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2:25 PM 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 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 …
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Steve Bannon Was Epstein's Comeback Consultant.  Where's the Uproar?  —  IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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: Reason, Raw Story and Mediaite
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.”
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic
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 …
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:
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 …
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.
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: The Hill and twitchy.com
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.
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.
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' …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Guardian, CNN and Eschaton
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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David McAfee / Raw Story:   ‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’
 
 
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he's running for Congress.
New York Times:
Webster Springs, W.Va. United In Grief Over Death of National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom
Discussion: WCHS-TV and RedState
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump and Hegseth are ‘not serious people’ amid military video investigation
Discussion: The Wrap
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
In Houston suburbs, Abbott's attacks on CAIR unnerve Muslim residents
Discussion: The Hill
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Empathy is the new Christian battleground
Bryan Walsh / Vox:
A shocking new warning about global poverty should unsettle everyone
Janaki Chadha / Politico:
From power brokers to protesters: NYC landlords prepare for battle under Mamdani
 Earlier Items: 
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 29, 2025  —  In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima …
Washington Post:
DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record.
Discussion: The Daily Wire
New York Post:
ICE protesters clash with cops at NYC government building after reports of agents rounding up illegal migrants
Agence France-Presse:
France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
David Rothkopf / Need to Know:
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
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STAT:
Experts say top FDA official's claim that Covid vaccines caused kids' deaths requires more evidence
 

 
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