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9:50 AM ET, August 28, 2026

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Warren P. Strobel / Washington Post:
Putin sees U.S. as weakened by Iran war, intelligence reports say  —  The classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking preceded CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Moscow this week.  —  Summary  —  CIA Director John Ratcliffe's mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded …
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump promised a short Iran war.  Six months later, he has few good options.  —  Iran's regime has endured, Trump's standing at home has fallen, Hormuz remains largely closed and U.S. weapons stocks are depleted.  —  Summary  —  The day after President Donald Trump launched the war in Iran on Feb. 28 …
Filip Timotija / Associated Press:
USS Theodore Roosevelt being deployed to Middle East
Discussion: The Guardian and NewsMax.com
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Judge again blocks Trump mail ballot executive order in ruling that's likely to be swiftly appealed  —  A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting.  —  The move stalled the directive for a second …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Federal judge blocks Trump's anti-mail voting order again, citing risk to states and voters
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Deepa Shivaram / NPR:
Trump directs federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America  —  President Trump is escalating his ongoing dispute with Canada over tariffs with a new executive order renaming Lake Ontario, which sits between New York and Canada, to Lake America.  —  The order, which Trump signed Thursday …
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The White House:
Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America
Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:
Trump Orders Americans to Call Lake Ontario Lake America
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems plan bill to counter Trump's “Lake America” order
Discussion: RedState and The Independent
Tim Balk / New York Times:
Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring  —  Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.  —  Two election monitors from the Justice Department tried to interview voters …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Wyoming's Republican governor raises concerns over ‘aggressive’ DOJ election monitors
Kris Van Cleave / CBS News:
Trump's Marine One helicopter has trouble communicating with air traffic control for second time this month  —  President Trump's helicopter had trouble communicating with air traffic controllers on Thursday, for the second time this month.  —  As Marine One was about to take off in Washington …
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Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
White House Construction May Have Contributed to Close Call With Trump's Helicopter
New York Times:
Trump Plans to Mark 9/11 at the Pentagon, Not Ground Zero  —  President Trump originally intended to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 with remarks at ground zero, but the memorial's organizers do not allow speeches.  Mr. Trump changed his plans.
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Jonathan Tamari / Bloomberg:   Brian Schatz Looks to Steer Senate Democrats as Rising No. 2 Leader
Associated Press:
Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back  —  Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press …
Andrew Van Dam / NOTUS:
Gas Prices Are High.  Trump's Supporters Are Feeling The Most Pain.  —  Gas at the pump costs 40% more than it did before the Iran war began in February, according to the Energy Information Administration.  And whether you're a die-hard Democrat or red-blooded Republican or somewhere in between …
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Manuela Silva / NOTUS:   Uneven Pain at the Pump
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Trump Administration's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules  —  The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.  —  The Trump administration acted illegally when it labeled …
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Jack Queen / Reuters:
US judge blocks Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting
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NBC News:
Judge hits DOJ lawyers with barrage of questions about Kennedy Center renovation and Trump renaming
Ted Hesson / Washington Post:
White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees  —  The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.  —  White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person …
Wall Street Journal:
Corporate America Cut Big Checks to Trump.  Now CEOs Fear Subpoenas Are Coming.  —  Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House  —  Some U.S. companies with close ties to President Trump are taking steps …
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Michelle R Smith / The Guardian:
Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report  —  Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year  —  A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary …
Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
Trump Is Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer  —  For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Perla Trevizo / ProPublica:
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”  —  Reporters don't have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country.  Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse …
Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg:
Trump Announces Plan to Let Farmers Process Their Own Food  —  President Donald Trump said he plans to authorize farmers and ranchers to process their own food in the administration's latest bid to lower the price of beef ahead of the US midterm elections in November.
Vjosa Isai / New York Times:
Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities  —  A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.  —  Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Trump's Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action  —  The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.  —  It used to be that a new report of budgetary red ink …
Discussion: Reason
New York Post:
CNN uses pic of Dolly Parton Vegas impersonator during tribute, apologizes to icon's family for blunder  —  CNN was forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for mistakenly using a photo of a Las Vegas impersonator of the country music legend while reporting on her death.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Spencer Cox's Crusade … On august 9, 2023, Utah's governor, Spencer Cox, found himself sitting across from Joe Biden in an armored presidential limousine as it idled in downtown Salt Lake City.  Working up the nerve to pitch a far-fetched idea, he cleared his throat.
Politico:
Trump's Cabinet is fanning out to help juice the base.  It's not going as planned. … President Donald Trump is fanning out his Cabinet across the country to sell his accomplishments and shore up key constituencies ahead of the midterms.  —  It isn't quite working out that way.
Discussion: Alternet.org
 
 
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New York Times:
Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
GOP convention will battle NFL openers for attention
Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Majority of South Koreans Want Nuclear Arms as Trump Cuts Drills
Discussion: The Japan Times and Reuters
Paul Kane / NOTUS:
House Majority Could Hinge on Governors' Races Trending Toward Democrats
Eric McDaniel / NPR:
How Democrats in Congress are preparing for Trump midterm election interference
Discussion: Political.org
Adora Brown / NOTUS:
Election Deniers Could Soon Control Elections in Three Swing States
New York Times:
Clashes Cloud Shawn Fain's Re-election Bid at U.A.W.
Discussion: Jacobin
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
El-Sayed Tries to Sell Himself as Mainstream to Michigan Voters
Discussion: The Hill and ArabAmericanNews
Chandra Asmara / Bloomberg:
Jakarta Protests Show Lingering Unease in Prabowo's Indonesia
Discussion: Reuters
Associated Press:
Hemp ban awaits Senate returning from break
Discussion: Politico and NewsMax.com
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems and GOP squeeze TV stations in ad rate war
John Sexton / HotAir:
Canadian Broadcaster: Do Not Refer to 9/11 As a Terrorist Attack
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Trump's MAGA Inc. to host first public event in battleground Michigan
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Brad Jennings / Axios:
Where Trump's tariffs hit hardest
Discussion: Abdul for U.S. Senate
 

 
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Associated Press:
Canada's CBC makes 9/11 an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism, after criticism over a leaked memo restating the policy

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of lawyer Beth Wilkinson, who is representing Paramount and Nexstar in lawsuits brought by state AGs, and Disney in its case against the FCC

Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide:
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs
 
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