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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump says proposed Washington arch to become sniper, drone facility  —  President Trump said Sunday morning his proposed “triumphal arch” in Washington will become a dual-use facility housing snipers, drones and ammunition storage.
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Washington Post:
Trump says planned arch will be ‘military complex’ for drones, snipers  —  The president's post about the arch planned near Arlington National Cemetery comes as veterans groups, historic preservationists and others attempt to stop the project.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump on Sunday …
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
California Cracks Down on Influencers' Undisclosed Political Ads  —  Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed legislation on Saturday that will penalize …
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms
Rudi Keller / Missouri Independent:
Missouri election officials begin mailing ballots as they await ruling on congressional map
Discussion: Democracy Docket
Politico:
US military says it killed four in strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. military attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its monthslong campaign …
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Faced Loss After Loss.  He Then Turned to a Familiar Target: The Press.  —  The president's ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies.  —  President Trump's grabs for power kept falling short …
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
POLITICO, MS NOW and CNN journalists denied access to White House after Trump media ban
Washington Post:
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown  —  Trump's decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.  —  Summary  —  President Donald Trump's sprawling …
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Angie Orellana Hernandez / The Washington Sun:
Trump Pledges to Appoint an ‘AI Czar’ as He Defends the Technology
Sarah-Jane Collins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Star, 39, Addresses Explosive Lesbian Sex Claims  —  ‘UTTERLY FALSE’  —  A sworn House Ethics complaint accuses Lauren Boebert of having inappropriate relationships with three staffers—and paying one of them $200,000 to keep quiet.  —  Lauren Boebert has long cast herself as a “family values” crusader.
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Erik Maulbetsch / Colorado Times Recorder:
Complaint Filed With House Ethics Committee Alleges Boebert Slept With Three of Her Congressional Staffers
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? … Najya Hannah-Jones, 16, the writer's daughter.  —  I could feel her looking at me.  Her body slung in adolescent impertinence against the front passenger seat door, shoulders turned so she could face me fully.
New York Times:
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center  —  Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.  —  Debris from fallen ceiling plaster soiled the carpet in the Grand Foyer inside …
Discussion: MS NOW
Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
RFK Jr.'s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count  —  Measles showed up at a children's hospital.  The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference.  —  EVERY DAY THERE ARE YOUNG, sometimes tiny human beings who leave the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia—each one of them living …
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.
Politico:
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control  —  President Donald Trump is moving to put political appointees in charge of billions of dollars in federal health research grants in another attempt to cut Harvard's funding.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Exactly Is a Wave Election?  And Should Republicans Be on High Alert?  —  How today's polling numbers compare with the results of some previous midterms.  —  We've seen a surge of post-Labor Day polls over the last two weeks.  If there's any term to describe their findings, it's that Democrats seem poised for a wave election.
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party  —  The president said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had decided to return the money, but defended the gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as “totally allowed.”  —  President Trump on Friday said his eldest son …
Wall Street Journal:
Even in Reliably Red Kansas, Republican Enthusiasm Is Fading  —  'If we're having to spend resources in Kansas...that tells you what the national environment is like.'  —  HUTCHINSON, Kan.—At the Kansas State Fair's Senate debate, incumbent Republican Roger Marshall was on home turf.
Reuters:
North Korea fires two ballistic missiles off east coast in three hours  —  North Korea launched two missiles off its eastern coast on Sunday, its second set of tests in roughly a week and days after Pyongyang accused the US of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula through a series of military drills.
 
 
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