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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer … Rachael Sirianni first learned her lab might be in trouble just a few weeks into the new year. A professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, in Worcester, Sirianni focuses primarily on an aggressive form of pediatric brain cancer known as medulloblastoma.
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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America's Cancer-Research System — Here are the takeaways from The New York Times Times Magazine article on how the cancer-research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.
New York Times:
Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says — Gov. Spencer Cox said the suspect had been “radicalized,” and noted he had a romantic partner who is transitioning from male to female who is cooperating fully with investigators. — Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah on Sunday provided …
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NBC News:
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox shares new details about Charlie Kirk shooting suspect: Full interview — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) joins Meet the Press after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, saying the suspect came from a conservative family “but his ideology was very different than his family.”
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Utah governor shares details on Charlie Kirk assassination investigation — Republican Gov. Spencer Cox also railed against social media, saying on NBC News' “Meet the Press” that “cancer probably isn't a strong enough word.” — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on Sunday provided updates …
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Fox News:
Kilmeade apologizes for remarks on homelessness, mental illness — ‘Fox & Friends’ co-host Brian Kilmeade admits fault over previous comments after the murder of Iryna Zarutska.
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Althea Legaspi / Rolling Stone:
Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill ‘Em’ While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help
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Oliver O'Connell / The Independent:
Fox News' host Brian Kilmeade says 'just kill ‘em’ during discussion about mentally ill homeless people
Fox News' host Brian Kilmeade says 'just kill ‘em’ during discussion about mentally ill homeless people
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The Independent, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story and PennLive
Yoo Jee-ho / Yonhap News Agency:
U.S. Deputy State Secretary Landau expresses regrets over detention of S. Koreans — A senior U.S. state department official on Sunday expressed regrets over the recent mass detention of South Korean workers in America and vowed to prevent similar occurrences.
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The Korea Herald
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
US Official Offers Regrets Over Detention of South Koreans — US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia. — Landau, in Seoul for a Korea-US vice foreign ministerial meeting …
Nicholas Kerr / ABC News:
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul won't seek reelection after 11 terms — The 11-term Congressman joins two other House Republicans retiring. — In this Sept. 24, 2024, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul presides over a hearing scheduled with Secretary …
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas will not seek reelection
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas will not seek reelection
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Washington Post:
Boosted by summits in Alaska and China, Putin moves against Europe, Ukraine — Russia has been emboldened in its strategy of splitting the U.S. from Europe while pushing ever harder to gain a military victory in Ukraine. — Since President Vladimir Putin's invitation to Alaska by President Donald Trump …
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Rolling Stone:
Inside Stephen Miller's Reign of Terror — Everything you loathe or love about Donald Trump's America, you hate or cherish about Miller's republic of fear — t was after 3 a.m. on Nov. 6 last year, and nobody on the planet was happier than a balding, slender man standing near the reception desk of the Hilton West Palm Beach.
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Raw Story
Stephen Prager / Truthout:
New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports Over Political Speech — The legislation would allow the Secretary of State to strip anyone's US passport with no legal due process. … Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives …
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Washington Post:
Who was arrested in Trump's D.C. crime emergency? We analyzed 1,273 records. — Arrests involving federal officers occurred in all eight city wards, but have been concentrated in the city's poorest, least White and most crime-riddled neighborhoods. — On President Donald Trump's orders …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump's Mission — President Trump does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all Americans. — The first few minutes of President Trump's Oval Office address after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week followed the conventional presidential playbook.
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Althouse and No More Mister Nice Blog
Sakshi Venkatraman / BBC:
Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth — Fourteen staff members at a US animal shelter have been taken to hospital after the FBI used an incinerator at the facility to burn two pounds of seized methamphetamine. — Staff and some 75 cats and dogs were evacuated …
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Metro.co.uk and CBS News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Americans told to watch what we say about ‘free speech icon’ Charlie Kirk — It was oddly fitting last Thursday to see the breaking news about the hunt for the campus assassin of right-wing radical Charlie Kirk merge almost seamlessly into the national commemorations for the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 …
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy — WITH HIS BROAD SHOULDERS, thick arms, and even thicker New England accent, ironworker Daniel Langlais is exactly the sort of American who is supposed to love Donald Trump's policies. But Langlais says he is dumbfounded …
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
After Kirk's Killing, Suspect Joked That His ‘Doppelganger’ Did It — Before he was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson sent friends messages showing that he was closely following news about the killing. — The day after Charlie Kirk was killed …
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Steve Schmidt / The Warning with Steve Schmidt:
Panic and cowardice at 30 Rock — This is the story of a letter written by a peacock, who was once proud. It is now abused by the owners of a new zoo that have drooped its tail and dulled its plume. Known once for integrity, the bird is now riddled with a necrotizing cancer …
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Raw Story
Long Le / The Hill:
Trump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there's no going back — Last month, the Trump administration and Nvidia worked out what some have called an unusual and surprising deal for the latter to export its defeatured AI chips. — That is, President Trump reversed a decision …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
Trans ‘partner’ of Charlie Kirk suspect ‘praised Joe Biden’ before conservative activist was shot... as link to bizarre ‘furry’ lifestyle revealed — The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Listen to the latest on the Daily Mail podcast — The transgender ‘partner’ of Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter shared …
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Politico:
Gavin Newsom just tried to fix one of his biggest Achilles' heels … The energy package comes at a high point for Newsom: He's taken some early leads in 2028 presidential primary polls and is increasingly viewed as his party's top pugilist against President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement.
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Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal:
UnitedHealth Is Spending Big on Trump Allies to Fix Its Washington Problems — The largest U.S. health insurer's Medicare business faces investigations and policy threats — As UnitedHealth Group faces government investigations and changes in federal payments that have hurt its results …
Alison Main / CNN:
Fetterman says Democrats have ‘forgotten why we lost’ and Trump is ‘not an autocrat’ — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman has a warning for his party: learn from the politically charged whirlwind that put Donald Trump back in the White House and secured Republicans control of both chambers of Congress or risk staying in the minority.
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NewsMax.com
Strength In Numbers:
People are more likely to support partisan violence when they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025 — I'm going to do something a bit different this week and lead off by highlighting a point from my long Friday column that I think is worth repeating.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Lankford: ‘Just believing differently than some other American is not illegal’ — Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that “just believing differently than some other American is not illegal” in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's death. — “I'm a conservative Republican.
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