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 …

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 …

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace Calls Police on Prominent Foster Youth Advocate; Eyewitnesses Dispute Her Assault Allegations  —  Stunned onlookers say the disturbing turn of events followed a routine celebration of a landmark child welfare law  —  This breaking news story will be updated as more information becomes available.

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.

CNN Poll: Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House  —  Most Americans expect President-elect Donald Trump to do a good job upon his return to the White House next month (54%) and a majority approves of how he's handling the presidential transition so far …

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%

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

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.

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.

Trump outran the law.  His allies haven't.  —  Dozens of Trump allies face criminal charges in lingering cases over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.  —  Despite Donald Trump's Houdini act, the criminal cases against his allies are not disappearing.  —  Dozens of Trump's top aides …

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 …

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 …

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.

Transcript: Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Gives Away His Border Scam on Fox  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 11 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.

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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 …

Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE arrests at churches, schools, hospitals  —  The long-standing policy has prevented ICE agents from arresting immigrants at so-called “sensitive locations” except under certain circumstances.  —  The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind …

The commercial news industry is incapable of fulfilling its constitutional duties  —  The nation's biggest, most important news organizations failed in their biggest, most important task in 2024.  —  The whole reason the press is free in this constitutional democracy of ours, after all, is to create an informed electorate.

Kamala Harris's presidential defeat was an attack on women's progress, Trudeau says  —  'It shouldn't be that way.  It wasn't supposed to be that way,' Trudeau said at an Equal Voice Foundation event Tuesday, adding he is a proud feminist  —  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau …

Warren: ‘Visceral’ response to insurance CEO's killing should be ‘warning to everyone in the health care system’  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said in a new interview that the “visceral” response to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should serve as a warning …

F.D.A. Tries Last-Ditch Move to Slash Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes  —  The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.  —  In the final days of the Biden administration …

California child drank raw milk before possible bird flu infection: Local health officials  —  A California child with a suspected bird flu infection drank raw milk before getting sick, local health officials said.  —  A Marin County child last month presented to a local emergency department …

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 …

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.

First Democratic senator joins Truth Social  —  Sen. John Fetterman is on Truth Social.  The Pennsylvania senator appears to be the first Democrat in the chamber to join President-elect Donald Trump's social media site.  In his “first truth,” Fetterman advocated for Trump to be pardoned …

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 …

Federal judge blocks largest supermarket merger in history  —  New York CNN —  A federal judge in Oregon blocked Kroger's proposed $25 billion tie-up with Albertsons, ruling that the largest merger in US supermarket history would limit competition and harm consumers.