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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to handle “domestic terrorists” as he expands his controversial deployments to more American cities.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump says he is authorizing military to use ‘Full Force’ in Portland … The White House and the Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Washington Post:
Trump authorizes troops for Portland, escalating use of military inside U.S. — The president authorized the use of “Full force, if necessary,” in a campaign to use the military against Americans that has little modern precedent. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will send troops …
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Washington Examiner and Oregonian
Willamette Week:
Federal Agents Amass in Portland, Local Officials Say — Portland-area officials repeated a single instruction to residents: Don't take the bait. — President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night.
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OPB, Democracy Docket, CNN, New York Times and Oregonian
Kit Maher / CNN:
Trump says he's sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities
Trump says he's sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday.
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
F.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests — Agents group says the latest dismissals are part of a “dangerous pattern” of weakening the nation's top law enforcement agency. — Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, fired roughly 20 agents on Friday …
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Politico:
Trump falsely suggests FBI agents to blame for igniting Jan. 6 violence
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New York Times:
Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order … For 15 years, Michele Beckwith oversaw some of the toughest federal prosecutions in California. She went after transnational terrorists, sex traffickers and the Aryan brotherhood. — She became the acting U.S. attorney …
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Politico, Los Angeles Times and The Guardian
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Overcame Internal Dissent to Get His Case Against Comey
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New York Times:
Justice Department Seeks Information on Georgia D.A. Who Prosecuted Trump
Justice Department Seeks Information on Georgia D.A. Who Prosecuted Trump
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Trump's Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey
Trump's Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey
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Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
State Department revokes visa for Colombian President Gustavo Petro — The State Department accused Petro of urging U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence, after his remarks at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York. — The U.S. State Department said late Friday it had revoked …
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Reuters:
US to revoke Colombian president's visa over comments at pro-Palestinian gathering — Colombia leader calls on US soldiers to disobey Trump — Petro, Trump have clashed over Gaza, deportations, drug policy — Petro calls for global force to liberate Palestinians
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
State Department revokes Colombian president's visa
State Department revokes Colombian president's visa
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Cristian Farias / New York Magazine:
John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey — The Justice Department's political targets can thank the chief justice. — The criminal indictment against former FBI director James Comey will be parsed on the law, the facts, and the question of whether the Trump administration's decision …
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Washington Post:
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches — Staffing cuts under the Trump administration mean forecasters are struggling to maintain normal operations. — Just now — Some National Weather Service staffers are working double shifts to keep forecasting offices open.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders — The university system said faculty must comply with President Trump's order recognizing only two genders, possibly a first for a major public institution of higher education. — The Texas Tech University system …
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Associated Press:
Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship — President Donald Trump 's administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Tax on Being a Girl — President Trump's cuts to humanitarian assistance abroad have hurt all kinds of people. But from what I see on the ground, those suffering the most are women and girls — and that will leave all of us, including men and boys, worse off.
Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
You cannot trust the federal government — This special Saturday edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — ✍️ Subscribe to PN ✍️ — After a gunman opened fire at a ICE facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning …
CNN:
ICE arrests superintendent of Iowa's largest school district — The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools — Iowa's largest school district - was detained Friday morning by immigration agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which said the educator was in the country illegally …
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Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
Trump's war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women — A concern for women's health is absolutely not at the heart of it - rather, this is yet another way to control women — Trust-fund-Trump wants women to “tough it out” — Donald Trump is a man with no medical training.
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 26, 2025 — Today Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that twenty men who were awarded the Medal of Honor for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre would keep their medals, despite more than a century of controversy over them.
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner and NewsOne
Jack Revell / The Daily Beast:
Ultra-Conservative GOP Rep Busted for Child Porn — A former South Carolina state lawmaker used a “Joe Biden” screen name to spread horrific child abuse content online. — PARTNER UPDATE — A STEP ABOVE — From hikes to hangouts, Merrell has got you covered every step of the way.
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court allows Trump to cut $4B in foreign aid in ‘pocket rescission’ — Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. — Justices of the Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2022.
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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Jobs crisis in plain sight … Starting with our interview last spring with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, where he foresaw a white-collar bloodbath, we've been warning of a jobs crisis unfolding in plain sight across America. — Last week, Mike Allen and I talked privately with 20 different CEOs of a wide range of companies.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Giuliani settles $1.3 billion Dominion defamation lawsuit — President Trump's former attorney Rudy Giuliani settled his $1.3 billion lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over disseminating a false theory about the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents.
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CBS News:
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed Smartmatic, federal judge rules — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, an ally of President Trump, defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.
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Jacob Grier / Slate:
It's Called America's “Weirdest” City. But Just Wait Until You Hear What's Going On in Its Coffee Shops. — President Trump keeps saying Portland is an anarchic hellscape in need of the National Guard. With the help of my bike and a serious caffeine addiction, I set out to discover the truth.
CNN:
'I'm absolutely terrified': Federal workers brace for potential government shutdown, mass layoffs — Federal employees from agencies across the US government say they're “terrified,” “disoriented” and filled with anxiety as they brace for a possible shutdown that the Trump White House …
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New York Times:
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump. — The University of California, one of the Trump administration's biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the president's attacks. So is the rest of higher education.

