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On Monday at 11am ET, join us for ‘Ask the Editor’ - a live Q&A where Mehdi takes your questions on the big news stories, from the James Comey indictment to the threat of troops for Portland, Oregon.
2025-09-28 22:28:50 UTC
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Today's links Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack): Apple is out of low-hanging fruit. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
2025-09-28 21:54:44 UTC
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 Annie Karni / New York Times:
Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split … Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, did not appreciate being threatened by the White House over her backing for a bill ordering the release of the Epstein files.
2025-09-28 20:30:00 UTC
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CBS News:
Transcript: Ty Cobb on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Sept. 28, 2025 — The following is the transcript of the interview with Ty Cobb, who served as White House Special Counsel during President Trump's first term, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Sept. 28, 2025.
2025-09-28 19:55:00 UTC
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NBC News:
Leader Thune says government shutdown ‘totally up to the Democrats’: Full interview — In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) weighs in on the battle over federal funding, just days away from a potential government shutdown.
2025-09-28 18:10:00 UTC
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New York Post:
Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’ — Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race amid escalating pressure to clear the crowded field in a last-ditch attempt to stop socialist Zohran Mamdani's election to City Hall.
2025-09-28 18:00:23 UTC
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Seth Masket / Tusk:
When the right broke, according to the right — I've written here and in my forthcoming book about a transformation within the Republican Party over the past few decades, with a once-fringe conservative populist faction now overwhelmingly in charge. There are a number of key moments to focus …
2025-09-28 17:45:01 UTC
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City — Mayor Adams's campaign was left foundering after repeated scandals, a federal indictment and his courtship of President Trump. — Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he will abandon his foundering campaign …
2025-09-28 17:30:00 UTC
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New York Times:
Eric Adams Abandons Re-election Bid for Mayor of New York City — Mayor Adams's campaign was left foundering after repeated scandals, a federal indictment and his courtship of President Trump. — Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he will abandon his foundering campaign …
2025-09-28 17:30:00 UTC
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Associated Press:
Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say — Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan and the shooter is down, police said Sunday. The shooting occurred at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc …
2025-09-28 16:40:00 UTC
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock — When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict. — According to the law, Robert Morris was a criminal. The second Black lawyer in the history of the United States …
2025-09-28 16:30:00 UTC
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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
What the Trump regime doesn't want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting — The blood hadn't yet dried after a deadly Wednesday morning sniper attack on the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention site in Dallas when top government officials started flooding the zone with the story …
2025-09-28 15:40:00 UTC
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Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed — For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views. — The day Charlie Kirk was killed …
2025-09-28 15:35:00 UTC
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Ramon Antonio Vargas / The Guardian:
Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket — The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015 — Settled legal precedent in the US is not “gospel” and in some instances may have been …
2025-09-28 15:30:01 UTC
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Adam Downer / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Shares Weird AI Video Shilling Magic Beds — SCI-FI SCAM — The “medbed” that Trump promoted is a far-right conspiracy theory. — President Donald Trump posted an AI version of himself promoting a fake product called “medbeds” to his 10.8 million followers on Truth Social Friday night.
2025-09-28 15:15:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans — Hundreds of top military officers and staff have been summoned to Virginia on short notice for a speech by Pete Hegseth. Trump decided this weekend to attend the meeting, adding new security concerns.
2025-09-28 14:55:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies — The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit. — Just now
2025-09-28 14:40:01 UTC
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Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.
2025-09-28 14:15:01 UTC
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Jonathan Cohn / The Bulwark:
How to Debunk Republicans' Shutdown Talking Points — Their main argument is about health care, and it shows how desperate they are to dodge blame when prices spike for millions of Americans. — ∙ Paid — REPUBLICANS ARE PROJECTING LOTS of confidence about the government shutdown that's likely …
2025-09-28 13:55:00 UTC
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Shalom Baer Gee / Rapid City Journal:
Sen. John Thune said he accepts Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals — Sen. John Thune said he accepts the Department of Defense decision to keep in place Medals of Honor for 20 soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, where 300 Mniconju Lakota people were killed.
2025-09-28 13:55:00 UTC
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Politico:
Why Donald Trump is obsessed with Portland … The president, his aides and allies have been increasingly focused on Portland over the last several weeks, repeatedly referring to the city in apocalyptic terms that call back to the summer of 2020, when protesters gathered against police violence for more than 170 days.
2025-09-28 13:55:00 UTC
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ABC News:
3 dead, 8 injured after shooter in boat opens fire on North Carolina waterfront bar: Official — Someone on the boat opened fire on the American Fish company, an official said. — PHOTO: An ambulance responds to an emergency call in an undated stock photo.
2025-09-28 13:35:00 UTC
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The Palestinian actress and the film’s Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir join Mehdi to talk Oscars, censorship, and the great revolt against the British of 1936.
2025-09-28 13:00:36 UTC
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
‘The cases swung, not me’: Ex-Justice Kennedy reflects on a changing Supreme Court — In the decades I have covered the Supreme Court, I have read lots of books written by justices, and with a couple of notable exceptions, they are...sigh, pretty boring. — Retired Supreme Court Justice …
2025-09-28 13:00:05 UTC
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Politico:
How House Republicans plan to rewrite history of Jan. 6 … “They were not invested in actual investigative work anyway,” said Higgins, who has pushed an unfounded theory that FBI agents helped coordinate the events at the Capitol. “That thing was never legitimate. It was always biased.
2025-09-28 12:40:00 UTC
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Brie Stimson / Fox News:
FBI's Patel clarifies role of hundreds of agents on Jan 6, says Wray lied to Congress — Current FBI Director Kash Patel said the agents were sent to the US Capitol for ‘crowd control’ after it had been declared a riot — EXCLUSIVE: The FBI responded on Saturday to a report …
2025-09-28 12:30:03 UTC
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Washington Post:
The full force of Trump's federal job cuts is about to hit the D.C. region — Paychecks will end soon for thousands of employees who took offers of deferred resignation and are struggling to find new work — and a possible shutdown looms, too. — The D.C. region is bracing …
2025-09-28 12:20:00 UTC
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Politico:
Trump to meet with top congressional leaders Monday on shutdown … Democrats are pressing for an extension of health insurance subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, among other concessions. … All Democratic senators except Pennsylvania's John Fetterman voted to block the continuing resolution earlier this month.
2025-09-28 09:50:02 UTC
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New York Times:
Inside the Trump Administration's Push to Prosecute James Comey … The first few days in any new job are always hard, but Thursday was especially tough for Lindsey Halligan, the newly installed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. — She had to navigate an unfamiliar courthouse …
2025-09-28 09:45:01 UTC
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New York Times:
Inside the Trump Administration's Push to Prosecute James Comey … The first few days in any new job are always hard, but Thursday was especially tough for Lindsey Halligan, the newly installed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. — She had to navigate an unfamiliar courthouse …
2025-09-28 09:45:01 UTC
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Tiffany Walden / The TRiiBE:
Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility — The co-founder of Chicago independent media outlet Unraveled Press was detained this evening while covering the ongoing protests outside of the Broadview ICE facility.
2025-09-28 04:10:01 UTC
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Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
Is America ready for a gay president? — Kamala Harris and a subscriber have questions about Mayor Pete, and I have annoyingly nuanced answers. — ∙ Paid — In her new campaign memoir, Kamala Harris wrote that Pete Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary and mayor of South Bend …
2025-09-28 03:25:01 UTC
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NBC News:
Trump to meet with top congressional leaders as a government shutdown looms — The gathering at the White House on Monday comes after Trump canceled an earlier meeting with Democratic leaders. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet with the top four congressional leaders …
2025-09-28 00:20:01 UTC
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Comey Perjury Count the Grand Jury Refused to Charge — This morning, we published my column arguing that the perjury and obstruction case against former FBI Director James Comey should be dismissed because there is no factual basis for the allegation that Comey lied when he denied authorizing …
2025-09-27 23:40:01 UTC
National Review
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William Hughes / The A.V. Club:
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival — Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many “You can't say anything anymore!” comedians have signed on. — AUX NEWS RIYADH COMEDY FESTIVAL — × — !
2025-09-27 21:50:01 UTC
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NBC News:
Justice Department issues subpoena for Fani Willis travel records — Willis is a district attorney in Georgia who charged Donald Trump in an election interference case. — The Department of Justice has issued a subpoena for records related to the travel history of Fani Willis …
2025-09-27 20:50:00 UTC
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Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
2025-09-27 20:00:44 UTC
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Politico:
Trump falsely suggests FBI agents to blame for igniting Jan. 6 violence … In reality, the inspector general of the Justice Department revealed 10 months ago that “hundreds” of FBI agents went to the Capitol to assist at the request of the beleaguered Capitol Police.
2025-09-27 19:35:00 UTC
Politico
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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the TikTok “deal” was a grift from the start, while the blowback from China started to arrive, though TikTok and the DOJ were still fighting it out in court (and a judge issued a preliminary injunction against the WeChat ban). The authors of Section […]
2025-09-27 19:00:00 UTC
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Cristian Farias / New York Magazine:
John Roberts Wrote Trump a Permission Slip to Indict Comey — The Justice Department's political targets can thank the chief justice. — The criminal indictment against former FBI director James Comey will be parsed on the law, the facts, and the question of whether the Trump administration's decision …
2025-09-27 18:10:01 UTC
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Trump says he is authorizing military to use ‘Full Force’ in Portland … The White House and the Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
2025-09-27 16:35:01 UTC
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Today's links The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh: Sweating (the assets) to the oldies. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dying…
2025-09-27 16:14:07 UTC
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Washington Post:
Trump authorizes troops for Portland, escalating use of military inside U.S. — The president authorized the use of “Full force, if necessary,” in a campaign to use the military against Americans that has little modern precedent. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will send troops …
2025-09-27 16:00:04 UTC
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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary — The action escalates a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent. — Just now — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon …
2025-09-27 16:00:04 UTC
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Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, in latest deployment to US cities — President Donald Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to handle “domestic terrorists” as he expands his controversial deployments to more American cities.
2025-09-27 15:40:03 UTC
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This administration is in the final stages of a deal to hand over control of TikTok to pro-Trump, pro-Israel billionaire investors – and Joe Biden may be to blame.
2025-09-27 15:28:34 UTC
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
F.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests — Agents group says the latest dismissals are part of a “dangerous pattern” of weakening the nation's top law enforcement agency. — Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, fired roughly 20 agents on Friday …
2025-09-27 15:00:44 UTC
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Washington Post:
National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches — Staffing cuts under the Trump administration mean forecasters are struggling to maintain normal operations. — Just now — Some National Weather Service staffers are working double shifts to keep forecasting offices open.
2025-09-27 15:00:44 UTC
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Jacob Rosen / CBS News:
Judge who reviewed James Comey's indictment was confused by prosecutor's handling of case, transcript shows — U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala expressed confusion and surprise at some points during the seven-minute court session when a federal grand jury impaneled in Alexandria, Virginia …
2025-09-27 14:20:00 UTC
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Reuters:
US to revoke Colombian president's visa over comments at pro-Palestinian gathering — Colombia leader calls on US soldiers to disobey Trump — Petro, Trump have clashed over Gaza, deportations, drug policy — Petro calls for global force to liberate Palestinians
2025-09-27 14:00:01 UTC
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