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8:25 AM ET, September 8, 2025

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Rachael Bade / Politico:
'I'm Gonna Punch You in the F—ing Face': Scott Bessent Threatens an Administration Rival … A private dinner attended by dozens of administration officials and close advisers to President Donald Trump was temporarily marred by a dramatic clash between two of Trump's top economic officials …
Discussion: Washingtonian and Raw Story
NOTUS:
RFK Jr. Touted a CDC Biosurveillance Program That Doesn't Appear to Exist Yet  —  When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his vision of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a recent op-ed, he cited one of the agency's biosurveillance programs as a prime example …
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Trump defends RFK Jr.: 'He's a different kind of a guy'
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
RFK Jr. Lets Slip His Trump Flattery Was All for Show
Discussion: The Hill
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
Punchbowl News:
Virginia special election Tuesday shrinks GOP margins  —  Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw, a Democrat, is expected to sail through Tuesday's special election to fill the late Rep. Gerry Connolly's (D-Va.) seat, complicating Speaker Mike Johnson's majority math.
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Punchbowl News:
9/8/25 ☀️ AM: … Senate Republicans plan on triggering the so-called “nuclear option” to unilaterally change the chamber's rules to allow for “en bloc” confirmation of non-Cabinet executive branch nominees, dramatically speeding up the process. … But the new rules won't apply to judicial nominees.
Discussion: Politico and Roll Call
David Waldstein / New York Times:
Trump Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match  —  With the president in attendance at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the men's final began as hundreds of people were still waiting to go through security screening.  —  The U.S. Open men's tennis final got off to a slow …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Donald Trump Booed at U.S. Open Men's Final Match
Eli Hager / ProPublica:
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security  —  DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse.
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Nancy Altman / The Hill:   Trump is breaking Social Security
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.
Discussion: New York Sun, The Hill and NewsMax.com
Bloomberg:
US Migrant Raid Jolts South Korea, Stirs Investor Anxiety  —  The immigration raid on a Georgia EV battery plant run by two South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less than two weeks after President Lee Jae Myung's White House meeting with Donald Trump where Korean companies pledged to invest hundreds of billions in the US.
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Reuters:
South Korea to fly detained workers back as US vows more raids on employers
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 …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It's Time to Say So  —  President Donald Trump understands better than anyone else alive that his hold on his supporters—and on plenty of swing voters, too—depends on the mere perception that he's strong, wins everywhere, always acts boldly …
Discussion: New York Sun
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Perils of the Pentagon's Plan to Use Military Lawyers to Adjudicate Immigration Cases  —  The Pentagon is planning to divert up to 600 military lawyers (known as “JAGs” - members of the Judge Advocate General's corps) to serve as temporary immigration judges.  The idea is to dispose of immigration cases faster.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Washington Post:
States face massive new costs under Trump budget cuts  —  Governors are making budgetary decisions in anticipation of added costs and responsibilities they will have to take on.  —  Just now  —  States are scrambling to prepare for an unprecedented shift of costs and responsibilities under …
Discussion: CBS News and Fortune
Wall Street Journal:
Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump.  It's Paying Off.  —  Administration opens land to drilling and moves to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy; but crude prices have dropped  —  Oil billionaire Harold Hamm high-fived Donald Trump on election night as results trickled in at the Mar-a-Lago watch party.
Politico:
Why California's political class is begging Alex Padilla to run for governor … Padilla does not command the clout or near-universal name recognition that Harris does, despite his decade in statewide office, and he lacks the sizzle of politicians like Newsom, a likely presidential contender …
Stephen Greenblatt / New York Times:
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself  —  The Trump administration's assault on America's universities by cutting billions of dollars of federal support for scientific and medical research has called up from somewhere deep in my memory the phrase “duck and cover.”
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 …
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 …
Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Trump delivers ultimatum to Hamas: Accept deal and release hostages or pay the consequences  —  Trump says there will not be another warning as 50 hostages remain held with only 20 assessed alive  —  President Donald Trump issued his “last warning” to Hamas to accept his deal and release …
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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
Discussion: NOTUS
 
 
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Anthony Blair / New York Post:
Horrid video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's slaughter on Charlotte train is met with deafening silence from Dem leaders, media
David French / New York Times:
It Doesn't Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is
Jemima Kelly / Financial Times:
Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lagoland
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Taking Credit for Infrastructure Projects Funded by Biden Legislation He Opposed
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one. Not these Americans.
Avery Lotz / Axios:
“Despicable and thoughtless”: Vance's drug vessel strike praise slammed by senator
Kendall Wright / ABC News:
Massie on Epstein files: 'We can't avoid justice to avoid embarrassment for some very powerful men'
Discussion: Tampa Free Press and NewsMax.com
Seth Masket / Tusk:
It wasn't her fault (or was it?)  —  Democratic Party chairs on the 2024 election results
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

New York Times:
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate
 
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