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1:50 PM ET, December 9, 2024

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New York Times:
Here's what to know about the manhunt.  —  A man is being held for questioning in connection with last week's killing of a health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan, according to three law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation.  —  The man was identified based on a tip …
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New York Post:
Person of interest in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson caught with manifesto, gun and fake ID at McDonald's  —  A person of interest was nabbed Monday in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — busted possibly trying to use a fake ID in a McDonald's, law enforcement sources said.
Melania Trump / MSNBC:
Clyburn urges Biden to pardon Trump ‘so we can clean the slate’  —  After convincing President Biden to pardon his son Hunter, South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn is now calling for clemency for Donald Trump.  “If we keep digging at things in the past, I'm not too sure the country will not lose its way …
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Politico:
Biden shrinks from view ahead of Trump's return to Washington  —  With 42 days left in office, Biden avoids unscripted moments or press questions.  —  Joe Biden is president of the United States for 42 more days.  But within the Democratic Party, on Capitol Hill — and even within his own administration …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story, Mediaite and IJR
New York Times:
Activists Call on Biden to Clear Death Row Before Trump Takes Office  —  In a series of open letters, human rights activists, former corrections officials and families of crime victims noted that President Biden had campaigned on opposing capital punishment.
Discussion: Rolling Stone and UnHerd
Associated Press:
Lara Trump steps down as RNC co-chair and addresses speculation about Florida Senate seat  —  Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House.
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Politico:   Playbook: How Tulsi Gabbard is planning to fight
New York Post:
Daniel Penny acquitted in subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely  —  A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city's mental health system and crime underground.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More in U.S. See Health Coverage as Government Responsibility  —  Approval of Affordable Care Act also near high point  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults, the highest percentage in more than a decade, say it is the federal government's responsibility to ensure all Americans have healthcare coverage.
Discussion: Semafor and Quartz
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:   More Americans say health care is government responsibility: Gallup
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Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
What we don't talk about when we talk about the “working class”  —  Since Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, pundits and politicians have been trying to figure out why the country's working class is moving to the right.  —  “Donald Trump Won as the Champion of Working-Class Discontent,” read one headline.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:   How Some Voters Moved From Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump
Dominique Mosbergen / Wall Street Journal:
Meet the Trump Nominees Selling Vitamins on the Side  —  Supplement makers are cheering a warmer welcome in Washington; ‘The industry is getting excited’  —  President-elect Donald Trump's top political appointees want you to buy supplements.  —  Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Trump's pick for surgeon general …
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump's Private Rage at “Traitors” Reveals Dark 2025 Plans  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 9 episode of the  —  Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin, Welch unveil bill placing term limits on Supreme Court  —  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (I) and Vermont Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have introduced a resolution to impose 18-year term limits on Supreme Court justices, which would require some turnover on the high court every two years.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Threatened With Jail, Cheney Condemns Trump's ‘Assault on the Rule of Law’  —  Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative, said President-elect Donald J. Trump “lied about” the bipartisan House committee that investigated his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
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Henry Meyer / Bloomberg:
Putin's Syria Setback Threatens Key Russian Military Bases  — Bases key to Kremlin's effort to rebuild Cold War influence  — Moscow says it will seek talks on bases with new Syria leaders  —  The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria represents a personal defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
Military pauses Osprey flights again after more metal failures are found in near crash in November  —  The Pentagon is temporarily pausing flights again of its fleet of V-22 Ospreys after weakened metal components possibly played a role in another near crash, the latest setback for an embattled aircraft whose safety problems have grown.
Public Notice:
The J. Edgar Hoover precedent for weaponizing the FBI  —  “Yes, we could have a repeat of that,” Frank Figliuzzi tells us.  —  ∙ Paid … 🕵️  —  After serving in the FBI for more than two decades, in 2011 Frank Figliuzzi replaced a guy named Robert Mueller …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump has a new family separation problem  —  Trump's mass deportation policy could lead to massive family separations, and he and allies don't seem to have an answer.  —  If there's a problem that epitomizes the arduousness — and likely the impracticality — of President-elect Donald …
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court rejects case pitting the ‘spirit of Aloha’ against gun owners' rights  —  The case included a swipe by a Hawaii judge at the Supreme Court's embrace of gun rights.  “The thing about the old days, they the old days,” the judge said, quoting HBO's “The Wire.”
Discussion: The Hill, IJR and CBS News
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
At the Kennedy Center, a Send-Off to Biden and Questions About the Future  —  A bipartisan crowd honored Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Apollo Theater.  Some wondered if Donald J. Trump would attend next year.
Discussion: Deadline, Bloomberg and CBS News
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
E.P.A. Bans Cancer-Causing Chemicals Used in Dry Cleaning  —  The two solvents, known as Perc and TCE, cause kidney cancer and other ailments, and have been the subject of years of controversy.  —  The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday banned two solvents found in everyday products …
 
 
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Eyes Medicare, Social Security For DOGE Cuts: ‘We Can Move The Retirement Age Back’
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump sees the investigators, not the rioters, as the Jan. 6 criminals
Discussion: CBS News
Emma Colton / Fox News:
‘Warrior whose vote cannot be bought’: Hundreds of vets pour out in support of Tulsi Gabbard for DNI
Discussion: The Post Millennial and RedState
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Trump suspect requests delay of attempted assassination trial
Brian Platt / Bloomberg:
Trudeau Now Tied With Conservative Leader on Who's Trusted to Deal With Trump
Discussion: The Post Millennial
ProPublica:
How Much Formaldehyde Is in Your Car, Your Kitchen or Your Furniture? Here's What Our Testing Found.
Kate Selig / New York Times:
Judge Pauses Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Against Trump's Education Secretary Pick
Discussion: The Hill and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Biden's Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality
Margaret Manto / NOTUS:
RFK Jr. Doesn't Trust 5G. In the Trump Administration, He'd Have Power to Upend It.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
South Korea Bars President From Traveling Abroad
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Asia Times
Annelise Hanshaw / Missouri Independent:
Lawmakers seek permanent restrictions on transgender Missourians' IDs
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Trump's business empire has expanded. Here's where he could profit in his second term.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Biden officials race to help stabilize Syria after regime collapse
Chloe Melas / NBC News:
Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Max Tani / Semafor:
Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025
 

 
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Bloomberg:
Google debuts Gemini 2.0 and plans to test the model in search and AI Overviews, saying it enables “agents that can think, remember, plan, and even take action”

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Apple rolls out iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, with Apple Intelligence features including ChatGPT integration, Image Playground, and Genmoji

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says Russia-backed hacking group Secret Blizzard targeted Ukraine's military using other cybercriminals' tools, in order to make attribution harder

 
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