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MAGA mouthpieces vented live on social media as CNN hosted Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a town hall on the government shutdown on Wednesday night. The White House’s RapidResponse47 X account live-posted throughout the 90-minute event, titled “Shutdown America.” The independent senator from Vermont and the Democratic congresswoman from New York took questions from audience members, with CNN’s Kaitlan …

The battle for academic freedom and institutional sovereignty in higher education continues to play out as another university has rejected a White House offer for expanded access to federal funding in return for agreeing to a series of demands. Brown University on Wednesday declined an offer by the Trump administration to join a compact that would potentially give preferential funding …

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-8  The White House (.gov) Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown  The Washington Post Is it legal to use R&D money to pay troops during shutdown?  Federal News Network Trump instructs Pentagon to ensure troops are paid despite government shutdown  Fox News Johnson dares Democrats to challenge Trump’s move to pay military  The Hill Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed nearly 130 deep-pocketed donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their pledged contributions to a massive new ballroom. The ballroom, whose price tag is now estimated at $250 million, is the most significant renovation that Trump, a former real estate …

Pope Leo XIV wasn’t going to let a Chicago Cubs fan troll him in Vatican City. Alberto Pizzoli / Getty Images Even the grandeur of the papacy apparently hasn’t been enough to prevent Pope Leo XIV from keeping up on baseball’s postseason. The American-born pope, whose Chicago roots made him a lifelong fan of his hometown White Sox, didn’t hesitate …

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment  The New York Times The Logical End Point of Trump’s Higher-Education Agenda  The Atlantic White House reportedly offers all universities funding advantages if they comply with controversial demands  The Duke Chronicle Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’  The Chronicle of Higher Education Trump Opens Up Compact …

Murkowski lone Republican on Dem letter to White House budget office  Politico Column | 4 phone calls furloughed workers can’t afford to skip during the shutdown  The Washington Post Federal employee shutdown survival guide  Federal News Network Some essential federal workers to receive partial paychecks, face financial burden amid shutdown  WTAE Will Furloughed Government Workers Be Backpaid: What To Know  Newsweek Source link

Billed as a conversation with Jeremy Allen White, and promising “a special guest”, there was very little surprise when Bruce Springsteen arrived on the small stage at Spotify’s London offices on Tuesday evening. The actor and the rock star walked on separately, but to the same clip of entrance music: the opening lines of Atlantic City, from Springsteen’s 1982 album …

Charlie Kirk gets a hero’s treatment at White House ceremony  Politico Trump Awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom  The New York Times Trump hammers rise in left-wing political violence in Charlie Kirk remarks: ‘Devil’s ideology’  Fox News Kirk remembered in Butler vigil held on his birthday  Butler Eagle Charlie Kirk would have run for president, widow says at White House  The Washington Post …

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 10, 2025, pure evil struck when the legendary Charlie Kirk was assassinated in broad daylight in a campus courtyard, triggering a groundswell of righteous fury all across our land.  Today, our Nation honors the immortal memory of Charlie — a father, a husband, …