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Calculated Shard: 99 (from laksa196)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa099.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today","crawl_time":1774096786,"first_indexed_time":1753321309,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,theguardian!www,\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today s443","src_root_hash":"4161074618625082499","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump news at a glance: White House claims ‘fake news’ as president faces fresh Epstein claims | Trump administration | The Guardian","meta_descriptions":["President’s spokesperson hits out at Democrats and ‘liberal media’ after report claiming Pam Bondi told Trump in May he was named in Epstein files. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 23 July"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Donald Trump\nis facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about\nJeffrey Epstein\nas Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice\nGhislaine Maxwell\n.\nThe White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account\nin the Wall Street Journal\nthat the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.\n“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\nA federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein.\nHere’s more on these and the day’s other key\nTrump administration\nstories:\nTrump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files\nAttorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about \nJeffrey Epstein\n, saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”.\n“As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement.\nWhite House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\nRead the full story\nJudge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts\nA US federal\njudge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s.\nThe move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced\nit would not be releasing\nany additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi.\nRead the full story\nEU and US near trade deal\nThe European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged.\nThe tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks.\nRead the full story\nTrump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models\nDonald Trump\non Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke”\nartificial intelligence\nmodels.\nA second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction.\nRead the full story\nColumbia to pay Trump administration more than $220m\nColumbia University\nannounced a much-anticipated deal with the\nTrump administration\nto pay a fine worth more than $220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university.\nRead the full story\nTrump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program\nThe state department is\nopening an investigation\ninto\nHarvard University\n’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel.\nRead the full story\nExclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff\nDonald Trump\n’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary,\nPete Hegseth\n, allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter.\nRead the full story\nWhat else happened today:\nRobert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers\nto remove thimerosal\n, an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines.\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron,\nare\nsuing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens\nfor defamation.\nThe acting director of Fema defended his agency’s handling\nof recent deadly floods in Texas,\nclaiming the response was a “model” for “how disasters should be handled”\n.\nCatching up?\nHere’s what happened on\n22 July 2025\n.","attrs_markdown":"![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=us-news)\n\n[Skip to main content](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today#maincontent)[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today#navigation)\n\nClose dialogue\n\n1\/1\n\nNext image\n\nPrevious image\n\nToggle caption\n\n[Skip to navigation](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today#navigation)\n\n[Print 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Photograph: Kent Nishimura\/Reuters\n\n[View image in fullscreen](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today#img-1)\n\nDonald Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under renewed scrutiny since the justice department said it would not be releasing any additional files related to the Epstein case. Photograph: Kent Nishimura\/Reuters\n\n[Trump administration briefing](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/series\/trump-administration-briefing)[Trump administration](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration)\n\nThis article is more than **7 months old**\n\n[Explainer](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/explainers)\n\n# Trump news at a glance: White House claims ‘fake news’ as president faces fresh Epstein claims\nThis article is more than 7 months old\n\nPresident’s spokesperson hits out at Democrats and ‘liberal media’ after report claiming Pam Bondi told Trump in May he was named in Epstein files. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 23 July\n\nGuardian staff\n\nThu 24 Jul 2025 03.38 CEST\n\nLast modified on Thu 24 Jul 2025 03.39 CEST\n\nShare\n\n[Prefer the Guardian on Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=theguardian.com)\n\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump) is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein) as Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice [Ghislaine Maxwell](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ghislaine-maxwell).\n\nThe White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account [in the Wall Street Journal](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.\n\n“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\n\nA federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein.\n\nHere’s more on these and the day’s other key [Trump administration](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration) stories:\n\n***\n## Trump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files\nAttorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein), saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”.\n\n“As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement.\n\nWhite House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files)\n\n***\n## Judge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts\nA US federaljudge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s.\n\nThe move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced [it would not be releasing](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/14\/jeffrey-epstein-trump-maga-turmoil) any additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-jury-transcripts)\n\n***\n## EU and US near trade deal\nThe European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged.\n\nThe tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/23\/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports)\n\n***\n## Trump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump) on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke” [artificial intelligence](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai) models.\n\nA second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/trump-executive-orders-woke-ai)\n\n***\n## Columbia to pay Trump administration more than \\$220m\n[Columbia University](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/columbia-university) announced a much-anticipated deal with the [Trump administration](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration) to pay a fine worth more than \\$220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/columbia-university-220m-trump-administration)\n\n***\n## Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program\nThe state department is [opening an investigation](https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/07\/investigation-of-harvard-university-participation-in-the-exchange-visitor-program\/) into [Harvard University](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/harvard-university)’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/harvard-visa-program-investigation-trump)\n\n***\n## Exclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump)’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, [Pete Hegseth](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth), allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/pete-hegseth-chief-of-staff)\n\n***\n## What else happened today:\n- **Robert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers** [to remove thimerosal](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/rfk-jr-thimerosal-vaccines), an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines.\n- **French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron,** are [suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/23\/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation) for defamation.\n- **The acting director of 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All rights reserved.\n\n(dcr)","attrs_readable_markdown":"[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump) is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein) as Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice [Ghislaine Maxwell](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ghislaine-maxwell).\n\nThe White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account [in the Wall Street Journal](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing.\n\n“The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\n\nA federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein.\n\nHere’s more on these and the day’s other key [Trump administration](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration) stories:\n\n***\n## Trump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files\nAttorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein), saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”.\n\n“As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement.\n\nWhite House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files)\n\n***\n## Judge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts\nA US federaljudge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s.\n\nThe move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced [it would not be releasing](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/14\/jeffrey-epstein-trump-maga-turmoil) any additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/trump-jeffrey-epstein-jury-transcripts)\n\n***\n## EU and US near trade deal\nThe European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged.\n\nThe tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/jul\/23\/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports)\n\n***\n## Trump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump) on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke” [artificial intelligence](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai) models.\n\nA second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/trump-executive-orders-woke-ai)\n\n***\n## Columbia to pay Trump administration more than \\$220m\n[Columbia University](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/columbia-university) announced a much-anticipated deal with the [Trump administration](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration) to pay a fine worth more than \\$220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/columbia-university-220m-trump-administration)\n\n***\n## Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program\nThe state department is [opening an investigation](https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/07\/investigation-of-harvard-university-participation-in-the-exchange-visitor-program\/) into [Harvard University](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/harvard-university)’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/harvard-visa-program-investigation-trump)\n\n***\n## Exclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff\n[Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump)’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, [Pete Hegseth](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth), allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter.\n\n[Read the full story](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/pete-hegseth-chief-of-staff)\n\n***\n## What else happened today:\n- **Robert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers** [to remove thimerosal](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/rfk-jr-thimerosal-vaccines), an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines.\n- **French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron,** are [suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/23\/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation) for defamation.\n- **The acting director of Fema defended his agency’s handling** of recent deadly floods in Texas, [claiming the response was a “model” for “how disasters should be handled”](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/fema-director-texas-flood-response).\n***\n\nCatching up? *Here’s what happened on **[22 July 2025](https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/23\/trump-administration-news-updates-today)**.*","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	Donald Trump is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about Jeffrey Epstein as Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell . The White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account in the Wall Street Journal that the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” A federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein. Here’s more on these and the day’s other key Trump administration stories: Trump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files Attorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about Jeffrey Epstein , saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”. “As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement. White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” Read the full story Judge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts A US federal judge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s. The move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced it would not be releasing any additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi. Read the full story EU and US near trade deal The European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged. The tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks. Read the full story Trump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke” artificial intelligence models. A second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction. Read the full story Columbia to pay Trump administration more than $220m Columbia University announced a much-anticipated deal with the Trump administration to pay a fine worth more than $220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university. Read the full story Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program The state department is opening an investigation into Harvard University ’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel. Read the full story Exclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff Donald Trump ’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter. Read the full story What else happened today: Robert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers to remove thimerosal , an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines. French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens for defamation. The acting director of Fema defended his agency’s handling of recent deadly floods in Texas, claiming the response was a “model” for “how disasters should be handled” . Catching up? Here’s what happened on 22 July 2025 .
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Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters [View image in fullscreen](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/president-trump-administration-news-updates-today#img-1) Donald Trump’s past ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under renewed scrutiny since the justice department said it would not be releasing any additional files related to the Epstein case. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/Reuters [Trump administration briefing](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/trump-administration-briefing)[Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) This article is more than 7 months old [Explainer](https://www.theguardian.com/tone/explainers) # Trump news at a glance: White House claims ‘fake news’ as president faces fresh Epstein claims This article is more than 7 months old President’s spokesperson hits out at Democrats and ‘liberal media’ after report claiming Pam Bondi told Trump in May he was named in Epstein files. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 23 July Guardian staff Thu 24 Jul 2025 03.38 CEST Last modified on Thu 24 Jul 2025 03.39 CEST Share [Prefer the Guardian on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=theguardian.com) [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein) as Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell). The White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account [in the Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” A federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein. Here’s more on these and the day’s other key [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) stories: * ## Trump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files Attorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein), saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”. “As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement. White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files) * ## Judge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts A US federaljudge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s. The move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced [it would not be releasing](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/jeffrey-epstein-trump-maga-turmoil) any additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-jeffrey-epstein-jury-transcripts) * ## EU and US near trade deal The European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged. The tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports) * ## Trump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke” [artificial intelligence](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) models. A second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-executive-orders-woke-ai) * ## Columbia to pay Trump administration more than \$220m [Columbia University](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/columbia-university) announced a much-anticipated deal with the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) to pay a fine worth more than \$220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/columbia-university-220m-trump-administration) * ## Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program The state department is [opening an investigation](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/investigation-of-harvard-university-participation-in-the-exchange-visitor-program/) into [Harvard University](https://www.theguardian.com/education/harvard-university)’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/harvard-visa-program-investigation-trump) * ## Exclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump)’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, [Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth), allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/pete-hegseth-chief-of-staff) * ## What else happened today: - Robert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers [to remove thimerosal](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/rfk-jr-thimerosal-vaccines), an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines. - French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are [suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation) for defamation. - The acting director of Fema defended his agency’s handling of recent deadly floods in Texas, [claiming the response was a “model” for “how disasters should be handled”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/fema-director-texas-flood-response). *** Catching up? Here’s what happened on [22 July 2025](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-administration-news-updates-today). 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Readable Markdown	[Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) is facing a widening crisis amid a report claiming that his name appears in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein) as Congress subpoenas testimony from Epstein accomplice [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell). The White House sought to downplay the relationship between the US president and the disgraced financier while Trump’s spokesperson denied an account [in the Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files-727a8038?mod=hp_lead_pos1) that the president was told in May by attorney general Pam Bondi that he is named in the Epstein files. The report says the president was told that many other high profile figures were also named and states that being mentioned in the records isn’t a sign of wrongdoing. “The fact is that the president kicked him out of his club for being a creep,” spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” A federal judge, meanwhile, denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to Epstein. Here’s more on these and the day’s other key [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) stories: * ## Trump’s name reported to feature in Epstein files Attorney general Pam Bondi has pushed back against a report claiming that Donald Trump’s name appears “multiple times” in US justice department files about [Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jeffrey-epstein), saying that “nothing in the files warranted further investigation or prosecution”. “As part of our routine briefing, we made the president aware of the findings,” Bondi and her deputy said in a statement. White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an emailed statement: “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.” [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files) * ## Judge rejects Trump bid to unseal Epstein jury transcripts A US federaljudge has denied a justice department request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to a criminal investigation of Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, in south Florida from the mid-2000s. The move on Wednesday is the first ruling in the Trump administration’s series of attempts to release more information after the justice department announced [it would not be releasing](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/jeffrey-epstein-trump-maga-turmoil) any additional files related to the Epstein case, despite earlier promises from Trump and Bondi. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-jeffrey-epstein-jury-transcripts) * ## EU and US near trade deal The European Union and the US are close to a trade deal that would place 15% tariffs on most imports from the bloc, it has emerged. The tariff rate would apply to most goods, with some exceptions for products including aircraft and medical devices, according to diplomats with knowledge of the talks. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/23/eu-100bn-no-deal-plan-trump-tariffs-threat-us-imports) * ## Trump signs three executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) on Wednesday signed a trio of executive orders that he vowed would turn the United States into an “AI export powerhouse”, including a directive targeting what the White House described as “woke” [artificial intelligence](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) models. A second order Trump signed on Wednesday calls for deregulating AI development, increasing the building of datacentres and removing environmental protections that could hamper their construction. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-executive-orders-woke-ai) * ## Columbia to pay Trump administration more than \$220m [Columbia University](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/columbia-university) announced a much-anticipated deal with the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) to pay a fine worth more than \$220m, in an agreement meant to bring a resolution to the threat of massive funding cuts to the school, but certain to rankle critics given the extraordinary concessions made by the Ivy League university. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/columbia-university-220m-trump-administration) * ## Trump administration investigating Harvard’s visa program The state department is [opening an investigation](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/investigation-of-harvard-university-participation-in-the-exchange-visitor-program/) into [Harvard University](https://www.theguardian.com/education/harvard-university)’s eligibility as a sponsor for the exchange visitor program, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the university over alleged failures to combat campus antisemitism and inadequate support of Israel. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/harvard-visa-program-investigation-trump) * ## Exclusive: Advisers abandon effort to find Hegseth new chief of staff [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump)’s advisers have abandoned an effort to find a new chief of staff to the defense secretary, [Pete Hegseth](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pete-hegseth), allowing senior adviser Ricky Buria to continue performing the duties in an acting role despite once viewing him as a liability, according to people familiar with the matter. [Read the full story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/pete-hegseth-chief-of-staff) * ## What else happened today: - Robert F Kennedy Jr will formally require vaccine makers [to remove thimerosal](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/rfk-jr-thimerosal-vaccines), an ingredient that has been the target of anti-vaccine campaigns, from vaccines. - French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are [suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/emmanuel-brigitte-macron-candace-owens-lawsuit-defamation) for defamation. - The acting director of Fema defended his agency’s handling of recent deadly floods in Texas, [claiming the response was a “model” for “how disasters should be handled”](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/fema-director-texas-flood-response). *** Catching up? Here’s what happened on [22 July 2025](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/trump-administration-news-updates-today).
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