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4:25 PM ET, November 26, 2025

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New York Times:
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump  —  The president has now seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year.  —  The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed on Wednesday by a judge in Georgia …
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Dan Berman / CNN:
Georgia prosecutor kills the historic election interference case against Trump and allies  —  Georgia election case Trump legal cases Donald Trump US elections  —  A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others …
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia dismisses Trump election case, ending his last criminal prosecution  —  President Donald Trump at the White House in October.  (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Discussion: ABC News, The Independent and Fox News
Associated Press:
Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says  —  Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near the White House and their conditions aren't immediately known, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss …
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Thomas Mates / WJLA-TV:
3 people, including 2 National Guard troops, hurt in Northwest DC shooting  —  3VIEW ALL PHOTOS  —  FILE - Photo of a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) cruiser in D.C. (7News/File)  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Three people, including 2 National Guard troops, are hurt after a shooting near …
Luke Barr / ABC News:
2 National Guardsmen shot near White House: Officials
Shannon Larson / The Boston Globe:
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE.  —  Earlier this month, Bruna Ferreira was leaving her home in Revere to pick up her 11-year-old son, Michael Leavitt Jr., from school in New Hampshire when her car was suddenly swarmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Karoline Leavitt Slammed by Nephew's Family for Ignoring ICE Arrest  —  EVEN THEIR OWN FAMILY...  The mother, currently held by ICE in Louisiana, has been in the U.S. since she was a child—and a member of the Leavitt family for over a decade, her sister claims.
Discussion: Metro.co.uk
NBC News:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's relative detained by ICE
Washington Post:
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom.  His architect disagrees.  —  The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project's size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.  —  President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design …
Associated Press:
Report: US envoy coached Putin aide on how Russian leader should pitch Trump on Ukraine peace plan  —  The head of Russia's sovereign wealth has emerged as a key player in drafting a new proposal to end Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.  But Dmitriev is not a professional diplomat.
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Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
Kremlin says leaked U.S. call is an attempt to disrupt Ukraine peace talks
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Tennessee 7th District 2025 Special Election Poll: Republican Van Epps and Democrat Behn Locked In Tight Race  —  Home Polls Tennessee 7th District 2025 Special Election Poll: Republican Van Epps and Democrat Behn Locked In Tight Race  —  Voters Split on Trump's Job Performance as Economic Issues Top Voters' Concerns
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Can Aftyn Behn Stun the GOP in Tennessee Next Week?
Discussion: The Hill, Townhall, The Daily Wire and IJR
David Cole / New York Times:
Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth  —  On Monday, Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, directed the Pentagon to investigate Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain who flew combat missions during the gulf war and took several spaceflights as an astronaut before he was elected …
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The Atlantic:
‘An Example MUST BE SET’
New York Times:
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens  —  Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.  —  The married couples filed …
Politico:
Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton … And Pryor, a George W. Bush appointee, concluded that the district court judge who originally ruled against Trump had properly considered Trump's “pattern of misusing the courts” when deciding to sanction Trump and Habba.
Politico:
Kristi Noem made call to hand over deported men to El Salvador, DOJ says … Noem's call ensured that the deportees — rounded up and expelled with virtual no due process after President Donald Trump invoked war powers to designate them as members of a transnational gang …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Noem OK'd El Salvador deportations despite court order: DOJ
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans  —  On Monday I spoke with a Republican member of Indiana's legislature who opposes President Donald Trump's push for the state to redraw its congressional map to gain two GOP seats and help the party hold its House majority in next year's midterm elections.
New York Times:
A Year Later, Donors to Trump's Transition Come to Light  —  A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.  —  A full year after making a public pledge to do so, President Trump has disclosed a list of donors who helped pay for his transition to power.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
‘Nobody will ever believe it’: James Comer airs doubts about his own Epstein investigation … “I fear the report will be like the Warren Report,” he said.  “Nobody will ever believe it.”  —  Comer's reference to the 1964 report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Chicago Protestors Reel After Fending Off Federal Charges  —  The administration governs by propaganda.  There's bluster, threats, and even real violence — all deployed to push a far-right agenda forward while dissuading as many people as possible from opposing it.
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
Here's the latest.  —  Dozens of emergency responders and police vehicles were amassed at the scene of the shooting, an area of downtown Washington where troops have been patrolling for months.  —  Here's the latest.  —  A member of the National Guard was shot near the White House on Wednesday afternoon …
New York Times:
What the Pentagon's Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea  —  The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs.  But they tell only part of the story.  —  The grainy videos released by the Pentagon are just seconds long.
Politico:
Pete Hegseth is a no-show in Ukraine.  That suits the White House just fine. … The Pentagon leader — a former Fox News host who seems more at home railing against diversity programs than leading diplomatic consultations — has carved out an unorthodox political niche that has helped insulate …
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
Caitlin Reilly / Bloomberg:
Trump, GOP Head Into Thanksgiving Without Obamacare Premium Fix  —  President Donald Trump decamped to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida late Tuesday for the Thanksgiving holiday with any effort to control spiking health care premiums — a key issue for Republicans whose economic appeal to voters …
Greg Lukianoff / New York Times:
Larry Bushart Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme.  He Went to Jail for 37 Days.  —  The officers came to arrest Larry Bushart shortly before midnight on Sept. 21.  —  Mr. Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer living in Lexington, Tenn., had posted a meme on Facebook after the assassination …
New York Times:
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House  —  The school, one of several to face pressure campaigns from the Trump administration, would pay a $75 million fine and have its research funding restored under terms of the agreement being discussed.
Reuters:
Trump's campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting  —  Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump's leadership - from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets.  The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president …
Discussion: New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Howard Lutnick's Former Wall Street Firm Is Having Its Best Year Ever  —  Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by three co-CEOs and Lutnick's two elder sons, reaps rewards from early bet on crypto  —  Cantor Fitzgerald, the former firm of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has long been an afterthought on Wall Street.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
“America First” scars loom over Trump's Venezuela campaign  —  President Trump is flirting with one of the most toxic ideas in American politics — a new foreign military intervention — at one of the most precarious moments of his second term. … - The tensions mark the most public fracturing …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Graham-led panel to investigate kidnappings of Ukrainian children  —  A Senate Appropriations subcommittee led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is set to review reports on the abduction of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation at a hearing next month.  —  The Subcommittee on State …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day  —  The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”  —  Every year since 1988, the United States …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Warning: The Fed Can't Rescue AI  —  While everything feels political now - a kind of fin de siècle chaos politics - I want to take a brief break from the political today.  Instead I want to talk about asset markets and the Fed.  —  We could say that the US economy in 2025 was schizoid.
Discussion: DNYUZ and Raw Story
 
 
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Colin Demarest / Axios:
China seeks “alternative world order,” U.S. commission warns
Reuters:
Two National guard members shot in Washington, DHS chief says
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Second-Term Tab For Trump's Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million
Discussion: New Republic and MeidasTouch News
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Pentagon Cited Alibaba on China Military Aid in Oct. 7 Letter
Discussion: Reuters
Avery Lotz / Axios:
No, you probably won't fight about politics at Thanksgiving
Discussion: Oregonian
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
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Victor Nava / New York Post:
Fauci involved in ‘massive’ COVID-19 origins cover-up, FDA chief Marty Makary tells ‘Pod Force One’
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
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