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1:10 PM ET, November 30, 2025

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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence  —  David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.  —  President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less …
Discussion: The Guardian and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
Silicon Valley's Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends … In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.  He had convened top government officials …
Wall Street Journal:
Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine  —  The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business.  To Europe's dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.  —  Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month …
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Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Five Questions About American Foreign Policy
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine  —  Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy.  It ravaged his Central American country.  —  He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses.”
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense  —  An explosive Washington Post report, the subject of so much discussion the past two days, says that, in the first missile strike the Trump Defense Department carried out against operatives of a boat suspected of transporting narcotics …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Steve Bannon Was Epstein's Comeback Consultant.  Where's the Uproar?  —  The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.  —  IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already …
Sarah Stillman / New Yorker:
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison  —  The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.  —  One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call …
Washington Post:
Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump's ‘retribution campaign’  —  In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump's norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.  —  Just now  —  After Donald Trump's reelection last year …
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there  —  Don't call it a bubble!  Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Trump's pick to replace DeSantis faces a Republican pile-on in Florida … The result is a disjointed and increasingly nasty primary in the nation's third-largest state — one unfolding as Republicans continue to widen their voter registration advantage in the former battleground.
Sadiba Hasan / New York Times:
Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony  —  The couple legally married at a courthouse in Newark days before hosting an intimate wedding in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.  They shared their wedding details exclusively with The New York Times.  —  Senator Cory Booker …
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
US officials expect more progress during US-Ukraine talks in Florida  —  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday he expected talks with Ukrainian officials to yield “more progress” toward a deal to end the war in Ukraine.  —  “This is not just about peace deals.
Faith Wardwell / Politico:
Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy — and Trump … “So for me, a 56-year-old white guy, sure, take a picture of my license plate,” he said.  “They're not coming after me.  But it's not about me.  It's about other groups in our community …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity  —  The president has used the language of divisiveness at a time when tragedy demands leadership.  —  Just now  —  There was a time, not that far in the past, when a shocking tragedy would bring the country together.
NBC News:
Noem says deportation operation decisions are hers amid case over flights to El Salvador  —  The Justice Department has said that she made the final call on deportation flights after a judge ordered them to turn around.  —  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …
Discussion: The Hill and twitchy.com
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump and Hegseth are ‘not serious people’ amid military video investigation  —  Kelly's comments come after the Defense Department said it would investigate the retired Navy captain after he participated in a video calling on troops to refuse illegal orders.
David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’  —  Republican senators are “compromised,” according to a GOP strategist.  —  Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, wrote an article on Saturday called None Dare Call It Treason …
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Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns  —  The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members blocks from the White House had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches …
Discussion: Althouse and Associated Press
Tom Burgis / The Guardian:
All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches  —  From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump's family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election  —  A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case.
Eva McKend / CNN:
How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump's megabill  —  Donald Trump  —  As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Noem says National Guard shooting suspect was ‘radicalized’ in the U.S.  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said the Trump administration would resume the asylum process after dealing with a backlog of cases.  —  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on NBC News' …
NBC News:
Kristi Noem blames Biden Afghanistan ‘abandonment’ for National Guard shooting: Full interview  —  In an interview with Meet the Press, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi criticizes the Biden administration after revelations that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members arrived …
David W. Chen / New York Times:
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills  —  Democrats zeroed in on utilities and affordability to win Republican support in upset elections in Georgia and Virginia.  Can the same playbook work in 2026?  —  As loyal Republicans …
Discussion: The Guardian, CNN and Eschaton
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
November 29, 2025  —  In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees …
Bryan Walsh / Vox:
A shocking new warning about global poverty should unsettle everyone  —  One of humanity's biggest achievements may be slipping away. … Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings.  And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for …
 
 
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Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he's running for Congress.
New York Times:
Webster Springs, W.Va. United In Grief Over Death of National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom
Discussion: WCHS-TV and RedState
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Washington Post:
In Houston suburbs, Abbott's attacks on CAIR unnerve Muslim residents
Discussion: The Hill
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Empathy is the new Christian battleground
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Washington Post:
DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record.
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Agence France-Presse:
France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
David Rothkopf / Need to Know:
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
Discussion: Blue Virginia
STAT:
Experts say top FDA official's claim that Covid vaccines caused kids' deaths requires more evidence
Associated Press:
Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
Neil Irwin / Axios:
Social Security's day of reckoning is nearly here
Discussion: The Hill
Axios:
Another House Republican is calling it quits from Congress