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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:
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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Sarah D. Wire / USA Today:
FBI deputy director brushes off his claims FBI hid pipe bomb suspect
FBI deputy director brushes off his claims FBI hid pipe bomb suspect
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Bloomberg, New Republic, Alternet.org, The Hill, Mediaite, MS NOW and The Independent
Hudson Crozier / The Daily Caller:
Court Docs Reveal How Feds Zeroed In On Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect
Court Docs Reveal How Feds Zeroed In On Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect
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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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Paul Waldman / The Cross Section:
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is — The Cross Section is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. — On Thursday, the Supreme Court offered the latest in its ongoing series …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Indiana House passes new Republican-drawn congressional map
Indiana House passes new Republican-drawn congressional map
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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
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Brandy Zadrozny / MS NOW:
RFK Jr.'s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
RFK Jr.'s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
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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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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
A war criminal without a war
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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 …
December 4, 2025 — “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen …
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship — The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it violated the Constitution. — The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear …
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents …
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Bloomberg, CNBC and The Guardian
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to decide if Trump can limit the constitutional right to citizenship at birth
Supreme Court to decide if Trump can limit the constitutional right to citizenship at birth
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Townhall
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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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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New York Times:
Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges — The Justice Department has seized on a lack of explicit instruction from a federal judge to keep Lindsey Halligan in place for now. — The legal decision that ended the criminal cases against the former F.B …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’ — America's goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy. — 1.2k — The Trump administration said on Friday that Europe was facing the …
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Laura Kayali / Politico:
Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document
Trump warns Europe faces ‘civilizational erasure’ in explosive new document
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Jon Henley / The Guardian:
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe's far right
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe's far right
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Raw Story
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 …
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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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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 …
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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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Associated Press:
Live updates: Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released — A federal judge in Florida on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Nicolai Ouroussoff / New York Times:
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 — He burst onto the scene with an attention-getting renovation of his Southern California home before going on to design some of the world's most recognizable buildings. — Frank O. Gehry, one of the most formidable and original talents …
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Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Kagan issues scathing dissent in Texas redistricting case — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday warned in her dissenting opinion that the Supreme Court's approval of Texas's congressional map could violate voters' rights enshrined in the Constitution.
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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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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
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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