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Trump aides explore attaching president's name to Ford's Theatre — The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president's name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW. — As President Donald Trump fights …
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Now Seriously Considering Slapping His Name on Ford's Theater
Politico:
‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban — The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Oil Allies See Nightmare Scenario of Diesel-Export Ban Becoming Reality — American oil companies are fiercely opposed to the president's nascent plan to ban exports of diesel, but vulnerable Republicans are putting pressure on him — American oil executives thought they had won …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Trump officials weigh rolling back beef import plan as GOP midterm panic spreads — A small group of White House officials are exploring whether to cut back President Donald Trump's decision to increase foreign beef imports, as GOP panic rises ahead of the midterms.
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Poll: Trump's approval hits a new low of 33% as Republicans sour; Democrats lead House vote by 10 with likely voters — This article reports results from the September 2026 Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. A methodology description is included at the end of this article.
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Marist Poll:
2026 Midterm Elections in Texas, September 2026 — Talarico with Edge in Texas Senate Race...Hinojosa & Abbott Competitive — President Donald Trump may not be on the ballot this year, but his presence is felt in this year's midterm elections. In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas …
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2026 Midterm Elections, September 2026
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
Trump's midterm woes deepen amid worsened economic backdrop: CNN poll
Trump's midterm woes deepen amid worsened economic backdrop: CNN poll
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Washington Post:
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues … In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Stephen Miller's MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks — Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”? In case you're unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it's typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion …
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Katherine Long / Politico:
Dems urge Trump to seek AI deal with China — Democratic senators are pushing President Donald Trump to establish an agreement with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to mutually slow or pause artificial intelligence development. — A group of 17 senators sent a letter, shared exclusively with POLITICO …
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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment — The Scoop — Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash. Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate …
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Maya Sulkin / The Free Press:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The New York Times’ Sued by Shareholders Over Biased Israel Coverage — The suit leans on a whistleblower account of a newsroom that ignored years of complaints about antisemitism and skewed reporting. — Upgrade to Listen — Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
MAGA candidate fumes after his relative deported: 'That's not right' — A Republican running for the Maine's open 2nd Congressional District seat expressed outrage that a member of his family is facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Praveena Somasundaram / Washington Post:
Republican who backs immigration crackdown says his family member shouldn't be deported
Republican who backs immigration crackdown says his family member shouldn't be deported
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Reuters:
Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees' intelligence roles — FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials' job assignments, including sensitive work against Chinese spies, Russian intelligence, drug cartels, and more, Reuters has found.
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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
FBI investigating hacking group's claim of massive breach of agent info
FBI investigating hacking group's claim of massive breach of agent info
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Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Raman takes big lead over Bass in latest poll for L.A. mayor's race — 6 min Click here to listen to this article — The Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll represented the strongest showing yet for Nithya Raman, who trailed Karen Bass in almost every poll during the primary campaign and placed second to Bass in the June 2 primary.
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump invites Putin to G20 in Miami, Rubio says — President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the December G20 summit in Miami, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, the White House's latest effort to reintegrate Moscow into the world's diplomatic frameworks as its war against Ukraine drags on.
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Trump extends invite to Putin to attend Miami G20
Trump extends invite to Putin to attend Miami G20
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Cook nudges three Senate races toward Democrats — Senate races in Georgia, Kansas and South Carolina were reclassified with a nudge toward Democrats in the latest analysis from the closely watched Cook Political Report. … - Tighter races in Republican strongholds like Kansas and South Carolina …
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Erin Cox / Washington Post:
GOP hold on South Carolina's Senate seat is slipping
GOP hold on South Carolina's Senate seat is slipping
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Wall Street Journal:
MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump. We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now. — A Democrat threatening to flip red Texas and a murder trial that divided a jury are hot topics — Conservative podcasters appear to be losing interest in President Trump.
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Paul Krugman:
It's “Underwear on the Outside” Time — Trump's continuing downward spiral into sundowning … In the 1971 comedy film Bananas a third-world nation's strongman announces his new policies: … Yesterday, addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, the president of the United States declared, among other things,
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Robert King / Politico:
Collins: White House drops effort to politicize health research grants — The White House halted a planned executive order that would have put control over NIH research grants in the hands of political appointees — The White House has dropped a planned executive order that would put control …
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Associated Press:
Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York — Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced in Manhattan to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning. Weinstein's sentencing for sexually assaulting …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Finds Itself at Odds With Trump on Press Ban — The home of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham has joined rival networks in suspending its coverage of pooled presidential events. — Fox News's bond with President Trump is undeniable. Prime time stars like Sean Hannity …
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Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
DOJ Tells Judge Trump White House Media Ban Is Lawful
DOJ Tells Judge Trump White House Media Ban Is Lawful
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Madiba K. Dennie / Talking Points Memo:
Brett Kavanaugh's Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day — On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man …
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Mother Jones:
Whites Only — On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan by Louisiana's Republican-controlled legislature to dismantle one or both of the state's majority-Black congressional districts.
New York Times:
Kennedy Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA — A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary's wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair — The fire rises. — Gerard Baker—once upon a time the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal—had a remarkable essay in the paper yesterday. — Remarkable in its prissiness, foolishness, and cowardice. — Let's do two things today.
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Simon J. Levien / Politico:
Rand Paul's bid to seek immunity for Fauci witness fails — Democrats turned back Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul's bid to take testimony from a former aide to onetime Covid czar Anthony Fauci on Wednesday, rejecting Paul's request to grant the woman legal immunity.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she's now running to represent — Congressional news Senate election US elections Media — In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster …
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why Saudi Arabia's Houthi Problem Is Our Problem, Too — I'VE SPENT A GOOD PART OF MY professional life studying and fighting in the Middle East, and even I have found the latest developments between Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Houthis, and the United States difficult to follow. It's a dog's breakfast.
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein's Executors — Prosecutors have questioned Epstein victims about his longtime accountant and lawyer; both men have denied wrongdoing — Federal authorities have opened a probe into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer …
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KFF:
KFF/AP Rural Voters Survey — Authors: Alex Montero, Shannon Schumacher, Julian Montalvo III, Ashley Kirzinger, and Liz Hamel — News Release: KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters' Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections
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