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Axios:
House GOP blocks second Dem attempt to release Epstein files  —  House Republicans on Tuesday voted down another Democratic procedural maneuver aimed at forcing the Justice Department to release documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. … - Democrats are already promising future votes …
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans break with Trump on Epstein  —  Democrats also also seizing on an issue championed by the president's base and forced a nearly successful vote Tuesday to take up the issue on the House floor.  —  Summary3  —  One of the leading Republicans …
Associated Press:
Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority  —  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is pushing Texas Republicans to redraw the state's congressional maps to create more House seats favorable to his party, part of a broader effort …
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Rep. Thomas Massie launched a longshot attempt to force a vote on releasing Epstein files
Discussion: NewsNation and Alternet.org
Politico:
Playbook: Bizarro World
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
211 House Republicans Vote to Block Release of Epstein Files
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Trump Spirals After Being Asked if His Name Is in Epstein Files
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out  —  Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips.  The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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Associated Press:
The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge  —  Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs push up the cost of a range of goods, including furniture, clothing, and large appliances.
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
Inflation Picks Up to 2.7% as Tariffs Start to Seep Into Prices  —  Prices were up for furniture, clothing and other tariff-sensitive items  —  Inflation picked up in June, a potential sign that companies are starting to pass tariff costs on to consumers.  —  Consumer prices rose 2.7% …
Aaron Mak / Politico:
How Elon Musk's X is fueling the MAGA-Trump split … But Musk bears a deeper responsibility for the mess as well, say experts in online speech — and for whatever damage it inflicts on Trump's coalition.  A huge amount of the infighting has unfurled on X, from Musk's initial accusations …
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Associated Press:
With Epstein conspiracy theories, Trump faces a crisis of his own making
Politico:
The MAGA blowup over Pam Bondi has been a long time coming
Discussion: Axios, New York Post and All Rise News
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump says Bondi should release ‘whatever she thinks is credible’ on Epstein
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Johnson breaks with Trump, calls for DOJ to release Epstein files
Politico:
Global AIDS funding to be pulled from Trump clawbacks request  —  Senate Republicans will scale back the White House's $9.4 billion spending clawback request as they look to shore up their vote count.  Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), who is leading the rescissions effort in concert with the White House …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House agrees to exempt PEPFAR from cuts  —  Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday that the White House is on board with a substitute amendment to the rescissions package that would exempt PEPFAR, the global anti-AIDS initiative from cuts.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn't True.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Financial Times:
Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call  —  US president encouraged Ukrainian leader to step up deep strikes on Russia  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Henry Foy in Brussels and Max Seddon in Berlin  —  Donald Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall:
Did Adam Schiff Commit Mortgage Fraud?  —  Posting on Truth Social Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump accused California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of committing mortgage fraud.  —  “I have always suspected Shifty Adam Shiff was a scam artist.  And now I learn that Fannie Mae's …
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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
Trump accuses Sen. Adam Schiff of mortgage fraud in new attack on critic
ProPublica:
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers' Data With ICE  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program …
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
Debbie Nathan / The Intercept:
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court  —  Inside a federal immigration courtroom in New York City last month, a judge took an exceedingly unusual step: declining to state the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney pressing to deport asylum seekers.
Spokesman.com:
Spokane ICE protesters, including Stuckart, arrested by federal agents  —  Federal agents on Tuesday morning arrested and searched the homes of multiple people who took part in a June 11 mass protest against immigration enforcement in Spokane.  —  Among those arrested was former Spokane …
Reuters:
US military to remove 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of 2,000 National Guard troops who had been sent to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel during a spate of protests last month, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Pentagon withdraws 2,000 California National Guard troops from LA
Politico:
Federal agents describe unusual run-up to arrests of Pro-Palestinian academics … The agents appeared as witnesses for the government at an ongoing trial in Boston on a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration is implementing an “ideological deportation policy” that targets non-citizens …
Discussion: New Republic
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’  —  Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation  —  Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland …
Discussion: Raw Story
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Makes Bonkers New Threat Against AOC and Jasmine Crockett  —  PROJECTION  —  Boasting that he had “aced” an intelligence test, the president said, “Now it's time for them to take a test.”  —  President Donald Trump wants to hand out IQ tests to Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
NBC News:
Lead investigator into Biden's use of an autopen signed letters with a digital signature  —  House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., used a digital signature to send out letters and subpoena notices related to the Biden autopen investigation.
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren Exposes All The Corporate Money Flowing To Trump's Presidential Library  —  Paramount, Meta and X are among the companies giving tens of millions of dollars to Trump's future library as they seek perks from his administration.  —  WASHINGTON — Companies hoping …
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Elmo returns to X after hacked antisemitic outburst … By Tuesday, the posts had been deleted, and Elmo appeared to be back to his normal warm and fuzzy self, posting that “Elmo loves you.”  —  The incident is the latest example of hate speech spreading on X, which was acquired in 2022 …
James Hill / ABC News:
DOJ urges Supreme Court to turn away Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal  —  The former Jeffrey Epstein associate is currently serving a 20-year sentence.  —  Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising …
Angry White Men:
Joel Webbon Says Nicotine Is Biblically ‘Permissible’ While Promoting Nicotine Pouches  —  In a livestream, titled “Is Nicotine Addiction Sinful?”, white Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon assured viewers that nicotine not only possesses “health benefits,” but is biblically “permissible.”
 
 
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Lauren Windsor / Rolling Stone:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Sanders / The Daily Beast:
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Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway
Paul Krugman:
For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength
Discussion: Raw Story
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
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Omer Bartov / New York Times:
I'm a Genocide Scholar.  I Know It When I See It.  —  A month after the Hamas attack on Israel …
Discussion: Jewish Insider