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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:
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 …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Five Questions About American Foreign Policy
Five Questions About American Foreign Policy
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, To the Contrary, Blue Virginia, Associated Press, OutsideTheBeltway, New York Sun, IJR, Bloomberg and Raw Story
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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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The Daily Caller, New York Post and Wide World of News
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
US officials expect more progress during US-Ukraine talks in Florida — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday he expected talks with Ukrainian officials to yield “more progress” toward a deal to end the war in Ukraine. — “This is not just about peace deals.
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The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Independent, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and NewsMax.com
Faith Wardwell / Politico:
Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy — and Trump … “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. It's about other groups in our community …
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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The Independent, The Colorado Sun and MS NOW
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
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.
David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’ — Republican senators are “compromised,” according to a GOP strategist. — Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, wrote an article on Saturday called None Dare Call It Treason …
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Arit John / CNN:
How far can Democrats ride the affordability argument? A progressive running in deep-red Tennessee is about to find out
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HuffPost, PoliticusUSA, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Daily Wire, Newsweek and Grabien
Stuart Stevens / Lincoln Square:
None Dare Call It Treason: The Republican Party Is Compromised
Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns — The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches …
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Althouse and Associated Press
Tom Burgis / The Guardian:
All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches — From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump's family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election — A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case.
Eva McKend / CNN:
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump's megabill — Donald Trump — As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Noem says National Guard shooting suspect was ‘radicalized’ in the U.S. — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said the Trump administration would resume the asylum process after dealing with a backlog of cases. — WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on NBC News' …
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The Guardian, NOTUS, Axios, The Hill, ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Raw Story, New York Post and Grabien
NBC News:
Kristi Noem blames Biden Afghanistan ‘abandonment’ for National Guard shooting: Full interview — In an interview with Meet the Press, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi criticizes the Biden administration after revelations that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members arrived …
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Reuters, Washington Times, NewsMax.com and The Gateway Pundit
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
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 …
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 …
