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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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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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Chicago Tribune:
Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area — The Texas National Guard has arrived in the Chicago area despite the repeated objections of Illinois officials, who have rejected President Donald Trump's pledge to deploy the military domestically in response to increasingly heated immigration …
Stephen I. Vladeck / New York Times:
No, Trump Can't Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants — President Trump's escalating efforts to deploy armed troops onto the streets of several American cities run by Democratic officials are raising a question courts have been all but completely able to avoid since the Constitution was drafted …
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MSNBC, Axios, New Republic, Talking Points Memo, JURISTnews and Esquire
Reuters:
Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities — Democratic leaders oppose Trump's military deployment in cities — Legal battles ensue over National Guard deployment in Chicago, Portland — National Guard deployment raises concerns over militarization of cities
Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
Illinois braces for possible National Guard arrival while lawsuit challenging deployment simmers
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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 …
Portland And Beyond — This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act …
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Townhall, Washington Times, WAGA-TV, Robert Reich, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Straight Arrow News, Washington Examiner, El País, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, UPI, CNN, New York Sun and State of California
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump says he will ‘look at’ Ghislaine Maxwell case after Supreme Court rejected her appeal
Trump says he will ‘look at’ Ghislaine Maxwell case after Supreme Court rejected her appeal
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MSNBC, The Hill, Metro.co.uk, Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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:
OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance — The Office of Management and Budget on Friday quietly revised a shutdown guidance document to remove references to a law passed in 2019 to guarantee that all federal workers are provided backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner and New Republic
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
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New York Times and The Hill
Tony Romm / New York Times:
White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers
White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers
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Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and The Guardian
Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown
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Mediaite and NewsMax.com
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:
The Supreme Court upheld a ban on transgender care for minors during the last term. — Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people. — Video — Here's the latest.
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New York Post, The Hill, CBS News, The Colorado Sun, NPR and Washington Examiner
John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court's conservative majority prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban — A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it is prepared to rule against Colorado's ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, with several justices signaling they agree with a licensed counselor …
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Axios, Associated Press, Gay City News, Talking Points Memo, Newsweek, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Deseret News, ABC News, Truthout and JURISTnews
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy
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CBS News, Fox News, Mother Jones and NewsNation
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Democrats are winning the shutdown — 🎉 It's PN's fourth anniversary and we're commemorating it this week by offering paid subscriptions at a special discounted price. Click the button below to take advantage and support our work ⬇️ — 🥳 PN anniversary special offer 🥳
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Brian Beutler / Off Message:
The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory — If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco. — ∙ Paid — For a few weeks in early 2021, when Joe Biden was popular and commanded narrow majorities …
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twitchy.com and Associated Press
Nnamdi Egwuonwu / MSNBC:
Trump turned the shutdown into spectacle. That's not helping him.
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Reuters, NPR and Associated Press
Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants
When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants
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Newsweek, New York Post and twitchy.com
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary:
Biden FBI Spied on Eight Republican Senators as Part of Arctic Frost Investigation, Grassley Oversight Reveals — WASHINGTON - An explosive FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reveals the FBI targeted eight Republican senators' personal cell phones for …
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Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations — Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence — A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats …
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New Jersey Online, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Daily Caller, Fox News, The Post Millennial and The Gateway Pundit
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes — Greene said she's “not a fan” of Obamacare but complained that her “own adult children's insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE” if Congress ignores the issue.
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The Hill, Punchbowl News, Raw Story, The Guardian, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Forbes, New Jersey Online, New Republic and Mediaite
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Mike Johnson brushes off Marjorie Taylor Greene's health care attack
Mike Johnson brushes off Marjorie Taylor Greene's health care attack
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $825,000 earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement, including fake cellphone towers known as …
New Republic:
Trump's Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss — Over the weekend, a federal judge blocked President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Portland. The judge blocked Trump from deploying the California National Guard to Oregon too.
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Fox News, CBS News and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. — We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We're doing that again today. — The writers are all former U.S. surgeons general. — As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican …
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Flight Delays Begin as Air Traffic Staffing Shortages Worsen — The delays came just hours after the transportation secretary warned that flying could be disrupted by the government shutdown. — Flights into airports serving New York, Denver and the Los Angeles area were delayed on Monday night …
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NBC News, Axios, Reuters, CBS News, Mercury News, ABC7, The Independent, UPI and New Jersey Online
Christopher Caldwell / New York Times:
That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good — When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of senior military officers worldwide to Quantico, Va., last week, fears quite naturally arose. Was a major military adventure afoot? If not, then why such a wasteful displacement?
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The Boston Globe
David Struett / Chicago Sun Times:
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol says agent said, ‘Do something b— ’ — 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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Truthout, Racket News, The Guardian, naked capitalism, Raw Story, emptywheel and Chicago Tribune
New York Times:
Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm observable at a larger scale. — John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were awarded …
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Ken Klippenstein:
Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7 — “We're expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations. — As the federal government begins to implement President Trump's new national security directive to investigate the so-called radical left …
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Reuters:
Mayor in western Germany in intensive care after stabbing — Authorities say they are not ruling out family involvement — Stalzer due to take office as mayor next month — Police searching for evidence seal off road around house — The newly elected mayor of a town …
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Telegraph, UPI, The Daily Caller, Al Jazeera, New York Times and Metro.co.uk
Marco Margaritoff / HuffPost:
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Torches CNN For ‘New Dark Low’ On Trump — A weird interview with the president really riled the anchor. — MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell says CNN plumbed “a new dark low” by interviewing President Donald Trump via text message on Saturday …
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The Hill, Mediaite and TV Insider
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden didn't want intel disseminated showing Ukrainian concerns over family's ‘corrupt’ business ties: records — Ratcliffe declassified an intel report revealing Ukrainian officials viewed Biden family business deals 'as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters …
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RealClearPolitics, Townhall, RedState, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, New York Post, IJR, The Post Millennial and NewsMax.com

