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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court keeps Trump's National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.  The justices declined …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago in defeat for Trump  —  The order is a rare loss for the administration at the high court.  Three conservative justices dissented.  —  The Supreme Court said Tuesday it would not allow President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard …
Politico:
Supreme Court blocks Trump effort to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois … Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — dissented, while another conservative, Brett Kavanaugh, declined to join the majority's explanation of the ruling.
Discussion: NOTUS, JURISTnews and The Mahablog
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:   Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump's Chicago Military Takeover
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss
Discussion: Robert Reich
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers  —  The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.  —  The Trump administration is barring five prominent Europeans from the United States …
Discussion: KIFI-TV
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Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex  —  The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.
Discussion: The Verge and The National Pulse
Politico:
New revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appear in latest Epstein files … Here's POLITICO's look at some of the revelations in the latest release.  —  Investigators sought a ‘compelled’ interview with then-Prince Andrew  —  Federal prosecutors, armed with evidence that Mountbatten-Windsor had …
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April Rubin / Axios:
Epstein letter to Larry Nassar is fake, Justice Department says  —  The Justice Department on Tuesday said a letter in the trove of Epstein files addressed from Jeffrey Epstein to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar is fake and that the handwriting “does not appear to match” Epstein's.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
The president, the plane and the prince: Top takeaways from the 3rd Epstein files release
Joe Walsh / CBS News:
Epstein files live updates as DOJ releases huge new set of photos, documents with many mentions of Trump
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Gross Domestic Product, 3rd Quarter 2025 (Initial Estimate) and Corporate Profits (Preliminary)  —  Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025 (July, August, and September), according to the initial estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Chao Deng / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economy Posts Robust Growth in the Third Quarter
Talmon Joseph Smith / New York Times:
U.S. Economic Growth Surged in Third Quarter of 2025
Bryony Gooch / The Independent:
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault  —  The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said  —  For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails  —  Comedian Russell Brand will face …
Discussion: Blaze Media
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Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
Russell Brand charged with further sexual offences including rape
Julianne McShane / MS NOW:
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban  —  A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.  —  The Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented an abortion ban after the Department of Justice issued …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly bans abortion services, counseling
Discussion: UPI, The National Pulse and Fox News
The Harvard Crimson:
Summers Named Successor Executor in 2014 Draft of Epstein's Will  —  Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was once designated as a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein's will, positioning him to oversee Epstein's estate if the primary executors were unable …
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George Chidi / The Guardian:
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks
Annie Nova / CNBC:
Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January … The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Moves Troops and Additional Special- Operations Aircraft Into Caribbean  —  Deployment is latest by Trump administration to ratchet up pressure on Maduro regime in Venezuela  —  The U.S. moved a large number of special-operations aircraft and multiple cargo planes filled with troops …
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New York Times:   U.S. Is Adding to Its Military Buildup in the Caribbean
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Bari Weiss plans overhaul of CBS News and “60 Minutes” standards and procedures  —  CBS News' new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for the broadcaster as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures, according to a source familiar with her plans.
Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Ben Sasse Says He Has Terminal Pancreatic Cancer  —  Mr. Sasse, a former senator from Nebraska, wrote on social media that he had received a diagnosis last week for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.  —  Ben Sasse, a Republican former senator from Nebraska and a former president of the University of Florida …
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Ben Sasse diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer
New York Times:
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? … Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government — slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of grants and pushing out civil servants.
Discussion: Mediaite
Miami Herald:
Body cam footage shows feds threatening U.S. citizen detained in Key Largo  —  The woman who was dragged out of her car by federal immigration agents in Key Largo while screaming she was a U.S. citizen said the feds had already stopped her twice within a few weeks, including when they had detained …
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. eyes additional Coast Guard assets to seize fleeing tanker, sources say  —  The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been pursuing since Sunday, a U.S. official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Cancel Culture's Boomerang Effect  —  What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals  —  On Sunday night Bari Weiss, the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News, abruptly stopped a forthcoming 60 Minutes report on the torture endured by migrants in the brutal El Salvadoran prison CECOT …
Hamed Aleaziz / New York Times:
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem  —  As it seeks to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is arguing that immigrants bring problems that extend for generations.  The data shows otherwise.  —  When Stephen Miller, one of President Trump's top advisers …
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
California Policy Limiting Teachers' Disclosure to Parents of Student's Changed Gender Identity Violates First Amendment, Court Holds  —  The introduction to today's long opinion by Judge Roger Benitez in Mirabelli v. Olson (S.D. Cal.):  —  Long before Horace Mann advocated in the 1840's …
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon  —  Lobbyists close to Trump say their going rate to advocate for a pardon is $1 million  —  President Trump had just awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk in October when his son ushered friends toward the Oval Office.
Politico:
New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver returns to ICE facility after assault charges to push for its closure … McIver — a first-term member of Congress whose district encompasses Newark — told reporters Tuesday that she was the one who was assaulted and that the facility should be shut down.
 
 
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The Atlantic:
House Republicans Aren't Having Any Fun
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Blast heavily damages Pennsylvania nursing home, prompting search-and-rescue efforts
Steve Benen / MS NOW:
For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Alec Hernandez / Politico:
From the field to the ballot: Athletes crowd GOP tickets ahead of 2026
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop... New CBS masthead
Bloomberg:
Vermont Rep. Says ‘Americans Can Handle the Truth’ of Epstein Files
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Vance's Navy SEAL Cosplay Immediately Backfires
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
'This Is Something That Traditional Economics Isn't Prepared to Deal With'
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
Discussion: Raw Story
Jay Nordlinger / The Next Move:
‘Heritage Americans’ and the American Heritage
Danny Nguyen / Politico:
ICE has not used taxpayer data to deport people, official says
Discussion: NewsMax.com
NBC News:
GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman launches Senate run in Wyoming
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Ohio lawmaker sues Trump and others over Kennedy Center name change
 

 
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