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The Guardian:
Israelis and Palestinians celebrate as truce brings hope of ‘era of peace’ — UN warns Gaza still needs ‘lifesaving aid’ as world leaders gather in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss 20-point proposal — Julian Borger in London, Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Daniel Boffey in Jerusalem
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France 24, New York Times, Washington Times, MSNBC, The Hill and WTOP News
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Trump, hailing a ‘new Middle East,’ avoids the hard questions ahead
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France 24, Semafor, The American Spectator, Straight Arrow News, Fox News, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com, HuffPost and Associated Press
Andrew Dowell / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Big Gamble on Tackling the Middle East's Intractable Problems
Trump's Big Gamble on Tackling the Middle East's Intractable Problems
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Semafor, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, The Free Press, CBS News, The Hill, Middle East Monitor and The Gateway Pundit
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal
Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal
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CNBC, The Hill, Daily Caller News Foundation, Newsweek, RedState, New York Post, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Fox News, Townhall and France 24
Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer
Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer
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Fox News, The Times of Israel, JNS.org, New York Daily News, Washington Times and The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
After hostages and prisoners are freed, complex issues remain for Israel-Hamas ceasefire
After hostages and prisoners are freed, complex issues remain for Israel-Hamas ceasefire
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Washington Post, The Times of Israel, CNN, The Forward, The Hill, Chicago Tribune, WTOP News, Townhall, israelhayom.com, Time, BBC, NewsMax.com, Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Christian Science Monitor, WBEZ Chicago, Los Angeles Times, Dailyfly News, Reuters, masslive.com, New York Daily News, PBS NewsHour, New York Post, The Wrap, NOTUS, France 24, Washington Times, Al Jazeera, JNS.org, Salon, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, Associated Press, RedState, Bloomberg and CBS News
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
The small cracks of dissent emerging in Trump's GOP — As President Trump basks in his success in the Middle East, hairline fractures within his Republican base are cropping up on a smattering of domestic issues. … So the small pockets of resistance — on the National Guard deployments …
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Washington Post:
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’ — “There's a lot of weak Republican men and they're more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said. — Just now — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) spent part of last week fielding angry texts …
Washington Post:
Airports say they won't air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints — Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays. — Airports in more than a half-dozen U.S. markets …
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Robert McCoy / New Republic:
Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem's Shutdown Propaganda
Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem's Shutdown Propaganda
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New York Post, KING-TV, KHQ-TV and Forbes
New York Times:
Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins — A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.
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ABC News, The Hill, Politico, Washington Examiner and Roll Call
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Bridget Bowman / NBC News:
Maine Gov. Janet Mills launches Senate run against one of Democrats' top 2026 targets — Mills, who is 77 years old, told NBC News she doesn't plan to serve more than one term and cast herself as the Democrat best positioned to defeat GOP Sen. Susan Collins.
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NPR, NOTUS, CBS News, Bangor Daily News and Newsweek
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat — The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year. His party already holds 10 of North Carolina's 14 congressional seats.
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Financial Times:
Bessent says China wants to ‘pull everybody else down’ — US Treasury secretary tells FT that Beijing is trying to hurt the world's economy — US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of trying to hurt the world's economy after Beijing imposed sweeping export controls …
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Fortune, Semafor and Fox Business
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Wall Street Journal:
How China and the U.S. Are Racing to De-Escalate the Trade War
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Raw Story, Reuters, Fox Business and New York Post
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump's Two Minds on China Sow a Chaotic Few Days
Trump's Two Minds on China Sow a Chaotic Few Days
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Fortune, New York Sun, Politico, The Guardian, CBS News, Reuters, Paul Krugman and Atlantic Council
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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The Hill, CNN, Raw Story, The Wrap, The Bulwark, Axios, Mediaite, Associated Press, The Independent, The Guardian, NOTUS, The Post Millennial and New York Daily News, more at Mediagazer »
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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon's Reporting Restrictions
Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon's Reporting Restrictions
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Poynter, The Hill and The Wrap, more at Mediagazer »
NPR:
A Statement from NPR on the Pentagon's Press Policy — From NPR Editor in Chief Thomas Evans: — NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the press and the objective, fact-based reporting of our journalists. We will not sign the Administration's restrictive policy …
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Washington Examiner and Deadline
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Tom Bowman / NPR:
Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
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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Daily Kos, FOX 32 Chicago and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Supreme Court once again eyes overturning key part of Voting Rights Act — Case to be argued Wednesday has major implications for who gets elected to Congress and state legislatures — Just now — When Press Robinson filed a lawsuit under the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1974 …
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Vox, NewsMax.com and Election Law Blog
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?
Will the Supreme Court Use a Louisiana Case to Gut the Voting Rights Act?
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MSNBC, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Associated Press and Boston.com
Caitlin McCormack / New York Post:
Mitt Romney's sister-in-law Carrie Elizabeth found dead at 64 on LA suburb street — The sister-in-law of former presidential nominee and ex-Utah senator Mitt Romney was found dead on a street in a Los Angeles suburb Friday evening, according to officials and reports.
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Los Angeles Times and TMZ.com
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Dennis Broad / NBC Los Angeles:
Sister-in-law of Mitt Romney found dead in Valencia parking garage
Sister-in-law of Mitt Romney found dead in Valencia parking garage
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New York Post, CBS News, Daily Mail, Breitbart, The Independent, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, The Gateway Pundit and Just Jared
Juby Babu / Reuters:
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers — NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown. — JPL is NASA's only federally funded research and development center.
Washington Post:
Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit — More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs. — Officials have reversed more than half …
Liam Knox / Bloomberg:
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT — The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments …
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Los Angeles Times
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 …
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Oregonian and Civil Discourse …
France 24:
Madagascar's embattled president dissolves parliament ahead of ouster vote — Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina on Tuesday dissolved the national assembly in a decree posted on Facebook a day after he uploaded a video declaring that he had left the country for a “safe place”.
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Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg and WTOP News
Alyssa Fowers / Washington Post:
Who will lose out when ACA health insurance subsidies expire? — Here's a look at who could be affected by the end of the Affordable Care Act credits and how much prices could change. — Some 22 million Americans are set to lose health insurance subsidies by the end of the year.
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Politico and Chicago Tribune
Jerusalem Demsas / The Argument:
Creative destruction is a miracle. It's also a political problem. — The Nobel Prize in Economics has a lesson for abundance liberals … No matter how much the world changed for most of human history, the realities of gut-wrenching poverty and subsistence farming remained the same.
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Reason, Truth on the Market and UPI
Jamie Dimon / Wall Street Journal:
Our Investments for National Security — JPMorganChase plans a 10-year, $1.5 trillion initiative to shore up America's resiliency. — The brutal invasion of Ukraine, the indescribable terrorist attack on Israel and other major conflicts should dispel any illusion that the world is safe.
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Bloomberg, JPMorganChase, Dailyfly News, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, UPI and NewsMax.com, more at Techmeme »
MSNBC:
Jeffries slams GOP spending bill: ‘Gutting the health care of the American people’ — Today is day 13 of the government shutdown. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) joins Katy Tur to share his concerns about the impact on Americans as the shutdown continues and why he blames Republicans for the stalled negotiations.

