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Trump plans massive renovation of White House

The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds. By Jake Traylor07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction project of the executive mansion. Construction will begin in September on an approximately 90,000 square foot White House state ballroom with a 650-person seating capacity, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday. Trump and other “patrio ...

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Trump gives drugmakers 60 days to slash prescription drug prices

July 31, 2025, 4:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump sent letters to more than a dozen major drugmakers Thursday demanding that they lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. within 60 days. In the letters — which Trump published on his social media platform Truth Social — the drugmakers were told to offer the “full portfolio” of their existing medications to Medicaid patients at the same prices paid abroad, also known as the “most favored nation” rule. He also told drugmakers to “guara ...

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Arkansas teacher charged with killing couple who were hiking in Devil's Den with their kids

Arkansas teacher charged with killing couple who were hiking in Devil's Den with their kids The couple were hiking with their two young daughters when they were killed. The children were unharmed in the attack. Author: ANDREW DeMILLO (Associated Press) Published: 6:43 AM CDT July 31, 2025 Updated: 8:04 AM CDT July 31, 2025 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas police have charged a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil's Den State Pa ...

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'Not a damned penny!' 'Abandoned' Texas flood survivors prepare to clash with officials

July 31, 2025 7:24AM ET Survivors of the deadly July 4 flood in Central Texas are planning to confront state lawmakers next week after their disaster response has left many feeling “abandoned,” The New York Times reported Thursday. “I get that people have to go home and return to their lives,” said Mike Richards, whose property was ravaged by the flood, speaking to The New York Times. “But you can’t help but feel abandoned.” Richards was one of many Texans along the Guadalupe River who have ...

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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit display. A person familiar with the exhibit plans, who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the change came about as part of a content review that the Smithsonian agreed to undertake following pressure from the White House to remove an art museum director. A temporary label including content about Trump's impeachments had been on display sinc ...

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Family of Epstein abuse survivor urges Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell: 'A monster who deserves to rot in prison'

(NBC News) The family of a key survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday not to consider clemency for the late financier's co-conspirator and confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell. The family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a sexual abuse advocate who died by suicide in April, made their plea to Trump in a public statement after he told reporters that Epstein, a convicted sex offender, "stole" Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, where she worked as a locker-room attendant at age 16 during the summer of 2000.

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Supreme Court sets date to consider whether to review Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal

(MSNBC) The Supreme Court has officially set a date — Sept. 29 — to consider at a private conference whether it will review Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge to her sex trafficking convictions. This typical scheduling development might not normally be relevant to national political news. But Maxwell is at the center of a controversy stemming from the Trump administration’s refusal to release all information related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late disgraced financier. Maxwell was convicted of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.

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Democrats invoke rare federal law to force release of Epstein files

(Deseret News) Senate Democrats invoked an obscure and rarely used law on Wednesday, compelling the Department of Justice to release all files related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced the maneuver on Wednesday, marking the latest escalation in the Epstein saga that has plagued Republicans on Capitol Hill and, at times, thwarted President Donald Trump’s agenda.

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Army rescinds West Point role for ex‑CISA director after Laura Loomer criticism

(The Hill) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll on Wednesday announced that he had rescinded a U.S. Military Academy at West Point job offer given to the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a move that came less than 24 hours after far-right activist Laura Loomer criticized the hiring. Jen Easterly, who led CISA under former President Biden, is a West Point graduate and was planning to serve as the next Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in the school’s Department of Social Sciences. But Loomer, in a Tuesday post to X that tagged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, decried the hiring, declaring that “some of your underlings are trying to screw you,” at the Defense Department.

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Trump drove firing of FDA official

(Politico) President Donald Trump overruled his health secretary and FDA chief on Tuesday, and ordered the removal of the government’s top vaccine regulator, four people with knowledge of the decision told Politico. The four, granted anonymity to speak about the details of Trump’s decision, said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary opposed dismissing Vinay Prasad, who had been on the job three months and had recently come under attack by right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer.

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ICE recruitment efforts upset some local law enforcement leaders

14 min ago - July 31, 2025, 5:12 PM Leadership at some local and state law enforcement agencies across the country -- including agencies that have been supportive of federal immigration enforcement efforts -- grew frustrated this week with efforts by Immigration ... (ABC News)

Deep staff cuts at a little-known federal agency pose trouble for droves of local health programs

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Trump rejigs tariff rates ahead of deadline, levies 40% duties on all transshipped goods

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Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal

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Trump increases tariff on Canada to 35% from 25%

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Dust deemed cause of Fremont (NE) plant explosion that killed 3; Horizon Biofuels officials make statement

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Top Democrat demands Trump's IRS investigate Epstein bank records in sprawling probe: 'Follow the money'

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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum

9 hrs ago - The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit display. A person familiar with the exhibit plans, who was not authorized to discuss them publicly, said the ... (Washington Post)

'Not a damned penny!' 'Abandoned' Texas flood survivors prepare to clash with officials

9 hrs ago - July 31, 2025 7:24AM ET Survivors of the deadly July 4 flood in Central Texas are planning to confront state lawmakers next week after their disaster response has left many feeling “abandoned,” The New York Times reported Thursday. “I ... (Raw Story)

Kerr County, Texas, lead emergency management official says he was asleep during deadly flooding

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Trump's big proposed cuts to health and education spending rebuffed by US Senate panel

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Trump Mobile wants to sell you telehealth, car care and insurance

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Trump gives drugmakers 60 days to slash prescription drug prices

11 hrs ago - July 31, 2025, 4:13 PM EDT President Donald Trump sent letters to more than a dozen major drugmakers Thursday demanding that they lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. within 60 days. In the letters — which Trump published on his soci ... (NBC News)

Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 13 people and injures more than 130

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GOP bullish on dismantling Voting Rights Act

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Trump plans massive renovation of White House

12 hrs ago - The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds. By Jake Traylor07/31/2025 03:07 PM EDT The White House will undergo a $200 million extensive renovation of its East Wing, President Donald Trump’s latest construction ... (Politico)

Appeals court judges voice skepticism about legal basis for Trump's sweeping tariffs

12 hrs ago - Appeals court judges voice skepticism about legal basis for Trump's sweeping tariffs A coalition of states is asking a court to invalidate most of Trump's tariffs. By Peter Charalambous,Katherine Faulders and Nicholas Kerr July 31, 2025, 1:23 PM ET * ... (ABC News)

Mom sues Nebraska company that sold her teen a 'ghost gun' kit he used to take his life

12 hrs ago - KARLA WARD Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader Jul 31, 2025 Updated 22 mins ago A Louisville, Kentucky, mother whose teenage son died by suicide has filed a lawsuit against Nebraska companies she says illegally enabled him to obtain the gun he used to tak ... (Omaha World Herald-Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader)

Arkansas teacher charged with killing couple who were hiking in Devil's Den with their kids

12 hrs ago - Arkansas teacher charged with killing couple who were hiking in Devil's Den with their kids The couple were hiking with their two young daughters when they were killed. The children were unharmed in the attack. Author: ANDREW DeMILLO (Associated Pres ... (Associated Press, via KARE TV)

Texas Democrats slam GOP redistricting plan as "grossly unfair" and "deeply undemocratic"

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