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New York Times:
On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups  —  Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk's podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay out their plans.  —  Trump administration officials on Monday responded …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Advisers Prepare to Target Left-Leaning Groups After Kirk Shooting  —  GOP looks to harness outrage, draw younger voters ahead of midterm elections  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is moving swiftly to galvanize the outpouring of support for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republicans embrace speech limits  —  President Trump and MAGA spent years lampooning censorship, discrimination against conservatives, and progressive “cancel culture.”  — Now in power — and riding an outpouring of grief and fury over Charlie Kirk's tragic killing — they're enforcing speech codes to punish ideological opponents.
Breccan F. Thies / The Federalist:
We Can Give No Clemency To The Assassination Left  —  Playing around the people who inspire violence is not an option.  Right now, to hold the country together, their movement can receive no quarter.  —  Last week, conservatives were bludgeoned, once again, by the reality that they live in a country full of people who want them dead.
Aaron Blake / CNN:
Trump's cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric  —  Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox's plea for people to stop turning Charlie Kirk's assassination into a political food fight appears to have fallen on deaf ears among many on the right.
Discussion: Raw Story, Fox News and Townhall
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
'We will do it in Charlie's name': Stephen Miller vows vengeance for Kirk's murder
Reuters:
Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official  — Ann Arbor finds no tax rule violations by Cook  — Trump administration accuses Cook of mortgage fraud  —  The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve …
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to unseat Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook ahead of rate vote  —  An appeals court ruled Monday that Lisa Cook can remain a Federal Reserve governor, rebuffing President Donald Trump's efforts to remove her just ahead of a key vote on interest rates.
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Appeals court allows Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to keep her job
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Senate Votes to Confirm Trump Pick Stephen Miran to Fed Board
Washington Post:
National park to remove photo of enslaved man's scars  —  The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”  —  The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related …
Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump tells GOP to cut out Democrats on funding bill as Schumer warns of shutdown  —  Republicans say they're eyeing a short-term funding bill to keep the government afloat for seven weeks.  But they'll need bipartisan votes to pass it.  —  WASHINGTON — A standoff over how to prevent …
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Noah Robertson / Washington Post:   Congress moves to counter Hegseth on base names that evoke Confederacy
Samantha-Jo Roth / Washington Examiner:
Geoff Duncan launches Democratic bid for Georgia governor, vows to ‘stand up’ to Trump
Discussion: NBC News and Politico
NBC News:
Kash Patel to face grilling over Charlie Kirk investigation and his tenure as FBI director  —  The FBI director has faced criticism even from conservative figures after Kirk's assassination, which came after a string of firings at the bureau and an intense focus on immigration cases.
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New York Times:   A ‘Broken’ Trust: F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: House Dem group unveils steep demand list to stop shutdown  —  A new group of younger House Democrats is issuing a steep demand to Republicans: Repeal major portions of the “one big, beautiful bill” that's now law and other Trump policies or prepare for a government shutdown.
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Associated Press:
The Democratic Party is in fits over Mamdani's bid for NYC mayor. Republicans are loving it
Seth J. Frantzman / Jerusalem Post:
UN accuses Israel of genocide after IDF begins Gaza City invasion  —  Trump says Israel won't be hitting Qatar again  • Netanyahu informed Trump before Israel bombed Qatar  • Netanyahu says Qatar leading isolation efforts  —  EU executive will adopt new sanctions against Israel on Wednesday, spokesperson says
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CNN:
More than 10% of Gaza's population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says
Discussion: Jewish Insider
Amber Kite / FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth:
Texas Tech student expelled after video showing Charlie Kirk rant on campus  —  Cameron Giselle Booker, 18 (Source: Lubbock County Jail)  — An 18-year-old Texas Tech University student is no longer enrolled at the university after video circulated that appeared to show her arguing with another person about Charlie Kirk.
Washington Post:
‘It was me’: Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting appeared to confess in Discord chat  —  ‘Im sorry for all of this’ read a message from the suspect's account, according to two people familiar with the message and screenshots obtained by The Post.  —  The 22-year-old suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing appears …
New York Times:
How China Is Weathering the Trade War With Trump  —  Tariffs triggered a plunge in China's exports to the United States, but its global trade surplus is larger because sales to other regions are surging.  —  The trade war this year between China and the United States started with a bang …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Al Jazeera
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Joe Rennison / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. and China Agree on ‘Framework’ for TikTok Deal, Bessent Says
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Fired By The Post … Last Thursday, on September 11, Karen Attiah was walking out of a martial arts class when she noticed a missed call from a Washington, D.C., number.  Before she could figure out who had tried to reach her, an email landed in her inbox.
Politico:
GOP lawmakers don't sound enthused about RFK Jr. … Trump's spokesperson, Kush Desai, has said the president has “full confidence” in Kennedy, while Kennedy's, Andrew Nixon, has described the two as “united” behind Kennedy's agenda.  But some prominent Republican lawmakers …
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
U.S. Strikes a 2nd Venezuela Boat, Killing 3, Trump Says  —  The president said the vessel was heading to the United States, but he did not offer details about its location.  Legal specialists condemned the action as illegal.  —  The U.S. military struck a boat for the second time this month …
The Onion:
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter's Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases  —  WASHINGTON, UT—As he described a massive backlog of murders that continued to stump the agency he leads, desperate FBI director Kash Patel reportedly asked the family of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson …
New York Times:
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips.  The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. … This summer, Steve Witkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, paid a visit to the coast of Sardinia, a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea crowded with super yachts.  —  On one of those extravagant vessels …
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
Banning mRNA COVID vaccine is ‘the goal,’ Florida surgeon general says  —  Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo says he does not want mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be available in Florida.  In a podcast interview published Sunday, Ladapo was asked about the state's announcement this month …
Discussion: STAT
Politico:
Judge says she can't help deportees Trump admin sent to Ghana, despite torture fears … Chutkan's ruling came after four days of intense litigation brought by the five men, who were abruptly sent to Ghana earlier this month under a secretive agreement reached between the Trump administration and the Ghanaian government.
Politico:
Top AfD politician makes surprise visit to White House  —  Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, held talks at the White House this week, two people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.  —  The visit highlights the burgeoning relationship between …
Discussion: Newsweek
Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
Arnold Schwarzenegger enters fight on US House control, urges vote against new California districts  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday entered the national battle over U.S. House control, urging voters to reject a California ballot proposal to rejigger districts that he said would erode democratic principles …
Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
Channel 4 to Mark Trump's U.K. Visit With “Longest Uninterrupted Reel of Untruths Ever Broadcast on Television”  —  ‘Trump v The Truth’ will run for several hours on Sept. 17 and is set to be punctuated by “brief text-based fact-checks.”  —  Channel 4 is welcoming Donald Trump to the U.K …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting  —  Karen Attiah said she was fired for “speaking out against political violence” and America's apathy toward guns.  —  Karen Attiah, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, said she was fired last week …
Politico:
Senate Republicans ready Obamacare rescue … An expiration of the credits, he said, “would hurt my state, Alabama.”  —  The development comes as Democrats are mounting a huge push to make an extension of the enhanced tax credits necessary for them to support a bill that funds the government beyond Sept. 30.
Discussion: Deseret News, The Hill and NOTUS
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Trump heads to U.K. for carefully choreographed state visit  —  King Charles III and President Donald Trump will seek to avoid talk of Jeffrey Epstein or their policy differences as they project unity on the world stage.  —  Just now  —  President Donald Trump is set to spend nearly …
 
 
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
MAGA's Doxing War Over Charlie Kirk Is Already Going Off the Rails
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
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Catherine Zini / New York Post:
NJ surgeon who ‘cheered’ Charlie Kirk's murder resigns — as suspended nurse who called him out is reinstated
Sophia Cai / Politico:
Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT
Discussion: The Hill
MSNBC:
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NBC News:
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