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Megan Messerly / Politico:
POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access — A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump administration overnight to immediately restore access for news organizations …
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Megan Messerly / Politico:
POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access — A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump administration overnight to immediately restore access for news organizations …
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CNN:
Judge orders Trump administration to immediately reinstate White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico — Donald Trump Media National security Human rights — Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico's access …
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MS NOW, Axios, NewsNation, Washington Examiner, NBC News, Reuters, Straight Arrow, The Hill, Reason, RedState, CBS News and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Oliver Darcy / Status:
The Source Behind The Ban … On Tuesday, after Donald Trump banned POLITICO from the White House alongside CNN and MS NOW, the White House press office dispatched a letter to the Rosslyn-based news organization attempting to justify the president's actions.
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The Bulwark, Civil Discourse …, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes. — In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, in which reporters were told not to name the speaker. — Summary
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New Republic, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, RedState, The Daily Beast, The Washington Sun, NBC News and Mediaite
Washington Post:
CNN, Politico, MS NOW journalists barred from White House after judge blocks Trump's ban — U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was probably unconstitutional. — Summary
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump's White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico — Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets. — A federal judge on Thursday …
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Rolling Stone, Reason, Deadline, Bloomberg, New Republic, TMZ.com, Magnolia Tribune, Althouse, Politico, The Washington Sun, NewsMax.com, The Wrap, The Independent, Washington Examiner, ABC News, The Hill, Townhall and MS NOW
Politico:
Judge restores White House access for POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW — A federal judge has ordered the White House to immediately restore the press credentials of three news organizations after President Donald Trump barred their reporters from the complex last week.
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Associated Press:
Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Bumbling MAGA Media Tries to Launch Their Own White House Pool
Bumbling MAGA Media Tries to Launch Their Own White House Pool
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The Post Millennial
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Mary Peltola's Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs — Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska. Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos. — National Democrats cheered …
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Politico:
Big fires everywhere — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner — Good Thursday morning. There are 40 days until the midterms, and true to form, the scandals are piling up. Speaking of, if you know who left their thong in the Cannon tunnel yesterday, drop us a line.
Politico:
Battered by gas prices at the polls, GOP faces key Iran war vote
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Associated Press, The Hill, The Boston Globe, Reuters, Newsweek, Forbes and CBS News
Jonathan Tamari / Bloomberg:
Trump Elevates Tech Titans to Place of Honor at US-China Summit
Rolling Stone:
‘Danger Sign’: New Polls Show How Much Republicans Have Turned on Trump — The president is hemorrhaging support not just from independents, but from his own party — ADD US AS A GOOGLE PREFERRED SOURCE — In late 2008, at the height of the Great Recession and amid two wars in the Middle East …
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Fox News, New York Magazine and PBS NewsHour
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G. Elliott Morris / FiftyPlusOne:
No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. — Democrats hit new midterm high as Trump's approval rating reaches a new low — Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of supporters at a first-of-its-kind midterms convention …
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Newsweek and Strength In Numbers
New York Times:
Democrats Show Strength in Michigan Senate Race but Trail in Maine, Polls Find — The party's nominees lead in Michigan and New Hampshire but the Republican incumbent is ahead in Maine, according to New York Times/Siena polls of the three battlegrounds. — Democrats appear …
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The Hill, NBC News, Siena Research Institute and Political Wire
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Miranda Yaver / MS NOW:
You should be skeptical of JD Vance's claims about Obamacare fraud — A government task force led by Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that it will remove 760,000 allegedly improper enrollments from the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces. The move is the latest in the administration's efforts …
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Forbes, The Federalist, New Republic, Mercury News, American Greatness, [your]NEWS, Deseret News and TheGrio
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Natalia Contreras / Votebeat:
Texas counties are receiving tens of thousands of unprocessed voter registration applications due to state error — Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas' free newsletter here.
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
Texas voter-registration backlog could affect midterms
Texas voter-registration backlog could affect midterms
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The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
Paul Krugman:
Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel — Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors — There's a strong whiff of desperation coming off the Republican Party these days, and it smells a lot like diesel fumes. All indications are that the G.O.P. is headed for a huge defeat in the midterms …
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Casey He / Politico:
Canada's Carney says he studied risk of US invasion — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he studied the possibility of U.S. military action, following President Donald Trump's repeated musings about making Canada the 51st state. — As Canada's leader, he has the responsibility to …
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New York Times, The Post Millennial, Cult MTL and National Review
KASW-TV:
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-bodyguard accused of causing $200K in damage at her Cave Creek home — Matthew Ammel allegedly threw artwork into pool — CAVE CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — The former bodyguard accused of having an affair with former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing felony charges …
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The Gateway Pundit and TMZ.com
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Ishani Desai / New York Times:
Iowa Judge Dismisses Trump's Lawsuit Against The Des Moines Register — The suit challenged a poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 race. A judge warned that similar legal challenges could have a chilling effect on news reporting.
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Chris Nesi / New York Post:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims ‘many’ airline pilots, air traffic controllers are ‘part of the furry community’ — Fly the furry skies. — Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.
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Esquire, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone and MS NOW
Politico:
Young men are swinging away hard from Republicans, pessimistic about economy, new poll finds — Republicans' 2024 gains among young men have evaporated — and that could have instant ramifications this November, according to a new Cygnal poll. — President Donald Trump narrowly carried young men in 2024 …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer and the @smotus report
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A Reclusive G.O.P. Billionaire Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans — Timothy Mellon, one of the party's biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.
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Politico:
Dems are being outspent across House and Senate races. They disagree over where to put the money they have. … Democrats are begging for more money ahead of November. But they're torn over what to do with the limited funds they already have. — After months of downplaying their financial concerns …
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The Hill, Wide World of News and Axios
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Avani Kalra / The Washington Sun:
Democrats Brace for a Crypto PAC Cash Avalanche
Democrats Brace for a Crypto PAC Cash Avalanche
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Politico
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump courts Xi with pomp as China seeks greater global influence — The Chinese leader is expected to press Washington on Taiwan, while Trump wants help on manufacturing and restraint on Iran. — Summary — Chinese President Xi Jinping was expected to push President Donald Trump …
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
'Don't owe the old guys anything': Backlash builds to GOP chairs clinging to power — House Republicans for decades have prided themselves on their strict three-term limit for committee leaders, saying it promotes fresh blood in the party ranks. — But that limit has grown less strict in recent years …
New York Times:
OpenAI's A.I. Tried Breaching 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting — In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said. — OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue this year …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations — Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump's attempt to block Mike Pence's grand jury testimony. — In a previously secret opinion unsealed on Wednesday …
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Executive Functions and [your]NEWS
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 80, Mocked for Telling Choice of Clothing at Xi Jinping Meet — HIDING SOMETHING? — A photographer revealed what the president was hiding. — President Donald Trump has been mocked after pulling out his winter wardrobe to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in pleasant fall weather.
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The Independent
New York Times:
How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections? — And how we learn to trust elections again. — Produced by Raina Raskin and Charlotte Gartenberg — Many Americans are losing faith in elections. Proposed solutions from across the political spectrum to restore faith in the process …


