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House releases first trove of Epstein files … The GOP-controlled House has released the first tranche of documents in its investigation into convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein — a move intended to quash the mounting calls for answers around why the Justice …
2025-09-03 00:05:00 UTC
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump's Power Grab — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio app, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.
2025-09-02 23:55:00 UTC
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Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Shortly after laying off hundreds, State hires new class of foreign service staff — The hiring-firing combination is “the definition of wasteful government spending,” according to one staffer. — Less than 10 weeks after the State Department laid off hundreds of foreign service officers …
2025-09-02 23:55:00 UTC
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Trump announces Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama … Trump criticized Colorado's laws on voting by mail in his Oval Office announcement and said they were a “factor” in his decision. He was joined by Alabama's congressional delegation, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
2025-09-02 23:45:01 UTC
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United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability:
Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Records Provided by the Department of Justice — WASHINGTON—Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released 33,295 pages of Epstein-related records that were provided by the U.S. Department of Justice.
2025-09-02 23:45:01 UTC
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NBC News:
Jeffrey Epstein accusers urge Trump to release all the case files and rule out a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon — Six women, along with relatives of prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, are speaking out as interest in the case returns to Capitol Hill.
2025-09-02 23:40:01 UTC
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Responds to Rumors About His Health During Oval Office Press Conference — In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump's online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.
2025-09-02 23:20:00 UTC
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Responds to Rumors About His Health During Oval Office Press Conference — In the world of presidential health, distrust and speculation run so rampant that even Mr. Trump's online assurance that he was fine was immediately explained away as part of a cover-up.
2025-09-02 23:20:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
U.S. conducts ‘lethal strike’ on alleged drug vessel from Venezuela — Trump administration officials said the operation targeted a boat that departed Venezuela and was operated by a “designated narco-terrorist organization.” — U.S. forces conducted a “lethal strike” …
2025-09-02 22:55:00 UTC
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Kadia Goba / Washington Post:
House committee releases first batch of Epstein documents — House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) subpoenaed the Justice Department for the documents before the recess. — The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday night released 33,295 pages of documents related …
2025-09-02 22:35:01 UTC
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Associated Press:
Trump says US has carried out strike against drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. The president offered scant details on the operation.
2025-09-02 21:15:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
Bowser welcomes federal law enforcement presence indefinitely — Bowser issued an executive order Tuesday requiring local coordination with federal law enforcement “to the maximum extent allowable by law within the District.” The order gives no expiration date.
2025-09-02 20:25:00 UTC
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Thug Kristi Noem's Hateful Attack on CBS Unmasks a Big Trump Scam — If you need more evidence that there's zero percentage in trying to appease or bargain with authoritarians, check out what happened this weekend when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attacked CBS News …
2025-09-02 20:10:01 UTC
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Associated Press:
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to Chicago and Baltimore, despite local officials in both places opposing such moves.
2025-09-02 19:55:00 UTC
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Death of Trump — What would happen to MAGA? And America? — ∙ Paid — 1. Koba — Last week Sarah, Sonny, and I sat down for a book movie club discussion about The Death of Stalin. (You can watch it here.) By total coincidence, the show dropped after a 36-hour period …
2025-09-02 19:35:00 UTC
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps — Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons — US immigration agents will have access to one of the world's …
2025-09-02 19:20:00 UTC
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one 👇 — 😷 Subscribe to PN 😷 — Last week, Health and Human Services secretary and anti-vax crank Robert F. Kennedy extended his efforts …
2025-09-02 18:50:00 UTC
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Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.
2025-09-02 18:45:02 UTC
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Bill De Blasio / New York Daily News:
Why I am endorsing Zohran Mamdani — What is a New York City where working class people no longer can afford to live? What kind of identity, what type of soul, would that place have? — Would it still glow with the restless energy with which we've always been defined by? Or would it recede in its absence?
2025-09-02 17:35:01 UTC
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Farrah Tomazin / The Daily Beast:
Major New Blow to Pirro Over Woman in Alleged Trump Murder Threat — The former Fox News host has blamed her struggles on elitist jurors. — “Judge Jeanine” Pirro has failed to secure yet another federal indictment—this time over an Indiana woman accused of threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
2025-09-02 17:30:00 UTC
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Jordan Fischer / WUSA:
Grand jury refuses charges against woman accused of threatening President Trump, attorney says — Nathalie Rose Jones, 49, of New York, was arrested in August for allegedly making repeated threats toward President Donald Trump online. … WASHINGTON — A grand jury has refused charges …
2025-09-02 17:15:00 UTC
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Graham Linehan / The Glinner Update:
I just got arrested again — I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists — Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed.
2025-09-02 17:05:00 UTC
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Graham Linehan / The Glinner Update:
I just got arrested again — Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed. At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocent snafu that makes air travel such a joy.
2025-09-02 17:05:00 UTC
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New York Times:
After Court Defeat, Trump Warns of Economic Chaos From Loss of Tariffs — The president and his advisers have suggested they will fight a federal appeals court's ruling that found many of the administration's tariffs to be illegal. — President Trump spent the weekend decrying a court decision …
2025-09-02 16:55:00 UTC
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Associated Press:
Trump will announce Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama — President Donald Trump's administration will announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado, according to two people familiar with the announcement.
2025-09-02 15:40:00 UTC
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown — Grand juries have declined to indict at least six separate times in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump's federal policing in Washington. — WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in Washington declined …
2025-09-02 15:35:00 UTC
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The US government has abandoned antitrust. Today, companies facing antitrust jeopardy can just pay key Trumpland figures a million bucks, and they will make a…
2025-09-02 15:20:00 UTC
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CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.”
2025-09-02 15:20:00 UTC
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Charles T. Munger Jr / New York Times:
Do Not Re-Gerrymander California — For the better part of two decades, California's elections have been freer and fairer because the state doesn't allow for the gerrymandering of political districts. I like to think I am in large part responsible. — Working alongside former …
2025-09-02 15:05:00 UTC
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Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Democrats' shadow Cabinet should start impeachments now — RFK and Gabbard, among others, have behaved in ways that demand action. — It is time for House Democrats to unleash their secret weapon: impeachment. Not because there will be much chance of success, and not against President Donald Trump himself.
2025-09-02 14:55:01 UTC
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Giuliani out of the hospital after car crash, son says — Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani left the hospital Monday after undergoing treatment for injuries from a car crash in New Hampshire over the weekend, his son said. — “I'm happy to report that he got out of the hospital today.
2025-09-02 14:00:00 UTC
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Devan Cole / CNN:
Judge says Trump administration's use of US military in Los Angeles violated federal law — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer.
2025-09-02 14:00:00 UTC
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Rahm Emanuel / Wall Street Journal:
We Have Met the Enemy and He Isn't Us — Can Americans stop fighting each other long enough to appreciate the threat from China? — The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation's capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats.
2025-09-02 13:40:00 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds — Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation's sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy — America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists.
2025-09-02 13:20:00 UTC
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs … This is not new. But I at least hadn't heard any of these dots connected. I wasn't even aware of the dots. A friend mentioned to me over the weekend that he'd heard about Wall Streeters buying up the rights to tariff refunds from big corporate importers.
2025-09-02 13:15:00 UTC
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Gets Scarier in Vile Fox Hit — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 2 episode of the — Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
2025-09-02 13:10:00 UTC
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Hilary Burns / The Boston Globe:
A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler's perspective. — The cornerstone of the Trump administration's justification for cracking down on Harvard University is that the Ivy League school has allegedly allowed antisemitism to fester on campus.
2025-09-02 13:05:01 UTC
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James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times:
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio — Billionaire hedge fund boss says other investors are too scared of Trump to speak out — Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump's America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics …
2025-09-02 12:55:00 UTC
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Michael Scherer / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Trump Resistance That's Actually Working … Days after attorney general pam bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department's revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom. Norm Eisen, a former attorney for Barack Obama's White House …
2025-09-02 12:45:00 UTC
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Michael Scherer / The Atlantic:
The Anti-Trump Strategy That's Actually Working — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — Days after Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to put an end to the Justice Department's revelations about Jeffrey Epstein, captains of the legal resistance gathered by Zoom.
2025-09-02 12:45:00 UTC
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Aaron Glantz / The Guardian:
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice — Legal experts say charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration's crackdown on first amendment rights — The arrest of a US army veteran …
2025-09-02 12:20:00 UTC
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Reagan Reese / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Full Transcript: Daily Caller Interviews President Donald Trump — The Oval Office. — DAILY CALLER WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT REAGAN REESE: I want to tell you President Trump, the Daily Caller, we have this motto called the ‘rebels in the swamp,’ and we see ourselves as the outlet for your voters.
2025-09-02 12:15:01 UTC
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Reuters:
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace — U.S. regulators are pulling back on some bank exams and the use of confidential disciplinary notices, a sign lenders are already benefiting from a softer touch under President Donald Trump's administration, said more than half a dozen industry executives.
2025-09-02 11:50:00 UTC
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New York Times:
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image — Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise. — Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”
2025-09-02 11:45:00 UTC
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Politico:
The latest on Epstein, Trump's crime bill and shutdown talks — IN TODAY'S EDITION: — Massie plans immediate action on Epstein — Luna gives leaders new timeline on stock trading ban — WH aides to help GOP sell megabill — Congress is back.
2025-09-02 11:45:00 UTC
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New York Times:
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image — Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise. — Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.”
2025-09-02 11:45:00 UTC
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Republicans fret about inflation's impact on 2026 midterms — Republican operatives and lawmakers are increasingly anxious about how inflation could affect the GOP in the 2026 midterms, and want President Trump to take more aggressive steps to address rising prices.
2025-09-02 11:40:00 UTC
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Trump demands drugmakers ‘justify’ COVID treatment success — President Trump on Monday demanded drugmakers “justify” the success of their treatments for COVID-19 amid turmoil in his administration over vaccines and other health issues. — “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify …
2025-09-02 05:00:04 UTC
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Molly Quell / Associated Press:
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The determination by the International Association of Genocide Scholars …
2025-09-02 04:35:00 UTC
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Reagan Reese / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Open To Bringing Back Insane Asylums To Clean Up Streets … Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese sat down with Trump in the Oval Office on Friday for an hour-long interview. The president spoke at length about his work cleaning up the streets of D.C. …
2025-09-02 03:30:02 UTC
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