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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
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Trump's pick to replace DeSantis faces a Republican pile-on in Florida … The result is a disjointed and increasingly nasty primary in the nation's third-largest state — one unfolding as Republicans continue to widen their voter registration advantage in the former battleground.
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David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’
Arit John / CNN:
How far can Democrats ride the affordability argument? A progressive running in deep-red Tennessee is about to find out
How far can Democrats ride the affordability argument? A progressive running in deep-red Tennessee is about to find out
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Indiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur
Indiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur
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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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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Bryan Walsh / Vox:
A shocking new warning about global poverty should unsettle everyone — One of humanity's biggest achievements may be slipping away. … Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings. And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for …
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 …
Sadiba Hasan / New York Times:
Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony — The couple legally married at a courthouse in Newark days before hosting an intimate wedding in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. They shared their wedding details exclusively with The New York Times. — Senator Cory Booker …
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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 …
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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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
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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