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10:55 PM ET, October 25, 2025

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Auzinea Bacon / CNN:
Trump says he's increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario's Reagan ad  —  President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-tariff speech by former President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
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Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press:
Trump threatens Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hikes Tariffs on Canada By 10% Over Ontario Ad  —  The measure was in response to what the U.S. president called ‘misrepresentation’ of Ronald Reagan's comments  —  The U.S. will impose an additional 10% tariff on Canada, President Trump said on Saturday, a punitive measure in response …
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune … Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Greg Jaffe / New York Times:
Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops
New York Times:
Trump's Plans for the East Wing Keep Changing.  Here's a Look.  —  Will President Trump's East Wing ballroom hold 650 people, or 999, as Mr. Trump said this week?  Or maybe it will hold 1,350 people, according to a drawing Mr. Trump held up in the Oval Office this week.
Discussion: Townhall, Raw Story and The Hill
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Washington Post:
In defense of the White House ballroom  —  Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs  —  Just now  —  The teardown of the White House's East Wing this week is a Rorschach test.  Many see the rubble as a metaphor for President Donald Trump's reckless disregard of norms and the rule of law …
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
Discussion: Raw Story
Ross Douthat / New York Times:   Why Trump's East Wing Demolition Needed to Happen
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself … It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor.  Spending legislation is not being considered.  Oversight hearings are on hold until further notice.
Discussion: Raw Story, Althouse and Axios
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Trump Humiliates Mike Johnson Behind Closed Doors  —  VENTRILOQUIST ACT  —  The president reportedly views the highest office in the House as little more than a puppet for his whims.  —  Inside sources reportedly say Donald Trump has been heard privately joking about just how easily …
Laura Kuenssberg / BBC:
‘I am not done’ - Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again  —  Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg  —  Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.  —  In her first UK interview, Harris said she would …
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Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris says she may run for president again
Discussion: Mediaite
Shawn Pogatchnik / Politico:
Ireland elects left-wing president in anti-government landslide  —  Catherine Connolly's lop-sided victory to be Ireland's next head of state was accompanied by a surge in vandalized ballots from right-wing voters.  —  DUBLIN — Independent socialist Catherine Connolly swept …
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Chicago Tribune:
Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, ‘Get out of our city!’  —  Federal immigration agents again deployed tear gas on Chicago streets Saturday despite mounting scrutiny from a judge over their use of the chemical weapons …
Discussion: Block Club Chicago and ABC7
Carolyn Stein / Chicago Tribune:
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments  —  A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pitches Meeting With Kim Jong Un During Asia Tour: ‘Put Out the Word’  —  North Korean leader refuses to discuss denuclearization, but meeting would boost his global legitimacy  —  Departing for his first Asia trip of his second term, President Trump publicly called for a meeting …
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Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
Police Report Says Member of Congress, 88, Has Dementia  —  ELDERS IN CHARGE  —  A police report says D.C.'s congressional delegate, who was scammed out of thousands, exhibits “early stages of dementia.”  —  Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, an 88-year-old Democrat congresswoman representing Washington D.C …
Politico:
Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy.  It didn't go as planned. … The disorganized handling of the layoffs is reminiscent of Musk's DOGE effort, in which employees were rehired after being fired, sometimes on court orders, sometimes because agency officials objected.
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Help!  —  We're drowning in corruption  —  Sometimes, when I'm lecturing kids on career day at one of our ICE detention facilities — after they've finished their weevil gruel and have tidied up the concrete slabs where they sleep — I will hear this when I open the cage up to Q&A …
Associated Press:
FBI indicts dozens of people in Philadelphia on drug charges  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  More than two dozen people have been indicted on drug-related charges as part of a yearslong investigation into a gang …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Post Millennial
Axios:
Black Americans and Latinos feel alienated in Trump's America: poll  —  Black and Latino Americans are reporting record levels of alienation and pessimism about the nation's direction, as President Trump tightens his focus on immigration enforcement and civil rights rollbacks, per a new poll.
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Ex-60 Minutes producer Bill Owens says bosses discouraged him from covering Gaza and Trump  —  Show's leader, who resigned in April, says he was also pressured to apologize for edit of Kamala Harris interview  —  The former executive producer of 60 Minutes Bill Owens said he faced intense internal pressure …
Discussion: The Wrap, Fox News and Mediaite
Hannah Harris Green / The Guardian:
RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts  —  Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations  —  Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans …
Discussion: Washington Times
 
 
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Thomas P.M. Barnett / Politico:
The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy
Discussion: HotAir
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Trump's Path of Destruction Is Far-Reaching
Cameron Peters / Vox:
Is the US killing innocent people?
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
J. William Middendorf II, 101, Dies; Navy Secretary and Musical Diplomat
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without
Discussion: New Republic and Chicago Sun Times
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump calls Sherrill ‘fake and corrupt’ as New Jersey governor's race heats up
Associated Press:
Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are looking to offer much more than ultrasounds and diapers
 Earlier Items: 
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Shutdowns began as a way to enforce federal law. Now Trump is using it to take more power
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Declan Harty / Politico:
Trump taps crypto regulator Mike Selig as new CFTC chair nominee
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
MSNBC:
Trump's ceasefire plan should be an opportunity to end starvation in Gaza
Discussion: Ynetnews
Conor Lally / The Irish Times:
‘Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen’: How social media drove the Citywest riots
Discussion: TheJournal.ie and RTÉ
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
In Florida, Obamacare Price Hikes Pose an Outsized Threat
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
G. Elliot Morris on Trump's dire polling
Guy Marzorati / KQED:
Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors
 

 
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Disney and OpenAI sign a three-year deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a major OpenAI client

Bloomberg:
A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court

Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider:
A Manhattan jury finds director Carl Rinsch guilty on all seven counts of defrauding Netflix of $11M when making sci-fi show White Horse

 
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