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Associated Press:
Trump says he wants prosecutor who has investigated but not charged Letitia James removed from post  —  A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges resigned Friday under pressure from the Trump administration.
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New York Times:
U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes Resigns After President Seeks to Oust Him  —  Erik S. Siebert had hit roadblocks investigating New York's attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.  —  President Trump said on Friday that he wanted to see the ouster …
Associated Press:
US attorney resigns amid pressure from Trump after sources say he refused to charge NY AG Letitia James
Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 210. 9/19/25
Discussion: MSNBC and The Parnas Perspective
Politico:
Trump says US attorney should be fired after not prosecuting NY AG James
Discussion: ABC News
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
I'm a Congressional Candidate.  I Was Assaulted by ICE.  —  On Friday, Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic U.S. House candidate in Illinois's 9th congressional district, was thrown forcefully to the ground by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at a protest outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
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Washington Post:
Congressional candidate thrown to ground during protest outside ICE facility  —  Kat Abughazaleh, 26, a Democrat running for the 9th Congressional District seat in Illinois, was among the demonstrators who clashed with federal agents.  —  Federal agents clashed with protesters and threw …
Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
ICE arrests nearly 550 in Chicago area as part of ‘Midway Blitz’
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Denver Post
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas  —  The Trump administration is adding $100,000 to the existing fee for H-1B visa applications, taking aim at a program that is used to attract highly skilled workers to the U.S.  —  President Trump signed an executive order late Friday adding …
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Bloomberg:
Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown
Washington Post:
Trump unveils $100K yearly fee on H-1B visas in clampdown on legal immigration
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material  —  A document spells out the latest in a series of escalating restrictions placed on the press corps covering the Pentagon during Trump's second term.  —  The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday …
NBC News:
Ted Cruz rips FCC chair's Jimmy Kimmel threat as ‘unbelievably dangerous’  —  Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr warned that the FCC could take action against ABC and Disney over the late-night host's remarks about Charlie Kirk's death.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal’  —  It remained unclear why the president believed negative news coverage, which all of his predecessors have faced and is protected by the Constitution, would be against the law.  —  President Trump said Friday that news reporters …
Discussion: Raw Story and Gizmodo
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
Federal Judge Strikes Trump Defamation Lawsuit For Being Too Annoying to Read  —  Lawsuits rarely get tossed under Rule 8.  But then again, lawsuits rarely spend 85 meandering pages talking about things like the plaintiff's “singular brilliance.”  —  On Friday, September 19 …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Trump's Lawsuit Against The New York Times  —  The judge said that the complaint failed to contain a “short and plain statement of the claim.”  Mr. Trump has 28 days to refile.  —  A federal judge in Florida on Friday threw out President Trump's defamation suit …
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Democrats rapidly shift on Israel amid Gaza assault, evidence of famine  —  A growing number of prominent Democrats are calling for cutting off sales of offensive weapons to Israel, part of a broad shift in opinion on Israel in the party.  —  Just now  —  A growing number of prominent Democrats …
Discussion: Mondoweiss and AP-NORC
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Schumer, Wary of Blowback, Holds Out on Mamdani
Reuters:
Trump administration plans $6.4 billion in weapons sales to Israel, sources say
Discussion: Associated Press
Jessica Grose / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Mess  —  In June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations about the childhood vaccine schedule, claiming the move would “restore public trust in vaccines.”  The new panel was assembled quickly …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
STAT:
Federal vaccine panel remade by RFK Jr. votes to maintain insurance coverage for Covid shots
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report  —  The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday postponed the release of a key annual report central to future inflation data. … - There is heightened concern about the future of U.S. statistics, including the politicization and accuracy …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Government shutdown looms after Senate rejects House-passed stopgap funding bill  —  Senate Democrats on Friday blocked a House-passed bill to fund federal departments and agencies for seven weeks, putting Washington on the path to an Oct. 1 government shutdown.
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Faith Wardwell / Politico:
Congressional Black Caucus says resolution honoring Charlie Kirk ‘not about healing’
Discussion: Raw Story and HotAir
Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
House approves resolution honoring Charlie Kirk with dozens of Democrats opposed
Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Identifies As Transgender Woman, Legal Filings Show  —  WASHINGTON—The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender woman and was deeply mentally ill and suicidal, according to court documents first obtained by The Daily Wire.
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Hit Drug-Trafficking Boat, Killing Three in Strike  —  President Donald Trump said that the US had carried out a strike on a drug-trafficking vessel in international waters, killing three people on board, part of a campaign against cartels that have escalated tensions with Venezuela and some other Latin American nations.
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Arden Farhi / CBS News:
Who's paying for the White House ballroom and what's in it for them  —  Washington — Contribute money to the new White House ballroom President Trump is constructing and, in exchange, donors may be able to choose a Trumpian option: their names etched inside the White House forever.
Jill Lawrence / History Keeps Happening:
Trump is destroying America.  Are his voters starting to realize that?  —  Take your pick of bad news this week that hits close to home.  The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates, which could help the flagging job market but won't curb rising costs.  The fired director of a top public health agency …
John K. Wilson / Inside Higher Ed:
Censorship Is the Authoritarian's Dream  —  The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.  —  More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Olesia Safronova / Bloomberg:
Zelenskiy Will Meet Trump at UNGA to Push on Security Guarantees  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet with US President Donald Trump next week in a bid to persuade the US administration join a security guarantees framework supported by Kyiv and its European allies.
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Age of Monsters  —  We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the Ellison family …
Sean Illing / Vox:
The free speech paradox
Aashna Shah / Bloomberg:
Duffy Calls Out Chicago, Boston to Take Action on Transit Safety
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position
Discussion: Associated Press
Mohamed Mandour / Committee to Protect Journalists:
Israel's killing of 31 Yemeni journalists marks deadliest global attack in 16 years
Discussion: Washington Post
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Weighted vest women are the 2026 swing voters
Discussion: Raw Story and RealClearPolitics
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
This is how Trump ends democracy
Discussion: Politico
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Children's Hospital Chaplain Jailed by Trump Admin Finally Released
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Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace in ‘dangerous provocation’ over Estonia
 

 
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