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What RFK Jr. got wrong about vaccines during Senate hearing (Lauren Gardner/Politico)

Lauren Gardner / Politico:
What RFK Jr. got wrong about vaccines during Senate hearing … Kennedy maintained that “anybody” who wants Covid shots this fall will be able to get them, despite the FDA narrowing its approved labeling for people under 65 to those with at least one underlying condition.

2025-09-04 23:00:00 UTC

Politico

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Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War (April Rubin/Axios)

April Rubin / Axios:
Trump seeks to rename Department of Defense to Department of War  —  President Trump will rename the Defense Department the Department of War, Fox News first reported and the White House confirmed Thursday. … - “As Department of War, we won everything.

2025-09-04 22:55:01 UTC

Axios

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 199. 9/4/25 (Ron Filipkowski/Meidas+)

Ron Filipkowski / Meidas+:
Today in Politics, Bulletin 199. 9/4/25  —  ... RFK Jr had a heated and contentious hearing today while making his first appearance in front of Congress since firings and mass resignations at the CDC left the agency is shambles.  RFK Jr, who never led any organization in his life …

2025-09-04 22:40:01 UTC

Meidas+

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Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida (New York Times)

New York Times:
Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida  —  Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has told confidants that he would consider abandoning his re-election bid, despite his public denials.  —  Facing a swirl of questions about a potential job in the Trump administration …

2025-09-04 22:20:05 UTC

New York Times

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Appeals court blocks judge's order to dismantle 'Alligator Alcatraz' (Isabel Rosales/CNN)

Isabel Rosales / CNN:
Appeals court blocks judge's order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  —  A federal appeals court has blocked a judge's order requiring Florida and the federal government to shut down and dismantle a controversial immigration detention facility built in the Everglades, widely referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

2025-09-04 22:00:30 UTC

CNN

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DOJ deputy chief: Government will "redact every Republican" from Epstein client list (Jason Lalljee/Axios)

Jason Lalljee / Axios:
DOJ deputy chief: Government will “redact every Republican” from Epstein client list … - “They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people,” he told the reporter, who was undercover during the encounter, according to the video.

2025-09-04 21:45:01 UTC

Axios

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BREAKING: Trump DOJ Deliberates Over Gun Ban For Transgenders (Mary Margaret Olohan/The Daily Wire)

Mary Margaret Olohan / The Daily Wire:
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Deliberates Over Gun Ban For Transgenders  —  WASHINGTON — In the wake of the latest deadly attack on a school by a transgender-identifying individual, President Donald Trump's Justice Department is considering blocking trans-identifying people from buying firearms, The Daily Wire has learned.

2025-09-04 21:05:01 UTC

The Daily Wire

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Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers (Charlie Savage/New York Times)

Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers  —  The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.  —  By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill …

2025-09-04 20:05:06 UTC

New York Times

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Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say (CNN)

CNN:
Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say  —  In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people's right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

2025-09-04 20:00:35 UTC

CNN

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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. (ProPublica)

ProPublica:
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud.  Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The Trump administration has vowed …

2025-09-04 19:50:01 UTC

ProPublica

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Trump won't get to heaven if he keeps murdering people on boats (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump won't get to heaven if he keeps murdering people on boats  —  If Donald Trump is serious about wanting to get to heaven, he has a very odd strategy.This was the stark subject line on an email the 47th president sent to his supporters at 10:54 a.m. on Tuesday, as the nation staggered …

2025-09-04 19:40:00 UTC

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Massachusetts becomes first state to impose its own vaccine coverage rules (Maya Goldman/Axios)

Maya Goldman / Axios:
Massachusetts becomes first state to impose its own vaccine coverage rules  —  Massachusetts will require health insurers operating in the state to cover vaccines recommended by the state's department of public health, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey announced Thursday.

2025-09-04 19:35:00 UTC

Axios

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Labor market growth slows dramatically in August with U.S. adding just 54,000 jobs, ADP says (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Alex Harring / CNBC:
Labor market growth slows dramatically in August with U.S. adding just 54,000 jobs, ADP says … U.S. private sector hiring rose less than expected in August, data released Thursday shows, offering the latest indication of trouble in the labor market.  —  Private payrolls increased …

2025-09-04 19:15:00 UTC

CNBC

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Northwestern's President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure (New York Times)

New York Times:
Northwestern's President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure  —  The president, Michael Schill, will step down after months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million to the university's research funds.  —  The president of Northwestern University …

2025-09-04 19:10:02 UTC

New York Times

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The Conservative Media Ecosystem Is Coddling Amy Coney Barrett (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)

Jay Willis / Balls and Strikes:
The Conservative Media Ecosystem Is Coddling Amy Coney Barrett  —  In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious members of the public …

2025-09-04 19:05:00 UTC

Balls and Strikes

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Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Lisa Cook, Elevating Trump's Claims (New York Times)

New York Times:
Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Lisa Cook, Elevating Trump's Claims  —  The move was instigated by Ed Martin, a Trump loyalist who has said it is legitimate for officials to publicly air criminal investigations into people targeted by the president.

2025-09-04 18:45:02 UTC

New York Times

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A boring theory of the populist right (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)

Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
A boring theory of the populist right  —  A large minority of the public wants tougher policies on crime and immigration  —  Almost all theories in elite discourse about why people vote for right-wing populism posit that deindustrialization or free trade or “neoliberalism” …

2025-09-04 18:00:01 UTC

Slow Boring

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Trump's pick for Federal Reserve plans to keep his White House job while on Fed (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)

Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
Trump's pick for Federal Reserve plans to keep his White House job while on Fed  —  Stephen Miran, a top White House economic adviser, says he will take an unpaid leave of absence from the administration while serving at the Fed.  —  just now  —  Federal Reserve nominee Stephen Miran …

2025-09-04 17:05:00 UTC

Washington Post

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There's a New Budget Showdown. Senate Dems' Current Plan Is Bullshit (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There's a New Budget Showdown.  Senate Dems' Current Plan Is Bullshit … I agonized for a bit about the point I'm about to discuss.  But I didn't agonize for long because I decided there was not much to agonize about.  The topic is the September federal budget showdown …

2025-09-04 17:00:05 UTC

Talking Points Memo

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Bill Cassidy's reelection once looked tenuous. Things are looking up. (Jordain Carney/Politico)

Jordain Carney / Politico:
Bill Cassidy's reelection once looked tenuous.  Things are looking up. … Cassidy, a doctor trained as a liver specialist, voted to confirm Kennedy earlier this year while airing misgivings about the nominee's unorthodox medical views.  In recent months, that criticism erupted again and again …

2025-09-04 16:55:00 UTC

Politico

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Pentagon approves use of Navy base for Chicago ICE operations (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Pentagon approves use of Navy base for Chicago ICE operations  —  Defense officials have said the installation also could be used by military forces who are called on to assist ICE.  —  Just now  —  The Pentagon has approved the use of a Navy base on the outskirts of Chicago as a staging ground …

2025-09-04 16:50:00 UTC

Washington Post

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"We've never seen this before": Trump's drug war looks like a real war (Marc Caputo/Axios)

Marc Caputo / Axios:
“We've never seen this before”: Trump's drug war looks like a real war  —  More missiles.  Fewer arrests. … - “The president's overall perspective is that, if there is a terrorist threat to the homeland of the United States, he trusts the military to take that threat out …

2025-09-04 16:00:05 UTC

Axios

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D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)

Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
D.C. sues Trump administration over ‘illegal deployment’ of National Guard in Washington  —  “None of this is lawful,” the suit from D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says.  —  WASHINGTON — The city of Washington has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the military …

2025-09-04 15:20:01 UTC

NBC News

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Trump's second presidency is 'most dangerous period' since second world war, Mitch McConnell says (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)

Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
Trump's second presidency is ‘most dangerous period’ since second world war, Mitch McConnell says  —  Former Senate leader likens administration's fixation with tariffs to isolationist policies of the US in the 1930s  —  The world during Donald Trump's second presidency has entered a period of danger with …

2025-09-04 15:10:02 UTC

The Guardian

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Justice Department Issues Subpoenas as Part of Probe into Fed Governor Lisa Cook (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Issues Subpoenas as Part of Probe into Fed Governor Lisa Cook  —  The criminal investigation centers on whether Cook submitted fraudulent information on mortgage applications  —  The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook …

2025-09-04 14:05:00 UTC

Wall Street Journal