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8:55 AM ET, November 29, 2025

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Washington Post:
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all  —  As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary's order to leave no survivors.  —  Just now
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Jack Goldsmith / Executive Functions:
A Dishonorable Strike  —  Please click here to opt in to receive via email our Roundup—brief daily summaries of news developments and commentary related to executive power.  —  One can imagine stretching Article II of the Constitution to authorize the U.S. drug boat campaign.
Discussion: DNYUZ and NewsMax.com
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US Department of Justice:
The United States Announces Agreement with Northwestern University  —  For Immediate Release  —  Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reached an agreement with Northwestern University (Northwestern) …
Bianca Quilantan / Politico:
Northwestern reaches $75M deal with Trump administration to get federal funding reinstated
Discussion: Bloomberg and NewsMax.com
Washington Post:
U.S. halts all asylum decisions, pauses visas for Afghan nationals  —  The decisions come a day after President Donald Trump vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries,” among other threats.  —  Just now  —  The United States on Friday halted all decisions relating …
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Associated Press:
Trump pushes for more restrictions on Afghan refugees.  Experts say many are already in place  —  The Trump administration is promising an even tougher anti-immigration agenda after an Afghan national was charged this week in the shooting of two National Guard members, with new restrictions targeting …
New York Post:
How alleged DC terrorist Rahmanullah Lakanwal was welcomed into the US after CIA vetting — and then turned against it
Gabriel Hays / Fox News:
Trump calls reporter a ‘stupid person’ during tense exchange about National Guardsmen murder suspect
April Rubin / Axios:
Trump singles out Minnesota's Somali community after D.C. shooting
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
Tom Latchem / The Daily Beast:
Walz Demands Trump's MRI Results After Unhinged Slur Attack
New York Times:
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case  —  Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers.  He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and DNYUZ
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Associated Press:
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence
Wall Street Journal:
D.C. Ambush Exposes Risks for National Guard on Capital's Crime Patrols  —  A fatal attack on a routine patrol has intensified questions over the administration's open-ended military deployments in American cities  —  Soon after a gunman shot two National Guard members in downtown Washington …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for ‘heart of gold’
Mrinmay Dey / Reuters:
Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety  —  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety.  —  Trump, in a Truth Social post said: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers …
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New York Times:
Trump Spoke by Phone Last Week With Maduro, Venezuela's Leader
Discussion: Reuters, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines  —  The agency's top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots.  But public health experts want to examine the data.  —  The director of the Food …
Discussion: DNYUZ
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Pentagon's right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's briefing at the Pentagon next week will welcome a new crop of media that no longer includes the mainstream press.  —  Just now  —  The Defense Department is set to play host to right-wing media …
Holly Ramer / Associated Press:
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order  —  A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Discussion: Raw Story
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Inside Trump's Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible … As President Trump took a stroll on the White House roof in August, generating headlines and questions about what he was up to, the man walking beside him was little noticed.  —  Wearing his signature bow tie …
Discussion: HuffPost
Reuters:
Airbus issues major A320 recall, threatening widespread global disruption  — Airbus orders immediate repairs to 6,000 A320 jets  — Repairs needed due to flight-control software issue  — Incident linked to solar flares affecting flight controls  —  Europe's Airbus (AIR.PA) …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%.  The latest decline follows three months of stability …
Alyssa Lukpat / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Is Canceling All Biden Executive Orders Signed With Autopen  —  The president has antagonized his predecessor over using proxy to sign documents  —  President Trump said Friday he was revoking all executive orders former President Joe Biden signed with an autopen …
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Alexandra Koch / Fox News:
Trump to void all documents allegedly signed by Biden via autopen, threatens perjury charge
Adam Wren / Politico:
How Trump's base could break … The results underscore just how sui generis the cohort that reelected Trump was — and foreshadow the GOP's coming challenges.  —  More than half of Trump's voters last year — 55 percent — describe themselves as MAGA, but a critical 38 percent do not …
Discussion: Alternet.org and DNYUZ
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Adam Wren / Politico:   The emerging MAGA fractures
 
 
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Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story
Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian:
US regulators ‘taking seriously’ allegations of bankers' support for Epstein
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes
Discussion: WJBK-TV and IJR
Justin Spike / Associated Press:
Hungary's Orbán seeks more Russian oil and gas at Kremlin talks with Putin
 Earlier Items: 
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Johnson on life amid Speakership: 'We're kind of in survival mode right now'
Associated Press:
Zelenskyy's chief of staff resigns after anti-corruption investigators search home
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
Surging measles cases are ‘fire alarm’ warning that other diseases could be next
Discussion: The Hill, STAT and Alternet.org
Paul Waldman / MS NOW:
Republicans' health care homework is due - and they're panicking
Discussion: Alternet.org and Grabien
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
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Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort
 
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