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5:55 PM ET, September 26, 2026

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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One  —  CNN won't be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee.  He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access.  —  The White House on Friday night blocked CNN …
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Casey Wooten / NBC News:
White House blocks CNN from covering Trump's Tennessee trip
CNN:
White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee
Greg Sargent / New Republic:   Trump's Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles' Heel
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media
Discussion: New Republic
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump says he rejected the latest Iranian proposal  —  President Trump said on Saturday that he rejected the latest Iranian proposal that was conveyed to the U.S. during indirect negotiations in New York this week. … - While Iran wants to focus any talks on the Strait of Hormuz …
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MS NOW:
Trump posts map showing ‘Trump Strait’ off Iran, and other Mideast developments
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Iran's Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:   A U.S. Arm-Twisting Campaign Is Cutting Iran Off From the Rest of the World
Axios:
GOP election outlook goes from bad to “craptastic”  —  President Trump told voters to pretend he's on the ballot.  Apparently they're listening: Republicans coast to coast are getting pulled under by a violent undertow fueled by Trump's unpopularity.
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CNN:
Republicans fear two key Senate races are slipping from their grasp
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Soorin Kim / MS NOW:
What Trump's super PAC spending says about the GOP's Senate map
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
FBI Ousts Officials Probing Threats to Stephen Miller's Family  —  FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller's wife, said three people familiar with the matter.
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Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
FBI agents probing threats against Stephen Miller's wife demoted  —  Two veteran FBI counterterrorism supervisors have been removed from their jobs after a disagreement over an investigation involving alleged harassing phone calls made to the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller …
Discussion: TMZ.com
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Lawmakers slam Trump's move to cancel $810M in funding approved by Congress  —  The White House announced plans to cancel funding for refugee services and other domestic programs.  Lawmakers say it infringes on their spending authority.  —  SummaryLoading...
Discussion: Reuters
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NBC News:
Lawmakers slam Trump's ‘unlawful’ move to cut $810 million in federal funds  —  The Trump administration used a rare and controversial budgetary tactic to reject funding that would have supported research, education and minority groups.  —  The White House said Friday that it planned …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission  —  The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.  —  For decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Mother Jones
Amelia Lucas / CNBC:
Trump says he approved new fuel economy standards, rolling back Biden-era rules … President Donald Trump on Saturday said he approved new fuel economy standards, reversing former President Joe Biden's stricter policies meant to fuel electric vehicle adoption.
Discussion: Politico, NewsMax.com and Trump's Truth
Wall Street Journal:
The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe  —  Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle was a long way from Mar-a-Lago.  —  The U.S. ambassador to Greece …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Rahm Emanuel, Eyeing 2028, Makes His 2026 Play … Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and chief of staff to President Barack Obama, has been recruiting Democratic House candidates and helping to guide their campaigns.Lexi Parra/The New York Times  —  At a private dinner of branzino …
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact  —  The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry.  The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progress yet toward a potential treaty.
Marie J. French / Politico:
An unlikely power player in the fight over solar on farmland … ALBANY, New York — In early July, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sat down in the White House Mess with an unlikely guest: a New York influencer who has attracted a national following attacking solar energy projects on farmland.
Aram Roston / The Guardian:
The truth behind Donald Trump's ‘biggest oil deal in world history’  —  The US's oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented  —  Donald Trump has long coveted the oilfields of other nations and declared …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal:
How the Trump Administration's Election Plan Is Falling Into Place  —  A Supreme Court decision on Friday allowed the use of an immigration database to check voter eligibility, but federal strategy spans multiple fronts  —  The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government to deploy …
Politico:
Rogue OpenAI agents accessed US government websites  —  OpenAI's artificial intelligence models accessed the websites of the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission and unsuccessfully attempted to infiltrate the Education Department's site this summer without the company's knowledge.
Discussion: The Information
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New York Times:
OpenAI's Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue
 
 
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Matt Sepic / MPR News:
Man arrested in St. Paul among 8 deported to Somalia from Guantanamo Bay
Discussion: NewsNation
Fox News:
Cruz says winning AI race against China is ‘single most important economic question’ for America
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
How a Business Litigator Became DOJ's Point Man Against Transgender Care
Associated Press:
Southern Democrats see hope for first time in years, seek to build on discontent of midterm voters
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Associated Press:
Far-right settlers divert West Bank spring water as Israel backs heritage site takeovers
Discussion: WTOP News
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Antiwar Veterans Group Spends Millions to Elect Democrats, Shaping Midterms
Discussion: Mercury News
Wojciech Moskwa / Bloomberg:
Poland to Pay Up to $4.4 Billion for Fort Trump, Report Says
Scott Wong / NBC News:
Some lawmakers doubt a Congress that's ‘barely capable of email’ can regulate AI
Ilan Greenberg / Politico:
Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.
 

 
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Christofer Hamilton / The Wrap:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Chris Krewson / LION Publishers:
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