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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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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 …
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
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.
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.
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump and Co. Can't Keep Their Lies Straight
Discussion: NBC News, MS NOW and Mediaite
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:   CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump
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 …
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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 …
Discussion: New York Post, Reason and Mediaite
Josh Blackman / Reason:
My Resignation From The Heritage Foundation
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump Halts Five 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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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast  —  The Trump administration said Monday it is pausing leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the East Coast due to unspecified national security risks identified by the Pentagon.
Fox News:
Trump admin pausing all off shore wind project construction due to national security concerns  —  FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's Department of Interior announced on Monday that, effective immediately, leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects being constructed in the United States will be paused.
U.S. Department of the Interior:
The Trump Administration Protects U.S. National Security by Pausing Offshore Wind Leases
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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Washington Post:
Ted Cruz weighs another presidential run, setting up clash with Vance
Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance Finally Loses It Over Attacks on His Wife: ‘Eat S**t’
Discussion: IJR
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 …
Discussion: NBC News and New York Post
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Caitlin Reilly / Bloomberg:
George Conway to Run as a Democrat for Nadler's Manhattan Seat
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Siddharth Cavale / The Independent:   Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Denmark and Greenland vow that the US won't take over Greenland after Trump appoints envoy
Washington Post:
Trump appoints Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland
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.
NBC News:
Sudden trips and security lapses: Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio's clashing diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine  —  Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he handles security.
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 …
Ben Makuch / The Guardian:
Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back  —  Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers  —  Amid high-profile arrests in its Spanish cell, the American-born and designated neo-Nazi terrorist group the Base …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Discussion: Raw Story, Wonkette and Mediaite
Department of Homeland Security:
INCREASED INCENTIVES: DHS Now Offering $3K Holiday Stipend Through End of The Year Via the CBP Home App for Illegal Aliens to Leave Now  —  Those in the U.S. illegally will receive the $3K stipend and a free flight home if they sign up to self-deport through the CBP Home app by the end of the year
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Dean Baker
Associated Press:
Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow  —  A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year.  Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack.  —  Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate …
Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Files release illuminates Maxwell's tactics to lure teens into Epstein's orbit  —  Documents allege Epstein's accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do  —  A document among the tranche of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files casts fresh light …
 
 
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