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6:40 AM ET, December 30, 2025

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New York Times:
New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled  —  The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was “evidently” connected to President Trump's name being added to the arts center.  — 1.1k  —  A veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled events …
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Washington Post:
New Year's Eve concert is latest cancellation at the Kennedy Center  —  Jazz supergroup the Cookers scrapped their New Year's Eve shows at the center days after a Christmas Eve concert was called off.  Other acts have followed suit.  —  Two more artistic groups announced …
Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone:
More Kennedy Center Performers Pull Out After Trump's Name Change  —  Doug Varone, who canceled his dance company's event, called the decision to protest it “financially devastating but morally exhilarating”  —  At least three more events are no longer happening at the Kennedy Center after its board …
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 …
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 …
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Piper Hudspeth Blackburn / CNN:
US strikes vessel in eastern Pacific, killing 2  —  South America Donald Trump Drugs in society  —  The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command.
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
Trump says US bombed alleged drug facility in Venezuela.  No one knows if it's true.  —  It could be a lie from social media, or a conflation of other stories.  Either way, Americans need to know. … It started, as so many stories do for me, with a stray social media post from a random account on Sunday.
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
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump sides with Russia on claims that Ukraine targeted Putin residence  —  Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin's residence in northern Russia, which President Trump said he was “very angry” about, even as Kyiv has denied it happened.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Putin was the missing man at Mar-a-Lago
Axios:
Putin tells Trump Ukraine attacked his residence, which Kyiv denies
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
Trump's Ukraine Plan Faces New Obstacles After Putin Call
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet  —  RIGHT-WING MEDIA PERSONALITY Lauren Chen left the United States in July in disgrace.  Her Tenet Media YouTube channel, which positioned itself as a sort of MAGA supergroup bringing together such popular commentators as Tim Pool …
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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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Associated Press:
Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis
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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Is a Money Pit for Taxpayers
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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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Peter Sullivan / Axios:
States get first awards from rural health fund  —  The Trump administration on Monday announced the first awards to states from the $50 billion rural health fund in this summer's Republican megabill — including a big award for Alaska, whose lawmakers' support was critical to the bill's passage.
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CMS:
CMS Announces $50 Billion in Awards to Strengthen Rural Health in All 50 States
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
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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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 …
Sudiksha Kochi / The Hill:
Greene: Speaker Mike Johnson ‘is not our Speaker’ and is controlled by White House  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in a newly published interview argues Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is “100 percent” following orders from President Trump, and as a result relinquishing the power of Congress.
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
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