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7:05 AM ET, August 5, 2025

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Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas House votes to issue arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting  —  The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.
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NBC News:
Epstein victims blast Justice Department over lack of transparency  —  Chloe Atkins and Dareh Gregorian  —  Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, ripped the federal government for appearing to be more concerned with protecting the financier's wealthy friends instead of them.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP effort forms to shut down Texas vs. California redistricting war … - The bill would “stop a damaging redistricting war from breaking out across the country,” Kiley said in a press release previewing the measure.  — Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who previously told Axios he is uneasy …
Punchbowl News:
8/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Schatz has locked up support from a “comfortable majority” of the 47-member Senate Democratic Caucus, according to a source familiar with the matter.  This puts the 52-year-old Schatz on a glide path to becoming his party's No. 2 leader in the Senate beginning in 2027.
Saul Elbein / The Hill:
Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas
Punchbowl News:
Vance heads to Indiana on redistricting, Cali Dems eye 5 GOP seats
Discussion: Politico and Townhall
Office of the Texas Governor:
Governor Abbott Orders Texas Department Of Public Safety To Arrest Delinquent House Democrats
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York
kiley.house.gov:
Rep. Kiley to Introduce Redistricting Legislation
Discussion: New Republic and Townhall
Bloomberg:
Missouri Republicans Consider Joining Texas to Redraw House Maps
Discussion: KCUR and Raw Story
Sam Skove / Politico:
Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon … President Donald Trump named Duffy as interim administrator in July after abruptly withdrawing the nomination of billionaire Jared Isaacman amid a spat with the nominee's ally, Elon Musk.  —  Duffy also offered a directive to more quickly replace …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
After Trump's Firing of BLS Commissioner, Republicans Fall in Line With His Criticism  —  President Trump's decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Trump stokes conspiracies about jobs data, as White House defends firing BLS chief
NPR:   Sen. Klobuchar says Congress must ‘reassert’ itself after weak jobs report
Mike Potter / WALV-TV:
Purdue student detained by ICE released after stay in troubled Louisiana holding facility  —  Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents. … WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A 20-year-old Purdue University student who was detained by Immigration …
Discussion: WAGA-TV
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Joe Torres / abc7NY:
Scarsdale High School grad released after being detained by ICE for several days
Discussion: Gothamist
Fox News:
DOJ launching grand jury investigation into Russiagate conspiracy allegations  —  Pam Bondi acts on Tulsi Gabbard's criminal referral claiming intelligence community suppression  —  EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director …
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NBC News:
Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election
Wall Street Journal:
White House Preps Order to Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives  —  The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies  —  The White House is preparing to step up pressure …
Matthew Hennessey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariffs Do Invisible Damage  —  The economy may be growing, but imagine how much better things could be.  —  Click for Sound  —  I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius.  While he has tariffed the economy from here to Timbuktu in contravention of free-market orthodoxy …
Discussion: Cafe Hayek, Townhall and Off Message
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:   Our President Is Economically Illiterate
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Trump's Tariffs Are Kleptocracy in Action
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest of ex-president Bolsonaro  —  Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday as he awaits trial over an alleged coup plot to overturn his 2022 election loss, which the Trump ally denies.
Amichai Stein / Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip, IDF activity in areas with hostages, PMO says  —  An Israeli official told the ‘Post’ that Netanyahu will convene a meeting on Gaza and a hostage deal, noting that “the prime minister is considering all available options regarding next steps.
Courtney Rozen / Reuters:
US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance  —  U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced, tying routine federal funding to its political stance.
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Casey Gannon / CNN:
New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump's executive power  —  A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump's executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal government during his second term.
Discussion: Reuters
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Top Hegseth aide tried to oust senior White House liaison from Pentagon  —  The unusual dispute received White House intervention and appears rooted in deeper frustrations over failed attempts to fill jobs on the defense secretary's staff.  —  Just now  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's acting chief …
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to be reinstalled in Washington  —  A statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, which was overturned in 2020 during the “Black Lives Matter” protests after George Floyd's murder, will be reinstalled in Washington, the National Park Service said on Monday.
Bonchie / RedState:
Incredibly Disturbing: Disgusting Hack Jim Acosta ‘Interviews’ AI Version of School Shooting Victim  —  This may be the craziest story I've ever covered on this site, and that's saying something.  Jim Acosta, who was recently booted from CNN, is promoting an “interview” he did with a deceased school shooting victim.
Will McCarthy / Politico:
Schwarzenegger ready to fight Newsom on redistricting … Now, the fight has returned to his home state, as Newsom aims to redraw California's U.S. House maps before the midterm elections to offset a similar Republican-led effort unfolding in Texas.  Since such a move would undo …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Marjorie Taylor Greene presses Trump to pardon George Santos  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is urging the Trump administration to pardon former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who is serving a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Doubles Down on Mathematically Impossible Drug Price Cuts  —  President Donald Trump has doubled down on his claim of reducing drug prices by amounts that are mathematically impossible.  —  Trump told reporters on Sunday that his administration had cut the price of some prescription drugs by as much as 1,500 percent.
Axios:
Scoop: Brown interviewing campaign managers for Ohio Senate race  —  Former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is interviewing campaign managers for a 2026 comeback bid, a clear indication that he's preparing to jump into the race to defeat Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), according to three people familiar with the matter.
David Chang / NBC10 Philadelphia:
Saquon Barkley says he declined spot on President Donald Trump's Council … Philadelphia Eagles superstar Saquon Barkley says he declined a spot on President Donald Trump's council focused on fitness and healthy living.  —  President Trump signed an executive order reviving …
 
 
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Antonio María Delgado / Miami Herald:
Feds say Smartmatic bribed Venezuela's top election official with luxury home
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons / MSNBC:
The DHS is blasphemously quoting Bible verses to defend deporting migrants
Discussion: Raw Story
Felicia Schwartz / Politico:
Rwanda agrees to take up to 250 migrant deportees
Discussion: Reuters
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
Cash Windfall From Trump's Tax Law Is Starting to Show Up at Big Companies
Discussion: New York Sun
HuffPost:
Trump Administration Won't Say Why It Transferred Ghislaine Maxwell To A Minimum-Security Prison
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 Earlier Items: 
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Slate
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
On Redistricting  —  I want to address the questions now about redistricting: specifically …
Discussion: The Mahablog
Casey Gannon / CNN:
Victim in Epstein case decries ‘political warfare’ in effort to release grand jury transcripts
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement.
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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