Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

Sherrill: Ship, shipmate, self. It's a saying in the Navy. Means the mission comes first, the sailors come second, and as a leader, you come last. That's the kind of governor I'll be. Our mission is to drive down costs for families. I will work every single day to be worthy of that mission.

The New Yorker contributing writer Ruth Marcus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Donald Trump’s “revenge tour”—his effort to use the levers of government to settle personal and political scores. They talk about the indictment of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, why legal experts see the case against Comey as alarmingly weak, and how Trump’s campaign of retribution has expanded to include prosecutors, lawmakers, and even the families of his critics. They also consider how Trump’s quest for vengeance is testing the limits of American law, and whether the country can avoid a permanent cycle of political retaliation and lawfare.This week’s reading: “The Flimsy, Dangerous Indictment of James Comey,” by Ruth Marcus “What Will Bari Weiss Do to CBS News?,” by Jon Allsop “Who Can Lead the Democrats?,” by Amy Davidson Sorkin “The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles,” by Oren Peleg “Why Israel and Hamas Might Finally Have a Deal,” by Isaac Chotiner Tune in to The Political Scene wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Leader Jeffries: Our position over the last several weeks has been clear. We will sit down with anyone at any time and at any place in order to enter into a bipartisan agreement to reach a spending deal that meets the needs of the American people.

NJ Gov. candidate @MikieSherrill: Jack has said it's his job to support Trump. I think it's the job to support the people of New Jersey. Jack won't say one cross word about Trump, even when he froze gateway tunnel funding. He's even said that New Jerseyans should take on pain for Trump's tariffs

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? Trump: Who? Q: Suspending habeas corpus. Trump: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi. What do you think?

Rep. Crockett: I wish Republicans would put as much energy into doing their jobs and protecting the health care of their constituents as they do into protecting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

Trump claims sending the National Guard to cities without permission from the governor is "very lawful"

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

Veteran: Democracy and the First Amendment feel under attack right now. Trump is using Portland as a pawn to enrich his own power. The objective is to normalize military troops on the streets of American cities to prepare for a situation where he doesn't want to cede power

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

Leader Jeffries: Republicans have refused to extend the ACA tax credits. Tens of millions of Americans are receiving notices from their health insurance companies that their premiums are about to double, triple, or quadruple. They will lose their health care or go into medical bankruptcy

Hoping these federal agents are held accountable, breaking the law should have real consequences. A federal judge has ruled that federal immigration agents illegally arrested more than two dozen people.

A Missed Chance to End the Damage of Unconstitutional Jury Verdicts https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/09/11/a-missed-chance-to-end-the-damage-of-unconstitutional-jury-verdicts/

Gov. Pritzker: He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're literally stopping children who happen to be brown and asking them for papers as if they will have proof they are a US citizen

Host: In the middle of this government shutdown, ICE has closed a key detention oversight group. It inspects detention centers to ensure they meet federal standards for the safe and humane treatment of immigrants. That's been closed

This is good news. It would be even better if Trump wasn't torpedoing the U.S. solar and wind industry and ceding the energy future to China. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time

Trump’s TikTok deal looks like classic crony capitalism as well as open theft.

Former Trump official: This is exactly what I warned about. I knew a second Trump term was not going to be about bettering the lives of everyday Americans. It was going to be about retribution against his perceived enemies.

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

Speaker Emerita Pelosi: Republicans shut down the government because they did not want to extend health care subsidies. Republicans have insisted on taking down the subsidies, and also Medicare, Medicaid, food for children, SNAP, to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people and corporations in America

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.