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2:40 PM ET, September 10, 2026

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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump has proposed direct payments to Americans before.  They haven't happened.  —  The White House hasn't elaborated on how a newly proposed $5,000 “dividend” would work.  —  President Donald Trump recycled a familiar concept Wednesday in pledging to send Americans $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms.
Discussion: New York Times
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Jeronimo Gonzalez / Semafor:
Trump pledges $5,000 voter payout if Republicans win the midterms  —  US President Donald Trump promised to give every American $5,000 if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm elections, comments that critics said underscored his party's weakness ahead of the vote.
Ashley Ahn / Politico:
Trump pledges a $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms  —  President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the deficit.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms  —  In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress.  The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Vance calls on battleground state Republicans to ‘nationalize’ the midterms
Discussion: ABC News and CBS News
CNBC:
Trump's $1 trillion-plus ‘dividend’ plan meets immediate bipartisan pushback
Bloomberg:
Thune Says ‘Good Question’ on Trump's $5,000 Payout to US Adults
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
How Trump created a bizarre and risky midterm scenario for the GOP
Discussion: Roll Call, The Hill and Axios
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump makes a familiar promise: $5,000 checks for everyone
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:   Deeply Unpopular President's Midterm Pitch: 'I'm on the Ballot'
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term
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Toluse Olorunnipa / The Atlantic:
The Election Deniers' Long Game
Discussion: Mother Jones
Kelsey Reichmann / Courthouse News Service:
Supreme Court nixes Missouri GOP-friendly maps for midterms  —  WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Missouri organizers on Thursday barring the use of Republican-friendly congressional maps in the November election.  —  Led by Richard von Glahn …
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Associated Press:
US Supreme Court again rejects push to use Trump-backed congressional map in Missouri
Trish Bendix / New York Times:
Jimmy Kimmel to Interview James Talarico ‘Under Unusual Circumstances’  —  A conversation with the Democratic Senate hopeful from Texas will move off air because of what the late night host called F.C.C. “threats” against his show and network. … Jimmy Kimmel told Wednesday night's “Live” …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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Megan Brand / NBC News:
Jimmy Kimmel says show won't air James Talarico interview on TV, citing FCC threats
Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons  —  In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.  —  Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected ICE's effort to detain millions of people without bond, comparing it to the “historical stain” of Japanese internment during World War II.  —  “Mass detention …
The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces the Working Families Obamacare Refunds  —  RETURNING BIDEN OVERCHARGES TO WORKING FAMILIES: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the federal government will return to the American people hundreds of millions in Obamacare overcharges …
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Washington Post:
Trump announces rebate checks are on the way for people overcharged by ACA
Reuters:
NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot  —  Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.
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Daniella Diaz / The Washington Sun:
Security Experts Say NATO Must Plan for a Future Without the United States
Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Talarico Calls on Paxton to Address Epstein Survivors' Demands  —  Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico appeared in Dallas Thursday with a group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors, accusing his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, of ignoring their push for greater transparency …
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Finya Swai / The Hill:
Talarico touts GOP support for Senate campaign
Discussion: Washington Examiner and CBS News
Max Rego / The Hill:
Trump administration alleges UC Berkeley law school favors Black applicants  —  Officials from the Justice Department (DOJ) and Education Department alleged Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law favors Black applicants over white and Asian applicants, in violation of federal law.
Ian Ward / Politico:
Charlie Kirk's Lieutenant Has Second Thoughts … Directly to Neff's left, toward the center of the V, sits “Charlie's chair,” the high-back green leather rolling chair favored by the show's namesake, the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.  Following Kirk's death one year ago during …
Politico:
What Really Happened at the White House Lunch That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump … Since the election of Donald Trump, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has told one podcast after another of a May 2024 lunch in the Biden White House where he claims we and our colleagues shared …
Sanford Nowlin / San Antonio Current:
Gay hookup app Grindr experiences Dallas outages during Republicans' Trump-a-Palooza  —  Grindr, the LGBTQ+ hookup app, is experiencing outages in Dallas after an unprecedented mid-term Republican convention got underway there on Wednesday — and social media users are quick to speculate why.
James LaPorta / CBS News:
Multiple U.S. military aircraft damaged in Iranian strikes on military base in Jordan, sources say  —  Multiple American military aircraft were damaged in Iranian strikes overnight Tuesday into Wednesday local time on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, people with direct knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Voters Favor Dems Over GOP By 11 Points For Control Of U.S. House, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Trump's Handling Of Canada Trade, Iran & Russia - Ukraine War All Below 30%  — mail_outline  —  With the midterm elections less than two months away, voters give …
Discussion: Newsweek and WDIV-TV
Radley Balko / New York Times:
Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen.  We Should Have Listened.  —  Six weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act.  The vote was 357-66 in the House, and 98-1 in the Senate.  Sen. Russ Feingold (D., Wis.), the chamber's lone dissenter …
Kelly Hooper / Politico:
‘Aggressive’ Medicaid crackdowns will hurt children with autism, providers warn … One autism therapy provider in Nebraska recently lost half its staff and has a growing wait list of children who can't access services.  A small Colorado practice is losing out on tens of thousands of dollars …
 
 
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump's census plan could reshape voting maps, eliminate race questions
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Nevada 2026 Poll: Ford and Lombardo Remain in Tight Governor's Race; Majority Oppose New Data Centers
Discussion: NewsMax.com and The Hill
Torrie Herrington / The Washington Sun:
Swing and a Miss: Ramaswamy Deletes Viral Batting Cage Video
NPR:
Elon Musk brags about using “lasers from space” to elect Trump in 2024, texts show
Discussion: NewsMax.com and twitchy.com
Violet Jira / Washington Post:
New Mexico leaders ask Apple and Google not to use ‘New America’ on their maps
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 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
CIA officer's arrest with 303 gold bars thrusts the Pentagon's No. 2 into an unwelcome spotlight
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Why Trump Has It Out for Canada  —  The superficial similarities between the U.S …
Discussion: New York Times
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
MAGA Influencer's Defense: Antifa Got Me High
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
A.I. Boom Poses Growing Public Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn
Discussion: Axios and Capital B News
Washington Post:
Katie Miller held large stake in Elon Musk's xAI as she slammed ChatGPT online
Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal:
Bond Selloff Extends, Putting 5% 10-Year Yield In Sight
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
A year after Charlie Kirk's death, Turning Point USA grows but Trump slips with young voters
 

 
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Anthropic:
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more

Madison Mills / Axios:
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI

Reuters:
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context
 
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