Virginia Giuffre's Family Was Shocked That Trump Described Her as ‘Stolen’  —  The siblings of one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers wonder what the president knows.  —  When Donald Trump told reporters yesterday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” a young woman named Virginia Roberts Giuffre …

Trump's war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ‘pro bono’ work for underdogs  —  Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.  —  When the Texas Civil Rights Project needed lawyers to help dozens …

Playbook PM: Trump's last-minute tariff hurdles  —  TRADE WARS: There are just hours to go before President Donald Trump's deadline for scores of countries to strike trade deals with the U.S. or face steep tariffs.  The president has managed to bend many trading partners to his will with lopsided …

Alan Dershowitz Takes on His Greatest Challenge Yet: A Farmers' Market  —  It was an unusually warm day on Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday, and Alan Dershowitz just wanted to enjoy some hot dumplings.  —  As he tells it, Dershowitz, the 86-year-old attorney for some of America's …

Legal Watchdog Files Bar Complaints Against Justice Dept. Lawyers  —  The move represented a rare attempt to seek accountability for rank-and-file lawyers who have represented the Trump administration in court.  —  A legal watchdog group accused three career Justice Department lawyers …

WHAT WE'RE SEEING  —  Agents break car windows even when sobbing children or pregnant women are inside.  —  “She is pregnant!” a man yelled as his wife, a U.S. citizen, filmed from inside their Chevy.  “Is pregnant!  Is pregnant!”  —  Officers smashed through three windows …

A New Cycle of Texas Gerrymandering: Your Questions Answered  —  A redistricting expert answers questions from Bolts readers about the effort to redraw Texas' congressional map, and its effects on communities of color and political representation.  —  The Texas legislature began meeting …

Newly Declassified Appendix To Durham Report Sheds Additional Light On Clinton Campaign Plan To Falsely Tie Trump To Russia And FBI's Failure To Investigate  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the formerly Classified Appendix …

The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims.  Falsehoods are now winning.  —  Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.  —  Just now  —  When 400 fact-checkers from around the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro in June for an annual conference, the mood was tense.

Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance  —  U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be “very hard” to make a deal with Canada after it gave its support to Palestinian statehood.

Donald Trump's unprecedented attack on Brazil's judiciary  —  He has placed sanctions on the judge leading the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro, his ideological ally  —  “Let this be a warning to those who would trample on the fundamental rights of their countrymen,” Marco Rubio …

Dems grapple with Trump resistance dilemma  —  IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Dems' big decisions ahead on spending, noms  — Schumer's new Epstein push  — Flood previews policy battles for Main Street Caucus  —  Senate Democrats have a chance to show their voters …

The federal government is paying more than 154,000 people not to work  —  Early resignation offers and other programs have reduced the workforce, but critics say the moves are also wasting money.  —  Just now  —  The government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work …

Trump set to revive the Presidential Fitness Test while hosting professional athletes at White House  —  President Donald Trump will be joined by professional athletes on Thursday to sign an executive order that will expand on his council on sports, fitness and nutrition …

Trump's newborn savings accounts a ‘back door for privatizing Social Security,’ Bessent says  —  The “Trump accounts” were set up in the GOP's new tax and spending law, the One Big Beautiful Bill.  —  The newborn savings accounts created as part of President Donald Trump's massive new tax …

Criminal defendant challenging Alina Habba's appointment takes a page from Aileen Cannon's playbook … “As Judge Cannon explained in Trump, when executive officials deliberately engineer an appointment in violation of statutory and constitutional mandates, the only effective remedy is dismissal or …

How Scientific Empires End  —  And what it means for America  —  Roald sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside.  When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex.  At the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow …

Traffic Apocalypse  —  Google's AI Overviews are killing click-throughs to news sites.  —  Worldwide search traffic has fallen by 15 percent in the past year, estimates Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform.  The culprit: AI search.  Now that AI-generated summaries are being integrated …

The Media Can't Handle the Absence of Truth  —  And their diffidence empowers pathological liars  —  We have guests for the next couple of days, and it would be rude to spend the whole time chained to the computer.  So this post and maybe the next will be short and somewhat meta.

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center  —  You can't make it up, folks.  Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to confirm Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center.

Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly  —  The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point's Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued Wednesday by the Secretary of the Army.

Kamala Harris will release ‘107 Days,’ a behind-the-scenes look at her historic presidential run  —  Former Vice President Kamala Harris will have a memoir out in September on her historic presidential run.  The book is called “107 Days,” the length of her abbreviated campaign, and will be published by Simon & Schuster on Sept. 23.

Trump Explodes at Putin Ally Who Likened Him to ‘Sleepy Joe’  —  FIGHTING TALK  —  “Tell [Dmitry] Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he's still President, to watch his words,” Trump blasted.  —  President Donald Trump exploded at former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev …

Justice Kavanaugh defends Supreme Court's handling of emergency Trump cases  —  The conservative justice pushed back against criticism that the court is not explaining its decisions in cases that arise on the “shadow docket.”  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh …