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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.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says  —  The Justice Department's leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files …
Associated Press:
DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish release of Epstein files despite Dec. 19 deadline
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
They Seek to Curb Online Hate.  The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.  —  The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.  —  Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg lead …
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Tasmin Lockwood / CNBC:
‘Witch hunt’: Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting ‘censorship’ … European leaders on Wednesday condemned a move by the U.S. to ban visas for five individuals — including a former EU commissioner — for alleged censorship.  —  The Trump administration imposed visa bans …
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
Ryan Mancini / The Hill:
Attorney Mark Zaid scores win in security clearance fight with Trump administration  —  A federal judge on Tuesday ruled the Trump administration's stripping of an attorney's security clearance for representing a whistleblower pivotal to President Trump's first impeachment was a form of retribution and unconstitutional.
Discussion: Axios and The Gateway Pundit
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Joey Cappelletti / Associated Press:
Judge blocks Trump effort to strip security clearance from attorney who represented whistleblowers  —  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid …
Discussion: Townhall, CBS News and The Daily Caller
The Hill:
Democrats grapple with internal divisions heading into new year  —  Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter.  Subscribe here.  —  In today's issue:  —  ▪ Dems looking back and ahead  —  ▪ Trump dealt blow by Supreme Court  —  ▪ President links tariffs with GDP growth
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and NewsMax.com
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
19 Democratic-led states and DC sue over Trump gender-affirming care crackdown
Discussion: NY State Attorney General and STAT
Anastasiia Malenko / Wall Street Journal:
Zelensky Proposes Demilitarized Zone in Eastern Ukraine as Way to Peace  —  Control of the areas Ukraine still holds in Donetsk is one of the chief stumbling blocks to an agreement  —  KYIV—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be willing to pull troops out of the eastern region …
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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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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
New York Times:
'He's a Maximalist': Inside Trump's Gilded Oval Office  —  After nearly a year of revamping the Oval Office, President Trump is nearly out of wall space.  —  His extravagant design choices are most apparent around the fireplace, where he has hosted more than two dozen visits from world leaders since taking office.
Discussion: Althouse and Raw Story
Radley Balko / New Republic:
Trump's Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here  —  Donald Trump's assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.  As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb …
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 and Vanity Fair
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Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Trump's Seizures of Oil Tankers Challenge Maritime Rules and Customs
Discussion: The Independent
Thomas Chatterton Williams / The Atlantic:
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates  —  Race and gender aren't the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.  —  Progressives often follow a particular pattern when they want to dismiss a phenomenon that challenges their beliefs.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling  —  Accepting an argument from a law professor that no party to the case had made, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging loss that could lead to more aggressive tactics.
Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Donald Trump and Mike Lindell are targeting Tim Walz.  Some Republicans are worried that could backfire. … Republicans have insisted they can be competitive statewide in the blue-leaning Minnesota ever since Trump lost Minnesota by less than 2 points in 2016.
New York Times:
In Private Letters, Harvard and Trump Administration Escalate Duel  —  It is the latest twist in the marquee battle of the administration's campaign to rein in colleges and universities it views as too liberal.  —  The letter landed like a thud on Saturday in the inbox of Harvard University's president, Alan M. Garber.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Sam Sutton / Politico:
Trump's ‘Golden Age’ has arrived for the top 10 percent … 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,” …
Politico:
Trump-backed candidate declared winner of Honduras' presidential vote … Asfura, the former mayor of Honduras' capital Tegucigalpa, won in his second bid for the presidency, after he and Nasralla were neck-and-neck during a weeks-long vote count that fueled international concern.
The Banner:
ICE shooting in Glen Burnie leaves 2 people hospitalized, officials say  —  Two people were hospitalized Wednesday morning after federal immigration officials opened fire on a vehicle in Glen Burnie, federal and Anne Arundel County officials said.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents …
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.”
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 …
 
 
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