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- US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills four, as Trump accuses Venezuela of taking ‘our oil’
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- How The 2020 Big Lie Is Now Threatening a World-Class Research Center
- How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
- Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
- GOP Senator Grills Trump Nominee on Statement that Marriage Is Not Intended for Disabled People
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- Group of House Republicans Join Dem Effort to Force Vote on ACA Subsidies Extension
- First at TPM: In Shift, Trump Admin Returns Wrongfully Deported Man
- Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
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- The Netflix–Warner Bros. Merger Is a Broadside Attack on Workers
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- The “Warrior Dividend” Is Trump’s Latest PR Stunt to Act Like He Cares About the Troops
- NY Times’ David Brooks Said There’s Too Much Focus on Jeffrey Epstein. Here He Is Hanging With Epstein.
- Secretive Georgia Clemency Board Suspends Execution After Its Conflicts of Interest Are Exposed
- Congress Squanders Last Chance to Block Venezuela War Before Going on Vacation
- Olivia Nuzzi Is Completely Oblivious
- Longtime Paid FBI Informant Was Instrumental in Terror Case Against “Turtle Island Liberation Front”
- AIPAC Head Hosts Fundraiser for House Candidate Who Swears AIPAC Isn’t Backing Her
- U.N. Experts Blast U.S. Universities for Human Rights Violations Against Gaza Protesters
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- Ukraine can now invest in ramping up its drone production thanks to EU loan, says Zelensky
- Mercosur deal delay could play to idea that "European leadership is not doing what it needs to do"
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- More than 1,000 patients have died awaiting evacuation from Gaza since July 2024
- From trash to fine dining: The French startup recycling oysters into porcelain
- Lafarge risks €1.1 million fine for financing terrorism in Syria
- Switzerland goes bunkers as citizens revamp fallout shelters
- Russia's Putin says it is up to Ukraine and its allies to end hostilities
- Louvre reopens fully after staff vote to suspend strike over working conditions
- 'Some of the most disturbing yet': Papers react to 'terrifying' Epstein files
- Media Matters For America
- Nick Fuentes on Trump's affordability crisis: "Things are not going well for you. It is going well for them. They don't even care."
- MAGA media interviews suggest Trump’s denaturalization push is driven by pure Islamophobia
- Right-wing media’s “war on meat” paves the way for Trump administration to blame climate policies for rising beef prices
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- Railing about the 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid, Newsmax's Greg Kelly says Jack Smith belongs in jail. Smith wasn't involved in the classified documents case until months after the raid.
- After the economy fell flat in 2025, Fox promised: "Next year looks like it’s going to be amazing"
- Benny Johnson: "I have that from the highest possible sources that Venezuela runs election-rigging operations in our country and in others through their electronic voting machines"
- Right-wing media spun the bad November jobs report as a win for “native-born” workers
- Nick Fuentes tells Jewish people in Hollywood to "make something patriotic" or "maybe we take your studio from you. Maybe we take all your stuff from you."
- Fox found its culprit for high grocery prices following Democratic election victories — Joe Biden
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