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Wall Street Journal:
Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship — Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman's family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar …
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Feds seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's phone, subpoenaed family members in immigration status probe — The subpoenas were sent just days before federal agents searched the progressive ‘Squad’ member's home, a person familiar with the investigation told NBC News. — Federal agents seized Democratic …
CNN:
Exclusive: Judge limited Justice Department access to Rep. Ilhan Omar's records in sprawling immigration fraud probe — Donald Trump Federal agencies Immigration politics Immigration — The Trump administration pushed for an unusually aggressive search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's house in recent days …
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Wall Street Journal:
Starlink Suspicions and a Frantic Warning: Inside Trump's Turn on Zelensky — Limitations on Ukraine's access to military-grade Starlink terminals sparked panic among its officials and several U.S. lawmakers — In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Denys Sienik, the top Ukrainian diplomat …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump doubling down on Russian diesel deal as Republicans run from it — The News — President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with his deal to import Russian diesel, blowing past his party's growing complaints about taking help from Vladimir Putin. — “The president's main priority …
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation — The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk-owned satellite system used by Ukraine unexpectedly restricted service …
Julia Jester / MS NOW:
Elon Musk points finger at Trump over Ukrainian satellite restrictions
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Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine's Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
Ukraine's Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Amid Ukraine uproar, Musk says decisions to restrict Starshield up to president
Amid Ukraine uproar, Musk says decisions to restrict Starshield up to president
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Aidan Stretch / CBS News:
U.S. may have withheld warnings to Ukraine of Russian strikes that killed 6, cut power to 600,000, sources say
U.S. may have withheld warnings to Ukraine of Russian strikes that killed 6, cut power to 600,000, sources say
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump's New Press Secretary: Not-Quite Attorney at Law — Katie Zacharia told The New York Times that the confusion over her legal credentials is the result of one big misunderstanding. — Is President Trump's new press secretary a lawyer — or did she just play one on TV?
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Wall Street Journal:
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Didn't Pass Bar Exam — Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances — When President Trump announced that Katie Zacharia would serve as the next White House press secretary, he referred to her as an attorney.
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Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
Trump's New Press Secretary Faces Bar Complaint in California
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Vance's Talarico Attacks Show His Penchant for Personal Broadsides — At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic. — Almost from the moment James Talarico became the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Talarico debates Texas voters in CNN-Jubilee town hall amid tight Senate race
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Victor Nava / New York Post:
James Talarico ruthlessly fact-checked by voter after claiming Bible is ‘silent’ on abortion at CNN town hall
James Talarico ruthlessly fact-checked by voter after claiming Bible is ‘silent’ on abortion at CNN town hall
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Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
Five Takeaways From James Talarico's CNN Town Hall With Texas Voters
Five Takeaways From James Talarico's CNN Town Hall With Texas Voters
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Cost-of-living concerns weigh on GOP in midterms — When voters rate the economy and the president negatively just weeks before Election Day, the incumbent party is vulnerable, and that's certainly the case in the latest Fox News survey. — The economic landscape is stark.
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Says People Who Leak to News Outlets ‘Should Be Shot’ — President Donald Trump called for executing individuals who leak information to the media during a campaign rally as he railed against what he cast as critical coverage of the war in Iran. — “In my opinion, leakers should be shot.
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Ayah Ali-Ahmad / The Washington Sun:
Trump Blames Biden for High Prices Hours After News of Rising Inflation
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
The Disappearing Women of the Trump Administration … New York Times photographs by Tierney L. Cross, Eric Lee, Kenny Holston & Haiyun Jiang. — The ouster of Kimberly Guilfoyle, who until this week was the U.S. ambassador to Greece, was surprising in its particulars.
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in “MAGA blood feud” — President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office: — Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another …
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Jenna Monnin / The Washington Sun:
Candidates Are Increasingly Icing Out Reporters on the Campaign Trail — From the White House grounds to town halls across the country, politicians and candidates have been attempting to block members of the media from covering them — and advocates say it's raising serious press freedom concerns.
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Stephen Neukam / The Washington Sun:
Freedom Caucus Chair Freaks Out Over Being Recorded in Public
Freedom Caucus Chair Freaks Out Over Being Recorded in Public
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
ICE rejects suggestion that its officers wear body cameras that automatically activate — Federal immigration officials need to ensure that body cameras worn by officers are uniformly activated when needed, a government report released Wednesday said, following a series of contentious shootings and aggressive arrests by ICE officers.
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Josephine Walker / Axios:
ICE balks at automatic body-cams amid accountability concerns
ICE balks at automatic body-cams amid accountability concerns
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The Washington Sun:
Sen. John Kennedy Is So Hot Right Now (On the Campaign Trail) — HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Addressing a group of a dozen or so reporters at his campaign event here last week, Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, joked he might not be the main attraction.
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Inside Elon Musk's massive Texas rescue mission … - Musk's rescue gave Paxton's sleepy campaign new life and showed why the world's richest person is the X factor in the push to prevent a midterm debacle for President Trump's party. … - Instead, Musk's money allowed Republicans …
Danny Funt / Columbia Journalism Review:
'I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My Hands' — Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest. — For years, ESPN wanted nothing to do with sports gambling. That stance had softened a bit as of 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on bookmaking …
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Financial Times:
US floats unfreezing some Russian assets to restart Ukraine peace talks — European officials balked at proposal made by Donald Trump's negotiators during meeting in Miami — The US has proposed that European countries unfreeze some Russian sovereign assets immobilised after Moscow's invasion …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
DOJ faces legal threats after pushing California to match voter list with USB drive — A voting rights group warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it plans to sue if the department doesn't back away from a demand made to various California voting authorities which ordered them to cross-reference …
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Irie Sentner / Politico:
'I think Alaska's turning blue': Republicans fret Sullivan's path to reelection — WASILLA, Alaska — Three weeks out from Election Day, President Donald Trump took a helicopter to a plane to another helicopter to a motorcade to an ice hockey rink in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley …
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Domonique King / The Washington Sun:
A Watchdog Group Is Challenging Jared Kushner's Foreign Policy Role — An ethics watchdog organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Jared Kushner and the White House, seeking to bar the president's son-in-law from acting as a political envoy unless he's confirmed by the Senate and files public financial disclosures.
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Trump's Truth Social faces a sharp decline in traffic — The platform averaged about 260,000 daily users last month, down from a peak of 420,000 in June 2025. — Loading... President Donald Trump uses Truth Social daily to shape the course of the war in Iran, announce new policies and share AI-generated videos of himself.
Mackenzie Chase / Washington Examiner:
White House calls Charlie Kirk a ‘Christian martyr’ in birthday tribute — Charlie Kirk would've been celebrating his 33rd birthday Wednesday, as the White House called him a “Christian martyr” and a “titan” in a tribute online. — “Today, on what would have been his 33rd birthday …
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Erum Salam / MS NOW:
Senate Democrats to deploy more than 100 election observers for midterms — The deployment of Senate staffers comes amid the Trump administration's push to reshape election rules, including efforts to remove people it deems ineligible from voter rolls and restrict mail-in and absentee voting.
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Democracy Docket, Senator Alex Padilla, KTVZ-TV and Talking Points Memo
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Sen. Roger Marshall sought funding to address a water shortage. The project could benefit his ranch — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall wanted to solve a water rights dispute in rural Kansas that pitted farmers against environmentalists and threatened the health of a cherished wildlife refuge.
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