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NobelPrize.org:
Announcement, Nobel Peace Prize 2025 — The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace - to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado.
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Associated Press:
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday …
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Jonathan Wolfe / New York Times:
Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the opposition politician for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.” — Here's the latest. — María Corina Machado …
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Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Why Trump wasn't awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
MAGA Fury Erupts After Trump Misses Nobel Peace Prize
MAGA Fury Erupts After Trump Misses Nobel Peace Prize
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Lucia I Suarez Sang / CBS News:
Video shows moment Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado learns about honor: “I am just one person”
Video shows moment Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado learns about honor: “I am just one person”
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Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
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CBS News
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning — The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 10 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. — (After we recorded, a judge temporary blocked National Guard deployments in Illinois).
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Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland
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CounterPunch
Molly Roberts / Lawfare:
The Justice Department's Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James — Lindsey Halligan didn't have a strong case against Letitia James. She indicted her anyway. — Meet The Authors … Earlier this week, the Justice Department seemed poised to pursue an indictment …
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CNN:
Lindsey Halligan didn't coordinate NY AG Letitia James indictment with Pam Bondi's DOJ — Attorney General Pam Bondi was caught off guard Thursday when President Donald Trump's handpicked US attorney, Lindsey Halligan, secured New York Attorney General Letitia James' indictment from a grand jury …
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Politico:
How Trump's message to ‘Pam’ got exactly the results he wanted
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NBC News:
Trump accidentally posted message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says
Trump accidentally posted message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies
The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies
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The Japan Times
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment — The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse. — M.I.T. became the first university …
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The Tech, The Guardian and Diane Ravitch's blog
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Sally Kornbluth / orgchart.mit.edu:
Regarding the Compact — The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” along with a letter asking that MIT review the document. — From the messages I've received, I know this is on the minds …
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding — MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks. — Just now — MIT's president turned down the Trump administration's offer …
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Marc Rowan / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
Trump's ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
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Oregonian:
Trump's antifa roundtable made some wild claims about Portland. Here's the truth about 7 of them — President Donald Trump held a roundtable on Wednesday, which featured prominent administration officials and independent journalists, billed as a “Roundtable on antifa.”
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Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Key Trump nominee accused of sexual harassment … What's not disputed is that the two ended up sharing a room on the business trip, and that it resulted in an official investigation. — The fallout from the incident has been the talk of the upper echelons of DHS ever since.
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Jael Holzman / Heatmap News:
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says — The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada has been canceled amidst the Trump administration's federal permitting freeze. — Esmeralda 7 was supposed to produce a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power …
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Washington Post:
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel's private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction — The Washington Post reviewed leaked audio from four off-the-record lectures the tech investor delivered in San Francisco over the last month that fused beliefs about religion and technology.
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The Guardian, Reuters, The Nerd Reich and The Daily Caller
Kayla Steinberg / NBC News:
UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems — Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance. — Thousands of U.S.-bound packages shipped by UPS are trapped …
Politico:
Timely troop pay is now in Trump's hands — President Donald Trump is now the only person with the power to keep 1.3 million active-duty military members from missing their paychecks Wednesday after the Senate failed to act on spending legislation Thursday then left Washington for the long holiday weekend.
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Raw Story, Representative Derek Tran, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
DHS top lawyer says ‘no legal barrier’ to actions officers can take to defend federal property — In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein. … Staffers at a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) law enforcement agency received …
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NPR
Amee Vanderpool / SHERO:
“Less Than a Ham Sandwich” — SHERO is a reader-supported publication that makes most articles free and available to the public. Please support independent journalism for everyone by becoming a paid subscriber today. — Federal prosecutors dismissed charges on Wednesday against three …
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Above the Law, New York Times and The National Pulse
CNBC:
Dow drops 340 points after Trump says China becoming ‘hostile’ over rare earth metals, cancels Xi meeting — Stocks moved decidedly lower in a rapid move Friday after President Donald Trump made some critical comments about China regarding their controls on global rare earth metal resources …
Joshua Chaffin / Wall Street Journal:
The Beauty Queens of MAGA World — From cabinet secretaries to state legislators, many women in today's GOP have one thing in common: They got their start in public life by winning pageants. — In November, Denmark's Victoria Kjaer Theilvig was crowned Miss Universe, and Amber Hulse was elated.
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
I've Seen Epstein's Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author — CAUGHT ON CAMERA — Trump biographer Michael Wolff reveals he was shown the lewd photos by Jeffrey Epstein himself. — Jeffrey Epstein once dug into his safe to take out photos of Donald Trump posing with topless girls on his lap …
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Raw Story
Samantha Hancox-Li / Liberal Currents:
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money — Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump's Lawfare — Donald Trump and Greg Abbott's deployment of Texas National Guardsmen to Chicago has hit a legal wall—for now. A federal judge in Illinois handed down an order Thursday night temporarily blocking the deployment, saying she had seen …
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Ruth Styles / Daily Mail:
Pete Hegseth wages war on his wrinkles with BOTOX injections after blasting ‘fat troops’ and unveiling new fitness standards — He's already installed a makeup studio complete with lights and a director's chair at the Pentagon, and now the Daily Mail can reveal that Pete Hegseth has kicked …
Governor of California:
Governor Newsom builds on this year's historic housing reforms, signs legislation to accelerate housing and affordability — What you need to know: Governor Newsom signed legislation to help boost housing affordability for California families, continuing the momentum of the state's monumental housing progress.
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The Tory Implosion Offers a Warning for Both Parties in America … Margaret Thatcher became prime minister when conservatives returned to power in 1979, a year before the Reagan Revolution. Bill Clinton steered Democrats to the center and claimed the White House in 1992 …
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump's ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan — THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS (CHC) expressed grave concern Friday over reports that the Trump administration offered $2,500 payments to unaccompanied migrant kids in exchange for agreeing to self-deport voluntarily.
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
RFK Jr.'s next vaccine target — The CDC's vaccine advisory committee this week announced the creation of a working group to review the childhood vaccination schedule, including the timing and order of different vaccines and the safety of certain ingredients.
Washington Post:
As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’ — Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements. — VATICAN CITY — Since the bells tolled …
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