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[The Associated Press @AP]

Police are investigating after security cameras captured groups of people climbing in and out of manholes in New York City in the middle of the night.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.

https://t.co/nTGJAMbwAP

[ProPublica @propublica]

Last year, the Trump administration set up an email address through the EPA where companies could apply for a Clean Air Act exemption.

The White House approved these requests without input from EPA scientists.
https://t.co/jmWVdO1ah6

[AJ+ @ajplus]

This town in Mississippi was founded by formerly enslaved people to protect Black farmers from racist U.S. laws.

But now residents say they’re being pushed out of their jobs – by white South Africans granted refugee status by Trump.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Border Patrol dump blind refugee 5 miles away from home—he was found dead on the street.

Officers dropped him off in front of a donut shop—didn't notify his lawyer or family he was even released.

When reported missing—local police said he was in ICE custody and stopped looking for him.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam is 56 years old, nearly blind, spoke no English, and dealt with serious medical conditions.

He was left to die alone—abandoned in the year's worst winter storm on the streets of Buffalo, New York.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: https://t.co/dNBRWAiv0b

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Dr. Gladys West, the Black mathematician whose brilliance made GPS possible, has passed at 95. Born on a Dinwiddie County farm during the Great Depression, she overcame segregation to become a scientist and map the world—literally. May we never forget her legacy or the path she paved for generations of mathematicians.

[Hunterbrook @hntrbrkmedia]

NEW: Insurance giants are hiding billions meant to lower Americans’ drug costs.

Our year-long investigation details how CVS, UnitedHealth, and Cigna created shell companies to evade reform efforts and hide payments received from drugmakers.

Cc: @mcuban

[The Associated Press @AP]

A corner of Arkansas best known as home to Walmart headquarters has emerged as a little-known hot spot in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.

[Reuters @Reuters]

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking baristas in Brooklyn, on the same day the city and Starbucks agreed to a separate local $38 million labor settlement

[PBS News @NewsHour]

As family and friends gather this holiday season, there’s a warning for new parents. The CDC says cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, remain elevated this year.

In Kentucky this week, an unvaccinated infant died from the illness — the third child to die of whooping cough in the state this year. Other states across the country are also experiencing a surge in cases.

@AliRogin spoke with Dr. Lorne Walker, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, to learn more.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.

The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for in-network services denied, and less than 1% of them tried to appeal. Now, AI is being used to help patients fight back.

@AliRogin spoke with Indiana University law professor Jennifer Oliva to learn more.
https://t.co/eWqJdml7qx

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Trump administration is accelerating its plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Six new agreements, announced Tuesday, will move billions of dollars in grants to other federal agencies. This would include a plan for the Labor Department to oversee some of the largest grant programs for K-12 schools. Critics say such actions put vulnerable students at risk.

President Donald Trump has called for the department's elimination, but that requires congressional approval.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

President Donald Trump issued a second pardon to a Jan. 6 defendant who had remained behind bars despite the sweeping grant of clemency for Capitol rioters because of a separate conviction for illegally possessing firearms. https://t.co/ZkXLDbBbO5

[TheWrap @TheWrap]

NBC News has disbanded its four dedicated verticals—NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC OUT and NBC Asian America—leaving just two editors to curate all diversity coverage.

"Experts say the rollback of newsroom investment in DEI suggests they were never fully committed in the first place," Bolies writes.

✍️ Corbin Bolies, Media Reporter

Read more: https://t.co/kpcAX6NROR

[PBS News @NewsHour]

During a news conference, President Trump tied the use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism and made several other claims about vaccines. https://t.co/E5UBGBp7gh

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Robert Redford, a screen legend, filmmaker, environmentalist and champion of independent voices in cinema, died Tuesday at the age of 89.

Revered for his magnetic presence onscreen in classics like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting" and "All the President’s Men," Redford’s legacy is as much about art as it is about integrity.

@JeffreyBrown looks back at Redford's life and legacy.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

In just six months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost nearly half its budget and thousands of employees, and is caught in a political struggle as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. moves to reshape the nation’s vaccine policies. Several CDC leaders resigned after the White House ousted the agency’s new director, Susan Monarez, last week. Her lawyers say it's because Monarez refused to "rubber stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts."

@AliRogin spoke with Dr. Richard Besser, former acting CDC director under the Obama administration, to learn more.