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Today — 19 December 2025Main stream

Putin’s Year-End News Conference Set for Friday

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By: Ivan Nechepurenko
19 December 2025 at 02:48
The annual news conference sets the Kremlin’s tone for the next year and highlights President Vladimir V. Putin’s grip over Russia.

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A digital screen in Moscow promoting President Vladimir V. Putin’s year-end televised phone-in and news conference.

Trump Signs Order to Ease Restrictions on Marijuana

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By: Luke Broadwater and Ashley Southall
19 December 2025 at 12:25
Marijuana’s classification as one of the most dangerous and habit-forming substances has long drawn criticism.

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President Trump said the move would allow for more research to be done with cannabis.

New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

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By: Carol Rosenberg
19 December 2025 at 08:58
The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

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Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a student at Georgetown University on Sept. 11, 2001. He is now the fifth judge to preside in the military commission case of defendants in the terrorism attacks.

Democratic State Lawmakers Vow to Unite and Push Back on Trump’s Deportations

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By: David W. Chen
19 December 2025 at 08:15
Lawmakers from a half-dozen states said Thursday they will use legislation next year to thwart the tactics of federal law enforcement carrying out immigration policies.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal law enforcement officers conducted a street raid in New York in October.

James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88

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By: Jonathan Martin
19 December 2025 at 08:21
During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.

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Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.

Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela

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By: Charlie Savage
19 December 2025 at 07:29
The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

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Mr. Trump says an “armed conflict” makes the killings of people on the vessels lawful, but law-of-war experts say standards for a war to exist are not met.

TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban

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By: Emmett Lindner
19 December 2025 at 09:24
The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States.

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Investment agreements bring TikTok, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, closer to resolving years of questions about its future.

Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Decade-Old Antisemitic Posts Re-emerge

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By: Dana Rubinstein
19 December 2025 at 06:13
Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her just-announced post as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments after the Anti-Defamation League resurfaced the comments.

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Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her new post a day after it was announced, apologizing for her remarks and for becoming a distraction from the transition’s work.

Inside the Fight to Keep Mamdani’s Promise of 200,000 Affordable Homes

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By: Mihir Zaveri
19 December 2025 at 02:30
As Zohran Mamdani prepares to take over as mayor of New York, his team and allies have been pushing back against proposals that could make it more difficult to build new homes in the city.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised to build 200,000 new affordable homes over the next decade as part of the housing plan he released during his campaign.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr. and More Conservative Figures Announce Their Engagements

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By: Jesse McKinley
18 December 2025 at 08:02
Several prominent conservative figures have announced that they are engaged this week, news often celebrated by President Trump.

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Donald Trump Jr. confirmed his engagement this week to Bettina Anderson, a Florida influencer and Palm Beach socialite.

The Junior Congressman Who’s Pushing Republicans on Epstein

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By: Michael Gold
19 December 2025 at 07:33
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.

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Mr. Garcia, 48, is a former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., who has been in Congress fewer than three years. He has been leading Democrats on the Oversight Committee, the House’s top investigative panel, for almost six months.

Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center

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By: Shawn McCreesh
19 December 2025 at 07:38
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was so named by law.

Once Again, Health Care Proves to Be a Bitter Political Pill for G.O.P.

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By: Carl Hulse
19 December 2025 at 01:55
The inability to find a credible counter to the Affordable Care Act has long bedeviled Republicans and cost them at the polls. It’s threatening to do so again next year.

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“It’s a complicated issue, no doubt about it, a lot of moving parts and we have very different visions about what health care ought to look like,” Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, said.

Trump Moves to End Gender-Related Care for Minors, Threatening Hospitals That Offer It

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By: Azeen Ghorayshi， Amy Harmon and Reed Abelson
19 December 2025 at 03:22
Proposed new rules would punish the hospitals by pulling all federal financing. Advocates say lawsuits will follow.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with President Trump and Mehmet Oz, the Medicaid and Medicare services administrator, in the White House in September.

The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024

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By: Shane Goldmacher
19 December 2025 at 00:45
Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, ordered the autopsy months ago but is now said to believe that its release would be counterproductive for the party.

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“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said in a statement about the 2024 audit. “If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”
Yesterday — 18 December 2025Main stream

Iran’s President Says He Can’t Make ‘Miracles’ to Solve the Country’s Woes

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By: Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar
19 December 2025 at 03:25
Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.

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President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran attending a protest in Tehran in June after the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.

6 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to the Nation

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By: David E. Sanger
18 December 2025 at 20:21
In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices. Here are six takeaways from the speech.

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President Trump in an address from the White House on Wednesday argued that U.S. economy under his leadership is in better shape than many voters think.

Trump’s Combative Prime Time Speech, and the Growing Right-to-Die Movement

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By: Tracy Mumford， Will Jarvis， Ian Stewart and Kate LoPresti
18 December 2025 at 19:00
Plus, don’t blame the dogs in strollers.

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In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming, despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices.

The Putin Confidant Who Pushed Back Against Russia’s War in Ukraine

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By: Anton Troianovski
18 December 2025 at 18:53
Dmitri N. Kozak had worked with President Vladimir V. Putin for three decades before quitting in September. His associates described his break with the Russian leader.

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Dmitri N. Kozak, then a deputy prime minister of Russia, in 2019. Early in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was a rare voice of dissent.
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