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2:50 PM ET, August 5, 2025

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Richard L. Hasen / MSNBC:
Trump started a redistricting war.  Only Congress can stop it.  —  As the Cold War taught us, détente is better than mutually assured destruction for all the parties.  —  A sudden war over redistricting has broken out in Texas and looks to spread across the country, with California …
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Wall Street Journal:
Texas Reopens the Gerrymander Wars  —  Congress could limit the mutual assured political destruction as partisans move to redistrict more than once a decade.  —  Dozens of Texas Democrats skedaddled on Sunday, fleeing the state to prevent Republicans from passing a new U.S. House map that's intended …
Nicole Markus / Politico:
Republicans' next redistricting target: Missouri
Discussion: Newsweek, Bloomberg and KCUR
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Inside Texas Democrats' plan to seek refuge with Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker
John Nichols / The Nation:
Representative Democracy Will Live or Die In Texas
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump “happy to hear” DOJ launched grand jury probe of Obama officials  —  President Trump on Tuesday said he was “happy to hear” that Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury probe into the Obama administration's handling of the investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.
New York Times:
A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Lair … A sculpture of a bride clinging to a rope dangled in a central atrium of Jeffrey Epstein's mansion.  —  As a gift for Jeffrey Epstein's 63rd birthday, friends sent letters in tribute to the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender.
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Anna Betts / The Guardian:
Epstein scandal broadens as trove of letters from famous figures published  —  New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein's 63rd birthday  —  The long-running scandal surrounding the disgraced late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein broadened …
CNBC:
Watch CNBC's full interview with President Donald Trump  —  President Donald Trump joins ‘Squawk Box’ via phone to discuss the latest news affecting markets and the country's economic goals.  —  WATCH NOW  —  WATCH NOW  —  WATCH NOW  —  WATCH NOW  —  President Trump …
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Financial Times:
Donald Trump rules out Scott Bessent for Federal Reserve chair
CNN:
Trump administration debating releasing transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell interview with DOJ, sources say  —  The Justice Department has an audio recording of the interview it conducted with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell last month, and the administration is considering releasing …
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
House committee issues subpoenas for Epstein files, depositions with Clintons and other officials  —  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe …
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Comer subpoenas the Clintons, Trump's DOJ in House Oversight's Epstein probe  —  Others subpoenaed Tuesday include former FBI directors and attorneys general  —  FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Pope Leo Most Favorably Viewed of 14 Newsmakers  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Among 14 prominent U.S. and global figures, Pope Leo XIV has the most positive image by far, with many more Americans viewing him favorably than unfavorably.  His 57% favorable rating and 11% unfavorable rating result …
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:   Trump trails Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders in favorability polling: Gallup
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 …
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MSNBC:
Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'  —  Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule.
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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
Trump takes surprise visit to the roof of the White House … WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump made a surprise trip to a place that might be a first for a president: the roof of the White House.  —  Trump took a stroll atop the West Wing's colonnade on Aug. 5 …
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Andrew Freedman / CNN:
Weather Service is now hiring back hundreds of positions that got cut in the DOGE chaos  —  The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives.
Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:
High-ranking FBI job losses disproportionately hurt women, people of color  —  Leaders are undertaking an unprecedented campaign to force senior officials off the job.  —  An unprecedented campaign by FBI leaders to force senior bureau officials out of their jobs has disproportionately hit women …
NPS.gov:
National Park Service to restore and reinstall Albert Pike statue  —  WASHINGTON - The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020.  The restoration aligns …
Perry Bacon / New Republic:
Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump  —  Eight years ago, Don Lemon was hosting a 10 p.m. show on CNN that each night forthrightly described the antidemocratic tendencies of President Trump.  Guests such as onetime Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein …
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump spoke with Zelensky ahead of deadline for Putin  —  President Trump spoke on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and discussed the ceasefire ultimatum Trump set for Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Ukrainian officials.
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.
Politico:
Overdose prevention program in funding limbo  —  GRANT RECIPIENT CONFUSION — Grant recipients are struggling to manage a key overdose tracking and prevention program administered by the CDC amid funding uncertainty, they said Monday.  —  The CDC's opioid overdose prevention …
Discussion: CT Mirror
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Inside Trump's New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families … Evgeny and Evgeniia, who fled their native Russia to seek political asylum, have been separated from their 8-year-old son, Maksim, since May.The New York Times  —  Evgeny and Evgeniia faced an excruciating choice.
Kimberly Wehle / The Hill:
After only 6 months, Project 2025 is already 47 percent complete  —  On July 5, 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that he had “no idea who is behind Project 2025,” the nearly 900-page manifesto published in April 2023 by the conservative Heritage Foundation for use by …
Discussion: Adam Kinzinger
JP Collins / Balls and Strikes:
Trump's Judicial Nominees Cannot Wait to Make LGBTQ People Second-Class Citizens  —  The White House's judicial confirmation machine is firing on all cylinders.  The results are already ugly.  —  In July, the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed the first five of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Sawyer Loftus / ProPublica:
A Maine Woman Paid Her Back Rent.  Her Record Still Says She Was Evicted.  —  Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction.  In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they've fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Trump's Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations  —  The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.  —  By the start of last week, Harvard University had signaled its readiness …
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Epstein Was Still a Member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Long After He Was Indicted  —  IN THE CLUB  —  Trump claims he got rid of Epstein for “stealing” his staff.  But club records raise new questions.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Jeffrey Epstein continued to be a member of Donald Trump's luxury private members club …
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Washington Post:
Inside Laura Loomer's rise: ‘Obsessive’ research, Oval Office visits  —  Laura Loomer has leveraged a personality that friends label “obsessive” and an extreme loyalty to Trump to emerge as a powerful figure in the president's orbit.  —  Just now  —  Laura Loomer's application …
Discussion: CNN and Rumble
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration to formally axe Elon Musk's ‘five things’ email  —  The Trump administration plans as soon as Tuesday to formally axe a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week …
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy  —  If finalized, the move would escalate the Trump administration's efforts to claw back billions of dollars in climate grants awarded under President Biden.  —  The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion …
Brian Faler / Politico:
A $715 billion tax cut turns into a $4.5 trillion sales job … Implicit in the shift: Republicans are embracing the conventional budgeting “baseline” they scorned during legislative debate because that now makes their tax cuts appear more impressive.  —  Under the so-called current policy …
Discussion: Fort Worth Report
 
 
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