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Texas Democrats to flee state, blocking plan to pad GOP’s control of Congress By leaving, Democratic state legislators can stall a Republican plan that would give the GOP five more seats to protect their narrow House majority.

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BREAKING:

Democrats in the Texas legislature say they're fleeing the state to block the severely-gerrymandered, Trump-backed redistricting plan aimed at preserving the GOP's slim House majority.

Trump regulatory czar Jeffrey Clark should be disbarred for role in 2020 election plot, disciplinary board rules The ruling is based on Clark’s effort to pressure DOJ leaders to issue a false statement that there was evidence of significant election fraud.

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The D.C. Bar's disciplinary arm has recommended that longtime Trump ally Jeffrey Clark lose his law license for assisting Trump's failed bid to overturn the 2020 election.

Senate Republicans just confirmed Jeanne Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

Pirro used her Fox show to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election and became so outspoken that the network canceled one of her episodes out of fear for what she might say.

NEW: The Smithsonian says it will restore Trump's two impeachments to the museum's Presidency Exhibit "in the coming weeks."

Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith The investigation comes after GOP Sen. Tom Cotton requested that Smith be investigated for “unprecedented interference in the 2024 election.”

FLAG: The Office of Special Counsel has launched an investigation into Jack Smith, alleging Smith potentially violated the Hatch Act.

There is no evidence to suggest wrongdoing at this time.

The probe comes as the admin tries to shift focus from the Epstein files. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

A Texas House committee — led by Republicans — just voted to advance the highly-gerrymandered, Trump-demanded congressional map specifically drawn to flip five Democratic House districts in favor of Republicans.

The full House will likely vote this coming week on the map.

NEW: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has kept in place a Los Angeles federal judge's ruling that bars immigration agents from using a person's spoken language or job, like day laborer, as the sole pretext to detain them.

NEW from Oversight's Robert Garcia:

"The favorable change to the conditions … raises possibility that the Trump Administration and the Bureau of Prisons may be affording Ms. Maxwell preferential treatment in an effort to shape or distort her testimony about Jeffrey Epstein." tinyurl.com/3ste8mhy

Comer says he will postpone Ghislaine Maxwell testimony The House Oversight chair also rejected an immunity request from the Jeffrey Epstein associate.

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NEW: The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed, according to House Oversight Chair James Comer.

Comer said he would agree to delay the meeting after her lawyers requested a postponement — citing a pending Supreme Court petition regarding her case.

Ghislaine Maxwell was not eligible to be transferred to Texas prison camp, according to Bureau of Prison policy Ghislaine Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison camp — like the one she was transferred to in Texas — because she is a

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NBC News: Ghislaine Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison camp — like the one she was transferred to in Texas — because she is a convicted sex offender, according to the Bureau of Prison's own designation policy.

Leader Schumer: "What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger. That's just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

"It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency."

The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."

FLAG: Trump just directed his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics over the latest jobs numbers reports.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down after losing funding from the Trump- and GOP-supported recissions package, "despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB."

BREAKING on MSNBC:

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney has confirmed to NBC News that Maxwell has just been moved to a federal prison in Texas.
 
That prison — FPC Bryan in Bryan, TX — is a minimum-security federal prison camp.

Leader Schumer: "If this is what Liberation Day was supposed to look like, then God help us."

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
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Schumer: "Just now, the White House announced construction of a $200 million White House ballroom that will begin in September. A $200 million ballroom! Where'd this money come from? Did Congress appropriate it? I don't think so. It's almost like DOGE was never about waste."

Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre wanted files released before her death, family says Her family urged President Donald Trump this week not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.

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"She's not an object; she's a person," he said through tears. "She's a mom. She's a sister. And she was recruited by Maxwell. She wasn't stolen."

BREAKING: Sky Roberts, Virginia Giuffre's brother, says the family was "shocked" by Trump's use of the word 'stolen' to describe their sister.

He said it makes him wonder how much Trump knew about what Epstein was doing.

Party preferences in the U.S. have shifted back to favor Democrats for the first time since 2023, according to a new Gallup poll.

46% of Americans now consider themselves Democrats or lean more to the Democratic Party. It's 43% for Republicans.

Republicans led in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Despite Trump just saying his August 1 tariff deadline was set in stone, he has now caved and given Mexico another extension — this one of 90 days.

Kamala Harris is publishing a book about her 2024 presidential campaign entitled '107 Days'.
 
Harris today: "I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward."

WASHINGTON (AP) - A key US inflation gauge moved higher last month as Trump's tariffs lifted costs on some goods.