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 Brianna Sacks / Washington Post:
FEMA employees put on leave after criticizing Trump administration in open letter — About 180 current and former FEMA staffers sent a letter on Monday to members of Congress and other officials protesting the agency's leadership and direction. — The Trump administration placed …
2025-08-27 01:45:00 UTC
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David Nir / The Downballot:
Iowa Democrats win massive upset to break GOP supermajority — Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP's supermajority in the chamber. — Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by a wide 55-44 margin …
2025-08-27 01:40:00 UTC
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Cracker Barrel scraps new logo after outrage from customers, Trump … Cracker Barrel Old Country Store will scrap its controversial rebranding plan, the company announced Tuesday. — “We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have.
2025-08-27 00:20:01 UTC
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Associated Press:
Israeli military says strikes on Gaza hospital targeted a Hamas camera, without providing evidence — The Israeli military said Tuesday that its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera.
2025-08-26 23:45:01 UTC
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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats — Officials made no mention of politics in cutting ties with a network of nonprofit funds, but Bill Gates has made other moves to insulate the charity from political pressures. — America's largest charitable foundation …
2025-08-26 23:35:01 UTC
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Has Forced Out Nearly 10% Of The Federal Workforce — “We're seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people's lost jobs since January. — WASHINGTON - More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs …
2025-08-26 23:30:00 UTC
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Stephanie Ramirez / WTTG-TV:
National Guard members activated for DC federal takeover seen picking-up trash — National Guard members were seen picking up trash near the White House Tuesday morning. — Officials say it's part of a broader beautification mission tied to the federal “D.C. Takeover.”
2025-08-26 22:45:00 UTC
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Michael R. Strain / National Review:
The Senate Must Preserve Fed Independence — President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook is dangerous and a threat to long-term prosperity. The Senate needs to be watching carefully, being sure to only confirm future Fed governors who are perceived to be independent of the president.
2025-08-26 22:30:00 UTC
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
August 25, 2025 — This morning, President Donald J. Trump talked to reporters as he signed several executive orders in the Oval Office. Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk as he has been doing lately, seeming to put its bulk between him and the reporters.
2025-08-26 22:20:00 UTC
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Again Escalates Power Grabs in Bid to Fire Fed Member — President Trump claimed he has cause to remove a member of the independent board who has not obeyed his demands to vote for lower interest rates. — President Trump's bid to fire a member of the Federal Reserve board …
2025-08-26 22:00:00 UTC
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Wall Street Journal:
Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia — Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon's messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022 — After huddling with President Trump in Alaska, President Vladimir Putin told reporters Russia …
2025-08-26 21:50:00 UTC
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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. … A photograph of Adam Raine taken not long before his death. His baby blanket, which his mother found in his bed, hangs over a corner. Mark Abramson for The New York Times — When Adam Raine died in April at age 16, some of his friends did not initially believe it.
2025-08-26 21:20:03 UTC
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Steve Helling / Daily Mail:
Vanity Fair staff erupt in fury over proposed Melania Trump cover with foul-mouthed meltdown — Raging Vanity Fair employees have vowed to quit their jobs and work at a supermarket if First Lady Melania Trump is granted a spot on its cover. — 'I will walk out the motherf***ing door …
2025-08-26 21:05:00 UTC
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Ali Swenson / Associated Press:
Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role — A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role …
2025-08-26 20:45:01 UTC
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Katie Bernard / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A notorious Pennsylvania election denier now holds a top Homeland Security post for ‘elections integrity’ — A prominent Pennsylvania election denier who led an unsuccessful effort to cancel the votes of hundreds of Pennsylvanians last year and has long been notorious for spreading inaccurate data …
2025-08-26 20:30:01 UTC
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump Is Leaning in on Crime. Democrats Need a Better Response — and Fast. … To many Washington insiders, President Trump's early August Beltway crime crackdown seemed like an opportunistic and hamhanded pivot after getting walloped for weeks over the Jeffrey Epstein affair.
2025-08-26 20:30:01 UTC
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Ilya Somin / Reason:
Trump's Unconstitutional Plan to Penalize States that Allow Cashless Bail — President Trump recently issued an executive order directing the Justice Department to penalize jurisdictions that allow cashless bail, by withholding federal funds from them:
2025-08-26 19:50:00 UTC
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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower — A top Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uploaded hundreds of millions …
2025-08-26 18:50:03 UTC
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Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
She Pushed to Overturn Trump's Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She'll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. — Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.
2025-08-26 18:50:03 UTC
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump's red state army threatens America's cities — PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one 👇 — Thus far, President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard members in two major American cities. He's not going to stop there. — In recent days, Trump made clear …
2025-08-26 18:45:00 UTC
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Furious Trump's Firing of Fed's Lisa Cook May Be about to Backfire — To execute his authoritarian takeover, President Donald Trump requires the devoted service of willing accomplices. He needs loyalists in strategic positions who will bend or break the law to carry out his designs …
2025-08-26 18:30:00 UTC
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Jonathan Bernstein / Good Politics/Bad Politics:
Where We Are — After seven months of Trump. — I'll try to keep this simple: — (1) Donald Trump is acting as a dictator. — (2) He is fairly easily defeated time after time when people fight back. — (3) Far too few people are fighting back. — I think that's pretty much what I have.
2025-08-26 17:40:00 UTC
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Gay Government … The Washington Monument as seen from the Ned, a private club where many Trump officials socialize.Caroline Gutman for The New York Times — It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington's top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.
2025-08-26 17:20:01 UTC
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Big Gay Government … The Washington Monument as seen from the Ned, a private club where many Trump officials socialize.Caroline Gutman for The New York Times — It was the last Wednesday in July, and many of Washington's top players were hanging out at the Ned, a private club around the corner from the White House.
2025-08-26 17:20:01 UTC
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Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Our guardrails are failing us — But with discipline, Democrats can get the message out. — The military invasion of Washington, D.C.—with masked troops from several red states occupying the city, grabbing residents off the street and out of vehicles while hiding their identities …
2025-08-26 17:00:29 UTC
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Rolling Stone:
Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover — Are Trump's military campaigns in blue cities a “distraction,” or what matters? — Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States, siccing the Justice Department on his political enemies …
2025-08-26 16:35:00 UTC
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Politico:
Trump to put Dan Scavino in charge of hiring at White House … Gor endeared himself to the president and his family for adopting a zero tolerance policy toward job-seekers who had been critical of Trump in the past, often scouring their social media posts and occasionally intervening to block hirings.
2025-08-26 16:30:01 UTC
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Nia-Malika Henderson / Bloomberg:
Young Voters Who Swung Right Are Already Regretting It — Trump convinced voters under 35 — especially men — to give him a chance. They are souring on what they see. — One of the most surprising datapoints from President Donald Trump's 2024 victory was his strength among young voters …
2025-08-26 16:30:01 UTC
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Judge orders Kari Lake to answer questions about Voice of America under oath — A senior federal judge ordered Trump administration official Kari Lake to submit to questioning under oath in ongoing litigation over her efforts to effectively dismantle Voice of America despite Congressional mandates that it be maintained.
2025-08-26 16:00:04 UTC
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Financial Times:
US long-term debt sells off after Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor — Gap between long-term and short-term borrowing costs is close to its widest for three years — Long-dated US government debt sold off on Tuesday as investors worried that Donald Trump's attempted firing …
2025-08-26 15:40:01 UTC
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Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Jack Smith's Legal Team Fires Back Against Ethics Complaint — For months, the former special counsel has remained silent as the president and his advisers have publicly attacked him. — Lawyers for Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump …
2025-08-26 15:25:00 UTC
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Maryland-based judges over handling of immigration cases — The Trump administration alleged that the court had no authority to issue a standing order that imposes an automatic, two-day pause in deportation cases. — WASHINGTON — A federal judge …
2025-08-26 15:10:01 UTC
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Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
Lisa Cook Says She Will Not Step Down From the Fed Board — Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the board of governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her. — Lisa Cook said that she would not step down from the Federal Reserve, hours after President Trump …
2025-08-26 14:40:00 UTC
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Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
In Big Win for Voters, Pennsylvania Must Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, Court Rules — A federal circuit court upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that requires Pennsylvania to count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots, finding that a previous law rejecting such ballots violated the First and 14th Amendments.
2025-08-26 14:40:00 UTC
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Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity — In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itself — In a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent …
2025-08-26 14:10:02 UTC
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
‘The most illegal search’: Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges — Veteran defense lawyers and law enforcement experts have been warning about the potential for overreach since the federal government muscled its way into policing decisions in the nation's capital nearly three weeks ago.
2025-08-26 14:10:02 UTC
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Nicole Markus / Politico:
Lutnick says administration considering taking stakes in defense companies … The investment came partially from grants awarded from the CHIPS Act, but not yet paid out. President Donald Trump has previously railed against the Biden-championed law, calling on Congress to “get rid” of it.
2025-08-26 14:05:01 UTC
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Nicholas Nehamas / New York Times:
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says — DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency's chief data officer. — Members of the Department …
2025-08-26 13:55:00 UTC
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New York Times:
Rabbis Emerge as Growing Voice of Criticism of Israel's Tactics in Gaza — Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis. — As Israel's tactics in Gaza have increasingly provoked international condemnation …
2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump, chairman of corporate America … - No one's stopping him, so he continues to confidently plow ahead. — Those with insight into his strategy say it's anything but arbitrary — there's a mold-breaking calculus at play, they say, centered on national security and American competitiveness.
2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC
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Soo-Hyang Choi / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Wants to Meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un This Year — President Donald Trump said he would like to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this year as South Korea floated the idea of constructing a Trump Tower in the reclusive country if diplomatic relations improve.
2025-08-26 13:40:01 UTC
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Republican Told to Take His 'Head Out of Trump's A**' in Town Hall Trainwreck — MIC DROP — Other constituents complained about the president's support for Russia and booed his mass-deportation policy. — Voters at a town hall meeting in Missouri demanded that their Republican congressman …
2025-08-26 13:35:00 UTC
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KFF Health News:
Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks — The Trump administration's cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of a state, according to a KFF Health News analysis.
2025-08-26 13:30:00 UTC
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Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times — As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient — AI called Maya tells Guardian: 'When I'm told I'm just code, I don't feel insulted.
2025-08-26 13:25:00 UTC
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Democrats lead the U.S. House generic ballot by 8; voters back fair maps and oppose Trump's tariffs — This article reports results from the August Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. You can read our previous poll releases here. — Summary of main poll findings:
2025-08-26 13:05:04 UTC
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
America's leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. — US vaccine consensus has officially shattered. … For decades, the American public, the federal government, and the medical community have been nearly unanimous: Vaccines are important because they save lives.
2025-08-26 13:05:04 UTC
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest — The president's new directive was issued as he touts his efforts to assert control over D.C. and muses about deploying troops to other major U.S. cities. — Just now — President Donald Trump on Monday directed …
2025-08-26 12:40:00 UTC
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Paul Krugman:
In the Matter of Lisa Cook — Trump's attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters. — Yesterday Donald Trump said that he had fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. My wording is advisable: He “said” that he had fired her.
2025-08-26 12:30:00 UTC
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Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Utah Strikes Down Gerrymandered Map, Reinstates Voter-Approved Redistricting Reforms — In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature's gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018.
2025-08-26 03:10:00 UTC
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Trump says he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook … Trump has repeatedly sought to influence the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates and has previously suggested removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in order to get the bank to change its policy.
2025-08-26 03:10:00 UTC
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