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CNN:
Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies  —  Dick Cheney, America's most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family.
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Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in US history, dies at 84  —  Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.  Share  —  Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84  —  A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation's No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.  —  Dick Cheney, widely regarded …
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Dick Cheney, Powerful Former Vice President Who Served Four Republican Presidents, Dies at 84
Discussion: CBS News
Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney dead at 84
Discussion: Axios, CBS News, RedState and The Maine Wire
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats divided over cutting deal to end shutdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party
Discussion: MSNBC, New Jersey Online and CNN
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Who's Threatening Who?  —  America is living through an extraordinary experiment.  We are watching the reality of what aggressive internal immigration enforcement looks like in American cities.  —  For President Trump's supporters, the law is the law, and immigration enforcement must …
Discussion: Chicago Tribune and New Republic
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Groyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank  —  Heritage Americans Turn on One Another  —  BEN SHAPIRO DID SOMETHING UNIQUE on Monday.  Not only did he open his show with a fiery intervention in the right's roiling feud over white nationalist Nick Fuentes—he devoted his entire show to the topic.
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Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Ben Shapiro blasts ‘intellectual coward’ Tucker Carlson amid staff shakeup at Heritage
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump and Musk tell New York to ‘vote’ Cuomo over Mamdani on eve of mayoral election … President Donald Trump on Monday night explicitly called on New York City residents to vote for Andrew Cuomo over Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral election.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump tells New York ‘you must vote’ for Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani in NYC election — and ditch Curtis Sliwa
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump ousts watchdog of US housing regulator involved in mortgage probes of his foes, sources say  — FHFA's acting inspector general Joe Allen removed amid political tensions  — Pulte bypassed Inspector General in pursuing cases against Trump foes
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris  —  from the the-absurd-stupidity.-it-burns dept  —  60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect.
Richard Milne / Financial Times:
Norway's oil fund to vote against Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal at Tesla  —  World's largest sovereign wealth fund is a top-10 investor at US electric vehicle maker  —  The world's largest sovereign wealth fund will vote against Tesla chief executive Elon Musk's $1tn pay package, saying it is worried about the size of the deal.
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
Trump just loves the revamped CBS.  Here's the ugly backstory.  —  Last week, John Dickerson left the network where he had worked for many years.  On his way out the door, he got a heartfelt standing ovation from his CBS News colleagues.  —  A well-respected, accomplished journalist, Dickerson certainly deserved the kudos.
Washington Post:
Laura Loomer is now credentialed to cover the Pentagon  —  The far-right activist and former congressional candidate has repeatedly criticized defense officials on her website and social media accounts while boasting of her close ties to President Donald Trump.
News 12 New Jersey:
Bomb threats force closures at some New Jersey polling places  —  Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said polling sites at School 2 and School 10 in Paterson were shut down after threats were received.  —  •  —  Election Day 2025 underway in New Jersey  —  Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful …
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Inside the billionaire network shaping MAGA's post-Trump future … In 2019, a small group of right-wing donors rented a resort outside the 100-person town of Rockbridge, Ohio, for a summit to secure the future of the MAGA movement.  They aimed to turn a singular candidate — President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Medicare freeze beneficiary secretly donates $2.5 million to Trump ballroom  —  Earlier this year, Popular Information broke the news that Extremity Care - a company that sells bandages to Medicare for thousands of dollars per square inch - donated $5 million to MAGA Inc., President Trump's super PAC, on February 24.
Politico:
The White House's Plan A is winning its Supreme Court tariff case.  It also has a Plan B. … “They're aware there are a number of different statutes they can use to recoup the tariff authority,” said Everett Eissenstat, former deputy director of the White House's National Economic Council during Trump's first term.
Paul Krugman:
The Big Smirk  —  The cruelty is the point, party edition  —  There's been plenty of scathing commentary about the lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party Donald Trump threw at Mar a Lago — a party complete with sequined, feathered dancers and, yes, a scantily-clad woman in a giant martini glass.
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun Times:
Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia won't seek reelection, leaves seat for chief of staff in move panned as ‘coronation’  —  U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia will not seek reelection — leaving in place a succession plan for his chief of staff with a last-minute maneuver that critics likened to a coronation and a Chicago political machine play.
Reuters:
World will overshoot 1.5C climate goal, UN says  — Limit will be breached at least temporarily  — Deep emissions cuts could pull world back below limit  — UN finding adds pressure to countries at COP30 summit  —  The world has failed to meet its main climate change target …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Confederacy of Toddlers  —  The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.  —  In 1949, the German historian and political philosopher Hannah Arendt visited Europe for the first time since fleeing to America during the war.  A year later, she wrote an analysis of what she called “the aftermath of Nazi rule.”
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Report: Donors to Trump's White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts  —  The list contains heavyweights in the tech, financial and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast and Lockheed Martin.  —  Most of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump's White House ballroom …
 
 
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Politico:
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