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4:30 PM ET, September 28, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans  —  Hundreds of top military officers and staff have been summoned to Virginia on short notice for a speech by Pete Hegseth.  Trump decided this weekend to attend the meeting, adding new security concerns.
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City  —  Mayor Adams's campaign was left foundering after repeated scandals, a federal indictment and his courtship of President Trump.  —  Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he will abandon his foundering campaign …
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New York Post:
Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’  —  Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race amid escalating pressure to clear the crowded field in a last-ditch attempt to stop socialist Zohran Mamdani's election to City Hall.
Associated Press:
Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say  —  Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan and the shooter is down, police said Sunday.  The shooting occurred at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc …
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Associated Press:
Russell M. Nelson, oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies  —  Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Saturday night at the age of 101, church officials announced.
ABC News:
At least 10 shot, 1 fatally, at Michigan church set on fire by the gunman: Police
Politico:
How House Republicans plan to rewrite history of Jan. 6 … “They were not invested in actual investigative work anyway,” said Higgins, who has pushed an unfounded theory that FBI agents helped coordinate the events at the Capitol.  “That thing was never legitimate.  It was always biased.
Discussion: Townhall
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Zack Stanton / Politico:
Playbook: Swim until you sink
Discussion: The Verge
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
FBI's Patel clarifies role of hundreds of agents on Jan 6, says Wray lied to Congress
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines  —  This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
What the Trump regime doesn't want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting  —  The blood hadn't yet dried after a deadly Wednesday morning sniper attack on the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention site in Dallas when top government officials started flooding the zone with the story …
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts  —  Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program  —  The Trump administration is set to oversee the largest mass resignation in US history on Tuesday …
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Washington Post:   The full force of Trump's federal job cuts is about to hit the D.C. region
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
With Scant Information, Federal Workers Brace for Possible Shutdown
Discussion: CNN
Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Shares Weird AI Video Shilling Magic Beds  —  SCI-FI SCAM  —  The “medbed” that Trump promoted is a far-right conspiracy theory.  —  President Donald Trump posted an AI version of himself promoting a fake product called “medbeds” to his 10.8 million followers on Truth Social Friday night.
CBS News:
Transcript: Ty Cobb on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 28, 2025  —  The following is the transcript of the interview with Ty Cobb, who served as White House Special Counsel during President Trump's first term, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sept. 28, 2025.
Discussion: The Hill and The Guardian
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CBS News:   Transcript: Rep. Mike Turner on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 28, 2025
CBS News:   Transcript: Robert Costa on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 28, 2025
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split … Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files.
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
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Isabel Keane / The Independent:
‘I do not work for you’: MTG speaks out on growing rift with Trump's White House over Epstein files
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket  —  The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015  —  Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been …
Discussion: Althouse
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Not ‘the gospel.’ Ahead of Supreme Court term, Clarence Thomas weighs in on precedent
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and UPI
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed  —  For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views.  —  The day Charlie Kirk was killed …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock  —  When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.  —  According to the law, Robert Morris was a criminal.  The second Black lawyer in the history of the United States …
Seth Masket / Tusk:
When the right broke, according to the right  —  I've written here and in my forthcoming book about a transformation within the Republican Party over the past few decades, with a once-fringe conservative populist faction now overwhelmingly in charge.  There are a number of key moments to focus …
Washington Post:
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies  —  The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.  —  Just now
Discussion: Salt Lake Tribune
Financial Times:
Russian missiles and drones pound Ukraine in ‘savage’ 12-hour attack  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says assault involved nearly 500 drones and more than 40 missiles  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv and Raphael Minder in Warsaw  —  Ukraine's limited air defences fought to repel …
 
 
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