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Two Republican lawmakers call for mass expulsion of American Muslims

By Matthew Choi
Dec 16, 2025 7:24 pm - Two Republicans in Congress are calling for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the United States following the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia over the weekend, amplifying an increasingly brazen Islamophobic sentiment within the party.
House Speaker Johnson rebuffs efforts to extend health care subsidies, pushing ahead with GOP plan

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
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.
Illinois leaders ‘won’t back down’ following Trump order limiting AI regulation

By Maggie Dougherty
Dec 16, 2025 5:50 pm - Illinois lawmakers vowed to keep fighting for protections against artificial intelligence after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to shield tech companies from state laws.
Trump has signed more executive orders in 2025 than in his entire first term

By Emily Davies, Cat Zakrzewski and Clara Ence Morse
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.
Trump bashes late director Rob Reiner, drawing immediate backlash

By Amy B Wang
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.
Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others

By REBECCA SANTANA
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.
Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean

By STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and BEN FINLEY
Dec 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.
Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, criticizes Bondi and opines on Trump in Vanity Fair

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and BILL BARROW
Dec 16, 2025 2:41 pm - Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in a series of observations that were published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. The magazine’s two-part profile of Wiles immediately sent shock waves through Washington while sending the West Wing into damage control.
The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6%

By PAUL WISEMAN
Dec 16, 2025 7:58 am - The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports.
Zelenskyy says proposals to end the war in Ukraine could be presented to Russia within days

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Dec 16, 2025 7:27 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals being negotiated with U.S. officials for a deal to end the fighting in Russia's nearly 4-year-old invasion of his country could be finalized within days, after which American envoys will present them to the Kremlin before possible further meetings in the U.S. next weekend.

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