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Time:
Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's 2026 Interview With TIME … President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on Sept. 28.  —  Over the course of the interview, Trump discussed a wide range of issues, including the war with Iran, the artificial intelligence boom …
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Eric Cortellessa / Time:
What Trump Has Built  —  Eric Cortellessa … Donald Trump struts onto the new White House helipad, an 80,000-sq.-ft. expanse of carved granite on the South Lawn.  “Can you believe this?” he says, taking in the scene, the Washington Monument rising in the distance.
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds  —  Americans are deeply frustrated with President Donald Trump's handling of the economy and rising prices, with most panning his performance and blaming his policies as higher costs threaten his party's chances in November.
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question'  —  The president's interview with Time didn't go so well  —  Donald Trump has had it with the free press.  He's spent his second term trying to ban news outlets from the White House and ranting on social media …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump does not rule out demolishing the Kennedy Center  —  The Kennedy Center was closed last month amid a legal battle over whether President Donald Trump can add his name to the performing arts venue.  —  Loading...  President Donald Trump is refusing to rule out demolishing the Kennedy Center …
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
What Is Trump Doing?  —  Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.  —  The White House's South Lawn was prepared just so: A full honor guard, complete with American and Chinese flags, stood at attention.
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Trump says Secret Service wants him to ‘take down’ Oval Office  —  The president also said he is looking into designating the White House room as a “federal landmark,” potentially preserving his changes.  —  Loading...  President Donald Trump said that Secret Service officials have encouraged …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says he'd consider issuing pardons to administration officials before he leaves office
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:   Trump's economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden's worst
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Iranian negotiators kicked out of US as talks stall, Trump lays out ‘possible’ timeline for more strikes
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and NewsMax.com
Marjorie Connelly / AP-NORC:
Most blame President Trump for higher prices and are unhappy with how he is handling the economy
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
Sam Jacobs / Time:
Donald Trump Has Appeared on the Cover of TIME More Than Anyone Else
Discussion: Axios
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Judge bars Jeanine Pirro's office from bringing Reflecting Pool case after Trump comments  —  Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case against David “Davey” Hearn with prejudice.  —  WASHINGTON — A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently banned Jeanine Pirro's office …
Discussion: MeidasTouch, Axios and ABC News
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie.  We Got the Script.  —  BEN SHAPIRO AND THE DAILY WIRE are desperate to crack Hollywood.  But Shapiro's most recent foray into film, the anti-Muslim Run Hide Fight: Infidels, was hardly The Odyssey.  Sitting at a meager 20 percent among reviewers …
New York Times:
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say  —  Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995.  It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.  —  A Tennessee woman convicted …
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Associated Press:
Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
John Roberts and His Island … To many people on this remote stretch of Maine coastline, where every day looks like a fresh painting made of light and water, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is just “John.”  —  John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast …
Mychael Schnell / MS NOW:
Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts.  He used them anyway.  —  As they prepared for the testimony of former special counsel Jack Smith, Republican staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Eric Schmitt a warning: The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department …
ICE:
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana  —  NEW ORLEANS — Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old illegal alien from Peru, passed away in ICE custody Sept. 29, 2026, at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana.  The preliminary cause of death is unknown.
Reuters:
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say  —  The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help to ease global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, said three people close to the discussions.
Neria Kraus / The Free Press:
‘I Ran Toward the Cockpit’: An Exclusive Interview with the Israeli Dad Who Stopped a Hijacking  —  Yaniv Hayoun was on a flight from Dubai to Israel with his family when one of the co-pilots stabbed the other and sent the plane into a nosedive.  He told The Free Press what happened next.
PBS NewsHour:
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on his blueprint for depolarizing a fractured nation  —  In the aftermath of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hatred and violence gripping the country.
Hamed Ahmadi / The Washington Sun:
White House Drops CNN From Trump's Travel Press Pool Again  —  The White House dropped CNN from the press pool covering President Donald Trump's trip to Texas and Oklahoma on Thursday, a move that comes after a federal judge blocked the administration's effort to more tightly control the media outlets that have access to the president.
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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
White House removes CNN from press pool for Trump's upcoming trip to Texas and Oklahoma
Associated Press:
Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis  —  Renee Good's family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death and other violations of federal law in the 37-year-old woman's killing …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett  —  President Trump revealed in an interview published Thursday that he regrets nominating conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.  —  “Yeah.  Yeah.  What can I do?
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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:
Trump Laments Lack of Loyalty From His Supreme Court Appointees
Semafor:
‘The No. 1 thing’: Republicans agonize over their economic inaction  —  Senate Republicans are departing Washington to defend their majority — and many are carrying with them real fear that the party didn't do enough to address constituents' economic concerns ahead of the impending election.
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Alex DeLuca / Washington Post:
Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner  —  Officials say they don't know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used.  Residents are unnerved.  —  SummaryLoading...  FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Like many Florida municipalities …
Perry Bacon / New Republic:
Liberals Must Fight The New York Times' Monopoly Too  —  The New York Times has a massive, almost hegemonic influence on the political discourse among liberals in America.  That's a bold statement, and not one I can easily prove.  But I think that's the reality.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Supreme Court will rule on Trump's ICE detention policy  —  The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether ICE's unprecedented mandatory detention policy — which lower courts have rejected more than 20,000 times — is legal.  —  It's one of the biggest blockbuster cases so far for the court's next term, which opens Monday.
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court grants review of Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for immigrants  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for immigrants as the government carries out a sweeping crackdown.
The Guardian:
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits  —  Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in  —  DataOne, the Microsoft-linked New Jersey datacenter recently hit with a $1m fine …
Financial Times:
Global bond sell-off deepens as 10-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002  —  Sovereign debt costs around world return to multiyear highs  —  Emily Herbert and Ian Smith in London, William Sandlund in Hong Kong and Leo Lewis in Tokyo  —  A brutal global bond rout deepened on Thursday …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Scenes from a personality cult  —  Ahead of PN's 5th anniversary next week, we're offering paid subscriptions at the special yearly rate of $40 (or about 16¢ per edition).  This newsletter is only possible thanks to the support of paid subscribers.  If you're not already one of them …
Heesu Lee / Bloomberg:
Korea Disputes Trump's Claim It Agreed to Invest in Alaska LNG  —  South Korea has pushed back on the Trump administration's announcement that the country would invest $54 billion in a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska, saying it had agreed to do so only if the long-stalled venture proves economically feasible.
Calen Razor / Politico:
Centrist Dem's Supreme Court plan boosts momentum for revamp  —  Democratic efforts to revamp the Supreme Court gained momentum Thursday as an influential center-left think tank released a plan to limit justices' terms and misconduct.  Third Way's proposal, shared first with POLITICO …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
How Trump's signature issue fell off voters' radar  —  Immigration — the issue that helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency and rally his supporters over the past decade — has become an afterthought for voters. … What was once a rallying cry for the party is losing salience …
Washington Post:
Democrat has edge in Virginia House race considered national bellwether, poll finds  —  Democrat Shannon Taylor is narrowly ahead of Rep. Rob Wittman (R) in Virginia's 1st Congressional District, while Democrat Tom Perriello is modestly behind Rep. John McGuire (R) in the 5th.  —  SummaryLoading...
Discussion: Blue Virginia and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal  —  Revisionist historian went to DOJ headquarters to present his case that former president, his associates weren't treated fairly  —  WASHINGTON—For nearly two years, the Justice Department has made it a priority …
 
 
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Casey He / Politico:
New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation
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Politico:
Barrage of lawsuits targets Trump's funding cancellation
Discussion: Reuters and The Washington Sun
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Record-Low 31% Say College Education Is ‘Very Important’
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
John Knefel / Media Matters for America:
Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump's deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
Discussion: The Guardian
CNN:
How Jared Kushner's firm's investment in an Israeli company could be a major conflict of interest
FHFA.gov:
To Be Good Financial Stewards, FHFA Inspector General's Budget Will Match the Budgets of Peer Agencies
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and Politico
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NBC News:
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Rebecca F. Elliott / New York Times:
Oil Is Flowing From the Persian Gulf, but Prices Remain High. Why?
Discussion: HotAir
The Guardian:
Hegseth confirms plan to cut 20% of US top military brass and rails at ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch:
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
 

 
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