —  Nearly six months after his inauguration, when President Trump pledged …
Discussion: Associated Press
Minho Kim / New York Times:
In His Own Words: How Trump Changed His Tone on Putin and the War in Ukraine  —  After years of lavishing praise on the Russian leader, President Trump abruptly changed his posture amid mounting frustration with the lack of progress on a cease-fire.  —  President Trump's harsh words …
Discussion: HuffPost and The Gateway Pundit
Francesca Chambers / USA Today:
Trump says US will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine: ‘They desperately need’ them
Marc Caputo / Axios:
3 ways Trump might try to defuse the Epstein mess  —  President Trump isn't ready to course-correct over how his administration has handled the Jeffrey Epstein evidence.  — But officials and advisers are considering at least three ways Trump could try to defuse an issue that …
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
MAGA cares more about Jeffrey Epstein than dying without Medicaid, which explains everything
Emma Colton / Fox News:
MAGA world erupts over Trump's defense of Bondi amid Epstein files fallout
Rolling Stone:
Blaming ‘Obama, Crooked Hillary’: Trump's Epstein Memo Meltdown Gets Even Worse
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Bluffs and Bluster Aside, Trump's Tariffs Are Here to Stay  —  The president has earned a reputation for bluffing on tariffs.  But he has steadily and dramatically raised U.S. tariffs, transforming global trade.  —  President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs have prompted investors to bet that he will …
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Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department's top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two people familiar with the move.
Discussion: UPI
Politico:
Trump's megabill is creating a budget nightmare for states … “We don't put these budgets together that have a lot of fluff and rainy day funds that are easily accessible,” said Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, who chairs the Democratic Governors Association.
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Michelle Cottle / New York Times:   Governors Should Be the Face of the Democratic Party
Perry Vandell / Arizona Republic:
Gov. Hobbs demands inquiry into federal response to Grand Canyon Lodge fire  —  Gov. Katie Hobbs questioned the federal government's handling of the Dragon Bravo Fire, which destroyed numerous structures on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, including the historic Grand Canyon Lodge.
Carlos Monarrez / Detroit Free Press:
Tigers players aren't worried about deportation but union suggests they carry documents  — The MLBPA advises players to carry documentation and offers support regarding immigration issues.  — Even high-profile athletes are not immune to immigration issues, as demonstrated by recent cases.
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Under Trump, the government mobilizes in response to fringe theories  —  Trump officials have assigned government workers and spent taxpayer dollars to address conspiracy theories and easily-disproven assertions  —  After President Donald Trump wrongly suggested that Social Security funds …
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Public Broadcasters Brace for Vote on Sharp Funding Cut  —  At the urging of President Trump, Congress is expected to vote this week on whether to cut $500 million per year for public radio and TV stations.  —  Julie Overgaard, the executive director of South Dakota's biggest public broadcaster …
New York Times:
Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen … Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets …
Washington Post:
Floods put Abbott, a disaster veteran, at crossroads of Trump's FEMA rebrand  —  The Trump administration has heralded Texas as the kind of partner it wants in overhauling FEMA.  —  Weeks before flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in the first meeting …
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Washington Examiner:
Elmo's X account gets hacked, posts antisemitic messages on social media  —  The official X account of the Sesame Street character, Elmo, was allegedly hacked on Sunday.  —  Several hate-filled posts with slurs and antisemitic messages were posted by the X account of the beloved Sesame Street puppet.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down the U.Va. President  —  The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success.  But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.  —  The Jefferson Council, a band …
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Booed By Soccer Fans at FIFA World Cup Final  —  The president was in New Jersey for the final of the U.S.-hosted tournament.  —  SUPES RISE TO THE TOP  —  This marks yet another victory for Warner Bros. following a series of box office flops.  —  SHOP WITH SCOUTED  —  CHEERS
Tracy Kidder / New York Times:
A New Era of Hunger Has Begun A New Era of Hunger Has Begun  —  Parts of Easthampton, an old mill town in western Massachusetts, look like relics of industrial New England — the old workers' rowhouses, for instance.  In other parts, it seems like a place in renaissance …
Miami Herald:
Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns  —  Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility state and federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” …
Discussion: Paul Krugman, CNN and Rolling Stone
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat floats radical solution to Congress' age problem  —  Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is proposing something unprecedented: Having Congress' ethics office effectively adjudicate whether lawmakers are too cognitively impaired to do their jobs.
 
 
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Sen. Rand Paul sees ‘cultural cover-up’ about Trump shooting last July
Avery Lotz / Axios:
What we know about the shooting at a Kentucky church
Wall Street Journal:
Economists See Lower Recession Risk and Stronger Job Growth: WSJ Survey
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Wall Street Journal:
China Gets More Airtime Around the World as Voice of America Signs Off
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
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