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Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules — A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. — Trump has made tariffs a pillar …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Bessent Warns of US ‘Embarrassment’ If Tariffs Ruled Illegal — Trump cabinet officials told a federal appeals court that ruling president's global tariffs illegal would seriously harm US foreign policy, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning of “dangerous diplomatic embarrassment.”
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New York Times and Reason
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Federal Circuit Rules Against Trump's Massive IEEPA Tariffs in Our Case Challenging Them
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Court extends suspension of 98-year-old US circuit judge Newman
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
Kennedy Must Resign — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign. — Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again.
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Christopher Wiggins / Advocate:
RFK Jr.'s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, once regarded as the nation's premier agency against illness, is now damaged beyond repair, according to one of its most prominent departing leaders.
Discussion:
Axios, NOTUS, Wall Street Journal and Gay City News
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Discussion:
Can We Still Govern? and New York Times
Adam Cancryn / CNN:
New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines
New CDC chief was part of meetings where officials pressed ousted leader on vaccines
Discussion:
Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The National Pulse, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Axios, CBS News and Newsweek
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency
RFK Jr. targets CDC with a ridiculous complaint as chaos grips the agency
Discussion:
Reason, CNN, New York Times, NOTUS, Fox News, Washington Examiner and The Hill
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Social Security data chief resigns after whistleblower complaint over DOGE data access … In his whistleblower complaint, Borges said DOGE employees built a copy of the Social Security database in a cloud-based system that “circumvents oversight,” and disregarded an agency security assessment that their action posed a high risk.
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Washington Post:
Social Security whistleblower quits after saying Americans' data was compromised — The agency's chief data officer said the U.S. DOGE Service had uploaded personal information for more than 300 million people to the digital cloud. — Just now — A Social Security Administration official responsible …
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military — ON JULY 1, 1971, I STOOD ON THE PLAIN at the United States Military Academy and raised my right hand for the first time. Along with hundreds of other new cadets, I swore an oath every service member takes: “to support and defend the Constitution …
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New York Post
Claudia Grisales / NPR:
With newly approved maps in Texas, GOP puts its gains with Latinos to the test — SEGUIN, Texas - Under a broiling sun, there's a popular, frozen drinks stop here in the seat of Guadalupe County known as Milly's where locals cool off in the summer. — But business owner Tomas Hernandez Jr …
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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Judge blocks Trump's broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants — The ruling says the administration's policy violated due process rights as it sought to speed up the president's mass deportation agenda. — Just now — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration …
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign
NBC News:
Angry constituents confront Congress on immigration, Medicaid cuts and Gaza — The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump's agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back. — With political tensions running high …
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Revokes Kamala Harris's Secret Service Protection — Where Things Stand — Secret Service: President Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris, effective Monday, according to a letter obtained by The Times.
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Los Angeles Times, Axios, Reuters and Associated Press
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Associated Press:
Trump administration cancels $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects — The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry.
New York Times:
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled — President Trump's repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning. — Eric Lee/The New York Times
Associated Press:
Colleges face financial struggles as Trump policies send international enrollment plummeting — One international student after another told the University of Central Missouri this summer that they couldn't get a visa, and many struggled to even land an interview for one.
Des Moines Register:
Joni Ernst expected to announce she won't seek reelection in 2026, sources say — Stephen Gruber-Miller Brianne PfannenstielDes Moines Register — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst will not seek reelection in 2026, according to two people familiar with her decision, setting off a massive upheaval in one of Iowa's marquee midterm contests.
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CBS News and New York Times
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to third term, sources tell CNN
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to third term, sources tell CNN
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Bloomberg
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
U.S. revokes visas of Palestinian president, other officials ahead of UN General Assembly — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month's annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly …
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Kadia Goba / Washington Post:
Comer set to meet privately with Epstein victims — It was unclear which of Epstein's victims is expected to attend the meeting after a federal probe into the convicted sex trafficker ended in August 2019 with the financier's death. — House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Kentucky) …
Discussion:
LGBTQ Nation
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints — from the congress-shall-make-no-law dept — Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101.
Discussion:
Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »
Jeff Horwitz / Reuters:
Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission — Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities - including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez - to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.


