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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Epstein Accuser Twice Told FBI About His Ties to Trump  —  Maria Farmer, a former Epstein employee, said she told law enforcement about their relationship in 1996 and 2006 … Farmer, who worked for Epstein and recently spoke to The New York Times, first went to law enforcement in 1996 …
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New York Times:
An Accuser's Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files … Maria Farmer in August 2019.  Ms. Farmer said in an interview with The New York Times that she twice told the F.B.I. about a troubling encounter she had with Donald J. Trump, and about how close he was with Jeffrey Epstein.Andrea Morales for The New York Times
Emell Derra Adolphus / The Daily Beast:   Epstein Victim Twice Named Trump to Law Enforcement
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
How Trump's game-planning for the 2026 midterms  —  President Trump is already fixated behind the scenes on next year's midterm elections for the House and Senate — unleashing his billion-dollar political operation and personally burrowing into the minutiae of races.
Discussion: Associated Press
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NBC News:
Vance's and Marco Rubio's Senate successors avoid GOP primary drama  —  Sen. Jon Husted has a Trump endorsement and no primary rumblings in Ohio.  And in Florida, Sen. Ashley Moody appears likely to cruise without a serious Republican challenger.  —  As JD Vance and Marco Rubio shot …
Lauren Egan / The Bulwark:
Democrats' 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Trump threatens Washington stadium deal unless NFL team readopts Redskins name  —  U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.
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Rob Stein / NPR:
Trump threatens to derail Washington Commanders' new stadium deal over team name
Joe Walsh / CBS News:
Trump threatens to block Washington Commanders stadium deal unless team changes back to former name
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him  —  A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay and dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the U.S. legal system.  —  Just now
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now  —  By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one.  —  In the week after the Justice Department walked back its promise to release …
Discussion: HuffPost and Salon
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
This week's big questions: Can Trump finally quell the Epstein storm — and is it hurting his presidency?  —  Even President Donald Trump doesn't seem to think his angry and chaotic efforts to end the renewed storm over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will work.
Wall Street Journal:
Europe Prepares for a U.S. Trade Fight  —  The European Union still wants a deal, but with U.S. demands growing, the bloc is getting ready to push back  —  BRUSSELS—The European Union thought it was on the verge of a deal with the U.S. to keep tariffs in check.  Now it is readying a counterattack.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Semafor and New York Post
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Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
How Trump's Tariffs and Foreign Policies Have Bolstered Support for the E.U.
Discussion: Reuters, CNBC and Semafor
Josephine Harvey / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Posts Deranged AI Video of Obama Being Arrested  —  SUNDAY SCARIES  —  The bizarre post came as the president seeks to move on from the Epstein controversy tearing apart his base.  —  President Donald Trump shared a bizarre fake video depicting the arrest and imprisonment …
Alyce McFadden / New York Times:
Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks?  It Depends Whom You Ask.  —  Los Angeles's mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.”  ICE's director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids
Discussion: CBS News and The Hill
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
A MAGA bot network on X is divided over the Trump-Epstein backlash  —  Researchers have found hundreds of fake X accounts that support the Trump administration.  —  A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wired:
How Trump Killed Cancer Research  —  Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.  —  When donald trump moved back into the White House, the United States was years …
Politico:
Playbook: Dems aim to close the ‘attention gap’  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  Good Monday morning.  This is Adam Wren, happy to be your humble guide at the start of another wild week in Washington.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...
Discussion: New Jersey Globe
Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI  —  As many of you know by now, Senator Dick Durbin penned a letter to Pam Bondi two days ago asking questions about information his office received from a protected whistleblower.  The letter read, in part: … This letter was made public right after I had filed …
New York Times:
Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Seeking Food Near Border, Gazan Officials Say  —  The shootings took place after thousands of Palestinians gathered in the hope of getting humanitarian aid from U.N. trucks entering the Gaza Strip.  —  Israeli forces killed and wounded dozens of Palestinians …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, israelhayom.com, RTÉ and UPI
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Associated Press:
Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republicans fear Washington headed for shutdown after bruising spending fights  —  Republican lawmakers fear Washington may be headed for a government shutdown later this year after two bruising fights over President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and a $9 billion rescissions package has created bad blood on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: Politico, Roll Call and NBC News
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again.  Republicans Need a Cure  —  GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies.  —  It's not too late for Senate Republicans to begin correcting the worst mistake they've made this year …
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton sent ‘warm and gushing’ letter for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday - as Trump sues over claim he also wrote a ‘bawdy’ note for paedophile's half-century  —  Bill Clinton wrote a ‘warm and gushing’ letter which was included in Jeffrey Epstein's infamous 50th ‘birthday book’, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Wary Democratic establishment keeping New York's Mamdani at arm's length  —  Zohran Mamdani, New York City's surprise Democratic nominee for mayor, is scrambling to woo lawmakers, donors, and the city's elite who are wary of the democratic socialist.  — So far, they're mostly playing hard to get.
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump denies another Journal report, this time on Powell, Bessent  —  President Trump responded angrily on Sunday to a Wall Street Journal story that Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent had personally sought to talk him out of trying to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Dershowitz casts doubt that grand jury testimony will yield answers on Epstein … Seeking to quiet the escalating anger, the president on Thursday ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to ask a judge to unseal the grand jury testimony from Epstein's case.  —  But, “the information …
 
 
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New York Post:
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David French / New York Times:
Trump's Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Feliciano Arnold / The Atlantic:
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Tej Parikh / Financial Times:
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