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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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israelhayom.com and The Independent
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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
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Raw Story, The Independent, Mediaite, Salon and Eschaton
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.
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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
Democrats' 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face
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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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Fox News, The Virginian-Pilot, The Japan Times and Washington Times
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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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Forbes, Plain Dealer, The Guardian, CNN, Axios, Mediaite, WTOP News, The Parnas Perspective, Fox News, TMZ.com, Breitbart, Washington Post, The Post Millennial and Washington Examiner
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 …
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Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Desperate Trump Tries to Get MAGA Not to Care About Epstein
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USA Today, Newsweek, New York Sun, The Hill, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, New York Post and Raw Story
Anthony Salvanto / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds support for Trump's deportation program falls; Americans call for more focus on prices
CBS News poll finds support for Trump's deportation program falls; Americans call for more focus on prices
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Rolling Stone, Strength In Numbers, The Hill, USA Today, New York Post and CNN
Zack Stanton / Politico:
Playbook: Six months in
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
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.
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Semafor and New York Post
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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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The Guardian, twitchy.com, American Thinker, RedState, NewsNation, Fox News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, The Post Millennial and Breitbart
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers
ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers
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Chicago Tribune, Vanity Fair, Associated Press, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
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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Washington Examiner, Fox News, The American Conservative, CNN and Rolling Stone
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
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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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali and Raw Story
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 …
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Al Jazeera, israelhayom.com, RTÉ and UPI
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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 …
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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Althouse, more at Mediagazer »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
What's at stake when public media funds are cut — The gutting of federal funding for public broadcasters is expected to cause hundreds of local station groups to significantly scale back or shutter across the country, often in rural places where there isn't any other local news source.
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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Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Independent, Washington Times, USA Today 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.
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The Free Press, Semafor, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
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 …

