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ABC News reports: “We’d have to go through a court process, and we’d have to file that maybe in districts that are not friendly to Republicans. So it’s a challenge because every district would be different. We’d have to go sue in every legislator’s home district,” Texas AG Ken Paxton said in a Monday interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson. …

STAT News reports: “Vaccine skepticism in the U.S. kills more children outside the U.S. — because it transfers that skepticism — than it does inside the United States,” Gates said during a discussion at a STAT event in Cambridge, Mass., where he was speaking about a $2.5 billion pledge to women’s health initiatives. Gates noted that in the developing world, …

“Democrats are freaking out because they are realizing Texas has the authority to redistrict, and we’re going to do so in a way that’s going to lead to these additional seats that will vote Republican, and they will be serving in Congress in the next session. And so Democrats are freaking out about it, engaging in rhetoric, but I don’t …

Axios reports: President Trump and Rupert Murdoch reached a deal Monday to postpone the media mogul’s deposition in a libel lawsuit related to the Wall Street Journal publishing a report on an Epstein birthday book, per court filings. Trump’s lawyers had raised concerns about Murdoch’s age and health when they asked a federal court in Florida last week to expedite …

NBC News reports: The government is “asking to release these transcripts, exhibits, etc., of which the victims are not privy to while they have concluded that there is nothing more to see on the files they hold. Yet no one has seen them, but them. I am beside myself,” said one victim, who sent a letter to the federal judge …

The Missouri Times reports: Missouri Republicans are once again exploring efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map, a move that, if successful, could shift the balance of power in the state’s U.S. House delegation. Some within the GOP are eyeing a change from Missouri’s current 6-2 Republican-Democrat split to a potential 7-1 advantage. At the center of the discussion is …

Reuters reports: The White House is drafting an executive order that would impose penalties on banks for dropping customers for political reasons, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Citing a draft of the order, the Journal said regulators would be instructed to investigate whether any financial institutions breach the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws or consumer financial protection …

The Independent reports: Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling on the Trump administration to commute the sentence of former Congressman George Santos, who was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this year after pleading guilty to wire fraud and identity theft. “George Santos has taken responsibility,” Greene wrote on X, sharing a letter she sent to the Justice …

USA Today reports: Sean “Diddy” Combs, who remains jailed ahead of his October sentencing, has been denied bail again after the rapper and his legal team requested that he be released on a $50 million bond. Judge Arun Subramanian, who presided over Combs’ landmark sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan court, denied Combs’ renewed attempt in an order filed Monday, Aug. 4. …

The New York Times reports: Justice Department lawyers have long enjoyed a professional benefit when they appear in court. As a general rule, judges tend to take them at their word and assume they are telling the truth. But in the past several months, as members of President Trump’s Justice Department have repeatedly misled the courts, violated their orders and …