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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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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and The Maine Wire
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Politico:
Nominations pileup has Senate Republicans threatening rules changes
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Axios, New York Sun, The Gateway Pundit, Semafor, Townhall, Deseret News and American Greatness
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Jeffries will meet with Texas Democrats amid congressional map battle
Jeffries will meet with Texas Democrats amid congressional map battle
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The Washington Free Beacon, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, New York Times and Associated Press
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Voters See Dems as More Corrupt Than Republicans Despite Trump's Grifting
Politico:
Capitol agenda: Trump confirmations split Senate Dems
Capitol agenda: Trump confirmations split Senate Dems
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MSNBC, New York Sun, IJR, The Daily Signal, Fox News, Federal News Network and Semafor
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Why Dems are suddenly confident about 2026
Why Dems are suddenly confident about 2026
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Fox News, RealClearPolitics, Raw Story and IJR
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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CBS News, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Ghislaine Maxwell seeks immunity in exchange for congressional testimony
Ghislaine Maxwell seeks immunity in exchange for congressional testimony
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The Hill, New York Sun, Scripps News and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
In a Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding — If upheld in court, the repeal would make it almost impossible for future administrations to rein in greenhouse gases. — Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, NPR, E&E News and The Daily Signal
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Ben Geman / Axios:
EPA seeks to cancel scientific basis for climate regulations
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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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Ben Johansen / Politico:
Trump: Epstein “stole” young woman from Mar-a-Lago spa … The anecdote comes a day after Trump said that he severed ties with the disgraced financier and child sex offender, who died in prison by suicide six years ago, after “he stole people who worked for me.”
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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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New Jersey Online and USA Today
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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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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The Hill, Axios, Washington Examiner, New Republic, Associated Press, Washington Times and israelhayom.com
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
4 killed, including off-duty officer, in Midtown office shooting; suspected gunman dead by suicide
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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
Trump may rue the day he sued Murdoch for libel over Epstein's birthday card
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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.
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 …
Financial Times:
Donald Trump's tariff blitz brings US levies to highest levels since 1930s — Washington has locked in tariffs on almost 45% of American imports — Donald Trump has pushed US tariffs on foreign goods to the highest level since before the second world war as he enacts his sweeping protectionist agenda.
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Is Winning His Trade War. What Will That Mean for the Economy?
Trump Is Winning His Trade War. What Will That Mean for the Economy?
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BBC:
UK will recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel agrees to Gaza ceasefire and other conditions — Summary — Keir Starmer says the UK will recognise a Palestinian state at a UN meeting in September unless Israel meets certain conditions — He says the recognition …
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GOV.UK:
PM words on Gaza: 29 July 2025
PM words on Gaza: 29 July 2025
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NPR, Melanie Phillips, spiked, New York Times, The Sun, HuffPost, Guido Fawkes, Politico and Conservative Home
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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Axios, twitchy.com, Federal Trade Commission, LGBTQ Nation, The Daily Signal and Washington Examiner
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.
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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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 …
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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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 …
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Washington Examiner, NewsNation and The Daily Caller
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.
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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NBC News:
Renaming the Kennedy Center for Donald and Melania Trump would violate the law that created it — The Kennedy Center can't include new memorials or plaques — for donors or presidents — under U.S. law. Republicans would need to change that to rename it for the Trumps.
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Robert Conlin / Democracy Docket:
Maine Sec. of State to Trump DOJ: ‘Go Jump in the Gulf of Maine’ — AUGUSTA, ME — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) issued a defiant response to the wide-ranging request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) — first reported by Democracy Docket — for the state's sensitive voter information and voting systems data.
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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.
New York Times:
Mayoral Candidates Navigate a Mass Shooting That Has Rattled New York — Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor, was in Uganda when the shooting took place, while the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, sought to project an image of crisis manager. — As New York City grappled …
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