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6:05 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 …
Discussion: Blaze Media, HuffPost and France 24
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Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Russia praises US security strategy shift heralded by ‘strong’ Trump  —  Vladimir Putin's press secretary on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial new National Security Strategy as largely in line with Russia's view of the world.  —  Moscow's public acknowledgement …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump's son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine … Zelenskyy himself has not been accused of corruption.  —  “Because of the war, and because he's one of the great marketers of all times, Zelenskyy became a borderline deity, especially to the left, where he could do no wrong, he was beyond reproach,” Trump Jr. said.
Reuters:
Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view  —  The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia's own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
Discussion: Associated Press
Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Kremlin hails Trump's national security strategy as aligned with Russia's vision
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
Discussion: Sky News, NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon … He lambasted Cuellar for “a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry's daughters, will not like.”  At the same time, he criticized Democrats for “mercilessly” attempting to “destroy” Cuellar and his family in the post …
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump blasts pardoned Democrat as lacking “LOYALTY”  —  President Trump blasted Rep. Henry Cuellar on Sunday for “a lack of LOYALTY” days after he pardoned the Texas Democrat in a shock move last week. … - “Such a lack of LOYALTY, something that Texas Voters, and Henry's daughters, will not like,” the president wrote.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Mediaite
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court … President Donald Trump's drive to replace agency leaders and his mass firings across the federal government are all based on the same basic legal concept: the unitary executive theory.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies
Discussion: Raw Story and Scripps News
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:   For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle
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
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.
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 Forward and 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
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Homan defends Trump after president calls Somali community ‘garbage’
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
The Hill:
Health care fight hits critical juncture  —  The fierce fight over health care costs hits a crucial juncture this week, with a series of major developments that could make or break the future of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.  —  For months, GOP leaders have been squeezed between centrist …
Discussion: New Jersey Online and KDFX-TV
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Cassidy projects optimism on winning bipartisan support for his health care plan
Discussion: NewsMax.com
CBS News:
Transcript: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Dec. 7, 2025  —  The following is the transcript of the interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Dec. 7, 2025.
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CBS News:
Transcript: Rep. Jim Himes on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Dec. 7, 2025
Discussion: NOTUS and The Hill
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.
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Audrey McAvoy / Associated Press:
Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive.  People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing  —  Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base's waterfront.
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Land War or Self-Terrorism?  —  Trump's Likely Next Step  —  In certain ways, the autumn of 2025 in the United States has recalled the autumn of 1938 in Nazi Germany.  —  The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler's largest coercive policies before the war.
Max Rego / The Hill:
Former FDA commissioner: Trump claims about hepatitis B transmission ‘simply not true’  —  Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that President Trump's assertions about hepatitis B transmission are “simply not true.”
Discussion: CBS News, Forbes, Breitbart and New York Sun
Jeh C. Johnson / New York Times:
Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same.  Hegseth's Boat Strikes Are Illegal.  —  With its strikes on suspected drug couriers in the Caribbean, our government is conducting extrajudicial killings on the high seas — plain and simple.  Some Americans may wonder how this is any different …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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: New Republic
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 …
Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources: Ted Sarandos Met With Donald Trump Ahead of Netflix's Winning Warner Bros. Deal  —  As the streaming giant aims to acquire the legacy studio, multiple insiders say that a recent conversation between its CEO and the President may have helped pave the way.
 
 
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The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump's immigration crackdown
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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

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