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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump says ‘left lunatics’ won't be satisfied with Epstein grand jury testimony — President Trump on Saturday said even if his administration releases all of the grand jury testimony in the case related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it will not be enough to satisfy the …
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump meets toughest opponent: his own base … The most destabilizing opposition of Trump's second term has come from within: an online MAGA army known for its extreme devotion. … - Though the move is a long shot to produce new evidence — and falls far short of the sweeping disclosures demanded …
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Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein
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NBC News:
Trump DOJ order on Jeffrey Epstein could create legal and ethical challenges
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Holly Baltz / USA Today:
Could Pam Bondi have prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's top legal officer?
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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
The Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records: What Comes Next?
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Ben Curtis / Scripps News:
Justice Department asks court to unseal grand jury records in Jeffrey Epstein case
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Morning Call:
Allentown grandfather's family was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he's alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say — Relatives of 82-year-old Allentown resident Luis Leon are headed to a Guatemalan hospital Saturday in hopes of reuniting with the man they say disappeared without …
Jon Passantino / Status:
Colbert and Capitulation … Just how far is David Ellison willing to go to shift the political tone at CBS? On Thursday, we got our clearest sign yet, as the network sacrificed its biggest star as Skydance seeks Donald Trump's approval for its Paramount merger.
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Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
Our Pathetic Senate — CBS cancels satire; Trump sues Rupert, toys with firing the Fed chair, begins to realize that V. Putin is not his BFF, but gives him 50 more days to keep killing Ukrainians. And try as he might, he still can't shake the ghost of his Epstein past. — Happy Saturday.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Skydance CEO met with FCC chair ahead of CBS canceling “The Late Show” — Skydance CEO David Ellison and his lawyer met with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr and an FCC lawyer on Tuesday, a new regulatory filing shows. … - They urged the FCC's Media Bureau to …
Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert's Show for Political Reasons
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Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 173. 7/18/25 — ... WSJ poured more gas on Trump's raging Epstein inferno with a new story about a birthday card that he sent to the child trafficker and rapist in 2003. The story said Ghislaine Maxwell asked friends of Epstein to submit cards to compile …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
July 18, 2025 — [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight's letter.]
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump sues Murdoch for $10 billion over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter
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Associated Press:
Trump sues Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over reporting on Epstein ties
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Trump said he ‘never wrote a picture in my life.’ Here are four.
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Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News:
FBI personnel were told to flag Epstein files mentioning Trump, Senate Democrat says — Sen. Dick Durbin questioned DOJ leadership over their handling of the Epstein files, including reports that FBI personnel were told to “flag” any mentions of Trump. — Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin …
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Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Bondi Ordered FBI to Flag Trump's Name in Epstein Files
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Chris Truax / The Hill:
The government does have an Epstein list — here's the proof
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New York Times:
E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm — The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies. — The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate …
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor — A photograph of Moises Sotelo held by his daughter, Alondra Sotelo Garcia.Christopher Valentine for The New York Times — Voters here in Oregon's rural Yamhill County have backed Donald Trump for three presidential elections …
Alex DeMarban / Anchorage Daily News:
Sen. Murkowski, feeling ‘cheated’ by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects — Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the recently passed tax and spending law to protect wind and solar projects …
Mother Jones:
“We Were Kidnapped” — On Friday, María Daniela learned that her younger brother, Neri Alvarado Borges, and more than 200 other Venezuelans sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador were being released after spending more than four months in an infamous prison.
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New York Times:
Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods? — The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them. — In the days after the deadly July 4 floods in Central Texas …
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Washington Post:
Trump's DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm — Firings by Trump administration spark worries about weakening the rule of law — The Department of Justice under the Trump administration has fired dozens of career prosecutors during the past six months …
New York Times:
Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death — An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden's decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris's team, according to six people briefed on the report. — The Democratic National Committee's …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's funding cut stalls water projects, increasing risks for millions — The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found.
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Texan Moved Fam to Russia to Flee Woke—Now He's Headed to Ukraine Front Line — FAFO — Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role. — An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ …
Monica Pitrelli / CNBC:
Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ — what to know … Visitors to the United States will need to pay a “visa integrity fee,” according to a provision of the Trump administration's recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. — The fee applies to all visitors …
Carter Evans / CBS News:
Trump's immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California's construction industry, builder says: “They're hiding” — Los Angeles — One construction site in Los Angeles has just about everything needed to build a traditional family home. Everything, that is, except enough workers.
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