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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ — Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network's decision to remove her reporting from Sunday's edition of the show. — In a move that drew harsh criticism from its own correspondent …
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Washington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS's Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations — The segment on the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled after the Trump administration refused to grant the network an interview. — Just now
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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 …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say — “60 Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political — News organization says the segment about El Salvador prison where Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting — CBS News pulled a planned “60 Minutes” segment on an El Salvador maximum-security prison …
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Stephanie Kaloi / The Wrap:
‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison 2 Hours Before Airtime
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Washington Post:
Ted Cruz weighs another presidential run, setting up clash with Vance … Sen. Ted Cruz sat down with a longtime ally in November at an office near D.C.'s Union Station to discuss the future of the Republican Party. Before long, the discussion touched on his own future.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry — The vice president's plea for a big-tent coalition at an annual conservative gathering belied the cracks in his party over antisemitism, racism and conspiracy theories. — The bitter infighting over antisemitism …
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’ — CLOSE TO HOME — The vice president nevertheless tried to draw some kind of equivalence between the critics, an MS NOW host and a vile antisemite. — Vice President JD Vance finally lashed out at critics of his wife in a furious tirade, saying they can “eat s—t.”
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Sohrab Ahmari / UnHerd:
JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’ The VP on the Right's civil war
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
JD Vance is ‘walking a tightrope’ on raging Israel debate within MAGA
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Arizona Republic
Andrew Howard / Politico:
Vance tries to weather the MAGA storm at Turning Point
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Washington Post:
Republicans and Democrats pitch competing plans to tackle affordability — Affordability is topic No. 1 with midterms looming, but economists are skeptical that Congress can do much to lower prices across the board. — Just now — Lawmakers in both parties view simmering fury over the cost …
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Taps Louisiana Governor Landry as Greenland Envoy — President Donald Trump said he's nominating Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as US special envoy to Greenland, in the latest signal that the president retains designs on increasing US influence over the island he's suggested he wants to purchase.
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump's Birthright Citizenship Plan — A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment was adopted. The finding appeared to undercut the president's claims on birthright citizenship.
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Josh Blackman / Reason:
My Resignation From The Heritage Foundation — It is with deep regret that I must resign my position as Senior Editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution. Indeed, I could not have even conceived of such an action only a few months ago when we launched the third edition of the guide.
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Mediaite
Paul Krugman:
MAGA's Manly Manufacturing Misfire — According to Navigator Research, a significant number of Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 now regret their choice. As the word cloud above suggests, this regret is largely driven by Trump's utter failure to deliver on his economic promises.
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Dean Baker
Politico:
If Congress is going to avoid another shutdown, lawmakers need to start talking … “We wasted a lot of time because the Senate's not negotiating yet,” House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said in an interview last week. “When they're ready to negotiate, we can move fast.”
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The Hill
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
More Than 50 U.S. Lawmakers Are Retiring Next Year. Why? — Plus, Charlie Kirk supporters get behind JD Vance in the 2028 presidential race, and CBS News pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ segment — Good morning: During an absolute blizzard of other news on Friday afternoon, two Republican lawmakers …
Joshua Keating / Vox:
2025 was the year everything changed for the US and China — When the dust settles on a year that included a ceasefire in the brutal war in Gaza, persistent but ultimately fruitless efforts to end the war in Ukraine, and the ramp up to a potential war in Venezuela, the biggest US national security story …
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Taipei Times
Alex Nieves / Politico:
‘A very clear plan’: How Trump demolished California's electric vehicle mandate … The infighting, sloppy rulemaking and a lack of clear policy goals that marked Trump's first administration have been replaced by an aggressively overhauled government workforce stocked with MAGA loyalists …
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Amelia Benavides-Colón / NOTUS:
Rep. Becca Balint Says She Would ‘Seriously Think’ About Running for Senate if Sen. Bernie Sanders Retires — “I'm not going to play coy and say 'No, I've never thought about it,' — of course I think about it,” Balint told NOTUS' Reese Gorman. — Copy
Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS increases offer for undocumented migrants to $3,000 if they voluntarily leave by end of 2025 — The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its “exit bonus” for undocumented migrants who voluntarily depart the United States through self-deportation, increasing the financial incentive …
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