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Politico:
White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell … The White House is removing the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering the president's weekend trip to Scotland, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told POLITICO.
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Rolling Stone:
Trump's Wildly Fascistic Posting Spree Isn't Just a Distraction From Epstein — The president spent Sunday night posting content fantasizing about the arrest of Barack Obama and other Democrats — President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting FBI agents arresting former …
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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 …
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Amid Epstein Furor, Trump Posts Fake Obama Arrest Video
Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest
Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest
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Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges — Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida — Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs …
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Human Rights Watch:
“You Feel Like Your Life is Over” — Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025 — Summary — Among the flurry of immigration-related executive orders marking the second presidential administration of Donald Trump is Executive Order 14159 …
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The Hill, New Republic and Raw Story
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump's ‘big beautiful bill’ is projected to add $3.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says — The law will also “increase by 10 million the number of people without health insurance” over the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated.
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CBO Publications:
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline — Public Law 119-21 as enacted on July 4, 2025 — CBO estimates that Public Law 119-21 will result in a net increase …
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Washington Examiner
Jeff Coltin / Politico:
ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC … The alleged shooter entered the country illegally in 2023 during then-President Joe Biden's tenure and had been arrested and released four times in the years since, Noem said. She blamed the shooting on New York's sanctuary city policies that limit …
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump demands end to cashless bail, says ‘complete disaster’ driving crime in cities, endangering police
Trump demands end to cashless bail, says ‘complete disaster’ driving crime in cities, endangering police
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Breitbart, Raw Story, Daily Mail and The Post Millennial
Financial Times:
Scott Bessent calls for probe into ‘the entire Federal Reserve institution’ — Treasury secretary is latest top Trump administration official to criticise the central bank — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called for an inquiry into the “entire Federal Reserve institution” …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Treasury Secretary Bessent calls for a review of ‘the entire’ Federal Reserve
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Peter M. Shane / The Atlantic:
How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency — The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible. — No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump's extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts.
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Blaze Media and Notes From The Circus
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
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James Carville / New York Times:
My Fix for the Confused and Leaderless Democrats — Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they're not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles.
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Fed Chair Jerome Powell hit with criminal referral by House GOP Trump ally — Trump allies have been going after the embattled Federal Reserve chief — FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., is referring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice (DOJ) …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House won't vote on Epstein matter this week — Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for the administration to release Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
MTG warns Trump that ‘dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies’
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New Republic, New Jersey Online, Raw Story and Civil Discourse …
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Why Colbert got canceled — Economics played a role. Politics might have, too. But mainstream liberal comedy has struggled between the death of mass culture and the rise of Trump. — There was a time not so long ago when going on TV with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was pretty much the best thing I could imagine.
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Business Insider, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal now has a judge — and it's not Aileen Cannon … Trump's new lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and owner Rupert Murdoch seeks an even more audacious sum: $20 billion. Trump says the newspaper defamed him by reporting last week that Trump …
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Judge Challenges Trump Administration in Hearing on Harvard Funding — In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration's case against the school “cooked up.” — A federal judge grilled a Trump administration lawyer on Monday during a crucial hearing …
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case
Trump lashes out at federal judge presiding over Harvard case
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Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Declassified Records Show Obama Lied To Americans, Sabotaged Transition Of Power — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released 114 pages of newly declassified Obama administration records Friday. — President Barack Obama was among the U.S. leaders directing intelligence agencies …
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Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Idyllic Vacation in Foreign A-List Hotspot to Be Hijacked by Protests — WE'LL BE WAITING — The Stop Trump Coalition said the vice president will “find the resistance waiting” on his English summer break, an ocean and almost 4,000 miles from DC.
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Department of Homeland Security:
VIDEO: Criminal Illegal Alien with Lengthy Rap Sheet Ambushes and Shoots CBP Officer in New York City — The suspect is a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic was apprehended at the southern border and released into the country under the Biden Administration
Ryan King / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says dad Joe was on Ambien during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump — WASHINGTON — He really was Sleepy Joe! — Former first son Hunter Biden claimed in a new interview Monday that his father's disastrous performance in last year's debate with Donald Trump was due in part …
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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 …
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Reuters
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Hunter Biden goes off on George Clooney: ‘F‑‑‑ him and everybody around him’ — Hunter Biden went off on actor George Clooney and other high-profile Democrats in an expletive-filled response to their calls for his father, former President Biden, to drop out of the 2024 election.
Kyle Stokes / Axios:
Omar Fateh wins mayoral endorsement at chaotic DFL convention … - It's also the Minneapolis DFL's first endorsement in any contested mayor's race since at least 1997, per the Star Tribune. … - “We know the status quo are going to do anything and everything to maintain power,” he told his supporters.
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ABC News:
FAA says it will investigate incident between SkyWest jet and B-52 — The incident is under investigation. — The pilot of a Delta Connection flight Embraer E175LR aircraft, like the one pictured here, was forced to make an “aggressive” maneuver, July 19, 2025, to avoid a mid-air collision with an Air Force B-22 bomber.
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Washington Post:
Divorce, adultery allegations against Paxton jolt Senate race in Texas — In one of the biggest GOP primaries of the midterms, Sen. John Cornyn and his allies are attacking Ken Paxton over his personal life, and some backers are rethinking their support. — Firebrand Texas Republican Ken …
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Bloomberg
Paul Krugman:
Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros — Hell hath no fury like a tech god scorned — One of the many weird, ugly developments in these weird, ugly times has been the MAGAfication of a number of Silicon Valley billionaires. In a fully functional democracy the views …
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Programmable Mutter
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
AOC's Bronx HQ vandalized with red paint after Israel vote: ‘F-K AOC!’ — Progressive New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx headquarters was vandalized by anti-Israel activists after she voted against cutting US funding for the Jewish state. — The office in Westchester Square …
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Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
This ‘violently racist’ hacker claims to be the source of The New York Times' Mamdani scoop … It's an anime-loving neo-Nazi whose hobbies include furry drawings, posting fan art of a video game character, and hacking universities. On X, the alleged hacker is followed by New York Times …
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