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Wall Street Journal:
Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial — The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better. — Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation's Attorney General? Progressives have spent years trying to create and define a category called “hate speech.”
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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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New York Times:
Trump Invokes Kirk's Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents — In the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, revoke visas and designate certain groups as domestic terrorists.
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Fortune, Robert Reich, The Hill, NOTUS, Wall Street Journal and The Week
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
GOP Lawmakers Are Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouths On Political Violence
GOP Lawmakers Are Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouths On Political Violence
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The Gateway Pundit and Urban Milwaukee
Peachy Keenan / The Federalist:
Anyone Who Blames ‘Both Sides’ After Charlie Kirk's Murder Is A Liar And Coward
New York Times:
Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She'll Target ‘Hate Speech’
Bondi Prompts Broad Backlash After Saying She'll Target ‘Hate Speech’
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MSNBC, The Guardian, Salon, Civil Discourse …, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Fox News, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, FIRE, Tampa Bay Times, Daily Caller News Foundation, New Republic, HotAir, The Free Press, Slate, Daily Kos, Deadline, Reason, LGBTQ Nation, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, Politico and Babylon Bee
NBC News:
Trump administration says it will target far left groups for Kirk's assassination. Prosecutors made no such link.
Trump administration says it will target far left groups for Kirk's assassination. Prosecutors made no such link.
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Roll Call, The Daily Sceptic, The Federalist and Washington Times
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The third Red Scare
Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle during president's U.K. visit — Trump, who arrived in the U.K. for a state visit, is scheduled to spend most of Wednesday at Windsor Castle with members of the royal family. — Police in the U.K. arrested four people …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Live Updates: U.K. Prepares Royal Welcome for Trump in 2nd State Visit
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Fox News, HuffPost, Al Jazeera, Breitbart, CBS News, NPR, TMZ.com, Washington Times, Daily Mail, Associated Press, KSTP-TV, The Guardian, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com and ABC News
Bloomberg:
Bessent, Like Fed Governor, Made Contradictory Mortgage Pledges — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent once agreed to occupy two different houses as his “principal residence” at the same time, mortgage documents show — the same kind of contradictory pledges that President Donald Trump …
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New York Sun, New York Times and Reuters
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Senate Democrat: Patel ‘was testifying really for an audience of one: President Trump’ — Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) rebuffed comments FBI Director Kash Patel made Tuesday during a tense oversight hearing, calling Patel's testimony “a performance.” — “It was a performance.
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
G.O.P. Again Cedes Power on Tariffs to Avoid Crossing Trump
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Politico, Associated Press, Axios, The Hill, Washington Times, Deseret News, Bloomberg, Erick Erickson's Show Notes and HuffPost
Eleanor Mueller / Semafor:
Dem voters want shutdown fight, poll shows
Dem voters want shutdown fight, poll shows
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HuffPost, CNN, NBC News, New York Times and The Hill
Stuart Anderson / Forbes:
Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid — When ICE agents decided to arrest over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a White House-imposed daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid …
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, Jacobin and JURISTnews
David Klepper / Associated Press:
Foreign disinformation about Charlie Kirk's killing seeks to widen US divisions — Russia moved to amplify online conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing just hours after it happened, seeding social media with the frightening claim that America is slipping into civil war.
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ABC News
Freddie Clayton / NBC News:
Lab tests show Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, his wife says — Russian authorities said Navalny died last year after feeling unwell following a walk around the high-security Arctic penal colony where he was serving a combined 30 ½-year jail sentence.
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New York Daily News, Washington Examiner, The Sun, Al Jazeera, RTÉ, Reuters and The Japan Times
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Alexei Navalny's widow says he was poisoned, contradicting Kremlin
Alexei Navalny's widow says he was poisoned, contradicting Kremlin
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Politico, Extra.ie and Associated Press
Newsmax Wires / NewsMax.com:
Ronny Jackson to Newsmax: Trans People Need Treatment — Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a physician and former White House doctor, told Newsmax on Tuesday that he believes inpatient mental health facilities should play a role in treating transgender people, whom he said have underlying psychiatric issues.
ABC News:
Trump officials pressuring federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James: Sources — Prosecutors have not found clear evidence James committed a crime, sources say. — New York State Attorney General Letitia James makes an announcement at the Office …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and RedState
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
DOJ impeachments could continue Democratic retaliation against Ilhan Omar censure push — A Texas Democrat is planning to file impeachment articles against President Donald Trump's top law enforcement officials as a partisan slap flight plays out on the House floor this week.
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Axios and Washington Examiner
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Tony Romm / New York Times:
Fired by Trump, a Former Labor Official Warns Against Politicizing Economic Data — Erika McEntarfer, in her first appearance since she was ousted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cautioned that “economic data must be free from partisan influence.” — When the federal government revealed …
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Politico, Business Insider and The Gateway Pundit
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NBC News:
Suspect in custody after targeted ‘terrorist’ incident at FBI office in Pittsburgh, officials say — The suspect, Donald Henson, allegedly crashed into the gate, then grabbed an American flag from the vehicle and threw it over the fence before fleeing, the FBI said.
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Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and CBS News
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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.
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Raw Story, Jacobin, Newsweek, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Deseret News and The Daily Caller
David Strom / HotAir:
YIKES! ABC ‘Journalist’ Waxes Poetic About How Loving Tyler Robinson Was — The whitewashing of Tyler Robinson begins. — I suppose it was bound to happen. Since the attempts to make Robinson out to be a MAGA Republican or an extremist Groyper have had limited success …
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New York Post, NewsMax.com, Mediaite, Townhall, twitchy.com and Newsbusters
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Tuesday's Final Word
Tuesday's Final Word
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PJ Media, Data, Politics …, Daily Mail, Ringside at the Reckoning, RedState and The American Mind
Kris Van Cleave / CBS News:
Spirit Airlines flight warned to move farther from Air Force One over Long Island: “Pay attention. Get off the iPad.” — Air traffic controllers urgently and repeatedly ordered the pilots of Spirit Airlines flight 1300 to turn away from Air Force One Tuesday over Long Island, New York.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Sun, Mediaite and Fox News
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
‘Pay Attention’: Spirit Flight Gets Earful From Controller For Nearing Air Force One
‘Pay Attention’: Spirit Flight Gets Earful From Controller For Nearing Air Force One
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The National Pulse
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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The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Laura Ann Rosenbury / New York Times:
Barnard President: Now Is the Time for Colleges to Host Difficult Speakers — Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking on a college campus. This is a grim moment for higher education, for our country and for freedom of speech. Violence is never a legitimate means of disagreeing with a speaker on a college campus.
Jeff Amy / Associated Press:
Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election — Georgia's Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who rejected Donald Trump's call to help overturn the state's 2020 election results, said Wednesday that he's running for governor in 2026.
Associated Press:
Justice Department says it's suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states — The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has sued Oregon and Maine for failing to turn over their voter registration lists, marking the first lawsuits the department has brought against states …
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US Department of Justice, Democracy Docket, CNN, The Post Millennial, OPB, Washington Examiner, Election Law Blog and NewsMax.com
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults — Republicans in Congress are pursuing a wave of new laws aimed at D.C.'s criminal justice system. — House lawmakers voted Tuesday to allow 14-year-olds to be tried as adults for serious crimes and to treat young people more harshly …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Economic Magic Trick Is Coming Undone — The essence of President Trump's pitch to the American people last year was simple: They could have it both ways. — They could have a powerful, revitalized economy and “mass deportations now.” They could build new factories …
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The Hill
William Zheng / South China Morning Post:
Exclusive | Trump's China trip may hinge on Boeing and soybean deals, sources say — ‘Significant progress’ made on plans since Beijing's invitation to US leader for formal state visit, source says — China and the United States are in the “final stage” of negotiations for a state visit …
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” …
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New York Times, CNN, New York Post and NPR
Olga R. Rodriguez / Associated Press:
University of California students, professors and staff sue the Trump administration — The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday …
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Washington Post, Erin In The Morning, New York Times, UPI, Modern Diplomacy, Washington Examiner and Reuters
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Inside Stephen A. Smith's near-$40M-a-year bonanza as he launches into political prime time — Stephen A. Smith is already probably the most influential sports commentator in the media game. His salary proves it, as he is pushing $40 million a year in earnings, sources briefed on his contracts told The Athletic.
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