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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 and NewsMax.com
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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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered Closed
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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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Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
David W. Chen / New York Times:
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills — Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia. Can the same playbook work in 2026? — As loyal Republicans …
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The Guardian, CNN and Eschaton
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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The Hill and twitchy.com
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
Faith Wardwell / Politico:
License plate trackers promise to root out local crime. Amid ICE crackdowns, local governments say they can't be trusted. … “So for me, a 56-year-old white guy, sure, take a picture of my license plate,” he said. “They're not coming after me. But it's not about me.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump and Hegseth are ‘not serious people’ amid military video investigation — Kelly's comments come after the Defense Department said it would investigate the retired Navy captain after he participated in a video calling on troops to refuse illegal orders.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity — The president has used the language of divisiveness at a time when tragedy demands leadership. — Just now — There was a time, not that far in the past, when a shocking tragedy would bring the country together.
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NBC News, The Colorado Sun and MS NOW
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Empathy is the new Christian battleground — As the U.S. grows more diverse, a quiet civil war is unfolding within American Christianity over who deserves empathy. — Why it matters: Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue …
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 …
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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Washington Post:
Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump's ‘retribution campaign’ — In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump's norm-shattering bid to punish political foes. — Just now — After Donald Trump's reelection last year …
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
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
Claire Armitstead / The Guardian:
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 — A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter — The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled …
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