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Today — 20 December 2025Main stream

Weighing Politics and Morality in the Israel Debate

✇NYT | Opinion
20 December 2025 at 02:45
Readers respond to an essay criticizing U.S. Democrats’ failure to resolve the conflict in Gaza. Also: Trump’s Kennedy Center rebrand; blaming immigrants after the Brown shooting.

ICE Allows Democratic Lawmakers Inside Migrant Cells in New York City

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Olivia Bensimon
20 December 2025 at 02:05
The immigration agency had barred elected officials from the holding facilities. A federal judge this week said they must be given access.

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Representative Daniel Goldman on Friday visited immigrant holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City.

Justice Dept. Won’t Meet Friday Deadline to Release All Epstein Files

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alan Feuer and Michael Gold
20 December 2025 at 01:24
Several members of Congress criticized the department’s No. 2, Todd Blanche, after he said more documents would be coming weeks late.

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Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said the Justice Department would not release all of its files relating to Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, the congressionally mandated deadline.
Yesterday — 19 December 2025Main stream

Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina Gains Federal Recognition After Generations-Long Fight

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Rick Rojas， Eduardo Medina and Emily Cochrane
19 December 2025 at 18:04
The distinction for the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, signed into law on Thursday, opens access to federal support and defies challenges from other tribes over their legitimacy.

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John L. Lowery, center, the Lumbee Tribe chairman, led a toast to celebrate the passage of a bill granting the tribe federal recognition, in Washington on Wednesday.

Erika Kirk Endorses JD Vance for 2028

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Lisa Lerer and Nick Corasaniti
19 December 2025 at 23:06
The early backing of Ms. Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, is notable because she now leads the influential conservative group he founded, Turning Point USA.

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Erika Kirk has taken on an increasingly prominent role in conservative politics.

How the Army Caused Alarm in the Washington Skies Years Before a Fatal Crash

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Kate Kelly
19 December 2025 at 18:00
An aged helicopter fleet and inexperienced pilots from nearby Fort Belvoir had raised “widespread concern” among local pilots before a midair collision killed 67 people.

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Helicopter helmets and a model of a Black Hawk helicopter on display in the home of Austin Roth, who served two decades in the Army, including as an instructor at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helmet on the top left is one Mr. Roth used while assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion.

Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead, and Trump Eases Marijuana Restrictions

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Tracy Mumford， Will Jarvis and Ian Stewart
19 December 2025 at 19:00
Plus, your Friday news quiz.

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A single suspect carried out the shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor, and was later found dead in New Hampshire, authorities said.

How the Army Caused Alarm in the Washington Skies Years Before a Fatal Crash

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Kate Kelly
19 December 2025 at 18:00
An aged helicopter fleet and inexperienced pilots from nearby Fort Belvoir had raised “widespread concern” among local pilots before a midair collision killed 67 people.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Helicopter helmets and a model of a Black Hawk helicopter on display in the home of Austin Roth, who served two decades in the Army, including as an instructor at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helmet on the top left is one Mr. Roth used while assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion.

Trump’s Attacks on Rob Reiner and Others Characterize an Uninhibited 2nd Term

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Peter Baker
19 December 2025 at 13:00
Many of President Trump’s supporters love his professional-wrestling style of leadership. But some of his recent attacks have sickened even some of his own political allies.

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Mr. Trump’s brash personality has been an element of his appeal to supporters, who find it bracingly authentic in contrast to cookie-cutter politicians.

F.D.A. Turmoil Keeps Spotlight on Its Commissioner

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Christina Jewett
19 December 2025 at 18:01
The agency’s high-level turnover and conflicting policy decisions on drug oversight have fueled concerns about the leadership of Dr. Marty Makary.

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Dr. Marty Makary, the F.D.A. commissioner, has faced intense criticism as the agency undergoes top-level turnover in critical areas like drug approvals.

Trump Administration to Appeal Harvard Funding Case

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alan Blinder
19 December 2025 at 20:49
Facing a deadline to appeal, the Justice Department told the courts late Thursday that it would try to overturn a judge’s ruling in favor of Harvard.

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The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Trump Signs Order to Ease Restrictions on Marijuana

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

“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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

© Annie Mulligan for The New York Times

“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.”
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