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Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest - using photos of South America — A federal judge had blocked Trump's request to deploy California national guard to Portland — Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California's national guard on the streets of Portland …
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Robert Reich:
Trump's Plan — The direction we're going is either martial law or civil war. — Americans from so-called “red” states, with the backing of their Republican governors and legislatures, are on the brink of using lethal force against Americans in so-called “blue” states …
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act … “You look at what's happening with Portland over the years, it's a burning hell hole,” Trump added. “And then you have a judge that lost her way that tries to pretend that there's no problem.” — The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a federal law …
NPR:
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained — President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities such as Portland, Ore., and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Portland And Beyond — This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act …
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Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
No, Trump Can't Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
No, Trump Can't Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants
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New Republic, The Portland Tribune, Esquire and Washington Post
New Republic:
Trump's Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss
Trump's Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions
Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions
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New Republic, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post and CNN
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Greene ‘disgusted’ if health care tax credits expire and premiums double — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) signaled a willingness to negotiate with Democrats on their health care demands, breaking with her party on an issue at the core of the government shutdown standoff.
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Senate votes for fifth time against advancing legislation to end the shutdown
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Democrats are winning the shutdown
Democrats are winning the shutdown
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Straight Arrow News and The Hill
David Struett / Chicago Sun Times:
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said ‘Do something b— ’ before shooting — Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b—
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Chicago Tribune
Jory Rand / ABC7:
Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown — Este artículo se ofrece en Español — The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Staffing issues see U.S. flights delayed as shutdown persists
Staffing issues see U.S. flights delayed as shutdown persists
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay — Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.
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GovExec.com, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Signal and Associated Press
MSNBC:
Top prosecutor is refusing to charge New York AG despite Trump pressure — A key federal prosecutor in Virginia, where James Comey was indicted, is resisting bringing charges against Letitia James. — A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs challenge to bans on conversion therapy aimed at LGBTQ kids — Kaley Chiles, a Christian talk therapist in Colorado, argues that the state's ban violates her rights under the Constitution's First Amendment. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday considers …
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Challenge to Ban on Conversion Therapy
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Washington Post and ABC News
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Venezuela is Trump's useful enemy — Despite the president's claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US's biggest drug supplier — Is Donald Trump planning to overthrow Venezuela's regime? Putting three US destroyers, an amphibious assault ship, a guided-missile cruiser …
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New York Times and El País
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Eric Friedman / New York City Bar Association:
Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels — New York City Bar Association Statement — This September, President Donald J. Trump ordered U. S. military strikes against three private Venezuelan-flagged vessels on the high seas, killing at least 17 individuals and severely damaging or sinking those vessels.
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
Associated Press:
Trump non-committal about Ghislaine Maxwell pardon, says he ‘will speak to the DOJ’ — President Donald Trump dodged a question Monday on whether he'd consider pardoning Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, saying he will “speak to the DOJ” about it.
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John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell
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Jessica Testa / New York Times:
How Bari Weiss Won … “I'm a newspaper woman without a newspaper,” Bari Weiss said four years ago on the first episode of her podcast, “Honestly.” — Today Ms. Weiss still does not have a newspaper. But she was just handed the sterling silver keys to the Tiffany network.
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency's Top Legal Official With Himself — It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues. — Michael Ellis, the deputy director of the C.I.A. …
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Above the Law, GovExec.com and SpyTalk
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
CHICAGO'S ‘ICE-FREE ZONE.’ One of the main themes of the second Trump administration has been the explosive collision between the president's determination to enforce federal immigration law and many Democratic leaders' determination not to enforce federal immigration law.
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Pentagon Relaxes Press Access Rules … The Defense Department on Monday loosened and clarified its new restrictions for press access to the Pentagon, after more than two weeks of negotiations with national news organizations. — Under the rules, journalists requiring credentials to the Pentagon …
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The Guardian:
US universities must reject Trump's ‘compact’. It is full of traps — The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse — Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse. The Trump administration - after having brutally cut …
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Fortune, New Republic and Los Angeles Times
John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Carney to meet with Trump Tuesday as Canada pushes for tariff relief — ‘We have work to do with our American partners,’ Canada-U.S. trade minister says — Prime Minister Mark Carney will sit down with his U.S. counterpart at the White House Tuesday for their second Oval Office meeting …
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Washington Examiner, The Free Press, NewsMax.com, Semafor and New York Times
Kate Santaliz / Axios:
Mike Johnson faces bipartisan heat over delayed vote on Epstein files — House Speaker Mike Johnson's decision to keep his chamber on recess during the government shutdown is stalling a long-awaited vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. … - But Johnson called claims that he's keeping …
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El País, NBC News, New Republic, Daily Kos, New Jersey Online, MeidasTouch News and Deseret News
CNN:
Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say — The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers …
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Raw Story, NewsMax.com and Washington Times
404 Media:
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her ‘Safety.’ Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime — Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a ‘death investigation’ into the abortion.
Rhitu Chatterjee / NPR:
Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary — Psychiatrists have joined other public health groups in calling for the removal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. — Two psychiatry organizations — the Southern California Psychiatry Society …
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio … The idea reflects an appetite from administration officials to shrink the size of student loan debt on the government's balance sheet. It aligns with broader Republican efforts to scale back federal student lending …
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NewsMax.com
Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Pam Bondi to testify before Senate amid Trump's troop deployments — US attorney general likely to be questioned on Comey's indictment, Epstein documents and Venezuela boat strikes — Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, will face senators on Tuesday, as Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown …
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NPR, The Hill, Raw Story and PBS NewsHour
Paul Krugman:
Why Aren't We Partying Like It's 1999? — Fear, not hope, permeates today's technology hype — Economic reality has a habit of throwing you curveballs — events you didn't anticipate when making your predictions. Specifically, most economists, myself included, expected tariffs to be the big economic story of 2025.
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