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8:20 AM ET, September 10, 2026

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Republican Midterm Convention: Trump Urges Voters to Let Him ‘Finish the Job’ — For months, President Donald Trump has said affordability concerns are a hoax and his economy is roaring. — Americans aren't convinced, polls show. So facing waning popularity and depleted enthusiasm …

Discussion: NBC News, New York Times, CNN, Financial Times, Newsweek, The Independent, Talking Points Memo, Forbes, Politico, Blaze Media, Business Insider, American Greatness and Mediaite

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:

Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech — FUNNY MONEY — The vice president insisted it was not a “controversial idea.” — President Donald Trump has offered a hefty cash bonus to all American adults in a desperate attempt to retain his grip on Congress in the midterm elections.

Discussion: HuffPost and CNBC

Marc Caputo / Axios:

Exclusive: Trump plans to send $500 Obamacare rebates before election — The Trump administration plans to send $500 rebate checks to as many as 1 million people who it says were overcharged for their coverage under Obamacare, Axios has learned. … - The payments also underscore a tenet …

Discussion: New York Post and NewsMax.com

Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:

Trump Promises $5,000 Payment to US Adults if GOP Wins Midterms — President Donald Trump floated a dividend for American voters if his party wins the upcoming November midterm elections, promising a $5,000 payment to each US citizen adult if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate.

Discussion: MeidasTouch, The Post Millennial, Reuters, VINnews and Washington Examiner

Politico:

Vance's Dallas dance — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner — Good Thursday morning from Dallas, where we're wondering what shocks might come from the convention stage today after John Fetterman's surprise appearance and Donald Trump's pledge to send Americans $5,000 checks if Republicans keep control of Congress.

Discussion: NBC News, CBS News and NewsMax.com

Calen Razor / Politico:

‘Trump dividend’ wins instant GOP critics — Presented by IN TODAY'S EDITION: — Congress in disarray on AI safety rules — Dems hold their fire on Fetterman — Jordan's plan to pass on top panel spots — President Donald Trump dropped a hot mess of a half-baked midterm promise in lawmakers' laps last night.

Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms

Discussion: New York Times, Axios, The Washington Sun, Washington Examiner, Metro.co.uk, CBS News, France 24, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Newsweek, Breitbart, Bloomberg, PBS NewsHour and NPR

Tamara Keith / NPR:
After Trump promised to pay $5,000 if Republicans win, here's what to expect Thursday

Discussion: The Guardian, MS NOW, Fox News, The Hill, France 24, The Independent, Reuters, Wired and Washington Post

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's $5,000 ‘Dividend’ Promise Is His Biggest Election Gambit Yet

Discussion: The Guardian, New York Times, Joe.My.God., PinkNews, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, The Wrap, Al Jazeera and Channel 4 News

Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms

Discussion: The Independent, Wired, RedState, France 24 and Bloomberg

Ingrid Fuary-Wagner / Bloomberg:
Can Trump Really Pay Every Adult American a $5,000 ‘Dividend’?

Discussion: Straight Arrow, The Spectator and TheJournal.ie

Bloomberg:
Trump Headlines Texas Convention to Tap Donors, Rally Voters

Discussion: RedState, France 24, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and New York Times

Torrie Herrington / The Washington Sun:
Sen. Tim Scott Says Democratic Senate Candidates ‘Hate’ American Culture

Discussion: New York Times, Joe.My.God., The Independent, Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com

Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
Trump Says He'd ‘Consider’ Pardoning Michael Cohen

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Post, The Hill, Politico, Reuters, CBS News, NewsMax.com, Mediaite and France 24

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.

New York Times:

Fetterman Has a Surprise Cameo at Trump's Convention — Senator John Fetterman, who has become alienated from his own party, appeared in a short video filmed in front of a steel mill, saying he is “always going to reject the extremes in socialism.” — Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania …

Discussion: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily Mail, NewsMax.com, CNBC, Washington Examiner and Joe.My.God.

Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Republicans gather in Dallas for two-day midterm convention billed as a ‘Trump-a-Palooza’

NBC News:
Sen. John Fetterman makes a surprise cameo praising Republicans at the GOP convention

Discussion: The Philadelphia Inquirer, ABC News and Washington Examiner

Jordain Carney / Politico:
‘Waste of energy’: Senate Democrats are sitting out the John Fetterman pile-on

Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and Associated Press

Igor Bobic / The Washington Sun:
Fetterman Says He Won't Leave His Party if Democrats Win the Senate

Discussion: The Washington Sun, Forbes, Blaze Media, RedState and The American Conservative

Washington Post:

Supreme Court is asked to settle Missouri dispute causing electoral chaos — The appeal comes after conflicting rulings on whether the state can use a new congressional map that favors Republicans for November's midterm elections. — Summary — A group seeking to block Missouri from using …

Discussion: One First, Reuters, Civil Discourse …, The Hill, WTOP News, The Gateway Pundit, Joe.My.God., Bloomberg, Law Dork and ABC News

New York Times:

Fight Over Missouri House Map Returns to U.S. Supreme Court — The appeal came as the Missouri Supreme Court weighed whether to hold the state's top election official in contempt. — The fast-moving legal battle over Missouri's congressional map returned to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday …

Discussion: Democracy Docket, The Washington Sun, Jefferson City News Tribune, Fox News, KMBC, NBC News, Joe.My.God., MeidasTouch and MS NOW

Avery Lotz / Axios: Trump's midterm mess collides with a courtroom time crunch

Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Missouri's GOP-friendly congressional map returns to Supreme Court

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Courthouse News Service, Democracy Docket, Bloomberg, Truthout, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, NOTUS, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, Mediaite, Fox News and Joe.My.God.

Wall Street Journal:

Trump's Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term — The president still says he expects the war will end ‘immediately’ after midterm elections this fall — WASHINGTON—Top White House advisers have raised privately with President Trump the prospect …

Discussion: Letters from an American, Modern Diplomacy, Sputnik News, The Independent, NewsMax.com, Reuters, Semafor, WTOP News and Bloomberg

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says oil and gas prices won't fall until ‘right after’ midterm election

Discussion: Reuters, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Joe.My.God., NBC News, Bloomberg, The Washington Sun, Washington Examiner, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money, HuffPost and Al Jazeera

Scott Waldman / Politico:
Trump says Iran war will end ‘immediately’ after midterms

Discussion: Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Scripps News, Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Hill, Reuters, RedState, Patterico's Pontifications, New Republic, Bloomberg, CBS News, Washington Examiner and Mediaite

New York Times:

Military Aide Accidentally Deploys Emergency Slide on New Air Force One — The mishap occurred while the Qatari-donated jet was parked on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. It delayed President Trump's departure to a Republican convention in Dallas. — A military aide accidentally deployed …

Discussion: Straight Arrow, NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, RedState, Fox News, WTOP News, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Wire, Joe.My.God., Forbes, Daily Mail, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Advocate, Reuters, Scripps News, NewsMax.com, abc7NY and The Independent

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Qatari-gifted Air Force One deploys inflatable slide before departing for GOP convention in Texas

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, New York Times and OutsideTheBeltway

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 …

Discussion: American Greatness and NPR

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Law and Chaos, Talking Points Memo, Newsmax, Roll Call, The Guardian and The Independent

Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump's Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race

Discussion: KTVZ-TV, Al Jazeera, Mercury News, The Washington Sun, RedState, Newsweek and New Republic

Salt Lake Tribune:

Trump's DOJ is investigating Utah's election chief for refusing to hand over voter data, it says in letter — The Justice Department is investigating Utah's top election official for refusing to hand over the state's entire, unredacted voter database, it informed her in a letter dated Friday and obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune.

Discussion: New York Times and The Washington Sun

Mia McCarthy / Politico:

Jim Jordan says he will relinquish Judiciary gavel, pass on a return to Oversight — DALLAS — Rep. Jim Jordan said Wednesday he plans to end his eight-year run leading Republicans on two of the House's most prominent committees after this Congress, raising fresh questions about what comes next for the veteran Ohio lawmaker.

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Hans Nichols / Axios:

House GOP super PAC puts Democratic challengers in starring roles … The Congressional Leadership Fund — a super PAC affiliated with Johnson (R-La.) — is keeping the focus squarely on the Democrats running for Congress. — The two strategies aren't necessarily at odds.

Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Washington Sun

Akanksha Khushi / Reuters:

Multiple US military aircraft suffered damage in overnight strikes on Jordan air base, CBS says — Multiple American military aircraft suffered damage in strikes overnight on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, CBS reporter Jennifer Jacobs said on Wednesday on X.

Discussion: CBS News, Sputnik News, Semafor and New York Times

Tom Schaller / Public Notice:

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