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4:05 PM ET, September 23, 2025

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Politico:
Trump's Tylenol diatribe was rooted in frustration … Still, Trump's address from the White House Monday, full as it was with errors and overstatements, is causing headaches for his advisers.  They are uneasy with Trump's willingness to raise women's alarm when the evidence is mixed …
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Eric Garcia / MSNBC:
Trump's announcement linking Tylenol and autism is already doing major damage  —  Touting a possible cure with little evidence only gives loved ones of autistic people false hope.  —  'They're confusing parents across the country': Dr. Vin Gupta debunks Trump's link between autism and acetaminophen
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: Vox, MSNBC, PoliticusUSA and To the Contrary
NPR:
Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up
Wired:
‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague.  A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say  —  The agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area.  Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime.
Discussion: CNN and MeidasTouch News
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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 …
NBC News:
Secret Service agents dismantle system used to convey assassination threats
Discussion: Associated Press and IJR
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 …
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Trump Cancels Meeting With Top Democrats Ahead Of Government Shutdown
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Trump cancels White House meeting with Schumer and Jeffries despite risk of a government shutdown
Kimberly Leonard / Politico:
DeSantis offers Miami land for Trump's presidential library … “President Trump has achieved results for the American people and made a lasting impact on our nation's history,” he said in a statement.  —  The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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New York Times:
Elon Musk's Father, Errol Musk, 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.  —  12 MIN READ  —  ABOUT OUR REPORTING
NBC News:
Ryan Routh found guilty in Trump golf course assassination attempt  —  Routh started stabbing himself in the neck with a pen in the courtroom after the verdict was read.  —  FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The trial of Ryan Wesley Routh came to a dramatic end Tuesday when he started stabbing himself …
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Randi Kaye / CNN:
Would-be Trump assassin tries to stab himself after guilty verdict  —  Fort Pierce, Florida —  Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump as the former and future president played a round of golf on his Florida course last year - the second attempt …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says NATO Should Down Russian Aircraft in Breaches
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to his late-night show after ABC lifts suspension  —  Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to late-night television Tuesday after a nearly weeklong suspension that triggered a national discussion about freedom of speech and President Donald Trump's ability to police …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Ted Cruz Plays the Long Game by Defending Jimmy Kimmel
Discussion: The Bulwark and HuffPost
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: Esquire, KQCA-TV, UPI and Raw Story
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Attacks U.N. and Lectures Nations in Address to General Assembly  —  President Trump's speech, filled with grievances and false claims, comes as the United States has withdrawn funding and support for U.N. programs.  Speaking before him, the U.N.'s secretary general warned …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Blasts UN Over Immigration, Climate in Combative Speech
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
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:   How Fox covers for Trump administration malfeasance
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says  —  The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside …
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.
Reuters:
‘Guess what?’  Macron calls Trump after being blocked by US leader's motorcade  —  Even presidents are subject to the annoyances of New York City traffic, as French President Emmanuel Macron learned late on Monday, when a New York City police officer stopped him crossing the street because of U.S. President Donald Trump's motorcade.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Can Liberalism Be Saved?  —  The legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues for a more expansive definition of an ideology under threat.  —  For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States.  A onetime faculty member at the University …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Eric Vilas-Boas / Vulture:
Disney Sure Picked a Great Week for a Big Streaming Price Hike  —  The last time Disney raised prices on almost every streaming plan it had was just over a year ago, so guess what time it is!  Hot on the heels of a uniquely messy PR week given the company's ongoing Jimmy Kimmel saga …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
This Greenland Is Red  —  The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world.  What? … NUUK, GREENLAND - One of the odder initiatives of Donald Trump's second term has been his fixation on the idea of annexing Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
John Yoo / Washington Post:
What's wrong with a military campaign against the drug trade  —  Trump's boat strikes against the cartels risk crossing the line between law enforcement and war.  —  John Yoo is a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Raw Story
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
America's accelerating exit from itself  —  After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country's founding principles with astonishing ease  —  Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four, said George Orwell.  By that standard, the US is hurtling towards unfreedom.
Discussion: To the Contrary
Stevie Glaberson / Lawfare:
The Department of Homeland Security Is Unlawfully Collecting DNA  —  The department's accelerated DNA collection program is a civil rights and civil liberties nightmare.  Consent is not the cure.  —  Meet The Authors … During a House Oversight Committee hearing on July 23 …
Discussion: Wired
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Kari Lake said she learned of Trump dismantling VOA the day of his order  —  The Trump official spent eight hours answering questions under oath as part of the contentious legal proceedings between Voice of America staffers and the government.  —  Kari Lake, the Trump official running …
Garrett M. Graff / Doomsday Scenario:
Rid me of this meddlesome priest, Pam!  —  How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend. … We are watching a Watergate-level presidential scandal unfold basically every day — and they're happening so quickly and so blatantly it's nearly impossible to process.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
 
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The Atlantic:
Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise
Greg Lukianoff / New York Times:
Everyone's a Free-Speech Hypocrite
Gregory J. Wallance / The Hill:
What Democrats can learn from Robert Redford's ‘The Candidate’
MSNBC:
Kamala Harris' book ‘107 Days’ gets the reason she lost all wrong
Paul McLeary / Politico:
Hegseth axes panels that encourages women to enter military
Discussion: The Hill, The Guardian and NewsMax.com
Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Discussion: WAGA-TV
 Earlier Items: 
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Trump is waging culture war on Europe by promoting rightwing allies, report finds
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Grace Yarrow / Politico:
USDA ends food insecurity survey
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Kamala Harris gives Zohran Mamdani a tepid endorsement: ‘I endorse the Democrat in the race’
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Democrats Open Inquiries Into Handling of Homan Investigation
Discussion: MSNBC, The Hill, Raw Story and Vox
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
New poll: Percent saying America on the “wrong track” hits new high
Discussion: Florida Politics
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

New York Times:
The New York Times sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and kept using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months

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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