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8:20 PM ET, December 15, 2025

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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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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.
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 …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash  —  Prominent right-wing figures are among those who pushed back on the president's suggestion that the death of Reiner and his wife were connected to Reiner's previous criticism of Trump.
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
“Very bad for our country”: Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner attacks  —  President Trump on Monday stood by his comments that Rob Reiner's death was the result of “Trump derangement syndrome,” issuing a new round of sharp attacks on the late director.
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Republicans Condemn Donald Trump Over Vile Remarks About Rob and Michele Reiner
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Mocks Rob Reiner, Says He Was Killed Because of His ‘TDS’
NBC News:
Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their L.A. home from apparent stab wounds
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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The White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction  —  DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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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.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
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.
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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 …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Trump advisers strafe Hawley over new anti-abortion group
Discussion: The Inner Circle … and Raw Story
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.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump blames Brown, not FBI, for delay in finding shooting suspect
Sara Fischer / Axios:
President Trump sues BBC  —  President Trump sued the BBC on Monday, seeking at least $5 billion in damages for alleging defamation over how a documentary aired shortly before the 2024 election edited a speech he delivered on Jan. 6, 2021. … - Trump filed a $15 billion lawsuit …
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Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Plans to File BBC Lawsuit Monday or Tuesday
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.
New York Times:
U.S. Soldiers and Translator Killed in Syria Are Identified  —  The shooting attack in Palmyra, Syria, on Saturday struck Iowa National Guard troops.  Two were killed, along with an American civilian interpreter; three others were wounded.  —  The two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed …
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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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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.
Washington Post:
Pentagon plan calls for major power shifts within U.S. military  —  If adopted, the changes would complement other efforts by the Trump administration to shift resources away from the Middle East and Europe. … Senior Pentagon officials are preparing a plan to downgrade several …
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.
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.
ABC:
Bondi Beach shooting gunman Naveed Akram was follower of pro-Islamic State preacher Wisam Haddad  —  By ABC Investigations's Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC NEWS Verify's Michael Workman and defence and national security correspondent Olivia Caisley  —  Loading...  In short:
Discussion: New York Post
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.
Discussion: The Bulwark and Raw Story
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.
Washington Post:
‘Outrageous’: JetBlue pilot describes near-collision with Air Force plane off Venezuela  —  The airline pilot told air traffic control in Curaçao that the U.S. military plane was not identifying itself with a transponder. … A JetBlue pilot changed altitude to avoid colliding …
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.
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.
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Capitol agenda: House GOP at the Obamacare cliff  —  House Republicans are set to mark their final session week of 2025 with a muddled health care message that's poised to have a big impact — a nationwide spike in insurance costs after Obamacare subsidies expire in less than three weeks.
Discussion: The Hill and New York Daily News
Emmet Lyons / CBS News:
Woman says dad died a hero throwing bricks at Bondi Beach attacker, and “Australia's not a home for Jews anymore.”  —  The daughter of one of the victims of Sunday's Bondi Beach terror attack told CBS News on Monday that her father was “shot dead for being Jewish,” and she now believes Australia is not a safe home for Jewish people.
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and ‘any’ prescription meds history  —  Pulitzer Prize Board members filed court documents in Okeechobee County, Florida, on Thursday, containing a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
DOJ's Clinton Foundation probe marred by ‘conflicts of interest,’ obstruction by FBI's Andrew McCabe: whistleblowers  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's four-year-long probe into the Clinton Foundation was beset by “conflicts of interest” and obstruction by senior FBI officials …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
 
 
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump to visit North Carolina on Friday
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Oren Oppenheim / ABC News:
Barack Obama tells House Democrats that party should focus on the midterms, not ideological divides
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Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023

Sara Fischer / Axios:
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