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5:20 PM ET, September 28, 2026

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New York Times:
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees  —  In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.  —  The theft by a criminal hacking group of reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens …
Discussion: 404 Media, TechCrunch and Blaze Media
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New York Times:
Andrew Bailey, a Deputy Director at the F.B.I., Leaves His Job  —  Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.  —  Andrew Bailey, who has served as deputy director of the F.B.I. as part of an unusual leadership arrangement …
New York Times:
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won't Touch It  —  After the oil, President Trump went for Venezuela's gold.  The White House brokered deals potentially worth billions.  I went to Venezuela's mines to see for myself how it was playing out.  —  Anatoly Kurmanaev
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’  —  The less popular Trump gets, the more shameless his open lawlessness becomes.  This weekend, an old Trump campaign ad was back on airwaves across the country, with Trump railing against the “communists, Marxists, and fascists,” vowing to expel the …
Discussion: Letters from Leo
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project  —  The announcement comes as Trump is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump will announce a Minnesota company's plan to build a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa …
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ProPublica:
The Untold Origins of Trump's Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting  —  Earlier this month, the Supreme Court blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump restricting voting by mail in ways that could have thrown the upcoming midterms into chaos.
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Natalie Hausmann / Democracy Docket:   Report: Trump wanted all mail ballots sent by certified mail
Telegraph:
Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Farmer tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men  —  Exclusive: Gloucestershire villager feels lucky to be unharmed after she encountered suspicious group near RAF air base  —  Driving home from a party in the early hours, a local farmer came across …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Release of 5 Men in U.K. Prompts New Questions Over Possible Terror Plot
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students  —  The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Trump administration reinstates sexual misconduct rule for schools  —  Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday unveiled a final regulation that seeks to restore a rule on how sexual misconduct is investigated on college campuses.  —  The final rule, which is expected to officially publish Tuesday …
ABC News:
District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University ‘gang rape’  —  A student alleged that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted her in 2024.  —  Peter Charalambous, Olivia Rubin, Courtney Wilson, and Aaron Katersky  —  Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening …
Wall Street Journal:
The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher  —  The president's advisers said fiscal restraint and deregulation would bring down prices and borrowing costs.  Then came tariffs, war and an investment boom.  —  In the early days of President Trump's second term …
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Riley Beggin / Washington Post:
At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding U.S. consumers run into resistance
Discussion: MS NOW, New York Magazine and Reuters
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Trump's press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
Discussion: Trump's Truth and WPEC
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies  —  This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell.  But it sounds quite sleazy and another example of the US government becoming a de facto investment arm of the Trump Corporation/TrumpaNostra.
Patrick Svitek / CNN:
‘We cannot ignore the elephant in the room’: Ken Paxton's estranged wife speaks to GOP women  —  Relationships Congressional news Senate election US elections  —  Angela Paxton, who is divorcing Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, posted a video Monday of recent remarks urging Republican women …
Discussion: New York Times and RedState
Heather Cherone / WTTW News:
Firm Set to Buy Chicago's Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations  —  The New York-based investment firm set to buy Chicago's parking meters announced Monday it had sold an airline that has been carrying out deportations for the Trump administration, officials announced.
Harry Litman / Talking Feds Substack:
Crucial Hearing on Team Trump's Contempt for the Rule of Law  —  On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear argument in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a federal judge ordered two planeloads of Venezuelan men returned to the United States and the administration …
Discussion: Newsweek and New Republic
Ian Mohr / Page Six:
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shopping potentially explosive book: sources  —  Amid the current “Midterm Madness,” former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is shopping a book, sources exclusively tell Page Six Hollywood.  —  Details on the book proposal that's making …
Discussion: The Independent
Scott MacFarlane / MeidasTouch:
“They don't understand the scale of the hunger!”  - An unfolding crisis at the nation's food banks  —  Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states  —  Add MeidasTouch as a preferred Google sourceUse your Google account to add this to your settings
Jordain Carney / Politico:
John Thune: Taxpayer dollars shouldn't fund Trump ads  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune took issue Monday with a new ad campaign featuring President Donald Trump that is being underwritten with federal funds.  “It's a great message.  I like the message.
Axios:
Exclusive: Hegseth directs Defense Dept. to fight foreigners who “meddle” in U.S. elections  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has assigned personnel to use “advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities to identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference” in the upcoming elections, Axios has learned.
Discussion: New York Times
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
In reversal, Justice Samuel Alito steps aside from major climate case  —  Alito will sit out the first case heard by the Supreme Court this term after facing calls from the left to do so because he owns stock in oil companies.  He had previously pushed back.
Tosin Akintola / Reason:
Trump's New Ads Look Like Campaign Spots.  Taxpayers Are Paying for Them.  —  On Sunday, instead of ads for pizza deals from Papa John's or the latest insurance pitch from Jake at State Farm, fans watching their favorite NFL or college football teams were shown a 30-second, black-and-white video of President Donald Trump.
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Judge strikes down Trump's bid to cut states' anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions  —  The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters.
Carmen Paun / Politico:
Vance, RFK Jr. and Iron Mike to headline MAHA Summit  —  Vice President JD Vance and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak for the second year in a row Tuesday at an event organized by Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again allies in Washington.  —  Vance and Kennedy will close …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Proud Boys Convicted Over Jan. 6 Go From Prosecutions to Pardons to Premiere  —  The gala screening of the documentary “American Martyrs” was the latest effort by Trump supporters to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.  —  President Trump has spent the past half decade working …
Discussion: NBC News and The Gateway Pundit
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The Last Recession Wasn't Trump's Fault.  The Next One Will Be—Utterly. … About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up.  Most of the time, the headlines are reassuring: “Despite downturn, experts don't see recession coming”—that sort of thing.
Discussion: Funding the Future
Tim Wu / New York Times:
Affordability Is a Winning Message for Democrats.  But There's an Even Better One.  —  After years of fumbling around for an effective campaign message, Democrats seem to have finally found one in affordability.  The idea couldn't be simpler: Life's essential goods have become intolerably expensive …
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas Involving 12 Individuals for Election Crimes  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the Justice Department announced charges and guilty pleas involving 12 individuals, including three illegal aliens, in connection with illegal voting …
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
Who's Winning the Race for Congress?  2026 Midterm Elections  —  Five weeks out from the midterms, Republicans are panicking over prices — and apparently over the president, too.  —  In Iowa, Michigan and Ohio, the party's Senate candidates have urged President Trump to bring an end to the Iran war.
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Did Anthropic's A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?  —  An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company's A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.  —  When Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant …
 
 
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Blurred lines  —  Donald Chase is the kind of voter Democrats are fighting over in Georgia.
Discussion: The Washington Sun and The Hill
Ken Schneck / The Buckeye Flame:
Insiders say the Ohio Democratic Party is censoring criticism of anti-trans ads
Discussion: HotAir and CNN
Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
Jasmine Crockett Excludes Talarico in New List of Endorsements
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andy Craig / The UnPopulist:
America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome
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Burgess Everett / Semafor:
Republicans fuming at Hegseth as war costs build
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Feed the lizard  —  The New York Times dropped a story on Wednesday about former House member Mary Peltola …
 

 
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
AG Todd Blanche defends the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, saying access is “a privilege” and Trump is “sick and tired” of inaccurate reporting

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The BBC plans to cut ~90 jobs from BBC Local, aiming to save ~£9.1M, as part of a plan to eliminate ~250 full-time jobs in its Nations division by 2027/28

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads
 
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