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9:55 AM ET, October 12, 2025

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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: Time, Raw Story, Mediaite, The Hill and NBC News
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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  Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.
Jeremy Faust / Inside Medicine:
Breaking News: RIFs in reverse.  Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.  —  This is breaking news.  We are in solidarity with CDC and other dedicated HHS federal employees affected by these terminations, professionals who work hard to keep us all safe.
NPR:
Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on  —  The Trump administration has laid off more than 100 employees at the nation's main mental health agency, NPR has learned.  —  Current and former employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) …
STAT:   CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded
Antonio María Delgado / Miami Herald:
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years.  Moments after being released, ICE took him  —  On the morning of Oct. 3, 2025, Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania prison that had confined him for more than four decades.
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.
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Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states  —  Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.  —  Just now  —  President Donald Trump's move to cancel projects …
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown
Discussion: RedState and Bloomberg
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Military Will Get Paid Despite Shutdown
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and UPI
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 Daily Caller and The Hill
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Vance says Trump is ‘looking at all his options’ as the president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act  —  The Insurrection Act would allow the president to deploy the U.S. military domestically for law enforcement purposes.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance indicated in an interview …
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.
Faris Tanyos / CBS News:
Appeals court temporarily blocks deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago  —  A federal appeals court Saturday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area amid ongoing protests at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities that the Trump administration has vowed to crack down on.
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Financial Times:
Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help  —  Trump administration has supported Kyiv's operations since summer in co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Amy Mackinnon in Washington and Max Seddon in Riga  —  The US has for months been helping Ukraine mount …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Is Trump “doing what he promised”?  |  Weekly roundup for October 12, 2025  —  I don't normally devote the lead slot in this weekly roundup just to disagreeing with someone's analysis, but I'm going to make an exception this week.  U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently shared …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Bonny Chu / Fox News:
Biden undergoes radiation therapy for cancer, spokesperson says  —  The former president was diagnosed with an ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer 4 months ago  —  Former President Joe Biden is entering a new phase of treatment for the prostate cancer he was diagnosed with in May.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer
Discussion: Rolling Stone and ABC News
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 and New York Post
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Wall Street Journal:   Trump's Favored Prosecutor Is Moving at Full Steam
 
 
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Washington Post:
Zohran Mamdani's grand promises are a struggle bus
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Anthony J. Rivera / Washington Post:
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction
Brad Reed / Common Dreams:
Trump's ‘Divorced From Reality’ Depiction of Portland Ridiculed by Local Officials
Discussion: NBC News and Le Monde
 Earlier Items: 
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
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
MSNBC:
ICE isn't hiring the best people
Discussion: CBS News and Mercury News
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Missouri Democrats have an opportunity to block a new congressional map. They say they're largely on their own.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Playbook: Inside JD Vance's redistricting rescue mission
Discussion: Indianapolis Star and Raw Story
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, set to close after WBD splits into two companies in Q3 2026

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging Perplexity's platforms lift Tribune content verbatim and divert traffic from the paper

Will Sommer / @willsommer:
The Blaze retracts its article accusing a former Capitol Police officer of being the January 6 pipe bomber after the FBI arrested a different person
 
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