memeorandum: MAGA Radio Host's Cancer-Stricken Wife Can't Get COVID Shot Because of ‘Kook’ RFK Jr. (Jack Silvers/The Daily Beast)

Martha Bellisle / Associated Press:

Lawyer: Oregon firefighter arrested by Border Patrol during wildfire was on track for legal status — Lawyers are demanding the release of a longtime Oregon resident arrested by Border Patrol while fighting a Washington state wildfire, saying Friday that the firefighter was already on track …

Discussion: Reason

Jack Silvers / The Daily Beast:

MAGA Radio Host's Cancer-Stricken Wife Can't Get COVID Shot Because of ‘Kook’ RFK Jr. — MAHA UPRISING — Erick Erickson criticized HHS's moves to restrict who can get the COVID vaccine. — An ultra-conservative radio host attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday …

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.

Perry Stein / Washington Post:

DOJ reassigned top attorneys. They quit after feeling sidelined. — People familiar with the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group say members were assigned menial busy work, and their impression was that the real goal was to force senior career lawyers to resign. — Just now

Chip Reid / CBS News:

Mark Knoller, longtime CBS News correspondent, dies at 73 — Longtime CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller has died at the age of 73. — He died in Washington, D.C., according to a close friend. The cause of death was not disclosed, but he suffered from diabetes and had been in ill health.

Jon Passantino / Status:

Burying the Bruises … On Monday, press photographers gathered in the Oval Office to capture President Donald Trump meeting with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung when one unusual detail stood out. A large bruise on the back of Trump's right hand. — It wasn't the first time the 79 …

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 …

Washington Post:

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency — Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months. — Just now

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MSNBC:

Where is the Party?: time for Democratic leaders to ‘fight with both hands’ or ‘step aside’ — Even in easy times, this democracy needs care. And right now it is in dire need of defense. And it needs defenders who are willing to do whatever it takes. Americans are begging for more.

Dani Anguiano / The Guardian:

Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim — Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA — The mother of a 15-year-old boy who was detained at gunpoint by federal immigration agents is seeking $1m …

Zach Montague / New York Times: Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign

Marianne LeVine / Washington Post: Judge blocks Trump's broad expansion of expedited removal of migrants

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

Tom Schaller / Public Notice:

Making Slavery Great Again — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one 👇 — 🇺🇸 Subscribe to PN 🇺🇸 — American slavery was not so bad. It was even beneficial to slaves and their descendants. — Donald Trump, his MAGA allies …

Ken Bensinger / New York Times:

He Plagiarized and Promoted Falsehoods. The White House Embraces Him. — Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration. — The day after President Trump announced the federal takeover of law enforcement in Washington …

Dave Lawler / Axios:

Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government — Centuries' worth of experience walked out of key government agencies this summer, including high-level departures from the CDC, Pentagon and intelligence community just in the past week.

Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:

CHP to protect ex-VP Kamala Harris after Trump pulls Secret Service detail, sources say — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will receive protection from the California Highway Patrol after President Donald Trump revoked her Secret Service protection, law enforcement sources said Friday.

Discussion: New York Times, Axios, Reuters and Associated Press

Los Angeles Times:

Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on the government to halt the deportation plans. — The removals would violate the Office of Refugee Resettlement's long-established practice of protecting such children, Wyden said.

Discussion: CNN

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.

Discussion: NBC News

Brian Mann / NPR:

As drug deaths hit a 5-year low, Trump continues to cite fentanyl as major threat — Drug deaths in the U.S. have plunged dramatically and steadily since the summer of 2023, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Eric Holthaus / The Guardian:

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump — Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, set to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission — Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov - one of the most widely used portals of climate information …

New York Times:

Trump's Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court — The decision is a big blow to President Trump's trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court. — A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that many of President Trump's …

Discussion: Reason, Reuters, Bloomberg, Washington Post and Axios

Discussion: New York Times and Reuters

CNN:

Chicago mayor signs order aimed at resisting Trump's planned immigration crackdown — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will sign an executive order Saturday laying out initial plans for how the city will try to resist President Donald Trump's planned immigration crackdown in the coming days.