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11:45 PM ET, September 16, 2025

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Aaron Blake / CNN:
Pam Bondi's ‘hate speech’ comments lead even some conservatives to cry foul  —  Within hours of Charlie Kirk's assassination last week, President Donald Trump signaled a rather curious crackdown.  —  “My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity …
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Erica Orden / Politico:
Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi … “There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society,” Bondi said.  She added that “we will absolutely target you …
Robby Soave / Reason:
Pam Bondi Is Really Wrong About Hate Speech  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi has made quite the First Amendment-related faux pas: In a recent interview about what the federal government could do to deter political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, she said the federal government would …
New York Times:
Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She'll Target ‘Hate Speech’  —  The attorney general also said she could investigate businesses that refused to print Charlie Kirk vigil posters as the Trump administration pushes to punish anyone who celebrated his killing.
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
G.O.P. Again Cedes Power on Tariffs to Avoid Crossing Trump  —  House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump's tariffs.  —  The Republican-led House moved anew on Tuesday …
Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press and Axios
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing  —  The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Investors, Trump Close In on TikTok Deal With China  —  Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are part of consortium that would control 80% stake  —  TikTok's U.S. business would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle , Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz under …
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Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again … The latest extension gives negotiators until Dec. 16 to find a new owner for TikTok.Andres Kudacki for The New York Times  —  President Trump on Tuesday extended for the fourth time the deadline for when TikTok had to be separated from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.
TMZ.com:
Fake Charlie Kirk Shooter Hit With Child Porn Charges  —  FAKE CHARLIE KIRK SHOOTER SLAPPED WITH KIDDIE PORN CHARGES ... After Confessing to FBI  —  The man accused of obstructing the Charlie Kirk murder probe is in even more hot water ... he's now been charged with possessing child porn.
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Reuters:
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Charlie Kirk's accused assassin
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Business Insider and the Bots … On Thursday afternoon, Business Insider staffers received a long-awaited memo from editor in chief Jamie Heller, outlining the Axel Springer-owned outlet's rules for using artificial intelligence.  The guidelines had been eagerly anticipated since earlier this summer …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Trump files $15 billion defamation lawsuit against ‘New York Times’
Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
South Korea to examine Georgia ICE raid for possible human rights abuses  —  South Korea vowed to investigate whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated human rights after it detained hundreds at a Hyundai-LG plant.  —  SEOUL — The South Korean government said it will look …
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Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / Vanity Fair:
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause  —  By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.  —  Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words …
Politico:
Republican pushes Patel for faster release of Epstein files  —  Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy pressed FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday to continue the release of files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, specifically information about who other than Epstein, if anyone …
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Politico:
Adam Schiff and Kash Patel get into a shouting match
Politico:
Georgia Supreme Court declines to hear Fani Willis' appeal of her removal from Trump election case … Willis said she disagreed with the court's decision, but would direct her office to make the case file and evidence available to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia so it can appoint a new prosecutor to replace her.
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Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Oklahoma court stops social studies standards with 2020 election misinformation from taking effect  —  The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily put on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:   Oklahoma Schools Were Instructed to Hold a Moment of Silence for Charlie Kirk
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes  —  The Trump administration ordered a famous Civil War-era war image removed from a National Park Service site in Georgia as it moves to promote what it considers a more positive view of American history.
Discussion: PennLive, Daily Kos, TheGrio and The Hill
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Ja'han Jones / MSNBC:   Trump admin reportedly removes slavery history from national parks
Washington Post:
House Republicans threaten to cancel anyone who disparages Charlie Kirk  —  Two Republicans introduced resolutions seeking to punish Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) for commenting on Kirk's death and resharing a social media post that harshly criticized him.  —  Republicans in Congress …
Politico:
Former GOP officials fear US strikes on alleged drug smugglers aren't legal … Yoo, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, authored the Bush administration's legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the early years of Bush's war on terror.
Discussion: Raw Story, Jacobin and Newsweek
Josh Skluzacek / KSTP-TV:
'We're shutting this thing down': Minneapolis starts clearing homeless encampment hosted by landlord after 7 shot  —  Minneapolis starts clearing homeless encampment hosted by landlord after 7 shot  —  City officials have started clearing a south Minneapolis homeless encampment the morning …
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and MPR News
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
RFK Jr.'s Crusade Against Vaccines Hits Its Action Phase  —  His anti-vax-stacked advisory committee is expected to revise rules for life-saving hepatitis B vax.  —  ∙ Paid  —  HEPATITIS B IS A HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE, blood-borne disease that's been called a “silent killer” …
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Homeless Man Found Hanging From Tree in Vicksburg, Raising Fears After Earlier DSU Hanging  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email  —  The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area off of Washington Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon.
Zachary Pleat / Media Matters for America:
Fox continued Trump's campaign to fire Fed board member Lisa Cook just before reports seemed to exonerate her  —  The Trump administration and Fox have accused Cook of mortgage fraud as part of a long-running effort to influence or seize control of the Fed
Discussion: Reuters and Deseret News
Alan Sepinwall / What's Alan Watching?:
Don't stop believing  —  Hi, everybody.  Today was going to be the second installment of the What Else Is Alan Watching? bonus tier.  I had everything set up: a video Q&A, some quick discussion of the Emmys (Yay, Pitt!  Boo, Nate Bargatze!), a link to The Sopranos trivia quiz I wrote …
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Musk's X can sue watchdog Media Matters in Texas, US judge rules  —  Billionaire Elon Musk's social media company X can keep its lawsuit against nonprofit advocacy group Media Matters in federal court in Texas, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting arguments that the venue was improper and the case should be moved to California.
Discussion: The Hill
IndieCommerce:
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success  —  An Instant New York Times Bestseller  • A Washington Post Notable Book  • A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year  —  “A first-rate financial thriller …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89  —  He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.  —  Robert Redford in 2013.  With a distaste for Hollywood's dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking …
 
 
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Democrat wins special election for seat held by slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman
Discussion: Newsweek
New York Times:
Trump Invokes Kirk's Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Frustrated GOP senators blow steam on Russia: ‘Sick of’ Trump, Vance ‘love affair’ with Putin
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Lawmakers Are Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouths On Political Violence
New York Times:
Social Platforms Duck Blame for Inflaming Divisions Before Charlie Kirk's Death
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Washington Post has broken my heart
Discussion: IJR
Maydeen Merino / Washington Examiner:
Democrats call Marjorie Taylor Greene out for DOGE hearing on weather modification
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Times
Associated Press:
U.S. Navy  —  New top admiral takes over the US Navy amid military firings
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy
Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action
Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:
Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases
Discussion: Daily Kos, Bloomberg and New Republic
 

 
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is considering deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy
 
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