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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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Ben Johansen / Politico:
White House blocks CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One
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Casey Wooten / NBC News:
White House blocks CNN from covering Trump's Tennessee trip
White House blocks CNN from covering Trump's Tennessee trip
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CNN:
White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee
White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee
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Hallie Golden / Associated Press:
White House TV pool appears to be back in operation, but CNN's media analyst calls situation ‘fluid’
White House TV pool appears to be back in operation, but CNN's media analyst calls situation ‘fluid’
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media
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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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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Trump Rejects Iranian Proposal for Cease-Fire and Opening of Strait
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Iran's Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump
Iran's Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump
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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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Soorin Kim / MS NOW:
What Trump's super PAC spending says about the GOP's Senate map
What Trump's super PAC spending says about the GOP's Senate map
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Daily Kos, Conservative Daily News and Axios
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 …
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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