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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence — David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. — President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less …
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The Guardian
New York Times:
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine — Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. — He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses.”
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Blue Virginia, OutsideTheBeltway, Associated Press, New York Sun, IJR, Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Hill, Mediaite, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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Zeteo, NewsMax.com, Associated Press, Newsweek, CNN, Washington Examiner and Raw Story
New York Times:
Silicon Valley's Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends … In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House. He had convened top government officials …
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Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine — The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe's dismay, the president and his envoy are on board. — Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month …
Stuart Stevens / Lincoln Square:
None Dare Call It Treason: The Republican Party Is Compromised — Republican Senators understand the grave threat Russia poses. Yet they refuse to uphold their oath of office due to their fealty to Trump. — ∙ Paid — The Republican Party is compromised and is now a functional asset of the Russian Federation.
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Steve Bannon Was Epstein's Comeback Consultant. Where's the Uproar? — The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile. — IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there — Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments …
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The Atlantic
New York Times:
Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage — The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.
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IJR, The Daily Wire, NewsMax.com, The Independent, Bloomberg, The City, New York Daily News and The Gateway Pundit
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NBC News:
Noem says deportation operation decisions are hers amid case over flights to El Salvador — The Justice Department has said that she made the final call on deportation flights after a judge ordered them to turn around. — WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense — An explosive Washington Post report, the subject of so much discussion the past two days, says that, in the first missile strike the Trump Defense Department carried out against operatives of a boat suspected of transporting narcotics …
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison — The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. — One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call …
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker — A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg.
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Newsbusters, The Guardian, The Parnas Perspective, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com, RedState, Raw Story, Axios and The White House, more at Mediagazer »
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Ashleigh Fields / NewsNation:
White House launches new ‘media bias’ tracker on site
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 29, 2025 — In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees …
Washington Post:
DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record. — Aggressive tactics have been deployed to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records. — CHICAGO — Juan Manuel Armenta was at a bus stop en route to pick up his paycheck …
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The Daily Wire
Agence France-Presse:
France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack — 'I'm relieved:' Blind Ontario man awarded $28,000 for facing discrimination — 17-year-old in hospital following stabbing in Scarborough — Crash seriously injures pedestrian in Langley, RCMP say
David Rothkopf / Need to Know:
We Have Descended into Utter Madness — A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute. — We have descended into utter madness. — We knew we were at risk of it. We struggled against it as it was happening. We called out the warning signs and its first manifestations.
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Blue Virginia
Charlie Sykes / To the Contrary:
“The Order Was to Kill Everybody.” — Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President. — Before the first Caribbean boat strike on September 2, Secretary of War Defense, Pete Hegseth reportedly issued a blunt order: Kill them all. According to the Washington Post …
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The Gateway Pundit, Executive Functions and LewRockwell
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BBC:
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 — Sir Tom Stoppard, one of the UK's best-known playwrights, has died aged 88, his agents have announced. — Sir Tom, who won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, “died peacefully at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family”.
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Claire Armitstead / The Guardian:
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Washington Post, New York Times, CBS News and Deadline

