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10:40 AM ET, November 30, 2025

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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 …
Discussion: 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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Politico:
Trump orders the closure of Venezuelan airspace
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered Closed
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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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Ashleigh Fields / NewsNation:
White House launches new ‘media bias’ tracker on site
The White House:
Media Offenders  —  Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable.
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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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José Olivares / The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth denies that he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
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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ABC7:
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
Discussion: Chicago Sun Times
STAT:
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Associated Press:
Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
As Epstein files release looms, questions abound on what happens next: ‘Possibilities are endless’
Discussion: Raw Story and Public Notice
Mackenzie Wilkes / Politico:
The challenge of moving special education out of the Education Department
Neil Irwin / Axios:
Social Security's day of reckoning is nearly here
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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Adrian Carrasquillo / The Bulwark:
A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE
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