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Time:
Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's 2026 Interview With TIME … President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28.  —  Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including the war with Iran, the artificial intelligence boom …
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Eric Cortellessa / Time:
What Trump Has Built  —  Eric Cortellessa … Donald Trump struts onto the new White House helipad, an 80,000-sq.-ft. expanse of carved granite on the South Lawn.  “Can you believe this?” he says, taking in the scene, the Washington Monument rising in the distance.
Discussion: The Hill
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question'  —  The president's interview with Time didn't go so well  —  Donald Trump has had it with the free press.  He's spent his second term trying to ban news outlets from the White House and ranting on social media …
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump says Secret Service wants him to ‘take down’ Oval Office  —  The president also said he is looking into designating the White House room as a “federal landmark,” potentially preserving his changes.  —  Loading...  President Donald Trump said that Secret Service officials have encouraged …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Associated Press:
Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds  —  Americans are deeply frustrated with President Donald Trump's handling of the economy and rising prices, with most panning his performance and blaming his policies as higher costs threaten his party's chances in November.
Ariana Baio / The Guardian:
Trump dismisses low poll ratings as ‘fake numbers’ in Time interview
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and CBS News
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says he'd consider issuing pardons to administration officials before he leaves office
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump's economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden's worst
Discussion: AP-NORC and The Hill
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Judge bars Jeanine Pirro's office from bringing Reflecting Pool case after Trump comments  —  Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case against David “Davey” Hearn with prejudice.  —  WASHINGTON — A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently banned Jeanine Pirro's office …
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Wall Street Journal:
Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal  —  Revisionist historian went to DOJ headquarters to present his case that former president, his associates weren't treated fairly  —  WASHINGTON—For nearly two years, the Justice Department has made it a priority …
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Wall Street Journal:   Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
John Roberts and His Island … To many people on this remote stretch of Maine coastline, where every day looks like a fresh painting made of light and water, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is just “John.”  —  John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:   The Supreme Court's Summer Break Vanishes, Erased by Emergencies
New York Times:
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say  —  Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995.  It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.  —  A Tennessee woman convicted …
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Associated Press:
Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie.  We Got the Script.  —  BEN SHAPIRO AND THE DAILY WIRE are desperate to crack Hollywood.  But Shapiro's most recent foray into film, the anti-Muslim Run Hide Fight: Infidels, was hardly The Odyssey.  Sitting at a meager 20 percent among reviewers …
Mychael Schnell / MS NOW:
Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts.  He used them anyway.  —  As they prepared for the testimony of former special counsel Jack Smith, Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Eric Schmitt a warning: The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department …
ICE:
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana  —  NEW ORLEANS — Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old illegal alien from Peru, passed away in ICE custody Sept. 29, 2026, at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana.  The preliminary cause of death is unknown.
Neria Kraus / The Free Press:
‘I Ran Toward the Cockpit’: An Exclusive Interview with the Israeli Dad Who Stopped a Hijacking  —  Yaniv Hayoun was on a flight from Dubai to Israel with his family when one of the co-pilots stabbed the other and sent the plane into a nosedive.  He told The Free Press what happened next.
Reuters:
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say  —  The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said three people close to the discussions.
Associated Press:
Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis  —  Renee Good's family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death and other violations of federal law in the 37-year-old woman's killing …
PBS NewsHour:
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on his blueprint for depolarizing a fractured nation  —  In the aftermath of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hatred and violence gripping the country.
Semafor:
‘The No. 1 thing’: Republicans agonize over their economic inaction  —  Senate Republicans are departing Washington to defend their majority — and many are carrying with them real fear that the party didn't do enough to address constituents' economic concerns ahead of the impending election.
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Matthew Rodriguez / CBS News:
Becerra, Hilton face off in first head-to-head debate for California governor's race  —  Candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton faced off in their first one-on-one debate ahead of the November election for California governor.  —  The pair vied to win over the 47.4% of voters who supported …
Hamed Ahmadi / The Washington Sun:
White House Drops CNN From Trump's Travel Press Pool Again  —  The White House dropped CNN from the press pool covering President Donald Trump's trip to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday, a move that comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president.
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Record-Low 31% Say College Education Is ‘Very Important’  —  Decline spans major subgroups; women, Democrats and people of color remain most positive  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three in 10 Americans (31%) think a college education is “very important,” four percentage points below last year's reading …
Politico:
Barrage of lawsuits targets Trump's funding cancellation  —  Lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's move to cancel $810 million in congressionally approved spending are piling up in courtrooms throughout the country as states and groups that receive federal dollars fight to keep the cash flowing.
Discussion: Reuters and The Washington Sun
Alex DeLuca / Washington Post:
Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner  —  Officials say they don't know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used.  Residents are unnerved.  —  SummaryLoading...  FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Like many Florida municipalities …
Perry Bacon / New Republic:
Liberals Must Fight The New York Times' Monopoly Too  —  The New York Times has a massive, almost hegemonic influence on the political discourse among liberals in America.  That's a bold statement, and not one I can easily prove.  But I think that's the reality.
Asawin Suebsaeng / Zeteo:
First Draft: 📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud  —  Swin's conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring.  Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again.
Gregory Schmidt / New York Times:
As Mortgage Rates Climb to Highest Level Since 2023, Buyers Seek Alternatives  —  The average 30-year, fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.28 percent, up from 6.34 percent a year ago.  More buyers are now turning to adjustable-rate mortgages.  —  Mortgage rates continue to creep higher …
Discussion: VINnews, WTOP News, Fox Business and ARLnow
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
What Is Trump Doing?  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  The White House's South Lawn was prepared just so: A full honor guard, complete with American and Chinese flags, stood at attention.
Discussion: Time
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Supreme Court will rule on Trump's ICE detention policy  —  The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether ICE's unprecedented mandatory detention policy — which lower courts have rejected more than 20,000 times — is legal.  —  It's one of the biggest blockbuster cases so far for the court's next term, which opens Monday.
Heesu Lee / Bloomberg:
Korea Disputes Trump's Claim It Agreed to Invest in Alaska LNG  —  South Korea has pushed back on the Trump administration's announcement that the country would invest $54 billion in a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska, saying it had agreed to do so only if the long-stalled venture proves economically feasible.
Financial Times:
Global bond sell-off deepens as 10-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002  —  Sovereign debt costs around world return to multiyear highs  —  Emily Herbert and Ian Smith in London, William Sandlund in Hong Kong and Leo Lewis in Tokyo  —  A brutal global bond rout deepened on Thursday …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Scenes from a personality cult  —  Ahead of PN's 5th anniversary next week, we're offering paid subscriptions at the special yearly rate of $40 (or about 16¢ per edition).  This newsletter is only possible thanks to the support of paid subscribers.  If you're not already one of them …
Calen Razor / Politico:
Centrist Dem's Supreme Court plan boosts momentum for revamp  —  Democratic efforts to revamp the Supreme Court gained momentum Thursday as an influential center-left think tank released a plan to limit justices' terms and misconduct.  Third Way's proposal, shared first with POLITICO …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
How Trump's signature issue fell off voters' radar  —  Immigration — the issue that helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency and rally his supporters over the past decade — has become an afterthought for voters. … What was once a rallying cry for the party is losing salience …
Caroline Lewis / Gothamist:
NY Dems push bill in Congress to restore healthcare coverage, putting GOP on the spot  —  New York Democrats introduced legislation in Congress Thursday to reverse federal funding cuts that resulted in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers getting kicked off of a popular public insurance program earlier this year.
Jeff Stein / The Washington Sun:
Want Dinner With the President?  Buy His Meme Coin.  —  The crypto firm that runs President Donald Trump's meme coin is promising to hold “the most exclusive dinner in the world,” raising new ethics concerns about the president's personal financial entanglements.
Discussion: gettrumpmemes.com
 
 
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Matt Barnum / Chalkbeat:
College tuition is falling, but nobody seems to have noticed
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Hannah Jones / NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
Man arrested, accused in plot to attack Texas Capitol building, DPS says
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mediaite
Casey He / Politico:
New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation
Discussion: The Dispatch
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court grants review of Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for immigrants
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump's deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
Discussion: The Guardian
CNN:
How Jared Kushner's firm's investment in an Israeli company could be a major conflict of interest
 Earlier Items: 
The Guardian:
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits
Washington Post:
Democrat has edge in Virginia House race considered national bellwether, poll finds
Discussion: Blue Virginia and Political Wire
Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times:
Oil Is Flowing From the Persian Gulf, but Prices Remain High. Why?
Discussion: HotAir
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
 

 
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
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