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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
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Korea Joongang Daily, UPI, The Korea Herald and Reuters
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
Seoul Says It Reached Deal With U.S. to Release Workers Detained in Hyundai Raid
Seoul Says It Reached Deal With U.S. to Release Workers Detained in Hyundai Raid
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동아일 …, Hartford Courant and New York Times
Hyung-Jin Kim / Associated Press:
South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in massive Hyundai plant raid in Georgia
South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in massive Hyundai plant raid in Georgia
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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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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 …
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 …
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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.
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Mother Jones and The Independent
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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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump attends the US Open as Rolex's guest despite Swiss tariffs. Mixed cheers and boos greet him
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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
The USTA's censorship of Trump dissent at the US Open is cowardly, hypocritical and un-American
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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.
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The Hill
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
Trump threatens ‘WAR’ in Chicago; Pritzker hits back at potential National Guard deployment
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Washington Post:
Johnson backs off claim that Trump was an ‘FBI informant’ in Epstein case — The statements from the House speaker come as Democrats and a small number of Republicans are pushing for legislation to compel the release of more files on Jeffrey Epstein. — Just now
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The Hill:
Midwest Democrats struggle to counter GOP on redistricting — Democrats in Indiana, Ohio and Missouri face few good options to counter the GOP in its efforts to push forward with redistricting. — In Texas, Democrats temporarily blocked efforts to pass a GOP-friendly House map by leaving …
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Dustin Gardiner / Politico:
Republicans brace for redistricting ‘catastrophe’ in California
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 …
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Rolling Stone and Raw Story
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.
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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.
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NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says — Postal traffic to the U.S. has fallen significantly after the Trump administration suspended a trade exemption rule in late August, according to a global postal union.
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The Hill, Associated Press and NewsMax.com
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 …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies — By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the U.S. death count from Covid-19 at 1.2 million.
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Politico, The Hill, Jamaica Observer, The Boston Globe and Breitbart
Associated Press:
A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled after Trump's order — Law enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing …
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 …
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NOTUS, One America News Network and New York Post
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 …
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Tampa Free Press and NewsMax.com
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance — The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online. — Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump …
New York Times:
The Spectacular Comeback Tour of a Crypto Convict — Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.
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.
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Raw Story
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 …
