From the daily newsletter: the fracturing of the MAGA base. Plus: how Dartmouth College became the Ivy League’s Switzerland; and what “Eddington” tries to say about America.

Calls intensify for the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files. House members wrestles with the issue as they gear up for their final week before an August recess .

Multiple questions remained the day after the bombshell report, and Trump has filed a $10B lawsuit. Here’s how it all played out.

Judge wants to hear from Ghislaine Maxwell before unsealing of grand jury docs - Democrats ramp up their demands for President Trump to release the files tied to the convicted sex offender

Americans are turning on President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, a new poll shows. The national survey from Quinnipiac University shows that a whopping 63% of those polled disapprove of how the Trump administration handled its probe into the accused sex trafficker, per The Hill.

The president seems to have lost his talent for shaping the story of the day. Or did the Wall Street Journal just throw him a lifeline?

President Donald J. Trump invents new outrages to chew up news cycles and turn the media away from Jeffrey Epstein. The latest: Sports team names.

Trump denied the report. “I never wrote a picture in my life,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t draw pictures of women.” Trump later confirmed his plans to seek legal action against the newspaper; its parent company, News Corp.; and Rupert Murdoch, the organization’s head.

Donald Trump very rarely loses control of his own story. But the Jeffrey Epstein saga is beyond his powers to quell.

Donald Trump "has repeatedly embarrassed the panicans who predicted doom and gloom," a White House spokesman said of the president's first six months in office.

President Trump is seeking an unprecedented amount of damages in his lawsuit challenging a Wall Street Journal report about his Jeffrey Epstein.