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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects  —  The moves come as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.  —  The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts …
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NBC News:
White House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington  —  The move comes as the president plans to build a triumphal arch along the Potomac River, and a new ballroom on the White House grounds.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday fired all six members …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CBS News
Andrea Cavallier / The Independent:
US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they'd blocked off  —  The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago's Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children's Halloween parade
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Bill Hutchinson / Reuters:
Border Patrol agents under fire for allegedly disrupting children's Halloween parade in Chicago
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says What Everyone's Been Thinking About Mike Johnson  —  “He refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the GOP congresswoman fumed about her party leader.  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) …
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Axios:
Democrats embrace votes to make government shutdown hurt less
Discussion: HotAir, Newsweek and National Politics
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate rejects Trump tariffs on Brazil  —  The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal President Trump's tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats.  —  Why it matters: The vote serves as a symbolic rebuke of Trump's trade policies.  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) …
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New York Times:
Trump Suggests He Knows He Can't Run Again: 'It's Too Bad'  —  Despite the Constitution's two-term limit, Trump had mused for months about a third term.  —  President Trump seemed to concede on Wednesday that he was not eligible to serve a third term, lamenting that it was an unfortunate result …
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Says 'Pretty Clear I'm Not Allowed to Run' for Third Term
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Appeals court will reconsider whether Trump can send troops to Portland  —  The 9th Circuit tossed out a panel decision from last week authorizing the deployment.  —  Just now  —  A federal appeals court on Tuesday said it would take a second look at whether President Donald Trump …
Discussion: doj.state.or.us
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Angela Williams / WAPT:
Escaped monkeys killed after truck accident in Heidelberg  —  One monkey is still on the run, Jasper County sheriff says  —  JASPER COUNTY, Miss. —  All but one of the rhesus monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Jasper County were euthanized, according to officials.
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state's redistricting push … “Despite deeply shared frustrations about the state of our country, mid-cycle redistricting for Maryland presents a reality where the legal risks are too high, the timeline for action is dangerous, the downside risk to Democrats is catastrophic …
Discussion: NOTUS
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Washington Post:
Maryland's Democratic Senate president blocks anti-Trump redistricting fight
Discussion: Townhall
Tara Copp / Washington Post:
Pentagon moves to fire civilian personnel with ‘speed and conviction’  —  A memo from the Defense Department's top personnel official makes it easier to remove underperforming employees and warns managers that they will be held accountable.  —  The Pentagon removed key protections …
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon removes key protections for civilian workers, moves to fire with ‘speed and conviction’
Discussion: Fox News
Politico:
Judge rules LA's top federal prosecutor was illegally appointed … “Simply stated: Essayli unlawfully assumed the role of Acting United States Attorney for the Central District of California,” Seabright concluded.  “Essayli may not perform the functions and duties of the United States Attorney …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:   Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules
Associated Press:
White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for Trump's visit to Navy celebration: AP sources  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  The White House pressed U.S. Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
NBC News:
Shutdown pain intensifies as air traffic controllers lose pay, and food assistance is drying up  —  Food assistance, health care costs, air travel, and military pay all face major strain if the shutdown extends beyond this week.  —  WASHINGTON — The pain of a U.S. government shutdown …
Discussion: Reuters
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Grace Yarrow / Politico:
Democrats launch alternative bill to save SNAP funding
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy  —  The bar group's ethics committee says firms that make a deal with the government may need to get waivers from clients with opposing interests.  —  Months after law firms made deals with President Trump …
Discussion: The Red Letter
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Radio Free Asia Will Halt News Operations Amid Shutdown  —  Until this month, Radio Free Asia had successfully resisted Trump officials who had tried to render it obsolete.  —  Radio Free Asia, one of four federally funded news organizations the Trump administration has aimed to close …
Associated Press:
Israel's military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 104  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  Israel's military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Abigail Spanberger stays laser-focused on closing economic message amid last-minute ‘curveballs’ in Virginia  —  Republican Winsome Earle-Sears has sought to use the government shutdown, Jay Jones' texts and redistricting to knock Spanberger off course ahead of the Nov. 4 gubernatorial election.
Reuters:
South Korea welcomes Trump with its highest award, a golden crown and ketchup  —  South Korea welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a replica gold crown and awarded him with the “Grand Order of Mugunghwa”, the country's highest decoration, the presidential office said.
Ben Blatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners' Phone Calls  —  Brendan Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, cited security concerns in rolling back most of the lower costs he voted for last year.  —  Most inmates in American prisons now have a personal tablet provided by a telecommunications company …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Verge
Associated Press:
Trump administration shakes up ICE leadership across the country in major overhaul, AP sources say  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  The Trump administration is reassigning at least half the top leadership …
Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ordered Secret East Wing Teardown in F-Word Rant: Author  —  HUSHED OPERATION  —  The president plotted to keep the public in the dark about his wrecking ball hit on the “people's house,” according to Michael Wolff.  —  President Donald Trump schemed to keep his violent destruction …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human  —  I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit.  Somewhere near the top was a post called “TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani's World View  —  The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative.  But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.  —  It wasn't so much what Zohran Mamdani said.
 
 
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the Senate aide with a $44,000 taxpayer-funded commute
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
NBC News:
As Trump watches, Georgia Republicans brace for a bruising Senate primary
Discussion: Capitol News Illinois
 Earlier Items: 
Joseph Trevithick / The War Zone:
Executive Order To Go Back To Steam Catapults On New Aircraft Carriers Coming: Trump
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Are Getting a Look at Next Year's ACA Premiums and Many Don't Like It
Discussion: The Hill and The Federalist
Defense News:
US troops should be alarmed at Trump's strikes on alleged drug boats
Discussion: Mediaite and Esquire
Tom Ellison / McSweeney's:
Hi, It's Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
J. B. Pritzker's Dark Visions
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan
Reuters:
Kennedy directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
Discussion: Bloomberg
 

 
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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

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison

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”
 
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