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10:25 AM ET, December 7, 2025

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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
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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Christopher Flavelle / New York Times:
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration
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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Austin Kocher:   A Record 65,735 People in ICE Custody as of November 30
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
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.
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
Paul McLeary / Politico:
Hegseth declares end of US ‘utopian idealism’ with new military strategy … “Out with idealistic utopianism,” he said.  “In with hard-nosed realism.”  —  The Defense secretary's speech revealed an administration moving toward a policy that recognizes zones of influence led by great powers …
Discussion: Breaking Defense
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Max Griera / Politico:
Europe's populist right hails Trump team's EU bashing  —  Europe's far-right firebrands are rushing to hitch their fortunes to Washington's new crusade against Brussels.  —  Senior U.S. government officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
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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 and Austin Kocher
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
Aaron Krolik / New York Times:
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions … Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes.  The luxury goods could help hide wealth but were cumbersome to move and hard to spend.
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
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.
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 …
 
 
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David Klepper / Associated Press:
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
Washington Post:
A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine
Sasha Polakow-Suransky / Financial Times:
The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Have Trump's Tariffs Gone as High as They Can Go? Businesses Hope So
 Earlier Items: 
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Fredreka Schouten / CNN:
How the Supreme Court emboldened Democrats in California and elsewhere redrawing US House maps
Discussion: The Hill
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Anger is a defining character trait for both parties, new study shows
Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed
 

 
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free
 
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