House Democrats to send letter to Trump on Friday urging US to recognize Palestinian statehood

Exclusive: Letter, led by Ro Khanna, has 46 signatories and calls for ‘long overdue need to recognize Palestinian self-determination’

The Guardian

Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

Truthout

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

When the bubble bursts, reality will hit far harder than anyone expects

Techspot

D.C. organizers give advice to Chicagoans on what military force looks like under Trump

​​”So what we’re seeing with ICE and the National Guard, more specifically, is the presence of a military force in communities,” Wallace said. “What I think about what militarism is, more or less, it’s the belief system of the military [being used] to solve crises or to quash civil disobedience or civil unrest. Opposed to assessing the issue at hand, we just use the military to solve it.”

The Tribe

Trump’s Learning That Partisan Witch Hunts Are Harder Than They Look

The president’s attempt to bind his political opponents legally is hitting roadblocks galore—and the social media meltdowns have begun.

The New Republic

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers

The conservative supermajority’s lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Slate

Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, the economy, immigration raids

Latinos’ rising discontent could mean trouble for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, and undermine Republican redistricting efforts — namely in Texas — partly aimed at exploiting the party’s recent gains among such voters.

Axios

Trump officials ask Supreme Court to uphold ban on birthright citizenship

Most experts say Trump’s effort to do away with birthright citizenship is legally dubious, but the high court has backed the president in other emergency rulings.

The Washington Post

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon

Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’

The Guardian

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

The Trump administration considers even race-blind admissions policies illegal if they’re intended to achieve diversity.

The Atlantic

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen’s World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

NBC News

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman to the Floor Inside a New York Courthouse

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

ProPublica

Trump falsely suggests FBI agents to blame for igniting Jan. 6 violence

The president’s baseless claim continued a yearslong effort to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.

Politico

Who Wants to Join ICE? We Went to Utah to Find Out.

At a Department of Homeland Security job fair, applicants wanted higher pay, more excitement, and an America with fewer immigrants.

The Intercept

City of Portland will issue land use violation notice for ICE facility, triggering process to determine next steps at the site

Federal government records from a 10-month period show more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours. The notice also references a second violation related to boarded windows, which is not associated with the land use approval.

Portland.gov

Seychelles to hold rerun presidential election after no outright winner

Opposition figure Patrick Herminie received 48.8% of the vote, while the incumbent, Wavel Ramkalawan, garnered 46.4%, according to official results. A candidate needs to win more than 50% of the vote to be declared the winner.

AP News

Israel-Premier Tech cycling team excluded from Italian race due to fears of protests

The decision comes after the recent Vuelta a Espana race suffered several disruptions by pro-Palestinian protesters, with Israel-Premier Tech the main focus of the protests.

CNN

Russian foreign minister: Any aggression against our country will be met with a ‘decisive response’

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the U.N. General Assembly after weeks in which unauthorized flights into NATO’s airspace — intrusions the alliance blames on Russia — have raised alarm around Europe, particularly after NATO jets downed drones over Poland and Estonia said Russian fighter jets flew into its territory and lingered for 12 minutes.

Stars and Stripes

How to reintegrate over a million veterans? Groups in Ukraine are working on it

Though the program is small, people from all over the country who have been traumatized in some way by the war are invited. It serves as a place, after rehab, that veterans can grow used to their new life, come to terms with their trauma and learn new ways to live with their disabilities both mentally and physically. And, as Khrystiuk describes it, “Emotionally in this place you can take load off your chest a bit.”

NPR

Israel’s Conduct in Gaza Is Genocide, Growing Chorus of Experts Agree

A growing number of experts, including those commissioned by a U.N. body, have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.

Mississippi Free Press

Last pastor forced out of war-torn Sudanese city

The Anglican priest was forced to flee his church as an attack by armed militiamen killed two people and badly injured several others.

Religion News Service

China’s electric vehicle exports fuel Tajikistan’s green transition goals

Of the five Central Asian states, Tajikistan has taken the most dramatic measures to accelerate its transition to EVs. It has made it mandatory for all taxi companies in the capital, Dushanbe, to switch to EVs, and set a target of 20–30 percent of all cars to be electric by 2030. These measures are accompanied by tax and customs duty breaks for EVs until 2032. 

Global Voices

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

The Ministry of National Defense announced on the 23rd that it will award government commendations to soldiers who, during the December 3 Emergency Martial Law and the Marine Corps member’s death incident, did not carry out illegal or unjust orders and upheld their duties as military personnel, designating them as “individuals who protected constitutional values.”

Chosun

UK’s Starmer hopes a vision of ‘renewal’ can silence doubts about his leadership

Little more than a year after winning power in a landslide, Britain’s prime minister is fighting to keep the support of his party, and to fend off Nigel Farage, whose hard-right Reform UK has a consistent lead in opinion polls

AP News