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9:55 AM ET, December 7, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Top Advisers Wage Campaign to Shift His Focus to High Prices  —  During closed-door meetings in recent weeks, the president's aides have pressed him to calibrate his message on affordability  —  WASHINGTON—Just before President Trump left the White House for Thanksgiving …
Discussion: NBC News and The Atlantic
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Financial Times:
America's affordability crunch is real — and worse under Trump  —  The president may pretend it's a hoax but his policy agenda has added to the squeeze  —  On the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump vowed to “immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One”.
Discussion: Salon, MS NOW and Washington Post
Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration … In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.  —  Mr. Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies  —  President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.  —  As a young staff member in the Reagan administration …
Discussion: Scripps News and HuffPost
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle … A new president with a bold agenda, determined to exert control over government agencies to carry it out.  An agency head who refused to quit, rejecting the president's demand that he resign and insisting Congress …
Discussion: CBS News
NBC News:
ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows  —  The figures do not include arrests made by Border Patrol, which has launched aggressive immigration operations in several cities in recent months.  —  More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested …
Discussion: al.com and Oregonian
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Sahara Sajjadi / Copper Courier:
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court  —  More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to serve as their own attorneys in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
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Emily Ngo / Politico:
Immigration courts thrown into chaos as Trump administration purges dozens of judges
Discussion: Bloomberg
NBC News:
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets  —  Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump's campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Washington Post:
Donald Trump's Kennedy Center is showier, emptier and more political  —  In 10 months, the president has transformed Washington's cultural hub.  Now comes his biggest night yet: the Kennedy Center Honors.  —  On the day in February that President Donald Trump took over the John F. Kennedy Center …
Discussion: Fox News and NewsMax.com
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump awards medals to the Kennedy Center honorees in an Oval Office ceremony
Gil Duran / The Nerd Reich:
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings  —  Joe Lonsdale, a billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia” who is also a co-founder of Palantir, wants a return to draconian punishment and public executions in the United States.  —  Wrote Lonsdale on X yesterday:
Wall Street Journal:
How Abortion Access Became a Major Sticking Point in the GOP Healthcare Fight  —  Conservative activists urge Republican senators to vote against any healthcare proposal that doesn't tighten access to the procedure  —  WASHINGTON—As congressional Republicans weighed how to approach the fight …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Alex Gangitano / Politico:   Trump won't quit the filibuster fight. Thune can't give him what he wants.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s  —  The president and his aides have escalated anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies in recent weeks.  —  Just now … Somalis are “garbage,” and “we don't want them in our country.”  Migration from “all Third World countries” should be halted.
Discussion: The Guardian
Politico:
Judge blocks prosecutors' access to James Comey's lawyer's emails and data … Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee based in Washington, issued the restraining order before getting a formal response from prosecutors to a petition Richman filed last week seeking return of his data.
Washington Post:
Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest  —  In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son's godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.  —  Just now
Ken Klippenstein:
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals  —  Are you on Trump's naughty list? … Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that he backs a September 2 decision to launch a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.  —  “I fully support that strike,” Hegseth …
Discussion: NBC News, New York Times, CNN and Bloomberg
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Stalls Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment  —  The judge's decision prevented the government until at least next Friday from having access to much of the evidence it used to secure its original indictment against Mr. Comey.  —  A federal judge on Saturday night threw …
NBC News:
Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home  —  Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen.  The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it “determined the individual in question was not the target.”  —  Masked immigration authorities …
Discussion: Associated Press
Robert Klemko / Washington Post:
The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump's immigration crackdown  —  Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”  —  Just now … WAUKEGAN, Ill. — If you rolled past Bedrosian Park after the final bell rang at Waukegan High School …
Discussion: ProPublica
 
 
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