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1:10 PM ET, December 7, 2025

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Rachel Muller-Heyndyk / BBC:
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says  —  Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it “largely consistent” with Moscow's vision.  —  The 33-page document, unveiled by the US administration this week, suggests Europe is facing …
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Max Griera / Politico:
Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europe's Greens tell von der Leyen
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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
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: Austin Kocher
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Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Trump vows to slam America's doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants
Discussion: KDFX-TV
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 …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court to hear major test of presidential power over Trump's firing of FTC commissioner
Discussion: Bloomberg and New York Times
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.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Democratic lawmakers press for transparency over ‘double tap’ strike … The Pentagon has come under fire after reporting from The Washington Post alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized a deadly second strike to kill all remaining survivors on a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs in international waters.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Top Advisers Wage Campaign to Shift His Focus to High Prices
Discussion: Raw Story and NBC News
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.
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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 …
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr  —  Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU  —  Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president's oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.
Discussion: Sky News, NewsMax.com and Newsweek
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump's son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine
Discussion: The Guardian and Joe.My.God.
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, Breitbart and Oregonian
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Austin Kocher:   A Record 65,735 People in ICE Custody as of November 30
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.
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: RedState, Fox News and NewsMax.com
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Politico:
Trump awards medals to Kennedy Center honorees in Oval Office ceremony
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.
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
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Cassidy projects optimism on winning bipartisan support for his health care plan … Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said he planned to present Republican leadership with his health care plan as soon as Sunday night, predicting that the divisive proposal to put money directly in Americans' health savings accounts …
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 …
 
 
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Chicago Tribune:
From shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents' poor tactics made for needless safety risks, experts say
Jeh C. Johnson / New York Times:
Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth's Boat Strikes Are Illegal.
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard …
David Shuster / Blue Amp Media:
EXCLUSIVE: US Navy Deleted Video of October Boat Attack Survivors
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
The Business of Care … PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE  —  EARLY MORNING, MAY 26, 2022
Paul McLeary / Politico:
Hegseth declares end of US ‘utopian idealism’ with new military strategy
Discussion: Breaking Defense
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
How Abortion Access Became a Major Sticking Point in the GOP Healthcare Fight
Discussion: Breitbart and Politico
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
Gil Duran / The Nerd Reich:
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
 

 
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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

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

Kat Tenbarge / Wired:
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content
 
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