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5:45 AM ET, October 15, 2026

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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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NBC News:
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 …
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 …
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 …
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
Ukraine's Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Amid Ukraine uproar, Musk says decisions to restrict Starshield up to president
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
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.
Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
Trump's New Press Secretary Faces Bar Complaint in California
Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian:
Trump's new press secretary faces scrutiny over claims to be a lawyer
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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Victor Nava / New York Post:
James Talarico ruthlessly fact-checked by voter after claiming Bible is ‘silent’ on abortion at CNN town hall
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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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Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
Inflation Data Shows Prices Are Up, Worrying Republicans Ahead of the Midterms
Discussion: Politico
Wall Street Journal:
Midterm Anxiety Mounts for GOP as Democrats Try to Expand Battleground
Discussion: Axios, Daily Kos, Political.org and Politico
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.
Discussion: Newsweek
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Associated Press:
Trump parades new Air Force One, defends accepting the Qatari royal family's 747 gift
Discussion: The Independent and The Hill
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.
Discussion: The Independent
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 …
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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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 …
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 …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Daily Mail
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: The Independent
 
 
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Chris Marquette / Politico:
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Associated Press:
Iran-backed Houthis strike Saudi oil company Aramco's headquarters, officials say