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A conservative editorial board warned voters in one red state that defying President Donald Trump at the ballot box carries a steep price.

Kimberley Strassel, a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board, wrote Thursday that Alaska risks losing Trump's favor and possibly facing his retribution if voters oust Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) on November 3.

In her Potomac Watch column, Strassel cast the Senate race between Sullivan and former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola as a choice between continued federal support and what she called "political and economic suicide." She credited Trump with reversing dozens of Biden-era restrictions on drilling, mining and logging in the state and with pushing a long-stalled natural gas pipeline that Sullivan supporters chanted about at a Tuesday rally in Wasilla....

Trump officials looked the other way as the president's allies apparently cashed in at everyday Americans' expense, an economic analyst warned.

Economics columnist Catherine Rampell laid out the case in a Thursday piece for The Bulwark, arguing that what she called "beet-red flags" around a string of suspiciously well-timed trades this spring were waved away by Trump appointees.

In March, roughly 15 minutes before Trump announced he was backing off threats against Iran, traders placed billions of dollars' worth of contracts betting oil prices would drop and the stock market would climb. They were right. Federal commodities regulators opened a preliminary review, but Bloomberg reported this week that a senior adviser to the Trump-appointed chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered staff to pull back a referral that could have triggered a full investigation....

As Mike Rogers courts Michigan voters in his bid for the open U.S. Senate seat, members of Michigan’s largest union describe a strained relationship with him when he was last in Congress.

Rogers represented the 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House from 2001 to 2015, which covered parts of Mid-Michigan. That district encompassed the General Motors Lansing Grand River Assembly plant that employed hundreds of United Auto Workers members, including during the 2008 financial crisis, a contentious time for the auto industry in which new vehicle sales fell 40% while employment dropped by 45%.

In the Senate race, the UAW and other unions including the AFL-CIO, the AFT, and Michigan Teamsters Joint Council No. 43 have endorsed Rogers’ opponent, Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Rogers, meanwhile, has secured endorsements from the business community, including the Detroit Regional Chamber and Southeast Michigan Chamber of Commerce, as well as a coalition called Auto Workers for Trump....

Critics of President Donald Trump unloaded on his White House after a new report traced a deadly battlefield decision straight to his doorstep.

Reuters reported Thursday that the order to limit Starshield, the military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink service that Ukrainian troops use for drone operations and battlefield communications, came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said people were killed when interceptor drones relying on the system stopped working. On Wednesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pinned the limits on the U.S. military and "ultimately" the president. A senior U.S. official insisted to Reuters that "no such request was ever made by the president."...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth caught his closest advisers off guard with a recent move, adding to Republican frustration over his leadership.

Hegseth's revelation last week that the military would livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan came as a surprise to nearly everyone at the Pentagon, even those closest to him, The Atlantic reported Thursday.

Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people during a 2009 shooting spree at the Texas base and has sat on death row since 2013. After Trump signed off on the death sentence earlier this month, the Army said Hasan would face a firing squad in December. Hegseth then told right-wing podcaster Jack Posobiec the execution would be public, later clarifying on X that it would be streamed online....

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance says President Trump’s own remarks did the most damage to his case in a ruling that gave CNN, MS NOW and Politico their White House access back, according to her Substack, Civil Discourse.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, issued a preliminary injunction restoring the three outlets’ hard passes while the lawsuit proceeds. Vance explains that Kelly’s earlier temporary order turned on due process alone, since the passes were revoked with no warning. This time he also grounded the ruling in the First Amendment, finding the outlets likely to prove retaliation and viewpoint discrimination.

That distinction matters, she says. Had he stopped at due process, the White House could have followed a proper procedure and pulled the passes again, leaving the free-speech question unanswered....

Stephen Miller says Americans owe their amazing energy prices to Donald Trump. Critics saw it differently.

Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared Saturday on Fox News’ “My View with Lara Trump.” The segment ran under the banner “Miller touts Trump’s sweeping achievements.”

“The reason we have lower energy prices than anyone else in the developed world is because of President Trump,” Miller said, according to a clip posted by Acyn....

Former MLB superstar Roger Clemens fact-checked President Donald Trump during his Texas rally Wednesday night.

Trump traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to stump for Republicans like Tano Tijerina in his race against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whom Trump attacked for what he considered to be a "disloyal act" by not becoming a Republican after Trump pardoned him. At the rally, Trump invited Clemens on stage to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, because Clemens had not yet been elected to the Hall of Fame.

In typical Trump fashion, the president also rattled off a fact about Clemens that the former big league pitcher was quick to correct. ...

President Donald Trump was once again denied the Nobel Peace Prize, but the winner made sure to mention him in her initial remarks.

And not in a flattering way, reported The Daily Beast.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, a South African jurist and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, won the 2026 prize. Trump, 80, had long sought the honor....