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New York Times:
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files … On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o'clock in the evening, President Trump's top officials filed into the White House Situation Room — the secure bunker where classified and high-stakes national security matters are discussed and decided.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ after consumer price index hits 3-year high … President Donald Trump on Wednesday said, “I love the inflation” after being asked if he was concerned about new consumer price index data that showed the annual inflation rate at 4.2%, a three-year high.
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Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
Live Updates: Inflation Jumps as Iran War Intensifies Price Squeeze — Consumer prices rose at a faster rate for a third-straight month in May, to 4.2 percent annually, as the energy shock put more pressure on the U.S. economy. — What to know about the report.
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Tyler Monroe / Media Matters for America:
Fox News buries the worst inflation report in three years … The report released Wednesday morning by the Bureau of Labor statistics showed CPI in May rising 0.5% over the previous month and 4.2% year-over-year, the highest annual pace of inflation since April 2023.
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Inflation rises to a 3-year high on spiking gas prices, highlighting affordability challenges — Rising gas prices pushed inflation to its highest level in three years last month, a headache for the Federal Reserve and a potential political challenge for the Trump administration as midterm elections near.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years
Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump boils over after Tehran kept him waiting — The trigger for President Trump's strikes on Iran was the downing of a U.S. helicopter, but behind the scenes Trump had been growing more and more frustrated over nearly two weeks of waiting for an Iranian response to his latest offer that still has not arrived.
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump invokes ‘The West Wing’ in apparent justification of latest Iran strikes
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Axios:
U.S. and Iran exchange strikes after helicopter downing
U.S. and Iran exchange strikes after helicopter downing
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New York Times:
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
Drinking Water Facilities Hit by Strikes in Iran, State Media Reports
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The Guardian:
'There's wee girls inside': panic as masked men storm house in Belfast — Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night - with some police officers acting as if it wasn't safe to intervene — On a residential street draped in loyalist flags near Belfast's Shankill Road …
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DPA / Yahoo News:
Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
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BBC:
Family of Belfast knife victim say ‘unrest is not welcome’ as extra police brought onto streets
Family of Belfast knife victim say ‘unrest is not welcome’ as extra police brought onto streets
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Regina Wallace-Jones / Washington Post:
Why I will use my Fifth Amendment rights before Congress today — Silence in response to bad-faith action is not retreat — it is a bedrock American right. — Regina Wallace-Jones is the president and chief executive of ActBlue. — I am not going to Congress looking for a fight.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
ActBlue C.E.O. Invokes Fifth Amendment Repeatedly in Testimony to Congress
ActBlue C.E.O. Invokes Fifth Amendment Repeatedly in Testimony to Congress
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
ActBlue CEO pleads the Fifth as House probes illegal foreign donations to Dems
ActBlue CEO pleads the Fifth as House probes illegal foreign donations to Dems
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The right enters a post-proof era of election denial — The right-wing media's response to former reality TV personality and conservative candidate Spencer Pratt's defeat in last week's nonpartisan primary race for mayor of Los Angeles shows that the right-wing media's election denial machinery is as strong as ever.
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
MAGA's kayfabe meltdown over California primary
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump officials lay out aggressive timeline to build triumphal arch — Documents say a 320-foot crane may be used to build the arch, which sits on a flight path to Reagan National Airport. — Summary — Federal officials are laying more groundwork to begin construction …
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Ilya Somin / Lawfare:
Why Callais Doesn't Justify Court-Packing — To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. — Meet The Authors — The Supreme Court's recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais—barring nearly all use of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) …
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Nancy Mace's thrashing in South Carolina governor's race caps a rough downfall — The congresswoman finished fifth in the state's GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district. — June 10, 2026
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People — There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. — For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer …
CNN:
Postal Service won't deliver mail ballots for states that don't hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive — Donald Trump Federal agencies Election security — State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration …
Wall Street Journal:
Jeanine Pirro's Prosecutors Probe Big Banks for Alleged ‘Debanking’ — The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. subpoenaed JPMorgan, Bank of America and others as part of a probe into alleged debanking — The Justice Department has sent far-ranging subpoenas to several of America's largest banks …
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Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation:
Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation Unveils Initial Design Concept for National Mall Memorial — Designed by world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma and shaped by the voices of 20,000 Gold Star families, Service Members, and Americans, the Memorial will honor the Generations that answered the Call after 9/11
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Washington Post:
Mamdani was to meet with Colombia's leader. Trump made sure it didn't happen. — New York's mayor had planned to meet with leftist Colombian President Gustavo Petro while he was in town for U.N. events, but the State Department nixed it. — Summary — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani …
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Nick Turse / The Intercept:
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking — NIne months into the Trump administration's deadly campaign against so-called drug boats, there is a pattern to the strikes. And a glaring anomaly. — The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks …
Financial Times:
Donald Trump suggests he may not renew trade deal with Mexico and Canada — 'We don't need anything that they have,' US president says of 2020 trilateral agreement — Donald Trump has suggested he will not renew the trade deal he forged with Canada and Mexico in 2020 …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Doesn't Own the Constitution — It is the job of the judiciary, as Chief Justice John Marshall famously wrote, to say what the law is. — Often, this is taken to mean a duty to interpret the Constitution and fix its meaning in place. But to say what the law …
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US Department of Justice:
Justice Department, FBI Disable 13 Websites Backed by Suspected Chinese Agents That Sought Sensitive U.S. Information from Security Clearance Holders — For Immediate Release — Thirteen internet domains used to target U.S. persons, including current and former security clearance holders …
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Jake Spring / Washington Post:
11 Democratic senators demand answers on Trump's use of national park fees — Independent Sen. Angus King joined them in alleging that “much, if not all” of the revenue from online sales of park passes is going toward D.C. “vanity projects.” — Summary — Eleven senators are demanding answers …
Alex Guillén / Politico:
EPA won't set nationwide standards for data centers … Just 37 percent of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year. There are myriad reasons cited by opponents, but water usage and air pollution are common complaints.
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Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump says “I love the inflation” because U.S. is “taking out” Iranian oil — Add CBS News on Google — Washington — President Trump on Wednesday applauded the latest inflation spike, saying the numbers are “great” and “I love the inflation” because the U.S. “taking out” what he called …
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Bloomberg:
US Refunds $22 Billion in Tariffs, Offseting Customs Revenue — The US Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald Trump's trade policy.
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Stephen Neukam / NOTUS:
Bill Gates Says Epstein Tried to Blackmail Him — The tech billionaire told the House Oversight Committee that Epstein leveraged information about Gates' affairs to pressure him into a friendship. — Copy — Tech billionaire Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee …
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