memeorandum: Complaint Filed With House Ethics Committee Alleges Boebert Slept With Three of Her Congressional Staffers (Erik Maulbetsch/Colorado Times Recorder)

7:05 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: Washington Post, Associated Press, Variety, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, WTOP News, OutsideTheBeltway, NewsMax.com, CBS News, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Axios and Freedom of the Press …, more at Mediagazer »

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.”

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 …

Discussion: RedState, Mediaite, Associated Press, Daily Kos, Newsweek, The Hill, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and NBC News, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: USA Today, Washington Examiner, New York Times, KTLA, Breitbart, Straight Arrow, Bloomberg, The Hill, The Hollywood Reporter, The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA and CNN

Ava Berger / NPR:
CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters denied access to White House following Trump ban

Marissa Martinez / The Washington Sun:
White House Turns Away Journalists After Trump Declares Ban

Discussion: New York Times, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite

New York Times:
Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From 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.

Discussion: Fox News, NBC News, Straight Arrow, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Joe.My.God., The Hill and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »

Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump to form ‘AI Force,’ name AI czar but rejects calls for constraints

Discussion: Politico, Forbes, NewsMax.com and CBS News

Andrew Pantazi / Axios:
Trump wants a new AI czar and an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force

Discussion: Politico, CNN, The Hill, New York Post, Quartz, RedState, The Information, The Guardian, TMZ.com, Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth and The Independent

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 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, MS NOW, Axios and Washington Post

Kimberly Leonard / Politico: Big break with Trump

Vox:
Why Trump's Latino voters are fleeing him

Discussion: Mediaite

Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:

Republican South Dakota secretary of state endorses Democrat to succeed her — South Dakota's Republican secretary of state urged voters to cast their ballots for a Democrat in the November election, arguing she could not back the GOP nominee — and drawing the ire of party leadership.

Discussion: South Dakota War College

Daniel Hampton / Raw Story:

Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment — An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and TMZ.com

Erik Maulbetsch / Colorado Times Recorder:
Complaint Filed With House Ethics Committee Alleges Boebert Slept With Three of Her Congressional Staffers

Discussion: The Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart

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

Discussion: NewsMax.com and No More Mister Nice Blog

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 …

Discussion: The Hill, Wonkette, Associated Press, New York Times and The Contrarian

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.

Discussion: CNBC, The Independent, Atlantic Council, BBC, Joe.My.God., Stars & Stripes, CBS News, Axios, abc7NY, Trump has a deal …, Bloomberg, New York Times, Fox News and RedState

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 …

Discussion: The Parnas Perspective

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 …

Discussion: One America News Network, NewsMax.com, The Hill, The White House, Public Citizen, RedState and Axios

Governor of California:

Governor Newsom signs new laws to protect California elections from Trump interference … Governor Gavin Newsom

Discussion: Democracy Docket, New York Times, Washington Examiner, MS NOW, Straight Arrow and Los Angeles Times

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: Breitbart and Washington Examiner

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

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

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: NewsMax.com, Joe.My.God. and Legal Insurrection

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 …

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Christian Science Monitor

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.

Discussion: The Federalist and RealClearPolitics