memeorandum: Trump: I ‘should have won’ Nobel Peace Prize, award is ‘forever discredited’ (Sarah Davis/The Hill)

10:20 AM ET, October 10, 2026

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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing — Donald Trump's administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow — US officials stepped up pressure on Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries and threatened …

Discussion: Radio Free Europe/Radio … and Reuters

Alex Veiga / Associated Press:

Boosting US oil supplies with Russian diesel unlikely to have much impact on prices, experts say — A new pact that calls for Russia to boost the U.S. supply of diesel over the next few months is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.

Barak Ravid / Axios:

U.S. official: Trump cut deal with Putin after Zelensky ignored his requests — President Trump decided to make a diesel fuel deal with Russia after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ignored half a dozen U.S. requests to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, a U.S. official with direct knowledge told Axios.

Ross Ibbetson / Daily Mail:

Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russian tyrant agrees to ‘immediately supply US with 300,000 tons of diesel’ — Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel, a move that could ease pump prices before Americans vote in November.

Discussion: CNBC, Associated Press and The Parnas Perspective

Phillips P. OBrien / Phillips's Newsletter:
This Is About Much More Than Just Diesel — What Really Matters From The Last Few Hours

Discussion: Persuasion

Barak Ravid / Axios:
Exclusive: Zelensky tells Axios Trump's diesel deal with Putin “not fair and not honest”

Discussion: The Guardian, Metro.co.uk, Politico, Associated Press, The Hill, Reuters, RTÉ, NewsMax.com, GB News, News Talk 105.9 and Al Jazeera

Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Trump strikes deal with Putin to supply Russian diesel to U.S. and global markets

CBS News:
Russian strikes kill at least 15 in Ukraine after Trump gets diesel deal with Moscow

Discussion: Politico, NewsMax.com, RTÉ and Al Jazeera

Washington Post:
Trump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower prices

J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch:
Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms

Discussion: Reuters and Al Jazeera

New York Times:

Economic Pain and an Unpopular Trump Put G.O.P. on its Heels With Three Weeks to Go — Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.

Discussion: CNN

Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
The Midterm Senate Fight Spreads to a Surprising New Battleground

Discussion: New Republic, Politico, NewsMax.com and National Review

Praveena Somasundaram / Washington Post:
Why former Republican governors are backing a Democrat for Senate in a red state

Discussion: New York Times and Bloomberg

Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Montana Democrat who refuses to drop out may spoil party's Senate hopes

Discussion: MS NOW and Montana Free Press

Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Hit-the-Road Strategy Aims to Stave Off Republican Midterm Losses

Discussion: CNN

Haley Britzky / CNN:

Army caught off guard by Hegseth's order to make firing squad execution public — Pete Hegseth Federal agencies US military Media — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's announcement that the execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter would be shown in public caught people across …

Discussion: NPR, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, The Preamble, HuffPost, The Spectator, The Guardian, Associated Press, New York Magazine, MS NOW, Blaze Media, Mediaite and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Asked if he approved live-streaming execution, Trump says ‘absolutely’ — The Pentagon said this week that the execution by firing squad, scheduled for Dec. 3, would be live-streamed for the public to watch. — SummaryLoading... Asked Friday whether he had personally authorized or approved …

Pam Kruger / RNS:

Catholic, evangelical leaders condemn public execution plan of Fort Hood gunman — Get RNS' thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! — (RNS) — Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is joining evangelical faith leaders …

Discussion: Vox, Joe.My.God., New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, RTÉ, USCCB, NewsMax.com, Rolling Stone, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Guardian and Vatican News

Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
Soldiers Are Already Looking for a Way Out of Hegseth's Livestreamed Firing Squad

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, One America News Network, Stars & Stripes, Associated Press, NewsMax.com, Forbes, Washington Examiner, Agence France-Presse, CBS News, Reuters, The Independent, New York Times, Roll Call, Los Angeles Times, Politico, Fox News and MS NOW

Sarah Davis / The Hill:

Trump: I ‘should have won’ Nobel Peace Prize, award is ‘forever discredited’ — President Trump argued Friday that he should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize over this year's Nobel laureate, former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Navi Pillay.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Independent, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Trump's Truth, The Wrap, Mediaite, HuffPost, New Republic, Metro.co.uk, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera

Ben Berkowitz / Axios:

Trump rages over Nobel Peace Prize loss … - This year's prize went instead to a former judge of a court Trump has sanctioned and called “rogue” and “evil.” — Navi Pillay, the winner, reacted to the award by saying world leaders have a “legal obligation to protect human rights and refrain from war,” according to the AP.

Discussion: The Guardian, Newsweek and Breitbart

Bloomberg:

Trump Warns Norway He Won't Forget Nobel Peace Prize Snub — President Donald Trump fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the fact it didn't go to him “is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping off our country.”

Discussion: Axios, NBC News, The Parnas Perspective, Metro.co.uk, RTÉ, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, American Thinker, New York Post, Reuters, Daily Kos, The Wrap, Associated Press and Al Jazeera

New York Times:

Katie Zacharia Picked as the New White House Press Secretary — Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt. — Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at the Department of Homeland Security …

Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost, The Guardian, NBC News, LGBTQ Nation, The Post Millennial, New Republic, The Independent, Townhall, The Wrap, MS NOW, CBS News, NewsNation, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Emily Goodin / New York Post:
White House has found replacement for Karoline Leavitt as press secretary

New York Times:

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior. — Artificial intelligence agents created …

Discussion: Mediaite, RTÉ, The Information, TechCrunch, Axios and Anthropic, more at Techmeme »

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

If Dems Win, Inscribe This Chart on Trump-MAGA's Political Gravestone — With a bit of luck, this midterm election could finally break what we might call the Myth of Multiracial MAGA. That pervasive notion held that Trump's 2024 gains with Latinos heralded the birth of a new multiethnic …

Abby Vesoulis / Mother Jones:

Rep. Max Miller's Girlfriend Was Just Indicted — A grand jury formally charged Jaclyn Alatrash, the congressman's partner of nearly two years, with grand theft. — On Thursday, the woman Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) has been dating for nearly two years was indicted by a grand jury on three criminal counts:

Discussion: Mediaite and Joe.My.God.

Sarah Davis / The Hill:

International Criminal Court ‘firmly rejects’ new US sanctions — The International Criminal Court (ICC) strongly pushed back on Friday after the U.S. imposed new sanctions on its financial assets, slamming the move as “an assault on the rule of law.” — ICC President Tomoko Akane …

Fredreka Schouten / CNN:

Elon Musk's PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say — The texts from Elon Musk's super PAC arrived last week, all with the same message to a group of Colorado voters: “Your ballot request is in,” they read. “Confirm now where and when to return it.”

Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:

A small-town Alaska fisherman has Republicans on the defensive as they try to keep US House majority — In the thick of Alaska's primary election season this summer, independent Bill Hill took a break from his U.S. House campaign to return home to Bristol Bay.

Discussion: NewsNation

John Fritze / CNN:

Trump asks Supreme Court to revive his 2016 election lawsuit against Hillary Clinton — US elections Donald Trump Supreme Court Trump legal cases — President Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on Friday to wade into his years long legal battle with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton …

Discussion: The Hill

Los Angeles Times:

Off-duty ICE agent found sleeping on Fresno lawn is shot after assaulting man, authorities say — 4 min Click here to listen to this article — An off-duty ICE agent was shot in Fresno after he was found sleeping on a lawn, then allegedly assaulted a 72-year-old man, authorities said.

Discussion: New York Times, Joe.My.God., Mediaite and ABC7

Ben Wikler / New York Times:

Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. — The stakes in November's midterms aren't merely about who will hold power over the next two years. Some of this year's elections will also determine who oversees the presidential election in 2028.

Vox:

Why Francesca Hong is still on the campaign trail — The Wisconsin gubernatorial race was one of the most closely watched Democratic primaries in the country this year, pitting a democratic socialist, state Rep. Francesca Hong, against Milwaukee Democrat David Crowley, who received the endorsement …

Emily Cochrane / New York Times:

A Vague, Redacted Execution Protocol in Tennessee Draws Scrutiny — The differences between the current protocol and the previous one have become a focus in Christa Pike's failed execution. — Last year, Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol underwent a striking transformation.

Discussion: The Guardian, Metro.co.uk and Al Jazeera

Fox News:

America's truckers issue dire warning as soaring diesel costs threaten ‘domino effect’ — American truckers are warning that sky-high diesel prices are eating into their profits and putting pressure on trucking companies to cut routes, raising concerns that some drivers could be forced off …