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Josh Blackman / Reason:
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage — Last night, Kevin Roberts told the Heritage staff that two people would be directing the Meese Center. National Review reported: … I just spoke with Cully, who told me that both he and Hans resigned from the Heritage Foundation.
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Audrey Fahlberg / National Review:
Exclusive: Resignations Continue at Heritage Foundation amid Frustrations with Leadership — Staffers in the Heritage Foundation's economic, legal, and data centers resigned over the weekend to join a conservative advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, National Review has learned …
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence's Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures — The conservative movement continues to splinter about how to deal with its most controversial voices — Former Vice President Mike Pence's political group is poaching top officials from the conservative …
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The Kill Switch — In 1995, 60 Minutes made a decision that nearly destroyed the program. Producers killed an interview with Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco industry whistleblower who had evidence that cigarette companies knew their products were addictive and carcinogenic.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls ‘60 Minutes’ story, sparking outcry — Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center …
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Katie Miller Gives ‘60 Minutes’ a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship
Katie Miller Gives ‘60 Minutes’ a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship
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Raw Story
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
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New York Times:
Trump Halts 5 Wind Farms Off the East Coast — The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments. — The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases …
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Politico, Washington Examiner, Blue Virginia, Townhall, Raw Story, Washington Post, HotAir, One America News Network, UPI and The Hill
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Make Announcement With Hegseth in Florida
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New York Post and Raw Story
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast
Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast
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Politico, Reuters, Fox News, Grist, Cardinal News, Los Angeles Times, CFACT, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
Politico:
Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump's newest ‘assault’ on wind
Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump's newest ‘assault’ on wind
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Washington Examiner, Semafor, Axios and Raw Story
U.S. Department of the Interior:
The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases
The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases
Shifra Dayak / NOTUS:
Interior Department Pauses Five Major Offshore Wind Projects, Citing National Security
Interior Department Pauses Five Major Offshore Wind Projects, Citing National Security
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Washington Post, The Hill, Politico, Business Wire, New York Post and Jen Kiggans
Wall Street Journal:
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’ — The new warship will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet” — President Trump will announce on Monday a new fleet of large warships he is calling “battleships,” according to a U.S. official and another official familiar …
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
Trump critic George Conway files to run for NY House seat … Though George Conway was also offered a position with the administration during Trump's first term, he declined. The relationship between the president and Conway turned contentious, with Conway often criticizing Trump and the president …
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump critic George Conway files papers for U.S. House bid in New York
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NewsNation and NOTUS
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
George Conway files paperwork to run for Congress as a Democrat
George Conway files paperwork to run for Congress as a Democrat
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UPI, The Independent and Fox News
Ryan King / New York Post:
Trump decries the release of embarrassing pics of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein — President Trump revealed that he does like the Justice Department's release of embarrassing photos of a half-naked Bill Clinton swimming with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Washington Examiner, KIFI-TV, Washington Times, The Free Press, IJR, twitchy.com and NewsMax.com
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Bill Clinton spox calls on DOJ to release Epstein files referencing the former president
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The Hill, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, Blaze Media, New York Post, Newsweek, Fox News and New York Sun
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
You cannot annex other countries, Danish and Greenlandic leaders tell Trump — Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy — The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed …
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New York Times:
Angering Denmark, Trump Appoints Special Envoy to Greenland
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ABC News, Politico, Fox News, The Independent, Raw Story, Associated Press, USA Today, CNBC, The Daily Caller, UPI, Breitbart and Straight Arrow News
Cameron Peters / Vox:
Trump's war on windmills, briefly explained
Trump's war on windmills, briefly explained
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New York Times and PBS NewsHour
Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment — I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat. — The segment apparently aired on Canada's Global TV app and was shared by this Bluesky user @jasonparis.bsky.social. You can watch the entire segment below! Please share widely!
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Sohrab Ahmari / UnHerd:
JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’ — JD Vance has for months faced mounting pressure to censure Nicholas J. Fuentes and his army of boisterously racist and antisemitic supporters, known as Groypers. Speaking exclusively to UnHerd at the vice president's residence on Friday, he doesn't mince his words.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
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HuffPost and Associated Press
Steve Kopack / NBC News:
Paramount beefs up its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with new Larry Ellison guarantee — Warner Bros. rejected an initial Paramount bid and is pursuing a deal with Netflix for its movie, television and streaming assets. — Paramount and its controlling shareholders, the billionaire Ellison family …
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Peter Pinedo / Fox News:
Turning Point poll reveals conservatives ‘all in’ for JD Vance 2028 presidential run — Conference attendees also shared that winning the midterms and radical Islam are among their top concerns — A straw poll taken at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest this weekend revealed that conservatives are …
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New York Post, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Mediaite, Newsweek and The Post Millennial
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Prominent GOP Senator Already Rejects JD Vance For President In 2028
Prominent GOP Senator Already Rejects JD Vance For President In 2028
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NewsMax.com, The Hill and New Jersey Online
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump and Co. Can't Keep Their Lies Straight — Sen. Lindsey Graham is typically a reliable cheerleader for the White House at home and abroad. So it was notable to hear him say yesterday, fresh off a trip to the Middle East, that the peace deal between Israel and Hamas might be working less …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves — I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal.
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Straight Arrow News
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Behold! 🔥 The Focus Group from Hell 🔥 — Hitler! Fuentes! Jews! Dating problems! Young Republicans tell you who they really are. — ∙ Paid — 1. Groypermania — City Journal, like the rest of the Manhattan Institute, has gone from anti-anti-Trump, to Trump-curious, to pro-Trump.
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Raw Story
Ken Dilanian / MS NOW:
Kash Patel's new ride of choice: an armored luxury BMW — FBI Director Kash Patel is being driven around in specially armored BMWs that the FBI bought at his request. — Patel had pressed the FBI for this high-end vehicle for the purpose of being less conspicuous on his outings …
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The Guardian, Salon, New York Sun, The Independent, New Republic and Raw Story
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump — Media conglomerates want the president's permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake. — The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery is no longer a regulatory matter. It is a medieval tournament, in which the king invites rival bidders to compete for his approval.
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The Mahablog and NextDraft
New York Times:
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump's Return to Office — The president's team has created a highly unusual fund-raising apparatus for causes he favors. The Times analyzed more than half a billion dollars in contributions from 346 donors.
C.J. Ciaramella / Reason:
DHS Says Recording or Following Law Enforcement ‘Sure Sounds Like Obstruction of Justice’ — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says recording or following federal law enforcement “sure sounds like obstruction of justice,” despite federal circuit courts repeatedly ruling that such activity is core First Amendment speech.
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New York Sun
U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Department of Education Announces Review of Brown University for Potential Clery Act Violations — Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced it will conduct a program review of Brown University (Brown) in response to the December 13, 2025, shooting on its campus, which killed two students.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, The Brown Daily Herald and NewsMax.com
Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
FDA approves first GLP-1 pill for obesity from Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first-ever GLP-1 pill for obesity from Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk, a landmark decision that health experts say could open up treatment access to more patients.
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