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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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The Independent, MS NOW, New Jersey Online, Politico, emptywheel and NewsMax.com
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CNN:
Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, sources say — Federal agencies Congressional news January 6th US elections — During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen …
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried …
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns — In a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee decided to limit at-birth hepatitis B shots to babies whose mothers are infected with the virus.
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Politico, Diane Ravitch's blog, DNYUZ, al.com and NPR
Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
RFK Jr.'s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns — The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted on Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine. — Without data to support their decision and defying warnings from doctors …
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Quartz, New York Sun, Gizmodo, Washington Times, The National Pulse, Techdirt, Ars Technica, The Hill, KDFX-TV and The Independent
Washington Post:
CDC panel makes most sweeping revision to child vaccine schedule under RFK Jr.
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NOTUS, Reuters, The 19th and Associated Press
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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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
December 4, 2025 — “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, CNN, The Hill and Al Jazeera
Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander in the boat strike controversy?
Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander in the boat strike controversy?
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Associated Press
Washington Post:
Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say
Video shows second strike hit before survivors could flip boat, lawmakers say
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New Republic, BBC, Salon, HuffPost, Al Jazeera, Wide World of News, LewRockwell, MS NOW, Axios, The Japan Times, Scripps News and NOTUS
CNBC:
Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal … Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.
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About Netflix:
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) — Transaction Unites Warner Bros.' Iconic Franchises and Storied Libraries with Netflix's Leading Entertainment Service, Creating an Extraordinary Offering for Consumers
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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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New York Magazine, Straight Arrow News, The Bulwark, New Republic, Daily Mail, twitchy.com, Raw Story and Salt Lake Tribune
Paul Krugman:
MAGA's Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse — And Trump's numbers will continue to slide — Long ago, probably in a long-forgotten hotel room, I watched a 1974 movie called The Internecine Project — now available, as you'll see if you follow the hyperlink, on YouTube. In truth, it's a pretty bad movie.
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Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark:
Trump's Affordability “Con Job”
Trump's Affordability “Con Job”
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Lincoln Square, Alternet.org, Mediaite and Raw Story
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 …
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Wonkette and No More Mister Nice Blog
European Commission:
Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act — Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ …
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April Rubin / Axios:
Trump allies back Elon Musk's X after Europe hits it with $140M fine
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Politico, Bloomberg, CBS News, Quartz, DNYUZ, Associated Press, Euro Weekly News and twitchy.com
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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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe's far right
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New York Post, Reuters, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump reveals what he wants for the world
Trump reveals what he wants for the world
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Axios, Phillips's Newsletter, The Hill, Associated Press, KDFX-TV, Raw Story, Wall Street Journal, DNYUZ, Politico and Semafor
CNN:
Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents — Federal agencies — Federal judges in Alexandria, Virginia, have lashed out at the Justice Department as they continue to list Lindsey Halligan on court documents — some going as far as striking her name from paperwork from the bench.
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Associated Press:
Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James
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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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Newsweek, DNYUZ, Strength In Numbers and New York Magazine
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.
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New Republic, Raw Story, Zeteo and DNYUZ
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel — The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday. — A former longtime Drug Enforcement Administration agent who rose …
Financial Times:
‘Why are we letting this guy go?’ Donald Trump's pardons upend US justice system — Releases of drug traffickers and fraudsters puzzle allies and send shockwaves through legal circles — It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine.
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America, America and The Hill
Politico:
Trump-allied PACs target Indiana Republicans blocking redistricting push … Indiana state House Republicans released a draft congressional map earlier this week that would give the GOP a leg up in all nine of the state's congressional districts. But the effort has faced resistance …
New York Times:
FIFA's Leader Often Flatters Trump. Now, He's Awarding a Peace Prize. — Gianni Infantino, head of soccer's governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup. — Not long after President Trump missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize …
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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Christian Science Monitor, SCOTUSblog and New York Sun
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump approves tiny ‘cars of the very near future’ — President Trump said Friday he had granted approval for “tiny cars” to be built in the United States, a move that would expand the availability of similar smaller vehicles that are popular in Asia. — “I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America.
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Washington Examiner, Detroit Free Press, RedState, DNYUZ, NewsMax.com, Gizmodo, Washington Times and Electrek
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
JD Vance says his marriage with Usha is 'as strong as it's ever been' — Yes, the very online vice president has seen the online speculation about his marriage. He said he and the second lady found the recent episode around her wedding ring funny. — WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance …
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DNYUZ, NewsMax.com, KVIA-TV, Daily Mail, New York Daily News, Raw Story, Newsweek, KDFX-TV and Deseret News
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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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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HotAir, TechCrunch, Meta Newsroom and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
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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Raw Story, New York Post and Politico

