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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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Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? — Update: In a Gaggle today, Trump did just confess this is about Giuffre and others. … Video — Yesterday, Donald Trump offered an entirely new explanation for his falling …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump jolts Epstein scandal with new comments about Virginia Giuffre and Mar-a-Lago spa
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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
Trump says Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from him when she worked at Mar-a-Lago spa
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Says Epstein ‘Stole’ Underage Victim from Mar-a-Lago Spa
Trump Says Epstein ‘Stole’ Underage Victim from Mar-a-Lago Spa
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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.
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Says She Will Only Testify for Immunity or Clemency
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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
US House panel rejects immunity request by Epstein associate Maxwell
US House panel rejects immunity request by Epstein associate Maxwell
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Wall Street Journal:
Ghislaine Maxwell Says She'd Answer Congress's Questions if She Gets Immunity or Clemency
Ghislaine Maxwell Says She'd Answer Congress's Questions if She Gets Immunity or Clemency
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Alec Schemmel / Fox News:
Ghislaine Maxwell's immunity request denied by House Oversight Committee
Ghislaine Maxwell's immunity request denied by House Oversight Committee
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Why Trump Might Free Ghislaine
Why Trump Might Free Ghislaine
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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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Washington Post:
EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act — The agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a proposal to rescind …
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Trump administration moves to repeal climate ‘holy grail’
Trump administration moves to repeal climate ‘holy grail’
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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.
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 …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Senate confirms Trump nominee to lead CDC — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, putting a longtime government scientist at the helm of an agency being upended by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats turn routine Trump nominees into pitched partisan battles
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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 …
Gwen Howerton / Chron:
Joe Rogan's friends followed him to Texas. They all seem to hate it. — From the heat to the state's power grid, Joe Rogan's friends are learning that Texas isn't what they were promised. — In 2020, Joe Rogan moved from Los Angeles to Austin after visiting and realizing he didn't have to wear a mask at a restaurant.
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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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Megan Brenan / Gallup:
32% in U.S. Back Israel's Military Action in Gaza, a New Low
32% in U.S. Back Israel's Military Action in Gaza, a New Low
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Michael Lowry / Eye on the Tropics:
Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites this Week — UPDATE: The Department of Defense made a late-breaking decision after this story was published to fix the security issues and keep data flowing to hurricane forecasters from the three defense weather satellites. For a full update, please see this post.
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 …
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 …
ICE:
ICE arrests illegal alien serving as a local police officer after attempting to unlawfully purchase firearm in Maine — Jamaican national attempted to illegally purchase firearm for his employment as a local police officer — BIDDEFORD, Maine - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers …
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Nicole Jeanine Johnson / Reuters:
Trump approval rating sinks to 40%, the lowest of his term, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds — U.S. President Donald Trump's approval rating dropped one percentage point to 40%, the lowest level of his second term in office, as Americans remained concerned about his handling of the economy and immigration, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
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Washington Post:
We texted nearly 1,100 Americans about Trump and the Epstein files. Here's what they said. — How closely are Americans following news about government files from the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, and what do they think about President Donald Trump's handling of the issue?
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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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Erin Slowey / Bloomberg Tax:
IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming — The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said. — “You've heard of Direct File,” Long said Monday at the National Association of Enrolled Agents Tax Summit …
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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GovExec.com:
DOGE and other day 1 Trump appointees head for the exits at multiple agencies — Several members of billionaire Elon Musk's government efficiency team at the Interior Department are leaving the agency, joining other Musk associates and early President Trump appointees exiting agencies elsewhere in government.
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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.
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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.
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 …
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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.
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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.
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
MTG not running for Georgia governor — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will not run for Georgia governor next year, she said Tuesday, after already ruling out a campaign for the Senate earlier this year. But that's not to say she doesn't think she'd win. “If I was running for governor …
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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 …
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