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7:15 PM ET, July 27, 2025

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Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
Trump and EU Reach Tariff Deal, Avoiding Trade War  —  Pact imposes baseline tariff of 15% on the U.S.'s biggest trading partner  —  President Trump said he reached a trade agreement on Sunday with the European Union, avoiding a damaging trade war with the U.S.'s largest trading partner …
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Shawn Donnan / Bloomberg:
Trump's Tariffs Are Already Stunting World Growth While Markets Shrug  —  With the president's new trade deals, US protectionism is slowing investment and rewiring supply chains at the expense of the global economy  —  As Donald Trump barrels toward his latest tariff deadline …
Discussion: CNN and MPR News
NPR:
Trump sets EU tariff at 15%, lower than his original threat, after meeting in Scotland  —  TURNBERRY and ABERDEEN, Scotland — President Trump said he struck a trade deal with the European Union on Sunday after talks with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at his golf course on Scotland's western coast.
New York Times:
What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One?  Don't Ask.  —  To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.  —  President Trump makes no secret …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
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Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:   Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One
Kristin Brown / CBS News:
Preparations under way for Qatari jet that will be used as Air Force One
Discussion: UPI and HuffPost
NBC News:
Speaker Johnson says all ‘credible’ Epstein files should be released: Full interview  —  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) calls the bipartisan push to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files “reckless,” adding that it does not do enough to protect victims.
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Leno Calls for Late Night to Drop Partisan Politics: ‘Why Shoot for Just Half an Audience?’  —  PLAY NICE  —  Jay Leno thinks his former fellow late-night show hosts are alienating audiences with their barbs and jabs against the Trump administration.  “I love political humor, don't get me wrong …
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Ashley Hume / Fox News:
Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics
Richard Severo / New York Times:
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97  —  A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.  —  Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
GOP leans into Trump administration's Obama accusations  —  Some Republican lawmakers on Sunday platformed the administration's recent claims that Obama-era officials waged a Russia-related conspiracy against President Trump — but stopped short of endorsing the president's allegations of “treason.”
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Colorado lawmaker says Gabbard has become ‘weapon’ for Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
New York Times:
The Ripple Effects of an ICE Raid on a Nebraska Meatpacking Company … They gathered in a conference room for the weekly management meeting, even though there was hardly anyone left to manage.  Chad Hartmann, the president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, pushed a few empty chairs to the side …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Richard Escobedo / CBS News:
Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve  —  A group of Democratic senators led by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is urging the Trump administration to suspend American financial support …
Discussion: New York Sun, israelhayom.com and BBC
NBC News:
Sen. Graham says there will be a ‘change in strategy’ in Gaza ‘to destroy Hamas’  —  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) shares what he's hearing from the White House and Israeli officials about the next stage of the war, saying “there will be a full military effort …
Ted Carter / CBS News:
Full transcript of “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” July 27, 2025  —  On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan:  — Office of Managment and Budget Director Russell Vought  — Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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CBS News:   Transcript: Russell Vought on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” July 27, 2025
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Top MAGA Rep's 20-Year-Old Son Cited for Alleged Child Abuse  —  BUSTED  —  It's not the first time the controversial Colorado Congresswoman's eldest has had a run-in with the law.  —  MAGA Rep. Lauren Boebert's son has been slapped with misdemeanor child abuse charges—the latest in a series of encounters with law enforcement.
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Ohio State president says he feels ‘no pressure’ after White House complaints … Carter's comments come shortly after the Trump administration announced the school — of which Vice President JD Vance is an alum — is one of 60 universities it has deemed may have antisemitic practices and policies on campus.
Discussion: CBS News
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
California Democrats debate what a Harris governor run could mean for them  —  Rep. Dave Min was chatting with reporters at the US Capitol when the California Democrat was asked about whether he wants Kamala Harris to run for governor.  —  Suddenly, Min no longer had time to talk.
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘A nightmare that no one wants’: GOP fears Mastriano's down-ballot drag in Pennsylvania … A person close to Trump's political operation — one of the four aforementioned Republicans — described the president's team as “very concerned” that a Mastriano campaign “could jeopardize or add …
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
GOP Sen. Refuses to Admit Bush, Not Obama, Was President During Epstein's Plea Deal  —  The senator takes the “blame Obama” game to new heights  —  Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to blame former President Barack Obama for Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal, despite Obama not being president at the time.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani  —  Zohran Mamdani's campaign is driving some people mad.  —  Mamdani is, of course, the young, charismatic, charming and decidedly left-of-center candidate upsetting the political status quo.  He is also Muslim and of Indian and Ugandan descent.
José Andrés / New York Times:
People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza  —  Forty years ago, the world's conscience was shocked into action by images of emaciated children and starving babies dying in their mothers' arms.  There was a surge in international aid, airdrops of food and activism from the world's most popular artists.
 
 
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
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Mike Sacks / Rolling Stone:
Supreme Court Lets Trump Enact His Authoritarian Agenda on Its ‘Shadow Docket’
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Coke with cane sugar may not be that big of a MAHA victory
Discussion: Bloomberg and Politico
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Trump's approval with independents sinks below Biden's, Trump's post-Jan. 6 | Weekly roundup for July 27, 2025
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump demands Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Oprah be prosecuted over 2024 campaign payouts: ‘Totally illegal’
Laura Pitel / Financial Times:
The rightwing media stoking culture wars in Germany
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Mimmymum:
100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.
Discussion: The Guardian
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump's gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Denied federal flood relief, a Maryland town is left on its own
 

 
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