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Axios:
Republican lawmakers slam Trump's “inappropriate” posts on Rob Reiner — President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress for posting that director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed due to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
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Laura Esposito / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Turns on Trump Over Deranged Rob Reiner Post — GONE TOO FAR — The president managed to make even a grisly murder about himself. — Even some of Donald Trump's most devoted followers recoiled at his suggestion that Hollywood director Rob Reiner was killed because of his own “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA breaks with Trump on mocking Rob Reiner's killing — President Trump torpedoed MAGA influencers' calls for compassion after the killing of director Rob Reiner, mocking the longtime liberal activist as a victim of “Trump derangement syndrome.” … - Trump abandoned that moral high ground …
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Los Angeles Times:
Rob Reiner's son arrested on suspicion of homicide, records show — 6 min Click here to listen to this article — Rob Reiner's son Nick was booked into the Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of murder, records show, hours after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner …
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Trump's Post Attacking Rob Reiner After Stabbing Death Draws Immediate Outrage — The president attributed the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife to “Trump derangement syndrome.” There was no indication that the couple's political beliefs were linked to their deaths.
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Republicans Condemn Donald Trump Over Vile Remarks About Rob and Michele Reiner — The dam is breaking in Congress and on the internet. — In a rare and striking moment, Donald Trump is facing public condemnation not just from his critics, but from his own supporters and prominent figures on the right …
Greg Hanlon / People:
Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son (Exclusive Sources)
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Mocks Rob Reiner, Says He Was Killed Because of His ‘TDS’
Trump Mocks Rob Reiner, Says He Was Killed Because of His ‘TDS’
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
“Very bad for our country”: Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner attacks
“Very bad for our country”: Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner attacks
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Reiners' Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed
Live Updates: Reiners' Son Arrested After Director and His Wife Found Stabbed
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Greene criticizes Trump over Rob Reiner Trump derangement post
Greene criticizes Trump over Rob Reiner Trump derangement post
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash
Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash
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NBC News:
Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their L.A. home from apparent stab wounds
Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their L.A. home from apparent stab wounds
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump says Rob Reiner, victim of possible homicide, died of ‘Trump derangement syndrome’
Trump says Rob Reiner, victim of possible homicide, died of ‘Trump derangement syndrome’
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ProPublica:
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. — On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate. — For four weeks, they had been working overtime …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
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Associated Press:
Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre
Australia to tighten gun laws after Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Inside Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State — Stephen Miller's ancestors first arrived in the United States in 1903. That's when a man named Wolf Laib Glosser disembarked at Ellis Island after leaving behind his hometown in Antopol, a small town in the part of the czarist Russian empire that is now Belarus.
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
White House Rages at MAGA Senator Over Anti-JD Vance Plot — EATING THEIR OWN — Sen. Josh Hawley appears to be eyeing a primary run against Donald Trump's second-in-command. — MAGA administration insiders are apparently livid after GOP Sen. Josh Hawley launched what has been received …
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump advisers strafe Hawley over new anti-abortion group
Trump advisers strafe Hawley over new anti-abortion group
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he'd do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’ — Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi shooters on Sunday, has said that despite the immense pain he is in, he does not regret lunging at the gunman.
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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Army shares identities of two soldiers killed in ISIS ambush in Syria — The U.S. Army has shared the identities of the two Iowa National Guard troops who were killed on Saturday when an ISIS terrorist opened fire on them in Palmyra, Syria. — Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25 …
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Governor Kim Reynolds, Daily Caller News Foundation, Deseret News and The Daily Wire
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Fox News:
FBI arrests 4 alleged members of radical pro-Palestinian group accused of plotting New Year's Eve bombings — FIRST ON FOX — Federal authorities say they disrupted a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged members of a radical pro-Palestinian extremist group accused …
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Politico:
New York Young Republican Club gala draws white nationalist, far-right Germans as elected officials skip out … NEW YORK — Two months after prominent members of a national Young Republican organization were exposed for their role in a hate-filled, private group chat, the city-based chapter showed it's willing to welcome almost anyone.
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Jewish Insider and Talking Points Memo
Paul Krugman:
MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media — This isn't just about business; it's about democracy — Warner Bros. Discovery, which among other things controls CNN, has agreed to sell itself to Netflix. But it isn't a done deal, because Paramount has made a rival, hostile bid.
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Jacobin
Axios:
Ukraine and U.S. divided over territory after intense negotiations — Two days of intense negotiations between Ukraine, the U.S. and European officials resulted in clear progress on security guarantees for Ukraine but left significant gaps on the issue of territory, U.S. officials told reporters on Monday.
Cassidy Randall / Politico:
'I Didn't Vote for This': A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country … The road to the tiny hamlet of Marion in northwest Montana is lined with the thick trees of the Flathead National Forest, with modern homesteads of trailers and modest homes dotting clearings here and there.
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The Bulwark and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Jared Kushner's Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance — Deal to redevelop site bombed by NATO has become quagmire for U.S. president's son-in-law — For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
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CNBC:
New Trump tariffs collection hits $200 billion, Customs says … The United States has collected more than $200 billion in tariffs this year as a result of new duties imposed by President Donald Trump since the beginning of 2025, the Customs and Border Protection agency said Monday.
Caitlin McCormack / New York Post:
Sophomore Ella Cook ID'd as first victim in Brown University shooting — The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school's college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.
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Margie Cullen / The Providence Journal:
Kash Patel should ‘take a lesson’ from RI, Magaziner says — The perpetrator of the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two and injured nine is still unknown after the “person of interest” located in part by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was released Dec. 14.
President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic.
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Lee Ann Anderson / The Hill:
Why Florida is ground zero for coming ObamaCare storm — Florida will be hit harder than any other state if ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the year, which is looking increasingly likely as Republicans in Congress struggle to unite behind a plan to extend the tax credits.
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The Guardian
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation — At his clinic, John Sirabella is a hard man to talk to. — On a recent evening, in the back of a cavernous church basement, he led a training for over two dozen people gathered on folding chairs.
NBC News:
Brown University shooting live updates: Victim named as manhunt for shooter who killed two continues — Brown has canceled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control. — New details emerge in Brown University shooting: What we know — What we know
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Greg Grandin / The Nation:
What the Noam Chomsky-Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us — Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn't mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.” — Pocket — Over his long life, Noam Chomsky—who turned 97 this month …
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Associated Press:
Sen. Cruz threatens another shutdown unless restrictions on military flights are approved — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz threatened Monday to hold up funding to keep the federal government open after the end of January if reforms don't pass by then to tighten up the rules on military flights …
Politico:
‘Our message is simple’: Democrats unite as GOP again struggles to address health care … The upshot is that there is no clear, unified GOP message on health care going into the year-end deadline when the tax credits expire — and no guarantee that Republicans will be able to pass anything …
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut after gun, tax conviction complaints — Hunter Biden was disbarred in Connecticut on Monday after facing complaints about his convictions on gun and tax charges, for which his father, former President Biden, later pardoned him.
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Politico, NewsMax.com and The National Pulse
