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MTG to resign from Congress on Jan. 5

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy

The Lutnicks, like the Trumps, are cashing in by mingling Washington access and power with their family businesses and wallets. Flagrant financial conflicts and self-dealing that would have drawn a firestorm of criticism and censure in pre-Trump Washington.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Trump signs bill to release the DOJ's Epstein files The legislation requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records related to Epstein within 30 days.

Trump signs a bill releasing all unclassified Epstein documents within 30 days.
Bondi still has ample discretion to decide what exactly to release, including any she deems as possibly compromising federal investigations.
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Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment

How could it be that a lawyer unqualified to be a federal prosecutor but qualified as a Trump loyalist utterly mangled a credible and proper legal approach when targeting Comey? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

UN Orders Brazil to Improve Security, Poor Conditions at COP30 A top UN climate official demanded Brazilian authorities immediately develop a plan for addressing security lapses, soaring temperatures, flooding and other poor conditions at the COP30 conference in ...

Ironically, it's difficult to talk about climate change when you're battling oppressive heat and torrential rain

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Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal

Emolumental: The Trump Organization is in talks that could bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s largest government-owned real estate developments.
Trump is set to host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, next week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

Vance spouted this same propaganda during the VP debates in 2024. Housing access and affordability have been driven by interest rates, construction slowdowns, restrictive zoning and a Covid-era spike in demand. Immigrants — who typically rent rather than buy — aren’t causing house prices to rise.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation than the Strategy Group. It played a central role in her SD gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top DHS adviser, has worked extensively with it. And its CEO is married to Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson
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Trump Stoked the Epstein Scandal. It’s Come Back to Bite Him. Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 while imprisoned on charges of being a sex trafficker and a pedophile, continues to haunt the Republican Party and its leader, President Donald Trump.

“Gambino was never the commander in chief. there was little gambino could do as the walls closed in. not so with this maniac,” Epstein wrote of Trump.

Trump, Epstein allowed, was “borderline insane. and corroborated by some that are close.”
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Trump Stoked the Epstein Scandal. It’s Come Back to Bite Him Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in 2019 while imprisoned on charges of being a sex trafficker and a pedophile, continues to haunt the Republican Party and its leader, President Donald Trump.

What remains to be delineated beyond thousands of documents is if Trump secured sexual liaisons through Epstein, or whether the same president who has been busily enriching himself from the Oval Office also made use of some of Epstein’s murkier financial services.
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My goodness, more damning reporting on Prasad that should make us (even more) fearful for the future of vaccine access, regulation & public uptake in the US.

Buffett’s Latest Letter Subtweets His Fellow Billionaires There’s one thing Warren Buffett seems to credit for his success more than anything else: luck.

"You can’t reproduce the elements of chance that set Buffett on his path, but you can try to live his example of never falling for your own hype or the idea that your accomplishments are all of your own making."

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AI’s Power Grab Has to Face Affordability Politics Even as the labor and housing markets slow, the “three A’s” of the Trump economy have kept things chugging along in 2025: artificial intelligence, asset prices and the affluent. Last week’s elections ...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: The Trump economy might be powered by the three A's of AI, asset prices, and the affluent, but voters sent the message that politicians aren't doing enough to address a fourth A -- affordability -- that AI companies are making worse: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Epstein Files Live Updates: Trump Named in Emails Released by Democrats and Republicans

Epstein described Trump as a “dirty” businessman who was “borderline insane,” untrustworthy and worse in “real life and upclose” than the image he sought to portray to the public.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggest that the convicted sex offender believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

The US Is Making a $3 Trillion-a-Year Mistake There’s this outdated comparison many politicians and even some climate-change advocates still use, which is to juxtapose climate action against economic growth, as if the two were opposing sides in a...

“At the current pace of warming, productivity losses, falling crop yields and natural disasters will shrink the global economy by 2.9% by 2050…That’s more than $3 trillion in losses a year.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Amendment which strikes section which “allows senators who were legally subpoenaed during the January 6 criminal conspiracy investigation to get millions of dollars deposited into their bank accounts at taxpayer expense” voted down by Republicans

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says A Justice Department official says President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s e...

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election
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FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

Trump’s Spin on the Economy Won’t Work President Donald Trump is taking a page from former President Joe Biden when it comes to the economy: trying to convince Americans that their lived experiences of higher prices aren’t real. It’s a hea...

“If Trump continues to tell people that the economy is better than they think it is, they will have no choice but to conclude that he doesn’t understand their lives and doesn’t care about their hardships.”
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Neighboring headlines in the same country.

Same same, but different.. 😊

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.

“In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang.”
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“I really don’t care. Do u?”

DHS keeps posting Norman Rockwell after family condemns use of his art Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Department of Homeland Security of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs.

Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work aimed at framing the administration's mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery.

Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated

this article will publish tomorrow at 7:30 am www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Tesla Shareholders Approve $1 Trillion Pay Package for Elon Musk Tesla Inc. shareholders approved a $1 trillion compensation package for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, the largest payout ever awarded to a corporate leader.

$1,000,000,000,000.
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Millions to receive free electricity in 2026 thanks to Australia’s solar boom | TechCrunch Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.

Australia now has so much solar power that the government will require utilities to sell customers free electricity for three hours per day.