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Robert Draper / New York Times:
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene's Break With Trump … Eleven days after Charlie Kirk was killed in September, Marjorie Taylor Greene, the third-term Georgia congresswoman, was watching his memorial service on TV as the luminaries of the conservative movement …
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The Guardian, The Hill, New York Post, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Independent and New Republic
New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Struck a ‘Big Facility’ in Campaign Against Venezuela — The administration provided no details of what the president said was an attack last week linked to U.S. efforts to disrupt drug trafficking from Latin America. — President Trump said in a radio interview …
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CBS News, ABC News, Breitbart, The Western Journal, The Independent, MS NOW and Mediaite
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Trump says the U.S. took out a ‘big facility’ in Venezuela amid strikes on alleged drug boats
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Reuters, Associated Press, The Daily Caller, Townhall and Daily Mail
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says US knocked out ‘big facility’ as part of Venezuela campaign
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Axios, The Guardian and The Intercept
Magan Crane / Bloomberg:
Trump Claims US Strike on ‘Big Facility’ Inside Venezuela
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NBC News and New Republic
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
For Zelensky, Just Keeping Trump Talking Counts as a Win — Though discussions produced little tangible progress, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at least avoided the type of setbacks that have blighted earlier meetings. — A new round of peace talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky …
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Illia Novikov / Associated Press:
US offers Ukraine 15-year security guarantee as part of peace plan, Zelenskyy says
Washington Post:
How Vance brokered a truce between Trump and Musk — JD Vance played a key role brokering a reconciliation between the president and his wealthiest supporter. But as Trump's first year in office comes to a close, both he and his Trump world allies have learned hard lessons about Musk's unusual influence.
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New Republic, Althouse, Raw Story and The Independent, more at Techmeme »
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Mike Lee / Politico:
Trump's Texas troubles — Happy Monday. This is Mike Lee, based in Dallas-Fort Worth covering transportation for Climatewire and E&E News. Around here, we're digging into the last of the Christmas tamales and remembering we need to pull the car in the garage on New Year's Eve. Get in touch.
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
When MAGA Comes to Christmas Dinner — Donald Trump has recently taken to saying that we have the “hottest” country in the world. But the markets say otherwise. “US stocks eclipsed by rest of world in 2025 as investors diversify,” reports the Financial Times this morning.
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Associated Press and The Daily Caller
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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. — This summer, my colleagues were reporting out a story about the Department of Education's “final mission,” its effort to undermine public education even as the Trump administration worked feverishly to close the agency.
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
What voters in every state think about Trump and prices — Support independent, empirical political journalism in 2026 — If you find my data-driven political analysis valuable, consider becoming a premium subscriber to Strength In Numbers. Over the last year, I have published dozens …
Nancy Gertner / The Atlantic:
Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power — The Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agents—but the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard. — Untold numbers of ICE agents have appeared on America's streets in recent months …
Fox News:
China surrounds Taiwan with warships, fighter jets in largest military drills on record — China on Monday launched its largest military exercises ever around Taiwan, surrounding the island with warships, aircraft and live-fire drills as tensions spiked following a record U.S. arms sale to Taipei.
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HotAir, The Hill, Straight Arrow News, RedState, BBC, The Western Journal, CBS News, Washington Times, New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, France 24, UPI, Washington Examiner, Semafor, Reuters, Focus Taiwan, NewsMax.com and Bloomberg
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Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
“Stern warning”: China's military holds live drills around Taiwan
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CNN, France 24, Associated Press, Mediaite, Al Jazeera and Focus Taiwan
Fox News:
Tim Walz pushes back on Minnesota fraud allegations following viral daycare video — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's office is pushing back against fraud allegations after a viral video showed visits to multiple childcare centers in the state, including one that allegedly received millions of dollars …
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The Hill, Reuters, New York Post, RedState, Townhall, Ace of Spades HQ, Breitbart, Blaze Media, The Daily Signal, twitchy.com, Matzav.com, The Independent, IJR, 77 WABC, NewsMax.com, The National Pulse, Axios, New York Sun, American Greatness, Issues & Insights, Mediaite, Washington Examiner, Not the Bee, Daily Mail, Instapundit, The Post Millennial and One America News Network, more at Mediagazer »
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Suspect Confessed to Planting Pipe Bombs Near the Capitol Before Jan. 6 — A Virginia man was charged with planting the bombs outside Democratic and Republican headquarters. Court documents show he believed that the 2020 election had been “tampered with.”
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Reuters, The Hill, CBS News, Axios, Associated Press, Mother Jones, Mercury News, The National Pulse, Washingtonian, FOX 7 Austin, MS NOW, Fox News, ABC News, Washington Examiner, Politico, The Independent, WUSA, New York Post, RedState, NewsMax.com and Mediaite
Politico:
Trump admin doles out billions for rural health … The national reaction to the program has been mixed since it was announced this summer. — Some lawmakers and rural health advocates are upset that states are receiving billions more in funding for passing policies favored by the Trump administration.
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Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
What we learned about the state of the Trump coalition in conversations with 50 voters this year — A set of focus groups featuring 2024 Trump voters showed them largely sticking with the president, but they also showed discontent around the economy and immigration.
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Raw Story
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for “super premium” customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos — When Kevin Hartz's security system failed to alert him as an intruder rang his doorbell and tried to enter his San Francisco home late one night, the serial entrepreneur decided existing solutions weren't good enough.
Mike Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
House Republicans Had a Great Year — In 2025 we passed tax cuts, helped businesses expand, and repealed harmful regulations. — In the final days of this year, 211 House Democrats voted against House Republicans' bill to address the rising cost of healthcare.
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Washington Examiner and NewsMax.com
Alex Bronzini-Vender / New York Times:
Harvard's New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling Than the Old — This past spring, under intense pressure from the Trump administration, Harvard University pulled the plug on diversity, equity and inclusion. The administrator who had overseen D.E.I. operations announced that the university …
Regina Davis Moss / USA Today:
Who gets to be born? Dr. Oz just revealed Trump's strategy. — President Donald Trump's administration will stop at nothing to ensure the political dominance of White people in this country. — “We've dropped (the price of) the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, I'm hoping by the midterms.”
Wall Street Journal:
MAGA's Latest Stolen 2020 Election Theory — This blunder by Fulton County, Ga., isn't what Trump's allies claim. — Click for Sound — The 2026 midterms are coming, and Republicans have work to do if they want to hold Congress. Yet the nation's MAGA minds are still looking back at 2020 …
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The Hill, Raw Story, Election Law Blog, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope — People don't change—but they can remember who they are. — ∙ Paid — The central political question of our time is: — Will Republican voters recommit to liberalism? Or will they continue the pursuit of their authoritarian project?
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