| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, July 9NUDE PICS OF GIRLS, WITNESS TAMPERING AND WORSE According to the indictment and bail memorandum detailing new charges against billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he allegedly used his victims to recruit other minors to sexually abuse and kept a trove of nude photographs of girls even after being convicted in 2008 on prostitution charges. [HuffPost]OBAMACARE IS BACK ON TRIAL A federal appeals court is about to take up a Republican lawsuit that could wipe out the Affordable Care Act and, with it, health insurance for something like 20 million people. Even conservative experts think the lawsuit’s underlying argument is ridiculous, but in November, a federal district judge sided with the plaintiffs. [HuffPost]BRITISH GOVERNMENT STANDS BY AMBASSADOR The British government is standing by its ambassador to the U.S., Kim Darroch, after a recent leak revealed diplomatic messages lambasting the Trump administration as “inept” and “incompetent.” [HuffPost]JUDGE: BIG PHARMA NEEDN’T TELL YOU ANYTHING A federal judge blocked a major White House initiative on prescription drug costs, saying the Trump administration lacked the legal authority to require drugmakers to disclose prices in TV ads. [AP]GOP-ER: ANTI-LGBTQ LEGISLATION LIKE SAVING JEWS FROM HOLOCAUST North Carolina state Sen. Dan Bishop, the Republican candidate for an open House seat, likened his efforts to undermine LGBTQ rights via religious exemptions to the work of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved Jews during the Holocaust. [HuffPost]ERIC SWALWELL EXITS 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RACE Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is dropping out of the Democratic primary after a three-month campaign that failed to gain traction in a field of more than two dozen candidates. He says he’ll shift his focus to running for reelection to the House. [HuffPost]
 Become one of our first official super fans. Call yourself a founding member of HuffPost Plus forever.  HONG KONG LEADER: EXTRADITION BILL IS ‘DEAD’ During a press conference on Tuesday, Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam said the widely loathed extradition bill was “dead.” However, she again stopped short of announcing that the bill would be withdrawn. [HuffPost]FOX FACT-CHECKS TRUMP IN REAL TIME As Trump attempted to tout his administration’s environmental record in a speech broadcast live on Fox News, host Shepard Smith interrupted to say those policies have been “widely criticized by environmentalists and academics.” [HuffPost]WARREN OUTRAISES SANDERS IN 2020 CAMPAIGN Elizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million for her 2020 presidential bid in the second quarter of the year. Her haul trails only Pete Buttigieg’s $24.8 million and Joe Biden’s $21.5 million among candidates who have released their fundraising for the period. [HuffPost]OHIO BILL AIMS TO BRING ANTI-ABORTION TO SCHOOLS Ohio Republicans are pushing a measure that would create a new public school curriculum about the “humanity of the unborn child,” with the declared goal of reaching an “abortion-free society.” [HuffPost]SCHUMER URGES MCCONNELL TO PASS EQUAL PAY Speaking from the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged his GOP counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and his other colleagues to pass equal pay legislation in honor of the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s World Cup victory. [HuffPost]ALL MISSISSIPPI BEACHES CLOSE DUE TO TOXIC ALGAE BLOOM All public beaches along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have been ordered closed for swimming and fishing amid a sweeping bloom of harmful blue-green algae that authorities warn can sicken people and animals upon contact. [HuffPost]
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