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11:30 AM ET, October 29, 2025

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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.
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Bloomberg:
South Korea Gifts Trump Replica Gold Crown During APEC Visit  —  South Korean President Lee Jae Myung presented US President Donald Trump with a replica of a gold crown on display at the Gyeongju National Museum as the pair meet Wednesday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Empty Promises of Trump's Imperial Presidency  —  As it now stands, approximately 42 million Americans will lose access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program when its funding runs out on Saturday.  Most are children, seniors and the disabled.
Discussion: Grabien
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Politico:
Capitol agenda: Thune says shutdown talks are picking up
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Semafor
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
MAGA Uses Hunger as a Political Weapon  —  Starving children is a new low  —  Donald Trump, like autocrats around the globe, is weaponizing food supply.  He is prepared to let more than 40 Million Americans go hungry to pressure Democrats to capitulate on the shutdown and accede to his plan …
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Popular Information:
Choosing to let kids go hungry  —  The official website of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) claims that on November 1, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out of funding.  The USDA asserts that Democrats are blocking funding to secure “health care for illegal immigrants” …
NBC News:
Shutdown pain intensifies as air traffic controllers lose pay, and food assistance is drying up
Discussion: Reuters
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples' Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship  —  “You don't got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike.  The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during …
Discussion: El País
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Noah Lanard / Mother Jones:
How Dangerous Is It Really to Work for ICE?  —  The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that it needs to send the military into American cities because of the unique danger faced by federal agents enforcing immigration laws.  In October, President Donald Trump claimed the National Guard …
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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Washington Post:
Democrats ramp up probes into Trump's $300 million White House ballroom
Discussion: The Hill and YouGov
Washington Post:
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations … The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a …
Discussion: The Verge, Mediaite and The Independent
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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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Judge Admonishes Border Patrol Leader for Tactics in Chicago
Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's ObamaCare Opportunity  —  Rising premiums are the result of Affordable Care Act flaws Republicans can fix if they make the case.  —  The federal government shutdown is stretching into its fourth week, and the press is missing an important story of the impasse.
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Danny Hakim / New York Times:
Federal Judge Disqualifies Trump-Backed Prosecutor in Los Angeles
Discussion: RedState and Washington Examiner
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 …
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David Gritten / BBC:
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier
Washington Post:
Maryland's Democratic Senate president blocks anti-Trump redistricting fight  —  Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, two of the state's top Democrats, want a special session to redistrict.  Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson said no.  —  Just now
Discussion: NBC News and Townhall
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Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state's redistricting push
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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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump concedes it's “pretty clear” he can't run for a third term
Financial Times:
Trump's Truth Social to allow trading on election results  —  US president's social media platform enters prediction market sector  —  Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is to offer users the chance to trade on the outcome of elections and sports games, extending the US president …
Basillioh Rukanga / BBC:
Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says US revoked his visa  —  Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country.  —  The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
5 GOP senators vote to pass resolution terminating Trump's Brazil tariffs  —  Five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday night to pass a resolution terminating President Trump's emergency authority to impose steep tariffs on Brazil, one of the biggest exporters of coffee to the United States.
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Senate rejects Trump tariffs on Brazil
Cindy Von Quednow / CNN:
Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say  —  In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested …
Discussion: New York Post and al.com
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage  —  The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government.
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
The triumph of bullshit  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  ♻️ Subscribe to PN ♻️  —  During the first Trump administration, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler documented more than 30,000 lies by the president.
Wall Street Journal:
Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite  —  Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into unwelcoming market  —  The nation's largest employers have a new message for office workers: help not wanted.
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.
Associated Press:
Trump's decision to send aircraft carrier to South America will leave Mideast and Europe with none  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  President Donald Trump's decision to shift the nation's most advanced aircraft carrier …
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.
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 …
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Ken Dilanian / MSNBC:
Biden Justice Department slow-walked key decisions in Trump legal probes
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
In Utah, Trump's Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
Grace Gilson / Jerusalem Post:
Neo-Nazis raise money for Georgia man wearing Nazi SS uniform who allegedly assaulted UGA student
Discussion: Atlanta News First
Punchbowl News:
How the weird U.S. economy looks to Powell
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Bloomberg
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why Commanders Don't Sign NDAs
Discussion: CNBC
Home of the Brave:
I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don't belong in our cities.
Discussion: Washington City Paper
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats' Greatest Weakness
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 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
De Blasio Impersonator Tricks British Newspaper With Fake Criticism of Mamdani
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the Senate aide with a $44,000 taxpayer-funded commute
Discussion: IJR
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Abigail Spanberger stays laser-focused on closing economic message amid last-minute ‘curveballs’ in Virginia
Discussion: Associated Press
Ben Blatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners' Phone Calls
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Verge
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
After Law Firm Deals With Trump, D.C. Bar Warns of Ethical Jeopardy
Discussion: The Red Letter
 

 
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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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