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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Confronting a Fuller Picture of Charlie Kirk's Killer — Attorney General Pam Bondi learned a tough lesson yesterday: There are still some pieties of the old right that conservatives aren't ready to abandon, and bristling at the concept of “hate speech” is one.
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24sight News and HuffPost
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New York Times:
Trump Invokes Kirk's Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
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NBC News, New York Daily News, Daily Caller News Foundation, Politico, Fortune, Robert Reich, Political Wire, The Hill, NOTUS, Wall Street Journal and The Week
Peachy Keenan / The Federalist:
Anyone Who Blames ‘Both Sides’ After Charlie Kirk's Murder Is A Liar And Coward
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: GOP future foretold
Behind the Curtain: GOP future foretold
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USA Today, LGBTQ Nation, American Greatness and El País
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
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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Eschaton, The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali and Jacobin
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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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Wall Street Journal and The Hill
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 Jersey Online, New York Sun and New York Times
Mike Darnay / CBS News:
Search underway for man accused of “act of terror” at FBI Pittsburgh field office after car rams into entrance gate — A search is underway for a man accused of committing an “act of terror” by allegedly using his car to ram the entrance gate to the FBI's Pittsburgh Field office.
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NewsMax.com, The National Pulse, New York Post, Metro.co.uk, FOX 32 Chicago, PennLive, Fox News and Washington Examiner
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NBC News:
Suspect in custody after targeted ‘terrorist’ incident at FBI office in Pittsburgh, officials say
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The Daily Caller and WTOP News
Peter Smith / Associated Press:
Suspect in custody after driver rams car into FBI building gate in Pittsburgh
Suspect in custody after driver rams car into FBI building gate in Pittsburgh
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Peter Sullivan / Axios:
Ex-CDC director: RFK Jr. planning September vaccine changes — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an August meeting that the childhood vaccine schedule will be changing starting in September, former Centers for Disease Control director Susan Monarez told a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
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Robert King / Politico:
Monarez says RFK Jr. spoke to the White House about firing her
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David Lim / Politico:
RFK Jr. warned her not to talk to lawmakers, Monarez says
RFK Jr. warned her not to talk to lawmakers, Monarez says
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ABC News, IJR, CBS News, NewsMax.com, The Week, Washington Post and STAT
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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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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Eleanor Mueller / Semafor:
Dem voters want shutdown fight, poll shows
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HuffPost, CNN, NBC News, The Hill and New York Times
Robert Jimison / New York Times:
G.O.P. Again Cedes Power on Tariffs to Avoid Crossing Trump
G.O.P. Again Cedes Power on Tariffs to Avoid Crossing Trump
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Politico, Axios, The Hill, Washington Times, Deseret News, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Erick Erickson's Show Notes and HuffPost
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
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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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.
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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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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The Hill, Associated Press, Politico, New York Times and Extra.ie
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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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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The Washington Free Beacon, The Independent, New York Post, Fox News, Mediaite, NewsMax.com, 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
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 and Washington Examiner
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 …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 16, 2025 — The phrase that kept coming up over the last several days was “make fetch happen.” It's a reference to the film Mean Girls, when one of the characters tries to make the word “fetch” trendy, using it to mean “cool” or “awesome.” Another character eventually slaps back: “Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen.
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 »
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.
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, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Daily Signal and The Intercept
Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Obama calls Kirk murder ‘horrific,’ says a president should ‘pull people together’ — He said President Donald Trump's rhetoric is part of a broader problem. — Former President Barack Obama attends the Inauguration of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington.
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New York Post, NBC News, The Hill, CNN, Erie Daily Times-Morning News, The Daily Caller, NewsMax.com and Washington Post
Unite in Advance:
Statement on the Fundamental Freedom of Speech — Statement on Political Violence and the Fundamental Freedom of Speech — “Acts of political violence — from the recent murder of Charlie Kirk to the murder of Speaker Emeritus Melissa Hortman of Minnesota — have no place in our democracy.
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Democracy Docket and The Guardian
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, The Post Millennial, Not the Bee, CNN, OPB, Washington Examiner, Election Law Blog and NewsMax.com
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Exclusive Focus Group: Trump Bleeding Latino Voters — He won the presidency with their support—now they're angrily turning against him. — LATINO VOTERS FLOCKED TO DONALD TRUMP in surprisingly large numbers last November to help him retake the White House.
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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HuffPost, The Hill, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, RedState, The National Pulse, New York Post, The Sun, Mediaite and Fox News
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, Modern Diplomacy, UPI, Washington Examiner and Reuters
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
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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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, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, Business Insider, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
