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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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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!
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Weiss told top “60 Minutes” producers that delayed segment had problems  —  CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss told top “60 Minutes” producers Sunday afternoon, after holding a controversial news segment, that the team didn't do enough to get administration officials on the record …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment  —  Several veteran correspondents questioned how Ms. Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, had handled the segment, after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom.  —  CBS News remained roiled on Monday …
Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
CBS pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on notorious El Salvador prison … CBS said in a statement that the segment will air at a later date, and Weiss defended the decision to hold the segment in a statement to POLITICO.  —  “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be,” Weiss said.
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
Katie Miller Gives ‘60 Minutes’ a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship
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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Hamed Ahmadi / NOTUS:
Trump Is Naming a New Class of Navy Battleships After Himself
Paul McLeary / Politico:
Trump's new ‘Trump-Class’ battleship will carry nuclear weapons
Discussion: Raw Story and The Post Millennial
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and National Review
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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 …
Politico:
New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears … Justice Department spokespeople didn't respond to POLITICO's requests for comment on the new documents.  The material included tens of thousands of government documents and emails, as well as several dozen videos from the Bureau of Prisons.
Discussion: Fox News
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
Bill Clinton spox calls on DOJ to release Epstein files referencing the former president
Julianna Bragg / Axios:
Epstein survivors criticize DOJ for failure to release all files
Politico:
‘Incredibly reckless’: Trump's wind halt stuns even some allies … And Trump's newest move jeopardizes major new power sources that were already on their way to completion.  —  “It is coming at a time when the main topic is affordability, affordability.  This is running contrary to that in my opinion …
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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 …
Politico:
Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump's newest ‘assault’ on wind
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast
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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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
Discussion: The Mahablog and NextDraft
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
Bari Weiss's Audience of One
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts  —  A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.  —  The Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 ambassadors in embassies around …
Discussion: RedState
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Wall Street Journal:
Mass Recall of U.S. Ambassadors Leaves Unprecedented Global Vacancies
Discussion: Bloomberg
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
Discussion: NBC News, NewsNation and NOTUS
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center  —  Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, argues that only Congress is authorized to rename the D.C. performing arts institution.  —  Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat sues to stop “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming
Discussion: Bloomberg
NPR:
Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans  —  A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
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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.
New York Times:
Angering Denmark, Trump Appoints Special Envoy to Greenland  —  President Trump, who has long said he wants to “get” the semiautonomous Danish territory, tapped Louisiana's governor for the new position.  Officials in Greenland and Denmark expressed outrage.
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Cameron Peters / Vox:
Trump's war on windmills, briefly explained
Discussion: New York Times
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.
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Wants to Block Judge Cannon From Inquiry Pushed by Trump's Allies  —  The request, addressed to the top federal judge in Miami, sought to block a U.S. attorney from pursuing a politically charged inquiry before Judge Aileen Cannon, who has repeatedly decided in President Trump's favor.
Spencer Buell / The Boston Globe:
Brown University custodian says he saw shooting suspect casing building over several weeks, flagged security  —  A Brown University custodian says he saw the alleged mass shooter, who opened fire in a classroom on Dec. 13, killing two people and injuring nine others, nearly a dozen times several weeks …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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ProPublica:
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
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