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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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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Live Updates: CNN, MS NOW and Politico Return to White House After Fight Over Access  —  A federal court ordered the Trump administration to reverse its ban on the outlets, but reporters were initially denied entry to the White House grounds on Thursday.  —  Here's the latest.
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 …
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 …
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
JD Vance Planted the Story That Sparked White House Media Ban  —  One of the stories the White House cited to justify its ban on Politico, MS NOW, and CNN had Vice President JD Vance as its main source.  —  The Washington Post reports that during a press call in June, the Trump administration …
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
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Bumbling MAGA Media Tries to Launch Their Own White House Pool
CourtListener:   TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
Politico:
Judge restores White House access for POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW
Adam Liptak / New York Times:   Trump's Retribution Campaign May Face Supreme Court Test
Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump's White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Gillian Brockell / American Prospect:
Judges Reject ICE's Underhanded Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals  —  An appeals court made clear deportation flights to third countries must stop immediately, but flight data showed ICE may be violating the order.  —  A Peruvian man threatened with removal to the Central African Republic …
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Reuters:
US to seek Supreme Court relief after court blocks third-country removals  —  President Donald Trump's administration will ask the US Supreme Court to allow it to continue to swiftly deport migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to raise any safety concerns …
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
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
The blue wave is mostly in red states.  That's a little weird.  —  Still Counting Episode 3 is out.  Video version above, audio below.  We'll be publishing these each week here at the newsletter.  But for faster access, please subscribe on YouTube or follow us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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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: Daily Mail and The Independent
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Edith Olmsted / New Republic:
Trump Edits Melania Out of Weird AI Photo—but Leaves in an Aide
Discussion: Newsweek and The Independent
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump courts Xi with pomp as China seeks greater global influence
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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Steve Benen / MS NOW:
RFK Jr. faces yet another round of ethics questions, adding to brutal pattern  —  Richard Painter, a White House ethics counsel under George W. Bush, said, “You have a situation like this, it just looks horrible.”  —  If Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were assessed solely on his job performance …
Discussion: NPR, New York Times and The Guardian
New York Times:
Cross-Tabs: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Battleground Senate Races  —  Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 1,837 voters from Sept. 15 to 22, 2026. … ‹ ›  —  Do you think [state] is on the right track, or is it headed in the wrong direction?
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New York Times:
Carney Lays Out His Vision for Breaking Canada's Reliance on U.S. … Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada during an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday.Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times  —  Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said that he had prepared over the past year for the …
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Casey He / Politico:
Canada's Carney says he studied risk of US invasion
Discussion: GZERO and National Review
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump's Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.  —  It was the Trump administration's latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.  —  When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada …
Discussion: Reuters
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state's power over local law enforcement  —  The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year's special …
Mark Follman / Mother Jones:
ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror  —  Editor's note: This story discusses suicide and extreme violence.  Read part 1, part 2, and part 3 of our investigation into AI chatbots and violence.  —  In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI.
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 …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Our Politicians Suck.  But Our Voters Do, Too.  —  And the political system we've built brings out the worst in both.  —  1. Springfield  —  I'm heading to Ohio in a couple hours because we're doing a live show tomorrow to raise money for the Haitian community in Springfield.  —  You guys always step up.
Discussion: Ohio Capital Journal
Dan Merica / Washington Post:
Trump-backed Nevada Republican exaggerated Bronze Star award in two campaigns  —  Congressional hopeful David Flippo said his staff made a mistake in an announcement video for an earlier campaign.  It was repeated in fundraising solicitations this year.  —  Summary
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 …
D.J. Byrnes / The Rooster:
Ohio Democrats' trans panic, explained  —  Or why Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur won't be taking down her transphobic ads anytime soon.  —  ∙ Paid  —  The liquidation of newspapers alongside the rise of a billionaire-funded, right-wing propaganda network has disconnected Americans from state and local politics.
Discussion: Roll Call and Ohio Capital Journal
Elleiana Green / Politico:
Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms  —  The Trump administration launched a new television advertisement featuring President Donald Trump calling out socialism, communism and marxism, appearing to use government resources to go on air in the weeks before the midterm election.
Daniel Miller / Politico:
Lawmakers to unveil Hollywood tax incentive proposal  —  Lawmakers said they will introduce bipartisan legislation Thursday to create a federal tax incentive for film and television production, putting Donald Trump's push to prop up Hollywood in front of Congress.
Andrew Perez / Zeteo:
Elon Musk Endorsed Socialist Healthcare Before Campaigning Against It  —  Musk once acknowledged the government ‘should take care of’ healthcare.  Now, the world's first trillionaire is running super PAC ads attacking Democrats for wanting to give every American healthcare.  —  ∙ Paid
 
 
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says it is raising another $7.5B in debt to pay for its WBD acquisition and pay down other debt, bringing the total debt it intends to raise to $44.4B

New York Times:
Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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