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Andrew Schwartz / Willamette Week:
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver — Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive. — Late on Oct. 5, a Portland ambulance crew informed dispatchers …
Gregory Royal Pratt / Chicago Tribune:
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident' — Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street. — The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump's Power to Fire Officials — As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president's power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent. — The Supreme Court will hear arguments in December …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Bombshell!’ Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning — The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal scholar sent …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare — Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️ — 🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠 — Against all odds, Democrats seemed to have gained the upper hand in the conflict over the government shutdown …
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Reuters:
How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs — US companies, consumers bear brunt of US tariffs — Some foreign sellers are raising prices — Further price hikes likely in coming months — U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset — During his address to the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Trump went off script and urged President Issac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is standing trial on three corruption charges.
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Abeer Abu Omar / Bloomberg:
Netanyahu Declines Egypt Peace Summit Invite After Reports He'd Go
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump to Address Israeli Parliament as Hostages Are Released
Live Updates: Trump to Address Israeli Parliament as Hostages Are Released
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Politico:
Democrats are in a GOP shutdown vise … On Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans said they would no longer allow Democrats to keep calling up their own stopgap spending bill funding the government through the end of October, forcing votes only on the GOP-led alternative.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
As the shutdown continues, Trump and his team advance plan for ‘Democrat-oriented’ firings
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP's Steve Scalise gives away the game
On keeping health care coverage affordable, the GOP's Steve Scalise gives away the game
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Guilt-By-Association Law Enforcement — Some unbelievable scenes out of Israel this morning, where the last hostages held by Hamas have just been returned as part of the preliminary ceasefire deal in Gaza. Negotiating hurdles remain, but leaders are projecting optimism: “The war is over …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Are YOU Antifa? — Plus: Hostage releases and prisoner swaps. — ∙ Paid
Are YOU Antifa? — Plus: Hostage releases and prisoner swaps. — ∙ Paid
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HotAir, Mercury News and Blaze Media
Paul Krugman:
How Trump Is Making China Great — Six months ago Donald Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs — huge tariffs imposed on just about every nation. As everyone noted, this announcement suddenly brought average tariffs back to 1934 levels. Less widely noted was the fact that the long decline …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office — Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over …
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Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks — Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk's private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having issues selling the electric pickup truck. — Cybertruck turned out to be Tesla's first real commercial flop.
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Jake Wittich / Windy City Times:
Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident — Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month.
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Washington Post:
Historic wave of retirements is putting huge strains on the government — Tens of thousands of federal employees have taken retirement or other voluntary departures on top of the Trump administration's latest layoffs. — Just now — A historic wave of retirements and other departures …
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Raw Story
Maria Curi / Axios:
Newsom signs AI chatbots bill meant to protect children — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a batch of bills aimed at protecting kids using chatbots and AI tools online. … - The new law will require chatbots to notify minors every three hours to “take a break” and that the chatbot is not human.
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Rove: Trump National Guard deployments ‘going to end up being a loser’ — GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted Saturday that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states' governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump.
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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State
Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
Obama swipes at Democrats for ‘holier than thou’ anti-Trump messaging — Former President Barack Obama ripped fellow Democrats over their messaging, warning that some in his party are falling short of bridging the gap between ideology and voters. — “You can't constantly lecture people …
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Danielle Sassoon / New York Times:
Law Schools Are Using Security Concerns to Silence Speech — Since I resigned from my job as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in February, I have accepted several invitations from law schools to speak to students about public service.
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The Daily Signal
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Sold Sponsorships to What Appeared to Be a Treasury Event. It Wasn't. — Treasury says it didn't approve marketing pitch for private Oct. 21 event about AI that is to be headlined by Scott Bessent — An investment fund run by prominent Trump supporters tried to sell sponsorships …
Jeet Heer / The Nation:
The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump — Trump is mad that he didn't win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling. — Pocket — Donald Trump's narcissism is truly a force of nature …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer — The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled. — It's been nearly a month since the public …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump … When coal miners came to Washington in April, they posed behind President Trump at the White House, wearing their hard hats and thanking him for trying to reinvigorate their struggling industry.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline — The Washington Post joined the New York Times, CNN and the Atlantic in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy. — Journalists working at The Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news publications …
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Violet Miller / Chicago Sun Times:
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: ‘We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today’ — A federal judge's temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses says they didn't get any warning.
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Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth / Bloomberg:
Norway Suspects Espionage in Nobel Peace Prize Winner Breach — Norwegian officials see cyber espionage as the most likely cause of unusual betting surge on this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient ahead of the announcement. — The Nobel Institute on Friday began investigating reports …
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Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:
Shutdown polls show Democrats' economic messaging still falling flat … That dichotomy underscores an electoral hurdle for the party locked out of power: Even as Democrats hold the line over expiring health care subsidies that could send millions of Americans' insurance prices soaring …
Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
John Oliver Warns Viewers to Keep a Close Eye on CBS News in Wake of “Alarming” Bari Weiss Hire — The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host described the newly appointed editor-in-chief as someone “who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading.”
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