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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 …
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Joe.My.God. and Agence France-Presse
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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump Voices Disappointment in Zelenskiy as Peace Talks Drag — President Donald Trump said he's disappointed in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's handling of a US proposal to end the war that began with Russia's full-scale invasion. — Trump's tone on Ukraine contrasted with comments …
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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.
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Joe.My.God. and Associated Press
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump's son suggests president may walk away from Ukraine
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New Republic, Joe.My.God., The Guardian, One America News Network and Al Jazeera
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
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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.
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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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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Kremlin hails Trump's national security strategy as aligned with Russia's vision
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Homan defends Trump after president calls Somali community ‘garbage’ … Trump last week said Somali immigrants in Minnesota are “garbage” and he wants them sent “back to where they came from.” — Many swiftly condemned the president's remarks as “racist,” including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump's latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s
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The Forward and Austin Kocher
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Trump vows to slam America's doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants
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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:
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
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Newsweek, Mother Jones, Raw Story, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit and Joe.My.God.
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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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 …
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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
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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.
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Sen. Tom Cotton says survivors of first September boat strike ‘were not incapacitated’
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Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, Joe.My.God., Blue Amp Media, Fox News and Washington Post
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.
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Straight Arrow News, New York Post, Fox News and RedState
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.
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Bloomberg and Scripps News
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities — They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian? — Balaji Srinivasan, former chief technology officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, turns to address …
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The Nerd Reich
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.
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise — President Trump, facing mounting pressure over inflation at the grocery store, ordered a sweeping investigation into food price-fixing that especially targets foreign companies. … It has proven difficult to have cheap food …
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The White House, Semafor, Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
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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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Dimon on Trump Media debanking: ‘People have to grow up here’ — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon pushed back on allegations that Trump Media Group was “debanked” by Chase, saying his company abides by government subpoenas but does not target individuals or entities because of their political leanings.
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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.”
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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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Michael Warren / Associated Press:
Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta — A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opens Monday. It memorializes an event that some people …
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 …
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