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3:55 PM ET, September 7, 2025

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Chris Hippensteel / New York Times:
What We Know About the Hyundai-LG Plant Immigration Raid in Georgia  —  Several hundred workers, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained at the construction site of a sprawling electric vehicle battery plant on Thursday.  —  Immigration officials arrested nearly 500 workers …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
South Korea Negotiates Release of Korean Workers Detained in Georgia Raid  —  The South Korean government said on Sunday that it would send a charter plane to the United States to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in an immigration raid.  —  South Korea reached a deal with the United States …
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
Seoul Says It Reached Deal With U.S. to Release Workers Detained in Hyundai Raid  —  South Korea's presidential office says plane will be sent to repatriate them  —  SEOUL—South Korea and the U.S. have reached a deal to release Korean citizens who were detained last week in a large-scale immigration raid …
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in massive Hyundai plant raid in Georgia
Anthony Salvanto / CBS News:
CBS News poll: On Trump deploying National Guard, divisions over impact on crime, rights  —  The National Guard was deployed to Washington, D.C., and reportedly may be sent to other cities.  But wherever Americans live, it is speaking to larger issues - ranging from crime and their safety …
Discussion: New York Sun
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NBC News:
Poll: Trump's job ratings stay negative; Americans express strong support for vaccines  —  Trump's overall approval sits at 43%, while 78% of respondents said they support the use of vaccines.  Inflation and the cost of living are the top economic concerns.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Independent
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one.  Not these Americans.  —  Pharmacies and doctors are struggling to adjust to a new regulatory environment for updated coronavirus vaccines that are no longer broadly recommended.  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy …
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Washington Post:
Why some Republicans are newly worried about RFK Jr.
Discussion: NAM
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Donald Trump Booed at U.S. Open Men's Final Match  —  President Donald Trump returned to Queens, the New York City borough where he grew up, for the U.S. Open men's final Sunday — and he got a Bronx cheer from the crowd.  —  When Trump was shown briefly on the jumbotrons at Arthur Ashe Stadium during …
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Bryan Armen Graham / The Guardian:
The USTA's censorship of Trump dissent at the US Open is cowardly, hypocritical and un-American
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Stop Funding Trump's Takeover  —  In about three weeks, the government's funding will run out.  Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down.
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Trump Tramples Congress's Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P.  —  On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have done little to stop him.  —  NEWS ANALYSIS  —  On national security …
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate GOP frustration grows after quick exits of key Trump officials
Discussion: Fox News
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 6, 2025  —  Today the social media account of President Donald J. Trump posted an AI-generated image of Trump as if he were Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in front of the Chicago skyline with military helicopters and flames and the caption “Chipocalypse Now.”
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Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Trump threatens ‘WAR’ in Chicago; Pritzker hits back at potential National Guard deployment
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law.  Now He's Getting Credit for Its Projects.  —  Signs bearing President Trump's name have gone up at major construction projects financed by the 2021 law, which he strenuously opposed ahead of its passage.  —  In southern Connecticut …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Trump's team plans harder test for U.S. citizenship — and more leeway to reject applicants  —  The Trump administration is planning to make the test to become a U.S. citizen more difficult, possibly with an essay requirement that would help give officials wide discretion on which immigrants are approved.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Russia strikes Ukrainian government building for first time, in largest air attack of war  —  Russia launched its largest aerial assault of the Ukraine war overnight into Sunday, deploying more than 800 drones and striking a government building in Kyiv for the first time.
ABC News:
Zelenskyy says Trump's Alaska summit ‘gave Putin what he wanted’  —  The Ukrainian president spoke with ABC News days before massive Russian strikes.  —  President Zelenskyy and ABC's Martha Raddatz tour a manufacturing plant in western Ukraine that was attacked by Russia.
Discussion: Axios and Fox News
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Scott Lincicome / The Atlantic:
America's Perón  —  Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock.  Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.  —  When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina's economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg takes step towards run for Congress  —  Jack Schlossberg, a writer and grandson of President John F. Kennedy, said Sunday he is forming an exploratory committee to run for Congress in New York. … - The seat, New York's 12th congressional district …
Patrick Temple-West / Financial Times:
Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years  —  Rising premiums add to pressure on households already feeling the pinch from the high price of goods  —  US health insurers, reeling from slumping share prices, are raising insurance premiums by the most in 15 years …
Ben Makuch / The Guardian:
Blackwater founder and Maga disciple Erik Prince pitching services in Ukraine  —  Sources say Prince, whose firm's contractors committed 2007 Iraq massacre, eager to get into valuable drone sector  —  Amid reports that Donald Trump's administration is considering using US private military contractors …
Christopher Mathias / The Guardian:
Texas attorney general wants students to pray in school - unless they're Muslim  —  Ken Paxton, who is running for US Senate, is urging schools to say the Lord's Prayer as a Republican law goes into effect  —  Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general running for US Senate, has long believed in school prayer.
CNN:
GOP leaders won't help Massie's bid for reelection as Trump plots his ouster  —  President Donald Trump and his top political advisers are plotting an aggressive push to oust one of his most persistent Republican adversaries: Rep. Thomas Massie.  —  And House GOP leaders won't stand in Trump's way.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kendall Wright / ABC News:
Massie on Epstein files: 'We can't avoid justice to avoid embarrassment for some very powerful men'  —  Khanna says there will be enough votes in the House to force the files' release.  —  Rep. Thomas Massie speaks during a news conference with alleged victims of disgraced financier …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Nancy Altman / The Hill:
Trump is breaking Social Security  —  Your monthly Social Security payment hasn't arrived on time.  You call Social Security's 1-800 number, and a chatbot answers.  The bot provides no helpful information.  You repeatedly ask to be connected to an agent, until finally you are disconnected.
Joel Schectman / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Hackers Pretended to Be a Top U.S. Lawmaker During Trade Talks  —  FBI is investigating a scheme to spy on trade groups using fake emails from China committee chair Rep. John Moolenaar  —  As the Trump administration's contentious trade talks with China were set to begin in Sweden last July …
Discussion: Reuters and NewsMax.com
 
 
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Mike Brock / Notes From The Circus:
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Miranda Yaver / MSNBC:
Dr. Oz's new plan to root out Medicare ‘waste’ is actually a recipe for disaster
Discussion: AAF
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Conservatives have a message for Trump: We want more babies
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
‘No outreach’ to Epstein victims despite Trump's vow to investigate, lawyers say
Jonathan Kanter / New York Times:
Why Google Got Off Easy
Discussion: The Hill
Rachel Leingang / The Guardian:
Arizona Republicans seek to expel lawmaker who reposted Ice raid information
Washington Post:
Newsom won't stop mocking Trump — and Trump keeps taking the bait
NBC News:
The White House is exploring how to keep Trump's tariffs if the Supreme Court strikes them down
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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New York Times:
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

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