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11:05 AM ET, December 24, 2025

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Financial Times:
US bars former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and others over tech rules  —  France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’  —  Washington has barred former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people from entering …
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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 …
Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters:
French President Macron slams U.S. visa ban on Thierry Breton and others
Discussion: France 24, NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
Discussion: BBC and Bloomberg
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week  —  The Trump administration estimates it has about one week to go — and as many as 700,000 more pages to review — before it finishes releasing all the Jeffrey Epstein files.  — Meanwhile, they'll lose the PR war, day after day.
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
The president, the plane and the prince: Top takeaways from the 3rd Epstein files release
April Rubin / Axios:
Epstein letter to Larry Nassar is fake, Justice Department says
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Congress set records in 2025, some more dubious than others  —  Republican lawmakers reflect on a year that continued legislative atrophy while ceding more power to the White House.  —  Just now  —  The Republican-led Congress managed to land quite a few achievements in 2025 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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The Hill:
Democrats grapple with internal divisions heading into new year
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Associated Press
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Where the national redistricting fight is heading in 2026
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Associated Press
Benjamin Guggenheim / Politico:   3 policy heavyweights endangered by redistricting
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities
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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The Guardian:
Trump's claims to Venezuelan oil are part of broader ‘resource imperialism’, experts say  —  Critics compare offensive to Iraq war, citing familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric, security pretexts and oil interests  —  Donald Trump's recent claims that the US should keep Venezuelan oil …
Discussion: BBC, Vanity Fair and Townhall
Associated Press:
Judge green lights NY driver's license law, rejecting a Trump administration challenge … “As I said from the start, our laws protect the rights of all New Yorkers and keep our communities safe,” James said in a statement Friday.  “I will always stand up for New Yorkers and the rule of law.”
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Washington Post:
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses  —  The Trump administration aims to build seven large-scale holding centers to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.  —  Douglas MacMillan can be reached securely on Signal at (415) 269-6352 and Jonathan O'Connell can be reached at jonathanoc.76
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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Scott Dance / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Delays Tariffs on Chinese Semiconductors
Radley Balko / New Republic:   Trump's Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
Politico:
Zelenskyy floats terms for peace plan, signaling possible withdrawal from eastern Ukraine  —  The Donbas region — the majority of which is currently occupied by Moscow's troops — would be turned into a demilitarized “free economic zone” under the plan.  —  KYIV — The latest draft …
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Anastasiia Malenko / Wall Street Journal:
Zelensky Proposes Demilitarized Zone in Eastern Ukraine as Way to Peace
Discussion: HotAir and CNN
New York Times:
Chasing an Economic Boom, White House Dismisses Risks of A.I.  —  The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.  —  It was early November, and the stock market …
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:
China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule—and Is Trying to Tame It
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.
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy  —  Weiss ought to cut her losses, green-light the piece, and try to start acting like an editor - not like a cog in the machine of authoritarian politics and oligarchy  —  One tries to give people the benefit of the doubt.
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Trump is talking about Greenland again  —  2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland.  —  On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland with the goal, as Landry put it, “to make Greenland a part of the US.”
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.
Politico:
The internal dispute that could derail the GOP's 2026 agenda … Some rank-and-file conservatives in the House and Senate are privately discussing a potential centerpiece for a second reconciliation bill: using tariff revenues to send taxpayers cash to address rising health care costs …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Marilyn W. Thompson / The Atlantic:
Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again … Not so long ago, when the FBI raided Donald Trump's 126-room Palm Beach mansion and found scores of classified documents, the notion that the disgraced former president would return to the Oval Office seemed far-fetched to just about anyone paying attention.
Discussion: MS NOW, KIFI-TV and NewsMax.com
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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