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New York Times:
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines' Celebration, California Officials Say  —  The mishap, during an anniversary celebration for the Marine Corps attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscores safety concerns that Gov. Gavin Newsom voiced before Saturday's event at Camp Pendleton.
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Los Angeles Times:
Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire exercise over I-5, agency says  —  The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance, agency officials said Sunday.
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
No Kings was a huge success.  Just look at Trump's response.  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊  —  Before the No Kings rallies that took place across the country on Saturday, Republicans were desperate …
Discussion: NPR and Strength In Numbers
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters' point
Discussion: Paul Krugman, Mediaite and PoliticusUSA
Kevin Schofield / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Has Posted An AI Video Of Himself Dumping S**t On Protesters
Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
New York Times:
U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels  —  It was the seventh known strike in President Trump's military campaign of attacking, rather than arresting, those suspected of running drugs in the Caribbean.  —  The U.S. military has killed three men …
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New York Times:
Colombia's Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Progressive candidate recruitment org urges Dems to invest beyond Blue Wall … “The core Blue Wall states, which Democrats have invested in for years, are not sufficient,” said Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run For Something.  “We cannot keep hyper-targeting our work to only places that are seen as competitive right now.
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New York Times:
America Still Has a Political Center, and It's the Key to Winning
Discussion: The Bulwark and Jewish Insider
Chris Hayes / New York Times:
Mamdani, Jeffries and How to Beat Trump at His Own Game
Discussion: The Mahablog
Fox News:
FBI investigates hunting stand with sight line to Trump's Air Force One exit area at Palm Beach airport  —  EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Secret Service uncovered a suspicious hunting stand with a direct line of sight to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport, officials told Fox News Digital.
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Audrey Dutton / ProPublica:
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates.  Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week.
Discussion: CNN
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case  —  Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ.  —  Reuveni previously won commendations …
Financial Times:
Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin's terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia  —  US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting  —  Christopher Miller in Kyiv, Max Seddon in Berlin, Henry Foy in Brussels and Amy Mackinnon in Washington
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Politico:
Trump told Zelenskyy he'd try to end the war ‘on the current line’ in difficult White House meeting
Discussion: Semafor and Mediaite
Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
Gaza ceasefire live: Trump's envoys arrive in Israel amid scramble to shore up fragile truce - Middle East crisis live  —  US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner already in Israel with vice-president JD Vance due tomorrow  —  US VP Vance to arrive in Israel on Tuesday, Israeli Airports Authority says
Discussion: France 24
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Politico:
Prosecutors may move to oust James Comey's defense lawyer … The prosecutors asked the judge to quickly approve a proposal for a “filter team” of lawyers to sift through evidence in Comey's criminal case that could clarify Fitzgerald's role in the eight-year-old disclosures — without breaching Comey's attorney-client privilege.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Steve Vladeck / One First:
184. The Massive Stakes of Trump v. Illinois  —  The Trump administration's 29th emergency application—to let it deploy federalized National Guard troops in Chicago on a profoundly dubious factual predicate—is a make-or-break moment for the Court.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” …
Discussion: The Contrarian, Slate and RedState
Dana Bash / CNN:
George Santos defends commutation: ‘If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics’  —  On GPS: Justice Anthony Kennedy on America's checks and balances  —  DNC Chair to Democrats: 'Don't hang your head, the wind is at our back'
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Andy Kroll / ProPublica:
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump's Shadow President  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Join us Nov. 5 for a virtual discussion about our yearlong investigation into Russell Vought.
Patricia Lopez / Bloomberg:
Food Prices Could Go Even Higher After These ICE Raids  —  The US Labor Department is sounding a stark warning that the Trump administration's immigration crackdown has devastated the ranks of agricultural workers and now may threaten the food supply.  —  It's bad news for farmers …
Jerusalem Demsas / The Argument:
No Kings wasn't cringe  —  Needing to seem cool in the face of authoritarian takeover is cringe  —  At 10:16 a.m., the Berkeley No Kings march kicked off.  A crowd full of men, women, students, seniors, babies, and dogs left the campus meetup spot to march west through the college town.
Discussion: The Hill
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Trump's revenge tour is putting the ‘petty’ in petty tyrant  —  The recent string of indictments against Trump's political enemies highlights his use of the power of the presidency for the smallest, saddest of reasons.  —  More than any other president before him, Donald Trump has sought to put the “petty” in “petty tyrant.”
Washington Post:
Travel ban separates Cuban families, divides community loyal to Trump  —  Cuban Americans trying to bring relatives from the island to the U.S. are seeing their claims rejected.  The denials have exacerbated tensions in Florida over Trump's immigration policies.
Discussion: Raw Story
nltimes.nl:
Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S  —  The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump …
 
 
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10/20/25 ☀️ AM: … Today is Day 20 of the government shutdown.
Discussion: Semafor
Eric Reinhart / The Guardian:
How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience
New York Times:
An ICE Raid at a Building in Chicago Swept Up Dozens of U.S. Citizens
Kelby Vera / HuffPost:
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Ups The Ante As He Calls For A General Strike
New York Times:
The Right Has Gone Woke
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
George Santos Is Back on TV Two Days After His Release From Prison
Discussion: NBC News and The Independent
 Earlier Items: 
Carmen Paun / Politico:
Trump is cutting foreign aid. He's not the only one.
Politico:
Trump struggles to crack tariff piggy bank
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Trump taps Detroit entrepreneur Mark Savaya, who boosted Muslim turnout, as special envoy to Iraq
Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
Ukraine's EU membership bid set for breakthrough in December, says deputy PM
Associated Press:
How Americans are feeling about their chances on the job market, according to an AP-NORC poll
Morgan Ofori / The Guardian:
Israel suspends aid into Gaza and launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ - Middle East crisis live
 

 
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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, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
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