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12:30 PM ET, September 19, 2026

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban  —  The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump's war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.  —  Journalists from CNN and MS NOW were denied access …
Discussion: CBS News and Mediaite
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN, MS NOW and Politico denied access to White House after Trump ‘ban’  —  CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico.
Politico:
Inside the White House media ban  —  Donald Trump reupped his battle with the “FAKE NEWS” media on Truth Social Friday, banning CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO for reporting “LIES when they're covering the President of the United States,” with “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow.”
NBC News:
MS NOW says its journalists were denied access to White House after Trump announced ban  —  The network said it “intends to take any and all steps necessary to defend our First Amendment rights” after President Donald Trump said its journalists would be denied access.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Wrap
New York Times:
Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Trump says he's banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump says he's ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
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Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Trump's Greenland deal follows US firm's purchase of rare-earth metals mine there  —  President Trump's new Greenland security deal comes just 17 days after a US-based company quietly closed a deal to purchase a Greenland mining company that would produce more than a third of the world's rare earth magnet supply outside of China.
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump's threats to take over Greenland
New York Times:   What Does Trump Want With Greenland?
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump hails Greenland security deal that falls short of takeover
Discussion: twitchy.com and France 24
Washington Post:
Behind Trump's public confidence, his private view of midterms is sobering  —  In private, the president has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.  —  Summary
David Smith / The Guardian:
Thousands protest closure of the Kennedy Center amid fears Trump is set to demolish the institution  —  Demonstrators gathered outside the building in Washington, after the president was spotted holding a placard that read: ‘Kennedy Center DEMOLIS ...’  —  On Friday evening thousands …
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Washington Post:   Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Farm-state Republicans are having a cow over Trump's beef imports as Election Day approaches  —  Farm-state Republicans don't support President Donald Trump's move to import cheap beef — but they're still getting grilled for it.  —  Trump's plan to combat sky-high beef prices by introducing discounted …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans in Tough Races Are Tip-Toeing Away From Trump
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash  —  The White House budget chief argued the agency has been funding “woke” priorities and suggested the president create a commission to review grants from the National Institutes of Health.  —  Summary
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Legal Insurrection
Washington Post:
Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump's drug-pricing deals  —  Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration's confidential deals with pharmaceutical companies …
Alexandra Villarreal / The Guardian:
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children  —  Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist  —  Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across …
New York Times:
Trump's Census Proposal Could Cut House Seats From Red States  —  A Trump administration proposal to exclude some types of immigrants from the 2030 census might not expand the congressional map for Republicans, and could even result in fewer House seats in red states.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Mike Waltz has quietly signaled he's looking past the UN … Failure doesn't have to kill ambition.  Mike Waltz ought to know.  —  After the infamous Signal chat debacle, which contributed to President Donald Trump's decision to oust him as national security adviser, Waltz was sent to serve …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson's Hair to Hemings's Children  —  A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.  —  For more than 200 years, the question has nagged at the edges …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Althouse
Ben Geman / Axios:
Iran war causes global pain at the pump  —  The Iran war is driving fuel prices higher worldwide, leading to angry protests around the globe and straining the economies of countries that have nothing to do with the war. … - The surge in prices squeezes consumers, and worsens the finances …
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America's Parks  —  Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president's favored projects in Washington.  —  An unstaffed entrance station at Zion National Park in Utah.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Financial Times:
Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax  —  Progressive laureates say November ballot measure could ‘start reining in the power’ of ultra-wealthy  —  A group of progressive Nobel Prize-winning economists has joined the fray in California's battle …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Reuters:
German general Breuer elected to head top NATO military body  —  General Carsten Breuer, Germany's chief of defence, was chosen on Saturday as the next head of NATO's military committee, the alliance's top military authority and a key advisory body for its political leaders.
Discussion: Politico
Tressie McMillan Cottom / New York Times:
A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think  —  After multiple incidents of A.I. agents going wild, including a rogue group hacking a platform for developers called Hugging Face, some of tech's most powerful soothsayers are begging one another to pump the brakes on this whole thing.
Discussion: Townhall
New York Times:
Has Trump Lost Touch With Reality?  —  Three Opinions writers debate whether the president's recent behavior is really that different from what we've seen from him over the years. … Michelle Cottle: We are going to talk about this unnerving week in A.I.-related news.
Vox:
Why Trump's Latino voters are fleeing him  —  In 2024, Donald Trump's victory was powered in large part by massive gains with Latino voters.  He won 48 percent of those voters that year, up from 36 percent in 2020 and 28 percent in 2016.  But now, that support is plummeting …
Discussion: The Guardian, Axios and Mediaite
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
The clues in ICE's mass detention court losses that point to a win at SCOTUS  —  Federal judges across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's efforts to detain tens of thousands of immigrants while they await the outcome of deportation proceedings.
Bloomberg:
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School  —  Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.  —  Within hours of a Feb. 28 missile attack that hit …
 
 
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
USPS' cost cuts come with a price: Slower mail
New York Times:
Creating a Kill Switch to Shut Down a Rogue A.I. Is Harder Than It Sounds
Ruth Margalit / New Yorker:
Israel's Qatargate Scandal
Discussion: Israpundit and NewsMax.com
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Hispanics flock to this university. It let campus police double as ICE agents.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Laura Beveridge / Washington Post:
How anti-Muslim rhetoric is influencing the pivotal Michigan Senate race
 Earlier Items: 
Kylie Williams / Politico:
Florida's governor race heads to Virginia, as Jolly highlights data center debate
Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Jeff Sommer / New York Times:
What Set Off the Rise in Interest Rates? Mainly, the Iran War.
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Reagan Judge Foils Desperate Bid to Hide Trump Accuser's Interviews
New York Times:
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
Discussion: Daily Mail
 

 
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CNBC:
President Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over their coverage of him, with “other Fake News Media Outlets to follow”

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is in advanced settlement talks with California Attorney General Rob Bonta over the company's deal to acquire WBD

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Dylan Byers of Puck has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss' work while Puck is in funding talks with RedBird Capital, a top Paramount investor
 
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