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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 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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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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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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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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Allison Pecorin / ABC News:
Mitch McConnell falls during Senate Republican lunch
Mitch McConnell falls during Senate Republican lunch
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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%
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Prosecutors Are Fighting to Make Sure Trump Remains a Convicted Felon — DA Alvin Bragg argued in a Tuesday filing that Trump's hush money conviction should stand, even if it takes four years for him to be sentenced … Merchan is currently weighing a bid from Trump's legal team …
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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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Bloomberg:
Trump Scheduled to Ring NYSE's Opening Bell on Thursday — President-elect has looked to markets to validate policies — Trump has regularly taken credit for rise in stock prices … Trump's plans for the NYSE visit were shared by people familiar with his schedule …
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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
President Biden says it was ‘stupid’ not to put name on COVID checks like Trump did
President Biden says it was ‘stupid’ not to put name on COVID checks like Trump did
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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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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
You Should Be More Worried About Trump's Planned Military Purge — The failed effort by the President of Korea to impose martial law can be viewed as a victory for democracy. The opposition immediately pushed back, and he faces investigations and possible imprisonment. — But it could easily have gone the other way.
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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 ✅
Axios:
Exclusive: RFK Jr.'s secret push to prove CIA killed uncle … - RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy — his presidential campaign manager, who is married to his son Bobby Kennedy III — would help get to the bottom of the JFK assassination, two Republican sources told Axios.
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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 …
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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Canadian Press
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 …
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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Won't Decide Nvidia Securities Fraud Case After All — In an unsigned order, the justices dismissed the case against the tech giant as “improvidently granted,” meaning they had concluded that it had been a mistake to take it up. — The Supreme Court, which heard arguments …
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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 …