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6:25 AM ET, December 8, 2025

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Leigh Ann Caldwell / Puck:
Johnson's Career Crisis & The House G.O.P. Exodus  —  Serving in the House—even when your party controls that chamber, the Senate, and the Oval Office—just ain't what it used to be.  The 119th Congress has been divided and demoralized, and is on track to be the least productive in recent memory.
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Punchbowl News:
12/8/25 ☀️ AM: … The Senate returns this afternoon and the House comes back Tuesday evening.  House Republican staff directors are in Boston for a retreat.  —  Both chambers will be focused on health care and defense policy.  —  With little time left in 2025, the political and policy stakes are high.
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals … The final bill is the result of weeks of negotiations between House and Senate leadership in both parties, heads of the Armed Services panels and the White House.  The measure had been slowed in recent days by talks …
Politico:
As affordability concerns mount, Hill Republicans are struggling to act … “The cost of living is a legitimate issue — I think it was one of the main reasons President Trump was elected.  I think it's still an issue,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said in an interview, urging Republicans …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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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Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Trump Voices Disappointment in Zelenskiy as Peace Talks Drag
Discussion: Reuters and The Hill
Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
US may end support for Ukraine war effort, says Donald Trump Jr
Discussion: Sky News, Politico, Newsweek and NewsMax.com
Scott Wong / NBC News:
‘I am America First’: Marjorie Taylor Greene knocks Trump for not focusing on domestic issues  —  In an interview on CBS News' “60 Minutes,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she has “zero plans” to run for president in 2028.  —  In a high-profile interview, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene …
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CBS News:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: The 2025 60 Minutes Interview
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China's Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time  —  President Trump's tariffs weren't enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year's record in just 11 months.  —  China got the world's attention last January when it announced that its trade surplus …
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Chan Ho-him / Associated Press:
China's exports grow 5.9% in November, while US shipments drop 29%
Discussion: IJR
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Trump's battle with independent agencies is back at the Supreme Court  —  Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has fired multiple members of agencies that Congress set up to be insulated from political pressures.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday weighs whether …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump's plans to shatter the bureaucracy have a green light at the Supreme Court
Discussion: Bloomberg
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Netflix co-CEO discussed Warner Bros. deal with Trump  —  Will Netflix's $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators?  —  While Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to acquire the storied movie studio thanks to CEO David Ellison's connections …
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Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump bets party, presidency on AI  —  President Trump is betting his presidency — and the future of the GOP — on lightly regulated, fast expansion of AI. … But none comes close to his sustained, and surging, all-in alliance with tech billionaires and AI companies reshaping the U.S. economy.
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.
Daniel Desrochers / Politico:
‘Only so long’ before Trump's tariff costs hit consumers, businesses warn … “In the first half of next year, we are concerned that consumers are going to start to see the price increases become a little more broad based, and there may not be all the [holiday sales] promotion to help clear through …
Washington Post:
Venezuela's Maduro, shaken but still standing, aims to wait out Trump  —  Five months into the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is feeling the pressure but refusing to go into exile.  —  Just now … CARACAS, Venezuela …
Discussion: New York Daily News
Washington Post:
Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric  —  The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his time in office, a Post analysis shows.  —  Just now … On President Donald Trump's first full day in office this year …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
AI boom fuels “environmental justice” fears in communities of color … Many of these centers are clustered in regions where marginalized communities already face higher levels of air pollution, industrial zoning and climate vulnerability.  — Civil rights groups say these impacts resemble …
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums … Millions of Americans are confronting the highest health insurance costs in years.  For those enrolling in Obamacare for next year, the plans will cover a considerably smaller fraction of their medical bills.
Bloomberg:
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion in Long-Awaited Farm Aid Program  —  The Trump administration on Monday plans to unveil a long-awaited farm aid package, according to a White House official, offering $12 billion in assistance to a key base of support hit hard by low crop prices and the impact of the president's tariff policies.
Julia Ornedo / The Daily Beast:
Immigrants ‘Plucked Out’ of Oath Ceremony Lines After Trump Order  —  PLEASE HOLD  —  The Trump administration has reportedly canceled the naturalization ceremonies of immigrants from certain countries.  —  Immigrants who are one step away from American citizenship have suddenly found themselves …
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Trump slams pardoned Democratic congressman as ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties  —  Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case.
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Trump sours on Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar after issuing pardon
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Hollywood Doesn't Want Netflix to Buy Warner Bros.  —  I was pretty surprised this summer when a longstanding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, those guys who hand out the Oscars, said the quiet part out loud in a casual conversation in my backyard.
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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CNN:
Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump's peace agreement hangs in balance
Dan Sturman / New York Times:
The Crucial Lesson of a Forgotten Nixon-Era Episode
Michael Kaplan / CBS News:
Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like “an atom bomb,” scientists there say
Discussion: Forbes
Associated Press:
Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE
Holly Otterbein / Axios:
Scoop: S. Carolina Dems enlist influencers for primary fight
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise
Andrew O'Hehir / Salon:
Trump's foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again
Discussion: Raw Story and The Mahablog
 Earlier Items: 
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
In the Line of Fire  —  During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem.
Discussion: Axios
Max Rego / The Hill:
Former FDA commissioner: Trump claims about hepatitis B transmission ‘simply not true’
Discussion: CBS News and Forbes
Politico:
‘Sort of blackmail’: Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Discussion: The Nerd Reich
Michael Warren / Associated Press:
Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Aaron Krolik / New York Times:
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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

Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU says Meta agreed to make changes to its “pay or consent” model in the EU, including ad-lite Instagram and Facebook versions, but “the case is not closed”
 
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