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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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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.
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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Robert Draper / New York Times:
Four Takeaways From the New York Times Profile of Marjorie Taylor Greene — The congresswoman discussed her break with President Trump and her journey from MAGA zealot to political isolation. — When Marjorie Taylor Greene proclaimed in early 2021 that the Republican Party “belonged” to Donald Trump, I thought she sounded nuts.
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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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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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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says US knocked out ‘big facility’ as part of Venezuela campaign
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Magan Crane / Bloomberg:
Trump Says US Struck Docks in Venezuela Where Drug Boats Loaded
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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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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.
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
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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 …
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Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:
Officer video raises questions about ICE shooting of TikTok streamer
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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 …
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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Lydia Polgreen / New York Times:
One of America's Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt — It was a joyous day, the fulfillment of a quarter-century of hard work and relentless fund-raising. Srinivasachary Tamirisa, a retired doctor living in Sugar Land, Texas, beamed with pride as his dream …
Emily Herbert / Financial Times:
US stocks eclipsed by rest of world in 2025 as investors diversify — Chinese AI advances and the effects of Donald Trump's trade war have boosted markets outside the US — US stocks have been eclipsed by market gains in the rest of the world in 2025, as worries about high valuations …
United States Department of State:
More Lives Saved for Fewer Taxpayer Dollars: Trump Administration Leads “Humanitarian Reset"in the United Nations — Today, in Geneva, the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) …
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
She's Written Bestsellers About Appalachian Struggles. She's Running for Office. But Don't Compare Her to JD Vance. … She put her hands in her pockets and clasped them behind her back. She crossed her arms and looked down at her stapled printed pages. — “So,” she said, “you might know me ...”
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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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