Media Monitor: The Washington Post is reporting that former President Donald Trump is struggling with fallout over Jeffrey Epstein. It said the White House is pushing back against a Wall Street Journal report that officials told Trump he is named in the Epstein files. The Post also noted that ICE is moving to shackle about 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors, according to an internal ICE document seen by The Post. In other news, mass starvation is stalking Gaza, with the number of reported deaths from hunger spiking, including children. Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison for killing four students at the University of Idaho in 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron is suing right-wing podcaster Candace Owens for defamation. Dangerous heat fueled by corn sweat is about to spread eastward, with the most oppressively hot conditions in the Midwest and Great Lakes today and the humid heat hitting the Northeast tomorrow. Finally, a fossilized penis worm suggests the Grand Canyon was an evolutionary hotbed.
