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5:50 PM ET, September 14, 2025

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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 …
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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.
Discussion: The Korea Herald
Ahn Sung-mi / The Korea Herald:
No breakthrough in Korea-US talks on $350b tariff deal  —  Seoul emphasizes national interest amid stalled talks, while Georgia raid adds strain on alliance  —  South Korea's industry minister returned from the US on Sunday with no apparent progress on follow-up negotiations …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump says foreign experts welcome after South Korean outrage over raid
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
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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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
White House Seeks More Supreme Court Security Funding After Kirk Killing  —  In a notice to Congress, the Trump administration said the additional $58 million would go to the U.S. Marshals Service.  It also said it supported additional security for lawmakers.
Discussion: Politico
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Utah governor shares details on Charlie Kirk assassination investigation
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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Andrew Solender / Axios:   Rep. Michael McCaul won't seek reelection in 2026
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas will not seek reelection
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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Eva Hartog / Politico:
Why Putin won't end his war against the West
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Daily Mail
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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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Metro.co.uk and CBS News
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
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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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 …
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Associated Press:
After Kirk's killing a growing chorus of conservatives wants his critics ostracized or fired
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says 'Smart People Don't Like Me'  —  READ BETWEEN THE LINES  —  The president's remark drew laughter from a crowd of supporters.  —  DIVISIVE DUO  —  The comments were made while the frontman was on stage in Amsterdam.  —  PARTNER UPDATE  —  LASH OUT
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 …
Dana Bash / CNN:
GOP senator urges leaders to tone down rhetoric: 'When there's a fire, you pour water on it, not gasoline'  —  Republican Sen. James Lankford joins CNN's Dana Bash to discuss the rise in political violence and what leaders need to do to calm tensions after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Wadington / The Hill:
Lawmakers, Trump administration officials to remember Kirk at Kennedy Center vigil  —  Lawmakers, Trump administration officials and other dignitaries will honor the memory of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk at a vigil on Sunday evening.  —  The Kennedy Center will host the D.C. vigil at 6:30 p.m. EDT.
Discussion: Washington Times
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.
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.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Kate Connolly / The Guardian:
Far-right AfD's vote triples in elections in German bellwether state  —  Party takes 16.5% of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, behind governing CDU and Social Democrats  —  Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has more than tripled its support in local elections …
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.
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 …
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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CBS News:
Transcript: University of Chicago professor Robert Pape on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 14, 2025
Adam Wren / Politico:
Kirk's death reinvigorates Republicans' redistricting race
Jonathan Limehouse / USA Today:
US Secret Service agent put on leave for ‘karma’ post after Charlie Kirk's murder
Discussion: The Guardian, NewsMax.com and Breitbart
Politico:
Democratic mayors are backing colleges even 'if we're going to get our a—es handed to us'
Long Le / The Hill:
Trump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there's no going back
HuffPost:
Everyone Is Talking About The Double Standard Between How Trump Responded When Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated Vs. When A Minnesota Lawmaker Was Assassinated
Discussion: Daily Mail
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Lankford: ‘Just believing differently than some other American is not illegal’
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 13, 2025  —  President Donald J. Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve …
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
After Kirk's Killing, Suspect Joked That His ‘Doppelganger’ Did It
Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico:
Musk calls for new UK government at far-right rally in London
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Trump Is a Threat to the Economy
Erin Schumaker / Politico:
The ‘deep state’ is proving to Trump it's a worthy foe
New York Times:
Trump's Reversals on Immigration Mount Over Economic Concerns
Discussion: Raw Story
Stephen Prager / Truthout:
New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens' Passports Over Political Speech
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Intercept
 

 
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Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person

 
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