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Axios reports: Several House Democrats are mounting long-shot efforts to force a House vote on making Attorney General Pam Bondi release all records related to Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats are hoping to take advantage of a blow-up between President Trump and his base over the Epstein files by forcing their GOP colleagues to choose between them. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told …

The Texas Tribune reports: A state district court judge in Collin County agreed Friday to seal all records relating to divorce proceedings between Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. Angela Paxton, according to reports by The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times. That will likely keep details of the high-profile divorce from becoming public as Ken Paxton runs …

CNN reports: Having handed the winner’s trophy to Chelsea captain Reece James with Infantino, Trump remained on stage while the FIFA boss departed. There appeared to be some confusion among the Chelsea players as to whether they should wait for Trump to leave before proceeding with the ceremonial trophy lift. But after a few moments, Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sánchez – …

The Washington Post reports: Camp Mystic Executive Director Richard “Dick” Eastland did not begin to evacuate the young campers asleep in cabins near the rapidly rising Guadalupe River for more than an hour after he received a severe flood warning on his phone from the National Weather Service at 1:14 a.m. on July 4, the family said through a spokesman. …

Politico reports: A leader of the super PAC supporting New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopes to raise upwards of $10 million from the cryptocurrency community — and has alarmed government ethics groups in the process. In May, Eric Lerner, president of the Empower NYC super PAC, attended the same Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas where Adams traveled on the …

The Associated Press reports: Nine people have died in a fire at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, where people were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were injured. Firefighters responded to the Gabriel House assisted living facility in Fall River at about 9:50 p.m. Sunday and were met with heavy smoke …

The New York Times reports: Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is escalating his battle against Republican claims that he might not have been in control of high-profile clemency decisions issued under his name at the end of his term and, more generally, that his cognitive state impaired his functioning in office. In an interview with The New York Times, …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump did not say for sure that Dan Bongino is still serving as deputy director of the FBI. “Oh, I think so,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday when asked if the former right-wing podcaster is still No. 2 at the agency. “I spoke to him today,” he added. “Dan Bongino. …

The Washington Post reports: After President Donald Trump wrongly suggested that Social Security funds were going to millions of dead people, his administration spent weeks revamping the agency’s database. When Trump seized on a debunked claim that South Africa’s government was systematically massacring White farmers, U.S. officials developed plans to resettle 1,000 of them. And in recent days, the Justice …

The New York Times reports: A hacker shared a string of racist and antisemitic posts from the X account of Elmo, the fuzzy red monster from “Sesame Street,” the owner and producer of the children’s show said on Sunday. The posts, on a verified account with more than 600,000 followers, contained racial slurs, antisemitic language and commentary about President Trump …