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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee — The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet's duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks.
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One — The decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool in jeopardy. — SummaryLoading... The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with President Donald Trump on Air Force One for a Saturday trip to Knoxville, Tennessee …
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Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
White House Removes CNN From Planned Weekend Trip — The network was scheduled to cover President Trump's trip to Tennessee Saturday on behalf of a pool of TV news networks — CNN said it was pulled from a planned trip with President Trump for Saturday, the second time in less than a week …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media — An abrupt decree, a network boycott, a legal intervention and an uneasy détente: This was no typical battle between a president and his press corps. — A week ago Friday, at 3:04 p.m., with his chief of staff in Florida …
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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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Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:
The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks — The U.S. Supreme Court has for now revived a federal data system the Department of Homeland Security revamped into a tool to check the citizenship of millions of Americans on state voter rolls.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Supreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible Voters
Supreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible Voters
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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 …
Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms — The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands — President Trump has rejected Iran's proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said.
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Trump posts map showing ‘Trump Strait’ off Iran, and other Mideast developments
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump asked Xi to stop supporting Iran
Trump asked Xi to stop supporting Iran
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump heads to Texas-Tennessee football game as midterm rallies slide — He will also attend the President's Cup golf tournament this weekend. Officials say Trump's GOP campaign push will ramp up in October. — SummaryLoading... President Donald Trump has vowed to go all-out campaigning …
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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 …
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The White House:
President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending — President Trump is committed to utilizing all possible tools to cut wasteful and harmful government spending that does not benefit American citizens. Last year, President Trump took the historic step …
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Politico:
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress — President Donald Trump informed congressional leaders Friday that he has unilaterally canceled almost $1 billion in federal funding without Congress' consent — employing a budget maneuver many lawmakers consider illegal.
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Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts
Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts
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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 …
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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 …
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Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
Supreme Court Blocks GOP Missouri Map Again in Blistering Appeals Court Rebuke
Jason Rosenbaum / NPR:
Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map
Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map
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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 …
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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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Raymond Fernández / The Washington Sun:
White House Releases Second ‘Paid for By the U.S. Government’ Ad
White House Releases Second ‘Paid for By the U.S. Government’ Ad
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New York Times:
After Tough Primaries, Democrats in Key States Feel Unified, New Polls Find — A majority of Democrats in Maine and Michigan said the primary process strengthened their party heading into November. — In the two battleground states with the most bitter and complicated Senate primaries …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats running for office turn sharply against their own party
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 …
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Hamed Ahmadi / The Washington Sun:
Senators Tell Trump to Uninvite Putin From the G20 Summit
Senators Tell Trump to Uninvite Putin From the G20 Summit
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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 …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Rahm Emanuel 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 and salad at Centrolina …
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 …
New York Times:
Netanyahu Is Said to Have Been Warned About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 — The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel's security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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