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Politics / December 11, 2025 Jasmine Crockett can win the Texas Senate race—if voters of color get to the polls. Ad Policy Jasmine Crockett at a hearing to examine the unlawful detention of US citizens and immigrants by federal immigration agents at the LA Metropolitan Water District.(David Crane / MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News / Getty Images) Contrary to what Democratic elites think is conventional wisdom, Representative Jasmine Crockett is not just a viable candidate for the Texas US Senate race next year—she’s the strongest one. Pundits and Democratic politicians haved failed to appreciate her potential, clinging instead to outdated…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., attends a news conference about SNAP benefits on Oct. 29 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat representing Massachusetts, is calling for scrutiny of two bids to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. In an interview with Morning Edition, Warren said the deals raise serious concerns about antitrust and would reduce competition for viewers and workers. Warner Brothers agreed to an $83 billion sale to Netflix, but that deal is not finalized. And now Paramount Skydance — owned by Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people,…

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. The U.S. has built up…

National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Jennifer Homendy gave a strong rebuke of a defense authorization bill that rolls back safety improvements. The board recommended the changes after the January collision of a military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing 67 people. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images WASHINGTON — In an unusually harsh rebuke, the nation’s top safety investigator voiced concerns about a provision in the defense policy bill before Congress on Wednesday, warning that it would undermine aviation safety improvements made after a deadly mid-air…

Eileen Higgins is also the first Democrat in the position in nearly 30 years. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Miami has a new mayor-elect, and a history-making one at that, when voters there elected the city’s first female mayor last night, Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner. She’s also the first Democrat to hold the seat in nearly 30 years. She beat Republican Emilio Gonzalez, who had the support of President Trump. For more on this, we turn now to Joshua Ceballos with member station WLRN. Good morning, Joshua.JOSHUA CEBALLOS, BYLINE: Good morning, Michel.MARTIN: So tell us more about last night’s election…

new video loaded: How the Tate Brothers Returned to the United StatesAndrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were prohibited from leaving Romania for years after they were accused of trafficking dozens of women for a porn business. Our investigative reporter Megan Twohey reveals how the Tates courted powerful figures on the American right in order to gain their freedom to travel to the United States.By Megan Twohey, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, David Seekamp, Jon Miller, Joey Sendaydiego and James SurdamDecember 10, 2025 Source link

Culture / December 10, 2025 The multibillion-dollar takeover bids targeting Warner-Discovery show how Trump’s corrupt model of governance-by-payback could destroy Hollywood. Ad Policy The Warner Bros. Discovery flag alongside the American one, outside Warsaw’s TVN broadcasting studio(Aleksander Kalka / NurPhoto via Getty Images)  “None of them are particularly great friends of mine,” President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday, while discussing whom he favored in the current multibillion-dollar financial fistfight over the future of Warner Bros.-Discovery (WBD). Trump was referencing the two current suitors for the beleaguered, serially merged Warner Bros. entertainment empire: Paramount-Skydance and Netflix.  Trump’s announcement that he…

The U.S. Education Department is house in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, pictured here in March in Washington, D.C. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Employees at the U.S. Education Department who were fired in March got an unexpected email on Friday – telling them to return to work. These federal workers, including many attorneys, investigate family complaints of discrimination in the nation’s schools as part of the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). They were terminated by the Trump administration in a March reduction-in-force, but the courts…

Ad Policy Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference on extending expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits in the U.S. Capitol on December 4, 2025. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Republicans are about to end Obamacare subsidies, driving up premiums for 20 million people during the year of the midterm elections. How have they managed to end up after all these years with no health insurance plan of their own? John Nichols comments. Also: Bob Dylan’s earliest recordings have just been released—the first is from 1956 when he was 15 years…

A woman clutches a U.S. flag as she and applicants from 20 countries prepare to take an oath of citizenship in commemoration of Independence Day during a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio in July 2025. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP The Trump administration is transforming the agency known for processing green cards and citizenship requests into one of its strongest anti-immigration policing arms. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is one of the three branches of the Homeland Security Department that deals with migration. Traditionally, its more than 20,000 employees have focused on the various ways…