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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Trump Lashes Out at Charlamagne Tha God Over Epstein Comments — President Trump railed against the radio host after he said the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case had created an opportunity for “traditional conservatives” to take back the Republican Party.
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Kiki Intarasuwan / CBS News:
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
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Crooks and Liars, Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
Axios:
“Nuclear option” lingers over Senate as members leave for August recess
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Breitbart and The Hill
Associated Press:
Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’
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Townhall, Washington Times and Joe.My.God.
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Trump tells Schumer to ‘GO TO HELL’ over Senate nominee deal funding demands after negotiations collapse
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Senate confirms former Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate GOP eyes recess appointments as stalemate drags on
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Roll Call, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Washington Examiner
Brendan Ballou / The Atlantic:
Republicans Might Regret Putting Emil Bove on the Bench
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Raw Story, twitchy.com and Fox News
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Senate Confirms Election Denying Fox Host as DC US Attorney
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New York Times and MSNBC
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Pirro confirmed as D.C. U.S. Attorney amid partisan clash as Dem nominee blockade continues
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twitchy.com, Breitbart and RedState
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senators leave Washington without Trump nominees deal
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and RedState
Alex Miller / Fox News:
Dems dig in, Trump demands all: Nominee fight boils over in Senate as GOP looks for a deal
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RedState, Newsweek and Washington Examiner
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Fires Official Over Jobs Report, Echoing an Authoritarian Playbook — In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn't like and promote his own version of reality.
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Washington Post and The Guardian
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Nicholas Grossman / Arc Digital:
To Live Inside a Lie — President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Director Erika McEntarfer because the latest monthly jobs report looks bad and Trump wanted it to look good. He accused McEntarfer of “faked” numbers, but that's almost certainly a lie.
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Mediaite and The White House
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett defends Trump's firing of labor statistics head — In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” Hassett called for a “fresh set of eyes” at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. — White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Sunday defended President …
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Silver Bulletin, ABC News, The Hill, Mediaite, Rolling Stone and Bloomberg
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
U.S. jobs data “very unreliable,” top Trump econ adviser says — The labor statistics chief that President Trump fired Friday is a “terrific person, but the jobs data her agency produced has become “very unreliable,” National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.
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Ashley Ahn / New York Times:
Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support
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Civil Discourse …, Vanity Fair and RTÉ
Politico:
DOJ is walking back the White House's goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day … It's not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration's single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law.
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
Latino GOP lawmakers voice worry about Trump's mass deportation campaign — They expressed fears that the inroads Trump and the GOP made with Latino voters in 2024 could erode. — Just now — Hispanic Republicans in the U.S. House say they are increasingly concerned …
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Trump's Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. … Shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore. Even before the latest tariffs set in, revenue from taxes collected on imported goods grew drastically this year.Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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Paul Krugman:
The Economics of Smoot-Hawley 2.0, Part I — Tariffs will be very high as far as the eye can see. What does that mean? — ∙ Paid — The Aug. 1 deadline has come and gone, and Donald Trump hasn't made any trade deals. What some gullible reports call “deals” are at best …
Washington Post:
White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge — President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt. — Just now
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USA Today, Rolling Stone and Reuters
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students — Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. — SaveComment — The Trump administration is using rules, policies and formal agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
Greg Jaffe / New York Times:
Laura Loomer Attack on West Point Appointee Reflects Larger Fight Over Trump — Jen Easterly, who had served in Republican and Democratic administrations, was headed to the academy. Then a right-wing activist stepped in. — Hours after West Point pulled its offer to have her teach cadets …
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Washington Examiner
Nnamdi Egwuonwu / NBC News:
Smithsonian will again include Trump in impeachment exhibit in ‘coming weeks’ — The museum's decision to remove a placard referencing President Donald Trump from an impeachments exhibit sparked concerns over Trump's influence on the cultural institution. — The Smithsonian's National Museum …
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Washington Examiner, MSNBC, Smithsonian Institution, The Hill and CNN
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Jonathan Fischer / Washington Post:
Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’
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Associated Press:
‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds — Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks. Republicans are more complimentary of their party …
George Steer / Financial Times:
Wall St and Silicon Valley ride high as tariffs hit Main Street — Banks and Big Tech are booming but slowing US growth is hurting other companies across the board — A divide is widening in the US economy as the biggest banks and technology groups shrug off Donald Trump's tariffs …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it's transition time — Dan Balz writes on his retirement from full-time work at The Washington Post after 47 years. — Just now — About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard.
Stephen Starr / The Guardian:
Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown — An imam's detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town — For 50 long years, life in Hamilton, a town of 63,000 people a half-hour north of Cincinnati, was in decline.
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