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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 …
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 …
Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Why Trump wasn't awarded Nobel Peace Prize for Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal  —  President Trump lost out on this year's Nobel Peace Prize despite brokering a historic cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas after more than two years of war.  —  But it wasn't a snub, more just a case of bad timing …
Reuters:
Nobel Peace Prize winner to be announced, in a year overshadowed by Trump
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).
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.”
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa … - President Trump has described Portland, Ore., for example, as “war-ravaged” — contradicting local law enforcement officials who say the National Guard is not needed.  — Footage of bloody brawls and masked agitators, amplified by MAGA influencers, helps Trump make his case.
Rachel Saslow / Willamette Week:
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Discussion: Telegraph
Justin Glawe / Public Notice:
The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland
Discussion: CounterPunch
Associated Press:
FACT FOCUS: Trump paints a grim portrait of Portland. The story on the ground is much less extreme
Discussion: New York Sun and WTOP News
NBC News:
Trump accidentally posted message pressuring Pam Bondi to charge his enemies, source says  —  Trump pressured the attorney general to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James.  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intended …
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CNN:
Lindsey Halligan didn't coordinate NY AG Letitia James indictment with Pam Bondi's DOJ
CNN:
Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies
Discussion: The Japan Times
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and WBUR
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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 …
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 …
Marc Rowan / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed  —  Last week the Trump administration sent letters to a group of presidents of universities proposing a set of principles that has come to be known as the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Guardian and Reuters
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 …
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 …
Preston Mizell / Fox News:
Noem airs clip blasting Democrats for government shutdown at every airport in America  —  Noem says ‘most of our TSA employees are working without pay’  —  FIRST ON FOX: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blasted Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown in a new video that will be played …
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CNN:
Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country
Discussion: Forbes
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Republicans reject push to block Trump from using Qatari jet as Air Force One  —  Senate Republicans on Thursday rebuffed a Democratic-led effort to block funding for President Donald Trump to convert a gifted Qatari jetliner into Air Force One.  The move came as the chamber plowed through amendments …
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Alexandra Hutzler / Reuters:
Melania Trump says she and Putin communicating about children affected by war  —  The first lady made remarks from the Grand Foyer of the White House.  —  First lady Melania Trump makes an announcement from the Grand Foyer at the White House in Washington, October 10, 2025.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms  —  President Donald Trump acted to help an ally in Latin America even as some MAGA supporters grumbled.  —  The Trump administration finalized plans for a financial rescue of Argentina on Thursday, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent …
Associated Press:
Cindy McCain suffers a mild stroke and will take leave from World Food Program while recovering  —  NEW YORK AP —  Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain and head of the UN World Food Program, suffered a mild stroke this week and is said to be recovering “well,” …
Discussion: TV Insider
Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump's ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan  —  It is both not as gross AND worse than you think.  —  THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS (CHC) expressed grave concern Friday over reports that the Trump administration offered $2,500 payments to unaccompanied migrant kids …
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 …
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.
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.
 
 
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
The Fiscal Gambit at the Center of the Shutdown
Discussion: NewsMax.com and NBC News
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
RFK Jr.'s next vaccine target
Discussion: Politico, CNN and 404 Media
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Record-High 62% Say U.S. Government Has Too Much Power
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
I've Seen Epstein's Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author
Discussion: Raw Story
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Discussion: Bloomberg
ProPublica:
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ProPublica:
Elon Musk's Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project
Discussion: TechCrunch
Associated Press:
Israeli military says ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, raising hopes for ending the war
Paul Waldman / MSNBC:
Trump's war on ‘antifa’ is both buffoonish and sinister
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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