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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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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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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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Trump's disruption to TV coverage during Xi visit frustrates Chinese officials
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A 7-Day Standoff That Said So Much About Trump and the Media
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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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New York Times:
Supreme Court Ruling Could Have Limited Impact on Voter Screening in Midterms — Federal law requires a 90-day “quiet period” before elections, likely restricting the immediate scope of a decision that allows the use of a citizenship database to examine voter rolls.
Jude Joffe-Block / NPR:
The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
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 …
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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 — Meanwhile, Iranian media outlets say the country's president has left New York after the United Nations gathering of world leaders that included Iran's indirect talks with the United States.
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Trump asked Xi to stop supporting Iran
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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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The White House:
President Trump Takes Historic Action to Eliminate Wasteful and Harmful Spending
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Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts
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Soorin Kim / MS NOW:
What Trump's super PAC spending says about the GOP's Senate map — The president's super PAC and its allies are playing defense in some red states and easing off in battlegrounds Republicans need to win the Senate. — After sitting out much of the summer, President Donald Trump's political operation has started spending big.
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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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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:
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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Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch:
Supreme Court Blocks GOP Missouri Map Again in Blistering Appeals Court Rebuke — The justices said the Eighth Circuit should have seen this coming after it tried to revive Missouri's 2025 congressional map in the middle of an election. — Co-Founder of MeidasTouch
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court for the third time rejects Republican redistricting push in Missouri
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Jason Rosenbaum / NPR:
Supreme Court blocks Trump-backed Missouri congressional map
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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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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Some lawmakers doubt a Congress that's ‘barely capable of email’ can regulate AI — Congress' slow pace and inexperience with AI are colliding with a fast-moving technology. Though one Democrat countered: “We don't have to be biologists or chemists to set up the FDA.”
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
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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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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 …
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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Ilan Greenberg / Politico:
Trump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting. … Loeb's meeting at the headquarters of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, an unremarkable building that could easily pass for a suburban insurance company office, was the kind where a mysterious person introduces themself …
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
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