Peter Baker

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

Four newspaper journalists in Alaska quit after the owner of their publications altered a story's description of Charlie Kirk under pressure from a state legislator. @gettinviggy.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

CBS News poll finds few feel shutdown is worth it; low marks for Republicans, Democrats, Trump's handling Americans are concerned about effect of shutdown on economy, amid unease about jobs and inflation.

Republicans and Democrats are busy squabbling over who will get the blame for the shutdown but this @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy poll suggests few Americans think it's worth it and they are not especially impressed with anyone involved. www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

Scoop — Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative" "I don't know why you're always so f***ing negative. This is a win. Take it."

Netanyahu told Trump the Hamas statement was nothing to celebrate, and that it didn't mean anything, US official tells @barakravid.bsky.social Trump fired back: "I don't know why you're always so fucking negative. This is a win. Take it." www.axios.com/2025/10/05/t...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

In a dramatic sign of eroding support in the US, 61% of American Jews now say that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and 39% say it is guilty of genocide, according to @washingtonpost.com poll. Naftali Bendavid @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

But the race for attorney general has been roiled by the revelation of text messages sent by Democrat Jay Jones in 2022 discussing a hypothetical scenario of shooting the GOP state House speaker. He has now apologized. @teoarmus.bsky.social Erin Cox @SchneiderG www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Spanberger holds wide lead in Virginia governor’s race, Post-Schar School poll finds Democrat Abigail Spanberger is up 12 points over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in campaign where the economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds, a Washington Post-Schar School poll found.

Spanberger leads Earle-Sears for Va. governor 55% to 43% per @washingtonpost @ScharSchool poll. Her Democratic ticket mates have smaller leads of 4 points for LG and 6 points for AG. @schneidergrgory.bsky.social Erin Cox @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The Los Angeles entertainment economy is cratering. Jobs in motion pictures in LA County have fallen from 142,000 to 100,000 in two years and sound stage occupancy has plummeted from about 90% to just over 60%. @benfritz.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/med...

Japan Is Set for Its First Female Prime Minister

Sanae Takaichi, a conservative lawmaker, wins critical leadership vote, putting her on track to become Japan’s first female prime minister, a milestone in a country where women are vastly underrepresented in politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, JFK and FDR are all on US coins. But none of them put themselves on the coins, that was done to honor them after death. Trump, on the other hand, now plans to put his own face on coins next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza

Hamas agrees to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by Trump earlier this week. Details still to be negotiated. @liamstack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Trump wanted to give King Charles one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower presidential library said it could not provide one because it is government property and illegal to give away. Now the library director has been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Most Voters Think America’s Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says

As recently as five years ago, during the final months of Trump's first term, a majority of Americans still believed the political system could address the nation's problems. Today, by a 2 to 1 margin, they think it is too divided to do so. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

‘Enough Is Enough’: Many Palestinians Say Hamas Must Accept Cease-Fire Plan

Interviews with Palestinians in Gaza suggest widespread public support for Trump's plan to end the war that has brought immense civilian suffering. @liamstack www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since.

For Trump, the 2025 government shutdown has its roots in the 2019 government shutdown when he learned that he could lose the battle but win the war. Congress refused to give him his border wall money so he took it anyway. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Democrats See No Need to Capitulate, Nor Republicans to Cut a Deal

For Senate Democrats, who have lost red states and moved left over recent years, there is less incentive to cave or cut a deal to end the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Opinion | Lally Weymouth understood power, for she came from it Hostess and journalist, blue-blooded member of the glitterati, and student of policy and power.

Lally Weymouth was given much, true, but made the most of it and never coasted, writes Jon Meacham, who learned the price of resistance when he was editor of Newsweek. "One wagered against her at one's peril: Just ask Jesus, who got bumped for Kissinger." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Live Updates: Shutdown Grinds Many Government Services to a Halt

The Senate votes 47-53, with all Republicans opposed, to reject a Democratic counterproposal to fund the government. The Senate is now voting on the House-passed GOP stopgap spending bill, which is also expected to fail. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Allows Lisa Cook to Remain at Fed, for Now

Supreme Court declines to allow Trump to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, saying it would instead review the administration’s efforts to oust her at oral arguments in January. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

Trump and Comey: An Escalating Conflict With No Off-Ramp

Trump has tried to get Comey prosecuted for years. When his first term attorney general refused, Trump was so furious he took a remote control to the television in his private dining room and threw it at a credenza along the wall. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Trump casts his plan for a cease-fire in Gaza as a landmark deal to bring peace after two years of catastrophic violence. But in reality, it was more like an ultimatum to Hamas, write @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Lally Weymouth, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Scion of Graham Family, Dies at 82

RIP Lally Weymouth, the daughter of Katharine Graham, who became a journalistic force in her own right interviewing heads of state and dictators around the world and was the last member of her storied family still tied to The Washington Post. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies

Trump’s campaign to imprison, fire or otherwise punish his political foes and use government power to crack down on free speech he does not like is setting precedents that even some conservatives worry may come back to bite them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

Trump Says He’s Out for Justice, Not Revenge. His Words Suggest Otherwise.

"It’s not revenge," Trump insists of the prosecution of Comey that he personally demanded. But as he engages in a wide-ranging retribution campaign against his political opponents, his own words and actions suggest otherwise. @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Robert B. Barnett, Washington Master of the Book World Megadeal, Dies at 79

RIP Bob Barnett, an iconic Washington figure who brokered multimillion-dollar book deals for presidents, coached candidates before debates and served as an all-around counselor for generations of politicians. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

Trump fired the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Hakeem Jeffries' take: Inside the funding fight House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries comes to the Punchbowl News Townhouse for an exclusive interview projecting confidence.

Sign of the times: Not only has Trump not had Democratic leaders to the White House once since taking office again, Hakeem Jeffries has never even met him. Anna Palmer @jakesherman.bsky.social punchbowl.news/article/fly-...

Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."

Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."

Grand Jury Indicts Longtime Trump Target, Former F.B.I. Director James Comey

Trump, who last year vowed to exact "retribution" against perceived enemies, gets what he demanded, an indictment of Comey, even though federal prosecutors concluded there was no case. Devlin Barrett @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...