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6:50 AM ET, July 14, 2025

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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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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Tucker Carlson leads MAGA's worried warriors in questioning Trump  —  The former Fox News host and “America First” leader spoke with NBC News as MAGA influencers rebel over amnesty, Iran and the Epstein files.  —  As President Donald Trump weighed U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel …
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
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Senate Republican: ‘America is safer with Pam Bondi as attorney general’
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Washington Times
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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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
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 and ABC News
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 …
Discussion: Newsweek
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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
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CNN:
FEMA search and rescue teams take days to reach Texas after flooding as agency faces overhaul
Discussion: Raw Story and alicublog
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Noem fights criticism of FEMA management in Texas flood response
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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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.
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: CNN and Rolling Stone
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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 …
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 …
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.
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
Avery Lotz / Axios:
What we know about the shooting at a Kentucky church  —  A now-deceased suspect shot a member of law enforcement Sunday in Fayette County, Kentucky, before fleeing to a Baptist church, leaving multiple victims, according to state officials. … - The trooper who was shot and others …
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Sen. Rand Paul sees ‘cultural cover-up’ about Trump shooting last July … The breakdown in security led to Trump's ear being grazed by one of the bullets.  Fire chief Corey Comperatore was killed, and two others were wounded before a Secret Service sniper fatally shot 20-year-old Thomas Crooks.
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Washington Post:
Senate report details failures ahead of Trump assassination attempt
 
 
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Rebecca Solnit / Meditations in an Emergency:
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
Ken Klippenstein:
I Triggered Another Federal Investigation
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Official at Center of Weapons Pause on Ukraine Wants U.S. to Focus on China
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
Economy and Epstein: Gen Z MAGA wants results
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Republicans eagerly await Lara Trump's decision on North Carolina Senate seat
 Earlier Items: 
Hanif Abdurraqib / New Yorker:
Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke
Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Nursing homes struggle with Trump's immigration crackdown
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Justice Department Drops Case Against Plastic Surgeon Over Fake Covid-19 Cards
Wall Street Journal:
Economists See Lower Recession Risk and Stronger Job Growth: WSJ Survey
Discussion: The Free Press, NewsMax.com and Semafor
Wall Street Journal:
China Gets More Airtime Around the World as Voice of America Signs Off
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
A clinic blames its closing on Trump's Medicaid cuts. Patients don't buy it.
Jeff Coltin / Politico:
As Mamdani looks to City Hall, de Blasio reemerges
Financial Times:
Crypto companies race to secure banking foothold in US
Discussion: NewsMax.com
 

 
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