In early June, just after a very public falling out with Donald Trump, Elon Musk made a stunning allegation: “Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.” He deleted the tweet two days later — but the Wall Street Journal has now confirmed its substance.

“Roy Cooper is expected to announce his campaign for the North Carolina Senate as soon as Monday,” Politico reports. “The popular, former two-term governor’s entrance into the Senate race — for a seat Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is leaving open with his announcement last month that he won’t seek

“When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a ‘truckload’ of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “They told the president at the meeting

“I’ve watched this party pour $110 million into Jaime Harrison’s campaign against Lindsey Graham. That was a fool’s errand. How many Michigan state Senate seats could we have picked up for that?” — Democratic strategist Paul Begala, quoted by Politico.

“The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled ‘SECRET/NOFORN,'” the Washington Post reports. “The revelation appears to contradict