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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud  —  President tells reporters he cut off contact with Epstein because he was poaching employees from his club … President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he ended his friendship …
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Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Trump says Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from him when she worked at Mar-a-Lago spa  —  “He took people that worked for me.  And I told him don't do it anymore.  And he did it,” Trump told reporters.  —  President Donald Trump said that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump jolts Epstein scandal with new comments about Virginia Giuffre and Mar-a-Lago spa  —  The president took the Epstein controversy in a new direction, commenting specifically on one of the most prominent victims of Epstein's sexual abuse.  —  The official line from Donald Trump and his team …
emptywheel:
Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?
Discussion: Raw Story and Salon
New York Times:
In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding  —  The proposal is President Trump's most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus.
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Ben Geman / Axios:
EPA seeks to cancel scientific basis for climate regulations
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Maxwell offers to testify before Congress but with major conditions, including immunity  —  Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to testify before Congress, but with major conditions, including immunity, according to a list of her demands sent to the House Oversight Committee by her attorneys.
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Politico:
Ghislaine Maxwell plays hardball with lawmakers on giving Epstein testimony  —  Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted co-conspirator of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is asking to postpone her scheduled congressional deposition — and making a series of other demands as conditions of her cooperation with Hill investigators.
Strength In Numbers:
The Democratic image is underwater — but they're not losing  —  Polls show the party near a 30-year low, yet they're favored in the House popular vote.  —  ∙ Paid … A new poll from the Wall Street Journal has Democrats in a panic.  According to the WSJ's pollsters …
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Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:   Voters See Dems as More Corrupt Than Republicans Despite Trump's Grifting
Dan Ruetenik / CBS News:
There was no “missing minute” in the original Epstein jail video, government source says  —  The “missing minute” from the surveillance video at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center where Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 may not be missing after all, CBS News has learned.
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Dan Ruetenik / CBS News:
CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies  —  In the weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, in August 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr said his “personal review” of surveillance footage clearly showed …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Burchett kicked by horse, breaks rib  —  Rep. Tim Burchett is on the mend after suffering a horse-related snafu.  —  The Tennessee Republican was “accidentally kicked by a horse” while working on his farm over the weekend, according to his office.  —  While the 60-year-old Congress member's …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Daily Caller
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David Sivak / Washington Examiner:
Tim Burchett treated for broken rib after horse-kicking incident
Steve Vladeck / One First:
170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg  —  DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in “misconduct” would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.
Politico:
Nominations pileup has Senate Republicans threatening rules changes  —  Senate Republicans are privately discussing whether to change the chamber's rules amid growing frustration with Democrats' slow-walking of President Donald Trump's nominees.  The discussion, which came to a head during …
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David Weigel / Semafor:
Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu  —  The Scoop  —  New York City's Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza and that the United States should stop arming the Jewish state, according to new polling from a pro-Palestinian group and shared first with Semafor.
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Associated Press:
Gunman who killed 4 at NYC building was targeting NFL offices but took wrong elevator, mayor says  —  A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before killing himself was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
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abc7NY:
4 killed, including off-duty officer, in Midtown office shooting; suspected gunman dead by suicide
Bloomberg:
Discussion: E&E News
Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week  —  The U.S. Navy will permanently cut its stream of data from three weather satellites essential to hurricane forecasters this Thursday, with the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season just weeks away.
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Trump lawsuit against Murdoch and ‘Wall Street Journal’ turns personal  —  President Trump's defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its powerful owner has taken a personal turn.  —  In the legal filings — and on social media — Trump says he personally told media mogul Rupert Murdoch …
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James D. Zirin / The Hill:
Trump may rue the day he sued Murdoch for libel over Epstein's birthday card
Kim Bellware / Washington Post:
Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says  —  Tae Heung Kim, a Korean citizen studying in the United States, is being held in San Francisco after returning from his brother's wedding overseas.  —  A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident …
Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
FTC eyes trans youth care providers, seeking input on alleged deceptive practices investigation  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday launched a public inquiry into whether providers of gender-affirming health care are violating federal consumer protection laws.
Brian Bennett / Time:
Exclusive: Inside the Preparations for Trump's Next Supreme Court Nominee  —  Updates on Manhattan shooting, Gaza, and more  —  White House officials and a close circle of conservative lawyers are preparing for President Donald Trump to be able to hit the ground running if a Supreme Court vacancy opens …
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Judiciary Democrats demand probe after third Bove whistleblower  —  Two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want the Justice Department's top watchdog to probe allegations against a contentious judicial nominee.  Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump-CBS deal is even worse than you thought  —  Every so often there comes a moment of clarity about what immigration really means in America, often wrapped in tragedy.  The essential work that immigrants do was hammered home last year when six of them perished in the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge.
Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'  —  A casualty of Trump's purge speaks out.  —  michael feinberg had not been planning to leave the FBI.  But on May 31, he received a phone call from his boss asking him about a personal friendship with a former FBI agent who was known for criticizing President Donald Trump.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Matt Szabo / Los Angeles Times:
Chris Kluwe, fired as football coach, sues Huntington Beach Union High School District  —  High school football practices started all across Southern California on Monday.  —  One person not on the gridiron this year at Edison High is former NFL punter Chris Kluwe.
Bernadette Breslin / Josh Hawley:
Hawley Introduces Legislation to Send Rebate Checks to Working Americans  —  Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the American Worker Rebate Act, legislation that would send rebate checks to working Americans following the historic revenue accrued through President Trump's tariff policy.
Grace Yarrow / Politico:
Senators agree to strip hemp language from ag funding bill  —  Senators have agreed to strip out language that would close a hemp regulatory loophole from their agriculture funding bill, following a clash between Kentucky GOP Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Discussion: Marijuana Moment
New York Times:
Top Generals Nominated for New Positions Must Now Meet With Trump  —  The move is a departure from past practice and has raised worries that it could lead to the politicization of the military's top ranks.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has begun requiring that nominees …
Joe Perticone / The Bulwark:
The Biggest House GOP Bullies Are Now Impotent  —  From the moment they formed in early 2015, the far-right House Freedom Caucus has been a pest, but one to be reckoned with on Capitol Hill.  Any time government funding was in jeopardy, or a fiscal cliff loomed, or a Republican party boss …
Bianca Flowers / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration slashed federal funding for gun violence prevention  —  The Trump administration has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York …
 
 
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Washington Post:
DHS is posting Americana paintings and migrant mugshots. The art world is not happy.
Discussion: Raw Story
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Huckabee: ‘No break’ between Trump, Netanyahu on Gaza aid
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Soraya Nadia McDonald / New York Times:
There's a Name for What Trump Is Doing. Juan Crow.
Discussion: Townhall and Orlando Sentinel
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
GOP Senator Roasted Over This ‘Idiot’ Take On Manhattan Mass Shooting
 Earlier Items: 
Robert Conlin / Democracy Docket:
Maine Sec. of State to Trump DOJ: ‘Go Jump in the Gulf of Maine’
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
BBC:
UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to Gaza ceasefire and other conditions
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Washington Post:
DOJ to review staff texts, emails after faculty praise of GMU president
Discussion: Techdirt and Reason
David Strom / HotAir:
The Most Dangerous Class in America? High Education/Low Income Voters
Discussion: First Things
NBC News:
Renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald and Melania Trump would violate the law that created it