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7:20 PM ET, September 9, 2026

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Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump says Iran war will end ‘immediately’ after midterms  —  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Iran war will end and gas prices will plummet “immediately after” the midterm elections, the latest deadline slip in a war that has lasted months longer than the president initially promised.
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Fox News is treating the GOP's midterm convention as a very special episode of Hannity  —  “'The vibes are very bad' in Texas” is the headline of Politico Playbook's dispatch from Dallas, where the GOP's “Trump-a-palooza” midterm convention has Republican attendees fearing …
Politico:
‘The vibes are very bad’ in Texas  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Wednesday morning.  We're here in Dallas for the convention — and we're already getting a pulse check around the extravaganza before the speeches kick off.  Get in touch.  —  In today's Playbook ...
Jeff Mason / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Gasoline Prices Will Fall, But Only After Midterms  —  President Donald Trump predicted that the war in Iran would only end after the November midterm elections, and that significant gasoline price relief wouldn't come before then, a scenario that could heighten political risk for Republicans.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump's Midterm Convention May Struggle for Ratings Against the N.F.L. Kickoff
Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump makes GOP midterm convention about himself, much to Democrats' delight
Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Dangerous, radical, and weird Democrats: Tim Scott's midterm convention warning to voters
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Missouri court opens contempt probe into Republican official over redistricting fight  —  The Missouri Supreme Court has asked Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to respond to claims that he is defying a ruling that bars the state from using a new, GOP-friendly congressional map.
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Jen Rice / Democracy Docket:
Missouri election chief asks federal judge to shield him from contempt charges after defying state supreme court  —  Missouri's top election official asked a federal district court to shield him from a state supreme court order that he explain why he should not be held in contempt of court …
New York Times:   Fight Over Missouri House Map Returns to U.S. Supreme Court
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Missouri's GOP-friendly congressional map returns to Supreme Court
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump's midterm mess collides with a courtroom time crunch
Discussion: The Hill
Ben Johansen / Politico:
Trump administration proposes dramatic overhaul of 2030 census that changes who counts as living in America  —  The Trump administration proposed a sweeping overhaul of how people in America are counted in the 2030 census on Wednesday, including moving to exclude immigrants in the country illegally …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions  —  They could also reshape congressional representation and federal funding allocations.  —  Summary  —  Millions of residents could be excluded from the U.S. census, congressional representation could be reshaped …
Axios:
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video  —  DALLAS — Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) is preparing to make a bombshell appearance Wednesday night at the GOP convention, in a video praising President Trump and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick for helping America's steel industry, Axios has learned.
Matt Peterson / CNBC:
Bessent's political turn in GOP speech tests his bond-market credibility … Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's push to calm the bond market is colliding with a more political role, as his planned Republican convention speech raises questions about the credibility he needs to manage U.S. debt markets.
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Axios:
Anthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humans  —  Three Anthropic researchers went public last night with chilling concerns about out-of-control AI, warning it could destroy humans this decade.  — Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon wrote on X, after resigning Tuesday to sound the alarm …
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Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
The AP Will Keep Using ‘Lake Ontario’ Despite Trump's Renaming Effort  —  The Associated Press said it will not refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America” unless it's deemed “relevant,” despite President Donald Trump's executive order to rename the body of water.
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Sophie Hurwitz / Mother Jones:
“We're the Outliers Here”: UK-Led Sanctions on Israeli Settlements Isolate the US  —  On September 8, the British government banned the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.  —  Eleven other nations—Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Qatari-gifted Air Force One deploys inflatable slide before departing for GOP convention in Texas  —  An emergency inflatable slide on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One was deployed at Joint Base Andrews before President Trump departed for the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday.
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ABC News:
Inflatable slide deploys on Qatari-gifted Air Force One ahead of Trump's Dallas trip
Reuters:
Iran attacks US base in Jordan, ships near Hormuz after tankers sunk  —  Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war.
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New York Times:
Saudi Oil Exports Plunge as Spread of War Shuts Off Shipping Routes
Peter Baker / New York Times:
60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump's Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality  —  With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.  —  Just before noon on a holiday weekend, while many Americans were at the beach …
Discussion: CNBC and The Independent
Nia Prater / New York Magazine:
Trump Tells Weird Lie About Where He Was on 9/11  —  President Trump took part in the Tunnel to Towers Foundation's Steel Across America tour Tuesday, delivering remarks from the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., in honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack
ProPublica:
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled.  It's Worse in States With Abortion Bans.  —  The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found.  The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response.
Discussion: Ms. Magazine
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears  —  Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control  —  An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry …
Miles Parks / NPR:
Ballot seizures seemed impossible.  But judges and officials are prepping for them now  —  The idea of federal law enforcement seizing ballots in the middle of an active election would have once been considered impossible.  —  Now, as President Trump continues his unprecedented hunt for voter fraud …
Politico:
Treasury CIO pulled from AI work after upsetting West Wing  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reassigned his chief information officer away from AI policy after the adviser relayed private misgivings over White House policy to AI companies.  —  Sam Corcos, a former DOGE official …
Gillian Brockell / American Prospect:
‘Shoot Him!’:  Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel  —  A police officer aimed a loaded assault rifle at unarmed immigrants expelled to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration in a chaotic incident on September 3 in which the officer's supervisor ordered him to shoot, multiple cellphone videos show.
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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