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11:30 AM ET, November 29, 2025

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Jack Goldsmith / Executive Functions:
A Dishonorable Strike  —  Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Roundup—brief daily summaries of news developments and commentary related to executive power.  —  One can imagine stretching Article II of the Constitution to authorize the U.S. drug boat campaign.
Discussion: Reason, NewsMax.com and The Hill
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emptywheel:
Murder  —  In the last few days, we've got allegations of murder against two men who worked in counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, Whiskey Pete Hegseth and Rahmanullah Lakanwal.  —  We don't yet know why Lakanwal drove from Bellingham, WA, across the country, to allegedly ambush two members …
New York Post:
How alleged DC terrorist Rahmanullah Lakanwal was welcomed into the US after CIA vetting — and then turned against it
New York Times:
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed  —  President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.  —  President Trump warned airlines and pilots on Saturday …
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Mrinmay Dey / Reuters:
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.  —  Trump, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers …
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Associated Press:
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
José Luis Granados Ceja / Drop Site News:
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
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US Department of Justice:
The United States Announces Agreement with Northwestern University  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reached an agreement with Northwestern University (Northwestern) …
New York Times:
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans  —  They were the latest restrictive changes to the immigration system after this week's shooting of two National Guard members.  —  The United States on Friday paused all asylum decisions and stopped issuing visas to people …
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Washington Post:
U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Inside Trump's Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible … As President Trump took a stroll on the White House roof in August, generating headlines and questions about what he was up to, the man walking beside him was little noticed.  —  Wearing his signature bow tie …
Discussion: HuffPost
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines  —  The agency's top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots.  But public health experts want to examine the data.  —  The director of the Food …
Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's Watch  —  Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible.  President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.
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Andrii Muravskyi / Ukrainska Pravda:
Two tankers of Russia's shadow fleet hit by Ukraine's Security Service maritime drones - Ukrainska Pravda source  —  The blowing up of two tankers in Russia's shadow fleet has been carried out as a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).  —  Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in the SSU
Discussion: Reuters and The Kyiv Independent
Delano Massey / Axios:
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress … - $3.4 billion in grants for HBCUs, public health research and Black entrepreneurs have been cut or frozen, according to the Blackout Report, from the nonprofit Onyx Impact.  — 6,769 federal datasets have been deleted …
Wall Street Journal:
D.C. Ambush Exposes Risks for National Guard on Capital's Crime Patrols  —  A fatal attack on a routine patrol has intensified questions over the administration's open-ended military deployments in American cities  —  Soon after a gunman shot two National Guard members in downtown Washington …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for ‘heart of gold’
Cassandra Vinograd / New York Times:
Russia Bombards Ukraine for Nearly 10 Hours in a Deadly Assault  —  The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.  —  Russia unleashed a nearly 10-hour air assault across Ukraine on Saturday …
Discussion: Reuters and Euractiv
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
As Trump's popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump's mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump's people are trying to grab all they can, while they can.  —  A source has told The Telegraph that Trump …
ABC News:
Hegseth declines to comment on report that boat survivors were killed as a result of his orders to military  —  “The Department has no response to this article.”  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a meeting with President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince …
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NBC News:
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Reuters:
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The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans
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Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
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