US media heavily covered the Trump administration's ongoing legal and policy confrontations throughout the day. The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files continued to be a central focus, with reports detailing President Trump's efforts to deflect scrutiny and his administration's decision to remove The Wall Street Journal from the White House press pool over an Epstein-related story. Concurrently, immigration policy dominated headlines, highlighted by the shooting of a CBP officer by an alleged illegal migrant and DHS Secretary Noem's criticism of sanctuary city laws. Hunter Biden's public, profanity-laced tirades regarding deportations and criticisms of his father also gained significant attention. Legal battles expanded as Harvard University challenged the administration's funding cuts, and the Justice Department received a criminal referral alleging the Obama administration manufactured the Russian collusion hoax. By evening, the administration released previously withheld MLK Jr. surveillance records, adding to transparency debates.