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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing  —  Where Things Stand  — White House demolition: President Trump's plan to add an expansive ballroom to the White House will mean the demolition of the entire East Wing …
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NBC News:
Trump administration demolishing entire East Wing of the White House to add new ballroom  —  Trump said in July that the $250 million project “won't interfere with the current building.”  —  The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Many presidents have renovated the White House.  How Trump's ballroom compares.  —  Construction on Trump's massive and expensive ballroom is underway, but it's far from the first extreme makeover made to what's known as the People's House.
Washington Post:
Can anyone stop Trump's teardown of the East Wing?  —  Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.  —  President Donald Trump's plan to build a White House ballroom has underscored …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Literally and figuratively, Trump is trashing the entirety of the White House's East Wing  —  In July, the president said his ballroom project wouldn't “interfere with” the current White House structure.  So much for that idea.  —  In recent years, Donald Trump and his allies have taken …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing  —  President Trump initially said the ballroom construction would not dismantle parts of the White House.  His officials now say it is cheaper and more structurally sound to simply demolish the East Wing.
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Trump treats the WH with reverence - and he's rebuilding our nation's pride with historic renovations
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
‘A little fragile boy who needs to have big toys’: Jen Psaki on Trump's White House demolition
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump To Demolish Entire East Wing Of White House By This Weekend
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Moves Into Full Twilight Zone ‘Anthony’ Phase
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
The White House Wrecking Ball
Discussion: East Wing Magazine and CNN
Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
Trump hopes sanctioning Russian oil companies will bring quick end to Ukraine war  —  TRUMP: ‘I JUST FELT IT WAS TIME’: His peace overtures rebuffed by Russian President Vladimir Putin yet again, President Donald Trump reluctantly ordered what he called “massive sanctions,” …
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Holly Ellyatt / CNBC:
Stony silence from Moscow after Trump turns on Russia, says talks with Putin 'don't go anywhere'
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Lifts Key Restriction on Ukraine's Use of Western Long-Range Missiles
Washington Post:
E.U. joins U.S. with new Russia sanctions as Trump's shift buoys Ukraine
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Vile New $230 Million Shakedown of DOJ Just Got Even Worse  —  Donald Trump is rapidly transforming the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.  For convenience's sake, let's refer to this going forward as Trump's presidential “BDS.”  —  This is underscored by the jarring news …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Latest Daylight Robbery Makes the Louvre Jewelry Heist Look Like Chump Change  —  SMASH & GRAB PRESIDENCY  —  Why stop at a few chokers and tiaras when you can just empty out Fort Knox?  —  The theft of priceless French crown jewels from the Louvre turns out not to have been the most brazen …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area  —  The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they will begin to arrive Thursday, according to a source familiar with the operation.
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Sophie Austin / Associated Press:
California National Guard to support food banks due to expected food assistance delays
NBC News:
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting  —  The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency's rush to hire immigration officers, sources told NBC News.
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
GOP leaders eye a spending punt into 2026  —  Republican congressional leaders are making plans for a new spending punt as the shutdown drags on, and any new version is likely to postpone the next deadline until 2026.  House and Senate GOP leaders are debating a wide range of options …
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires  —  Reporting on the world can be heartbreaking.  We journalists cover wars, earthquakes and massacres, and for all the emotional armor of our professionalism we are haunted by memories of children's corpses.
Discussion: Reuters and Semafor
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New York Times:
University of Virginia Makes Deal With White House to Halt Investigations  —  The Justice Department had been scrutinizing one of the nation's premier public universities over accusations of civil rights violations.  —  The University of Virginia, facing immense pressure from the White House …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
The shutdown cliff that could hit Democrats hard … So far, despite the possible food assistance fallout in just over a week, top Democrats are pushing ahead and refusing to shore up the votes to reopen the government.  —  Asked Tuesday if the cliff would change his party's calculus …
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms  —  Discussions signal Washington's wider involvement in key parts of the economy  —  WASHINGTON—Several quantum-computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senator Merkley Rings ‘the Alarm Bells’ on Authoritarianism in Nearly 23-Hour Speech  —  The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state.  —  Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, concluded a marathon speech on the Senate floor Wednesday evening …
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Jeff Merkley wraps up marathon speech warning of ‘authoritarian’ rule
Associated Press:
4 US citizens arrested during ICE crackdown on NYC's Canal Street, congressman says  —  Nine undocumented immigrants were also arrested at Canal Street, DHS said.  —  Federal agents conduct an immigration sweep on Canal Street in Chinatown as protestors gather, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in New York.
Christopher Wiggins / Advocate:
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts  —  A progressive U.S. Senate candidate in Maine, who has already apologized for earlier misogynistic and racially insensitive remarks and said he did not realize that a tattoo …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump shits on America.  Why doesn't the media care?  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ✊ Subscribe to PN ✊  —  Last Saturday, millions of people took to the streets to defy President Donald Trump in the largest single …
Discussion: New Republic
Russell Contreras / Axios:
The Christians mounting a moral counter to Trump's immigration agenda  —  A diverse coalition of moderate and progressive Christians has opted to jump off the pulpit and challenge President Trump around immigration, civil rights and poverty. … - But “faith isn't owned by the Right,” the Rev. Eddie Anderson tells Axios.
Discussion: Deseret News
Politico:
Abandoned NASA nominee may find new life … The NASA job has taken on new urgency under Trump, who has made an expansion of human spaceflight a key element of his agenda — including a return trip to the moon by the end of Trump's term.  The agency also controls billions of dollars …
Washington Post:
Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout  —  A new crop of conservative media and influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse — signed an agreement with the Defense Department.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
U.S. Anglican Church archbishop accused of sexual misconduct, abuse of power … Shapira interviewed the priests and former employees who wrote affidavits in the presentment against the archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America.  He and Reshma Kirpalani traveled to South Carolina …
Discussion: Anglican Ink © 2025, RNS and Raw Story
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike  —  HOW MUCH?  —  Spending went from almost $9 million under Biden in 2024 to $71 million in Trump's first nine months.  —  The number of weapons bought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Discussion: Wired
 
 
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly

John Koblin / New York Times:
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