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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 …
Politico:
Playbook: Bizarro World  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  Happy Tuesday morning.  I'm Adam Wren.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...  — Could the key to another House GOP majority be supporting a central Obamacare provision?  We have exclusive new polling.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Johnson breaks with Trump, calls for DOJ to release Epstein files  —  Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for the Department of Justice to release all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking, and wants Attorney General Pam Bondi …
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Trump says Bondi should release ‘whatever she thinks is credible’ on Epstein
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Trump Spirals After Being Asked if His Name Is in Epstein Files
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
211 House Republicans Vote to Block Release of Epstein Files
Politico:
The MAGA blowup over Pam Bondi has been a long time coming
Discussion: Axios, New York Post and All Rise News
Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:
BREAKING: House Republicans Block Measure to Release Epstein Files as Trump Pivots on Ukraine
Discussion: New Jersey Online and The Guardian
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.
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
Senate advances bill with Vance's help to slash $9 billion from budget
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn't True.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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
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
Josephine Walker / Axios:
Trump escalates revenge campaign with new attacks on Schiff
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.
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
U.S. Inflation Accelerated in June as Trump's Tariffs Pushed Up Prices
Washington Post:
NIH official fired amid probe of contract used to potentially hire spouse, officials say  —  NIH chief operating officer Eric Schnabel was fired as officials were looking into whether a $3.3 million contract could have benefited his spouse.  —  Summary136  —  A senior National Institutes …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
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.
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
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
Steve Rosenberg / BBC:
Russia more relieved than rattled by US tariff threat  —  In the Oval Office on Monday, Donald Trump was talking tough, announcing new US arms shipments to Ukraine paid for by European governments, and threatening new tariffs which, if imposed, would hit Russia's war chest.
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Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Trump threatens ‘very significant’ Russia sanctions, bashes ‘all talk’ Putin
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Hawley introduces bill to reverse Medicaid cuts he voted for
Discussion: Raw Story
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: Breitbart and New Republic
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 …
Jessica Riedl:
When the Online Mob Came After Me—and My Kids  —  Over the past few weeks, I—and my family—have been subject to an aggressive internet harassment campaign.  Thousands of strangers have smeared my name, sent insane direct messages, and made more than a few death threats.
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 …
ProPublica:
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers  —  The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds  —  ICE Block, an app that lets users warn others about the location of ICE officers, and which for a short while was the top of the social media App Store chart, does protect users' privacy and doesn't share …
Discussion: CBS News
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 …
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 …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Trump Is Winning the Battle to Undermine Democracy  —  Capitalizing on Democrats' weakness, President Trump is winning his battle to undermine democracy in this country.  —  But he has not won the war.  —  A host of factors could blunt his aggression: recession, debt, corruption, inflation …
 
 
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Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Trump Administration Resumes Third-Country Deportation Flights
Discussion: Reuters and CBS News
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
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Teddy Rosenbluth / New York Times:
Kennedy Claims Doctors Profit Off Vaccines. In Fact, Many Lose Money on Them.
Discussion: STAT
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Hegseth lashed out at DOGE official in tense Pentagon confrontation
Angry White Men:
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Bloomberg:
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Nick Reisman / Politico:
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US Department of Justice:
Vance Boelter Indicted for the Murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the Shootings of John and Yvette Hoffman, and the Attempted Shooting of Hope Hoffman
Radley Balko / The Watch:
The police militarization debate is over
James Hill / ABC News:
DOJ urges Supreme Court to turn away Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
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