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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 Officials said the mistaken dismissals were being rescinded.
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Washington Examiner, NPR and STAT
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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 …
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Raw Story
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 …
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Advocate, CNN, The Independent, New York Sun, CBS News and NewsMax.com
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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The Daily Caller, WXIA-TV, The Hill, RedState, Truthout, Raw Story, Mediaite, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit and Forbes
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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Fox News, New York Post, Mediaite, The Hill, The Post Millennial and Forbes
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Military Will Get Paid Despite Shutdown — President says funds have been identified to ensure that military servicemembers don't miss Oct. 15 paychecks — President Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to pay military servicemembers next week despite the government shutdown …
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Politico, The Guardian, twitchy.com, The Independent, NBC News, Semafor, Federal News Network, Fox News and ABC News
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Trump's Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats
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UPI, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Examiner, The Guardian, The Japan Times, CNBC and NBC News
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump directs the Pentagon to use ‘all available funds’ to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown
Trump directs the Pentagon to use ‘all available funds’ to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown
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Straight Arrow News, Task & Purpose, NPR, Roll Call, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Pay Troops Despite Government Shutdown
Trump Says He Will Pay Troops Despite Government Shutdown
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The Hill, Breitbart, CNBC, Raw Story, Blaze Media, Townhall, Bloomberg and Florida Politics
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Trump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Discussion:
The Hill and Christian Science Monitor
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.
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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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ABC News, NewsNation, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Forbes, TMZ.com, Daily Caller News Foundation, Page Six, UPI, Metro.co.uk, CBS News, Washington Examiner, KGW-TV, The Guardian and New York Post
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer
Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer
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Rolling Stone 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 …
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twitchy.com, New York Post and Fox News
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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 …
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The Hill and NewsMax.com
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.
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Washington Post, Reason, Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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TechCrunch, New York Times, Raw Story, israelhayom.com, Fortune, New York Post, ABC News, CBS News and WTOP News, more at Techmeme »
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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
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post:
Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices — In an unusual acknowledgement, the Labor Department said that tougher immigration enforcement is hurting farmers and the food supply. — Just now — The Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown …
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Mock Paper Scissors, Raw Story, Fortune and The Guardian
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.
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USA Today, The Hill, twitchy.com, American Thinker, Newsweek, NewsNation, GovExec.com, Washington Examiner, Federal News Network, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com, E&E News, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth, MPR News, Reason, CBS News, New Republic, NOTUS, The Japan News, Bangor Daily News, Wall Street Journal and Chalkbeat
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.
Discussion:
Office of the Texas Governor
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 …
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SpyTalk, NewsMax.com and Washington Examiner
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 …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem's “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit — This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster President Trump's effort to deploy Oregon's National Guard against ICE protesters in the city.
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Katelyn Burns / Burns Notice:
You Have to See This Mamdani Ad — I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this morning: — Video
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear — Recent moves reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his ambitious agenda — President Trump began mass layoffs of federal workers. He threatened a dramatic increase in tariffs on China.
MSNBC:
ICE isn't hiring the best people — The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we've seen it before. — As federal agents swarm American cities on the orders of President Donald Trump, it's getting harder and harder to tell …
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CBS News

