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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.”
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 …
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 …
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
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
Angie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun:
Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology  —  President Donald Trump said he will soon appoint an artificial intelligence czar amid heightened scrutiny of whether the technology is progressing at a dangerous pace, he announced Saturday on Truth Social.
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints  —  Lawmakers and industry leaders have called for moving more slowly on the technology.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump said he will name an official responsible for artificial intelligence and form an unspecified …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and CBS News
Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Trump wants a new AI czar and an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force
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
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:
Trump's Security Deal With Greenland: What to Know
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Voting rights lawsuit prompts South Dakota to fix ‘confusing’ proof-of-citizenship system  —  A federal judge Friday denied a voting rights group's request to block part of South Dakota's new proof-of-citizenship voting system after the state changed its voter notices and gave the group much of what it had asked for.
 
 
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Reuters:
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
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Discussion: NewsMax.com
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
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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:
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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:
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A distribution loophole lets anyone upload songs to artists' Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music pages and get royalties; AI turbocharges the issue
 
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