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11:10 PM ET, December 29, 2025

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CNN:
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast  —  South America Federal agencies National security Donald Trump  —  The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN …
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Washington Post:
Trump says U.S. destroyed loading dock in Venezuela  —  The president would not say if the military or the CIA conducted the strike amid escalating U.S. pressure on Maduro.  —  President Donald Trump said Monday that unspecified U.S. forces were responsible for an explosion at a marine loading facility …
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 …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela. No one knows if it's true.
Discussion: Associated Press
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
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
More Kennedy Center Performances Are Canceled After Trump's Renaming  —  A dance company withdrew from two performances next year, and the arts center's website says two New Year's Eve jazz concerts have been canceled.  —  A prominent New York dance company on Monday said it was canceling …
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Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News:
More musicians cancel Kennedy Center concerts after board votes to add Trump's name to the building  —  Recent cancellations have left the performing arts center in Washington with gaps in programming for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.  —  More musicians have canceled their upcoming concerts …
Axios:
Putin tells Trump Ukraine attacked his residence, which Kyiv denies  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in a call with President Trump on Monday — their second in 24 hours — that Ukraine conducted a drone attack targeting one of his official residences, a claim Kyiv immediately denied.
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump sides with Russia on claims that Ukraine targeted Putin residence
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Putin was the missing man at Mar-a-Lago
Greg Wehner / Fox News:
Netanyahu says Trump to become first non-Israeli to receive Israel Prize  —  Netanyahu announces Trump will be first non-Israeli to receive Israel Prize for ‘tremendous contributions’  —  Breaking with decades of tradition, Israel will award President Donald Trump the Israel Prize …
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New York Times:
Trump and Netanyahu Praise Each Other After Meeting, Despite Differences Over Gaza
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Israel's president denies telling Trump a Netanyahu pardon is “on its way”
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Democrats Aim to Spotlight Republican Efforts to Rewrite the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot  —  On the fifth anniversary of the attack, which falls next Tuesday, Democrats plan to hold an informal hearing to review President Trump's clemency for the rioters and G.O.P attempts to sanitize the event.
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Jonah Kaplan / CBS News:
How a viral video prompted investigations into alleged fraud at day care centers in Minnesota  —  As Homeland Security agents were in Minnesota conducting what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called a “massive investigation on childcare and other rampant fraud” on Monday, many of their targets came …
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Associated Press:
Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis
Fox News:
Tim Walz pushes back on Minnesota fraud allegations following viral daycare video
Politico:
States step into the breach as Obamacare subsidies lapse … The speed at which the mostly Democratic states have taken action underscores the mounting national anxiety about the medical and political impact the end of these subsidies will have.  Millions of Americans will no longer be able …
Discussion: Dallas Express
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Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Is a Money Pit for Taxpayers
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:
Charlie Kirk suspect Tyler Robinson's secret hearing to be made public after judge's order  —  A Utah judge ordered a secret hearing in the criminal case against Tyler Robinson for allegedly assassinating conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk, be made public.  —  Judge Tony Graf announced during …
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet  —  Tenet Media's Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.  —  RIGHT-WING MEDIA PERSONALITY Lauren Chen left the United States in July in disgrace.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Grim Evidence of Trump's Airstrikes Washes Ashore on a Colombian Peninsula … A thunderous boom rang out through the windless late-afternoon air.  Seconds later, smoke began rising out of the sea as if the horizon were on fire.  —  Watching from the shore on Nov. 6, Erika Palacio Fernández whipped …
CMS:
CMS Announces $50 Billion in Awards to Strengthen Rural Health in All 50 States  —  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that all 50 states will receive awards under the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative established under President …
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
DOJ Organizing Vast Conspiracy Investigation Against Trump Enemies, Bondi Says  —  For months, MAGA insiders and pundits have hinted that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is preparing a vast grand jury investigation against an expansive list of President Donald Trump's enemies.
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Trump admin can share immigrants' Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules … The decision marks a significant setback for California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 of his Democratic counterparts, who sued in July to prevent the Trump administration from using Medicaid data obtained …
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
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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.
Discussion: Block Club Chicago
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 …
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.
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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