Nation and World
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Warner Bros asks investors to reject takeover bid from Paramount Skydance
Dec 17, 2025 8:04 am - Warner Bros. is telling shareholders to reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, saying that a rival bid from Netflix will be better for customers.
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Trump expands travel ban to 39 countries after shooting of Guard members
Dec 16, 2025 7:27 pm - President Donald Trump on Tuesday added 20 countries to a list whose citizens face a full or partial travel ban on entering the United States, swelling the total to 39 as his administration seeks to further restrict legal immigration after an Afghan immigrant was charged in the shooting of two National Guard troops last month.
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Trump orders blockade of ‘sanctioned oil tankers’ into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro
Dec 16, 2025 7:14 pm - President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country's economy.
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US strikes three more alleged drug boats in eastern Pacific, killing 8
Dec 16, 2025 7:08 pm - U.S. forces killed eight alleged drug smugglers in three separate boat strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, raising the death toll in the Trump administration’s counternarcotics campaign to at least 95.
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House Speaker Johnson rebuffs efforts to extend health care subsidies, pushing ahead with GOP plan
Dec 16, 2025 7:05 pm - House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a GOP health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums millions of Americans will soon endure as pandemic-era tax credits for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year's end.
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Trump has signed more executive orders in 2025 than in his entire first term
Dec 16, 2025 4:57 pm - President Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in less than a year of his presidency than he did in his entire first term — repeatedly bypassing Congress and forcing the courts to grapple with the constitutional bounds of his power.
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Nick Reiner will be charged with murder in killing of parents
Dec 16, 2025 4:32 pm - Los Angeles prosecutors said Tuesday that Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved.
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Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash
Dec 16, 2025 3:54 pm - Less than a day after acclaimed film director Rob Reiner was found dead in his Los Angeles home, President Donald Trump posited that the Hollywood icon was killed because he was critical of Trump.
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Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others
Dec 16, 2025 2:56 pm - The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.
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Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the CaribbeanDec 16, 2025 2:50 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a U.S. military strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean, as questions mounted in Congress about the incident and the overall buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela.