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CNBC:
Trump says he still has confidence in Fed Chair Warsh, demands 1% or lower interest rates … President Donald Trump said Wednesday he still has confidence in Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, but also said he wants the central bank to slash interest rates to 1% “or less.”
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Bloomberg:
Trump Backs Warsh, Faults ‘Hostile’ Fed Board for Rate Hike
Tony Romm / New York Times:
Trump's Latest Threats Loom Over Fed's Interest Rate Decision
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Politico
CNBC:
Dow falls 700 points as losses accelerate after the Fed hikes rates, Warsh highlights inflation risk: Live updates
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment  —  The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's impeachment.  —  House GOP leadership announced Wednesday morning that they will end their current slate of votes early …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Impeach Them.  All of Them.  —  Hegseth is only the beginning.  —  1. Hegseth  —  Yesterday Rep. Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.  There are eight charges.  The first three are for waging war in contravention of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
Discussion: Reason
NBC News:
House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
Reese Gorman / The Washington Sun:
House Republican Meeting Turns Into Shouting Match  —  A late-night meeting in House Speaker Mike Johnson's office went off the rails Tuesday, with multiple sources describing the session as one of the most contentious this year.  —  “Everyone was fired up,” one source said.
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Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:   Judge Warns Blanche of Possible Contempt Charges Over Epstein Files
Erick-Woods Erickson / Erick Erickson's Show Notes:
The Midwestern Führerbunker Driving the Right Off the Cliff  —  Editor's Note: I've worked on this for weeks.  Yes, it is long.  I beg you to read it all.  I've kept it as easy to understand as I can.  Please read it.  You guys always ask me to “name names.”  Challenge accepted.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End  —  The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.  —  This is not slander or pejorative or innuendo; it is the plain truth of the matter, a conclusion drawn from simple observation.  And the problem has been getting worse.  —  Consider a few of the people staffing the Trump administration.
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Lawmaker requests emergency hearing as Kennedy Center remains closed  —  Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), a Kennedy Center trustee, filed a motion requesting an emergency hearing so center officials can explain the closure despite a federal judge's instructions hours earlier that he needed to approve it.
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Nour Longi / MS NOW:
Fencing erected in front of Kennedy Center after Trump-appointed board announces indefinite closure
Micah Lee / micahflee:
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials  —  This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera.  404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it.
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Rand Paul kills Kennedy's AI ‘kill switch’ bill  —  Sen. Rand Paul blocked an attempt by fellow Republican Sen. John Kennedy to quickly pass legislation that would require companies to build a “kill switch” into their artificial intelligence model.  Kennedy, of Louisiana …
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
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Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House passes Russia sanctions bill
Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner:
House holds Leon Black in contempt over Epstein testimony after lawsuit  —  The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a motion to hold business magnate Leon Black in contempt of Congress after he declined to comply with subpoenas related to Jeffrey Epstein issued by one of the lower chamber's most powerful committees.
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
House Holds Leon Black in Contempt Over Epstein Subpoenas
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Why I'm Voting for a Texas Democrat  —  Bo French's bigoted tweet after a football game is part of a long and ugly pattern.  —  It was a moment every student in Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium will remember for life.  Forty-one seconds into the final quarter on Saturday …
Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders  —  Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance.  They just have to use them.  —  At age 16, Kilmar Abrego Garcia fled gang violence in his native country of El Salvador.  When he arrived in the United States in 2012 …
Discussion: ACLU
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New York Times:
U.S. Fast-Tracked Deportation of Ecuadorean Politician Despite Torture Fears
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Top Democrat puts hold on Trump's $2.8B weapons sale to Israel  —  The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee took the rare step Wednesday of publicly announcing a hold on the Trump administration's $2.8 billion plan to sell 40,000 one-ton bombs to Israel.
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Wall Street Journal:
Top Democrat Opposes Trump's Planned Sale of Heavy Bombs to Israel
Tim Ross / Politico:
Left on brink of victory in Swedish election  —  Defeat looms for Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his allies on the far right.  —  Social Democrat Leader Magdalena Andersson is on course to become Sweden's next prime minister as her left-wing bloc holds an unassailable lead over the right …
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump's arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say  —  While acknowledging the project's “adverse effects” on dozens of sites, the administration is asking local preservationists to sign on to an agreement by Monday.  —  Summary  —  Federal officials acknowledge …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Global Oil Prices Could Hit Highest Levels in Months After Saudi Pipeline Attacks  —  Prolonged restrictions on exports could push oil prices even higher.  — 1.2k  —  As Iran and its allies tightened their grip on shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia scrambled this week …
Jacob Bogage / Reuters:
US Postal Service chief told associates he wants to quit, sources say  —  The head of the U.S. Postal Service has told confidants that he is deeply discouraged by his job and wants to resign, according to four people familiar with his thinking, as the agency comes under scrutiny over financial losses …
Discussion: New Republic
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Democrats keep pressure on Hakeem Jeffries to punish rogue members  —  House Democrats aren't letting rogue members off the hook for bucking their party.  They hope Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries won't either.  “Obviously, there's got to be” punishment for the two Democrats who twice …
Angie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun:
Judge Scolds ICE Over Investigation of a New York Man's Critical Email  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement likely violated a New York man's freedom of speech when it threatened to criminally prosecute him after he sent a scathing email to the agency's former top leader, a federal judge in Washington ruled.
New York Times:
Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State.  He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.  —  The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of Mr. Trump's brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America's closest friends.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to hold Iran talks with Gulf leaders next week  —  President Trump is expected to hold a meeting with Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next Tuesday to discuss the next steps in the war with Iran, three sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.
Discussion: CNBC, Reuters, Breitbart and Al Jazeera
Dan Merica / Washington Post:
Iowa's Republican Senate candidate not attending JD Vance event  —  A spokesperson for Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is campaigning on bipartisanship, cited previously scheduled events but declined to say what they are.  —  Rep. Ashley Hinson, Iowa's Republican Senate candidate …
Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 … Annie Dillard in 1974, the year she published “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” which established her as a major voice in American letters.Jill Krementz all rights reserved  —  Annie Dillard, who as a young American writer walked …
Discussion: Associated Press
Edward Wong / New York Times:
State Department Extends Visa Ban on Abbas, Other Palestinian Officials  —  The move would prevent Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of two governing Palestinian groups, from traveling to the United States next week for the United Nations General Assembly.  —  The State Department announced Wednesday …
Discussion: Al Jazeera, France 24 and WTOP News
Matt Cohen / Democracy Docket:
Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades.  This time, the Trump admin didn't invite them  —  For over two decades, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has sent a mission to observe every federal election in the United States …
Washington Post:
Trump emphasizes crime in midterm push in North Carolina  —  The president made violent crime the central issue in his first large-scale outdoor rally this year and cites the GOP's 1988 “Willie Horton” attack ad on Democratic nominee Michael S. Dukakis.  —  Summary
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Democrats Meet With El-Sayed, Putting Aside Rifts Ahead of Midterms  —  Despite disagreements on Israel, more than a dozen Democratic senators huddled in Washington with the Michigan Senate nominee and emerged sounding optimistic.  —  Democratic senators from across the ideological spectrum huddled …
Wall Street Journal:
States Delayed in Getting Covid Shots for Children's Immunization Program  —  CDC hasn't opened up ordering process, raising concerns about delays as vaccination programs kick off  —  States haven't yet been able to obtain Covid-19 shots from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
 
 
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Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Texas universities purge core courses as political pressure takes its toll
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Arthur Jones II / ABC News:
‘Should be removed’: Democratic senators ramp up calls to impeach Education Secretary Linda McMahon
Discussion: GovExec.com
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
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New York Times:
U.S. Intelligence Warns of China Theft Over Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudis
Discussion: TWZ
Kelsey Reichmann / Courthouse News Service:
Durbin pours cold water on Democratic hopes for SCOTUS hardball
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Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
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