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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.”

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 ...

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 …

JD Vance chooses Cotswolds for family summer holiday  —  Vice-president's choice shows deep bonds of Trump administration with UK and its Government, Whitehall source claims  —  JD Vance and his family have chosen to spend their summer holiday in the UK.  —  They are expected to visit in August …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

The Situation: The Wilde-Hiss Effect  —  Why on Earth is Trump suing the Wall Street Journal?  —  benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org  —  Meet The Authors … The Situation on Wednesday argued against releasing the so-called “Epstein Files”—just in time for Attorney General Pam Bondi to ask …

Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say  —  Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.  —  Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software …