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2:35 PM ET, July 27, 2025

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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: Raw Story
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Trump meets with the European Union's top official.  —  Where Things Stand  — E.U. trade: President Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, are in Scotland for a meeting that Mr. Trump again gave a 50-50 chance of securing a trade deal.
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 …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump's tariffs start August 1, no extensions, Lutnick says  —  There will be no more extensions on tariff deadlines, and they will go into force as scheduled on August 1, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. … - Financial markets call it the “TACO trade” — “Trump always chickens out” …
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
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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Rushdi Abualouf / BBC:
Israel commits to daily pauses in fighting as six more malnutrition deaths reported in Gaza
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Some Republicans aren't backing down from Epstein transparency push … - While some Republicans are falling in line with President Trump and making calls to move on, others are defying leadership and joining in with Democrats by continuing to criticize the administration's handling of the case.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Massie, Khanna hammer Republican leadership for thwarting Epstein transparency push
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 …
Discussion: Variety and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Catherine Bouris / The Daily Beast:
Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic  —  O—NO!  —  The president has accused the Kamala Harris campaign of paying millions, “probably illegally,” to stars like Oprah and Beyoncé.  —  President Donald Trump has offered up yet another sacrifice …
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Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump demands Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Oprah be prosecuted over 2024 campaign payouts: ‘Totally illegal’
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 …
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
Mimmymum:
100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride.  The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.  —  The UK's biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.  —  ·  —  Just now  —  This weekend, 100,000 people took …
Discussion: The Guardian
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
Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump's gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US  —  The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it  —  The road to four struggling rural hospitals now hosts a political message: “If this hospital closes, blame Trump.”
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump once decried the idea of presidential vacations.  His Scotland trip is built around golf  —  During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the Soldiers' Home, a presidential retreat of cottages and parkland in what today …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Coke with cane sugar may not be that big of a MAHA victory  —  Coca-Cola is going to offer a cane sugar version of its signature beverage, rather than one sweetened with corn syrup.  —  Major segments of the food industry, including General Mills and Heinz, have pledged to remove certain colored dyes from their products.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Politico
Ashley Hume / Fox News:
Jay Leno criticizes modern late-night comedy for alienating half the audience with partisan politics  —  The former late-night host explains why he never revealed his political leanings amid Stephen Colbert's show cancellation controversy  —  Jay Leno reflected on why he always kept …
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Aren't Sold on Trump's ‘Big, Beautiful’ Tax Law  —  WSJ poll says 52% of respondents oppose the package, showing Republicans' challenges in touting its benefits ahead of the midterms  —  WASHINGTON—Americans view President Trump's tax-and-spending law as a win for wealthy households …
Discussion: Rolling Stone, MSNBC and 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.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Denied federal flood relief, a Maryland town is left on its own  —  The residents of Westernport, Maryland, overwhelmingly voted for Trump.  But after FEMA denied its aid request, the town feels like the president has turned his back on them.  —  Just now
Benjamin Oreskes / New York Times:
Can Mamdani's Message Play Outside New York?  It Already Has.  —  Zohran Mamdani's mayoral primary victory in New York follows wins by other big-city progressives.  Are voters more open to backing progressive stances?  —  In the glow of Zohran Mamdani's convincing win in the Democratic mayoral primary …
Zoe Sottile / CNN:
11 people injured and suspect in custody after ‘random’ stabbing in Traverse City Walmart, officials say  —  Video Ad Feedback  —  Sheriff shares details in stabbing at Michigan Walmart  —  Sheriff shares details in stabbing at Michigan Walmart  —  Friend of pastor arrested by ICE details ‘subhuman’ conditions of his detainment
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Associated Press:
Multiple people have been stabbed at a Walmart in Michigan and a suspect is in custody
 
 
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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 and HuffPost
Laura Pitel / Financial Times:
The rightwing media stoking culture wars in Germany
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senator Fights White House Over Billions in Frozen Funds
Vanita Gupta / New York Times:
You May Not Be Trump's Target This Time. But You Could Be Next.
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Trump team's ‘pocket rescission’ idea runs into GOP opposition
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