Tuesday Mix

(Tokyo 2007)

HEADLINES:

• Judge says James Comey indictment may be tainted by ‘profound investigative missteps’ (CNN)

• The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media (Atlantic)

• Border Patrol Fans Out Across Charlotte, N.C., Arresting More Than 130 People in Two Days (NYT)

• Kash Patel’s Bureau of Vengeance (New Yorker)

• ‘He got tired of me winning’: How Thomas Massie outmaneuvered Trump on Epstein (Politico)

• Economic angst unites Americans in a time of polarization, according to a new poll (AP)

• Fight over abortion could doom Congress’s health care plans (WP)

• Trump considers talks with Venezuela’s Maduro even as U.S. ramps up military pressure (NBC)

• Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson resigns (ABC)

• New international student enrolment drops 17% at US universities (BBC)

• Standard Medicare Part B monthly premium to jump 9.7% in 2026 (CNBC)

• Marjorie Taylor Greene and ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ (The Bulwark)

• In Major Breakthrough, U.N. Security Council Adopts U.S. Peace Plan for Gaza (NYT)

• Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody have surged. A prison guard describes rampant abuse (AP)

• China expands desert nuclear test site as Trump revives nuclear tension (WP)

• Taiwan will begin distributing millions of civil defense handbooks to households across the island this week, in an unprecedented effort to prepare residents for potential emergencies, including the possibility of a Chinese attack. (Reuters)

• Bill Clinton Issued A Statement Responding To Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein Allegations (BuzzFeed)

• The Plan to Bring Down a Giant — How right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC. (CJR)

• UC Berkeley scientists hail breakthrough in decoding whale communication (SFGate)

• Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication (Scientific American)

• A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. (NPR)

• The Man Yelling ‘Iceberg!’ on the Hollywood Titanic (NYT)

• How AI Helped One Student Make the Movie He Couldn’t Afford (Hollywood Reporter)

• Google’s AI Mode can now help you visualize your travel plans (Verge)

• Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don’t (NYT)

• Detroit Lions Rookie Asks For Thanksgiving Off (Onion)