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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.
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The Verge
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway — President Trump and his allies are capitalizing on the assassination of Charlie Kirk to open up fresh attacks on liberal institutions, donors and foundations. They seek to portray many on the left as traitors. — Appearing on Kirk's podcast on Monday …
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MSNBC, CNN, USA Today, The Cross Section and The Federalist
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.
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The Hill, Reason, The Intellectualist, Washington Post and PennLive
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Politico:
Carr splits from the GOP's social media crackdown after Kirk killing
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Adam Kinzinger, Techdirt, NewsMax.com and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Workers Are Getting Fired Over Posts Mocking Charlie Kirk's Death
Workers Are Getting Fired Over Posts Mocking Charlie Kirk's Death
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Washington Post, Axios, New York Sun, Reason and New York Post
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Cruz says First Amendment ‘absolutely protects hate speech’ in wake of Charlie Kirk killing
Cruz says First Amendment ‘absolutely protects hate speech’ in wake of Charlie Kirk killing
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New York Post, New Republic, The Hill, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
David Ingram / NBC News:
Musk's posts take a dark, inflammatory turn after Charlie Kirk killing
Musk's posts take a dark, inflammatory turn after Charlie Kirk killing
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NewsMax.com and PinkNews
Danielle Ofri / New York Times:
Kennedy Said He Wouldn't Take Away Vaccines. This Week Will Be the Test. — I was recently counseling a patient who was planning to become pregnant. In addition to prenatal vitamins, I discussed the vaccines recommended by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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The Guardian
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Politico:
Trump wants GOP lawmakers to embrace RFK Jr. They're having trouble.
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Washington Post, New York Times and Raw Story
Sophie Gardner / Politico:
Ousted director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to push back against RFK Jr.'s version of her firing
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Former C.D.C. Director to Tell Lawmakers She Was ‘Fired for Holding the Line’
Former C.D.C. Director to Tell Lawmakers She Was ‘Fired for Holding the Line’
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STAT
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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People, Variety, TMZ.com, Deseret News, The Atlantic, Daily Mail, The Wrap, Raw Story, CBS News, Rolling Stone, Reuters, The Post Millennial, UPI, PinkNews, Chicago Tribune and New York Post
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Bob Thomas / Associated Press:
Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and indie patriarch, dies at 89
Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and indie patriarch, dies at 89
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Axios, NBC News, New York Times, KSTP-TV, Variety, Daily Mail, Politico, al.com, New York Post, Rolling Stone, CBC News, CBS News, The Daily Caller, Advocate, New York Daily News, Palm Beach Post, The Wrap, Fortune, Reuters, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Deseret News, Free Thinking Through …, Salt Lake Tribune, El País, israelhayom.com, The Forward, MovieMaker Magazine and The Hill
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times:
Trump Sues The New York Times for Articles Questioning His Success — The lawsuit, filed by the president in federal court in Florida, claims The Times defamed him and sought to undermine his campaign in the 2024 election. — President Trump accused The New York Times and four of its reporters …
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Reuters, MSNBC, Washington Post, Politico, NBC News, New Republic, Election Law Blog, Variety, Raw Story and CBS News, more at Mediagazer »
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CNN:
Trump files $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
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Bloomberg, The Hill, Daily Kos, 24sight News, UPI and Washington Examiner
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
Trump files $15B defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
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The Washington Free Beacon, New Republic, NPR, The Guardian, Fox News, Deadline, Business Insider, The Post Millennial, New Jersey Online, RedState, Mercury News, RUMBLE, The Daily Signal, Reuters, New York Sun, Breitbart, Washington Times, Townhall, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Axios, TMZ.com, Blaze Media, Al Jazeera, israelhayom.com, Associated Press, The Independent, The Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, The Hill and American Greatness
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump-MAGA Fury Drove a Georgia GOPer Into Exile. He Just Struck Back. — In the wake of President Trump's failed violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, a major target of his fury was Geoff Duncan. As the lieutenant governor of Georgia, Duncan was one of the few Republicans in the country …
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New York Times
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Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
South Korea to examine Georgia ICE raid for possible human rights abuses
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Associated Press
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former Republican Geoff Duncan enters Georgia governor's race as Democrat
Former Republican Geoff Duncan enters Georgia governor's race as Democrat
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Washington Post, WTOP News, The Hill, WAGA-TV, HuffPost and New Jersey Online
Politico:
Thune mocks Schumer's shutdown stance: He ‘knows where my office is’ — Senate Majority Leader John Thune responded tartly to his Democratic counterpart's calls for “bipartisan negotiations” ahead of an approaching government shutdown deadline Tuesday, underscoring the posturing that has marked the process thus far.
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The Hill and NewsMax.com
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Politico:
House Republicans roll out 7-week funding patch as shutdown looms
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NOTUS, GovExec.com, NBC News, Punchbowl News, Washington Examiner, Axios, NewsMax.com, NPR, The Hill and HuffPost
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Top Democrats blast House stopgap proposal
Top Democrats blast House stopgap proposal
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New York Times, STAT, The Hill, Bloomberg, Breaking Defense and Washington Times
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 …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Pam Bondi's Ridiculous 24 Hours
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MeidasTouch News, NBC News, Mediaite, The Bulwark, MSNBC, The Atlantic, Associated Press, New York Magazine, The Hill, FIRE, Blaze Media, The Wrap, New Jersey Online, New York Sun, The Daily Caller, New Republic, Townhall, Newsweek, Daily Mail, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and HuffPost
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
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Reuters, Deseret News and Democracy Docket
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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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Military Hit Third Drug Boat From Venezuela — US President Donald Trump said the US military had “knocked off” a third drug boat from Venezuela, despite the Pentagon so far only detailing two such strikes. — “Stop sending drugs into the United States,” …
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New York Times, Washington Times, The Sun and Wall Street Journal
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Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:
Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases — Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced. — President Donald Trump's promise to carry out the …
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Raw Story
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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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action
UN commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and urges global action
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New York Times, Reuters, CNN, CBS News, Townhall, Al Jazeera, Military and Veteran …, RTÉ, The Moderate Voice, Boston.com, JURISTnews, Associated Press, Politico, Middle East Monitor, Washington Examiner, UPI and Bloomberg
Ken Klippenstein:
Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin — “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all ... it was me at UVU yesterday.” Thus Tyler Robinson messaged his friends on Discord, seemingly apologizing for murdering Charlie Kirk. “I'm sorry for all of this.”
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.
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HotAir, The Free Press, The Hill, The Independent, The Daily Caller, LGBTQ Nation and Fox News
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will run for a third term in 2026 — The Democrat, who was his party's vice presidential nominee in 2024, made the announcement Tuesday morning. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday announced that he would seek re-election to a third term in 2026.
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, NewsMax.com, The Hill, UPI, WNYW-TV, New York Post, The Guardian, New Jersey Online, The Daily Caller, CBS News and MPR News
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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FOX 13 News Utah, The Guardian, Fox News, Salt Lake Tribune, New York Post, The Daily Caller, KSLTV.com, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
New York judge tosses terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, lets murder count stand — A judge on Tuesday dismissed terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione in New York state's case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but he kept the state's second-degree murder charges against him.
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Reuters, New York Post, MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, The Hill, Ace of Spades HQ, KSTP-TV, RedState, One America News Network, Al Jazeera, Fox News, HotAir, The Guardian, Truthout, TMZ.com, All Rise News, Axios, New York Sun, Townhall, Breitbart, New York Daily News, WAGA-TV, Metro.co.uk, Rolling Stone, twitchy.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Post Millennial, UPI, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Financial Times:
Donald Trump tilts balance of power from investors to CEOs — President's call to scrap quarterly reports comes as SEC considers curbing shareholder lawsuits — Donald Trump's administration was shifting the balance of power from shareholders to company bosses even before the president …
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.
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HotAir, Blocked and Reported, Mediaite and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Another massive Trump corruption scandal for right-wing media to bury — How many orders of magnitude worse is Trump's corruption than various Hunter Biden claims the right said justified his father's impeachment: An investigation — President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement …
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.
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Washington Post and New Republic
Jackie Fortiér / KFF Health News:
RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children — A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 …
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New York Post, New York Times and NPR
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Trump Threatens ABC's Jon Karl to His Face Amid Grilling on ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown — President Donald Trump openly threatened ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl when Karl grilled him about the threatened crackdown on so-called “hate speech” after the killing of activist Charlie Kirk.
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Raw Story, Daily Mail, New York Sun, New York Daily News, New Republic, IJR and NewsMax.com
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users — A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people.
