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Tammy Sager
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“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” – Potter Stewart, US Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1964

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Footage has surfaced showing a Ukrainian interceptor drone taking down a Russian Shahed drone during the latest combined missile and drone attack.
December 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Reader Tom B. is matching up to $15K in gifts for ProPublica via GoFundMe.

He says: “I want to see ProPublica even stronger, and I’m backing that up with my own money. In the face of chaos, let’s stand with the facts.”

➡️ Help him support us and double your impact: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ra...
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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President Donald Trump snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced.
‘Always stupid and nasty!’ Trump snaps at CNN host when pressed on rising ballroom costs
President Donald Trump snapped at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced.“Caitlin Collin’s of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new ...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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“Able-bodied” may sound like a medical determination, but, as disability activist
@imanibarbarin.bsky.social says, it’s really just a vague way “to signal this idea that disability can be seen.”
The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Pediatricians in Mississippi to still recommend Hep B vaccine for newborns despite CDC advisers’ vote

Pediatricians in Mississippi are already witnessing a shift among parents in how some choose to protect their children against infectious disease was underway even before a group of advisers for…
Pediatricians in Mississippi to still recommend Hep B vaccine for newborns despite CDC advisers’ vote
Pediatricians in Mississippi are already witnessing a shift among parents in how some choose to protect their children against infectious disease was underway even before a group of advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withdrew their recommendation for hepatitis B vaccines at birth this week.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump puts screws on Indiana Senators to greenlight a GOP-friendly voting map
The Supreme Court seems unlikely to halt a tsunami of partisan gerrymanders.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Republicans have a mess on their hands over health care subsidies https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/republicans-aca-health-care-subsidies
#axios #news #usnews
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth
National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth
The Trump administration is adding Flag Day, which is also President Trump's birthday, to its list of fee-free entry days at national parks.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Up to 8,000 people could need hospital care before flu wave reaches peak, health leaders warn
Up to 8,000 people could need hospital care before flu wave reaches peak, health leaders warn
Health leaders are warning that up to 8,000 people could be taken to hospital before a flu wave currently gripping the country reaches its peak. 
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December 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Apple’s chip chief might be the next exec to leave
Apple’s chip chief might be the next exec to leave
Apple’s chip chief, Johny Srouji is “seriously considering” leaving for another company in the near future.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“The Big Tech AI industry is only interested in one thing: zero laws, zero accountability. The American people do not agree with their agenda, and that’s why Big Tech CEOs are putting big money behind efforts to repeal and neuter laws at the federal, state, and international levels.”
Crypto Won Big in 2024. AI Is Angling to Do the Same in 2026
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.
Trump facing a 'new reality' as White House 'appears to sense political danger': report
Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.According to a report from the Washington Post’s Naftali Bendavid, the president is now faced with a “new reality” that he can no lo...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Four protesters have been arrested after splattering food on the case of a diamond-encrusted crown at the Tower of London.
Protesters arrested after smearing custard and crumble on Crown Jewels case at Tower of London
Four protesters have been arrested after splattering food on the case of a diamond-encrusted crown at the Tower of London.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York.

His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.
He carries shelter dogs around the city in a backpack to help get them adopted
Bryan Reisberg has taken out 11 dogs on city adventures. Ten of them were adopted after his videos published.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.
Science journal retracts widely cited study that claimed Roundup is safe
The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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As lawmakers stall on extending tax credits for people who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, Andrew Volk, a bar owner in Portland, Maine, is already seeing ripple effects for his small business. Watch:
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A new report from payroll processor ADP found that private employees lost nearly 32,000 jobs in November, far off analyst projections that they would add 10,000 jobs.

The data is a sharp decline from October. trib.al/sLyTx4f
December 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Boeing says Trump's equity stake plan doesn't apply to big US defense firms reut.rs/4rIHcWW
Boeing says Trump's equity stake plan doesn't apply to big US defense firms
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to take government equity stakes in strategic industries doesn't apply to major defense firms, the head of Boeing's defense unit said on Saturday, in contrast to previous comments by a senior government official.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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US waives $11 million Southwest Airlines fine imposed over 2022 holiday meltdown
The Trump administration said Saturday it will waive an $11 million fine imposed on Southwest Airlines as part of a $140 million settlement over the carrier's meltdown in December 2022 during a busy holiday travel period.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Russia launches attacks across Ukraine as Miami peace talks continue
Russia launches attacks across Ukraine as Miami peace talks continue
More than 650 drones target locations across Ukraine including western regions with sirens sounding in eastern Poland
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Olympic flame arrives in Rome ahead of Winter Olympics
Olympic flame arrives in Rome ahead of Winter Olympics
The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is set to take place in February.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“The Trump administration has effectively outsourced soaring disaster costs to ill-equipped states, profit-seeking insurers, and, ultimately, helpless individuals.” When the next hurricane hits, these cuts will prove disastrous. From Kenny Stancil:

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Trump’s Katrina Is Coming - The American Prospect
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.

For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care
The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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After attaching new strings to counterterrorism and emergency management money for “sanctuary” states, the Trump administration went further by adding requirements that even Republican-majority areas find hard to meet.
Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 "catch and kill" operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said.
Trump stories involving Melania and the Mob were ​caught and killed: Ex-Trump lawyer
The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 “catch and kill” operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said.“I never actually added them up, but I wouldn't ...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM