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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Venezuelans Deported by Trump Administration, Drawing Criticism — 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
‘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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Jewish Insider, Mediaite, Newsweek, Semafor and The Guardian
Sohrab Ahmari / UnHerd:
JD Vance: Nick Fuentes ‘can eat shit’ The VP on the Right's civil war
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Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’
JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’
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The Hill and Associated Press
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
JD Vance is ‘walking a tightrope’ on raging Israel debate within MAGA
JD Vance is ‘walking a tightrope’ on raging Israel debate within MAGA
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Politico, Arizona Republic, Breitbart and New York Post
Siddharth Cavale / The Independent:
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints envoy to make country ‘part of the US’ — Trump stated Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry understands ‘how essential Greenland to our National Security’ — The leaders of Denmark and Greenland have firmly insisted the US will not take over the Arctic territory …
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Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Denmark and Greenland vow that the US won't take over Greenland after Trump appoints envoy
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Jennifer A Dlouhy / Bloomberg:
Trump Taps Louisiana Governor Landry as Greenland Envoy
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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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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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. — Last july, while on his way to his job as a security guard at a cannabis farm in California, George Retes was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and arrested by federal agents conducting an immigration raid.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump's Birthright Citizenship Plan
A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump's Birthright Citizenship Plan
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New Jersey Online
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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The Japan Times
Fox News:
Trump admin pausing all off shore wind project construction due to national security concerns — The move was made after classified reports concluded potential national security risks — FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's Department of Interior announced on Monday that, effective immediately …
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Reuters
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.
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
Ian Parker / New Yorker:
Peter Navarro, Trump's Ultimate Yes-Man — The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials. — In March, 2016, Peter Navarro introduced himself to students in Managing Geopolitical Risk in an Age of a Rising China, a new undergraduate course at the University of California, Irvine.
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 …
Reuters:
High-profile Russians assassinated since start of Ukraine war — A Russian general was killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday, the latest in a growing list of military officials and other pro-war figures to be assassinated since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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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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Politico:
‘We wasted a lot of time’: The next shutdown deadline will be here sooner than you think … “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
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
What have we learned about child poverty in America? — Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights … The U.S has one of the highest child poverty rates of any developed nation. Within the U.S., children are the age group most likely to be living in poverty …
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
Asawin Suebsaeng / Zeteo:
‘Our MAGA Civil War Is Spreading’ — MAGA's divide widens, Bari Weiss spikes a report on Trump sending people to CECOT, and the latest on the Epstein files. — ∙ Paid — On this day in 2010, former President Barack Obama signed into law a repeal of the homophobic “Don't Ask …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump's favorite excuse in 2025: “I don't know” — From Epstein to MRIs, the president fakes ignorance — Donald Trump is too slow to pick up on important information and too lazy to learn. — No, this is not the assessment of some #Resistance holdover posting 20 times a day on Bluesky.
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Raw Story
Anushka Patil / New York Times:
Russia Dismisses Reports of Progress in Ukraine Peace Talks — Proposals that emerged in recent negotiations with the United States were “rather unconstructive,” a Kremlin official said on Sunday. — The Kremlin on Sunday appeared to throw cold water on the results of several days of peace talks in Miami …
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