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6:55 PM ET, December 10, 2025

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Bloomberg:
US Forces Seize Sanctioned Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela  —  US forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries.  —  “We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela …
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Reuters:
US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say  —  The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, three officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that raised oil prices and is likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas.
New York Times:
U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Trump Says
Federal Register:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)  —  Published Document: 2025-22461 (90 FR 57208)  —  This document has been published in the Federal Register.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Tourists from 42 countries will have to submit 5 years of social media history to enter U.S. under Trump plan  —  The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country …
NBC News:
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan  —  The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.  —  The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists …
Discussion: The Verge, NextDraft, UPI and Semafor
Daniel Nichanian / Bolts:
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats  —  At the start of Donald Trump's first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the 2018 midterms.
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Ethan Cohen / CNN:
Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler flips a state House seat in district Trump won by double digits, CNN projects
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
A Senate majority could be within Democrats' reach
Discussion: Washington Post and NewsMax.com
Paul Krugman:
Trump Says That You Are the Problem  —  Last night Donald Trump gave an important speech on the economy in Pennsylvania — supposedly in a working-class area, although the actual venue was a luxury casino resort.  The event was initially touted as the start of an “affordability tour,” …
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Politico:
Trump's blind spot
Politico:
Frustrated Republicans move to force Obamacare vote as warnings mount about the midterms … The move to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson came as a growing number of mainstream House Republicans publicly warned that their leaders' apparent plan to allow the tax credits to expire without a replacement …
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan  —  House Republican leaders presented no firm plan Tuesday for advancing health care legislation as anxiety rises in the GOP ranks over the impending expiration of key Obamacare subsidies at the end of the year.
Politico:
Congress' health care headache
Discussion: The Hill and CBS News
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Divided Fed approves third rate cut this year, sees slower pace ahead  —  A Federal Reserve split over where its priorities should lie cut its key interest rate Wednesday, but signaled a tougher road ahead for further reductions.  —  Fulfilling expectations of a “hawkish cut,” …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Washington Post:
DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of Boeing 737s for deportations  —  The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress. … The Department of Homeland Security recently signed …
Associated Press:
Live updates: Judge orders Trump to end California National Guard deployment in Los Angeles  —  The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Judge Says Trump Must End Guard Deployment in Los Angeles
CBS News:
Tony Dokoupil named anchor of the “CBS Evening News”  —  Emmy Award-winning journalist Tony Dokoupil has been named anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” the network announced Wednesday.  He begins his new role on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, ushering in an ambitious new era for America's longest-running …
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The Messy New York GOP Fight Trump Tried and Failed to Avoid  —  What he told Bruce Blakeman about challenging Elise Stefanik for governor.  —  Bruce Blakeman's announcement that he is running for governor against fellow Republican Elise Stefanik caught many by surprise, not least of which was the White House.
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
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Grace Ashford / New York Times:
Trump Didn't Clear a Path for Stefanik in the N.Y. Governor's Race
Discussion: Politico and Washington Examiner
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
South Carolina measles outbreak is ‘accelerating,’ driving hundreds into quarantine  —  Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.  —  The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end …
Discussion: KDFX-TV, Ars Technica and Gizmodo
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters:
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump  —  President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials …
Arthur Jones II / Reuters:
Trump administration moves to end major student loan forgiveness plan: 'We won't tolerate it'  —  “The law is clear: if you take out a loan, you must pay it back.”  —  Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington.
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally  —  One of the president's appeals-court nominees, a former lawyer for the president, was in the crowd at a raucous event in Mt. Pocono, Pa.  —  Judge Emil Bove III, a federal appeals court judge who made his career …
Discussion: Law Dork and New Jersey Online
Molly Guinness / archive.ph:
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose  —  The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session  —  The father of a child who was prescribed a potentially fatal dose of testosterone …
David Smith / The Guardian:
Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives' autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures  —  RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats - and Gaza stance did not help  —  Kamala Harris lost last year's US presidential election because she chased …
Whitney Curry Wimbish / American Prospect:
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison  —  A for-profit virtual education company accused of defrauding investors and other harms is set to run a new school at an immigration prison in Texas, according to job advertisements.  —  Stride, Inc., an S&P 600 corporation based in Virginia …
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Roadmap for Trump's FEMA reforms set for release Thursday  —  The Trump administration is set to unveil its plan this week to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a proposal that is sure to be contentious but is not expected to go as far as earlier calls to eliminate the agency completely.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Henry Cuellar faces opposition as he seeks to regain powerful spending post … The matter is in the hands of the 27 Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee, who are set to take a secret ballot vote Thursday to determine Cuellar's future on the panel.
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds  —  Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%  —  Fewer than 60,000 people - .001% of the world's population - control three times as much wealth …
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
When G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact-check an article for him yesterday, the chatbot couldn't get its head around modern America.  It told him there were “multiple factual impossibilities” in his article, including his statements that “[t]he current Secretary …
 
 
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
'He's going to be next': Trump threatens Colombian president
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and Bloomberg
Carmen Paun / Politico:
3 Republican senators signal disapproval of HHS rule change seen as reducing transparency
Jory Heckman / Federal News Network:
‘Bedrock’ federal data sets are disappearing, as statistical agencies face upheaval
Discussion: Associated Press
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Family sues school district over student's Charlie Kirk message
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Blaze Media
Politico:
Andy Kim seeks to take down the Democratic machines in 2027
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 Earlier Items: 
Reuters:
US farmers say Trump's $12 billion aid package won't cover losses
Joe Concha / Washington Examiner:
Time's 2025 Person of the Year should be an obvious choice: Charlie Kirk
Annie Karni / New York Times:
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health
Associated Press:
Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a Senate Run
 

 
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS names Tony Dokoupil as the new anchor of CBS Evening News as part of a major overhaul under Bari Weiss; Dokoupil is currently an anchor on CBS' morning show

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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