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3:25 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 …
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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
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Speak at Your Own Risk  —  Donald Trump's attacks on the First Amendment  —  On the first day of his second term in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order on free speech stating that his administration would ensure that “no Federal Government officer, employee …
Ben Johansen / Politico:
POLITICO, MS NOW and CNN journalists denied access to White House after Trump media ban  —  The Trump administration denied POLITICO, MS NOW and CNN journalists entry to the White House grounds Saturday morning, the networks said in separate statements, a day after President Donald Trump announced …
Ava Berger / NPR:
CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters denied access to White House following Trump ban
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
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.
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New York Times:
What Does Trump Want With Greenland?
Discussion: American Thinker
Robert Mackey / The Guardian:
US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump's threats to take over Greenland
Ariana Baio / The Guardian:
Hispanic voters' support for Trump wanes over economy and immigration  —  Polls show voters who helped elect president unhappy - and may be willing to vote Democrat in midterms  —  Hispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies …
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Kimberly Leonard / Politico:   Big break with Trump
Vox:
Why Trump's Latino voters are fleeing him
Discussion: Mediaite
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
Washington Post:
Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’  —  The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.  —  Summary  —  Thousands of supporters of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts gathered Friday …
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Thousands protest closure of the Kennedy Center amid fears Trump is set to demolish the institution
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 …
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 …
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
Washington Post:
White House budget chief pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash  —  Russell Vought 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
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
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 …
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
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
Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Trump wants a new AI czar and an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force  —  President Trump announced Saturday he is creating an “AI Force” modeled on the Space Force and will soon name a new AI czar, doubling down on his push to accelerate artificial intelligence development with limited regulation.
Governor of California:
Governor Newsom signs new laws to protect California elections from Trump interference … Governor Gavin Newsom
Rena Rowe / Washington Examiner:
Oil and gas shipments through Strait of Hormuz hit six-month high: CENTCOM  —  Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, said in a video message Saturday that U.S. forces have helped facilitate the movement of more than one billion barrels of crude oil out of the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz over the past two months.
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
 
 
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Maanvi Singh / The Guardian:
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Discussion: New York Times
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Voting rights lawsuit prompts South Dakota to fix ‘confusing’ proof-of-citizenship system
Daniel Hampton / Raw Story:
Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment
Samuel Benson / Politico:
Farm-state Republicans are having a cow over Trump's beef imports as Election Day approaches
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Reuters:
German general Breuer elected to head top NATO military body
Josephine Walker / Axios:
USPS' cost cuts come with a price: Slower mail
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 …
Discussion: Townhall
 Earlier Items: 
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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: Al Jazeera, Israpundit and NewsMax.com
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
The clues in ICE's mass detention court losses that point to a win at SCOTUS
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
Discussion: The Atlantic and Fox News
Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
Discussion: Breitbart
 

 
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Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies

New York Times:
Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed

María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg:
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax”
 
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