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Dan Primack / Axios:
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery  —  Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing. … - Paramount is led by David Ellison …
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CNBC:
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war … Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday.
Paramount Skydance Corporation:
PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE  — Offer provides superior value, and a more certain and quicker path to completion to WBD shareholders  — Equity to be backstopped by Ellison Family and RedBird Capital in addition …
Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
Jared Kushner, the President's Son-in-Law, Is Part of Paramount's Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and Deadline
Politico:
White House to announce $12 billion farmer bailout package … Farmers are expected to start receiving the funds in February at the earliest, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans.  —  The announcement comes after months of promises from Trump and other administration officials …
Discussion: Forbes and Blaze Media
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Associated Press:
Trump is proposing a $12B aid package for farmers hit hard by his trade war with China  —  President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs …
Laura Barrón-López / MS NOW:
Trump weighing Noem's ouster at Homeland Security  —  White House officials have grown frustrated with Kristi Noem's leadership of the Department of Homeland Security, leading to calls for a new secretary to more aggressively support key parts of the president's deportation agenda, two sources familiar with the situation told MS NOW.
Jack Fink / CBS News:
Jasmine Crockett launches campaign for Texas Democratic Senate primary after Colin Allred drops out  —  Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Monday filed paperwork to run for Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Texas, a source tells CBS News Texas, hours ahead of a planned news conference where she is set to announce her plans.
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Associated Press:
Allred switches from Texas Senate race to a House comeback bid.  Crockett's Senate decision looms  —  Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats' long-shot hopes of reclaiming …
Fox News:
Trump critic Jasmine Crockett poised for Senate run in deep-red Texas
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Miami Hasn't Had a Democratic Mayor in Almost 30 Years. Is That About to Change?
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
ProPublica:
Trump's Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal  —  For months, the Trump administration has been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence.  —  President Donald Trump branded one foe who did so “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
CNN:
Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba resigns as acting US attorney for New Jersey  —  Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, resigned Monday as the acting US attorney for the district of New Jersey, following an appeals court ruling finding that she was serving in her position unlawfully.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba resigns as New Jersey U.S. attorney after disqualification
Axios:
Humphrey's Executor: SCOTUS weighs Trump's power to fire … Ousted FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter warned that overturning it “would profoundly destabilize institutions” key to American governance. … - Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has weakened Humphrey's Executor …
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Ashley Gold / Axios:
Supreme Court seems ready to let Trump fire independent commissioners
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Republican unity crumbles as America's mood sours  —  The honeymoon period of the second Trump administration has given way to a new phase where elected Republicans have grown emboldened to defy the president and push back on his administration. … - They've bucked Trump on the release …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
All Gas. No Brakes. Trump Quakes.
Hailey Fuchs / Politico:   Senate Judiciary plans hearings around Jack Smith probe
Bloomberg:
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Projects Ruled Illegal by US Judge  —  President Donald Trump's executive order directing government agencies to halt approving new wind energy projects was ruled illegal by a federal judge.  —  The ruling Monday sided with more than a dozen states …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and NOTUS
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Trump Promises Executive Order to Block State A.I. Regulations
Politico:
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos … The provision appeared as lawmakers look into a controversial follow-up strike on Sept. 2 that killed two survivors of an initial attack, an action some experts warn amounts to a war crime.
Spencer Ackerman / FOREVER WARS:
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz  —  ONE OF THE MOST horrific torture methods that the CIA employed in its post-9/11 incommunicado “black site” torture chambers was the Confinement Box.  —  Not many detainees in CIA custody experienced the Box.
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Anti-Trump former Republicans have a multimillion-dollar plan to save House Democrats … “The Save America movement was started with the express mission of defeating MAGA, but the electoral side, particularly the 2026 elections, are absolutely critical to that mission,” said Mary Corcoran, co-founder and executive director of SAM.
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Jeremy B. White / Politico:
‘Massacred’: The California GOP hits a new low
Discussion: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
Venezuela, Western Dominance, & Regime Change: Rep. Adam Smith's Striking Updates  —  “The capsized bow of the boat...probably wasn't any bigger than your average kitchen table.”  —  The Contrarian and Jennifer Rubin  —  Transcript  —  Contrarians, you do not want to miss this interview.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders?  Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.  —  As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
Discussion: New Republic
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. pushes Zelensky for swift yes on peace plan: Ukrainian officials  —  Ukrainian President Zelensky faces growing pressure from the U.S. to accept major territorial losses and other concessions in President Trump's peace plan, two Ukrainian officials tell Axios.
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
A Dozen F.B.I. Agents Sue Patel After Being Fired Over Kneeling at Protest  —  A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd's killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.  —  A dozen F.B.I. agents fired this year for having knelt during a racial justice protest …
Nancy Mace / New York Times:
Why The Republican House Isn't Working  —  I came to Congress five years ago believing I could make a difference for my constituents, for South Carolina and for a country I love deeply.  I was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel's Corps of Cadets.  I don't scare easily.
Adrian Horton / The Guardian:
Jim Caviezel to play Jair Bolsonaro in ‘heroic’ biopic  —  Actor, who starred in The Passion of the Christ, will play the disgraced ex-Brazilian president in film written by his one-time secretary of culture  —  Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president now in prison for plotting a coup, is getting the biopic treatment.
Bailey Richards / People:
Immigrants Approved for Citizenship ‘Plucked Out’ of Line Moments Before Pledging Allegiance: Report  —  As of Dec. 2, USCIS is halting all applications for immigrants from the 19 countries the Trump administration has deemed high-risk  — Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens …
Discussion: NBC News and Boston.com
Leah Feiger / Wired:
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less  —  “You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.  —  Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Boasberg escalates contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act deportations … The Justice Department declined to comment on Boasberg's order.  —  Boasberg's command reignites a long-simmering clash between the Obama-appointed judge and the administration over President Donald Trump's extraordinary bid …
Paul Krugman:
Is This The End of the Free World?  —  Trump wants to MAGAfy Europe, too  —  There was a time, not so long ago, when America was the leader of the free world.  It was the first among equals within an alliance of nations bound together by shared values — above all a commitment to democracy and civil liberties.
Discussion: Slate and Raw Story
 
 
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
196. Justice Kagan's Texas Redistricting Dissent
Drew Friedman / Federal News Network:
Trump's government management vision centers on elimination, accountability
Discussion: GovExec.com and Bloomberg
Politico:
House GOP leaders plan Wednesday NDAA vote
Discussion: GovExec.com
April Rubin / Axios:
DHS shares Christmas-themed deportation memes
Discussion: The Independent
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Congress moves to block Pentagon from cutting US troops in Europe and South Korea
 Earlier Items: 
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew granted bond after ICE arrest
Financial Times:
Tony Blair out of running for Gaza ‘board of peace’
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U.S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It
Eric Holcomb / Washington Post:
I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
Annie Correal / New York Times:
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
Discussion: The Guardian, Boston.com and Townhall
 

 
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