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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Amid Rumors of a Breakup, Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Appointed Ambassador to Greece — The announcement came as Donald Trump Jr. has been seen with the socialite Bettina Anderson in Florida. — It was an announcement made amid a swirl of tabloid speculation: Kimberly Guilfoyle …
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars — The ruling dashed, at least for now, the plans of The Onion's parent company to take over Infowars and radically shift its content. — A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by The Onion's parent company …
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Dave Collins / Associated Press:
Judge rejects sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion in dispute over bankruptcy auction — A federal judge on Tuesday night rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding process as flawed and the amount of money that families …
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Ursula Perano / Politico:
RFK Jr. becomes latest troubled Trump pick — His problems have been largely drowned out by the likes of Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, but the HHS pick has sparked some concern among Republicans. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the latest Donald Trump Cabinet pick facing trouble in the Senate.
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Politico:
Playbook: Inside Trump's game of Senate hardball — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW JMART — There's some high internal drama over the Senate Intelligence Committee chairmanship, Jonathan Martin reports this morning: Sen. TOM COTTON …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
For Trump's allies, RINO-hunting season is in full swing
For Trump's allies, RINO-hunting season is in full swing
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John Herrman / New York Magazine:
Luigi Mangione's Full Story Isn't Online — When the identity of Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, was revealed on Monday, the online search — a reporting process that's become a collective online ritual — began. It turns out he left a lot of information online …
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Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Aims to Remake Federal Trade Commission With Two Picks — President-elect says he will elevate Andrew Ferguson to replace Lina Khan as chair and nominate Mark Meador as a commissioner — WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Andrew Ferguson to lead …
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
Federal judge blocks largest supermarket merger in history
Federal judge blocks largest supermarket merger in history
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Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger
Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families' Trans Kids — A provision tucked into the National Defense Authorization Act forces parents in the military to weigh their careers against providing health care for loved ones. — LOADING
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Paul Kiel / ProPublica:
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes — Some of Wall Street's richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found. — The Secret IRS Files: Inside the Tax Records of the .001%
Ken Klippenstein:
Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto — I've obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione's manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why.
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Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Plot to Force Health Insurers to Sell Off Pharmacies — Bipartisan bills would make healthcare companies with pharmacy-benefit managers divest their pharmacies — A bipartisan group of lawmakers are set to introduce legislation to break up pharmacy-benefit managers …
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse” — History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show — First things first: welcome to readers new and old. Now that I have written my last column for the New York Times, this newsletter is coming out of dormancy.
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New York Times:
Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History — Under President Biden, more than two million immigrants per year have entered, government data shows. — The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom …
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Alex Rogers / Financial Times:
Mitch McConnell: 'We're in a very, very dangerous world right now' — The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP — Mitch McConnell is standing in his office smiling. Hanging on the walls are faces, mostly stern, from Washington's past.
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Associated Press:
McConnell falls and sprains wrist after GOP luncheon, colleague says he is ‘fine’
McConnell falls and sprains wrist after GOP luncheon, colleague says he is ‘fine’
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
By All Means, Jail My Colleagues, Mr. President! — The latest Consumer Price Index figures are in this morning, and policymakers are still struggling to take the last inch against stubbornly persistent inflation. Axios reports that CPI “rose 2.7 percent in the 12 months through November …
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Trump plots to steal Congress's budget authority — 🚀 Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers. If you aren't one, please click the button below to sign up and support our independent journalism. 🚀 — ✅ Subscribe to Public Notice ✅
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Increased Christianity in schools opens the door to Satanic Temple education programs — The Satanic Temple is increasing its work in schools across the country, trying to combat a rise in religious teachings. — The group, launched in 2013 to battle the “intrusion of Christian values on American politics …
Associated Press:
Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden's pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds — Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such thing, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Trump, GOP expected to undo Biden's divisive nursing home rule — Republicans are expected to rescind the Biden administration's contentious nursing home staffing rule before it is set to take effect. — The move would come as a relief for the nursing home industry, which has argued …
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Kierra Frazier / Politico:
Trump announces 2 picks for OMB positions — President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to fill out key posts at the Office of Management and Budget with two staff picks on Tuesday. Trump picked Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina as deputy director of the OMB.
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Christopher Harris / WTTG-TV:
Rep. Nancy Mace allegedly attacked on Capitol Hill; Suspect arrested — Capitol Police arrested a man for allegedly assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace at the Rayburn Building. — Rep. Mace condemned “tr*ns violence” and vowed resilience on her X account. — The suspect entered through …
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Alternet.org:
Tom Cotton blocks bill to shield journalists from betraying sources — Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas on Tuesday again blocked the passage of House-approved bipartisan legislation meant to shield journalists and telecommunications companies from being compelled to disclose sources …
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Elizabeth Warren introduces Senate bill to hold capitalism ‘accountable’ — Democrat aims to shift corporations away from maximizing shareholder value to support for workers and stakeholders — The senator Elizabeth Warren will introduce a bill in Congress on Wednesday aimed …
CNN:
South Korea's ex-defense minister attempts to take his own life as presidential office raided in martial law fallout — Former South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun has attempted to end his own life while in custody, the head of the country's correctional service said Wednesday …
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Associated Press:
For now, ‘Dreamers’ will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states — Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled …
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Sean Gregory / Time:
Athlete of the Year — Caitlin Clark — Clark photographed at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Oct. 30Cass Bird for TIME … On an early-November morning in downtown Indianapolis, Clark, the two-time college national player of the year for the University of Iowa …
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Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Postmaster general visibly covers his ears amid criticism from GOP lawmaker — Postmaster General Louis DeJoy covered his ears when faced with criticism from Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) over his handling of the U.S. Postal Service, a move the Republican mocked and emphasized after it happened.
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