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10:50 PM ET, October 11, 2025

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New York Times:
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error  —  Friday's layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to disease outbreaks and running an influential journal.  Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown  —  Some of the layoff notices, including for those leading the measles response and those responding to an Ebola outbreak, will be reversed.  —  More than 1,000 staff at the Centers for Disease Control …
Brandy Zadrozny / MSNBC:
‘CDC is over’: RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre  —  Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moved …
Discussion: Raw Story
STAT:
CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded
Discussion: CNN
NPR:   Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown  —  The president said he would direct Defense Department officials to pay military members on Oct. 15.  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he was directing Defense Department officials to pay members of the military next week …
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Politico:
Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B … To scrounge up enough money to pay the troops, the Pentagon is tapping into its research and development accounts to use funding Congress made available for two years, according to an OMB official.
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Discussion: The Hill
People:
Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in Father of the Bride, First Wives Club and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)  —  The actress' legendary career also included other films like ‘Annie Hall,’ 'Something's Gotta Give' and ‘The Godfather’  —  Diane Keaton has died.  She was 79.
Telegraph:
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job  —  US president's 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app's board  —  Barron Trump is being eyed for a top role at the streaming app TikTok.  —  The US president's son could be appointed to the board of the $14bn (£10.5bn) company …
NBC News:
Former President Joe Biden undergoing radiation therapy as cancer care enters new phase  —  The radiation treatment is expected to span five weeks and marks a new point in his care.  —  Former President Joe Biden is undergoing a new phase of treatment for an aggressive form of cancer that was diagnosed in May.
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Bonny Chu / Fox News:
Biden undergoes radiation therapy for cancer, spokesperson says
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer
Discussion: Rolling Stone and NewsMax.com
Zachary Schermele / USA Today:
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says  —  The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone …
Discussion: The Hill and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
At the Center of Letitia James's Indictment, a House in Norfolk, Virginia  —  Attorney General Letitia James of New York purchased the $137,000 home for a grandniece who needed tranquillity.  Prosecutors say it is an impermissible investment property.  —  Five years ago, the door …
Discussion: twitchy.com, New York Post and Fox News
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John Melloy / CNBC:
Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day  —  On Friday morning, the S&P 500 was less than a couple of points from another all-time high.  Then, after a single social media post from President Donald Trump, $2 trillion in market value was wiped out.
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Brad Reed / Common Dreams:
Trump's ‘Divorced From Reality’ Depiction of Portland Ridiculed by Local Officials  —  US President Donald Trump and his administration have been trying to depict the city of Portland, Oregon as a lawless apocalyptic wasteland in which roving bands of Antifa activists set fire to local businesses …
New York Times:
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court's Emergency Orders  —  Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts' legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.
New York Times:
Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas  —  More than 23 million Americans are currently enrolled in Obamacare plans, and nearly all of them will face higher health care costs next year if extra federal funding for subsidies expires, as scheduled, on Dec. 31.
Discussion: The Hill and Newsbusters
Jaclyn Ramkissoon / The Hill:
Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas  —  With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.
Aris Folley / Roll Call:
Over 4K federal workers hit with shutdown-related layoffs, so far  —  The Trump administration plans to lay off more than 4,100 federal workers from seven departments in response to the partial government shutdown, according to a court filing submitted Friday.
David Kenner / Washington Post:
Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show  —  Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.  —  Even as key Arab states condemned …
Discussion: SpyTalk and NewsMax.com
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Appeals court bars Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois  —  The appeals court weighed in after a federal judge, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest, “barred the president from deploying troops in and around Chicago.  —  A federal appeals court said Saturday …
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
NJ school board race shaken up by vile text attacking conservative mom and her body: ‘This bitch needs to die’  —  A New Jersey school board candidate was caught red-handed sending vicious, sexual messages about a conservative female board member in a group chat labeled “ThisBitchNeedsToDie.”
 
 
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Anthony J. Rivera / Washington Post:
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
Discussion: Raw Story
Emma Bussey / Fox News:
Mamdani caught on camera getting chased out of Manhattan square; protester blasts him as ‘antisemite’
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction
Mandy Taheri / Newsweek:
Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US—'Betrayed'
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
RFK Jr.'s got advice for pregnant women. There's limited data to support it.
Katelyn Burns / Burns Notice:
You Have to See This Mamdani Ad  —  I wasn't planning to post anything today.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin endorses Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race
Lucy Campbell / The Guardian:
Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid, later released
 Earlier Items: 
MSNBC:
ICE isn't hiring the best people
Discussion: CBS News
Patrick Whittle / Associated Press:
Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk's killing
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem's “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
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Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear
 

 
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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

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