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-		<title>Live updates: Epstein survivors rip Justice Department over file release</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658873-live-updates-trump-epstein-files-venezuela-health-care/</link>
+		<title>Explosion, fire reported at Silver Lake nursing home in Pennsylvania</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5661732-explosion-fire-nursing-home/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are once again top of mind after the Justice Department released thousands of documents over the weekend.  Epstein survivors ripped the Justice Department on Monday over its handling of the case, calling on Congress to investigate the release.  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are also&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Emergency crews are on the scene after an explosion and fire at a nursing home outside Philadelphia, local and state officials said Tuesday. WPVI in Philadelphia reported that the explosion occurred around 2:15 p.m. EST at Silver Lake Healthcare Center, located roughly 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia in Bristol Township, Pa. Ruth Miller, a spokesperson&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Epstein survivors urge Congress to hold Justice Department accountable</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660075-epstein-survivors-bash-justice-department/</link>
+		<title>Vance trains with Navy SEALs: &#8216;Feel like I got hit by a freight train&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5661692-vance-navy-seals-workout/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660075</guid>
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-					<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors bashed the Justice Department for its handling of the release of files related to the deceased sex offender, calling for congressional oversight as they accused the department of failing to comply with the law. “This law, enacted by a nearly unanimous vote in the House and unanimously in&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Vice President Vance on Monday joined Navy SEALs in a beach workout that he said left him feeling like he “got hit by a freight train,” in a post that quickly drew backlash. Vance, a former Marine who served as a military journalist in Iraq, participated in an exercise at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T19:29:30+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Zelensky: Any US-Ukraine security guarantees will need congressional review</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5660053-zelensky-us-security-guarantees/</link>
+		<title>Denmark responds to Trump naming Greenland envoy: &#8216;Completely unacceptable&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5661680-denmark-response-trump-greenland-envoy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Samuels]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660053</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[denmark]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland acquisition]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661680</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday there are signs negotiators are &#8220;very close&#8221; to a finished peace proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, including U.S. security guarantees that will require congressional approval. Zelensky posted on the social platform X that his negotiating team was returning to Ukraine from talks with American officials in Miami. &#8220;In&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Denmark&#8217;s government has responded to President Trump&#8217;s naming of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) as the new special envoy to Greenland. It isn&#8217;t happy. “President Trump&#8217;s announcement about the appointment of a special envoy to Greenland &#8211; and in particular its statements about the purpose hereby &#8211; is completely unacceptable,” Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Bari Weiss faces blowback for spiking &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; segment: What to know </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659963-bari-weiss-cbs-60-minutes-segment/</link>
+		<title>FBI says Epstein letter to Larry Nassar was a fake</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5661621-fake-epstein-postcard-nassar/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominick Mastrangelo]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Bari Weiss, CBS&#8217;s new editor in chief, is facing&#160;widespread&#160;blowback across the media&#160;for a decision to pull a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment she argues was not ready for publication, while a top journalist at the network contends the decision was based on political pressure and capitulation to the Trump administration. &#160; The&#160;controversy&#160;comes as Paramount, CBS’s parent company,&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department on Tuesday said a postcard depicting Jeffrey Epstein indicating President Trump loved “young” girls was a “fake,” saying the document had been flagged for the FBI at the time. The writer portends to be Epstein&#160;writing to&#160;Larry Nassar&#160;— the former sports doctor convicted of serially sexually abusing underage female gymnasts — while they&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Conway files to run for Nadler&#8217;s seat in New York</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659960-conway-trump-critic-democrat-run/</link>
+		<title>Trump jokes about making hosting ‘full time job‘ ahead of Kennedy Center Honors broadcast</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5661563-trump-hosting-kennedy-center/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659960</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center honors]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Prominent anti-Trump critic George Conway III filed paperwork Monday to run as a Democrat for the seat being vacated by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). A conservative lawyer who later founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, Conway has been one of the loudest critics of the president. Conway was married to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump joked Tuesday about hosting the annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration annually once he leaves the White House. Trump hosted the world-renowned event weeks ago. The telecast is set to air Tuesday night on CBS and Paramount+.  “At the request of the Board, and just about everybody else in America, I am hosting the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T21:17:20+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Newsom, Vance lead wide-open 2028 field: Poll</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659923-newsom-vance-2028-poll/</link>
+		<title>Live results: South Carolina state House special election</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5660814-south-carolina-house-seat/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660814</guid>
+
+					<description><![CDATA[Democrats are vying to flip a seat in a deep-red state House district in South Carolina after the lawmaker who held it, Republican RJ May, resigned after pleading guilty to distributing child pornography. Democrat J. Chuck Hightower is running against Republican John Lastinger in the Lexington County district. Follow live results from Decision Desk HQ&#8230;]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:19:24+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+	</item>
+		<item>
+		<title>Live updates: Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago; More Epstein files released</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660154-live-updates-trump-epstein-files-venezuela/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[2028 democratic presidential primary]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[2028 Democratic primary]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[2028 election]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[2028 Republican primary]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659923</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660154</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Vice President Vance top their respective parties’ lists of potential 2028 presidential contenders, according to a new CNN poll. In the survey, two-thirds of American respondents said they don’t have a specific person in mind that they’d like to see run for president in 2028, while 16 percent mentioned&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that President Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area, amid a months-long push to crack down on crime and protests against immigration enforcement operations. This is the first time the highest court has weighed in on the president&#8217;s use of the troops on U.S. soil. Earlier&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T18:51:43+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T23:17:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Putin aide contradicts Witkoff, calling Miami talks &#8216;rather unconstructive&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5659941-putin-aide-contradicts-us-claims/</link>
+		<title>Supreme Court won&#8217;t allow National Guard deployment to Chicago in major loss for Trump</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5661555-supreme-court-blocks-trump-guard/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659941</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Lee]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661555</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday contradicted U.S. claims that three days of peace talks in Miami went well, calling several of Washington’s proposals meant to end Russia’s war with Ukraine “rather unconstructive.” Yuri Ushakov, Putin&#8217;s top foreign policy aide, said most of the peace plan proposals the U.S. offered were&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled President Trump may not deploy the National Guard to the Chicago area for now amid his push for military troops to patrol the streets of Democratic-led cities, a major loss for the president at the high court.&#160;&#160;&#160; After more than two months of consideration, the court refused to pause&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Epstein files: Where do things stand with their release?</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659867-epstein-files-release-controversy/</link>
+		<title>Kinzinger cancels Paramount subscription over Bari Weiss, &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; drama</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5661533-bari-weiss-cbs-controversy/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[House Democrats]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[60 Minutes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CBS News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Paramount]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Washington has been roiled by controversy surrounding the files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for months, but the scandal heated up at the end of last week with the Justice Department choosing to release only some of the files. Multiple files available on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) website featuring Epstein were discovered to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) has canceled his Paramount Plus subscription over CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss&#8217;s decision to not air a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; story she said was not ready to be televised. Critics, including the correspondent who reported the story about conditions inside a Salvadoran prison to which the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan migrants,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>What should Santa bring?</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5658079-global-leaders-christmas-wishes/</link>
+		<title>Student loan borrowers in default face wage garnishment next month</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5661532-student-loan-default-wage-garnishment-trump-administration/</link>
 		
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-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[debt collection]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[default]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[garnishment]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[student loan]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[What might not only Americans but global leaders wish for if Santa Claus delivered them presents of their choice?]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration in January will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default. The Department of Education said Tuesday that approximately 1,000 defaulted borrowers will receive notices informing them of their status beginning the week of Jan. 7. The number of notices sent out will increase on a monthly basis.&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Fallout over yanked ‘60 Minutes’ segment; Trump revisits taking over Greenland</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/1230-report/5659882-backlash-over-yanked-60-minutes/</link>
+		<title>Department of Veterans Affairs quietly bans abortion services, counseling</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5661427-abortion-ban-trump-administration-veterans-affairs/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cate Martel]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[12:30 Report]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathaniel Weixel]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[abortion access]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661427</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[12:30 Report is The Hill&#8217;s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. It’s Monday. Sunday was the shortest day of the year, so it’s all uphill from here! 😉 In today&#8217;s issue: • Backlash over yanked ‘60 Minutes’ segment • Trump revisits taking over Greenland • Epstein file rollout raises more questions • Lawmakers blame Bondi • Nicki Minaj’s&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has quietly banned the Department of Veterans Affairs&#160;(VA) from&#160;providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents, including those&#160;who become pregnant&#160;as a result of&#160;rape or incest.&#160; The ban followed&#160;a&#160;memo&#160;authored by Joshua Craddock, deputy assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel&#160;(OLC)&#160;issued Dec. 18 that concluded the VA may not&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T20:26:11+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Democrats urge Trump to abandon rule limiting green cards for those on public assistance</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5659887-trump-rule-green-cards-democrats/</link>
+		<title>Powell most popular top official, new poll shows</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5661417-jerome-powell-most-popular/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659887</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661417</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[More than 125 Democrats in Congress are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a rule that would open the door to denying a green card to those who use public benefits like Medicaid or food stamps. President Trump’s&#160;latest crack&#160;at a so-called public charge rule would strike down the Biden-era version of the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A new Gallup survey found that among a baker’s dozen of U.S. leaders, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the most popular.&#160; More than 4 in 10 respondents to the poll, released Monday, said they approve of Powell’s job performance. That includes 46 percent of Democrats, 34 percent of Republicans and 49 percent of independents.&#160;&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T19:48:55+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T20:25:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>The Palmyra ambush revives doubts over Syria&#8217;s fragile stability</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5659490-trump-syria-policy-dilemma/</link>
+		<title>DOJ sues Pritzker, Illinois AG over law limiting immigration actions</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5661443-illinois-immigration-law-challenged/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Imran Khalid, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Islamic State]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Palmyra]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[President Ahmed al-Sharaa]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[President Donald Trump]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Central Command]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659490</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration crackdown]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661443</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The ambush near Palmyra, which killed two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter, has highlighted the resilience of ISIS remnants and the fragility of Syria's newly reformed security apparatus, forcing the U.S. to navigate a complex policy challenge in its new military partnership with the Syrian government.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D), challenging a state law that aims to limit the scope of federal immigration action and protect people against unconstitutional conduct by agents during civil immigration enforcement. Justice Department officials say the “Illinois Bivens Act” and the&#160;“Court&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T17:10:48+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T22:09:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>No. 2 House Democrat: &#8216;All options&#8217; being considered in Epstein files fight</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5659826-clark-epstein-documents-justice-department/</link>
+		<title>Carney taps financier as new Canadian ambassador to the US</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5661400-mark-carney-mark-wiseman-canada-us-ambassador/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[contempt]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659826</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[kirsten hillman]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Mark Wiseman]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump trade agenda]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Canada relations]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[USMCA]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661400</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said Monday that Democrats are considering “all options” to compel the Justice Department to release the full slate of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the No. 2 House Democrat accused the White House of working with the Justice Department&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday named former BlackRock financier Mark Wiseman to serve as Canada&#8217;s next ambassador to the U.S. Wiseman also previously served as president and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and chair of the board of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation. He is currently on Carney’s Council on&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T17:08:59+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Wiseman_Canada_AP.png?w=900" type="image/png" length="1330361" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:41:54+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Infighting takes center stage at AmericaFest, Erika Kirk calls for unity </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5659816-americafest-conservative-infighting-exposed/</link>
+		<title>Eating high-fat cheese could lower dementia risk, study suggests</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5660952-high-fat-cheese-lower-dementia-risk-study/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659816</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Ramsey]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[brain function]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[high-fat cheese]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Neurology journal]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660952</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[AmericaFest didn’t just showcase conservative star power. It exposed a movement wrestling with its own identity. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[An observational study found people who ate 50 grams or more of high-fat cheese enjoyed a lower risk of dementia compared with people eating less than 15 grams.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:49:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/GettyImages-1176565078-e1766516840252.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="124978" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:09:55+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Emil Bove&#8217;s Supreme Court audition</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5655472-emil-boves-supreme-court-audition/</link>
+		<title>Former classmate of Brown shooting suspect remembers him as &#8216;very bitter&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5661146-brown-university-alleged-gunman-classmate-bitterness/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Lubet, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Judiciary]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5655472</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Djordjevic]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Claudio Neves Valente]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661146/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Trump-appointed conservative judges have been lining up for years to audition for the next Republican Supreme Court opening. Lately, their efforts have been escalating, in keeping with Pres. Donald Trump’s well-known expectation of demonstrative fealty. One judge may have come up with a new way to find favor with the president, by openly taking a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA["He thought he knew more than everybody else," a former classmate of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente said.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-18T19:42:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:05:51+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>How the Epstein case produces a constitutional crisis for Trump </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5658590-epstein-scandal-bondi-trump-impeachment/</link>
+		<title>Larry Summers listed as backup executor in 2014 version of Epstein&#8217;s will</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5661303-summers-epstein-will-connection/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William S. Becker, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658590</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein estate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Justice Department]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[successor executor]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661303</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[What better way to recognize the 250th anniversary of American independence than a bloodless revolt against the current would-be king. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was previously listed as a successor executor in convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s will, deepening his connection to the late millionaire.&#160; The Justice Department&#8217;s release of thousands of documents linked to Epstein featured a 2014 will, in which Summers was named as the fourth in line to gain authority over&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:56:09+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:20:58+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Sanders to swear in Mamdani as New York City’s mayor</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5659696-sanders-swear-in-mamdani-new-york/</link>
+		<title>&#8216;Don&#8217;t ignore it&#8217;: Brown University custodian says he reported gunman multiple times before shooting</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5660582-brown-university-custodian-shooting-suspect/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jusolyn Flower]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659696</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Claudio Neves Valente]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Rhode Island]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660582/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will swear in Zohran Mamdani (D) as New York City’s next mayor in a public ceremony on Jan. 1, 2026, a person familiar with the plan confirmed. Mamdani could pick any official authorized to notarize a legal document to swear him in as New York City’s next mayor, and he chose&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Derek Lisi has worked at Brown University as a custodian for more than a decade.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Guernelli]]></dc:creator>
+      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eli Sherman]]></dc:creator>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T18:44:22+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>DHS triples &#8216;exit bonus&#8217; for migrants who self-deport before new year</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/national-security/5659692-self-deportation-bonus-tripled/</link>
+		<title>TSA predicts potentially record-breaking holiday travel season</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5661194-tsa-predicts-record-breaking-holiday-travel/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[self-deportation]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[FAA]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[flight delays]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[FlightAware]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[holiday travel]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[TSA]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661194</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering migrants living in the U.S. illegally a $3,000 stipend to voluntarily self-deport by the end of the year. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that DHS is tripling the so-called exit bonus for migrants who register to self-deport through the CBP Home app before the end&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared for a record-breaking holiday travel season, the agency noted Monday. TSA said in a press release that it is fully staffed and is ready to screen a projected 44.3 million travelers from Friday, Dec. 19, through Sunday, Jan. 4. The agency expects the busiest day of travel to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T18:48:56+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump administration suspends leases for major offshore wind projects</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5659707-trump-suspends-offshore-wind-farms/</link>
+		<title>Justice Department sues DC over its ban on semiautomatic weapons</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5661153-doj-sues-dc-police-gun-laws/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[semi-automatic weapons]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661153</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has suspended the authority of five major offshore wind farms to keep building in federal waters, yet another escalation of the administration’s attacks on the wind energy industry. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a post on the social platform X that five leases, all on the East Coast, were being paused&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday sued the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) over Second Amendment violations. DOJ officials allege authorities unlawfully banned AR-15s and other firearms via D.C. code. “Washington, DC’s ban on some of America’s most popular firearms is an unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment — living in our&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Wall Street Journal knocks Romney&#8217;s &#8216;tax the rich&#8217; proposal</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659642-wsj-romney-tax-rich-criticism/</link>
+		<title>Schumer calls on DOJ to release details on Epstein co-conspirators</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5661145-schumer-doj-epstein-co-conspirators/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659642</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661145</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board went after former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over his “tax the rich” proposal in a New York Times op-ed. “The rich who favor higher taxes pitch this as an act of civic virtue. But paying higher taxes on income or capital gains is no great sacrifice for them because&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday called on the Justice Department to release more details about 10 possible co-conspirators associated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Schumer, who is pushing the Senate to sue the Justice Department for not fulfilling a Friday deadline to publicize all documents and records related to Epstein, said&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T21:03:31+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Vance rejects &#8216;purity tests&#8217; amid GOP tensions over bigotry, conspiracies</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659644-vice-president-vance-rejects-purity-tests/</link>
+		<title>Trump administration recalls numerous career ambassadors</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5661158-trump-administration-recalls-ambassadors/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659644</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661158</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Vice President Vance on Sunday rejected the idea of &#8220;purity tests&#8221; within his party as tensions between different conservative factions rose to the surface during Turning Point USA&#8217;s annual event in Arizona over the weekend. “When I say that I&#8217;m going to fight alongside of you, I mean all of you. Each and every one,”&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is recalling a number of ambassadors to the U.S., a union representing foreign service officials and the State Department confirmed on Tuesday. The Associated Press reported Monday that nearly 30 career diplomats in ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts were being recalled to Washington, D.C. Those ambassadors, which include ambassadors from Africa,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T18:08:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Hunger is not a red-state or blue-state issue. It is an American issue</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5659398-end-hunger-food-rescue/</link>
+		<title>US adults are increasingly pessimistic about economy: Survey</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5661118-us-adults-pessimistic-economy-gallup-survey/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Evan Ehlers, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Hunger in the United States]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Sharing Excess]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659398</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Approval ratings]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[economic approval]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[economic confidence index]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Gallup]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump economic agenda]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661118</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The United States has a meal gap of 9 billion meals and wastes 120 billion meals, but with the right coordination and federal tax credits, a national food rescue system could ensure no American family goes hungry.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Gallup&#8217;s Economic Confidence Index dipped to a negative 33 rating in December, the lowest level recorded in President Trump’s second term, according to new data. The index — which reflects Americans’ views of current economic conditions and their future outlook — dropped 3 points from a negative 30 in November, after falling from negative 23&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T15:57:16+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T17:52:55+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump denies disaster aid to Colorado for wildfires, flooding</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5659652-trump-jared-polis-colorado-disaster-aid/</link>
+		<title>Will college education turn around in 2026? Probably not.</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5659983-college-decline-public-confidence/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659652</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. McCall, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Education]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659983</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has denied disaster aid to the state of Colorado in the wake of wildfires and flooding. The office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D)&#160;announced the denial&#160;in a Sunday statement. He accused the president of playing “political games” and urged him to reconsider.&#160; “Coloradans impacted by the Elk and Lee fires and the flooding&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[ It took a while, but Americans have finally figured out the grand scam that has become today’s higher education. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T18:24:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Why Maine&#8217;s red flag law matters</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5659455-red-flag-laws-maine/</link>
+		<title>Pulled ‘60 Minutes&#8217; segment airs in Canada, spreads online </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5661014-controversy-60-minutes-cbs-cecot/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Barnhorst, Garen Wintemute and Veronica Pear, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Criminal Justice]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Lewiston, Maine]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Robert Card]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659455</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661014</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Red flag laws can be an effective tool to prevent mass shootings and suicides by allowing for the temporary removal of guns from individuals who pose a serious risk to themselves or others.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A CBS News segment focused on stories of Venezuelan men detained in a notorious El Salvador prison after being deported by the Trump administration has sparked controversy among viewers after it was blocked from airing in the United States but was showcased in Canada and online.  CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled &#8220;Inside CECOT&#8221; from&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:39:06+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Schumer calls for Senate to sue administration over Epstein files</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5659623-schumer-senate-sue-doj-epstein-files/</link>
+		<title>Fewer people would recommend MMR vaccine: Survey</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5661048-survey-measles-mumps-rubella-vaccine/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659623</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathaniel Weixel]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[HHS]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[measles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[measles outbreak]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[mmr]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[MMR vaccine]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[RFK Jr.]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[vaccine schedule]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5661048</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is pushing for the Senate to sue the Justice Department over the partial disclosure of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, accusing the administration of trying to “hide the truth.” Schumer says the Trump administration is flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress passed last month&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[As measles cases continue to spread across the country, a survey released Monday shows a “small but significant drop” in the proportion of the public that would recommend someone in their household get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.  According to the poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania, about 86 percent of people would recommend someone in their household who&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:09:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T16:59:54+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Chris Christie rips Trump for &#8216;awful week,&#8217; warns of &#8216;big problem&#8217; for GOP</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659584-christie-trump-republicans-criticism/</link>
+		<title>Most Americans donated to charity in 2025: Poll</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5660930-us-adults-donate-charity/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[2024 election]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[kennedy center]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[reiner death]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659584</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660930</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said President Trump had an “awful” last week and warned that the Republican Party will soon have a “big problem” if the president doesn’t begin making Americans’ lives better. “It&#8217;s not a strange week, Jon, it&#8217;s an awful week,” the Trump ally-turned-critic told ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[More than 6 in 10 U.S. adults have donated to charity in 2025, according to a new poll, with most Americans who plan to give doing so before the end of the year. The Associated Press-NORC survey, released Monday, found 46 percent of respondents have already made charitable donations in 2025, while another 18 percent&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:42:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/volunteer_catholic-charities_03132025_AP_AP25072142918264.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="1104558" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T16:13:20+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Jockeying for 2028 has already begun — don’t overlook AOC</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5659119-trump-lame-duck-2028/</link>
+		<title>Trump credits tariffs for surprisingly robust economic growth</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660934-donald-trump-tariffs-ecnomy-gdp/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juan Williams, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Columnists]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[JD Vance]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[susie wiles]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[tariffs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660934</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump's disastrous speech has led to an early start to the 2028 presidential primaries, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez emerging as a strong contender for the Democratic nomination and Vice President JD Vance as the leading Republican candidate.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Tuesday touted the latest data showing a robust expansion of the U.S. economy, crediting tariffs for the unexpected growth. “The TARIFFS are responsible for the GREAT USA Economic Numbers JUST ANNOUNCED…AND THEY WILL ONLY GET BETTER! Also, NO INFLATION &#38; GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY. Pray for the U.S. Supreme Court!!!” the president wrote&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T15:21:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T16:25:06+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>25 years later, we’re still feeling the damage from Bush v. Gore</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5655411-bush-gore-supreme-court-decision/</link>
+		<title>Betty Reid Soskin, oldest National Park Service ranger, dies at 104</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659763-betty-reid-soskin-national-park-service-ranger-dead/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Austin Sarat, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Judiciary]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5655411</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Ocenada]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Betty Reid Soskin]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659763/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The five justices who stopped the Florida recount took a first step toward entrenching Republican control of the federal government.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved National Park ranger that long held the title as the eldest in the ranks, has died, her family confirmed.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:48:56+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Addy Bink]]></dc:creator>
+<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/AP25355854236244-e1766500784928.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="126676" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T15:55:48+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>New Trump envoy says goal is to make Greenland &#8216;part of the US&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659563-greenland-envoy-trump-landry/</link>
+		<title>Stefanik exits New York governor&#8217;s race after getting jilted by Trump </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5660995-trump-leaves-stefanik-stranded/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659563</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660995</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Jeff Landry, President Trump&#8217;s newly appointed special envoy to Greenland, says his goal is to make the autonomous Danish territory &#8220;part of the U.S.&#8221; Landry, the sitting Republican governor of Louisiana, made the comment in a post Sunday night thanking Trump for naming him to the position of special envoy. “Thank you @realDonaldTrump! It’s an&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Elise Stefanik&#160;didn’t&#160;just drop out of New York’s governor’s race. She walked away from the entire political bet&#160;she’s&#160;been making for years.&#160;&#160; On paper, her exit came wrapped in familiar language. Family. Timing. Strategy. In a post on X, Stefanik pointed to a potentially bruising primary and wrote: “As we have seen in past elections, while we would have overwhelmingly won&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>CBS News pulls ’60 Minutes’ segment; correspondent blasts ‘political’ decision</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659558-cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment/</link>
+		<title>Democrats demand answers from Rubio on deal to send MS-13 informants to El Salvador</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660932-democrats-rubio-ms-13-el-salvador-deportation/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[deportation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Alien Enemies Act]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[deportation flights]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Kilmar Abrego Garcia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[MS-13]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[state department]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump immigration agenda]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Venezuelan migrants]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659558</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660932</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[CBS News on Sunday pulled a “60 Minutes” segment from its latest episode that was set to highlight conditions inside the notorious Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has deported Venezuelan migrants. The decision drew sharp backlash, including from the segment’s correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision was “political” in a note to colleagues&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[House Democrats are demanding more details about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s dealings with the Salvadoran government as the country agreed to imprison more than 200 men in its most notorious detention facility. A Tuesday letter from the top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs and Judiciary committees asks a series of questions about the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:45:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T17:54:19+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Democrats&#8217; agenda for 2026 and beyond</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5658083-democrats-agenda-for-2026-and-beyond/</link>
+		<title>Hageman launches bid for Wyoming Senate seat being vacated by Lummis</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5660977-harriet-hageman-wyoming-senate/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658083</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660977</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Democrats find themselves at a crossroads.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) announced Tuesday she’s&#160;running for&#160;the Wyoming&#160;Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R), who said last week&#160;she is retiring after her current term.&#160; “In the House, as I did in my private law practice, I have fought every day for the Constitutional rights of every individual citizen and to protect the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-20T06:55:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/hagemanharriet_090225gn01_w.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="562226" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:10:52+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Vance says Fuentes, Psaki can &#8216;eat s‑‑‑&#8217; for attacking second lady</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659553-vance-says-fuentes-psaki-can-eat-s-for-attacking-second-lady/</link>
+		<title>Ben Sasse diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5660954-ben-sasse-pancreatic-cancer-diagnosis/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659553</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Weaver]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[pancreatic cancer]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[senate republicans]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660954</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Vice President Vance lashed out at white nationalist Nick Fuentes and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki for attacking second lady Usha Vance, saying they can “eat s‑‑‑.”  “Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s‑‑‑. That’s my official policy as vice president of&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced Tuesday he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The former two-term senator, 53, wrote in a lengthy social media post that he received the diagnosis last week. “This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T15:38:50+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T20:07:14+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Crockett fires back at Vance over &#8216;street girl persona&#8217; attack at Turning Point USA conference</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659539-crockett-fires-back-vance/</link>
+		<title>Trump knocks release of photos in Epstein files dump: &#8216;I think it’s a terrible thing&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660902-donald-trump-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-photos/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[2028 presidential candidate]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Texas Senate race]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[TPUSA]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659539</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton photos]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660902</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) fired back at Vice President Vance on Sunday for suggesting her “street girl persona” was fake and for taking a jab at her nails during a speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest. Vance insulted Crockett while listing Democratic candidates he deemed unimpressive. “And Jasmine Crockett. Oh, Jasmine Crockett,” Vance said, to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said it’s a “terrible thing” that photos of former President Clinton and other high-profile people were published when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I don&#8217;t like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I don&#8217;t like the pictures of other people being shown,&#8221;&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T15:44:57+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/AP25356818418264_aff29d-e1766503125116.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="125726" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T16:26:33+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump’s marijuana reclassification needs to include health warnings</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5658573-cannabis-warning-labels-needed/</link>
+		<title>Trump says New York Times a &#8216;serious threat&#8217; to national security after Epstein piece</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660820-trump-condemns-ny-times-epstein/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Howard Husock, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658573</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[New York Times Epstein report]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660820</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[It’s far from obvious why President Trump would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug at a time when we are learning the many ways it is more dangerous than thought. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Tuesday condemned a New York Times report outlining his proximity to Jeffrey Epstein amid the disgraced financier&#8217;s illegal activities tied to an underground sex trafficking ring. “The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,” Trump wrote in a&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T14:17:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T19:22:04+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>DOJ on defense over Epstein files</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5659525-doj-partial-epstein-files/</link>
+		<title>Ukraine’s biggest problem isn’t Trump — it’s European elites</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5659897-america-europe-security-strategy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared Gans]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Morning Report]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659525</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith Naughton, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659897</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Morning Report is The Hill&#8217;s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today&#8217;s issue: ▪ DOJ defends partial Epstein files release ▪ US pursues more Venezuelan oil tankers ▪ Trump seeks DC golf course takeover ▪&#160;Nicki Minaj appears at Turning Point conference The Trump administration is facing rising pushback from advocates and members of both parties after&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[European leaders have refused to accept the new geopolitical reality, stumbling forward and  hoping Russia will just give up, despite there being zero indication that will happen. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T13:45:48+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T17:46:23+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Embarrassing: Journalists demonize a true symbol of our revolution</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5656272-embarrassing-vapid-journalists-demonize-a-symbol-of-our-revolution/</link>
+		<title>Jack Smith should be investigated for incompetence, not &#8216;weaponization&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5654802-jack-smith-should-be-investigated-for-incompetence-not-weaponization/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Becket Adams, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James D. Zirin, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5656272</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Criminal Justice]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5654802</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[We should have outgrown all of this loony-tune nonsense. It is now 2025, after all. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[If Attorney General Merrick Garland “weaponized federal law-enforcement” under Biden, he was using a water-pistol against a howitzer.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:42:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Democrats renew government shutdown threat as tensions flare with Trump</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5657834-senate-democrats-threaten-government-shutdown/</link>
+		<title>Ohio Democrat sues to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660783-joyce-beatty-lawsuit-trump-kennedy-center/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657834</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[House Democrats]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Kennedy Center name change]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660783</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats are raising the threat of another government shutdown in late January as tensions with President Trump escalate over a series of recent maneuvers by the White House that Democrats say need a forceful response from Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats walked away from a potential deal to fund a broad swath of the federal&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to remove President Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.&#160; Beatty, an ex-officio board member for the center, said in the complaint that adding the president&#8217;s name to the venue is a “flagrant violation” of the Constitution. “Congress intended the Center to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T19:38:52+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T21:34:52+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Minnesota Senate primary becomes major proxy battle for Democrats</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5657831-craig-flanagan-democratic-clash/</link>
+		<title>Feeling burned out at work? Here’s the fix.</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5659780-leading-effective-remote-teams/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657831</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gleb Tsipursky, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Technology]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659780</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary is setting up a high-profile clash within the party amid a broader fight over its future. A number of well-known Democrats have already thrown their support in the race for the reliably blue seat, which is pitting the more centrist Rep. Angie Craig (Minn.) against progressive Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[McKinsey has labeled the pattern “the Great Exhaustion,” noting that one in five workers now report outright burnout. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump’s attempted takeover of DC golf courses sets off controversy</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5657407-trump-eyes-dc-golf-takeover/</link>
+		<title>DOJ drops more Epstein files as scrutiny mounts over slow release</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5660774-jeffrey-epstein-files-justice-department-release/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominick Mastrangelo]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[epstein file]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660774</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump&#160;is&#160;eyeing a takeover&#160;of the Washington, D.C., public golf system, but&#160;local&#160;golf&#160;officials&#160;and&#160;elected leaders are&#160;vowing&#160;not to&#160;cede control of the city’s affordable courses.&#160;&#160; The administration earlier this fall sent a notice of default to the National Links Trust, the&#160;local&#160;public-private&#160;nonprofit&#160;that has overseen&#160;and operated&#160;D.C.’s three municipal golf courses since 2020. &#160; The notice, first reported by The Washington Post, came&#160;only&#160;five&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department released thousands of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein&#160;overnight, including files that reference President Trump. The big batch of Epstein files includes nearly 30,000 additional pages of documents. Some, the Justice Department&#160;warned in a statement&#160;early Tuesday, “contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
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-		<title>Omar Fateh responds to Vance&#8217;s &#8216;mayor of Mogadishu&#8217; comment made in Turning Point speech </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659423-vance-fateh-somali-descent-politics/</link>
+		<title>Brown University&#8217;s security draws Education Department investigation after shooting</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5660744-education-department-probe-brown-university-shooting/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659423</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CLERY ACt]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Education Department]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660744</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[After Vice President Vance slammed Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh (D) on Sunday, Fateh fired back, saying Vance “took time away from the couch to try out comedy.” Vance, during his speech at Turning Point’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, said Democrats “are not sending their best,” referencing Fateh’s unsuccessful candidacy for Minneapolis mayor.  The vice president&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Education Department on Monday said it would launch an investigation into Brown University following a shooting earlier this month that resulted in the death of two students.  Officials say the school potentially violated the Clery Act, which requires institutions of higher education to meet certain campus safety and security-related requirements as a condition of&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T15:22:14+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump names Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659410-landry-special-envoy-greenland-trump/</link>
+		<title>Barry Manilow reveals lung cancer diagnosis</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659907-barry-manilow-lung-cancer-diagnosis/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christine Samra]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659410</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Barry Manilow]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Lung cancer]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659907/</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump named Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) as his special envoy to Greenland on Sunday, after the president repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the autonomous territory earlier this year.  Trump said on Truth Social that Landry “understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The singer said Monday that he had been sick for several weeks, prompting an MRI.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T13:31:16+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Khanna, Massie threaten &#8216;inherent contempt&#8217; charges against Bondi over partial release of Epstein files</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5659394-khanna-massie-bondi-contempt-epstein/</link>
+		<title>Brown University places police chief on leave amid review of deadly shooting</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5660736-brown-university-campus-police-review/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659394</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[brown shooting]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Brown University]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[providence]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660736</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Ca.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said Sunday that the House should hold Attorney General Pam Bondi in “inherent contempt” over the Department of Justice (DOJ) releasing an incomplete and heavily redacted tranche of files related to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. Appearing together on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” the lawmakers blasted Bondi&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Brown University placed its campus police chief on administrative leave Monday as it undergoes a comprehensive review of its security protocols and response to the Dec. 13 shooting that left two students dead and nine injured. The school’s president, Christina Paxton, announced several actions in an email to the Brown University community Monday night, including&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Witkoff says Ukraine remains &#8216;fully committed to achieving a just and sustainable peace&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5659347-russia-ukraine-peace-negotiations/</link>
+		<title>83K bags of frozen shrimp recalled over radioactive concerns</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5660721-frozen-shrimp-recall-radioactive-concerns/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Kutz]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659347</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Cesium-137]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[fda]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[radioactivity]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[shrimp recall]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660721</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine are committed to achieving peace amid negotiations on ending the ongoing war between the two countries.  Witkoff said on the social platform X that he, along with President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum, held a “series of productive and&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The recalled shrimp was sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T13:22:18+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>US Catholic bishop head: Deportations instilling &#8216;fear in a rather widespread manner&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659263-coakley-catholic-bishops-immigration/</link>
+		<title>Are you a ‘principled’ conservative? </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5660371-principled-conservatives-key-principles/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659263</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Merrill Matthews, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Columnists]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Conservative movement]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Liberals and Progressives]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Joe Biden]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Statement]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[William F. Buckley]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660371</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said Sunday that the Trump administration’s mass deportations are invoking fear in immigrant communities across the country.&#160; “It&#8217;s instilling, as I said, fear in a rather widespread manner. So I think that&#8217;s something that concerns us all, that people have a right to&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Principled conservatives adhere to time-tested principles, such as the U.S. Constitution, fiscal responsibility, and free enterprise, while liberals and progressives adopt goals instead of principles, often bypassing Congress and intervening in businesses.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T23:22:17+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Nicki Minaj makes surprise appearance at Turning Point conference</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659269-nicki-minaj-trump-newsom-turning-point-usa/</link>
+		<title>The Movement: How strife and realignment on the right will set the tone for 2026</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-movement/5660450-the-movement-strife-conservatives-2026/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[AmericaFest]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Erika Kirk]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[TPUSA]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Turning Point USA]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659269</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Brooks]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[The Movement]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660450</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rapper Nicki Minaj made a surprise appearance on Sunday at Turning Point USA’s annual &#8220;AmericaFest&#8221; conference, where she talked to the organization’s Erika Kirk about President Trump and mocked California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Minaj criticized Newsom over his support for transgender health care for minors. She also discouraged the prominent Democrat from running for&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[From conservative personalities taking stunning swipes at each other at&#160;Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest&#160;conference to a mass exodus from the&#160;Heritage Foundation,&#160;the ideological civil war over the future of the post-Trump right has shifted into a new stage that will set the tone for 2026. There has long been grumbling and vocal discontent from traditional conservatives about&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T14:18:17+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:39:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Jeffries says House &#8216;will pass&#8217; ObamaCare subsidies extension &#8216;with a bipartisan majority&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5659243-jeffries-predicts-aca-extension/</link>
+		<title>The MAHA base is in danger of fracturing as its agenda flails</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5653262-the-maha-base-is-in-danger-of-fracturing-as-its-agenda-flails/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659243</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gray Delany, opinion contributor ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Healthcare]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5653262</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) predicted Sunday that an extension of subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will pass the House with backing from both sides of the aisle. “House Democrats are going to continue to fight to get this extension through the Congress on our side. It will pass with a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Personnel is policy, and this is the number one reason the MAHA agenda has been stymied. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T14:34:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:30:40+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Senate stares down fraught health care battle with ObamaCare subsidies set to expire</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5657868-senate-health-care-battle-obamacare/</link>
+		<title>&#8216;America First&#8217; agenda must include tackling the debt crisis</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5654114-america-first-agenda-includes-tackling-the-debt-crisis/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Weaver]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657868</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian Darling, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Finance]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5654114</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year. The chamber has been consumed for months by a fight over&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[With the controversial Epstein vote in the rearview mirror, it is time for Congress to focus on the debt crisis — to avoid continued inflation and the prospect of a meltdown of the U.S. economy. The debt crisis is the premier national security issue of our time. An America First policy would focus Congress on&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-18T00:27:54+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>SNL mocks Trump’s Patriot Games as &#8216;Hunger Games,&#8217; effort to &#8216;distract&#8217; from Epstein files</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659220-patriot-games-trump-snl/</link>
+		<title>GOP split on Trump&#8217;s Venezuela endgame</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5660715-republicans-split-trump-venezuela-endgame/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared Gans]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[“Saturday Night Live” this week mocked President Trump’s new “Patriot Games” by likening them to the games in the famous “Hunger Games” book series. In the cold open, Trump, played by SNL’s James Austin Johnson, appears to be mimicking the address the president gave earlier this week. Johnson’s Trump touches on multiple topics as he&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Morning Report is The Hill&#8217;s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today&#8217;s issue: ▪&#160;GOP skeptical on Venezuela goals ▪ Second batch of Epstein files released ▪ Trump unveils new warships named after himself ▪ Weiss defends pulling ‘60 Minutes’ segment Republicans are divided on whether&#160;President Trump&#160;should increase military pressure to oust Venezuelan President&#160;Nicolás Maduro, with some&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T11:37:17+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Less than a fifth of Americans say Trump has benefited their wallets: Poll</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659177-trump-policies-financial-impact/</link>
+		<title>Republicans divided on whether Trump should topple Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro with military force</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5660364-republicans-trump-venezuela-maduro-military-force/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[A new CBS News/YouGov poll found that less than 2 in 10 respondents believe President Trump’s policies are improving their current financial situation.&#160; The poll, released Sunday, found that 18 percent of respondents believe the president’s policies are making them financially better off now, while 27 percent believe his policies will improve their financial straits&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Republican lawmakers are divided over whether President Trump should escalate military pressure on Venezuela to oust President Nicolás Maduro, with some Republicans warning that &#8220;regime change&#8221; has a history of backfiring on the United States. Senate Republicans largely support Trump’s aggressive targeting of Venezuelan speedboats suspected of smuggling drugs, but some warn that attacking Maduro’s&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:21:54+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Rand Paul signals he would not back Vance for president in 2028</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659184-rand-paul-opposes-jd-vance/</link>
+		<title>A challenge for 2026: Make yourself a little uncomfortable </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5660417-artificial-intelligence-news-business-accountability/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Stirewalt]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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+					<description><![CDATA[For a short time in my life, part of every day’s work was to call the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to get the level of the Ohio River at the Pike Island Locks and Dam. Now, even a basic AI model can get that kind of information, publish it and offer a brief paragraph&#8230;]]></description>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T11:00:19+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+		<title>Trump’s successor race gears up in wake of MAGA Turning Point tiffs </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660297-2028-republican-primary-race/</link>
+		
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[tariffs]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested on Sunday he would not back Vice President Vance as a hypothetical candidate for president in 2028. In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” Paul cited his opposition to the Trump administration’s tariff and trade policy when asked whether he sees Vance as the so-called heir apparent to succeed&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The race to succeed President Trump is gearing up following Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk’s endorsement of Vice President Vance, marking one of the first major endorsements ahead of the 2028 Republican primary.&#160; Kirk’s backing of Vance, who has not announced whether he is running in 2028, is likely to hold sway given the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T21:07:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:55:19+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump likely to propose tariff check legislation in new year: Hassett</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659152-trump-2000-tariff-rebate-checks/</link>
+		<title>US military kills &#8216;narcoterrorist&#8217; in eastern Pacific strike</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660638-us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that President Trump will likely back legislation to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to Americans in the new year. “I would expect that in the new year, the president will bring forth a proposal to Congress to make that happen,” Hassett told host Margaret Brennan on CBS&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing one “narcoterrorist.” U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) shared a 27-second video of the strike on the social platform X, adding that the vessel was “operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters” and was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes”&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T20:18:23+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T15:51:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Rand Paul says partial release of Epstein files &#8216;big mistake&#8217; for Trump administration </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5659116-trump-administration-epstein-release/</link>
+		<title>At least 6 among victims of Mexican Navy plane crash off the coast of Texas </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5660629-coast-guard-investigates-crash-galveston-mexican-navy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[epstein file release]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Epstein files]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659116</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660629</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Sunday he thinks it’s a “big mistake” for the Trump administration to release heavily redacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the issue could now “plague them for months.” “I think it&#8217;s a big mistake,” Paul said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” when&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[At least six people were killed when a Mexican Naval plane crashed in Galveston Bay off the Texas coast Monday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The office of the secretary of the Mexican Navy announced on social media Monday evening that the aircraft, with eight people on board, was conducting a medical support mission in&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T21:06:18+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T16:07:47+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Hassett: US &#8216;going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time&#8217; in 2026</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5659049-hassett-predicts-record-tax-refunds/</link>
+		<title>Cannon keeps Jack Smith’s classified records report under wraps for now</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660584-judge-cannon-lifts-report-restrictions/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Lee]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[big beautiful bill]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660584</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the United States is “going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time” in 2026. “There&#8217;s so much good news in the new year, because you&#8217;re going to see the biggest tax refund season of all time. The &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217; was&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday lifted restrictions on the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s findings from his investigation into President Trump’s handling of classified records — but she gave the president a 60-day window to challenge her order. Cannon did not immediately lift her order barring the Justice Department from sharing&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T19:18:34+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/smithjack_121725upi01_w.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="706819" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T15:07:13+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Congress just walked away from its war powers </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5658095-congress-war-powers-retreat/</link>
+		<title>FDA approves oral version of Wegovy</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5660548-fda-approves-wegovy-weight-loss/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Harman, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Congress has relinquished its constitutional authority to declare war by refusing to pass resolutions requiring congressional authorization for military operations against Venezuela, allowing the president to initiate military hostilities without debate or oversight.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Novo Nordisk’s oral version of the Wegovy weight loss pill, the first such pill approved for use.  Novo Nordisk said in a Tuesday release that the GLP-1 pill is intended for once-daily use to “reduce excess body weight and maintain weight reduction long-term and to reduce the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump wrongly inflicts collective punishment for shootings on millions </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5658008-trump-anti-immigrant-policies/</link>
+		<title>FCC blacklists foreign-made drones over security, spying concerns</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5660469-fcc-bans-foreign-drones/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A. Scott Bolden, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[National Guard]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Beckstrom]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump is imposing collective punishment on millions of people around the world in response to deadly shootings, despite numerous studies showing that immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than people born in the U.S.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned new foreign-made drones from being sold in the U.S. on Monday, citing national security concerns.&#160; In a notice, the FCC said it was adding uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and their critical components made in foreign countries to its covered list.&#160; Such a distinction bars such products from being sold&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-20T02:35:50+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T00:39:54+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Graham says he wishes for Ukraine peace deal &#8216;that would prevent a third invasion&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5658941-graham-security-guarantees-ukraine/</link>
+		<title>China blasts US seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers: &#8216;Grossly violates international law&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660508-us-china-venezuela-oil-tankers/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine deal]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that he wishes for a Russia-Ukraine war peace deal “that would prevent a third invasion,” likely referencing the 2014 and 2022 Russian incursions on Ukrainian territory. “Listen, we&#8217;ve made great progress between Ukraine, Europe and the United States to come up with a proposal that would end the war.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[China on Monday accused the U.S. of violating international law in seizing oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, appearing to take the side of Caracas as Washington looks to take a third oil tanker this month. “The U.S. practice of arbitrarily seizing other countries’ vessels grossly violates international law,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T00:10:04+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Holidays without my husband: What US immigration policy costs families</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5656993-mixed-status-couple-struggles/</link>
+		<title>Trump says US will keep oil and ships seized near Venezuela</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660486-trump-seizes-venezuelan-oil-tankers/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Moreno, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[oil tanker]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[SOUTHCOM]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660486</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[I am furious at what my country has done to me by taking away the one person who has been my safety net.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump said on Monday that the U.S. government will, for now, keep the oil and two oil tankers that the U.S. Coast Guard seized off the coast of Venezuela this month.&#160; &#8220;We’re going to keep it. Maybe we’ll sell it. Maybe we’ll keep it. Maybe we’ll use it in the strategic reserves,&#8221; Trump said&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T23:55:22+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump’s base growing impatient on abortion pill action</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5657986-anti-abortion-trump-mifepristone-review/</link>
+		<title>Boasberg orders return of Venezuelan deportees challenging Alien Enemies Act removal</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5660475-trump-administration-venezuelan-deportees-return-ruling/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Choi]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657986</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660475</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Anti-abortion voices are growing increasingly impatient for the Trump administration to complete a review of the abortion pill mifepristone, potentially altering its approval. But changing abortion access at the federal level could imperil an already vulnerable GOP in the upcoming midterms. &#160; While on the campaign trail, President Trump played his cards close to the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration must allow Venezuelan men it deported to a megaprison in El Salvador to return to the U.S. to fight their case, including disputing that they were part of a gang. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg is the latest development in a case brought&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T21:28:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T23:48:56+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Kaine says Clinton &#8216;should address&#8217; questions on Epstein files</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5658917-kaine-says-clinton-should-address-questions-on-epstein-files/</link>
+		<title>Trump warns Colombia&#8217;s President Petro &#8216;better watch his a‑‑&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660454-trump-petro-tensions-venezuela/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Manchester]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Senate Democrats]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658917</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660454</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Sunday that former President Clinton “should address” questions surrounding files linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Former President Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch, as I was just discussing now. To be very clear, NBC News does not know the full context behind these images,&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump lashed out at Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday, warning that “he better watch his a‑‑.”  “He has to watch it because he’s got drug factories. They make cocaine in Colombia,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on the heels of an announcement about the building of new Navy ships. &#8220;He better watch his&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T19:00:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T23:54:22+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Lankford: Americans will decide whether to blame GOP for lapsed ObamaCare subsidies</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5658932-republicans-obamacare-subsidies-lapse/</link>
+		<title>Lawmakers hammer DOJ over Epstein files release</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5660099-lawmakers-doj-epstein-files-release/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[ACA]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[ACA subsidies]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Health care]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Tax credits]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658932</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660099</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said he would leave it to the American people to decide whether they blame Republicans for the lapse in enhanced ObamaCare subsidies at the end of the year, but he defended GOP efforts to strike a deal on the issue in recent weeks. In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are tangling over potential consequences for Department of Justice (DOJ) officials after the department failed to share every document tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as required under law. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the bipartisan duo who led the effort to force&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T14:22:11+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sudiksha Kochi]]></dc:creator>
+<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/2__9623.jpeg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="678491" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T23:41:14+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Jeffries calls for &#8216;full and complete investigation&#8217; into redacted Epstein documents</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658916-jeffries-epstein-files-release-investigation/</link>
+		<title>Where Trump’s ratings on economy stand at end of year</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/business-economy/5660430-trump-ratings-economy-end-2025/</link>
 		
 		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business & Economy]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[redacted files]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658916</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump approval rating]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660430</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday called for an investigation into the heavily redacted files related to Jeffrey Epstein released on Friday, saying it appears the Justice Department has fallen “short of what the law requires.” In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” the Democratic leader noted that the Epstein Files Transparency&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Presented by the Bank Policy Institute — Recent polls have provided some of Trump’s worst figures on his handling of the economy. {beacon} Business &#038; Economy &#160; PRESENTED BY THE BANK POLICY INSTITUTE The Big Story&#160; Where Trump’s ratings on economy stand at end of year President Trump’s overall approval ratings&#160;have seen a slight uptick&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T19:25:45+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/GavelTrump_Lee-Schonfeld_Getty_AndrewHarnik.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="659238" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T13:59:21+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Telemedicine abortion is winning — and that terrifies the right </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5653331-telemedicine-abortion-rights-2025/</link>
+		<title>Jim Beam to halt production at main distillery; Democrat blames Trump tariffs</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/business/5660363-jim-beam-bourbon-distillery-pause/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie F. Kay, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Healthcare]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5653331</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[bourbon]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Jim Beam]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[tariffs]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump tariffs]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660363</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Although most pro-choice Americans remain unaware that telemedicine abortion is an option, patients seeking care have widely embraced it. More than a quarter of all abortions in the U.S. were provided via telemedicine in 2025.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Jim Beam, the Bourbon company, is stopping its main distillery&#8217;s production this year. “We plan to pause distillation at our main distillery on the James B. Beam campus for 2026 while we take the opportunity to invest in site enhancements,” the James B. Beam Distilling Co. said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/81cb4d940edd432f89d840e32e383a44-e1766443246850.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="228449" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T23:19:46+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Raskin on Democrats&#8217; response to Epstein file redactions: &#8216;Everything is on the table&#8217; </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658897-democrats-consider-recourse-epstein-documents/</link>
+		<title>Lawler: Vance, Rubio more likely to run with one other than compete in 2028 </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5660296-vance-rubio-2028-campaign-mike-lawler/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[impeachment]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[redactions]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660296</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Sunday that Democrats are considering various avenues of recourse after the Trump administration released a trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that included heavy redactions. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said members of his party are&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Will Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio run against each other in the 2028 Republican primary? Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said Monday he does not see it happening. Lawler told host Kasie Hunt on CNN’s “The Arena” that “frankly, I think it’s more likely that you’ll have a Vance-Rubio ticket than anything&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T14:41:12+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Blanche says all Trump material in Epstein files will be released</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658888-epstein-files-trump-documents-release/</link>
+		<title>Trump announces new class of &#8216;Golden Fleet&#8217; Navy battleships</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5660366-us-navy-golden-fleet/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump DOJ]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[white house]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658888</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660366</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that all material featuring President Trump in files linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released. “The White House has said that President Trump is included in the files. Can you guarantee that every mention and every photo of President Trump in the Epstein files&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump announced on Monday a new class of battleships as part of the U.S. Navy’s “Golden Fleet.”&#160; The president said that he approved a plan for the Navy to start construction of the two battleships, which will be equipped with guns, missiles, hypersonic weapons and high-powered lasers. Trump trumpeted the ships as being built&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T00:25:27+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>The SpaceX IPO, space-based AI and dreams of Mars</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5656882-elon-musk-space-based-ai/</link>
+		<title>Dems acknowledge Clinton&#8217;s ties to Epstein aren&#8217;t &#8216;a good look&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660274-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-files-democrats-trump/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark R. Whittington, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Technology]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[AI data centers]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Blue Origin]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Jared Isaacman]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amie Parnes]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660274</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The opening of space to human commercial activity is a prospect to be welcomed eagerly.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Democrats largely acknowledge that former President Clinton&#8217;s association with Jeffrey Epstein isn’t the best of circumstances — particularly for a politician whose personal life has been tabloid fodder.  The release of thousands of files late last week revealed a number of photographs of Clinton and Epstein, the convicted child sex offender. The images released included Clinton&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/Clinton_Parnes_AP_HouseOversightCommittee.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="605451" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T01:53:07+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>The shortest day of the year has arrived. Here&#8217;s what to know</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5658846-shortest-day-year-winter-solstice/</link>
+		<title>Judge extends order barring Abrego Garcia re-detainment</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5660264-judge-bars-retaliation-abrego/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ella Lee]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Kilmar Abrego Garcia]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660264</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday extended a temporary order barring federal immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sharply scrutinizing the Trump administration&#8217;s intentions toward the once wrongfully deported man. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis noted at a hearing that Abrego Garcia was already deported illegally once and questioned whether federal officials could be trusted&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>White House threatens to withhold Smithsonian funds amid review</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658848-smithsonian-white-house-funding-review/</link>
+		<title>Live updates: Trump unveils shipbuilding initiative as Venezuela tensions flare</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658873-live-updates-trump-epstein-files-venezuela-health-care/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill Staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Smithsonian]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[smithsonian funding]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658873</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The White House threatened to withhold federal funding from the Smithsonian Institution if the prestigious museum system does not submit additional documentation for the Trump administration’s sweeping content review. In a Thursday letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley and White House budget director Russell Vought&#160;outlined the material they&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump unveiled a new shipbuilding initiative alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Navy Secretary John Phelan this afternoon, as tensions spike in the Caribbean. Military action near Venezuela has spurred more scrutiny of Trump&#8217;s ongoing pressure campaign after the U.S. seized another oil tanker Saturday and is pursuing another&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-23T01:50:28+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>The Trump administration deserves a solid F-minus for transparency </title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5657743-trump-administration-transparency-concerns/</link>
+		<title>Watch: Trump to make announcement alongside Hegseth on shipbuilding</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/video-clips/5660205-watch-live-trump-hegseth-navy-shipbuilding/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glenn C. Altschuler, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657743</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Hill staff]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660205</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Last month, a message on the White House website declared that “the Trump Administration has been the most transparent and accessible administration in modern American history &#8230; ensuring the American people are constantly in touch with what their government is doing.”  But if an administration is defined by what it does, this White House has been anything but&#160;transparent and accessible.&#160; In&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump made an announcement Friday afternoon in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan about shipbuilding. Earlier this month, Phelan previewed the administration&#8217;s plans to build a &#8220;Golden Fleet&#8221; of Navy ships. &#8220;We will invest smartly in the cornerstones of American seapower—carriers, destroyers, amphibs, and submarines but we&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>US-Russia peace talks &#8216;are proceeding constructively&#8217;: Kremlin envoy</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5658830-russia-us-miami-peace-talks-progress/</link>
+		<title>Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trump&#8217;s wind farm pause</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5660220-senate-democrats-permitting-talks-trump-wind-farm-pause/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[delegation]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[peace talks]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[russia]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Russia-Ukraine war]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658830</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660220</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters that this weekend’s ongoing peace talks in Florida have been constructive, amid the Trump administration’s latest push to strike a deal to end the war with Ukraine. “The discussions are proceeding constructively. They began earlier and will continue today, and will also continue tomorrow,” Dmitriev said Saturday in Miami.&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats say they will walk away from talks about legislation to speed up energy and infrastructure construction unless the Trump administration reverses its latest attack on wind power. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) say they will abandon the long-held permitting reform talks after the Trump administration said Monday it would suspend leases for&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T21:30:33+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Democrats second-guess DNC decision to end autopsy of losses to Trump, GOP</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5657529-democrats-winning-strategy-future/</link>
+		<title>Former FDA chief sounds alarm over HHS childhood vaccine overhaul</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5660168-gottlieb-warns-trump-vaccine-changes/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amie Parnes]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657529</guid>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660168</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Democrats say they&#8217;ve finally found their footing.&#160; And the Democratic National Committee (DNC) says it agrees. Democrats are winning again.  So why would they put out an autopsy report that talks about how they lost? The party, says DNC Chair Ken Martin, needs to move forward, not look back. That&#8217;s the position Democrats find themselves in&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb expressed concern over the Trump administration’s pending overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule.&#160; The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will release a new vaccine schedule next year that recommends fewer shots, NewsNation reported Friday. The move would bring the U.S., which recommends 72 childhood&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T02:30:37+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T21:27:13+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump’s push to make Maduro ‘cry uncle’ ramps up, but endgame murky</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5657851-trump-pressure-venezuela-maduro/</link>
+		<title>Heritage Foundation staffers decamp for Pence-founded think tank in latest exodus</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/5660157-heritage-foundation-staffers-pence-think-tank/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Kelly]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657851</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Brooks]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660157</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro continues to ramp up, with his threat this past week to impose a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers, but the administration’s messaging on its endgame has only become more muddled.  Trump has not ruled out war with Venezuela, warning Tuesday that the U.S. military presence in&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen staffers left the Heritage Foundation and joined Advancing American Freedom (AAF), founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, in the latest shake-up for the embattled organization that has become the center of an ideological civil war over the conservative movement’s post-Trump future. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts announced the exodus internally&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
-		      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T19:17:06+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/the-heritage-foundation.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="884494" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T22:06:19+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Jesse Watters: Trump compared Twitter account to Gettysburg Address</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658738-trump-compares-twitter-gettysburg/</link>
+		<title>Democratic senator: Contempt, impeachment of DOJ officials in Epstein fight &#8216;premature&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5660147-epstein-files-contempt-impeachment-tim-kaine/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658738</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[contempt]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[impeachment]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660147</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Fox News host Jesse Watters on Saturday said President Trump once compared his Twitter account to former President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Gettysburg Address. Watters spoke at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix when he recalled a visit to the White House during Trump&#8217;s first term. Trump went with Watters to the Lincoln Bedroom, where&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said on Sunday he thinks it’s “premature” to talk about possible contempt or impeachment resolutions against top Department of Justice (DOJ) officials after they released heavily redacted files on Jeffrey Epstein. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Kaine urged fellow members of Congress to use other tools available&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T03:49:38+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T20:47:20+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>&#8216;Funeral&#8217; held for the penny at Lincoln Memorial after US Mint discontinues coin</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658710-mourners-say-goodbye-penny/</link>
+		<title>Bill Clinton spokesperson says they don&#8217;t need &#8216;protection,&#8217; asks for release of all Epstein files</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660085-clinton-epstein-files-transparency/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Rego]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660085</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The penny received a &#8220;funeral&#8221; on Saturday, attended by mourners and Abraham Lincoln impersonators outside the Lincoln Memorial, after the U.S. Mint discontinued the coin last month. Hundreds attended the event, many dressed in black or wearing Victorian-style attire. Mourners placed pennies into either caskets on display or made a wish as they threw pennies&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A spokesperson for former President Clinton called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release any remaining materials involving the former president in files related to Jeffrey Epstein.&#160; Angel Ureña, the deputy chief of staff to Clinton, said Monday on social platform X that under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ is required to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T20:45:29+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Hegseth hails new seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5658667-trump-administration-venezuela-blockade/</link>
+		<title>Who is Jeff Landry, Trump&#8217;s new point person on Greenland?</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660127-jeff-landry-greenland-envoy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Swanson]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658667</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Greenland]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Trump Greenland acquisition]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[white house]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660127</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Saturday evening hailed the seizure by the U.S. Coast Guard of a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The U.S. Navy assisted in the seizure, which took place on international waters, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced.  Hegseth made clear that the Trump administration intended to put&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) was named by President Trump on Sunday as his special envoy to Greenland, which Trump previously has sought to acquire as part of the United States. On Truth Social, the president said Landry “understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-21T03:30:22+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/AP24170796711221Wp.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="701834" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T21:03:37+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>16 Epstein files, including photo of Trump, disappear from DOJ website: Report</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658618-doj-redactions-epstein-files/</link>
+		<title>Epstein survivors urge Congress to hold Justice Department accountable</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5660075-epstein-survivors-bash-justice-department/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658618</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5660075</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[At least 16 files on the Department of Justice&#8217;s (DOJ) webpage containing files on Jeffrey Epstein, including a photo featuring two pictures of President Trump, were found to have disappeared from the department&#8217;s website as of Saturday, The Associated Press reported. The Hill has reached out to DOJ for comment. In a social media post&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[More than a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors bashed the Justice Department for its handling of the release of files related to the deceased sex offender, calling for congressional oversight as they accused the department of failing to comply with the law. “This law, enacted by a nearly unanimous vote in the House and unanimously in&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Leading-Epstein_090325_AP_Jose-Luis-Magana.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="974257" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T20:05:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Most Americans say Trump’s Rob Reiner comments were ‘inappropriate’: Poll</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658593-trump-reiner-social-media-poll/</link>
+		<title>Zelensky: Any US-Ukraine security guarantees will need congressional review</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/international/5660053-zelensky-us-security-guarantees/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Samuels]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe President Trump&#8217;s social media post and subsequent comments about the killing of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; according to a new YouGov poll released Friday. &#8220;YouGov showed Americans Trump&#8217;s post — as well as social media posts about Reiner by several other politicians from&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday there are signs negotiators are &#8220;very close&#8221; to a finished peace proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, including U.S. security guarantees that will require congressional approval. Zelensky posted on the social platform X that his negotiating team was returning to Ukraine from talks with American officials in Miami. &#8220;In&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump endorses GOP&#8217;s Blakeman for New York governor a day after Stefanik exits race</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5658614-trump-endorses-blakeman-ny-governor/</link>
+		<title>Bari Weiss faces blowback for spiking &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; segment: What to know </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659963-bari-weiss-cbs-60-minutes-segment/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Swanson]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dominick Mastrangelo]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump on Saturday evening endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for governor of New York, one day after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) surprisingly exited the race and announced she would not seek reelection to Congress. Trump did not mention Stefanik in his Saturday post on Truth Social endorsing Blakeman. &#8220;Bruce is MAGA all the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Bari Weiss, CBS&#8217;s new editor in chief, is facing&#160;widespread&#160;blowback across the media&#160;for a decision to pull a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment she argues was not ready for publication, while a top journalist at the network contends the decision was based on political pressure and capitulation to the Trump administration. &#160; The&#160;controversy&#160;comes as Paramount, CBS’s parent company,&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Democrats see health care subsidies leverage in shutdown deadline</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5657603-democrats-press-extend-obamacare/</link>
+		<title>Conway files to run for Nadler&#8217;s seat in New York</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659960-conway-trump-critic-democrat-run/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Lillis]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657603</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659960</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[House Democrats pressing to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies are already looking ahead to a looming federal funding deadline as potential leverage in the fight.  Both issues are already poised to take center stage on Capitol Hill when Congress returns to Washington next month after the long holiday break. But while the two debates are technically&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Prominent anti-Trump critic George Conway III filed paperwork Monday to run as a Democrat for the seat being vacated by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). A conservative lawyer who later founded the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, Conway has been one of the loudest critics of the president. Conway was married to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Massie accuses Trump administration of ‘flaunting law’ on Epstein files release</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658597-doj-releases-epstein-documents/</link>
+		<title>Newsom, Vance lead wide-open 2028 field: Poll</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659923-newsom-vance-2028-poll/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian Swanson]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[2028 democratic presidential primary]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[2028 Democratic primary]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[2028 election]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[2028 Republican primary]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659923</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for a second day in a row is hitting the Trump administration hard over its partial release of files related to the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, arguing the Department of Justice is “flaunting” the law as passed by Congress this fall. Massie, who has repeatedly battled with President Trump on a&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Vice President Vance top their respective parties’ lists of potential 2028 presidential contenders, according to a new CNN poll. In the survey, two-thirds of American respondents said they don’t have a specific person in mind that they’d like to see run for president in 2028, while 16 percent mentioned&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T18:51:43+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>DOJ releases more Epstein files Saturday</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658495-epstein-files-transparency-act/</link>
+		<title>Putin aide contradicts Witkoff, calling Miami talks &#8216;rather unconstructive&#8217;</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5659941-putin-aide-contradicts-us-claims/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mancini]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658495</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen Mitchell]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659941</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday released more files, documents and photos connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day after the deadline for releasing all of the files. The DOJ released thousands of its documents Friday, but came under criticism from Democrats and Republicans in Congress for not complying with a law&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday contradicted U.S. claims that three days of peace talks in Miami went well, calling several of Washington’s proposals meant to end Russia’s war with Ukraine “rather unconstructive.” Yuri Ushakov, Putin&#8217;s top foreign policy aide, said most of the peace plan proposals the U.S. offered were&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>US seizes second oil tanker off Venezuela&#8217;s coast as Trump ups pressure on Maduro</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5658568-us-seizes-second-oil-tanker/</link>
+		<title>Epstein files: Where do things stand with their release?</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5659867-epstein-files-release-controversy/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Filip Timotija]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[boat strikes]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Coast Guard]]></category>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein files]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Epstein Files Transparency Act]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House Democrats]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House Republicans]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Todd Blanche]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659867</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[U.S. personnel seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.&#160; The seizure of the vessel, which took place in international waters, was led by the Coast Guard and assisted by the U.S. military, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Washington has been roiled by controversy surrounding the files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for months, but the scandal heated up at the end of last week with the Justice Department choosing to release only some of the files. Multiple files available on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) website featuring Epstein were discovered to&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T21:02:55+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Bowen Yang to depart SNL mid-season, last episode with buddy Ariana Grande</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658371-bowen-yang-departing-snl/</link>
+		<title>Fallout over yanked ‘60 Minutes’ segment; Trump revisits taking over Greenland</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/newsletters/1230-report/5659882-backlash-over-yanked-60-minutes/</link>
 		
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-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cate Martel]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[12:30 Report]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Bowen Yang]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Wicked]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Newsletters]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659882</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) — Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of projects, will depart “Saturday Night Live” mid-season after Saturday&#8217;s episode hosted by his “Wicked” co-star Ariana Grande. He joined the show as a writer in 2018, became a featured player the following season and was promoted to the main cast two seasons after&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[12:30 Report is The Hill&#8217;s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. It’s Monday.&#160;Sunday was the shortest day of the year, so it’s all uphill from here! 😉 In today&#8217;s issue: • Backlash over yanked ‘60 Minutes’ segment • Trump revisits taking over Greenland • Epstein file rollout raises more questions • Lawmakers blame Bondi • Nicki Minaj’s&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T20:35:46+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>The Memo: Partial Epstein release sparks calls for more</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658525-doj-releases-epstein-documents/</link>
+		<title>What should Santa bring?</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/5658079-global-leaders-christmas-wishes/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Niall Stanage]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658079</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The material released was too little, and what remains in the vaults will be disclosed too late. This is the critics’ view, at least, after the Department of Justice released thousands of files relating to the disgraced financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. The disclosure came after Congress forced the hand of the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[What might not only Americans but global leaders wish for if Santa Claus delivered them presents of their choice?]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-20T06:35:23+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>UFC fighter bucks Trump White House event over Epstein controversy: ‘I’m good, dude’</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658459-sean-strictland-ufc-fighter-white-house-epstein-files/</link>
+		<title>Democrats urge Trump to abandon rule limiting green cards for those on public assistance</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5659887-trump-rule-green-cards-democrats/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Beitsch]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Royval]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[White House UFC match]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659887</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[UFC fighter Sean Strickland said Friday that he will not participate in the White House fight next year, citing the Trump administration’s controversy around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I think I’d wanna do the White House… if there was some kind of inclusion for fans,” Strickland told video streamer Adin Ross and&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[More than 125 Democrats in Congress are urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a rule that would open the door to denying a green card to those who use public benefits like Medicaid or food stamps. President Trump’s&#160;latest crack&#160;at a so-called public charge rule would strike down the Biden-era version of the&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T22:28:39+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Trump administration’s disjointed approach to China is a national security vulnerability</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5657401-trump-china-ai-chips/</link>
+		<title>The Palmyra ambush revives doubts over Syria&#8217;s fragile stability</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5659490-trump-syria-policy-dilemma/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Former Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Imran Khalid, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump's conflicting approach to China has led to Republican legislation to prevent the Trump administration from liberalizing regulations that limit China's access to advanced computer chips, which could have devastating consequences for U.S. AI supremacy.]]></description>
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-		<title>Kayleigh McEnany urges GOP to seek competitive primary in 2028: &#8216;It makes you tougher&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5658125-kayleigh-mcenany-2028-presidential-election-gop-primary/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steff Danielle Thomas]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Vance 2028]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - International]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Bashar Assad]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Islamic State]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Palmyra]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Ahmed al-Sharaa]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[President Donald Trump]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Central Command]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659490</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday warned against making early endorsements in the 2028 presidential race, pushing the GOP to seek a competitive primary instead. “I think it’s very important that the Republican party have a competitive primary,” McEnany, who served at the end of President Trump&#8217;s first term, told Fox New&#8217;s&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The ambush near Palmyra, which killed two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter, has highlighted the resilience of ISIS remnants and the fragility of Syria's newly reformed security apparatus, forcing the U.S. to navigate a complex policy challenge in its new military partnership with the Syrian government.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>House Democrat: DOJ ‘absolutely’ violated law with limited Epstein files release</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658414-house-democrat-suhas-subramanyam-epstein-files-partial-release/</link>
+		<title>No. 2 House Democrat: &#8216;All options&#8217; being considered in Epstein files fight</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5659826-clark-epstein-documents-justice-department/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Court Battles]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[contempt]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Suhas Subramanyam]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Todd Blanche]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
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+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659826</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) on Friday said the Justice Department (DOJ) violated the law by releasing only a portion of information tied to its probe of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Trump last month, required officials to produce files, images, flight logs and&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said Monday that Democrats are considering “all options” to compel the Justice Department to release the full slate of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the No. 2 House Democrat accused the White House of working with the Justice Department&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T17:08:59+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>How President Trump ruined Christmas</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5657224-trump-grocery-prices-rising/</link>
+		<title>Infighting takes center stage at AmericaFest, Erika Kirk calls for unity </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5659816-americafest-conservative-infighting-exposed/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Mac Ghlionn, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsey Granger, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Truth social]]></category>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Lindsey's Lens]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659816</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump's approval rating has plummeted due to rising prices, wages not keeping up, and his increasingly erratic behavior, leading to a grim Christmas season for American families.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[AmericaFest didn’t just showcase conservative star power. It exposed a movement wrestling with its own identity. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-19T18:08:48+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/A-block-thumb-122225-1.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="341928" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:49:00+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Nick Reiner diagnosed with schizophrenia before parents’ murders</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658338-nick-reiner-schizophrenia-diagnosis-rob-michele-reiner-deaths/</link>
+		<title>Emil Bove&#8217;s Supreme Court audition</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5655472-emil-boves-supreme-court-audition/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vivian Chow]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[In The Know]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Nick Reiner]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[TMZ]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658338/</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Lubet, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Judiciary]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5655472</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[(KTLA) &#8211; Nick Reiner, son of the late Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia and was being treated by a psychiatrist in the weeks leading up to his parents’ murders. The Reiners were found stabbed to death inside their Brentwood home. Their bodies were reportedly discovered by&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Trump-appointed conservative judges have been lining up for years to audition for the next Republican Supreme Court opening. Lately, their efforts have been escalating, in keeping with Pres. Donald Trump’s well-known expectation of demonstrative fealty. One judge may have come up with a new way to find favor with the president, by openly taking a&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-18T19:42:02+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Whoopi Goldberg: Trump suffering from ‘Obama and Biden Derangement&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5658305-whoopi-goldberg-donald-trump-criticism/</link>
+		<title>How the Epstein case produces a constitutional crisis for Trump </title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5658590-epstein-scandal-bondi-trump-impeachment/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
-				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Biden administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Nick Reiner]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Rob Reiner death]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[The View]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump derangement syndrome]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump economic agenda]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump economy]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658305</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William S. Becker, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - White House]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658590</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Whoopi Goldberg on Friday took a page from President Trump&#8217;s playbook, accusing Trump of suffering from “Obama and Biden Derangement&#8217; Syndrome. Trump addressed the nation earlier this week in a late-night speech, touting his accomplishments since returning to the Oval Office and declaring that he inherited a mess, including affordability issues and economic woes, from&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[What better way to recognize the 250th anniversary of American independence than a bloodless revolt against the current would-be king. ]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-<dcterms:modified>2025-12-20T17:45:26+00:00</dcterms:modified>
+		<enclosure url="https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/trump_epstein_statues_100225gn05_w.jpg?w=900" type="image/jpeg" length="543750" />
+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:56:09+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Andy Beshear builds buzz among Democrats for possible White House run</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5655174-beshear-moderate-democrat-presidential-race/</link>
+		<title>Sanders to swear in Mamdani as New York City’s mayor</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5659696-sanders-swear-in-mamdani-new-york/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amie Parnes]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[While California Gov. Gavin Newsom has stolen much of the attention in Democratic conversations about the next presidential race, another governor is quietly garnering some buzz among strategists and top Democratic donors: Andy Beshear. The Kentucky governor has been able to win elections in a fiercely red state as a measured, moderate Democrat. He’s not&#8230;]]></description>
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-		<title>Who — and what — Republicans fear the most heading into 2026 and 2028</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5657644-democrats-moderate-shift-2028/</link>
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-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor  ]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Campaign]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5657644</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659696</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[There is a sea change taking place in our nation, and the waters are getting much more turbulent for the GOP. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will swear in Zohran Mamdani (D) as New York City’s next mayor in a public ceremony on Jan. 1, 2026, a person familiar with the plan confirmed. Mamdani could pick any official authorized to notarize a legal document to swear him in as New York City’s next mayor, and he chose&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T16:22:04+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Providence mayor: &#8216;Hero&#8217; tipster that led officials to Brown shooting suspect should get full $50K</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5658197-providence-mayor-50k-reward-tip-brown-university-shooting/</link>
+		<title>DHS triples &#8216;exit bonus&#8217; for migrants who self-deport before new year</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/national-security/5659692-self-deportation-bonus-tripled/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steff Danielle Thomas]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Brett Smiley]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Brown University shooting]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Claudio Neves Valente]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[MIT shooting]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Trump immigration agenda]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658197</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Fortinsky]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CBP Home]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[CBP Home app]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[ICE]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[migrants]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[self-deportation]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659692</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Brett Smiley, the Democratic mayor of Providence, R.I., is asking the FBI to issue a reward to the anonymous Reddit user whose tip led to the suspect in last week&#8217;s Brown University shooting. The FBI offered a reward&#160;of up to $50,000 for any information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the individual responsible&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering migrants living in the U.S. illegally a $3,000 stipend to voluntarily self-deport by the end of the year. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that DHS is tripling the so-called exit bonus for migrants who register to self-deport through the CBP Home app before the end&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>State Department blocks visas for Honduran officials for &#8216;impeding&#8217; election</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658299-state-department-visa-block-honduran-officials/</link>
+		<title>Trump administration suspends leases for major offshore wind projects</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5659707-trump-suspends-offshore-wind-farms/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Energy & Environment]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Honduran officials]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Honduras presidential election]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Immigration and Nationality Act]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[LIBRE party]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Salvador Nasralla]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5658299</guid>
+		<category><![CDATA[State Watch]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[wind energy]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[wind projects]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659707</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[The State Department on Friday restricted the visas of two Honduran officials over national security concerns, claiming they tried to impede on a special vote count following the nation&#8217;s election last month. The Trump administration revoked a visa for Mario Morazán, a magistrate of the Electoral Justice Tribunal. Marlon Ochoa, a member of the Honduras&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has suspended the authority of five major offshore wind farms to keep building in federal waters, yet another escalation of the administration’s attacks on the wind energy industry. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a post on the social platform X that five leases, all on the East Coast, were being paused&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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+<dcterms:modified>2025-12-22T22:32:06+00:00</dcterms:modified>
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-		<title>Immigrants didn’t cause America’s trucking crisis — Washington did</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5656703-fmcsa-rule-immigrant-truckers/</link>
+		<title>Wall Street Journal knocks Romney&#8217;s &#8216;tax the rich&#8217; proposal</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5659642-wsj-romney-tax-rich-criticism/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bhupinder Kaur, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Immigration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Commercial Driver's License holders]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration]]></category>
-		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant drivers]]></category>
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-		<category><![CDATA[truck drivers]]></category>
-		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5656703</guid>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tara Suter]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>
+		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thehill.com/?p=5659642</guid>
 
-					<description><![CDATA[Federal leadership cannot remain silent while misinformation shapes national policy. ]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board went after former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over his “tax the rich” proposal in a New York Times op-ed. “The rich who favor higher taxes pitch this as an act of civic virtue. But paying higher taxes on income or capital gains is no great sacrifice for them because&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Trump quips about seeking DOJ settlement: &#8216;I hereby give myself $1 billion&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5658234-trump-doj-settlement-north-carolina/</link>
+		<title>Vance rejects &#8216;purity tests&#8217; amid GOP tensions over bigotry, conspiracies</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5659644-vice-president-vance-rejects-purity-tests/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Vakil]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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-					<description><![CDATA[President Trump, while speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, boasted about his claim against the federal government requesting a large payout in taxpayer money over legal battles he faced after leaving office in 2021. Turmp submitted two claims against the Justice Department (DOJ) seeking up to $230 million in damages, The New York&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Vice President Vance on Sunday rejected the idea of &#8220;purity tests&#8221; within his party as tensions between different conservative factions rose to the surface during Turning Point USA&#8217;s annual event in Arizona over the weekend. “When I say that I&#8217;m going to fight alongside of you, I mean all of you. Each and every one,”&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Democratic despotism: The left moves from censored to compelled speech</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5657977-democratic-despotism-the-left-moves-from-censored-to-compelled-speech/</link>
+		<title>Hunger is not a red-state or blue-state issue. It is an American issue</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5659398-end-hunger-food-rescue/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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-		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Civil Rights]]></category>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Evan Ehlers, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Congress Blog]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Congress Blog - Politics]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[federal government]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[food banks]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Hunger in the United States]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Sharing Excess]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[More than five years ago, I&#160;wrote in these pages of a growing trend on the left toward compelled speech — the forcing of citizens to repeat approved views and values. It is an all-too-familiar pattern. Once a faction assumes power, it will often first seek to censor opposing views and then compel the endorsement of&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[The United States has a meal gap of 9 billion meals and wastes 120 billion meals, but with the right coordination and federal tax credits, a national food rescue system could ensure no American family goes hungry.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Texas AG sues several TV companies, says smart TVs are &#8216;spying on Texans&#8217;</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5657832-texas-ken-paxton-smart-tv-lawsuit/</link>
+		<title>Trump denies disaster aid to Colorado for wildfires, flooding</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5659652-trump-jared-polis-colorado-disaster-aid/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail Jones]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Frazin]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued five major television companies, claiming they use their smart TVs to spy on Texans.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[President Trump has denied disaster aid to the state of Colorado in the wake of wildfires and flooding. The office of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D)&#160;announced the denial&#160;in a Sunday statement. He accused the president of playing “political games” and urged him to reconsider.&#160; “Coloradans impacted by the Elk and Lee fires and the flooding&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Khanna: Congress eyeing ‘possible impeachment’ after DOJ’s partial Epstein files release</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5658140-khanna-impeachment-doj-officials-epstein-files-release/</link>
+		<title>Why Maine&#8217;s red flag law matters</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5659455-red-flag-laws-maine/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashleigh Fields]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Barnhorst, Garen Wintemute and Veronica Pear, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Opinions - Criminal Justice]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Lewiston, Maine]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Robert Card]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a lead co-sponsor for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, said Friday that lawmakers were mulling possible impeachment moves after the Justice Department (DOJ) released a tranche of heavily redacted files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Khanna raised questions about the “quality” of the documents released and the&#8230;]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Red flag laws can be an effective tool to prevent mass shootings and suicides by allowing for the temporary removal of guns from individuals who pose a serious risk to themselves or others.]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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-		<title>Public schools have a duty to keep immigrant students safe</title>
-		<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5657132-ice-raids-threaten-schools/</link>
+		<title>Schumer calls for Senate to sue administration over Epstein files</title>
+		<link>https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5659623-schumer-senate-sue-doj-epstein-files/</link>
 		
-		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alberto Carvalho, Alex Marrero and Pedro Noguera, opinion contributors]]></dc:creator>
-		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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+		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander Bolton]]></dc:creator>
+		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
+				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
+		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>
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-					<description><![CDATA[As ICE raids continue in New York, San Francisco and Denver, the threats to children are growing and unmistakable.]]></description>
+					<description><![CDATA[Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is pushing for the Senate to sue the Justice Department over the partial disclosure of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, accusing the administration of trying to “hide the truth.” Schumer says the Trump administration is flouting the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress passed last month&#8230;]]></description>
 		
 		
 		
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