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Charles Thrush / Block Club Chicago:
Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility — BROADVIEW - Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Post:
Democrats swept elections far beyond the big races in referendum on Trump — From clerks to coroners, Democrats on Tuesday flipped city councils, school boards and county commissions. — In Pennsylvania's Bucks County, voters elected a Democratic district attorney for the first time since the 1800s …
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Wall Street Journal:
Why the Most Vulnerable Senate Democrat Hasn't Flipped in the Shutdown Standoff — Georgia's Jon Ossoff is holding firm on fixing expiring healthcare subsidies as he rebuffs Republican demands — Senate Republicans need a handful of Democrats to vote with them to reopen the government.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 7, 2025 — The repercussions from Tuesday's vote, in which Democratic candidates …
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated
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Politico
Steve Vladeck / One First:
190. SNAP WTF? — Welcome back to “One First,” a (more-than) weekly newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike. I'm grateful to all of you for your continued support, and I hope that you'll consider sharing some of what we're doing with your networks:
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Faith Wardwell / Politico:
‘Stop playing politics’: Democrats rip court-extended pause to SNAP funding … “Let's be very clear,” Clark wrote on X, “Trump is making a choice not to feed hungry Americans. Democrats will be fighting back.” — “The Trump administration will go to any length — including appeal …
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Associated Press and Tell Me How This Ends
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order on releasing SNAP benefits
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Associated Press
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mafia Presidency — Trump is saying, essentially, If you don't want to get hurt, you'll do what I say. — The Sunday before the New York City mayoral race, President Donald Trump told New Yorkers he might withhold federal funding if Zohran Mamdani won.
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Washington Post:
Trump urges Senate GOP to give ACA subsidies directly to Americans — Obamacare subsidies have been a sticking point for Democrats. The president says he wants to send the funds directly to Americans, a change that would require congressional action. — Just now
Washington Post:
A closer look at Trump's apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office — A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that the president spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at a recent event. — Just now
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do — I have great news for President Trump! — He has expressed such outrage at attacks on Christians in Nigeria that he has threatened military intervention there, and the Pentagon has obligingly prepared plans for attack.
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy — The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich. — With little public scrutiny …
New York Times:
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison — They said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear gassed until they passed out. — They said they were punished in a dark room called the island, where they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours.
NBC News:
Judge permanently bars Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland in response to immigration protests — Oregon officials have been embroiled in a legal battle with the administration since late September, when the Trump administration mobilized hundreds of troops.
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The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor and OPB
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Barbara McQuade / MSNBC:
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasted our money pursuing sandwich thrower — To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable. — Among a U.S. attorney's most significant responsibilities …
Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun Times:
Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was ‘aware’ of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, which happened Friday morning, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …
Telegraph:
Trump goes to war with ‘fake news’ BBC — White House attacks ‘Leftist propaganda machine’ over biased doctoring of president's speech — Donald Trump's White House has accused the BBC of “purposeful dishonesty” amid a row over bias at the broadcaster. — It launched its attack …
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The Guardian and GB News
Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech — A sudden change in leadership at Indiana University's Jewish studies program has erupted into a bitter internal feud, pitting a new interim director against faculty and students …
NBC News:
Education Department's out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules — The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed after the Trump administration altered employees' email messages to add partisan language about the government shutdown without their consent.
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New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler — The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge. — At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds …
Josh Moody / Inside Higher Ed:
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts — The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws. He has denied the claims. — House Republicans have accused George Mason …
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Washington Post
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Cornell to pay $60M to settle Trump administration probes … In April, Cornell said it received more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research on national defense, cybersecurity and health. … “The decades-long research partnership between Cornell …
Discussion:
NBC News, University Statements and New York Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Todd Blanche on defending Trump policies before ‘rogue activist judges’: 'It's a war, man' — The Justice Department's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, let loose Friday, railing against judges blocking administration policies and denying that prosecutions of President Donald Trump's enemies constitute weaponization of the justice system.
