In reversal, key House panel votes to release Matt Gaetz ethics report  —  The House Ethics Committee secretly voted earlier this month to release its report into the conduct of former Rep. Matt Gaetz before the end of this Congress, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.

Trump planning to target progressive non-profits, US watchdog warns  —  Congressional Integrity Project creates initiative to counter growing ‘authoritarianism’ and defend progressives  —  Donald Trump and his Republican allies are planning to target progressive groups they perceive …

Inside Disney's Decision to Settle a Trump Defamation Suit  —  Talks started and finished on the same day, after Disney decided that fighting the lawsuit could potentially hurt the company and protections for the press.  —  When Disney reached a settlement last week with President-elect Donald J. Trump …

Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now  —  “I think we are telling them that we're here to govern,” one Democrat said.  —  DCCC chair Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., speaks during the House Democrats' post-caucus meeting news conference in the Capitol, Sept. 18, 2024.

What Do Democrats Need to Do?  Act Like an Opposition Party.  —  Democrats may be in the minority, but they are not yet an opposition.  —  What's the difference?  —  An opposition would use every opportunity it had to demonstrate its resolute stance against the incoming administration.

Trump: Canada becoming 51st state ‘great idea’  —  President-elect Trump questioned Canada early Wednesday, asking why the U.S. provides its northern neighbor with subsidies, and suggesting that it should become the 51st state.  —  “No one can answer why we subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100,000,000 a year?

The No-Win ‘Mystery Drone’ Clusterfuck  —  To political grifters boosting their profiles, government inaction is unacceptable, and government action cannot be trusted.  There is no acceptable explanation.  —  If you are wondering what to think of the New Jersey mystery drone situation …

Supreme Court to hear challenge to banning TikTok in the United States  —  The justices will quickly take up the constitutionality of a federal law that would shutter TikTok next month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will quickly …

Transcript: Trump's Angry New Tirade on Truth Social Signals Dark 2025  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 17 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.

I Was a Health Insurance Executive.  What I Saw Made Me Quit.  —  I left my job as a health insurance executive at Cigna after a crisis of conscience.  It began in 2005, during a meeting convened by the chief executive to brief department heads on the company's latest strategy: “consumerism.”

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Ice deports mother and children, including newborn twins, to Mexico  —  Despite the infants being US citizens, Christina Salazar and all four of her children were put on a plane on 11 December  —  After his wife and children, including newborn twins, were suddenly deported to Mexico …

What it's like to cook for Donald  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the preparations, personnel decisions and policy deliberations of Donald Trump's transition.  POLITICO Pro subscribers receive a version of this newsletter first.  —  DONALD TRUMP is a man of routine when it comes to his diet.

Why conservatives condemn Luigi Mangione and celebrate Daniel Penny  —  The American right has spent the past week performing an interesting tap dance: condemning the left for cheering on one alleged killer while turning another into a right-wing celebrity.  —  In the first case …

How does the Well-Being of Young Adults Compare to Their Parents'?  —  I. INTRODUCTION  —  Over the last few decades, there has been a pervasive sense of a decline in intergenerational mobility.  A report in Science found that 90 percent of children born in the 1940s earned more than their parents …

In Trump World, RFK Jr. and Elon Musk Highlight Debate Over Obesity Treatment  —  Statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk tap into a dispute over whether lifestyle changes or drugs are a better way to treat obesity.  —  For Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the activist whom President-elect Donald J. Trump …

Feeling at home?  New app lets US homebuyers see neighbors' politics  —  Oyssey startup allows users to access neighborhood political affiliations and other social data  —  America's political divide is likely to get even wider thanks to a new real-estate platform that lets potential buyers …

High tariffs proposed by Trump could wipe out corporate profits … - Of course, companies won't sit idly by and let that happen — those costs will likely be passed along to American consumers. … - That's on top of tariffs of 60% or more on goods from China, and 10-20% tariffs on imports from the rest of the world.

DHS overhauls H-1B visa program  —  The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday clarifying who can apply for an H-1B work visa, a key program to attract international talent that's been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse.  —  The new rule expands the definitions …

Trump to nominate ex-NFL star Herschel Walker as Bahamas ambassador  —  President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Herschel Walker, the former professional football player and Heisman Trophy winner who lost a scandal-ridden bid for Senate in 2022, as ambassador to the Bahamas.

Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths?  The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  In states with abortion bans …

US Supreme Court to hear South Carolina Planned Parenthood defunding case  —  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear South Carolina's bid to cut off public funding to Planned Parenthood in a case that could bolster efforts by conservative-leaning states to deprive the reproductive healthcare …

A conservative comeback in the culture war  —  The only time I ever agreed with MSNBC's Joy Reid was when she declared the Left victorious in the culture wars following the hyper-woke Grammy Awards on CBS in February 2023.  —  “Culture wars are over, and the Left won, like total defeat,” …

How Billionaires Have Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code.

Republicans butt heads on daylight saving time after Trump directive  —  A Republican brouhaha is emerging after President-elect Trump called to eliminate daylight saving time, setting up battle lines between prominent GOP lawmakers in their hopes to lock the clock.