Flipping Tables

On October 20 in Conroe, Texas, a pastor laid hands on Ken Paxton and prayed that God would "give him favor with voters." Two days later a dozen Catholic bishops were filmed praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Paula White-Cain standing behind the chair. Two weeks before that, Jim Bakker died. This episode traces the idea underneath all three: that success is God's verdict on a man.

It starts with a clockmaker in Belfast, Maine, in 1838. Phineas Quimby decided disease was an error of belief, his patient Mary Baker Eddy turned that into Christian Science, and a fired editor named Emma Curtis Hopkins turned it into New Thought, ordaining twenty women in her first class in 1889 and training the founders of Unity, Divine Science, and Religious Science. Then the men moved in. Ralph Waldo Trine, Napoleon Hill (whose Carnegie meeting no archive can find), Bruce Barton's Jesus as "the founder of modern business," and Norman Vincent Peale, who married Donald and Ivana Trump in 1977 and whom Trump still calls his teacher.

Alongside it, the gospel of wealth: Russell Conwell's "it is your duty to get rich," delivered 6,152 times. The frontier panic of Turner and Roosevelt, the Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911, and Billy Sunday's war on "effeminate" Christianity, all arriving as women organized to vote. Fundamentalism, paid for by Union Oil's Lyman Stewart. And E. W. Kenyon, who learned mind-cure at a Boston elocution school and passed it, word for word, to Kenneth Hagin of McKinney, Texas, Paxton's hometown. From Hagin: Copeland, seed-faith, Osteen, Paula White, and a 2006 poll in which 61 percent of American Christians said God wants people to be rich.

Sources

Kate Bowler, Blessed (Oxford, 2013)

Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom (University of California Press, 1999)

Catherine Albanese, A Republic of Mind and Spirit (Yale, 2007)

Gail Harley, Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought (Syracuse, 2002)

Donald Meyer, The Positive Thinkers (Doubleday, 1965)

Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success (Basic Books, 1969)

Mitch Horowitz, One Simple Idea (Crown, 2014)

D. R. McConnell, A Different Gospel (Hendrickson, 1988)

George Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (Oxford, 1980)

Darren Dochuk, Anointed with Oil (Basic Books, 2019)

Kevin Kruse, One Nation Under God (Basic Books, 2015)

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne (Liveright, 2020)

Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (Knopf, 1977)

David Edwin Harrell Jr., Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, 1985)

Carol V. R. George, God's Salesman (Oxford, 1993)

David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie (Penguin, 2006)

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lectures IV–V

Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds; Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889

Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite (1897); Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937); Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)

Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (1952); Oral Roberts, The Miracle of Seed-Faith (1970); Kenneth Hagin, You Can Have What You Say (1979); Kenneth Copeland, The Laws of Prosperity (1974); Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (1973); Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now (2004)

Matt Novak, "The Untold Story of Napoleon Hill," Gizmodo, Dec. 2016

Time, "Does God Want You to Be Rich?" Sept. 10, 2006

Texas House Resolution 2377, May 27, 2023; Texas Senate Court of Impeachment, Sept. 2023

Angela Paxton, petition for divorce, Collin County, July 10, 2025

Ballotpedia and NBC News, Texas Senate runoff results, May 26–27, 2026

Fox News, Angela Paxton at the Texas Federation of Republican Women, Sept. 23, 2026

Get out and vote tomorrow everybody!

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• On This Day: Truman Library — The 1948 election | Chicago Tribune — Dewey Defeats Truman history
• Mr. Veto / rich members: The Hill — Trump says he will become “Mr. Veto” | Washington Examiner — “veto everything” | Roll Call Factbase — Mar-a-Lago Halloween gaggle transcript | Yahoo/Daily Beast — “tacky boast” on eve of affordability election | CBS12 — “came as Donald Trump”
• Alaska: CNBC — Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit | AP via ClickOrlando — Sullivan claims Peltola “still lying” | The Hill — Judge rejects DOJ bid | HuffPost/AP — Dismissal
• Stevens: NBC News — Stevens endorses Rogers | NPR — Spurning El-Sayed | Bridge Michigan — Detroit appearance | Fox 2 Detroit — Democratic backlash
• Murphy: NPR — Murphy hospitalized with stroke | NBC Connecticut — Hospitalized after stroke | CNN — Expected full recovery | Democracy Now — Murphy calls Iran plans “insane”
• Election officials: Yahoo/Independent — Judge blasts Trump team for threatening election workers | Fox News — Judge blocks DOJ threats | Davis Vanguard — Judge bars DOJ election intimidation
• Idaho: Boise State Public Radio — 9th Circuit lifts halt | Idaho News — Ninth Circuit stays injunction | JAMA — Abortion bans and infant mortality | Milbank Quarterly — State of the research 2025 | GEPI — Maternal mortality after bans | KFF Health News — Idaho drops maternal mortality panel | Idaho Capital Sun — Reconstituted committee
• Preschool: NPR — Court hears universal pre-K religious freedom case | OPB — Colorado pre-K case | SCOTUSblog — Court will hear case | The Hill via WSPA — Religious vs LGBTQ rights | Becket — St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy
• WSJ / BBC: CNN — Judge tosses WSJ suit for good | CBS News — Dismissed with prejudice | The Hill — Dismissed a second time | Newsweek — List of Trump media lawsuits, BBC deposition | Deadline — 285 Americans may have seen Panorama
• Iran: Haaretz — Strikes as soon as one day after midterms | Times of Israel — Trump-Netanyahu call, WSJ | Haaretz — Rubio: no decision | CBS News live — “one way or the other”
• Patriots: CNN — $2.1 billion Patriot sale | The Hill — Ukraine gets approval
• Markets: NBC News — Tech stocks wipe out $1 trillion | Reuters via Yahoo — AI cash burn fears | Yahoo Finance — October closes with sell-off
• Jet crash: NBC Miami — 9 dead in Learjet 60 crash | CBS Miami — Jet from Texas crashes near homes | ABC News — Learjet crashes in Palm Beach County
• Shootings: NBC News — 12 killed, 60+ injured across seven states | ABC/AP — At least 6 dead in nightlife districts | CNN — Dallas Deep Ellum | Fox 4 — Deep Ellum shootings | Dallas Morning News — Safety concerns
• Jacobs: CBS Sports — Three other women accused Jacobs | AP via NFL.com — NFL will review allegations | Fox 11 — Records released
• Polk sting: ClickOrlando — Ex-Mickey Mouse character busted | Fox 13 — 281 arrested | CBS12 — 17 worked at theme parks
• Oversight: Fox News — House Dems plan investigation blitz | CNN via KRDO — Trump family, ballroom, Epstein probes | PBS — Vast oversight, impeachment an option | Reuters via Yahoo — Investigations over impeachment
• Good news: Positive News — What went right this week | Portugal Resident — Corvo turns off lights | Azores Natural Parks — SOS Cagarro

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• On This Day: History.com — Welles scares nation | Smithsonian — The infamous War of the Worlds broadcast was a magnificent fluke
• Rallies / health: NBC News — Trump cancels weekend rallies for tele-rallies | CNBC — Trump, Vance scrap appearances | CBS — “I feel perfect” | AP via WENY — Trump to hold rallies after canceling them | CNN live — Trump revives two red state rallies | IBTimes — Georgia rally “sound” remark
• Polls / Cook: The Hill — Cook shifts more races toward Democrats | Washington Post — Democrats could win up to 240 seats | The Hill — Democrats hold 10-point lead | Silver Bulletin — Generic ballot average | The Hill — Democrats leading in Texas, Michigan
• Alaska: ABC News — New wave of subpoenas | CNN — Sullivan criminal probe accelerates | NBC News — Dunleavy orders separate investigation | Election Law Blog — Subpoenas
• Pope: NBC News — Requested absentee ballot in Illinois | Chicago Sun-Times — Will vote from the Vatican by mail | EWTN — First pope to vote in an American election | Forbes — Requests Illinois mail-in ballot
• Mass graves: Yahoo/Army Times — Army practicing digging mass battlefield graves | AOL — Rapid burial training not seen since Korea | Baller Alert — 2,400 soldiers a day
• Iran / Murphy: Democracy Now — Murphy calls plans “insane” | Fox 17 — Resume Iran war after midterms is “insane” | CNBC — Iran claims tankers struck mines, strike fears | Fox News live — Pentagon offering options as deadline approaches | Fox News — “Anything’s possible”
• G20: CBS Atlanta — U.S. cancels group photo | HuffPost — Scraps photo after allies object | PBS — UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s “appetite” for peace | RFE/RL — Divisions over Russia, Ukraine
• Vance: Mediaite — Mocked for opener to affordability question | New Republic — Inappropriate answer on housing costs | Raw Story — Housing question into crude joke
• Comey: CBS News — DOJ and Comey’s lawyers face off | AP via ClickOrlando — Lawyers will ask judge to block prosecution
• Cornell: UPI — State Police to investigate future cases | CBS6 Albany — Cornell, State Police partnership | CNN — Judge questions request to remove James | ABC7 — James appointed special prosecutor
• Missouri: KOMU — Provider group supports Amendment 3 despite most doctors opposing | KCUR — Would allow some abortions; whether women could get them is unclear | Springfield Daily Citizen — Doctors share differing views | Yahoo — First state to overturn voter-approved protections
• Binance: Al Jazeera — $6.3bn stolen, what we know | CNN — North Korea suspected | Engadget — Record crypto theft | Axios — Trump pardons Binance founder (Oct 2025)
• Israel: Times of Israel — All votes counted, 53-48-19 | NBC News — Neither can immediately form a government | Al Jazeera — No overall majority | Ynet — Netanyahu bloc 53, Eisenkot 48
• Pike / Morley: RTE — “Pain in my mind and soul” | Mediaite — Pike speaks out | CNN — Truck sat in Illinois for a day | Newsweek — Morley sightings map | KFVS — Possible link to Wisconsin bank robbery
• Good news: Chicago Sun-Times — Illinois medical debt relief | Good Good Good — Good news this week, Oct. 24

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On This Day: History.com — Statue of Liberty dedicated | Women’s eNews — The Statue of Liberty and early feminism | EBSCO — Statue of Liberty is dedicated

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Bolsonaro: CNN — Defies travel ban with flight to US | NBC News — Flees to U.S. | U.S. News/Reuters — Leaves Brazil for US | The Hill — Trump calls Brazil election “rigged” | Euronews — “Rigged” without evidence | SCMP — Bolsonaro’s party acknowledges Lula win

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Israel: CNN — Record turnout live blog | Jerusalem Post — Election 2026 coverage | Times of Israel — Final polls | Al Jazeera — When will we know who won

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Supreme Court / immigration: ABC News — Court declines to restore closure policy | U.S. News/Reuters — Denies judges power to shelve cases | Detroit News — Same

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Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support citizen’s claim | WTOP — Same

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Methane: The Hill — Loosening rules for low-producing wells | Center for Western Priorities — Rollback for all wells | Colorado Public Radio — Weeks after Colorado adopted stricter rules | Bloomberg — EPA readies bid to weaken controls

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WMO: WMO — Greenhouse gas levels once again reach record high | UPI — CO2, other emissions record high in 2025 | SCMP — Impact will last centuries

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El Niño: Raw Story/Guardian — Monster El Niño bears down on storm watchers Trump gutted | inkl/Guardian — “Cascade” of El Niño dangers | Rep. Amo — 41 lawmakers call for NOAA to prepare | Weather.com — Historic super El Niño ahead

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AI term: The Hill — Trump says he will ban term | Forbes — Latest push for “Super Intelligence” | Mediaite — “In all relevant documents, and everything else”

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Malfoid: Just the News — Education Department joins Malfoid trend | Know Your Meme — Malfoid / female Draco Malfoy | Yahoo — What is Malfoid

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Heckler: CNN — Protester interrupts Trump rally | Mediaite — “Shove that ballroom” | IBTimes — Protester removed at Mississippi rally

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Trump Jr.: Forbes — Hunted in Mongolia with oligarch who bankrolled his wedding | New Republic — Closer to Putin ally than we knew | Daily Beast — Hunting trip with Umar Kremlev | UNITED24 — Counterintelligence warning

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Pretti: CNN — Family says feds stonewalling | MPR News — Parents speak on his killing | Star Tribune — Family news conference | WVTM/CNN — No answers nine months later

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Tennessee escape: CNN — Escaped through fence, fled in stolen truck | NBC News — Manhunt for convicted killer | Washington Post — Search underway | WREG — Stole truck after escape

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Bundy: KSTP/AP — Linked to another Utah teen’s 1974 murder | Fox 8 — Connected to another 1970s homicide | PBS — April Laura Aime DNA match

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Swalwell: Yahoo/CNN — FBI raids billionaire’s mansion | Newsweek — Mansion raided | NewsNation — Investigation update | Signal — Swalwell ends bid, resigns (April)

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Brand: NBC News — Appears in court for trial | Variety — Trial begins | ABC7 — Six women testify

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UN Gaza report: CBC — Commission says genocide continued since truce | ABC Australia — Continued after truce | Al Jazeera — “Extermination” in West Bank

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Good news: Good Good Good — Nurses secure first countywide 12-week paid parental leave | PublicSource — Compromise amendments | WPXI — Supporters rally at courthouse

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• On This Day: History.com — New York City subway opens | Design World — Today in engineering history | Goldman Sachs — 1904 subway
• Serbia: Al Jazeera — Vucic concedes to student movement | CBS News — Putin-endorsed leader concedes | Axios — Students topple Vucic | Al Jazeera — The leader brought down by students | Time — Orban loses Hungary (April)
• Brazil: NPR — Lula wins fourth term | CNN — Bolsonaro rejects result | CNBC — Historic fourth term, markets fall | Time — Bolsonaro refuses to concede, Trump reaction | Rio Times — Washington reaction
• Israel: Times of Israel — Election day guide | Times of Israel — Final polls, both blocs short | UPI — Liberman seeks treason probe | Jerusalem Post — Liberman: treason probe over Iran plot | Fortune — Netanyahu denies attack plan | Haaretz — Eisenkot final rally
• Epstein report: House Judiciary Democrats — Report release | NBC News — Democrats call for special counsel | HuffPost — Keul allegation | MS NOW — 50-page report
• James Comey: Axios — Comey charged again | CBS News — DOJ takes steps to charge Comey | CNBC — New case against Comey | The Hill — Charged a third time
• Maurene Comey: CNBC — DOJ unlawfully fired Comey | ABC News — Judge reinstates Comey | Mediaite — Ruling text
• Kennedy Center: 1News/AP — Judge urged to order release | La Voce di New York — Withheld messages | Nebraska.tv — Beatty motion to compel
• Observers / election: AP via Click2Houston — Thousands of observers | NBC News — Same | NPR — Civil rights groups’ observers | CNN — DOJ sues to block Alaska results | PBS — Trump says he ordered Alaska suit | Fox News live blog — Port Huron rally
• Minaj: Billboard — Trump praises Minaj at rally | Consequence — White House floats Minaj as press secretary | Mixmag — Minaj responds
• ICE / Phillip James: AP via U.S. News — Documents support claim ICE detained mentally ill citizen | WTOP — Same | Yahoo — Same
• Iran: CNN — US has plans for major strikes | The Hill — Post-midterm strike options | Al Jazeera — CENTCOM plans, will Trump approve
• Ketamine: AP via Yahoo — Pentagon wants ketamine wafers | Washington Times — Ketamine wafers for wounded troops | SSBCrack — Emergency authorization pursuit
• FORTRESS: Fox News — Inside the Pentagon’s FORTRESS plan | Newsweek — What is FORTRESS | DefenseScoop — FORTRESS program office memo | Anadolu — 90 days without support
• Anthropic: U.S. News/Reuters — Opens books on growth and costs | Al Jazeera — $80bn loss, WSJ | TNW — $518bn compute commitments | Fox Business — Claude accessed Georgia voter data
• Golf tax shelter: Forbes — Golf empire as billion-dollar tax shelter | Raw Story — IRS deal could bulletproof write-off | Unusual Whales — Forbes findings summarized
• Soccer: EURweb — 3-year-old phenom, police called | BlackSportsOnline — Police called on 3-year-old | Fashion Times — Banned from Florida league
• Central Park: CBS New York — Assault at knifepoint | ABC7 NY — Same | PIX11 — Calls for safety measures
• Good news: Euronews — Bleached corals recover after touching healthy clones | KQED — Stanford’s new way to revive coral | CP24 — Healthy corals help bleached neighbours

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• On This Day: Federal Reserve History — Stock Market Crash of 1987 | Library of Congress — Black Monday
• Sanctions waiver: CNBC — Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions | ABC News — Order waiving Graham Act sanctions | France 24 — Rubio: 60 days to analyze | RFE/RL — Ukrainian officials slam waiver | The Hill — Zelensky denounces waiver | White House — Implementing the Graham Act | Debevoise — Graham Act explainer
• Starshield: Kyiv Post — Rubio: Ukraine lacks access to Starshield | Newsweek — Rubio denies ordered slowdown | CBS News — Ukraine still unable to intercept drones | CNBC — Musk: “ultimately POTUS”
• Dmitriev: TASS — UK, EU “sabotage” peace efforts | TASS — “Checkmate” | Gazeta do Povo — AI image of U.S. and Russia facing Europe | CNN — Dmitriev praises waiver
• Bend: CBS News — 3 children, teacher killed | PBS — Shooter attacked special-education classroom | NBC News — Bystander identified | Central Oregon Daily — Teacher threw phone, fought shooter | OPB — Survivors remain hospitalized
• Wichita: CBS News — Boy among 2 killed, 11 injured | ABC News — Truck drives through soccer game
• Measles: Al Jazeera — 4,410 cases | CDC — Cases and outbreaks | Contagion Live — October 16 update
• Omar: The Hill — Obama: probe is a political attack | Yahoo/Fox — Obama’s statement | Fox News — Homan on denaturalization | Arolsen Archives — The expatriation card file | JTA — Thomas Mann’s citizenship cancelled (1936) | Jewish Museum Berlin — 1933 revocation of naturalization
• UTSA: ESPN — Service member died from fall | TPR — Airman dies in rappelling accident | KSAT — Air Force statement
• Vance: Daily Beast — Blindsided by grieving husband | Yahoo — Minnesota widower demands answers | IBTimes — Vance: “huge mistake”
• BBC suit: Forbes — Judge threatens sanctions | Bloomberg — Judge threatens Trump with sanctions | TheWrap — Bailing on deposition
• Zacharia / East Potomac: CNN — Why Trump fired Zacharia after five days | NPR — Zacharia out | Washington Post — Photos obscuring what appears to be map of East Potomac | CNN — Administration seeks to remove judge | CNN — Work to start mid-November | Washington Post — Satellite images of tree removal
• France: Al Jazeera — Hundreds of thousands protest | CBS News — 1,800 arrested | France 24 — “Like we had a war”
• Meta / No Kings: TheWrap — Instagram account disappears | Common Dreams — Censorship fears | Raw Story — “We demand answers” | TPR — No Kings draws crowds with early-voting focus | Arizona Mirror — Crowds channel anger into early votes
• Norte Fire: ABC News/AP — Blaze burned 6 homes, 16,000 evacuated | FOX Weather — First Santa Ana event
• Good news: Physics World — Optogenetic therapy shows promise | Technology Networks — Gene therapy helps patients detect objects | NPR — Nobel for optogenetics

Reminder: I will be in Scotland for my birthday next week! Libras UNITE! Yesterday's news will still be coming out leading into midterms, but the time of day may change slightly, I will have a few days that I take off completely from being online, but I will announce those.

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On This Day: JFK Library — October 16, 1962 | Office of the Historian — Cuban Missile Crisis

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UChicago: Chicago Sun-Times — Group cheered as woman was assaulted | Block Club Chicago — Person of interest identified, banned | The Week — Echoes of Cornell

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Cornell: CNN — 16 found responsible, two expelled | Chronicle of Higher Education — Why the Cornell men wrote essays | NBC News — Records on one accused student

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Execution: CNN — Trump calls off livestream | NBC News — No livestream | Al Jazeera — Trump’s post, Obama reference | The Hill — Trump cancels Hegseth’s plan | Mediaite — Patel’s “From Russia, with Love”

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Press access: Axios — Judge orders access reinstated until litigation concludes | ABC News — Preliminary injunction | Washington Post — Another blow to media bans

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Ukraine: KRDO/CNN — Ukraine runs out of Patriot missiles | Al Jazeera — “Massive” attack kills at least nine | Kyiv Post — Strikes after Trump’s truce | Kyiv Independent — Moscow says scope unclear | Ukrinform — Supermarket logistics center destroyed | RNZ — Trump admin silent as Russia hits U.S. businesses | CBS News — U.S. may have withheld warnings | RFE/RL — Uncertainty over U.S. intelligence | CNBC — Musk: Trump “ultimately” responsible for Starshield curbs | Forbes — Ukraine says SpaceX restricting Starlink | CNN — Starlink restriction, early warning

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Refugees: Boston Globe/AP — Deadline cut to contest status termination | Latin Times — 10 days to challenge

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Omar: Al Jazeera — Administration seeks to strip citizenship, WSJ | Newsweek — Phone seized, citizenship targeted | CBS News — Home searched

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Salazar v. Paramount: SCOTUSblog — Court appears likely to allow suit | ABC News/AP — Blockbuster-era law gets fresh look | The Record — Facebook pixel case

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Blackburn: Billboard — “Not Like Us” AI video slammed | The National Desk — Blasted over AI video

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Harris: Mediaite — “You are rude!” | Newsweek — Scolds crowd for laughing | New Republic — Tried to get journalist arrested | The Banner — What led to the press conference

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Data centers: Texas Tribune — Crackdown exposes limits of state law | Axios — Abbott: data centers “dug their own grave” | CNBC — Texas turning blue may hinge on data center opposition | CNN — Death threats over data centers | Texas Politics Project — Poll

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Marshall: MS NOW/AP — Sought funding; project could benefit his ranch | Yahoo/Independent — Railed against waste, sought $4.2M

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Guilfoyle: CNBC — Resigns at White House’s request | Axios — Forced out | NBC News — Resigns amid misconduct allegations | Daily Beast — “Burn book” report

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Zacharia: NBC News — Watchdog seeks investigation of legal résumé | SF Chronicle — Not licensed to practice law in U.S. | The Hill — Complaint filed with California bar

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White powder: NBC News — Letters sent to election offices in 3 states | CP24/CNN — Multiple states | Forbes — Letters to Capitol Hill, election offices

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Pope: CNBC — Diagnosed with cancer, lobe removed | CBS News — Recovering “as expected” | U.S. News/AP — Chicago Catholics rally for prayer | CNN — Pope’s first message

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Cameroon: KDH News/AP — Killings spur protests, demands for laws | Human Rights Watch — Cameroon grapples with femicides | IBTimes — Teacher’s death, planned law

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Israeli prisons: Washington Post/AP — Surge in inmates shot with rubber bullets |

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• On This Day: History.com — Shot in the chest, Roosevelt kept talking | WPR — Shot in Milwaukee, 1912
• Youngstown rally: CNN — Trump holds raucous Ohio rally | NBC News — Live blog | AOL — Protester punched in face as Trump calls her "fat guy" | Raw Story — "They're scum" | WFMJ — Live notes | The Vindicator — Trump stumps for Husted, Ramaswamy
• Musk: CNBC — $276 million, biggest known donor | CNN — Top booster for Republicans | MPR/AP — Quietly becomes biggest donor | The Hill — $366 million cycle total
• Grassley: BizPac Review — Files for reelection; would be 101 | Townhall — Files for 2028 bid
• Voting rules: Washington Times/AP — GOP states impose new voting rules | Mississippi Today/AP — Same | CNN — Ohio early voting shift
• Bankruptcies: Newsweek — Bankruptcies surge | Epoch Times — Filings up 11 percent | Time News — Small trucking fleets file
• Tariffs: Globe and Mail/AP — Trump sticks with tariffs despite disapproval | CP24/AP — Voters turn against tariffs | CNN — Author of tariff statute says tariffs are illegal | GBQ — Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies
• Ukraine: CNBC — Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating ceasefire | Euronews — Russia ignored ceasefire | PBS — Strikes continue despite claim | Axios — Trump announces ceasefire
• Houston: CNN — Man struck by ICE vehicle broke both legs | Click2Houston — Parra undergoes surgery, family allegations | Houston Chronicle — ICE vehicle hits man
• Pike: CNN — Emergency help delayed by confusion | CBS News — 911 calls | NBC News — Calls highlight confusion
• Mamdani: NY1 — Review after teen's death | Yahoo/CNN — Department-wide review | CNN — Marble Hill ICE shooting
• AI center: U.S. News/Reuters — Officials to move to White House | Crypto Briefing — CAISI under White House oversight
• Good news: Billboard — Musgraves fires back at Noem | Hollywood Reporter — Dig about killing her dog | TheWrap — Snarky clapback

Misspoke: There is a podcast episode this week, not next week.
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On This Day: https://History.com— Chilean miners rescued after 69 days | TechCrunch — Most-watched Ustream event ever

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Gates / Yandex: France 24/AFP — Gates warns cyberattacks most imminent AI threat | Euronews — Did strikes on Yandex cause bot activity to plummet? | Yahoo — Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated | TVP World — Bot traffic plummets

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Diesel / ceasefire: The Hill — Backlash grows against Russia diesel deal | The Hill — Fitzpatrick bill | NBC News — Trump claims “energy ceasefire”; Ukraine says strikes continue | RFE/RL — House Republicans move to block deal

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Omar: CBS News — Home searched by HSI | Axios — Search in immigration probe | CNN — Federal officers carry out search | ABC News — DOJ statement

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Ads ruling: CNBC — Judge orders ads stopped immediately | CNN — Order with hours left | NBC News — Ads off air immediately

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East Potomac: Washington Post — Judge halts tree removal after 500 trees fall | FOX 5 — 500 trees cut | WUSA9 — 150 trees, administration defends work

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Allentown radio: Post-Gazette/AP — Spanish-language radio show overflows with frustration | Local10/AP — Same

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Early voting: CNN — Democratic gains in Ohio’s most Trump-friendly counties | NBC News — Early vote analysis | Santa Fe New Mexican — New Mexico early voting | MS NOW — “Red undertow”

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Talarico: The Bulwark — Conspiracy implodes | Baptist News — Republicans falsely claim | Daily Wire — Campaign and hospital deny | Primetimer — Suspended account allegation

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Execution: The Hill — Mullin: “restoring American values” | Al Jazeera — Mullin sees no “risk” | CBS News — Only 2 countries held public executions last year | CBS News — Livestream plan sparks backlash | CNN — Hegseth gets backlash | Wikipedia — Execution of Mohsen Shekari

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Guilfoyle: Washington Post/AP — Trump, Rubio weigh firing envoy | The Hill — Job uncertainty | HuffPost — Mounting reports

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Measles: Stateline — 4,080 cases, highest in decades | ABC News — Surpasses 4,000 in 45 states | The Hill — A quarter from Pennsylvania | CDC — Cases and outbreaks

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SNAP: WISN — Enrollment sinks to 19.8 million households | PBS — 1.2 million children lost SNAP | UPI — Fewer Americans getting help | WWNO — Louisiana enrollment nosedives

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FDA: Yahoo — Proposal widens exemption for chemicals added to food | The Hill — Kennedy looks to close loophole | Sen. Markey — Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods Act

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Zacharia: NBC News — Zacharia will be next press secretary | CNBC — Trump Media adviser named | Newsweek — Who is Katie Zacharia | Wikipedia — Tricia McLaughlin (DHS succession)

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Isaias: FOX 10 — Nearly 396,000 without power | NPR — At least 4 deaths | CBS News — Cleanup continues

The word “gossip” started out as something sacred. In Old English it was godsibb, literally “God-sibling,” the name for a godparent or anyone who stood with you at a baptism and became spiritual kin. By the Middle Ages the meaning had loosened to cover any close friend or companion, and in particular the circle of women who gathered in the birthing room to help a mother through labor. Those long hours of waiting were filled with talk, and the “gossips” became known as much for their conversation as for their support.

Men, fearful and suspicious of women in community without men supervising began to demonize women gathering publicly or speaking to each other. Male writers of the 1500s and 1600s sneered at “gossips” as idle, chattering women, and by the 1800s the verb “to gossip” meant exactly what it does today. It was uniquely WOMAN sin and was built to isolate a woman from network. Then... they added it to the Bible.

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• NYC shooting: CNN — Man shot by ICE with 5-year-old in car | The Intercept — Agent posing as construction worker | Yahoo — Mamdani statement | SAN — Protesters clash with police
• California: New Republic — “Go after anybody” | Yahoo — Newsom: “campaign of fear” | NBC San Diego — Surge starts in San Diego | LA Public Press — Arrests surge
• USS Lincoln: Stars and Stripes — Returns after 322 days | CBS News — Docks in San Diego | The Hill — Ends deployment
• Hasan: NBC News — Livestream of execution | PBS/AP — Pentagon confirms livestream | NPR — First firing squad since WWII | DPIC — First military execution in 65 years
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• Johnson: The Hill — Floats return to Louisiana | Benzinga — Lawn business “with fervor”
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• Isaias: CNN — Gulf Coast evacuations, Category 3 | ABC News — Takes aim at Panhandle | Weather.com — Intensifies before landfall
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• On This Day: History.com — Office of Homeland Security founded | Bush White House archive — Executive Order 13228
• Skydance: BNN Bloomberg/AFP — Paramount wraps up merger | CNN — Combined company named Skydance | CNBC — Leadership team | Adweek — Thompson, Weiss report to Ellison | CJR — The CEOs of everything | Yahoo/Fortune — Ellison's $45 million | Yahoo — Trump received $16 million | TechTimes — CNN independence board | The Conversation — Seven Mountains Mandate
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• Jarquín: ABC News/AP — Imprisoned again after deportation
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• Methane: The Hill — Trump to propose relaxing methane rules | CPR — Loosening standards weeks after Colorado tightened | Albuquerque Journal — Zeldin in Santa Fe
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• Lansing: ABC News — Police suggest possible serial killer | Detroit News — "Do we have a serial killer?" | FOX 2 — Five deaths along river trail
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• Boise: Yahoo — Timberline forfeits homecoming game | Idaho News — What's known so far | KIVI — Community demands consequences
• Crime messaging: ABC News/AP — Republicans return to tough-on-crime
• Measles: Governor's office — Executive Order 65 | Al Jazeera — New York declares measles disaster
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In April a congresswoman pinned "Read the book of Enoch" to the top of her feed, and a cable host told America the government made a deal with demons for the bomb. They're pointing at a real book. First Enoch is older than every document in the New Testament, quoted as prophecy by the letter of Jude, and read as scripture by the people who wrote the Gospels. It's where the Christian ideas of demons, a hell of fire, the archangel Michael with his chain, the seven archangels, Lucifer's fall from pride, and the Nephilim actually come from, and almost none of that is in the Bible you were handed in Sunday school.

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• On This Day: Wikipedia — "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" | The Conversation — Quayle never recovered
• 2028: NBC — Kennedy: "Why not me on a rainy day?" | Louisiana Illuminator — "A bunch of goobers" | Mediaite — Cruz tells "insecure" Vance to chill out | Newsweek — 2028 frontrunners
• Ohio rally: CNBC — Trump says he may not help if Democrats win | Dayton Daily News — "Pretend I'm on the ballot" | Newsweek — Crude remark
• Health: Daily Beast — Photo "slumped over" | IBTimes — Daily medication remarks | Raw Story — Aspirin
• Triage: Mediaite — CNN: House Republicans in "triage mode" | MS NOW — Mace: "bloodbath" | Yahoo — Triage mode
• Obama/Nixon: The Hill — Trump shares meme | Political Wire — DOJ reviews if Nixon got a raw deal | CNBC — Hearn case dismissed
• Maryland: The Hill — DOJ sues Maryland over mask ban | WMAR — Mask ban, ID requirements | Yahoo/Reuters — Judge rejects California mask law | PBS/AP — Renee Good family sues
• DHS planes: Inquirer/NYT — $464M for planes, then parked | New Republic — Noem, Mullin trade blame | Joe.My.God/NYT — Noem donor profited | Axios — Luxury jets
• Hegseth: The Hill — Troops could be redeployed from Europe | Washington Times — Teases removal of troops | Snopes — Office of Religious Affairs | Forbes — Hegseth mocks Nazi comparison
• Iran: Malay Mail/AFP — No military solution | The Hill — Rubio orders delegation out | Fox News — More bombing "possible"
• Pike: PBS/AP — Has not regained consciousness | FOX 13 — Still on ventilator
• Chicago: ABC News — 7-year-old dies after stabbing | NewsNation — Woman in custody | ABC7 Chicago — Chatham stabbing
• Vienna, Ga.: AJC — 2 dead, 35 hurt at homecoming party | WALB — Coroner identifies victims | WTOL — 25 hospitalized
• AI sentencing video: NBC News — Sentence vacated | Fortune — Court tosses sentence | Global News — Same
• Cornell: NBC News — DA did not review evidence Cornell police collected | CNYCentral — Hochul removes DA; James takes over | NewsNation — DA questions reports | OPB — "I was raped" | Yahoo/NYT — How Cornell punished each of the 7 | The Hill — Attorney alleges more involved
• Andriesz: Daily Beast — Whistleblower found dead | IBTimes — Dies by suicide | Raw Story — Death ruled suicide | Rep. Massie on X
• Hinson: PolitiFact — Hinson voted for release; Democrats' messaging | The Gazette — Pressed by callers | The Gazette — Opposed discharge petition
• Child marriage: LA Mag — Newsom signs ban | Yahoo — Ban takes effect 2027 | Law Commentary — AB 1267
• Red Lobster: WSB — Man calls 911 to avoid bill | WUSA9 — Same
• Brazil: CNBC — Headed to runoff | CNN — Runoff after campaign dominated by crime, corruption and Trump | NPR — Right gains ground
• Good news: Good Good Good — UN sea level rise declaration | UN News — Nepal PM's address

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• On This Day: AANS — Woodrow Wilson's Hidden Stroke of 1919 | Deseret News — President Wilson suffers a stroke
• Grok: TechCrunch — Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Maduro | MS NOW — Trump sought chatbot input on military strikes | Raw Story — Insiders: "hard to convince him to do anything" | CNBC — America.gov uses Gemini, Grok
• Memecoin dinner: CNN — Another Trump meme coin dinner | CoinDesk — Dinner advertised for top investors | Mediaite — "Most exclusive dinner in the world" | Rolling Stone — Dinner for crypto investors | ABC News/AP — U.S. withdraws from GRECO
• Government ads: Yahoo/Reuters — Democrats seek probe | CNBC — $20 million in DHS funds | Public Citizen — FCC and FTC complaint | Deadline — Carr sees nothing out of the ordinary
• CNN pool: NewsNation — White House blocks CNN from pool duty | NBC News — CNN removed for Texas, Oklahoma trip | NPR — Outlets ask court to bar enforcement
• Hispanic Heritage remark: Washington Post — "Only Hispanic" could survive fall | The Hill — Same
• Hearn: CNBC — Judge cites risk Trump will force new charges | PBS — Case permanently dismissed | Fox News — Same
• Watergate: Yahoo — DOJ to review whether Nixon was mistreated | Political Wire — DOJ reviews if Nixon got a raw deal | Mediaite — Riley Moore: Nixon "framed"
• Epstein 302: Yahoo — Wyden accuses DOJ, FBI of withholding interview | IBTimes — Wyden demands release | Axios — Judge warns Blanche of contempt
• FTC: CNBC — FTC investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and others | Axios — FTC probe over AI safety risks | PBS — Self-policing accord
• Chinese hackers: CNN — China-linked hackers impersonated U.S. AI insiders | Yahoo/Reuters — Hackers impersonated ex-U.S. official
• Hegseth: NPR — Hegseth says he has transformed the military | Time — Sweeping cuts to top ranks | Boston Globe — 20% cut confirmed | Department of War — Address and initiatives
• Iraq: PBS/AP — Withdrawal complete | ABC News — Last troops depart | Democracy Now — Headlines, Oct. 1
• Iran delegation: The Hill — Rubio orders Iranian delegation out | CTV — Delegation ordered to leave early | Fox News — Trump: more bombing "possible" | Fox News — Troop deployments, oil prices
• Egypt: WRAL/AP — Rubio waives restrictions on $320 million | Al-Monitor/Reuters — Waiver letter | Sen. Murphy — Democrats urged Biden to withhold the same aid
• Renee Good: PBS/AP — Family sues U.S. government and officials | ABC News — Family sues over fatal ICE shooting
• Mandatory detention: WTOP/AP — Supreme Court grants review | Marshall Project — ICE says it can detain as long as it wants | NPR — Third-country ruling
• Afghan files: Yahoo — 40% error rate | Epoch Times — IG findings | U.S. News/Reuters — SAVE error rates
• Pike: NBC News — "It was a mess" | NPR — Governor halts executions | The Hill — Lee halts executions
• Clancy: CBS Boston — Judge denies bid for not-guilty finding | Boston 25 — Motion denied | ABC News — Same
• Rick Ross: CBS Miami — Arrested on battery, strangulation charges | Rolling Stone — Domestic violence charges
• Victor Marx: Mediaite — Clip shows candidate describing "slamming" wife into door | Daily Beast — Candidate's past revealed | IBTimes — "She bent over and started crying" | CNN KFile — Bo French
• LSU: NBC News — Student says she was raped by player still on team | The Advocate — Punishment reduced | LSU Reveille — Criminal investigation opened
• Good news: Kathmandu Post — Tiger population rises to 429 | WWF — Nepal's wild tigers triple

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• On This Day: Britannica — September 30 | History.com — September 30
• AI accord: PBS — Trump announces accord signed by AI companies | Anchorage Daily News/AP — Firms sign accord to "self-police" | HuffPost — Same | Axios — Companies probing tens of thousands of incidents | Axios — Gates: a billion deaths | CNN — Bailey resigns
• Third-country deportations: NPR — Supreme Court sides with administration | Washington Post — Court allows deportations to resume | CNN — Deportations to countries migrants have no connection to | CBS News — Same
• Kennedy Center: The Hill — Lee blocks Kennedy Center protection bill | NBC4 — GOP senator blocks move
• Noem: Washington Post — Noem files for divorce | KELOLAND — Same | The Hill — Court docs
• Jack Smith: CNN — Schmitt's basketball mixup and other takeaways | CNN live — Smith: proof beyond reasonable doubt | NBC News — Smith defends probes in hearing filled with insults | MS NOW — Schmitt's blunder | Senate Judiciary — Hearing page | CNN — Curtis subpoena request
• Penny: ABC News/AP — Congress votes to end penny after 234 years | KSLA — Senate votes; what happens next | CNN — Last penny minted, Nov. 2025
• GRECO: ABC News/AP — U.S. withdraws from European anti-corruption panel | U.S. News — Same | ProPublica — Trump Jr. wedding
• Cornell: CNN — AG to review Cornell's response | FOX 5 NY — Hochul calls for independent investigation | Yahoo — Ithaca mayor moves to suspend Greek life, events | LocalSYR — Mayor pauses event permits | U.S. News/AP — Renewed scrutiny of intoxication and consent laws | NBC New York — Reform has Assembly support; Heastie blocks it
• Flynn: CNN — Guilty of murdering his wife | CNN — Affair, missing gun, 100,000 messages: Day 1 | CNN — Defense rests without witnesses | CBS News — Verdict | NBC News — Verdict | Dayton Daily News — "I didn't touch my wife" | Court TV — In-laws on motive
• Clancy: NBC News — Defense argues no evidence she killed her children | CNN — Status hearing concludes | CBS Boston — Motions to dismiss | ABC7 — Double jeopardy, holdout juror | GBH — Lawyer questions whether there's proof
• Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: CNBC — NIH cuts delayed a childhood brain cancer trial | STAT — Disbanding of the PBTC | PBS — Cuts "taking away hope" | Gillibrand — Demand for reversal | CNN — "Final Battle" ad cost
• Good news: Al Jazeera — Morocco's king names first woman PM | France 24 — El Mansouri appointed | The Hill — Trump: Obama's idea "ridiculous"

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On This Day: PBS News — How the Tylenol murders changed the way we consume medication | Chicago History Museum — The Chicago Tylenol Murders

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Bailey: CNN — One of Patel’s deputies resigns | CBS News — Bailey, once seen as Patel successor, resigns | ABC News — Bailey resigns | Washington Examiner — Same

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Sanctuary surge: NewsNation — DHS announces nationwide surge | IBTimes — DHS denies pullback, announces surge | Daily Wire — Officers say they were told to stop arresting non-criminals

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ICE at polls: Democracy Docket — Democrats mobilize against agents at polls | PolitiFact — What could stop Trump from sending ICE to polls | The Intercept — ICE watchers prep to defend midterms | Brennan Center — Preventing voter intimidation by federal agents | Yahoo — White House: “can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around”

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Paxton: New Republic — Paxton defends one-day plea | IBTimes — Records show 29 days | Texas Tribune — Inside the plea deal | PolitiFact — Paxton’s Uvalde remarks in context

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Bo French: CNN KFile — History of calling for public executions | Houston Public Media — Top Texas Republicans knew, supported him anyway | New Republic — Long history of execution calls

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Obama remarks: The Hill — Trump blasts Obama’s “ridiculous” take | HuffPost — Trump on women in leadership

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Leavitt: Daily Beast — Leavitt shops book | Yahoo — Reportedly shopping book with White House details

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Title IX: The Hill — Department formally rescinds protections | Education Week — Department kills Biden rule | The 74 — Same | Washington Blade — Same

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Student loans: New Republic — Trump moves to cut off loans for degrees | WPR — Cutting loans for low-paying degrees | BestColleges — Professional degree definition narrowed | Mass.gov — Healey calls for reversal

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Medicaid: The Hill — Lawsuit targets medically frail exemption | Fortune — Too frail to work, can’t afford a doctor to prove it | CBPP — Last-minute restrictions worsen impact | Common Dreams — Administration argues terminally ill not exempt

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Hospital AI billing: Fierce Healthcare — AI coding cost BCBSA plans $942M | BCBSA — AI shaping hospital billing trends | HR Dive — Insurers vs. billing companies

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Gates: Axios — Gates: AI powerful enough to cause a billion deaths | Business Standard — “Not a hoax” | Deadline — Gates urges safeguards | Axios — Companies probing tens of thousands of incidents | WORLD — Trump, Johnson host AI executives

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National Rally: France 24 — RN forms Senate group for first time | Euronews — Same | Al Jazeera — Same

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Argentina: Al Jazeera — Poverty rises to 32 percent under Milei | MercoPress — 32.3%, ending two years of decline | France 24 — Nearly one in three | CNBC — The U.S. bailout explained | NBC News — Support could hit $40 billion | Axios — Bessent’s second $20B facility | Epoch Times — Argentina repays swap drawdown | CFR — Will Trump’s $20 billion help Milei

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El Niño: Governor’s office — Emergency proclamation | CNN — Newsom declares emergency ahead of super El Niño | Time — What to know

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Cornell: CNN — Prosecutors reopen investigation | ABC News — DA reopens case | Cornell Daily Sun — DA reopens investigation | Cornell Daily Sun — Lawsuit filed

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Good news: Positive News — What went right this week | Squirrel News — Kosovo concludes 27 years of clearance | HALO Trust — Kosovo

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