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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.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House GOP leaders grapple for way out of Epstein crisis  —  House Republicans have lost control of the floor over their Jeffrey Epstein blow-up, and they're struggling to chart a path out of the crisis.  GOP leaders are talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways …
Discussion: Newsweek, The Hill and Raw Story
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. ...
Punchbowl News:
Epstein mess freezes the House — again  —  Speaker Mike Johnson may as well send the House home today.  In fact, they probably should've taken the week off.  —  The House Rules Committee, the speaker-controlled panel charged with shaping legislation for the floor, is completely frozen …
Politico:
DOJ reaches out to Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys, expects a meeting with her
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Democrats Should Get Tough and Quit Negotiating Spending Bills
Discussion: Roll Call
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.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. again withdraws from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias and “woke” causes
Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election  —  Five years ago, Marco Rubio said there was “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”  Now, Tulsi Gabbard says that claim is “treasonous” and should be criminally investigated.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump's forever grudge ties Epstein files to Russia “hoax”
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 …
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: MSNBC
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 …
NBC News:
White House faces backlash after booting The Wall Street Journal from Scotland media coverage plans  —  The move comes after The Wall Street Journal reported President Donald Trump sent Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card in 2003 with a drawing of a naked woman.
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Anthony L. Fisher / MSNBC:
Rupert Murdoch should stand for free speech and fight Trump's bogus Wall Street Journal lawsuit
Discussion: CBS News
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
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 …
The Coca-Cola Company:
Coca-Cola Reports Second Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Full Year Guidance  —  Comparable Currency Neutral Operating Income (Non-GAAP) Grew 15%  —  Operating Margin was 34.1% versus 21.3% in the Prior Year;  —  Comparable Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) was 34.7% versus 32.8% in the Prior Year
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump.  A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.  —  Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration's agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.
Discussion: Above the Law
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Democrats lead House generic ballot; deportations unpopular; Musk party flops  —  Summary of main poll findings:  — Americans remain deeply dissatisfied with the political status quo and increasingly pessimistic about the nation's direction, according to the July Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.
Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Leads Push to Block Watchdog's Inquiries Into Spending Cuts  —  Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the Trump administration's withholding federal funds.  —  A federal watchdog has opened dozens …
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory  —  Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything … I would prefer here a precise accounting of Jeffrey Epstein's history of pedophilia.  Unfortunately, much remains unknown.  What we can say is that over a period of decades he groomed …
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
American Steel Just Got More Expensive.  Buyers Blame Tariffs.  —  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 …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
What Trump's Feud With Jerome Powell Is Really About  —  Donald Trump has been bullying Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—calling him “too late,” insulting his intelligence, and trying to gin up a case that Powell spent too much on renovations of the agency's headquarters as a pretext for firing him.
Discussion: Newsweek, Al Jazeera and Boston Herald
ProPublica:
Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The Trump administration is considering slashing rules meant …
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.
New York Times:
Can The Washington Post's TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post? … Dave Jorgenson is leaving The Post next month to start an online video company based on his personal YouTube channel, Local News International.  —  For years, Dave Jorgenson has been nearly synonymous with The Washington Post on social media.
Christine Peterson / Vox:
Your favorite national park is struggling to survive  —  What budget cuts mean for wildlife, climate monitoring — and surviving peak tourism. … Stories of struggle flow unceasingly from our public lands — here, a senior botanist pulled from invasive species removal to check campgrounds …
Discussion: New York Times and Roll Call
Fox News:
Louisville mayor shifts city's immigration policy after legal threat from DOJ  —  The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, informed the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday that he is shifting the city's more restrictive policy on federal immigration detainers after the government warned it would sue over it.
Discussion: Newsweek and The Post Millennial
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump's Student Arrests, and the Lawsuit Fighting Them, Tread New Ground  —  The Trump administration's efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provision have no obvious legal parallel.  —  The four veteran immigration agents …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and New Yorker
 
 
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Financial Times:
Bari Weiss seeks more than $200mn for media start-up The Free Press
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: Lawmakers press Musk on Grok's antisemitic language
Discussion: PC Gamer and NewsMax.com
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Hunter Biden suggests Ambien contributed to father's infamous debate
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The conservative case against Trump's worst judicial nominee
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NPR
Alex Kaplan / Media Matters for America:
A QAnon-affiliated figure has hosted Trump's VA secretary and at least four GOP members of Congress since May
James Liddell / The Independent:
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Coca-Cola to launch cane sugar soda in fall after Trump demand
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court case is an existential threat to the Voting Rights Act
Mike Stone / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's Golden Dome looks for alternatives to Musk's SpaceX
Discussion: Futurism
Associated Press:
McDowell County, West Virginia, birthplace of food stamps, faces a disappearing safety net
Louise Perry / New York Times:
The Perverse Economics of Assisted Suicide
Discussion: Commonplace
Dylan Lovan / Associated Press:
Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

 
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