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#1 Trump Just Faced the Biggest Supreme Court Defeat of His Second Term So Far - Mark Joseph Stern for Slate, Tony MacIntyre, T, Daily News, ゆきひ, and The Loedown!!! on X
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's plan to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois amid strenuous objections from local officials. The court in an unsigned order turned away an emergency request made by the administration, which said the troops are needed to protect federal agents involved in immigration enforcement in the Chicago area. Although the decision is a preliminary one involving only Chicago, it will likely bolster similar challenges made to National Guard deployments in other cities, with the opinion setting significant new limits on the president’s ability to do so...#2 Student Loan Borrowers in Default Face Wage Garnishment Next Month - Sarah Fortinsky for The Hill, thomas, The Beacon, THE GLOBAL PULSE, Polymarket/cool newt, and FOX 2 Detroit on X
The Trump administration in January will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default. The Department of Education said Tuesday that approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers will receive notices informing them of their status beginning the week of Jan. 7. The number of notices sent out will increase on a monthly basis. The department said collection can be conducted “only after student and parent borrowers have been provided sufficient notice and opportunity to repay their loans.” The government is able to garnish up to 15 percent of a person’s wages if they are in default, though the department did not specify on Tuesday how much would be deducted from wages...
#3 Controversial ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on Trump Immigration Policy Leaks Online - Safiyah Riddle, Associated Press/PBS, @Ima/Cristiano, John Daly, Squirts Falafel, Cally1977, and Newsini on X
A controversial news segment that was abruptly pulled from the television show "60 Minutes," appears to have been leaked online this week after the last minute decision to pull the story exploded into public debate about journalistic independence. The segment featured interviews with migrants who were sent to the notorious El Salvadorian prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, under President Donald Trump's aggressive crackdown on immigration. A recording of the story appears to have aired on the Global Television Network, one of Canada's largest networks. The story appears to have been taken down, but it is still on a website that captures and preserves webpages.
#4 World Awaits Putin’s Response After Russian General Dies in Car Bomb - Face the Nation, Al Arabiya English, Spetsnaℤ 007/The Intelligencer, The MES Times, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya/Scruffy Murphy, and Core (SatoshiPlus) #BTC, #ETH & #BNB Believers on X
A Russian general was killed in a car bombing in Moscow on Monday, authorities said. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has the latest. Russia's Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated. He is the third military official to have been killed in bomb attacks in the Russian capital over the last year.Sarvarov, 56, was the head of the armed forces' operational training department, the committee said... Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs filed an expedited appeal Tuesday to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing it should order his immediate release and either grant a judgment of acquittal or vacate his conviction and remand for resentencing. He is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two interstate prostitution convictions. A jury convicted Combs this summer on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted on two more serious charges: racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion... The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos, and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said... Christmas is becoming a new front line in Europe’s culture wars. Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left. The trope echoes a familiar refrain across the Atlantic that was first propagated by Fox News, where hosts have inveighed against a purported “War on Christmas” for years. U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have “brought back” the phrase “Merry Christmas” in the United States, framing it as defiance against political correctness. Now, European far-right parties more usually focused on immigration or law-and-order concerns have adopted similar language, recasting Christmas as the latest battleground in a broader struggle over culture... The United States has imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including a former European Union commissioner, accusing them of pressuring tech firms to censor and suppress “American viewpoints they oppose”. In a statement on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterised the individuals as “radical activists” who had “advanced censorship crackdowns” by foreign states against “American speakers and American companies”. For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose,” he said on X... A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver's licenses without having them prove they are in the country legally. U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci in Albany ruled that the Republican administration — which challenged the law under President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration — had failed to support its claims that the state law usurps federal law or that it unlawfully regulates or unlawfully discriminates against the federal government...
We live in a world that has forgotten how deeply intelligent the human body is. For decades, we’ve been taught to believe that disease—especially cancer—is a matter of genetic fate. A rogue cell gone wild or a random error in our DNA. But emerging research is pointing to something far more layered—and perhaps more hopeful, suggesting…
#5 The Energy Behind Disease - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Siddharth Arya, Ben Sasse/Krystian Gebis/Lincy, dr jack kruse/camus, and curiosita𝕏 on X
#6 In Expedited Appeal, Sean Combs Calls for Overturning Conviction on Interstate Prostitution Charges - Adam Reiss and Chloe Melas for NBC News, Edward Halliday, New York Post, New York Times Arts, The Independent, and QuantumScopesAI on X
#7 Justice Department Scrambling to Find Holiday Volunteers to Redact the Epstein Files, Internal DOJ Email Says - Katelyn Polantz for CNN, WarMonitor, Wu Tang is for the Children, Brynt, and MSN on X
#8 How the Far Right Stole Christmas - Hannah Roberts for Politico, @amuse, bonchie, POLITICOEurope/Dustin Grage, Cathy the Braves Girl, and PixelPlatoon on X
#9 US Bars Five Europeans Over Alleged Efforts to ‘Censor American Viewpoints’ - Zaheena Rasheed for Al Jazeera, Orlando Sentinel, Fife4Europe, Elena, PEOPLE DAILY, and WION on X
#10 Judge Green Lights New York’s Driver’s License Law, Rejecting a Trump Administration Challenge - Michael R. Sisak for Associated Press, Breanna Morello, Callie Benson, Channel 3 News, Wendy Wilson, and joe smith on X
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