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Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him Over Coverage Of Ayatollah's Funeral https://thedissenter.org/journalist-recounts-how-border-agents-targeted-him-over-coverage-of-ayatollahs-funeral/

On biotech and neurotech in China, Q3 2026 https://milan.cvitkovic.net/china_notes_q3_2026/

Notes from China, Q3 2026
Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors. Most meetings focused on biotech, neurotech, and AI. Conventional wisdom my trip corroborated US cities feel medieval compared to Chinese cities. I was expecting the cleaner, safer, greener cities with better trains, EVs, consumer electronics, etc. But I was surprised that Chinese cities didn’t feel bleak. I thought that would be the required tradeoff…

White House blocks CNN from press pool again, despite judge’s block on ban
The White House has, again, blocked CNN from covering Donald Trump as part of the rotating press pool.
The outlet was scheduled to be a part of the group of media traveling to Texas and Oklahoma with the president today,
but was removed from list of newsrooms in place for the trip, per the White House schedule.
This comes a Trump-appointed federal judge issued a temporary restraining against th…

Trump doesn’t rule out sending ICE to polling sites; US supreme court to review policy to detain immigrants challenging deportation – live
Justices will consider whether immigrants have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation

Road trip returning from visiting family, on Friday.
We stopped at lunchtime at a Popeye's just off the highway, in Woodstock NB. We don't have Popeye's in Montreal, so it was a nice little fast-food diversion. Or at least it was supposed to be.
It took them 46 minutes from paying to handing us a take-out bag of our food. When we were about to get back on the road, we checked and they failed to give us one of the meals. It added an hour to our 10-hour trip.
Neve…

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's reality show about his family road trip, sponsored by companies regulated by the DOT, launches on YouTube (Suzanne Rowan Kelleher/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/08/20/s…

Sean Duffy’s Family Road Trip Series Launches Too Late For Summer
The series was meant to encourage families to take summer road trips—but more than half of U.S. schoolchildren are already back in class.

A video of Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt looking visibly stunned during aSenate Judiciary Committee hearing circulated on social media
after her colleague, Sen. Eric Schmitt, stumbled in his questioning of former special counsel Jack Smith.
Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, attempted to corner Smith over an alleged 2024 trip to an Atlanta Hawks basketball game,
suggesting the trip pointed to coordination with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in the prosecu…

Viral slow zoom on Katie Britt says it all as she realizes Jack Smith gotcha moment is going up in flames
The exchange unravelled after Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt mistook a Caitlin Clark college basketball game in Maryland for an NBA game in Atlanta

You can also speak by not speaking.
„What’s most remarkable about [Xi Jinping‘s] itinerary is what it doesn’t include: a stop in New York, where the United Nations’ General Assembly is currently holding its 81st session. […]
Meanwhile, Xi is making a trip across the Pacific Ocean and the entire continental U.S. and not bothering to take an extra jaunt up the coast to attend the United Nations’ most important annual event.
Instead, Vice President Han Zheng will be in New York …

Xi Jinping Is Coming to the US. Why Is He Skipping the UNGA?
Xi’s coming to the U.S. East Coast while the United Nations’ biggest event is going on. That makes his absence all the more striking.

The CIA director, John Ratcliffe,
has made an unannounced visit to Moscow,
Flight data showed an American military aircraft flew to the Russian capital, where a US diplomatic motorcade was later spotted.
The Financial Times reported that the Trump administration had asked Kyiv to pause its long-range strikes on major Russian cities during the course of the visit.
There was no immediate comment from the CIA or the White House.
The reason for the visit is unclear …

CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly on Moscow visit
Unannounced trip reported by US media is said to be Ratcliffe’s first known visit to Russia as CIA chief

Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year,
when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony.
In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and ru…

RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

Here's the latest. -- The presidents visited the National Archives to cap a trip full ... (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09/25/us/trump-xi-summit-meeting-us-china
http://www.memeorandum.com/260925/p64#a260925p64

The flood struck a place with a storied past.
The outpost began as a tent camp,
hosted President Theodore Roosevelt,
and was transformed by pioneering architect Mary Jane Colter into an unlikely retreat more than a century ago.
It later drew movie stars and other prominent visitors to a part of the canyon where flash floods have long posed a danger.
For most visitors, a trip to the Grand Canyon looks very different.
On the South Rim, the park’s most deve…

What Is Phantom Ranch? Inside the Grand Canyon Lodge Hit by Flash Flooding
Phantom Ranch, the only lodge within the Grand Canyon, has drawn adventurers and dignitaries, including Theodore Roosevelt, for more than a century.

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During his secret trip to Moscow earlier this week,
CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between
US President Donald Trump,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin
aimed at ending the war.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/08…

CIA chief proposed summit involving Trump, Zelenskyy and Putin – Axios
CIA Director John Ratcliffe pitched a trilateral summit with Trump, Zelenskyy and Putin during his secret Moscow visit, Axios reports.

"Colleagues and supporters say Lorenzo Thompson held a valid work permit and had an active asylum application pending when he was taken into custody"
Southwest Airlines flight attendant in ICE custody after being detained while on a work trip | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/southwest-flight-attendant-ice-detained-lorenzo-thompson-b3021061.html

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Sep. 3, *2024*: On the way to and at Bengaluru airport, returning home to the US, completely oblivious to the (awesome) changes to come my life's way; changes because of a just-concluded 3-day road-trip. 🙇‍♂️ 😊
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