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CNN:
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn't radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers — Pete Hegseth Congressional news — The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details — Members of Congress were just permitted to view the video of the second boat-bombing strike that's consuming Washington in controversy, during a classified briefing with Admiral Frank Bradley, who oversaw the operation.
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DNYUZ, The Hill, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Sun, Breitbart and The Independent
New York Times:
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks — Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
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Washington Examiner, Al Jazeera, CNN and The Hill
Washington Post:
Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say — The footage was shown on Capitol Hill, where Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who oversaw a deadly attack on alleged drug smugglers, faced a day of difficult questions about the operation.
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BBC, Wide World of News, Axios, LewRockwell, Al Jazeera, Scripps News, The Japan Times, NOTUS, Associated Press, The Daily Signal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Examiner, The Guardian and Reason
Samantha Waldenberg / CNN:
US strikes another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four, amid escalating questions about its counter-drug offensive
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
A war criminal without a war
A war criminal without a war
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Newsweek, Media Matters for America, New Republic, Axios, WTOP News and Washington Post
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026 — The Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year's elections to be held under the state's congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed …
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Republican-Friendly Texas Voting Maps
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Pluribus News, The Independent, France 24, NewsMax.com, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Times
Punchbowl News:
12/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Senate Majority Leader John Thune is in unfamiliar territory …
12/5/25 ☀️ AM: … Senate Majority Leader John Thune is in unfamiliar territory …
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Washington Examiner and Raw Story
Talking Points Memo:
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas' Gerrymandered House Map
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas' Gerrymandered House Map
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John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms
Supreme Court allows Texas to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms
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Raw Story, NBC News, The Hill, Politico, UPI, Waddy Is Right, Al Jazeera, ABC News, HotAir, The Federalist, KVIA-TV, Townhall, KDFX-TV, The Guardian, Democracy Docket, Axios, Forbes, CBS News and Bolts
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Lets Texas Use GOP-Drawn Voting Map for 2026
Supreme Court Lets Texas Use GOP-Drawn Voting Map for 2026
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Law Dork, SCOTUSblog, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, DNYUZ and Associated Press
NBC News:
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed — Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
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CNN:
Grand jury declines to reindict Letitia James — Federal agencies — A grand jury declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, 10 days after a federal judge threw out the initial charges against her …
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Straight Arrow News, Notes From The Circus, Axios, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, KVIA-TV and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories — The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday. — WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic …
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico, emptywheel, Grabien and New York Post
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources — The FBI director's use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he's “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.” — FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting …
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The Bulwark and Salt Lake Tribune
Laura Kayali / Politico:
Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document — U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration blame the EU and migration for what they say is imminent, total cultural unraveling in Europe. — The explosive claim is made in the U.S. National Security Strategy …
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Reuters, Breitbart, New York Times, Alternet.org and Politico
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Ben Sills / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Europe Risks Being Wiped Away Unless It Changes
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Breaking Defense
Ben Hall / Financial Times:
US national security strategy calls for ‘cultivating resistance’ in Europe
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump reveals what he wants for the world
Trump reveals what he wants for the world
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Associated Press, Phillips's Newsletter, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Raw Story, DNYUZ and Semafor
Kylie Mohr / SFGATE:
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people — Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth — The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks …
Adam Rhodes / Prism:
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says — Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism's mission and the humans behind it.
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Jaclyn Diaz / NPR:
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
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LGBTQ Nation, Joe.My.God. and NewsMax.com
Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
Trump's Affordability “Con Job” — He pooh-poohs cost complaints as a “hoax.” Here's what the numbers say. — LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EPSTEIN FILES, the affordability issue is a “hoax.” So saith our president. — “The word ‘affordability’ is a con job by the Democrats,” …
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Raw Story, Lincoln Square, Financial Times and Washington Examiner
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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Hassett Backs Call for Fed Presidents to Come From Districts — National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett backed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call for a new residency requirement in the appointment of presidents of Federal Reserve banks. — “The reason we have all these regional Feds …
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New York Post, Politico, Semafor and Fortune
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair
Trump Keeps Squeezing the Next Fed Chair
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Fortune and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Trump's Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour — The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating. — After months of holding steady, President Trump's approval rating has taken a dip over the past several weeks …
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Strength In Numbers, Newsweek, New Jersey Online, New York Magazine, Salon and DNYUZ
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
On Immigration, Stephen Miller Is no Calvin Coolidge — Nativists extol the 30th president for closing the golden door. But he never broadly disparaged immigrants and often praised diversity. — President Donald Trump, during his December 2 cabinet meeting, spewed among …
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Amanda Frost / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Crackdown Could Be Illegal
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers — Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.
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Meta Newsroom, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect — Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm's limited capacity to handle such an enormous project. … President Donald Trump has replaced the architect he handpicked to design his White House ballroom …
Colleen Madden Blumenfeld / Challenger …:
Dec 04 Challenger Report: 71,321 Job Cuts On Restructurings, Closings, Economy — NOVEMBER CUTS FALL FROM OCTOBER; UP 24% FROM NOVEMBER 2024 — U.S.-based employers announced 71,321 job cuts in November, up 24% from the 57,727 job cuts announced in the same month last year.
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Wall Street Journal:
How RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Policy Put a Doctor-Turned-Senator in a Political Bind — Health secretary is poised to oversee the undoing of a vaccine norm that Sen. Cassidy worked to promote — During Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmation hearings in Congress, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) …
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STAT, The Hill, The Independent, Politico, NewsMax.com and Roll Call
Isabel Van Brugen / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Deteriorating Health — DROWSY DON — Insiders say the president spends days obsessing over reports comparing him to “Sleepy Joe.” — President Donald Trump is raging over snowballing reports on his apparent cognitive and physical decline.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill as GOP ranks seethe … Other deeply divisive issues remain, ranging from cryptocurrency policy to in vitro fertilization, that could threaten to further splinter the House GOP and imperil the typically bipartisan Pentagon bill.
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NBC News and The Bulwark
Sarah Isgur / New York Times:
Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan — Critics of the Supreme Court have argued that it has too often deferred to the Trump administration and that the conservative justices are under the sway of suspicious propositions like the unitary executive theory and the major questions doctrine.
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SCOTUSblog, Christian Science Monitor, Slate, New York Sun and Raw Story
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Trump's closure of Voice of America is coming back to bite him — As the president threatens Venezuela, Russia and China are filling the information vacuum. … President Donald Trump has said he won't rule out anything when it comes to removing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from power.
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Bloomberg
Washington Post:
For international soccer, the way to keep Trump onside is clear: Flattery — Just now — Make us preferred on Google — In today's edition ... Democrats are kvetching about a possible progressive injection in the Texas Senate race ... but first ... For international soccer, the way to Trump's heart is clear: Flattery
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