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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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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
CourtListener:
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER  —  On the afternoon of September 18, 2026, President Trump announced in a social media  —  post that, “effective immediately,” he was “banning” the news organizations CNN, MS NOW, and  —  POLITICO “from the White House.”  1 And those news organizations allege that over the weekend
Associated Press:
Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Politico:
Judge restores White House access for POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Judge questions whether national security concerns could ever justify Trump's press ban
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.
Jonathan Tamari / Bloomberg:   Trump Elevates Tech Titans to Place of Honor at US-China Summit
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump gives Xi Jinping rare airport welcome as summit visit begins
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump greets Xi on tarmac in rare gesture
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 …
Discussion: Newsweek and Strength In Numbers
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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 …
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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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:   The blue wave is mostly in red states. That's a little weird.
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Wall Street Journal:   Cleaning Up ObamaCare Fraud
Nicholas McEntyre / New York Post:
Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's ex-bodyguard in ‘homewrecker’ case trashes her Arizona home, causes $200K in damage  —  Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's ex-bodyguard turned lover allegedly trashed her Arizona home while she was out of town — causing more than $200,000 in damage as he tossed dozens of valuable paintings into her pool.
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Esquire, Daily Kos, Rolling Stone and MS NOW
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.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression:
VICTORY: Iowa judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer  —  An Iowa state court on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump's frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper.  —  The decision handed down by Judge Scott J. Beattie …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Executive Functions and [your]NEWS
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Independent
 
 
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Aides Seek to Jump-Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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