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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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Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters:
French President Macron slams U.S. visa ban on Thierry Breton and others — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday slammed a decision by the United States to impose visa bans on former European Union commissioner Thierry Breton and other anti-disinformation campaigners.
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CNBC, France 24, NewsMax.com and Newsweek
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
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Bloomberg
Marco Rubio / United States Department of State:
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
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HotAir, Breitbart, The Verge and The National Pulse
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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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 …
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The Hill:
Democrats grapple with internal divisions heading into new year
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NewsMax.com and Associated Press
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Where the national redistricting fight is heading in 2026
Where the national redistricting fight is heading in 2026
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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
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities
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Charlie Cook Politics
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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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says
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Raw Story, Forbes, Washington Examiner, All Rise News, Talking Points Memo, TMZ.com and CBS News
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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April Rubin / Axios:
Epstein letter to Larry Nassar is fake, Justice Department says
Epstein letter to Larry Nassar is fake, Justice Department says
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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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Scott Dance / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Delays Tariffs on Chinese Semiconductors
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois
Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states — A federal judge blocked Trump administration efforts to reallocate Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism and security grants away from states that won't cooperate on the president's immigration enforcement policies.
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NY State Attorney General, Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
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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
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Orlando Sentinel, Raw Story and New York Times
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.
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Real Patriotism …, The Borowitz Report, RedState, MS NOW, Steady and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Bari Weiss plans overhaul of CBS News and “60 Minutes” standards and procedures
Scoop: Bari Weiss plans overhaul of CBS News and “60 Minutes” standards and procedures
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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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New York Times:
Trump's Tanker Crackdown Paralyzes Venezuelan Oil Exports — Oil exports, the country's financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude. — The United States' aggressive campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude …
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Straight Arrow News, Reuters, ABC News, Bloomberg and Agence France-Presse
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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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.”
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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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Block Club Chicago, Mercury News, WTTG-TV and Nick Valencia News
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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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 …
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 …
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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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Salon, New York Sun, New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Independent
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Trump's ‘Golden Age’ has arrived for the top 10% … But the robust numbers mask the extent to which the wealthy are driving growth. And while business leaders from Manhattan to South Florida are bullish on the outlook — “It's the Roaring '20s here in Palm Beach County,” said Douglas Evans …
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Julianna Bragg / Axios:
U.S. murders on pace for largest one-year drop on record — The U.S. is on pace for the largest one-year drop in murders the nation has ever recorded, according to an analysis by crime stats expert Jeff Asher. — The big picture: The decline in killings is part of a broader decrease in violent crime following the COVID-era spike.
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New York Times:
19 States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors — The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care. — A coalition of 19 states on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration's plan …
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Chicago Tribune and Willamette Week

