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The endorsement of the Block the Bombs Act by one of the largest caucuses in Congress gives a significant boost to efforts to hold Israel accountable for its genocidal war in Gaza.
2025-09-20 23:30:19 UTC
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 New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash — Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents. — Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump's border czar, was recorded …
2025-09-20 22:50:01 UTC
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New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash — Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents. — Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump's border czar, was recorded …
2025-09-20 22:50:01 UTC
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Politico:
Trump administration taps new US attorney in eastern Virginia amid fallout from Siebert resignation … Cleary wrote in May that the experience of being falsely accused led her to apply to become U.S. attorney in Virginia with a plan to “end politically weaponized investigations.”
2025-09-20 21:40:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
Armed man detained at site of planned memorial service for Charlie Kirk — The service, which will feature President Donald Trump and Cabinet members, has a top-level security designation akin to a Super Bowl. — An armed man claiming to be affiliated with law enforcement was detained Friday …
2025-09-20 20:40:02 UTC
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MSNBC:
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. — The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. — In an undercover operation last year …
2025-09-20 20:15:01 UTC
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Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by Trump-world insiders, while a court refused to block Trump’s executive order. At the same time, users were fighting to block the less-discussed part […]
2025-09-20 19:10:00 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey — The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’ — The Trump administration is canceling an annual government effort to gather data on how many Americans struggle to get enough food.
2025-09-20 18:40:01 UTC
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NBC News:
Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread — The company faced protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats. — Disney is under siege from all sides.
2025-09-20 18:30:01 UTC
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Top Democratic Leaders Ask Trump for Meeting to Avert a Shutdown — After a Republican plan to keep funding flowing foundered in the Senate, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer accused the president of standing in the way of a solution.
2025-09-20 17:45:01 UTC
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Politico:
Trump administration tries to tamp down panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul … But critics of Trump's order said the administration needs to publicly make clear the bounds of the new policy, even as immigration lawyers signal that lawsuits challenging the administration are likely in the works.
2025-09-20 17:35:00 UTC
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Silencing protesters. Getting Jimmy Kimmel taken off air. Ordering Mahmoud Khalil's deportation. Another week of Zeteo's project to document the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.
2025-09-20 17:00:49 UTC
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The Maritime Executive:
USCG Releases Dramatic Video of Interdiction of Narco Fast-Go Boat — The U.S. Coast Guard began an enhanced drug interdiction program in the Pacific during August, known as Operation Pacific Viper. To date, it reports that more than 75,000 pounds of cocaine have been seized in the Eastern Pacific.
2025-09-20 14:45:01 UTC
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Chris Gardner / The Hollywood Reporter:
Marvel Stars Stand for Jimmy Kimmel: Pedro Pascal Defends Free Speech While Others Endorse Boycott — Hollywood stars — including those with Disney, ABC, Hulu and Marvel Cinematic Universe credits — are continuing to show their support for the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ host in the wake of his suspension.
2025-09-20 14:10:00 UTC
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Washington Post:
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say — Staff from the EPA's Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review. — The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least …
2025-09-20 13:45:20 UTC
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Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access — The Department of Defense will force reporters to pledge not to gather or use any information that had not been formally authorized for release, or risk losing their credential to cover the military. — The Pentagon said Friday …
2025-09-20 13:35:00 UTC
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NBC News:
‘No evidence’ found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, federal officials say — Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk's assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.
2025-09-20 13:10:00 UTC
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New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas — Administration officials said the charge would help American workers. President Trump also announced the terms of a new “gold card” program. — President Trump on Friday said that the federal government …
2025-09-20 13:05:00 UTC
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump's Most Lethal Policy — The Trump administration has claimed that no one has died because of its cuts to humanitarian aid, and it is now trying to cancel an additional $4.9 billion in aid that Congress already approved. Yet what I find here in desperate villages in southwestern Uganda …
2025-09-20 12:50:00 UTC
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Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas — The Trump administration is adding $100,000 to the existing fee for H-1B visa applications, taking aim at a program that is used to attract highly skilled workers to the U.S. — President Trump signed an executive order late Friday adding …
2025-09-20 11:15:01 UTC
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Democrats rapidly shift on Israel amid Gaza assault, evidence of famine — A growing number of prominent Democrats are calling for cutting off sales of offensive weapons to Israel, part of a broad shift in opinion on Israel in the party. — Just now — A growing number of prominent Democrats …
2025-09-20 10:25:00 UTC
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Mehdi and Owen discuss the Tommy Robinson far-right rally in London, the crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters by the unpopular Starmer government, and Owen's recent visit to the occupied West Bank.
2025-09-20 09:01:05 UTC
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Faith Wardwell / Politico:
Congressional Black Caucus says resolution honoring Charlie Kirk ‘not about healing’ — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus condemned a bipartisan resolution to memorialize conservative organizer Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying the measure validated Kirk's beliefs, and legitimized …
2025-09-20 07:05:00 UTC
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Robert McCoy / New Republic:
I'm a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. — On Friday, Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic U.S. House candidate in Illinois's 9th congressional district, was thrown forcefully to the ground by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at a protest outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.
2025-09-20 05:35:00 UTC
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Madiba K. Dennie / Balls and Strikes:
Federal Judge Strikes Trump Defamation Lawsuit For Being Too Annoying to Read — Lawsuits rarely get tossed under Rule 8. But then again, lawsuits rarely spend 85 meandering pages talking about things like the plaintiff's “singular brilliance.” — On Friday, September 19 …
2025-09-20 03:40:00 UTC
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We’ve talked a lot about Ryan Walters recently, mostly because he keeps forgetting that the United States Constitution applies to him and his state. Between his attempt to inject Christian theocracy into the public school system while enriching Dear Leader Trump or his fight with his own board members in the wake of some mild […]
2025-09-20 02:39:00 UTC
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NBC News:
Ted Cruz rips FCC chair's Jimmy Kimmel threat as ‘unbelievably dangerous’ — Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr warned that the FCC could take action against ABC and Disney over the late-night host's remarks about Charlie Kirk's death. — WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz …
2025-09-20 01:35:01 UTC
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John K. Wilson / Inside Higher Ed:
Censorship Is the Authoritarian's Dream — The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things. — More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history.
2025-09-20 01:20:00 UTC
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Kennedy's Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots — The panel recommended that people consult a health professional before receiving a Covid vaccine. Left unclear was whether Americans can still walk into pharmacies for shots. — The federal vaccine committee appointed …
2025-09-20 00:35:01 UTC
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Associated Press:
Trump says he wants prosecutor who has investigated but not charged Letitia James removed from post — A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges resigned Friday under pressure from the Trump administration.
2025-09-20 00:20:01 UTC
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Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material — A document spells out the latest in a series of escalating restrictions placed on the press corps covering the Pentagon during Trump's second term. — The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday …
2025-09-20 00:10:00 UTC
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Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Wire:
EXCLUSIVE: Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Identifies As Transgender Woman, Legal Filings Show — WASHINGTON—The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender woman and was deeply mentally ill and suicidal, according to court documents first obtained by The Daily Wire.
2025-09-20 00:05:02 UTC
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
House passes a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown, but prospects in the Senate look dim — The House on Friday passed a short-term spending bill to extend government funding for seven weeks and avoid a partial government shutdown on Oct. 1, but prospects looked dimmer in the Senate …
2025-09-20 00:05:02 UTC
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Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report — The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday postponed the release of a key annual report central to future inflation data. … - There is heightened concern about the future of U.S. statistics, including the politicization and accuracy …
2025-09-19 23:45:01 UTC
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Molly DeVore / Block Club Chicago:
Chicago Starbucks Worker Did Not Write ‘Loser’ On Order Honoring Charlie Kirk, Company Says — NORWOOD PARK — A viral social media video this week claimed that employees at a Norwood Park Starbucks wrote “Loser” on a drink ordered in honor of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
2025-09-19 23:25:23 UTC
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Bloomberg:
Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb overuse, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.
2025-09-19 22:39:09 UTC
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It’s been a good while since we’ve had an old-fashioned copyright troll nonsense story around here, and boy do we have a doozy for you today. Regular Techdirt readers know that we’ve covered Paul Levy’s work for years—the man who the Washingtonian once dubbed “the web bully’s worst enemy” has been taking down copyright trolls […]
2025-09-19 21:40:03 UTC
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Arden Farhi / CBS News:
Who's paying for the White House ballroom and what's in it for them — Washington — Contribute money to the new White House ballroom President Trump is constructing and, in exchange, donors may be able to choose a Trumpian option: their names etched inside the White House forever.
2025-09-19 21:25:00 UTC
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Weighted vest women are the 2026 swing voters … Matthews' wanted answers to two simple questions: How many women were wearing weighted vests? And what were their politics? So she commissioned a poll of 1,000 women across the U.S., the results of which she shared exclusively with POLITICO.
2025-09-19 21:20:00 UTC
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New York Times:
Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes — Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York's attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
2025-09-19 19:40:00 UTC
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Senate confirms former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz as U.N. ambassador — Waltz's confirmation also comes just days before world leaders are set to gather for the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York amid multiple major conflicts. — WASHINGTON — The Senate …
2025-09-19 19:35:01 UTC
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In just eight months, Trump has overseen a more bloody, dangerous, and dumb version of what he had accurately called Biden’s 'historically horrible' foreign policy.
2025-09-19 19:30:31 UTC
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Cassandra Dumay / Politico:
Cruz calls out FCC for taking down Jimmy Kimmel — Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Friday admonished Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr for demanding ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late night show over comments regarding Charlie Kirk — calling Carr's actions “dangerous as hell” …
2025-09-19 19:15:01 UTC
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Techdirt has long lamented how in the modern era, you don’t really “own” what you buy. That game console, smart lock, or smart refrigerator can quickly become less useful (or completely useless) with a firmware update, bankruptcy, or addition of annoying subscription paywall. The problem is particularly bad when it comes to digital rentals. In […]
2025-09-19 19:10:03 UTC
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The GSF is the latest attempt by activists to deliver much needed humanitarian supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip.
The post Global Sumud Flotilla Sails to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.
2025-09-19 18:59:36 UTC
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Comedy hosts including Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert criticize Kimmel's suspension — The suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after criticism and threats of action by the Trump-appointed FCC chair has sparked concerns about government intimidation. — Late-night comedy hosts reacted …
2025-09-19 18:55:00 UTC
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
This is how Trump ends democracy — The past week has revealed Trump's policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it? … I mean this literally. The specific threats that Federal Communications Commission head Brendan Carr made against networks …
2025-09-19 18:45:01 UTC
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Trump's Lawsuit Against The New York Times — The judge said that the complaint failed to contain a “short and plain statement of the claim.” Mr. Trump has 28 days to refile. — A federal judge in Florida on Friday threw out President Trump's defamation suit …
2025-09-19 18:25:00 UTC
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Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Children's Hospital Chaplain Jailed by Trump Admin Finally Released — Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children's hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area, was released on Friday … Just before 1:15 p.m. on Friday, Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital chaplains who was fired …
2025-09-19 18:25:00 UTC
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes — President Donald Trump is set to fire a top federal prosecutor for committing a serious dereliction of duty, ABC News reports. What exactly is this prosecutor's offense, you ask? Did he fail to follow Justice Department protocol?
2025-09-19 18:15:00 UTC
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