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Bloomberg:
US Seizes Sanctioned Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela  —  US forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that marks a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries.
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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.
NBC News:
U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Trump says  —  President Donald Trump told reporters about the seizure just after he said that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's “days are numbered” in an interview.  —  The U.S. military has seized an oil tanker off of Venezuela's coast …
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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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: NextDraft, UPI and Gizmodo
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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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says Fed could have ‘at least doubled’ latest interest rate cut
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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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
A Senate majority could be within Democrats' reach
Discussion: Washington Post and NewsMax.com
Ethan Cohen / CNN:
Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler flips a state House seat in district Trump won by double digits, CNN projects
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:
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 …
Discussion: CBS News, PoliticusUSA and Axios
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Politico:
Congress' health care headache
Discussion: The Hill
Erin Doherty / Politico:
New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain … Americans are struggling with affordability pressures that are squeezing everything from their everyday necessities to their biggest-ticket expenses.  —  Nearly half of Americans said they find groceries, utility bills …
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Politico:
Trump's blind spot
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 …
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
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
Annie Karni / New York Times:
House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health  —  The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party's leaders and is all but certain to fail.  —  Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan …
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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 …
New York Times:
Inside the Pentagon's Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors … The Pentagon was in a bind.  The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them.
Discussion: New Republic and CNN
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Associated Press:
Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case  —  Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests …
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 …
Reese Gorman / NOTUS:
National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a Senate Run  —  Republicans' Senate campaign arm has actively worked behind the scenes to encourage Rep. Jasmine Crockett to jump into the Senate Democratic primary in Texas, believing she will be the easiest opponent to beat.
Miami Herald:
Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor's race, beats Trump's pick  —  Democrat Eileen Higgins has defeated Trump-backed opponent Emilio González in Tuesday night's runoff for Miami mayor, with the former Miami-Dade commissioner edging out the former city manager with nearly 60% of the vote …
Politico:
Trump aides and allies float potential Noem successors as speculation grows over her tenure … This story is based on conversations with 17 people, including administration officials, people close to the White House, and lawmakers.  Many were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues.
 
 
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Reuters:
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