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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Federal Database for Voter Screening  —  Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.  —  The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deploy …
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated with Analysis)  —  September 25, 2026, 8:57 am Uncategorized  —  By RICK HASEN
Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now  —  The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November's elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting.
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to use modified voter verification database
Washington Post:
Government can use Social Security data to identify noncitizen voters, Supreme Court rules
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war  —  With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows.  —  SummaryLoading...  The Pentagon's public tally …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court for the third time rejects Republican redistricting push in Missouri  —  A Republican effort to use a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the two Democratic-held districts in the state has again failed in court.  —  WASHINGTON — For the third time …
Discussion: The Federalist
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Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
Supreme Court Blocks GOP Missouri Map Again in Blistering Appeals Court Rebuke
Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Pro-Trump TV ad paid for by US government continues airing with higher spend  —  The Trump administration on Friday appeared to ramp up its use of U.S. government-funded political advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, airing its second TV ad in three days while expanding its spending on the first to at least $443,000.
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Casey He / Politico:
Bipartisan Russia hawks urge Trump to pull Putin invite to G20 summit  —  A bipartisan group of 14 senators urged President Donald Trump to rescind his invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 summit in Miami in December.  The letter, whose bipartisan signers …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators dismayed by Trump embrace of Xi after China helped Iran target US troops
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump  —  Here's a thought experiment: try listening to the speech that Donald Trump gave, earlier this week, at the United Nations General Assembly as if you'd never heard Trump before—or, at least, not for a long while.
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New York Times:
Bracing for Midterm Losses, Republicans in Congress Try a Pre-election Pivot
Discussion: Bloomberg and Mediaite
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Democrats favored to win slim House majority, nonpartisan analyst says  —  The Cook Political Report says the most likely outcome in November is Democrats winning a slim majority and picking up five to 15 seats in November.  —  Loading...  The nonpartisan Cook Political Report …
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Kate Santaliz / Axios:
House Republicans on track to lose majority
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Georgia Recorder
Politico:
‘We are hemorrhaging’: Cracks emerge in GOP's Florida firewall
Discussion: New York Times and Mother Jones
Politico:
Poll: A crack is emerging in Trump's coalition over deportations … President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign is running into resistance within his own voter coalition, as more and more Republican candidates publicly break with him ahead of the November election.
Discussion: Reuters
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Politico:
Trump will hit several deep-red states in October campaign blitz
Discussion: New York Times
Scott Bland / NBC News:
3 takeaways from our new polling averages: From the Politics Desk
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)  —  Its U.S. distributor has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer.  The studio is appealing.  —  So much for free speech. … YouTube, TikTok along with Instagram …
Discussion: Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Rolling Stone
Josephine Walker / Axios:
ICE wasted millions in rush to expand detention, GAO finds  —  ICE has received more than $75 billion to expand operations since President Trump returned to office — and wasted millions on scaled-back and mismanaged projects, a new GAO report found. … - The report concluded that “[i] …
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James LaPorta / CBS News:
U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba  —  Washington — The U.S. Army Reserve is examining whether it can provide the military's Southern Command with police forces, medical personnel and other support units within the next four months, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
U.S. Military Prepares for Possible Action in Cuba
Discussion: CBS News
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats running for office turn sharply against their own party  —  Democrats are adopting a drastically more negative tone toward their own party in the 2026 midterm elections, swapping promises of bipartisan collaboration with vows to “take on corruption in both parties.”
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NBC News:
James Comey seashells case delayed until early 2027  —  The former FBI director's team has moved to dismiss the case for a variety of reasons, including their claim that it is driven by Donald Trump's animus. … U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan declined to set a trial date in the case against Comey …
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Embattled New Jersey Lt. Governor Resigns After Ethics Inquiry  —  Dale G. Caldwell, a Methodist minister and former university president, quit one day after the release of a report that found he had crossed ethical lines.  —  Lt. Gov. Dale G. Caldwell of New Jersey said Friday he was stepping down …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
New Jersey lieutenant governor resigns after release of damaging ethics report
New Republic:
MAGA Radio Host Humiliates Trump by Leaking Truly Brutal GOP Poll Data  —  Iowa radio host Steve Deace just unleashed an extraordinary social media screed.  He confided that GOP pollsters have informed House Republicans that GOP +15 districts are now straight toss-ups, and GOP +10 districts are now “underwater.”
Discussion: National Review and RedState
New York Times:
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer  —  A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.  —  The most effective escalation of President Trump's mass deportation campaign happened quietly.
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Tillis rips Trump's Xi meeting as a “WTF moment”  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) criticized President Trump's warm reception for Chinese President Xi Jinping, questioning why Xi received a warmer welcome than some U.S. allies. … - Tillis said he was “worried about the trend of spending …
Reuters:
ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff  —  FBI personnel data recently stolen by the ShinyHunters hackers includes sensitive psychiatric and medical evaluation records, according to the hackers and documents reviewed by Reuters.
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump-appointed judge again holds admin in contempt over deportation … - In a brief order Friday, Gallagher instructed the administration to return the man, identified as 19-year-old E.L.A., to the U.S., return his property and documents and refrain from executing any final removal order …
New York Times:
OpenAI's Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue  —  The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.  —  OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue …
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say  —  In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.  —  Former employees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts …
 
 
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