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New York Times:
Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein  —  For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein's first arrest.  —  Mar-a-Lago in March 1996.Art Seitz/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images
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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 …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
MAGA's New Target: Trump
Discussion: MSNBC and Raw Story
Aaron Blake / CNN:
5 big questions about Trump's ties to Epstein
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump meets toughest opponent: his own base
Discussion: The Mahablog
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press:
Man whose car struck crowd outside Los Angeles club, injuring 30, was shot, attacked by crowd  —  A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people and leading bystanders to attack the driver, authorities said.
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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Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Brazilian president: Trump is not ‘the emperor of the world’  —  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged President Trump to negotiate a trade agreement this week as the U.S. has pursued increasingly aggressive action over the criminal prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Rubio revokes visas of Brazilian judge, allies over Bolsonaro prosecution
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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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
The Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records: What Comes Next?
Wall Street Journal:
How Bessent Made the Case to Trump Against Firing Fed Chair Powell  —  Some Republicans have laid the groundwork to oust the central-bank chief, but the Treasury secretary cited practical obstacles and economic hazards  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in recent days privately laid …
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 …
New York Post:
Andrew Cuomo says he ‘will move to Florida’ if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor  —  Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he'll pack his bags and flee to Florida if he loses the NYC mayoral race to socialist Zohran Mamdani.  —  “It's all or nothing.  We either win or even I will move to Florida.
Rachel Shin / Politico:
Republicans' food aid cuts will hit grocers in many towns that backed Trump … Even though some provisions in the new law won't go into effect for another three years, others, like expanded work requirements for SNAP participants, could kick some families out of the program and hit …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
State Dept. layoffs led by team of outsiders willing to ‘break stuff’  —  Interviews with more than 60 people detail a frenetic, arbitrary process underpinning the Trump administration's far-reaching overhaul.  —  Summary1445  —  The Trump administration's dramatic reorganization of the State Department …
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 …
Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:
Founder of Right-Wing Group Behind Project 2025 Dies at 83  —  BEYOND THE VEIL  —  The conservative “visionary” served on the transition for President Trump's first term.  —  AYE OF A TIGER  —  Perry was in the middle of singing “Roar” when things went awry.  —  SHOP WITH SCOUTED  —  CHEERS
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.
Miriam Waldvogel / The Hill:
Joe Rogan urges Texas Democrat to run for president  —  Podcast host Joe Rogan offered high praise for state Rep. James Talarico (D) on his podcast Friday, telling the Texas lawmaker that he should launch a White House bid.  —  “You need to run for president.
Ellyn Lapointe / Gizmodo:
Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?  —  The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.  Is it?  —  𝕏  —  If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) asteroid slammed into Earth tomorrow …
New York Times:
Trump, Epstein and a Stinging SCOTUS Dissent  —  “The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA's very bad week.  —  This week on “The Opinions” round table, the national politics correspondent Michelle Cottle and the columnists David French and Jamelle Bouie discuss the right's implosion …
Al Weaver / The Hill:
The 5 Senate seats most likely to flip  —  An already active start to the 2026 cycle has kicked into overdrive in recent weeks with a major retirement announcement, the passage of a key GOP priority and moves by candidates that could further scramble the chess board.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
The biggest political fights over Trump's megabill are converging in Nevada  —  Nevada, set to play a key role in the 2026 and 2028 elections, could be uniquely impacted by some of the new law's tax and Medicaid provisions.  —  When it comes to President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill …
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Hazelton / The Hill:
Without weather forecasters, our canaries in the storm, expect disaster  —  Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events.  The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge.  Less than a century ago …
 
 
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump doubles down on claim Iran strike ‘completely destroyed’ nuclear sites
Steff Danielle Thomas / The Hill:
Condoleezza Rice: Trump's aggressive stance on Putin is ‘turning point’ in Russia-Ukraine war
Discussion: NewsMax.com and NBC News
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
National security elites accept Trump is creating a new world order
Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
Our Pathetic Senate  —  CBS cancels satire; Trump sues Rupert, toys with firing the Fed chair …
Holly Baltz / USA Today:
Could Pam Bondi have prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida's top legal officer?
Discussion: The Independent, Raw Story and ABC News
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
‘Let me see the videotapes’: Mark Epstein wants Steve Bannon's 15 hours of unseen footage of his brother
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Raw Story
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
District judge presses forward with mass-firings challenge following SCOTUS's order
Wall Street Journal:
Newly Flush With Cash, ICE Races to Build Migrant Tent Camps
Discussion: Reuters and NOTUS
Russell Contreras / Axios:
State, local officials seek to ban ICE agents' masks
Monica Pitrelli / CNBC:
Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ — what to know
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and UPI
New York Times:
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant
Discussion: The Free Press
Washington Post:
Trump's DOJ has fired dozens of prosecutors, upending decades-old norm
New York Times:
Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?
Discussion: Associated Press
 

 
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