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Politico:
Full transcript: POLITICO's interview with President Donald Trump … Past names that have topped the list include President Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and President Viktor Orbán.  This year, POLITICO broke precedent to recognize an American for the first time in the decades-long history of P28.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: 'I think they're weak' … “I think they don't know what to do,” he added.  “Europe doesn't know what to do.”  —  Trump matched that blunt, even abrasive, candor on European affairs with a sequence of stark pronouncements on matters closer to home …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco  —  In case you needed further proof that President Trump's case for his boat bombings is a steaming pile of horse-bleep, he just helpfully provided reams of additional evidence in a new interview with Politico.
Washington Post:
Admiral pushed out by Hegseth meets privately with lawmakers
Discussion: Associated Press
Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Trump blasts “decaying” Europe but praises Orbán, Erdoğan
Politico:
Senate speeds toward war powers clash as Trump ratchets up threats of strikes in Venezuela
Discussion: New York Magazine
Associated Press:
Zelenskyy reaffirms his refusal to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country.
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The Contrarian:   The Inevitable, Trumpian Betrayal of Ukraine
Axios:
Dems face a Tea Party-style revolt in Texas and beyond  —  Hours after former NFL star Colin Allred quit the Texas Senate race Monday, rabble-rousing Rep. Jasmine Crockett jumped in — the latest sign that Democrats are facing a Tea Party-style revolt by progressives.
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Tara Suter / NewsNation:
Crockett's Senate launch video highlights audio of Trump insulting her
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
At will?  Whose will?  —  Based on the oral arguments in the Slaughter case, it is clear that the Supreme Court will soon tell Congress that it can no longer decide if the heads of independent agencies are to be nonpartisan experts.  The result has been long predicted — after all …
Discussion: E&E News and Talking Points Memo
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New York Times:
At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, a case that will decide whether Congress can require cause before the president removes the heads of most independent agencies.
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump aides bullish on Supreme Court boosting GOP in midterms  —  Senior Trump advisers are telling top GOP donors that a pair of upcoming Supreme Court decisions are likely to bolster Republicans in the 2026 midterms — and transform the party's power to win elections for years.
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Axios:   2. 🏛️ Scoop: GOP expects SCOTUS boost
Associated Press:
Trump says he's fixing affordability problems.  He'll test out that message at a rally  —  President Donald Trump will road-test his claims that he's tackling Americans' affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances …
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CNN:
Trump heads to Pennsylvania as GOP tries to sell its own affordability message
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
JD Vance's hedging on a presidential run could imperil his campaign finance Supreme Court case  —  A lawyer defending restrictions on how much party committees can spend in coordination with candidates argues the case is moot because of Vance's equivocation about 2028.
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Andrew Howard / Politico:
GOP takes aim at campaign finance limits in big Supreme Court test
CNBC:
ICEBlock developer sues U.S. government after DOJ demanded Apple remove app from store … The developer of ICEBlock, an app used to track local sightings of ICE agents and other law enforcement authorities, sued the U.S. government on Monday for allegedly infringing his free speech rights.
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Life Inside the Undocumented Underground  —  During President Donald Trump's second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency have become a part of life.  We want to show you what that looks like up close and on the ground in one American city.
Discussion: WTTG-TV and HuffPost
Emily Ngo / Politico:
Brad Lander set to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman from the left … Lander's entry will mark New York progressives' boldest salvo yet in primaries to unseat more mainstream party members on the heels of Mamdani's ascension to the helm of the country's largest city.
Rachel Handley / WWL-TV:
‘Go somewhere else’: Manager locks Border Patrol out of Kenner store  —  In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door. … A convenience store manager in Kenner locked a group of Border Patrol agents out as they approached the store on Saturday.
Danielle Renwick / The Guardian:
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they'd known sooner.  Here's what they said  —  Critics from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they've learned about authoritarians  —  Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant  —  On Monday morning, Paramount announced a $77.9 billion hostile takeover offer of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), an American media conglomerate that owns an iconic movie studio, HBO, and other news and entertainment properties.
NBC News:
New York judge orders release of Ghislaine Maxwell-related grand jury records  —  The ruling comes days after a federal judge in Florida also ordered the release of grand jury investigations into Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 and 2007.  —  A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted …
Financial Times:
Russia's hybrid warfare puts Europe to the test  —  Officials suspect a campaign of sabotage that once looked opportunistic may be a strategic escalation  —  In July 2024, DHL parcels exploded in logistics centres in the UK, Poland and Germany.  Each of them was powerful enough to have brought …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell records in sex trafficking case  —  Federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.  MOST READ  —  12 FBI agents fired …
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández  —  The country's attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.  —  The Honduran attorney general announced Monday night that he had issued an international arrest warrant …
Ben Casselman / New York Times:
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ  —  The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.  —  On a Thursday in early September …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Mike Johnson's downward spiral  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is a mild-mannered fellow.  He never raises his voice, and usually wears an expression somewhere between satisfaction and resignation.
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Trump regime murders that aren't on video  —  There's this idea in the sports world that when your team wins a championship like the Super Bowl, fans can't really complain about whatever happens in the next season or two.  The author of that maxim has obviously never been to Philadelphia …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics  —  The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause.  But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.
Discussion: CNN, Alternet.org, Wonkette and Bloomberg
 
 
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
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