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11:20 AM ET, September 23, 2025

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Washington Post:
‘Based on what I feel’: Trump escalates attack on childhood vaccines  —  Trump promoted long-debunked claims that vaccines can cause autism as he called for changes to the childhood immunization schedule sought by anti-vaccine activists.  —  Public health experts were already on edge …
Discussion: MSNBC, To the Contrary and PoliticusUSA
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Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump's Pick to Replace Ousted U.S. Attorney Lacks Prosecutorial Experience  —  Trump Promotes Unproven Ties to Autism and Tylenol Use  —  Where Things Stand  — Autism: President Trump, speaking at the White House, gave direct and unproven medical advice contradicting decades of research …
Associated Press:
Trump makes unfounded claims about Tylenol and repeats discredited link between vaccines and autism  —  President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism as his administration announced …
NBC News:
Trump claims acetaminophen use during pregnancy may cause autism, without clear proof  —  The over-the-counter drug has been used in Tylenol and many other other widely used medications for decades as a pain and fever reliever during pregnancy.  —  President Donald Trump said Monday the Food …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump posts his Watergate tapes  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🌊🌊 Subscribe to PN 🌊🌊  —  One of the biggest lessons we can take from the Trump era is that Richard Nixon thought way too small.  —  Watergate?  Pffft.
Discussion: Washington Post and New Republic
Maya Goldman / Axios:
Trump's Tylenol warning could fuel new lawsuits  —  President Trump's linking Tylenol to autism could stoke a new round of litigation against the manufacturer of the painkiller and its generic versions. … - Publicly asserting a connection the way Trump did may also encourage lawsuits around Tylenol use …
NPR:
Trump blames Tylenol for autism.  Science doesn't back him up  —  In a White House press conference Monday, President Trump and several deputies said the Food and Drug Administration would be updating drug labelling to discourage the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women, suggesting a link between the common painkiller and autism.
Alex Wickham / Bloomberg:
UK Tells Patients 'Don't Pay Attention' to Trump on Tylenol
Discussion: Al Jazeera and CBS News
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The flimsy evidence behind Trump's big autism announcement, explained
Annie Linskey / Wall Street Journal:
In Targeting a Common Painkiller, Trump Oversteps His Own Advisers' Guidance on Autism
Discussion: New York Magazine
Politico:
RFK Jr. to link Tylenol to rising autism rates
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Trump Cancels Meeting With Top Democrats Ahead Of Government Shutdown  —  The president initially agreed to the meeting at the White House, but then changed his mind, citing “ridiculous demands” made by Democrats.  —  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Tuesday canceled …
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Politico:
Trump cancels meeting with Schumer and Jeffries … Trump decided to cancel the meeting after House GOP leadership relayed their concerns about it to the White House, according to two people granted anonymity to describe private conversations.  —  Earlier Tuesday, Jeffries and Schumer …
CNBC:
Trump cancels meeting with top Democrats as government shutdown looms … President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to cancel a planned meeting this week with the two top Democrats in Congress, just days before the federal government is set to shut down.  —  Trump had been scheduled to meet …
Punchbowl News:
9/23/25 ☀️ AM: … And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating.
John Koblin / New York Times:
Jimmy Kimmel's Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night  —  The network removal of Mr. Kimmel's show last week almost immediately morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America.  —  Jimmy Kimmel is coming back.  —  ABC said on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to its airwaves on Tuesday …
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CNN:
Kimmel's show to return Tuesday, but Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
United States Secret Service:
U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area  —  Published By U.S. Secret Service Media Relations  —  NEW YORK - The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used …
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NBC News:
Secret Service agents dismantle system used to convey assassination threats  —  Agents discovered a system in five locations in and around New York that could be used to disable cell phone towers.  —  NEW YORK -U.S. Secret Service agents have dismantled a network of electronic devices located …
Discussion: Associated Press
Joseph De Avila / Wall Street Journal:
Secret Service Thwarts Telecoms Threat in NYC Area Ahead of U.N. General Assembly
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization  —  Section 1.  Antifa as a Terrorist Threat.  Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.
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Christopher Mathias / MSNBC:
Trump's new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.  —  Elon Musk's Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse  —  Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, a Times investigation found.  Family members have appealed to Elon Musk for help.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Mamdani Lands Endorsement From Kamala Harris, His Biggest Yet  —  “I support the Democrat in the race,” Ms. Harris said during an interview with Rachel Maddow.  She added of the Democratic Party, “we've got a big tent and we've got a lot of stars.”  —  Former Vice President Kamala Harris …
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Politico:
Playbook: Trump vs. the world
Discussion: Breitbart and KSTP-TV
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
How Arizona voters are set to put Mike Johnson in a corner … Grijalva — who is heavily favored to succeed her late father, Raúl Grijalva, in a district Trump lost by 22 points — said she will be pleased to force the issue.  She would be eligible to sign immediately after she is sworn in, likely early next month.
Discussion: UPI, KQCA-TV, New Republic and Raw Story
Caleb Ecarma / Oligarch Watch:
Billionaire surveillance enthusiast set to acquire TikTok's US operations  —  In the near future, Larry Ellison, an 81-year-old tech oligarch, could be in control of one of the world's most powerful media empires.  —  In August, Skydance Media, a firm funded by Ellison and led by his son David …
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:   The Trump Vengeance Tour Is Coming to a Stadium Near You
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As the Tom Homan controversy intensifies, why doesn't the FBI just release the tapes?  —  The White House says Homan didn't take $50,000 in cash from undercover agents.  The FBI recorded the interaction, and it can simply release the tapes.  —  The latest controversy surrounding White House …
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Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants  — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants.  — The grants were suspended over allegations of campus antisemitism, use of race in admissions …
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Eric He / Politico:   Judge orders Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in research funds to UCLA
Financial Times:
How Argentina's Javier Milei lost the markets and turned to Donald Trump  —  Libertarian president's tight grip on inflation cost him political capital and dollars  —  Ciara Nugent in Buenos Aires, Michael Stott in Rio de Janeiro and Joseph Cotterill in London
Discussion: Reuters
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Cara Lynn Shultz / People:
RFK Jr. Announces FDA Will Approve Leucovorin, a New Treatment for Autism.  What Is It?  —  The folinic acid supplement will be prescribed for a subset of children with autism who have “cerebral folate deficiency,” but experts caution, “it's not a cure”  — F.D.A. issued an official notice saying …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years  —  Not since America's founding 250 years ago has a U.S. president expanded power — and punished critics — in more unprecedented ways than Donald J. Trump. … But Trump has veered, often suddenly, proudly and loudly …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Yoo / Washington Post:
A military campaign against the drug trade would be unconstitutional  —  Trump's boat strikes against the cartels risk crossing the line between law enforcement and war.  —  Just now  —  John Yoo is a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Discussion: Raw Story, PolitiFact and CounterPunch
 
 
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Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Raw Story
NBC Boston:
ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Wall Street Journal:
USDA Puts Food Researchers on Leave
Discussion: Truthout
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Percent saying America on the “wrong track” hits new high
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Bloomberg:
China Floods the World With Cheap Exports After Trump's Tariffs
Discussion: Deseret News
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
Conservative writer Bill Kristol took to social media today to say: “So many coverups. …
David Gilbert / Wired:
Nick Fuentes' Plan to Conquer America
Mike Allen / Axios:
Chad Mizelle to leave as DOJ chief of staff
Discussion: The Dispatch and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire F.T.C. Commissioner
 

 
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The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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