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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 …
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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 …
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.
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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 ...
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New Jersey Globe
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein
Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein
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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
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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Joe Walsh / CBS News:
Trump threatens to block Washington Commanders stadium deal unless team changes back to former name
Trump threatens to block Washington Commanders stadium deal unless team changes back to former name
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Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU to ramp up retaliation plans as US tariff deal prospects dim — The European Union is exploring a broader set of possible counter-measures against the United States as prospects for an acceptable trade agreement with Washington fade, according to EU diplomats.
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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.
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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
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 …
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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 …
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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Margaret MacMillan / Foreign Affairs:
Making America Alone Again — History Offers Few Parallels for Washington's Repudiation of Its Own Alliances — Henry Kissinger once compared himself to the lone cowboy who rode into town to sort out the bad guys. But the U.S. secretary of state, who also served as national security adviser …
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 …
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Rob Crilly / Telegraph:
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 …
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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.
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 …
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.
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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 …
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
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 …
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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.
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