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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Johnson Shutting Down House Early to Block Epstein Vote  —  Where Things Stand  — Epstein case: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut the House down early for its summer recess to head off Democratic demands for votes on calling for the release of files …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Why the Epstein Coverup Matters  —  Jeffrey Epstein damage control continues at the Justice Department, with Pam Bondi announcing this morning that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is seeking a prosecutorial interview with Epsitein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
emptywheel:
Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client  —  Trump Defense Attorney Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi just announced that Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell and discuss potential cooperation deals with her.
Axios:
House grinds to a halt as GOP tries to shut down Epstein votes  —  House Republicans have virtually stopped work on all major legislation leading up to their six-week summer recess to avoid taking votes on forcing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. … - “They're certainly not making it easier for themselves. ...
Martha McHardy / Newsweek:
Republicans Shut Down House Floor to Avoid Epstein Vote
Discussion: Associated Press and PoliticusUSA
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House GOP leaders grapple for way out of Epstein crisis
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Reaches Out to Ghislaine Maxwell, a Longtime Epstein Associate
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Deputy Attorney General seeking meeting with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Mike Johnson Shuts Down House Early To Block Vote On Jeffrey Epstein Files
Discussion: New York Times
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Goes Full Fascist: 'Whether It's Right or Wrong, It's Time to Go After People'  —  The president is desperate to turn the nation's attention away from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein … He spent the weekend suggesting prominent Democrats should be prosecuted over bogus right-wing conspiracy theories …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Outraged Trump supporters not placated by DOJ's actions on Epstein … Even Bondi's announcement on Tuesday that the Justice Department would seek to interview Epstein's co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell - who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking and other crimes - was met with disdain.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Deflecting Epstein questions, Trump urges DOJ to ‘go after’ Obama
Discussion: MSNBC and NewsMax.com
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Tulsi Gabbard's Dangerous Disinformation Campaign Against America
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Bypassing Habba, Judges in New Jersey Name New Top Federal Prosecutor  —  Alina Habba's term as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire on Tuesday.  New Jersey's two Democratic senators had accused her of pursuing “frivolous and politically motivated prosecutions.”
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Jeremy Roebuck / Washington Post:
Judges vote to oust Trump pick Alina Habba as U.S. attorney in New Jersey  —  The state's U.S. district court judges made the announcement in a brief order that did not offer any explanation for their decision.  —  New Jersey's federal judges declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba …
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Judges vote to not keep Habba as interim US attorney of New Jersey
Washington Post:
Republicans propose naming Kennedy Center Opera House after Melania Trump  —  The House Appropriations committee passed an amendment that would rename the theater, months after President Donald Trump took over the performing arts center.  —  The Kennedy Center's Opera House could soon be called the …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and The Independent
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Chief Resigns, Citing Agency ‘Chaos’, Colleagues Said  —  Ken Pagurek had told colleagues the Trump administration was causing ‘chaos’ inside FEMA and creating dangerous delays in disaster response.  —  The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's urban search …
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Gabe Cohen / CNN:
FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response  —  The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR news chief announces she's leaving days after Congress kills federal funding  —  NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer Edith Chapin told colleagues Tuesday morning that she has decided to step down.  —  The veteran news leader's announcement comes just days …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘Those days are over’: Trump books draw lackluster sales … “Everyone is desperately looking for the next Michael Wolff or James Comey for next year, but it's not clear there could ever be one again,” said one concerned publisher, referencing two of the authors with biggest book successes of Trump's first term.
Discussion: CNN
Tosin Akintola / Reason:
Rent Prices Are Falling Fast in America's Most Pro-Housing Cities  —  Rental prices in some of the country's largest cities are falling—some by almost 45 percent, according to new data from Five Star Cash Offer, a real estate investment firm that operates as a direct cash homebuyer.
Discussion: Fox News
Chris Cillizza / The Daily Beast:
Hunter Biden Really Needs to Shut It  —  QUIET TIME  —  Why is he talking?  Why is he still talking?  —  OPINION  —  Let's establish a few quick facts about Hunter Biden: He has never been elected to anything, ever.  His business acumen appears to amount, largely, to having the last name “Biden.”
The Catholic Herald:
Self-proclaimed Catholic fascist fired after Jubilee appearance  —  The self-proclaimed Catholic fascist who recently appeared on an episode of Surrounded by the popular YouTube channel Jubilee has lost his job following the programme's release.  The debate, which first aired on Sunday …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and The Wrap
Alice Speri / The Guardian:
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication  —  As Harvard's feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal.  Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump's WSJ Lawsuit Raises a New Constitutional Question … The president can sue you, but you can't sue him.  —  It seems like an absurd thing to say but that's effectively the reality of our legal system today, one that has become increasingly alarming during Donald Trump's second term.
Discussion: Axios
Diana Nerozzi / New York Post:
Trump to pull US out of UNESCO over DEI policies, pro-Palestinian, pro-China tilt  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is pulling the US out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing its anti-America and anti-Israel leanings as well as its woke agenda, The Post has learned.
Financial Times:
Bari Weiss seeks more than $200mn for media start-up The Free Press  —  ‘Anti-woke’ journalist holds talks with incoming CBS owner David Ellison over sale of new media venture  —  Ivan Levingston and Daniel Thomas in London, James Fontanella-Khan and Anna Nicolaou in New York
Walter Olson / The UnPopulist:
A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands  —  Many persons I'd think would know better have affixed their names to a new and highly illiberal set of demands on colleges and universities.
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
Zohran's Bronx Science tales  —  MAMDANI PLAYS HOOKY: He's just like us.  He got detention.  He cut class to get lunch.  He says he's bad at math.  —  Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani graduated from the public, test-in, competitive Bronx Science High School in 2010.
Paul Krugman:
Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?  —  And will it ever come to America?  —  Last week the House passed the GENIUS Act, which will boost the growth of stablecoins, thereby paving the way for future scams and financial crises.  On Thursday the House also passed a bill that would bar …
Bloomberg:
Marcos Meeting With Trump Yields 19% Tariff for Philippines  —  President Donald Trump said the US reached an agreement with the Philippines setting a 19% tariff on the country's exports, the latest pact ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline.  —  Trump initially imposed a 17% rate for the US ally in April …
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
U.S. Steel Producers Raise Prices After Tariffs Stymie Imports  —  Steel producers like Cleveland Cliffs and Steel Dynamics both said this week that they raised prices after President Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on imports.  —  American steel makers are raising prices …
David Gilbert / Wired:
Everything Is a ‘False Flag’ Now  —  Conspiracy theories about so-called false flag attacks have been around for decades.  But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake.  —  As President Donald Trump struggles to contain …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Military Says It Will ‘Continuously’ Monitor Bathrooms to Comply With Anti-Trans Order  —  An internal memo obtained by 404 Media also shows the military ordered a review hold on “questionable content” at Stars and Stripes, the military's ‘editorially independent’ newspaper.
 
 
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Lea Skene / Associated Press:
Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent to home country under prisoner exchange
Discussion: Fox News, The Independent and Reuters
Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
MAHA group makes hefty pitch backing Trump and RFK Jr.'s health agenda
Georgina Boos / Bloomberg:
Americans Are Paying for Trump's Tariffs, Not Foreign Companies
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Epstein Victim Blasts Trump for Lying: 'He's Caught'
Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
Are You Laughing Yet?  —  Everyone can say exactly what they want, free of the fear of censorship, except by the government.
NBC News:
White House faces backlash after booting The Wall Street Journal from Scotland media coverage plans
 Earlier Items: 
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The conservative case against Trump's worst judicial nominee
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NPR
James Liddell / The Independent:
Bernice King's demand comes after Tulsi Gabbard announced the release of thousands of documents tied to Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination
The Coca-Cola Company:
Coca-Cola Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Full Year Guidance
Cathy Bussewitz / Associated Press:
Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.
Discussion: Above the Law