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EU ambassadors were locked in the European Council building until late last night, trying to convince Belgium to back plans to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine.
Can they reach an agreement by the leaders' summit on Thursday?
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
Can they reach an agreement by the leaders' summit on Thursday?
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
The Bart of the Deal
POLITICO’s must-read briefing on what’s driving the day in Brussels, by Gerardo Fortuna and Nicholas Vinocur. By GABRIEL GAVIN Send tips here | Contact us on X @gerardofortuna @NicholasVinocu…
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
EU ambassadors were locked in the European Council building until late last night, trying to convince Belgium to back plans to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine.
Can they reach an agreement by the leaders' summit on Thursday?
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
Can they reach an agreement by the leaders' summit on Thursday?
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
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‼️ US says for the first time it will respond militarily if Russia attacks Ukraine again
US says for the first time it will respond militarily if Russia attacks Ukraine again – Polish PM
If Russia attacks Ukraine again, the United States will respond militarily to the aggressor, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who attended the Berlin summit on peace in Ukraine.
www.pravda.com.ua
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
‼️ US says for the first time it will respond militarily if Russia attacks Ukraine again
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Europe’s easternmost countries have a blunt message for Brussels: Russia is testing their borders, and the EU needs to start paying for the response.
Frontline states want EU cash as Russian threat intensifies
Eight EU countries will discuss how to strengthen their defenses at a summit in Helsinki on Tuesday.
www.politico.eu
December 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Europe’s easternmost countries have a blunt message for Brussels: Russia is testing their borders, and the EU needs to start paying for the response.
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Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The East Wing had sat atop a emergency operations bunker for the president.
www.1011now.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
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Delayed US employment reports expected to show softening labor market reut.rs/4qdDt2h
Delayed US employment reports expected to show softening labor market
U.S. job growth likely rebounded in November following an anticipated decline in nonfarm payrolls in October because of federal government cost-cutting, economists predicted, still consistent with a gradually weakening labor market.
reut.rs
December 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Delayed US employment reports expected to show softening labor market reut.rs/4qdDt2h
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, America’s war secretary, paint a dystopian vision for the world, in which a liberal international order gives way to grubby dealmaking and rule by the strong
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
Donald Trump’s court squabbles over the future of American power
econ.st
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, America’s war secretary, paint a dystopian vision for the world, in which a liberal international order gives way to grubby dealmaking and rule by the strong
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This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
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'So you don't think there's a problem with small boat migrants using it as a loophole?'
Anti-slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons tells @natashaclark.bsky.social why she disagrees with the Home Secretary.
Anti-slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons tells @natashaclark.bsky.social why she disagrees with the Home Secretary.
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
'So you don't think there's a problem with small boat migrants using it as a loophole?'
Anti-slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons tells @natashaclark.bsky.social why she disagrees with the Home Secretary.
Anti-slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons tells @natashaclark.bsky.social why she disagrees with the Home Secretary.
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At COP30, the Albanese Government signed on to support a global agreement to phase out fossil fuels.
Now, just a few weeks later, the government is allowing gas companies to explore for new offshore gas.
It’s like we are being gaslit.
Read more on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Now, just a few weeks later, the government is allowing gas companies to explore for new offshore gas.
It’s like we are being gaslit.
Read more on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
At COP30, the Albanese Government signed on to support a global agreement to phase out fossil fuels.
Now, just a few weeks later, the government is allowing gas companies to explore for new offshore gas.
It’s like we are being gaslit.
Read more on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Now, just a few weeks later, the government is allowing gas companies to explore for new offshore gas.
It’s like we are being gaslit.
Read more on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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“When Australian governments don’t want to do something, they come up with the most elaborate and complicated policies to make it look like they are trying.” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute
Read the full article on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Read the full article on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“When Australian governments don’t want to do something, they come up with the most elaborate and complicated policies to make it look like they are trying.” – Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute
Read the full article on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Read the full article on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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“They didn’t just kill Awdah that day. They killed all of us”
www.theferret.scot/a...
www.theferret.scot/a...
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“They didn’t just kill Awdah that day. They killed all of us”
www.theferret.scot/a...
www.theferret.scot/a...
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Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.
Pope criticizes prison overcrowding during special Mass for inmates, guards and families
Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.
Bondi demands grief, respect, fairness and empathy theaimn.net/bondi-demand...
Bondi demands grief, respect, fairness and empathy
A massacre demands clarity, not opportunism. Honouring the dead means resisting the rush to weaponise grief and insisting on evidence before politics raises its voice. Australia’s Bondi Beach massacre...
theaimn.net
December 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bondi demands grief, respect, fairness and empathy theaimn.net/bondi-demand...
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“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”
trib.al/3vxo4YR
trib.al/3vxo4YR
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”
trib.al/3vxo4YR
trib.al/3vxo4YR
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Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
There are now more guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Australia had the ‘gold standard’ on gun control. The Bondi beach terror attack may force it to confront its surging number of weapons
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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#WATCH | The Indonesian Hospital was a vital lifesaving facility in northern Gaza.
Today, it has been destroyed, turned into a camp for Israeli soldiers, and Hanukkah candles were lit on its ruins.
Israel is the main reason for antisemitism
Today, it has been destroyed, turned into a camp for Israeli soldiers, and Hanukkah candles were lit on its ruins.
Israel is the main reason for antisemitism
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#WATCH | The Indonesian Hospital was a vital lifesaving facility in northern Gaza.
Today, it has been destroyed, turned into a camp for Israeli soldiers, and Hanukkah candles were lit on its ruins.
Israel is the main reason for antisemitism
Today, it has been destroyed, turned into a camp for Israeli soldiers, and Hanukkah candles were lit on its ruins.
Israel is the main reason for antisemitism
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"Bondi terror shooting should spark new gun reform measures"
"No city dweller needs six firearms and this is where old-fashioned Australian commonsense needs to kick in."
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bondi...
"No city dweller needs six firearms and this is where old-fashioned Australian commonsense needs to kick in."
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bondi...
www.theaustralian.com.au
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
"Bondi terror shooting should spark new gun reform measures"
"No city dweller needs six firearms and this is where old-fashioned Australian commonsense needs to kick in."
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bondi...
"No city dweller needs six firearms and this is where old-fashioned Australian commonsense needs to kick in."
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bondi...
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The ruling scorches the Trump administration’s “extraordinary” and “troubling” handling of this whole case, suggesting it’s been utterly lawless and rife with malicious abuses of power. trib.al/QsPdekv
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
trib.al
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The ruling scorches the Trump administration’s “extraordinary” and “troubling” handling of this whole case, suggesting it’s been utterly lawless and rife with malicious abuses of power. trib.al/QsPdekv
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Advocates have described the verdict as an 'unlawful' decision based on 'trumped-up national security charges' https://aje.io/u1qf7q
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Advocates have described the verdict as an 'unlawful' decision based on 'trumped-up national security charges' https://aje.io/u1qf7q
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Disagreement about having the picture book, “Call Me Max,” about a trans boy remain in a North Carolina county’s library led commissioners to dissolve the county library board.
Library board ousted after voting to keep children’s book about trans boy
Disagreement about having a picture book about a trans boy remain in a North Carolina county’s library led commissioners to dissolve the county library board.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Disagreement about having the picture book, “Call Me Max,” about a trans boy remain in a North Carolina county’s library led commissioners to dissolve the county library board.
What Happens When a Bonkers President Takes Over the Private Sector
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
What Happens When a Bonkers President Takes Over the Private Sector
We need independent regulatory agencies to contain him
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What Happens When a Bonkers President Takes Over the Private Sector
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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“These policies don’t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives.”
Trump is “basically shutting down the legal immigration system”
In response to the DC shooting, the administration is blocking pathways for rule-following and vulnerable immigrants.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“These policies don’t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives.”
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“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”
trib.al/1zsoLsV
trib.al/1zsoLsV
John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70
Alexander Hamilton’s treatise on executive power is one of the conservative legal movement’s favorite texts to quote—and misquote.
trib.al
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. “In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law.”
trib.al/1zsoLsV
trib.al/1zsoLsV