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9:50 AM ET, October 26, 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 …
Associated Press:
East Timor becomes newest ASEAN member, while Thailand and Cambodia sign expanded border ceasefire  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  East Timor's prime minister told leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations …
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:   How Trump Barreled Through D.C.'s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Brett Forrest / Wall Street Journal:
State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin's Appetite for Peace  —  The CIA had a more positive assessment of the Russian leader's willingness to talk  —  The State Department's internal intelligence agency cast doubt earlier this year on the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Bloomberg:
Trump Unveils Flurry of Asia Trade Deals Ahead of Xi Meeting  —  US President Donald Trump unveiled a flurry of trade deals during his first day in Asia, looking to shore up access to critical minerals and a market for US agricultural goods ahead of a critical meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Discussion: New York Times, Reuters, NPR, IJR and Al Jazeera
Kyla Scanlon / New York Times:
It Is Trump's Casino Economy Now.  You'll Probably Lose.  —  Step into the casino that now passes for the American economy.  —  Donald Trump campaigned on bringing back American manufacturing and rebuilding what America once was — factories, workers in hard hats — from the ground up.
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:   AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode
Pooja Salhotra / New York Times:
In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President's Policies Have Hit Hard … When President Trump announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina this month, Larry Ory, 86, a farmer in Earlham, Iowa, could hardly believe it, especially after boatloads of Argentine soybeans began shipping to China, a once-critical customer for Mr. Ory's family.
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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Olivia Beavers / Wall Street Journal:
The Lone House Democrat Who Thinks His Party Has the Shutdown All Wrong  —  Maine's Jared Golden says his party is being pushed in the wrong direction by far-left groups  —  BANGOR, Maine—Democratic Rep. Jared Golden didn't just side with Republicans in the House's vote to avoid the government shutdown.
Discussion: RedState
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Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Shutdowns began as a way to enforce federal law. Now Trump is using it to take more power
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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.
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out … For nearly two years, Voice of America, a federal news agency dedicated to projecting American values around the world, provided intensive Persian-language coverage of Israel's war with Hamas.  The service regularly reached viewers inside Iran …
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 …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 25, 2025  —  Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds in reserve to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).  The government shutdown means that states have run …
Samantha Pearson / Wall Street Journal:
Milei's Free-Market Experiment Hangs in the Balance as Argentina Votes  —  Libertarian leader needs enough congressional seats to protect agenda backed by Trump  —  BUENOS AIRES—The future of Argentina's free-market experiment hinges on its midterm congressional elections Sunday.
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 …
CNN:
Frustrated Arizonans have waited more than a month for their new congresswoman to be seated  —  For years, immigration attorney Rachel Wilson has relied on her local congressional office to help untangle bureaucratic knots that threaten her clients' ability to live and work in the United States.
 
 
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Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
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Associated Press:
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NBC News:
Federal workers flock to D.C. food bank as they miss first full paycheck of shutdown
Politico:
Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy. It didn't go as planned.
Discussion: Raw Story
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris says she may run for president again
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Trump calls Sherrill ‘fake and corrupt’ as New Jersey governor's race heats up
Associated Press:
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Discussion: Los Angeles Times