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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.
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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 …
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.
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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.
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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 …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump does not rule out demolishing the Kennedy Center
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump says he'd consider issuing pardons to administration officials before he leaves office
Trump says he'd consider issuing pardons to administration officials before he leaves office
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Mediaite
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Iranian negotiators kicked out of US as talks stall, Trump lays out ‘possible’ timeline for more strikes
Iranian negotiators kicked out of US as talks stall, Trump lays out ‘possible’ timeline for more strikes
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The Hill, RedState and NewsMax.com
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump's economic polling sinks, rivaling Biden's worst
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Rubio ordered Iranian delegation to leave the country, U.S. official says
Scoop: Rubio ordered Iranian delegation to leave the country, U.S. official says
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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 …
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Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
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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 …
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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
Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
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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 …
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 …
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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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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Chuck Schumer projects confidence as GOP money washes over Senate Democrats
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: 'We're on the edge of taking back the Senate'
Schumer: 'We're on the edge of taking back the Senate'
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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
White House removes CNN from press pool for Trump's upcoming trip to Texas and Oklahoma
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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 …
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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
Trump Laments Lack of Loyalty From His Supreme Court Appointees
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Politico:
Barrage of lawsuits targets Trump's funding cancellation — Lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's move to cancel $810 million in congressionally approved spending are piling up in courtrooms throughout the country as states and groups that receive federal dollars fight to keep the cash flowing.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Zeteo:
First Draft: 📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud — Swin's conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Eschaton and The American Conservative
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...
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