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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment — Several veteran correspondents questioned how Ms. Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, had handled the segment, after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom. — CBS News remained roiled on Monday …
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Allison Gill / The Breakdown:
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment — I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat. — The segment apparently aired on Canada's Global TV app and was shared by this Bluesky user @jasonparis.bsky.social. You can watch the entire segment below! Please share widely!
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Yanked “60 Minutes” episode aired in Canada
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Yashar Ali / The Reset:
BREAKING: Here's the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don't Want You to See
BREAKING: Here's the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don't Want You to See
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Zeteo:
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking ‘60 Minutes’ Story on His Torture Prison
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking ‘60 Minutes’ Story on His Torture Prison
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
The Kill Switch — In 1995, 60 Minutes made a decision that nearly destroyed the program.
The Kill Switch — In 1995, 60 Minutes made a decision that nearly destroyed the program.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels / Politico:
CBS pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on notorious El Salvador prison
CBS pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on notorious El Salvador prison
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Washington Post:
Second big batch of Epstein files includes many mentions of Trump — The Justice Department had been heavily criticized on Capitol Hill for including few Trump-related documents in its first release of files. — Three days after releasing a large tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents …
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Politico:
New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears … Justice Department spokespeople didn't respond to POLITICO's requests for comment on the new documents. The material included tens of thousands of government documents and emails, as well as several dozen videos from the Bureau of Prisons.
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Wall Street Journal:
Takeaways From the FBI's Second Batch of Epstein Files — Justice Department releases thousands of more Epstein documents, including fake passport, fake suicide clip — The Justice Department released a second trove of files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein, including a fake video …
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Justice Department releases 3rd batch of Jeffrey Epstein files, including some that mention Trump — There have been growing concerns from lawmakers and survivors that the department had fallen short of releasing all of its records as required by law. — The Justice Department on Tuesday released …
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Hamed Ahmadi / NOTUS:
Trump Is Naming a New Class of Navy Battleships After Himself — President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled plans for a new class of U.S. Navy battleships named after himself, reviving a type of warship the United States has not built in decades. — Flanked by top national security officials during …
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
December 22, 2025 — This afternoon, President Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. Navy …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
Trump To Announce Navy Will Buy New ‘Battleship’
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump announces plan for new class of more powerful US battleships
Trump announces plan for new class of more powerful US battleships
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Paul McLeary / Politico:
Trump's new ‘Trump-Class’ battleship will carry nuclear weapons
Trump's new ‘Trump-Class’ battleship will carry nuclear weapons
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Josh Blackman / Reason:
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage — Last night, Kevin Roberts told the Heritage staff that two people would be directing the Meese Center. National Review reported: … I just spoke with Cully, who told me that both he and Hans resigned from the Heritage Foundation.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Heritage Foundation Blows Up — Its conservative scholars jump to Mike Pence's policy shop after being stifled at the think tank. — The debate over the direction of the post-Trump right is underway, and one of the first casualties is the Heritage Foundation.
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Brown University:
Brown University outlines enhanced safety measures, after-action review and security assessment — Following the senseless Dec. 13 shooting on campus, the University will conduct an external After-Action Review of the incident and a comprehensive Campus Safety and Security Assessment of the Brown campus.
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Spencer Buell / The Boston Globe:
Brown University custodian says he saw shooting suspect casing building over several weeks, flagged security
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Politico:
‘Incredibly reckless’: Trump's wind halt stuns even some allies … And Trump's newest move jeopardizes major new power sources that were already on their way to completion. — “It is coming at a time when the main topic is affordability, affordability. This is running contrary to that in my opinion …
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Politico:
Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump's newest ‘assault’ on wind
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Chao Deng / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economy Posts Robust Growth in the Third Quarter — A long-delayed government report shows GDP grew at an annual 4.3% rate — The U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly robust pace in the third quarter, according to a shutdown-delayed government report.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Donald J. Trump Center for Everything — Only Congress has the authority to rename the Kennedy Center. — President Trump's desire to have his name on everything, preferably in gold, is well-known, and at first we thought the addition of his name to the John F. Kennedy center for the arts …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House Democrat sues to stop “Trump-Kennedy Center” renaming
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center
Lawmaker Sues to Remove Trump's Name From the Kennedy Center
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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Trump on seized Venezuelan oil: “We're gonna keep it” — The U.S. now controls about 3.7 million barrels of Venezuelan crude from two interdicted oil tankers. And President Trump doesn't want to give it up. … - It threatens to escalate tensions with China, which buys a much as 75% of Venezuela's oil.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump says US will keep oil and ships seized near Venezuela
Trump says US will keep oil and ships seized near Venezuela
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NPR:
Federal judge says U.S. must give due process to deported Venezuelans — A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts — A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service. — The Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 ambassadors in embassies around …
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Politico:
These 3 Republican senators are giving John Thune headaches … Thune ultimately wore the three Republicans down with some outside assistance from President Donald Trump, cutting deals to win their consent to advance the proposed trillion-dollar “minibus” funding package.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
‘This is shattering’: Europe reels from Trump's new world order … But in many ways, Europe has survived the roller coaster — for now. — “The Europeans cannot afford to cut ties and to hand in the divorce papers because they are still too dependent, especially when it comes to security …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The culture war is consuming the Supreme Court — Key takeaways — The Supreme Court is far more focused on cultural political issues such as religion, guns, LGBTQ rights, and abortion than it was in the recent past. — The current Court is hearing more than twice as many cases …
Nette Nöstlinger / Politico:
Germany's far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin — BERLIN — Far-right German politician Ringo Mühlmann has taken a noteworthy interest in exposing information his political opponents say could be of great interest to Russian intelligence.

