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Being Trump’s favorite international bureaucrat has a price

FIFA President Gianni Infantino cultivated one of the closest relationships to the White House of any world leader. A Democratic flip of the U.S. House could make him pay for it.

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Jul 29 • 4:55 AM EDT • Business • politico.com
Being Trump’s favorite international bureaucrat has a price

FIFA President Gianni Infantino cultivated one of the closest relationships to the White House of any world leader. A Democratic flip of the U.S. House could make him pay for it.

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Jul 29 • 4:55 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com
Space Science’s Golden Age Problem

The White House released a sweeping vision for the nation's R&D enterprise, with significant implications for space sciences.

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Jul 28 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • payloadspace.com
Bracing for another Fauci hearing

Plus: Democrats take on Trump over IVF, and Trump's White House releases a new science funding blueprint.

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Jul 28 • 12:37 PM EDT • Health • statnews.com
Politics & Power: Voting rights, election fears & the battle for Congress in 2026 midterms

A former White House attorney is warning that a series of executive actions — from changes to voting rules to the removal of election oversight officials — may be laying the groundwork for unprecedented federal intervention in the upcoming midterm elections.

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Jul 28 • 8:35 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
Trump flouts political risk to host Netanyahu’s seventh White House visit
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Jul 28 • 6:12 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
How Trump’s ‘America first’ administration could shut US scientists out of the next Nobel-worthy discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

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Jul 28 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • cnn.com
How will Trump’s new science strategy change US research?

The White House recently released two documents that could disrupt which scientists, research groups, and projects the US government funds.

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Jul 27 • 6:05 PM EDT • Science • atlanticcouncil.org
THE WEEK OF JULY 27, 2026

- White House releases vision for science - DOE expands Genesis Mission - Congress heads off on break

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Jul 27 • 1:33 PM EDT • Science • aip.org
The cost of running the White House

It costs millions of dollars to run the president's official residence and workplace. Here's a breakdown.

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Jul 27 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled that breakthrough.

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Jul 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • propublica.org
The shrinking world of former president Joe Biden

Cancer treatment has sharply limited Biden’s post-White House life even as his upcoming memoir threatens to reopen debates over his health and presidency.

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Jul 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
The shrinking world of former president Joe Biden

Cancer treatment has sharply limited Biden’s post-White House life even as his upcoming memoir threatens to reopen debates over his health and presidency.

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Jul 26 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Vance, Caine raised munitions stockpile concern, source says, as US pauses consecutive nights of strikes in Iran

Vice President JD Vance and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine both raised concerns about the US munitions stockpile to President Donald Trump as he weighed potentially escalating the war with Iran during a White House meeting on Friday, a US official told CNN.

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Jul 25 • 9:36 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Letters: Negatives outweigh positives in Dodgers' White House visit

Readers weigh in on the Dodgers' visit to the White House and the latest decision by LeBron James.

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Jul 25 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Trump returns to correspondents' dinner 3 months after shooting

President Donald Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, delivering a rambling, hour-long speech.

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Jul 25 • 1:04 AM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Trump at rescheduled White House correspondents' dinner: 'The show must go on'

A shooting upended the first attempt at the dinner in April.

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Jul 24 • 11:42 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
White House Correspondents’ Association hosts rescheduled dinner nearly 3 months after shooting incident
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WATCH: Trump touts new nuclear reactors in his push to speed up domestic power

President Donald Trump hosted executives from nuclear power companies Friday in the Oval Office to celebrate a new milestone in the White House’s push to accelerate the growth of nuclear power in the United States.

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Jul 24 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at White House Correspondents' Dinner after attack disrupted April event
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Jul 24 • 3:31 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Bombshell memo shows Biden planned to leave Trump with even more massive immigration crisis

Sen. Eric Schmitt obtained a Biden White House memo revealing plans to expand TPS to over 3.1 million noncitizens in the administration's final days.

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Jul 24 • 2:14 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump to deliver ‘unifying yet vicious’ remarks at press dinner months after shooting incident, White House says

The president, first lady and top administration officials had to be evacuated and the April dinner canceled after a heavily armed man rushed past security.

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Jul 24 • 12:48 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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White House correspondents' dinner moves to new location with enhanced security

April's dinner was disrupted when a gunman opened fire outside the event. Trump is set to attend again Friday night.

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Jul 24 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
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The White House’s MAHA Gatekeeper

A policy wonk who could lead the FDA has angered “Make America Healthy Again” activists.

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Jul 24 • 6:30 AM EDT • Health • theatlantic.com
White House offers its science blueprint: More AI, less life sciences

The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry.

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Jul 24 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • statnews.com
Thune and White House trade jabs over Trump’s controversial elections legislation

President Donald Trump’s criticism of Senate Majority Leader John Thune over the stalled SAVE America Act escalated Thursday, with the White House warning that the president’s “patience is running out” as Republican leaders struggle to advance the controversial voting legislation before lawmakers leave in August for recess.

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Jul 23 • 11:59 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
White House Lays Out 'Golden Age' AI Vision for American Science

The blueprint emphasizes artificial intelligence, research funding reforms and mission-driven innovation to reshape federal research.

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Jul 23 • 1:37 PM EDT • Science • govciomedia.com
WATCH LIVE: White House holds briefing as U.S. reaches deal with Saudi Arabia on nuclear program
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Jul 23 • 10:36 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
New White House Science Strategy Points to a Quantum-Style Innovation Model

A new American innovation model emphasizes mission-driven research, public-private partnerships, manufacturing and regional ecosystems.

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Jul 23 • 10:35 AM EDT • Science • thequantuminsider.com
White House Science Report Calls For Reducing University Research Funding

A White House report calls for reduced funding for universities and argues that the government should re-allocate much of the money to the “individual scientist” instead.

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Jul 23 • 10:14 AM EDT • Science • forbes.com
White House Report Criticizes The Immigration Of Scientists To America

A new White House report criticizes the immigration of scientists to America, arguing it’s bad whether international students stay or leave.

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Jul 23 • 9:03 AM EDT • Science • forbes.com
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science

The resulting report is a near-random mixture of real problems and grievances.

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Jul 23 • 7:23 AM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com
Tension between Mullin and White House appears to be growing, sources say

President Donald Trump brought in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to lead a department at the forefront of his signature domestic policy.

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Jul 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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The White House pushes healthy eating. It cut a landmark nutrition education program

Nutrition advocates and public health experts are mystified by the decision to eliminate SNAP-Ed, given the Trump administration's embrace of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.

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Jul 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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The White House is heaping political pressure on the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian has so far mostly resisted the White House’s more extreme wishes, but Trump-backed efforts implement ideological change at the museum are mounting.

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Jul 22 • 8:10 PM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com
Trump to steer billions from universities to AI and individual scientists

White House says overhaul will back AI and researchers to restore the US scientific edge as Beijing closes the innovation gap.

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Jul 22 • 7:35 PM EDT • Science • scmp.com
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Not a ‘redo’: Secret Service prepares for second press dinner after attack

As the Secret Service prepares for a second take at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, on Friday, Director Sean Curran defended how his agency handled security at the first version of the dinner.

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Jul 22 • 2:55 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
White House wants to shift billions of dollars of research funding away from ‘slow consensus peer review’ and into individual scientists and AI

Moving funding to individual scientists and AI could undermine US scientific credibility at home and abroad.

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Jul 22 • 10:34 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Department of War Partners With the Genesis Mission to Proliferate AI

Led by the White House, the War Department is committing substantial resources and technical expertise to the success of the Genesis Mission, a national effort to leverage artificial intelligence to

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Jul 22 • 9:03 AM EDT • Science • war.gov
Exclusive | White House to Redirect Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away From Colleges

The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China.

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Jul 21 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • wsj.com
Whiskey industry warns against new tariffs on Canada

The White House defends the new tariffs as leveling the playing field for U.S.-produced spirits, cars and dairy products

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Jul 21 • 5:15 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
White House accuses Smithsonian of hijacking US narrative, director denies politics

Republicans accuse the Smithsonian's American History museum and its director of rewriting the country's narrative.

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Jul 21 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • katu.com
Smithsonian history museum chief rejects White House's radical leader claims

A White House report released on July Fourth criticized the museum as not telling history in an inspiring and unifying way

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Jul 21 • 3:59 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Appeals court upholds White House adviser Peter Navarro's contempt of Congress convictions

A federal appeals court has upheld White House adviser Peter Navarro’s convictions for defying a subpoena for records from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

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Jul 21 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Lebanon's president will meet with Trump at White House

The goal is to bring long-term calm to Lebanon after a war between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group.

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Jul 21 • 9:08 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Politics & Power: President Trump’s White House windfall of $2.2B and the ethics questions that follow

Matt Corrigan, a political analyst from Jacksonville University, joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on this week’s Politics & Power to discuss the ethics questions raised about policy and profit colliding after President Donald Trump’s $2.2 billion financial disclosures.

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Jul 21 • 7:25 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com
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Trump imposes 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, citing disputes over autos, alcohol and cheese

The move, announced Monday, could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, with risks of higher inflation and further fraying of relations between two nations that had been closely woven together before Trump’s return to the White House.

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Jul 20 • 6:27 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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White House rushes to further secure Trump’s new Air Force One — but he plans to keep flying it domestically

The White House is working to quickly upgrade the Qatari-donated jet that has newly started serving as Air Force One, a development that comes after administration officials internally discussed the need for President Donald Trump to avoid flying it in high-threat areas, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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Jul 20 • 5:41 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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White House: Trump to fly old Air Force One for about a month

Trump’s use of the new red, white and navy blue aircraft has faced much scrutiny

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Jul 20 • 4:54 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Top Trump AI safety director departs after 3 months

Chris Fall, who has left after just three months on the job, played a key role in the White House's voluntary review of cutting-edge models.

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Jul 20 • 3:46 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Trump continues overhaul of White House grounds with new Rose Garden statues

A bronze Thomas Jefferson was installed as the fifth new statue last week. Three were provided by Harlan Crow, a conservative collector and political donor.

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Jul 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
World Series champion Mookie Betts says athletes shouldn't be seen as political figures: 'We go out and play'

Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts questioned why athletes are seen as political figures, revealing the reason behind his decision to skip this year's visit to White House.

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Jul 18 • 8:25 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Dodgers star says athletes shouldn't be seen as political figures

World Series champion Mookie Betts tells Fox News Digital in a recent interview that his decision not to go the White House is apolitical.

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Jul 18 • 8:06 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
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Letters: Planned White House visit causing a stir among Dodger fans

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on the Dodgers' planned visit to the White House, the Angels and VAR (video assistant referee).

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Jul 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
Letters to Sports: Planned White House visit causing a stir among Dodger fans

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on the Dodgers' planned visit to the White House, the Angels and VAR (video assistant referee).

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Jul 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The New Washington Temptation: Inside Information and a Prediction Market Account

White House officials are grappling with how deeply betting on political events has worked itself into the fabric of government.

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Jul 18 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
Trump says these documents prove his false claims of election fraud. Here's what they really say

“The White House promised a bombshell, and they delivered a dud," said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.

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Jul 17 • 7:08 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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White House defends Argentina team over Falklands banner

The comments could further fuel the row over the incident, which has seen Downing Street back calls for Fifa to investigate.

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Jul 17 • 6:12 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Trump wants to impose tariffs on Canada in retaliation for wildfire smoke

The White House did not respond to questions about what legal mechanism he would use to impose the tariffs or how the administration would calculate the rate of the levies.

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Jul 17 • 5:03 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
5 takeaways from Trump’s primetime speech on elections

President Donald Trump’s primetime address from the White House on Thursday night didn’t make huge news.

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Jul 16 • 11:49 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
White House touts Trump speech as Democrats warn of recycled falsehoods

The speech marks the president’s latest push to deny his 2020 election loss and rally support for stricter voter ID and citizenship rules.

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Jul 16 • 6:57 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits

Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.

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Jul 16 • 6:55 PM EDT • Politics • wsj.com
White House operator on leave after betting scandal investigation

Gabriel Perez, White House teleprompter operator, faces a CFTC probe for reportedly earning $100K from bets on Trump's speeches using Kalshi.

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Jul 16 • 6:12 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
WATCH LIVE: Trump to address nation from White House
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Jul 16 • 4:07 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Sherrill ripped after NJ skips flag directive honoring Graham: ‘Most political governor’

Joe Pennacchio calls out Mikie Sherrill for skipping the White House proclamation to lower flags for Lindsey Graham.

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Jul 16 • 3:01 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
WATCH: Trump believes his Kalshi-betting teleprompter operator is a 'disgrace,' Leavitt says

Leavitt added that no other staffers are under investigation and that the White House counsel had no awareness of the alleged bets.

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Jul 16 • 2:26 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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WATCH LIVE: Karoline Leavitt returns for White House briefing as Trump readies primetime speech
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Jul 16 • 11:24 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review

Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.

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Jul 16 • 11:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Trump to meet Darline Graham at the White House today

President will meet new Republican senator who has taken over the seat following the death of her brother Lindsey Graham

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Jul 16 • 6:09 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Clarity Act Stalls on Ethics Rules Curbing Trump’s Business Interests

President Trump was expected to sit down with U.S. senators Thursday afternoon at the White House to try to resolve the ethics provision blocking the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, an ethics provis...

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Jul 16 • 3:59 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House

President Donald Trump is making a primetime address to the nation that's expected to include discussion of election issues | KNSS Radio

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Jul 16 • 12:10 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com
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Science Is Under Attack. But Scientists Are Speaking Up

On May 29, 2026, the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a revision to the Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance (“the OMB rule”) that would put much of science in the U.S. under the thumb of the Trump administration. How? By giving political appointees unprecedented p

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Health emergency preparedness nominee walks back comments skeptical of vaccine safety - Live Updates

Sean Kaufman, the White House nominee for the health department's assistant secretary for preparedness and response, said the shots were safe after expressing vaccine skepticism online.

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Jul 15 • 3:21 PM EDT • Health • politico.com
WATCH: House lawmakers speak ahead of Kathy Ruemmler interview in Epstein probe

Kathryn Ruemmler, the former top lawyer at Goldman Sachs who was White House counsel to President Barack Obama, said Wednesday in testimony to Congress that it “was a mistake to deal with” Jeffrey Epstein but insisted she never witnessed criminal activities.

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Jul 15 • 2:01 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Former Obama White House attorney says ‘it was a mistake’ to deal with Epstein and she regrets it

Former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she regrets interacting with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and believes now it was a mistake, according to opening remarks she delivered to House committee investigators as part of a closed-door interview.

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Jul 15 • 12:32 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Michael Dell has nailed his relationship with Trump. It's paying off.

Michael Dell has developed one of the more visible and steady corporate relationships of President Donald Trump's second term in the White House.

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Jul 14 • 5:32 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Trump rolls out the White House welcome mat for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi

President Donald Trump is set to welcome Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, to the White House

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Jul 14 • 12:12 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Stephen Miller remembers Lindsey Graham's vibrant political career and dedication to service

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller reflects on Sen. Lindsey Graham's, R-S.C., political journey, highlighting his transformation into a steadfast Trump supporter and his passion for public service on 'The Will Cain Show.'

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Jul 13 • 6:57 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
The Quintessential Trump-era Politician

In 2020, I wrote an article about collaboration and collaborators. The title was History Will Judge the Complicit, and it started with the story of two famous East Germans, Markus Wolf and Wolfgang Leonhard, who both landed in East Berlin just after the end of the war. Although they came from very similar backgrounds, the former stuck with the regime, eventually becoming its spy boss; the latter, horrified by the brutal reality of Soviet-style communism, escaped. By way of juxtaposition, I also wrote about Lyndsey Graham and Mitt Romney. These two men also made very different decisions when confronted by Donald Trump’s assault on the ideals that they had both grown up believing: A glance at their biographies would not have led many to predict what happened next. On paper, Graham would have seemed, in 2016, like the man with deeper ties to the military, to the rule of law, and to an old-fashioned idea of American patriotism and American responsibility in the world. Romney, by contrast, with his shifts between the center and the right, with his multiple careers in business and politics, would have seemed less deeply attached to those same old-fashioned patriotic ideals. Most of us register soldiers as loyal patriots, and management consultants as self-interested. We assume people from small towns in South Carolina are more likely to resist political pressure than people who have lived in many places. Intuitively, we think that loyalty to a particular place implies loyalty to a set of values. But in this case the clichés were wrong. It was Graham who made excuses for Trump’s abuse of power. It was Graham—a JAG Corps lawyer—who downplayed the evidence that the president had attempted to manipulate foreign courts and blackmail a foreign leader into launching a phony investigation into a political rival. It was Graham who abandoned his own stated support for bipartisanship and instead pushed for a hyperpartisan Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. It was Graham who played golf with Trump, who made excuses for him on television, who supported the president even as he slowly destroyed the American alliances—with Europeans, with the Kurds—that Graham had defended all his life. By contrast, it was Romney who, in February, became the only Republican senator to break ranks with his colleagues, voting to impeach the president. “Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office,” he said, is “perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine.” In the wake of Graham’s unexpected death on Saturday, I wrote about him again. He was, in many ways, the quintessential politician of Trump’s Washington, a man who shifted 180 degrees. Graham had been a fervent American patriot, proud reserve officer and military lawyer; he became one of the most important defenders of a president who believes soldiers are “suckers and losers” and shows no respect for law of any kind. As his politics changed, his language grew coarser and his behavior grew worse: He urged Israel to “level the place” in Gaza, and insulted the Danish prime minister in Munich, prompting a colleague, Senator Elissa Slotkin, to issue an apology. Here’s an excerpt from the article, which you can read in The Atlantic (gift link here) Like his close friend John McCain, Graham believed that America should stand at the center of a broad democratic alliance. The few times I met him were in that context, at the Munich Security Conference or at other European-American gatherings, which he once attended with great regularity. He also took seriously the practice of American democracy at home. In a 2014 conversation with The Atlantic, he described himself as a pragmatic politician who eschewed populist slogans. “I know Washington is broken, but what’s broken about it is everybody yelling and nobody trying to fix it,” he said. “I’m trying.” When Donald Trump first appeared in U.S. politics, Graham recognized him immediately for what he was: the spokesman for an alien ideology, one radically different from the idealistic patriotism that Graham had practiced and preached since childhood. Trump privately mocked the military that Graham loved as nothing but “suckers and losers.” He put falsehoods, cynicism, and personal greed at the center of his politics, while expressing disdain for transparency, accountability, and democracy itself. In 2015, Graham described Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” who should “go to hell.” Also as a “nutjob.” When Trump won, Graham understood, as did so many others, that he would have to make some important choices. For a while, he went silent. In the spring of 2016, I saw him at one of those conferences in Europe. He seemed too depressed to speak. But then, like many other Republicans—and, more important, like many other people who have lived under political occupation or experienced radical regime change—he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator. As I wrote in 2020, it’s very hard to look in to anyone’s heart and to understand their motivations from the outside. But it does seem that Graham had a deep need to be relevant, to be in the game, to be a player, at any cost. And that, rather than any particular achievement, is what he will be remembered for. Continuing to monitor conflicts of interest, ostentatious emoluments, outright corruption and policy changes that will facilitate outright corruption. (Read my original article, Kleptocracy Inc and check out the SNF Agora Institute chart) June 27 Trump diverted funds from more than 900 projects nationwide—including safety upgrades at national parks—to finance beautification projects around Washington, including $700,000 used to fix a White House walkway. June 28 After a years-long Department of Justice investigation into Abbott Laboratories over its management of a baby formula facility where potentially deadly bacteria turned up enough evidence to criminally charge the firm, top department officials instead opted for a financial penalty—illustrating the department’s move away from strict corporate enforcement under the Trump administration. June 29 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stacked the Defense Policy Board—which is charged with providing independent national security recommendations to the Office of the Secretary of Defense—with Trump allies, including tech billionaire Marc Andreessen, who has invested in defense contractors like OpenAI and SpaceX, after purging the panel last year. Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock in Axon—which makes about 90% of US tasers—two weeks before ICE solicited bids for a $220 million taser contract. The White House unveiled limited-edition US passports for America’s 250th birthday, featuring a portrait of Trump overlaid on the Declaration of Independence. June 30 Trump made around $1.2 billion from his various crypto companies last year, including more than $500 million from World Liberty Financial and $600 million from sales of his meme coin. Trump is considering issuing 250 pardons to commemorate America’s 250th birthday. These are expected to be largely doled out through the Office of the Pardon Attorney’s informal network of intermediaries. White-collar defense attorneys say they can typically win pardons for clients for $2 million. Last year, Trump administration officials awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million to Clark Construction for the White House ballroom—negotiations in which the president was directly involved. July 1 The Amazon MGM Studios documentary about Melania Trump earned the First Lady more than $10 million. Trump made hundreds of individual stock purchases worth as much as $12.8 million the day before his announcement pausing “Liberation Day” tariffs for 90 days sent the S&P 500 soaring nearly 10%—one of the largest single-day gains ever. Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Doral saw record surges in revenue during Trump’s first year in office, earning $77.5 million and $121.9 million respectively, compared to average annual revenues of $25 million and $75 million during Trump’s first term. Entities across the Persian Gulf paid more than $300 million to Trump’s businesses last year, including $263 million from the sale of half his stake in World Liberty Financial to a firm backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a top UAE royal and brother of the country’s president. Kash Patel failed to properly disclose his stock purchase of a Department of Justice contractor, MicroStrategy, worth up to $250,000 last year, despite laws requiring disclosure within 45 days of the trade. July 2 Trump has been directing administration officials to steer more government contracts—so far worth more than $2.4 billion—to Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin aerospace firm, after Amazon gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund, donated to the White House ballroom project, and reached a $40 million deal to license a Melania Trump documentary. Alongside the billions he made from cryptocurrency last year, Trump earned millions of dollars from real estate licensing fees, including $21 million from organizations in the UAE and $9.2 million in Saudi Arabia, along with smaller sums from merchandise sales, including $4.7 million from Trump Watches and $35,920 from 45 Guitar, a guitar brand endorsed by the president. House Democrats accused consultants tied to the Trump administration of financial fraud, alleging they gave prospective donors to America250—the bipartisan committee created by Congress to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial—the banking and routing numbers for Freedom 250, the White House’s fund for events like the UFC cage fight. Democrats also allege that Freedom 250’s CEO traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos to solicit donations from foreign government officials and business leaders. The Trump administration’s proposed rollback of gun regulations would lift the prohibition on mailing handguns to individuals, a significant win for GrabAGun—the direct-to-consumer firearm retailer on whose board Donald Trump Jr. sits and in which he holds a 1.1% ownership stake. GrabAGun currently must rely on a middleman to transfer firearms to customers. Trump’s financial disclosure revealed that he made more than 21,000 securities trades during his first year back in office, growing his investment account to at least $858 million across stakes in around 1,600 companies, compared to the 13 total trades Joe Biden made during his entire presidency. July 4 Nearly 1 million people who bought the president’s meme coin—Trump Coin—collectively lost $3.8 billion on the token, while he walked away with $636 million. July 6 Shares of Dell closed up 4.4% after Trump recommended people buy the firm’s computers during a speech announcing the launch of Trump investment accounts for children, boosting the more than $1 million worth of shares the president owns in the company. July 9 Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh named crypto investor and Trump ally Marc Andreessen to a task force aimed at modernizing the Federal Reserve, including rethinking its approach to inflation—a key factor keeping interest rates elevated. Palm Beach International Airport has officially changed its name to Trump International Airport—a move that will require Florida to pay royalties to the president’s family for licensing his name. I was there a few months ago, during a trip to Barcelona. The sculptures were a revelation, I’d never seen so many together before. Each one has its own personality. Enjoy the good weather, if you are lucky enough to have it. History Will Judge the Complicit The Quintessential Politician Autocracy Inc Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Jul 13 • 4:19 PM EDT • Politics • anneapplebaum.substack.com
Trump backs Russia sanctions package spearheaded by Graham

President Donald Trump will support the passage of a bipartisan Russia sanctions package that was spearheaded by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, a White House official told CNN on Monday.

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Jul 13 • 3:27 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
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‘The end of American science as we know it.’ White House funding plan sparks alarm

A Trump administration proposal would vastly expand political oversight of federal grants. Critics say it threatens “science as we know it.”

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Jul 13 • 11:23 AM EDT • Science • san.com
Mookie Betts becomes latest Dodgers player to skip White House visit, insists it's 'not political'

Mookie Betts says his decision to skip the Dodgers' White House visit is about family time with his new baby, not politics, despite inevitable scrutiny.

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Jul 12 • 8:31 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
Trump Loses Lindsey Graham

The South Carolina senator’s sudden death leaves a void that the White House can’t afford.

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Jul 12 • 2:24 PM EDT • Politics • theatlantic.com
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‘A key link’: Trump’s Senate whisperer is gone

Lindsey Graham’s death deprives President Donald Trump of one of his most effective Capitol Hill operators — and leaves Senate Republicans without one of their strongest links to the White House.

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Jul 12 • 2:07 PM EDT • Politics • politico.com
White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting

The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

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Jul 11 • 4:20 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Letters: Another Dodgers visit to White House draws criticism

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section criticize the Dodgers' planned visit to the White House as well as the World Cup, Lakers and Angels.

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Jul 11 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
A demand for debates and Trump on voting: CT Politics news

Plus: Fazio's energy plan, CSCU chancellor investigation, a Sikorsky helipad at the White House and Chris Murphy on special education.

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White House appoints climate science critic to lead key climate program

Matthew M. Wielicki will now oversee the nation’s flagship report on the climate.

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Trump ousts bipartisan commission in latest effort to reshape elections before midterm

The White House defended President Trump's dismissal of the bipartisan U.S. Elections Assistance Commission's remaining members as enhancing election security. Critics called it a dangerous partisan move.

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Jul 10 • 3:28 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape U.S. voting

The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grants to states, oversees the testing of voting systems and maintains the national voter registration form.

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Jul 10 • 1:01 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
The MAGA Party Is Over

Small crowds, algae in the reflecting pool, a White House under construction. What is Trumpism without spectacle?

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Trump fires Election Assistance Commission leaders

The White House on Thursday fired the leadership of the federal agency that provides funding and security guidance to election officials, according to sources familiar with the matter and an email reviewed by CNN — a move that’s already raising alarm bells among election officials about federal interference ahead of the midterms.

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White House Moves to Control Federal Science Grants as RFK Jr. Threatens Scientific Journals

A proposed tax bill could raise premiums on privately insured Californians, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes aim at medical journals.

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Are the Dodgers tone deaf? White House visit an insult to fans

For a franchise built on a diverse, immigrant-heavy fan base, the Dodgers' decision to visit President Trump at the White House — again — makes no sense.

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Jul 9 • 6:54 PM EDT • Sports • latimes.com
WATCH: White House columns appear to be Trump's latest project
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The Family Business

Blending his personal interests with the public interest, Massad Boulos has become a poster child for Donald Trump’s White House

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Trump turns to White House columns for next construction project

The White House North Portico is covered with significant scaffolding, now covered by a drape, that’s gone up in recent days as workers rehabilitate the exterior columns at President Donald Trump’s request.

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Jul 9 • 12:56 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
First Freedom Fuel gas station opens as Trump-backed discounts roll out

The White House says the first Freedom Fuel gas station has opened in Philadelphia, offering gasoline for about 50 cents below the statewide average as part of a broader rollout.

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Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court

The White House has proposed sweeping changes to the bedrock regulation undergirding all federal contracts, empowering the executive branch to direct research, terminate grants, and external scientific reviews.

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There is ‘a lot’ of politics in the world of soccer: WH World Cup task force executive director

White House World Cup task force executive director Andrew Giuliani discusses controversy around FIFA's decision to lift U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun's red-card suspension on ‘The Story.’

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