- Could Better Security Have Stopped the New Orleans Terror Attack? (nytimes.com)
- As Hopes Rise for Gaza Cease-Fire, Conditions There Have Worsened (nytimes.com)
- How to have a Trumpy Christmas, and make the president-elect richer, too (washingtonpost.com)Companies flooding Trump with millions despite Jan. 6 no-donation vows: WSJ (rawstory.com)
- ‘Disaster’: Trump allies said to be mulling ‘one of the dumbest ideas anyone could have’ (rawstory.com)
- GOP Lawmaker Says Mike Johnson Doesn’t Have The Votes To Be Speaker (huffpost.com)Mike Johnson's Speakership Re-Election In Doubt (meidasnews.com)
- “I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps (projects.propublica.org)
- Syrian authorities say rebel groups have agreed to disband (semafor.com)
- Chinese Companies Have Sidestepped Trump’s Tariffs. They Could Do It Again. (nytimes.com)
- Analysts say Russian air defenses could have caused passenger-jet crash that killed dozens (yahoo.com)Four sources say Azerbaijan Airlines flight was downed by Russian air defences (yahoo.com)Questions intensify over deadly crash of Azerbaijan Airlines plane (cnn.com)
- 📺 Lawrence O’Donnell Says Elon Musk’s ‘Weakness and Legislative Stupidity’ Have Been ‘Fully Exposed’ Amid Spending Bill Chaos: ‘Very Good News’ (mediaite.com)
