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2:00 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 …
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 …
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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
How Trump Barreled Through D.C.'s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom  —  The president realized his longtime dream by remaking a planning board and taking advantage of permitting oddities; ‘you have zero zoning conditions’  —  WASHINGTON—Anybody who has remodeled a home knows …
Discussion: Newsweek
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
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
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 …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Republicans bet frenzied redistricting push can outrun historical trends
Discussion: The Guardian
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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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
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.
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.
Associated Press:
Judge rules immigration detention of Chicago man with daughter battling cancer is illegal  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter …
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
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 …
Financial Times:
US and China kick off trade talks ahead of high-stakes Trump-Xi summit  —  Washington describes first day of negotiations between Scott Bessent and He Lifeng as ‘very constructive’  —  The US and China kicked off high-stakes trade talks in Malaysia on Saturday that Washington described as …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pitches Meeting With Kim Jong Un During Asia Tour: ‘Put Out the Word’
 
 
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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
 Earlier Items: 
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
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
Shutdowns began as a way to enforce federal law. Now Trump is using it to take more power
Hannah Harris Green / The Guardian:
RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts
Discussion: Washington Times
Declan Harty / Politico:
Trump taps crypto regulator Mike Selig as new CFTC chair nominee
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Burnin' Down the House  —  Before the orange cyclone hit town, Washington was a far more staid place.
Discussion: Politico
Paul Krugman:
Talking With Erica Chenoweth
 

 
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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
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Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
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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
 
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