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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Caution White House on Inflicting Shutdown Pain  —  Some GOP lawmakers have warned the president's aides against mass layoffs and sharp cuts to government assistance  —  WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other senior GOP lawmakers have quietly advised the White House …
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Axios:
Scoop: Senate Republicans eye piecemeal government reopening
Discussion: CBS News
NBC News:
Senate Democrats clash with House Speaker Mike Johnson over government shutdown and Jeffrey Epstein
Punchbowl News:   10/9/25 ☀️ AM: … President Donald Trump has notched a ceasefire-and-hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas.
Samy Magdy / Associated Press:
Israel and Hamas agree to ‘first phase’ of plan to end fighting and release hostages, Trump says  —  Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
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Washington Post:
Trump announces ceasefire deal to begin ending the war in Gaza
Axios:
Gaza peace deal reached, hostages to be freed
Reuters:
National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders  — Trump threatens to jail mayor of Chicago, Illinois governor  — National Guard troops gather outside Chicago despite local opposition  — Ex-FBI chief Comey pleads not guilty in case Trump pushed for
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Talking Points Memo:
Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach  —  This is your TPM evening briefing.  —  A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the Chicago area accused of assaulting law enforcement, the latest in a shocking string of failures by the Trump Department of Justice.
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
ICE May Not Be a Secret Police, but They Sure Look Like One
Discussion: Raw Story
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
The Bad Blood Between Trump and Pritzker Goes Back Decades
Discussion: Forbes
Washington Post:
Jack Smith's lawfare and James Comey's arraignment on pathetically weak charges  —  Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.  —  Just now  —  Anyone surprised by the news that former special counsel Jack Smith collected …
Discussion: Raw Story
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pbump:
Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument  —  A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was “arguably worse than Watergate” — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential malfeasance.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
James Comey trial set for Jan. 5 on charges sought by Trump
Holly Baxter / The Independent:
Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you're imagining  —  Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid of freedom of speech’
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Harry Cockburn / The Independent:
Jimmy Kimmel says he would ‘love’ to have Trump on his show: 'I'll ask him'
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
The Dems are letting Antifa take over their cities — Trump is right to send federal troops to maintain order
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots  —  With an accidental social-media post, Trump showed how much had changed since his first term  —  WASHINGTON—In his second term, President Trump has taken control of the Justice Department in ways he could have only dreamed of during his first.
Associated Press:
Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say  —  The Trump administration has yet to provide underlying evidence to lawmakers proving that alleged drug-smuggling boats targeted by the U.S. military in a series of fatal strikes …
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NBC News:
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say  —  A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
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NBC News:
Trump to get a ‘routine yearly’ medical check-up — his second in 6 months  —  The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.  —  President Donald Trump will sit for a “routine yearly check up” …
Pavan V. Thakkar / The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump's Compact  —  The Trump administration's authoritarian offensive is accelerating.  —  It is now openly persecuting opponents, bullying media to silence critics, and sending masked security forces to terrorize cities, and the president recently told …
Politico:
‘Get out of my f—king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video … “You also were in my shot before that.  Stay out of my shot,” Porter said.  —  The staffer, whom POLITICO is not identifying out of privacy concerns and who was not the source of the video, declined to comment.
New York Times:
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration … Robert E. Primus, the first Black board chairman of the federal regulator responsible for approving railroad mergers, at first thought there was something wrong with his work phone.  When he couldn't unlock it he switched …
Bloomberg:
Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump's Deportation Push  —  The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump's deportations and said it would dismiss anyone …
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Aria Bendix / NBC News:
California becomes the first state to phase ultraprocessed food out of school meals  —  The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Wednesday, sets a 10-year deadline for the change to take place.  —  A new law will make California the first state to phase some ultraprocessed food out of school meals.
Politico:
Retired Justice Kennedy laments coarse discourse of Trump era and its effects on Supreme Court … He declined to identify any justices or opinions, but at another point he returned to the personal nature of some court opinions.  —  “Of course, when you disagree, you criticize the other …
Discussion: New York Times and Newsweek
Sophie Gardner / Politico:
CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women … Neither ACIP nor the CDC in its endorsement of the change specifically mentioned that the new Covid-19 recommendations would alter Kennedy's recommendation — which the health secretary changed in May without waiting for a vote from the committee.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Adam Wren / Politico:
Vance heads to Indiana after Republicans warn White House of stalled redistricting push … Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, a Republican, conveyed his concerns about the redistricting effort's chances in the state Senate to the White House last week, two people familiar with those discussions told POLITICO.
KFF:
KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Tylenol-Autism Link and Vaccine Policies  —  Authors: Alex Montero, Grace Sparks, Mardet Mulugeta, Julian Montalvo III, Ashley Kirzinger, Lunna Lopes, and Liz Hamel  —  News Release: Poll: After President Trump's Warning …
Discussion: The Hill, NPR, Axios, Forbes and The 19th
 
 
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