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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Five MAGA Factions Waging an Epstein Civil War  —  The Leopard Will Eat the Face  —  TRUMP WORLD FELL INTO CHAOS just before the weekend, as the shock from the Justice Department's Jeffrey Epstein memo continued to reverberate.  Donald Trump's initial response—a long Saturday-afternoon post …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump's Jeffrey Epstein post contradicts what top Fox hosts have argued  —  Just months ago, Trump allies claimed the deep state hid the “Epstein Files.”  Trump now claims that they were fabricated all along.  —  President Donald Trump claimed Sunday that the “Epstein Files” …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Why Trump Can't Make the Epstein Story Go Away
Justin Baragona / The Independent:
Charlie Kirk says 'I'm done talking about Epstein' after Trump called him over weekend
CNN:
Bongino still in limbo as Trump fumes and JD Vance seeks to play mediator, sources say
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Trump's Base Can't Let Go of Epstein
Discussion: LewRockwell and Raw Story
Cameron Peters / Vox:
Trump's new Ukraine plan, briefly explained  —  NATO countries will buy weapons from the US — and deliver them to Ukraine. … Trump said on Monday that NATO countries will start buying US weaponry to deliver to Ukraine.  While the US has been supplying Ukraine directly …
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Gary O'Donoghue / BBC:
I'm ‘disappointed but not done’ with Putin, Trump tells BBC  —  Donald Trump has said that he is disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive phone call with the BBC.  —  The US president was pressed on whether he trusts the Russian leader, and replied: “I trust almost no-one.”
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
How Putin Humiliated Trump  —  President Donald Trump is finally taking the fight to Vladimir Putin.  Sort of.  For now.  —  Trump's deference to Russia's authoritarian leader has been one of the most enduring geopolitical subplots of the past decade.  But his frustration with Putin has grown.
Anna Fratsyvir / The Kyiv Independent:
Kremlin calls Trump's tariff warnings ‘quite serious’
Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg:
Trump Lobs the Ukraine Ball Into Putin's Court
Discussion: The Japan Times
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump's Cuts to the Education Department  —  The move by the justices represents an expansion of executive power, allowing President Trump to dismantle the inner workings of a government department.  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Monday that the Trump administration …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly 1,400 Education Department employees
Steve Vladeck / One First:   167. The Inconsistent Court Strikes Again
Washington Post:   Supreme Court allows deep layoffs at Education Department for now
Washington Post:
ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings  —  A memo from ICE's acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
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David Peisner / Rolling Stone:   Inside the Grassroots Fight Against Trump's Deportation Machine
Andrew Solender / Axios:
House GOP blocks Dem maneuver to force release of Epstein files  —  House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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Axios:
Trump admin faces GOP blowback in Congress over Epstein  —  The simmering MAGA revolt over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files threatens to spill over into the halls of Congress. … - “I don't think the American people are gonna move on that quickly …
Hana Kiros / The Atlantic:
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food  —  Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.  —  Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order …
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Landlord seeks to evict Republican congressman over unpaid rent at D.C. apartment  —  Florida Rep. Cory Mills is accused of failing to pay $85,000 in rent between March and July.  He said a faulty online payment link is the problem, and that he has sought to resolve the issue.
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Leo Sands / Washington Post:
D.C. landlord seeks to evict congressman, alleging $85,000 in unpaid rent  —  In a lawsuit, Rep. Cory Mills's landlord said the Republican congressman from Florida owes months of rent for his Southwest Washington apartment.  —  The landlord of a Republican congressman from Florida is seeking …
Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:
US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic production  —  The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.
Discussion: CBS News and Boston Herald
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Wired:
The Enshittification of American Power  —  First Google and Facebook, then the world.  Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.  —  For decades, allies of the United States lived comfortably amid the sprawl of American hegemony.
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica  —  OWN GOAL  —  Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself.  —  President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won't be getting …
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NPR:
Trump's Brazil tariffs are ‘grotesquely illegal,’ says Nobel Prize-winning economist  —  President Trump's threat to impose higher tariffs on Brazil is “grotesquely illegal,” says Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.  —  Brazil was among the countries Trump threatened with tariffs in letters posted to social media last week.
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Bloomberg:
Bessent Suggests Powell Should Leave Fed Board in May  —  US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should step down from the central bank's board when his term as chair is up in May 2026.  —  “Traditionally, the Fed chair also steps down as a governor …
Discussion: Reuters, NewsMax.com and The Hill
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Rebecca Patterson / New York Times:
If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair
Punchbowl News:
7/15/25 ☀️ AM: … FEC filings are due today.  Buckle up.  —  The speaker has transferred more than $14 million to the NRCC.  He's also funneled $10.5 million directly to individual House Republicans, the most ever by a GOP speaker, his team says.
Discussion: NPR
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Politico:
Senate Republicans scramble to lock down support for Trump's spending clawbacks
Max Kozlov / Nature:
Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities … - Max Kozlov  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar  —  In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will soon disinvite dozens of scientists who were about to take positions …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised  —  The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
 
 
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Dinesh D'Souza Tells Viewers It's ‘Time to Move On’ From Epstein: ‘They Have Closed the Case’
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