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Today — 19 December 2025Main stream

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

19 December 2025 at 07:14
The Chinese-owned video app reached agreements with the software giant Oracle and two investment firms, Silver Lake and MGX, as part of a deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States.

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The announcement of a deal brings 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

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.

From Bravo to Cable News, Garcia Is Pushing Republicans on Epstein

19 December 2025 at 07:23
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

19 December 2025 at 06:36
Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a Democrat, said she tried to object to the name change, but “everything was cut off.”

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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.

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

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

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.”
Yesterday — 18 December 2025Main stream

6 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to the Nation

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

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.

A Bellicose Trump Points Fingers in Defending His Record on the Economy

18 December 2025 at 16:42
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.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

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.

Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech on the Economy

18 December 2025 at 11:49
The president sharply attacked his predecessor while insisting that his own record contained nothing but victories.

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“Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history,” President Trump said in his address to the nation on Wednesday night from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.

U.S. Military Announces 4 Killed in 26th Boat Strike

18 December 2025 at 12:54
The attack on Wednesday brings the total number killed to at least 99 since the Trump administration began bombing boats suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

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U.S. attacks on boats off South America have drawn the ire of legal experts and many members of Congress, who contend that the strikes amount to extrajudicial killings and, potentially, war crimes.

Trump Officials Announce More Than $11 Billion in Arms Sales for Taiwan

18 December 2025 at 13:30
The move may reassure China hawks who are uncertain about the president’s commitment to the self-governing democracy.

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The arms package would include more than $4 billion each for high mobility artillery rocket systems, known as HIMARS.

Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State’s Election Vote in 2020 Call

During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.

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David Ralston, the former Georgia House speaker, in 2018.

Trump Finds That Retribution Isn’t Always So Easy

In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

ICE Must Allow Lawmakers to Inspect Detention Centers, Judge Rules

18 December 2025 at 08:13
Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.

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Federal agents outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark in June. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has curbed access to its detention centers and required seven days’ notice for lawmakers seeking entry.

House Rejects Measure to Bar Strikes Inside Venezuela

18 December 2025 at 07:15
The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.

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U.S. military aircraft in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday. For months, the U.S. military has been building up a large naval force there as President Trump continues to threaten to attack Venezuela.

Dan Bongino to Step Down as FBI Deputy Director

The departure of Mr. Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.

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Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. deputy director, at the Capitol last month.

Fani Willis Calls Trump and Allies ‘Criminals’ in Hearing Before Georgia Senate Committee

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

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District Attorney Fani T. Willis assailed Republican adversaries and stumped for political allies at the hearing on Wednesday.

Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecutions in House Deposition

18 December 2025 at 06:12
Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.

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Jack Smith, the former special counsel, during a break in a closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.
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