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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.
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
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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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
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 …
The Atlantic:
The Government Is Closed.  The President Is MIA.  —  Trump has been busy with everything but the government shutdown.  —  In the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start negotiations, brought congressional leaders …
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Politico:
Capitol agenda: Thune says shutdown talks are picking up
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Semafor
Will Saletan / The Bulwark:
Trump Isn't Easing the Shutdown Pain—He's Inflicting It
Discussion: NOTUS, RedState, MSNBC and NRCC
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: Townhall
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Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state's redistricting push
Discussion: The Hill, NOTUS and Pluribus News
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
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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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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NBC News:
Federal judge rules U.S. attorney in California has been ‘unlawfully serving’ in role
Discussion: Democracy Docket and Raw Story
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 …
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.
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
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
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.
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 …
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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Axios:
Democrats embrace votes to make government shutdown hurt less … Now he's pushing a partial reopening of government, without those ACA subsidies as part of the equation.  — It's an attempt to make Republicans own more of the acute and escalating pain of the government shutdown.
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says What Everyone's Been Thinking About Mike Johnson
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
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.
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 …
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
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage  —  A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer.  The agency cites no new science …
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.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
It didn't take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress  —  If today's newsletter doesn't make any sense — OK, even less sense than usual — blame baseball.  From roughly 11 p.m. Monday night to nearly 3 a.m. on Tuesday, I drifted in but mostly out of a fitful sleep as I joined millions …
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.
Discussion: Associated Press
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
Home of the Brave:
I helped lead the National Guard.  Troops don't belong in our cities.  —  We must not permit this gross misuse of the military to be normalized.  —  Home of the Brave  —  I served for more than 35 years in the US Army and the National Guard.  Four generations of my family have served in combat or during times of war.
Discussion: Washington City Paper
 
 
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Ordered Secret East Wing Teardown in F-Word Rant: Author
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Meet the Senate aide with a $44,000 taxpayer-funded commute
NBC News:
As Trump watches, Georgia Republicans brace for a bruising Senate primary
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Appeals court will reconsider whether Trump can send troops to Portland
Wall Street Journal:
Americans Are Getting a Look at Next Year's ACA Premiums and Many Don't Like It
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and The Federalist
Defense News:
US troops should be alarmed at Trump's strikes on alleged drug boats
Discussion: Mediaite and Esquire
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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