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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 …
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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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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.
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Chelsea Brasted / Axios:
National Guard deploys to New Orleans … - That attack, which was quickly followed by New Orleans hosting the Super Bowl and the city's Mardi Gras festivities, prompted a weeks-long similar deployment. — With the return of the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl and the arrest of a New Iberia man whom …
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court says Trump can't deploy National Guard to Chicago as legal challenge moves forward
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump's Chicago Military Takeover
Supreme Court Upholds Block to Trump's Chicago Military Takeover
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss
The Supreme Court just handed Trump a rare — and very significant — loss
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Devin Dwyer / Reuters:
Supreme Court keeps block on National Guard deployment in Chicago
Supreme Court keeps block on National Guard deployment in Chicago
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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 …
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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.
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
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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.
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Politico:
New revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor appear in latest Epstein files
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
The president, the plane and the prince: Top takeaways from the 3rd Epstein files release
The president, the plane and the prince: Top takeaways from the 3rd Epstein files release
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Annabella Rosciglione / The Daily Beast:
Megyn Kelly Escalates Feud with Bari Weiss: ‘More Truth Coming’ — STAY TUNED — The MAGA civil war continues as Megyn Kelly claims she has more coming against CBS News boss Bari Weiss. — Conservative radio host Megyn Kelly claimed there is “more truth coming” as she continues to rally …
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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
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly bans abortion services, counseling
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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 …
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Robyn Vinter / The Guardian:
Russell Brand charged with further sexual offences including rape
Russell Brand charged with further sexual offences including rape
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Newsweek:
ICE Detains Woman Whose Lawyer Insists Is US Citizen. DHS Says She Isn't — A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose attorneys say is an American citizen but the government insists is Mexican.
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George Chidi / The Guardian:
Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks — Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening — People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered that some of the file redaction …
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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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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.
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Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
Student Loan Borrowers in Default Could See Wages Garnished in Early 2026 — Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default. — The Trump administration will begin to garnish …
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Annie Nova / CNBC:
Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January
Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January
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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.
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Ben Sasse diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer — Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced Tuesday he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. — The former two-term senator, 53, wrote in a lengthy social media post that he received the diagnosis last week.
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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Ben Sasse Says He Has Terminal Pancreatic Cancer
Ben Sasse Says He Has Terminal Pancreatic Cancer
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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 …
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.
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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.
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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 …
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Max Rego / The Hill:
At least 6 among victims of Mexican Navy plane crash off the coast of Texas — At least six people were killed when a Mexican Naval plane crashed in Galveston Bay off the Texas coast Monday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. — The office of the secretary of the Mexican Navy announced …
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Samuel Chamberlain / New York Post:
Hunter Biden says he's up to $15M in debt, claims ‘I have no idea’ how to pay that off — There's no brushing this off. — Former first son Hunter Biden estimated in a new interview that he is in debt to the tune of up to $15 million, and admitted that “I have no idea” how to pay that amount back.
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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 …
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Zeteo:
Trumpland Grades His Epstein Cover-Up an ‘F-Minus’ — ‘They keep making it look like we have something to hide,’ a White House official complains to Zeteo. — ∙ Paid — Trumpworld is wildly unimpressed with the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files …
Kimberlee Kruesi / Associated Press:
Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
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