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Johnson breaks with Trump, calls for DOJ to release Epstein files

Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for the Department of Justice to release all of its information on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in jail after being charged with sex trafficking, and wants Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain previous statements on the matter. The Trump administration this month declined to release additional information regarding Epstein's death, with the Justice Department and FBI concluding there's no evidence that Epstein had a list of clients or was mu ...

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Gavin Newsom's Warning to Donald Trump Over Plan for Texas Republicans

Published Jul 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM EDT California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a warning to President Donald Trump and Texas Republicans amid growing attempts at redrawing Texas's congressional districts to further favor Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterms. A spokesperson for Newsom told Newsweek his office is "closely tracking what Texas does" and "exploring potential options." Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters Democrats are ...

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Trump says Bondi should release 'whatever she thinks is credible' on Epstein

His MAGA supporters have pressured both to release the DOJ's files. By Alexandra Hutzler July 15, 2025, 3:06 PM ................. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Attorney General Pam Bondi should release "whatever she thinks is credible" on Jeffrey Epstein as he faces pressure from his MAGA supporters. ..... ABC News' Katherine Faulders asked the president what Bondi told him about the review, "specifically, did she tell you at all that your name appeared in the ...

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Conservative group sues DOJ over records on 2024 Trump assassination attempt

July 15, 2025, 2:09 p.m. ET The conservative group Judicial Watch sued the Department of Justice over alleged Freedom of Information Act violations following the denial of its request for records related to the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in July 2024. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia a day before the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Trump’s July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A bullet grazed Trum ...

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US military to remove 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles

US military to remove 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles By Reuters July 15, 20256:19 PM EDT Updated 6 mins ago WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of half of the 4,000 National Guard troops who had been sent to Los Angeles to protect federal property and personnel during a spate of protests last month, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the decision owed to the success of the mission. " ...

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House GOP blocks release of Epstein files

(Axios) House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. It's the outcome Democrats anticipated, and one they plan to gleefully cite as President Trump continues to grapple with the MAGA fallout over the DOJ's handling of the documents. "The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?" Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios ahead of the vote.

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Bongino still in limbo as Trump fumes and JD Vance seeks to play mediator, sources say

(CNN) Several of President Donald Trump’s top officials went to work on Monday with a key question unanswered: would Dan Bongino show up? Hours later, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed he did. But his long-term future as deputy director of the FBI appeared uncertain. Bongino did not go into the office Friday and largely excommunicated himself from most of his colleagues after a major fallout with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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Trumpflation spikes in June as tariffs show up in the data

(Yahoo Finance) Inflation ticked higher in June, according to new government data released Tuesday, as investors continued to look for signs that President Trump's tariffs may be starting to work their way through to consumers. The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.7% on an annual basis in June, an uptick from May's 2.4% gain, driven by a reversal in falling gas prices. Economists had expected headline inflation to come in at 2.6%.

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ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings

(Washington Post) The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

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Elon Musk's Nazi Robot Just Landed a Contract With the Department of Defense

(Gizmodo) The U.S. Department of Defense announced new contracts with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI on Monday that will give the federal agency access to the latest AI agents. The contract with each company has a ceiling of $200 million, and while it’s not surprising that DoD is pushing hard into AI, the inclusion of Elon Musk’s xAI will raise plenty of eyebrows after Grok’s recent erratic behavior.

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9 hrs ago - His MAGA supporters have pressured both to release the DOJ's files. By Alexandra Hutzler July 15, 2025, 3:06 PM ................. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Attorney General Pam Bondi should release "whatever she thinks is credible" on ... (abc news)

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