David Gura
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Brutal.
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Agreeing Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismisses the James Comey indictment without prejudice.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.213.0_1.pdf
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“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
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Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future
By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/11/cop-climate-3c-warming/685036/
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Shortly after he married fellow Harvard University Professor Elisa New, Larry Summers and his wife flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane to the Caribbean, and spent part of their honeymoon on Epstein’s private island, The Harvard Crimson reports.
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Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/21/summers-honeymoon-epstein-island/
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After he interviewed Jensen Huang, Ed Ludlow joined us on “The Big Take.”
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Nvidia Silences AI Skeptics (For Now)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/07yQ9aTL4NbaRf2a9s8Puc?si=Jkp2Y05AR7ukyv1SsniJ3w
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“Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein,” The Harvard Crimson reports.
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Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/20/summers-leaves-teaching-at-harvard/
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After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills. "Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
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They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LHciDBQRLuJb2H0WogkYD?si=cBiOPU7bTlm_tkgocbqAgw
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After President Trump launched his trade war, a family-run lumber company that has been around for almost a century decided to close one of its mills. "Liberation Day" "damn near liberated me from our business," Wilson Jones told Shawn Donnan. "I'm bitter about that."
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They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LHciDBQRLuJb2H0WogkYD?si=cBiOPU7bTlm_tkgocbqAgw
17 days ago
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The White House is readying the Sharpies. The end of the longest government shutdown in history is in sight.
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Financial Times
19 days ago
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
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How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
https://on.ft.com/43qoQ2L
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An update on the “American dream,” from NPR’s Scott Horsley:
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“The average family in the US currently pays $6,850 annually for health insurance, and the average annual payment for employers is $20,143,” Apollo’s Torsten Sløk writes, in a new note. “That is a total annual cost for health insurance per family of $26,993.”
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The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline, according to AAA, is $3.084.
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I’m flying between Brazilian cities, and the flight attendant ends her introduction with a warning about the spread of measles. “Vaccines save lives,” she says.
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Next week’s cover of The New Yorker, “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez:
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Days after CBS cancelled John Dickerson’s show, and he announced his departure from the network, Dickerson was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award:
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“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
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“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country. Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.” Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster. I recently traveled there for
@bloomberg.com
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How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
https://youtu.be/gvT0SFZJkJQ
about 1 month ago
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Government Shutdown, Day 30
about 1 month ago
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After the Trump-Xi meeting, it was time for the Liu-Murray-Gura meeting:
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Trump Got an ‘Amazing’ Meeting. China Got Much-Needed Time
https://spotify.link/rzfdg84OTXb
about 1 month ago
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When ProPublica tried to get comment for its profile of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court:
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Our latest:
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Is the Fed Flying Blind?
Podcast Episode · Big Take · 10/29/2025 · 18m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-take/id1578096201?i=1000734105950
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NVIDIA’s market cap exceeds $5 trillion:
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The president of the United States is “increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10%” because he worries the nine justices on the Supreme Court could be swayed by a 30-second commercial.
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“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country. Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.” Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster. I recently traveled there for
@bloomberg.com
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How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
https://youtu.be/gvT0SFZJkJQ
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Here is the transcript of the speech President Reagan delivered on April 25th, 1987, on “free and fair trade”:
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Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade
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https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-free-and-fair-trade-4
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Who is paying for President Trump’s $300 million ballroom?
@elizlanders.bsky.social
obtained the list of donors from the White House:
about 1 month ago
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Earlier today, I sat down with
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
. We talked about the shutdown, the "budgetary Twister" OMB Director Russell Vought is playing, and whether he watched the final New York City mayoral debate or the Knicks season opener. Our conversation:
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Jeffries on Ending the Shutdown, NYC Mayor's Race
YouTube video by Bloomberg Television
https://youtu.be/Hy6fbkS-I8I
about 1 month ago
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What would a Paramount Skydance Warner Bros. Discovery look like? My conversation with
@lucasshaw.bsky.social
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Skydance Merged with Paramount. Now, Its CEO Wants Warner Bros. Too
Podcast Episode · Big Take · 10/21/2025 · 17m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big-take/id1578096201?i=1000732876090
about 1 month ago
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, to CNBC: “I do think it’s an appropriate time for people that are significant players in credit markets — given we haven’t had a credit cycle for a very, very long time — to be looking at their portfolios, thinking about their risk-management practices.”
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What went down at the Louvre, and what is likely to happen next:
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A Brazen, 7-Minute Jewelry Heist at the Louvre
https://spotify.link/2BQ7pEh4CXb
about 1 month ago
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“I think all Canadians understand that our relationship with the United States has changed fundamentally, that the world is a more dangerous and divided place. Then the question becomes: What do we do about it?” Prime Minister Mark Carney, in conversation with Mishal Husain, on her new show:
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Mark Carney Has Learned From Donald Trump
https://spotify.link/KnCj3vK3xXb
about 1 month ago
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“‘I’m a natural schmoozer,’ [Susan] Stamberg told Newsday in 1993. It is not my lot in life to go sit looking at a computer screen and write all day in this quiet, splendid isolation. I like to get out and scramble with people. That’s why I report, that’s why I interview.’”
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Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/business/media/susan-stamberg-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 months ago
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Hell hath no fury like a Harvard College applicant scorned?
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He was wait-listed at Harvard as a high schooler. Now he’s a billionaire crucial to the university’s Trump negotiations. - The Boston Globe
Stephen Schwarzman has become a key go-between as the two sides resume talks to restore Harvard’s funding and resolve a litany of federal charges.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/metro/stephen-schwarzman-harvard-trump/?et_rid=1890447394&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
about 2 months ago
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For 28 years, NPR’s Tom Bowman has held a Pentagon press pass. Today, he is handing it in.
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Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s1-93297/pentagon-reporter-opinion-press-policy
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Kentucky is caught in the crossfire of President Trump’s trade war.
@bloomberg.com
’s
@joshwingrovebbg.bsky.social
traveled to Frankfort, to sit down with
@andybeshearky.bsky.social
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The Front Lines of Trump's Trade War? Look at Kentucky
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7I3v8pplidoKw1JWVXDOrD?si=1HwnJQBkRP2RExSre6qeqA
about 2 months ago
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:
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This year’s laureate:
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A reminder, from the Nobel Peace Prize website: “Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize are accepted until January 31.”
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The nomination process - Nobel Peace Prize
The nomination process is an eight-month screening and decision-making process.
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-prize/nomination/the-nomination-process
about 2 months ago
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During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”
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Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”
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First push alert with “apotheosis”?
about 2 months ago
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On the morning of President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed back to back to back to back by Ainsley Erhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones; Tony Dokoupil; Craig Melvin; and George Stephanopoulos.
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On the morning of President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed back to back to back to back by Ainsley Erhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones; Tony Dokoupil; Craig Melvin; and George Stephanopoulos.
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It takes … a while to get to the nut graf: “Under the Constitution as it stands, Trump cannot serve a third term in office. It is explicitly barred by the 22nd Amendment.”
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Trump posts pictures of 2028 hats in Oval Office. Can he run for a third term?
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 2028 hats, which are $50 apiece, “randomly appeared” during a meeting in the Oval Office. Can Trump run for a 3rd term?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/01/trump-2028-hats-oval-office-hakeem-jeffries-shutdown/86453815007/
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US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee: “The president’s determination was simply untethered to the facts.”
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Trump Blocked for Now From Sending Troops Into Portland
A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from sending military forces to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests against his immigration crackdown, even as 300 National Guard troops were...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-05/trump-blocked-for-now-from-sending-troops-into-portland?srnd=homepage-americas
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President Trump, speaking to reporters on Tuesday: “The last person that [sic] wants a shutdown is us.” A summary in “The New York Times” today, of how the president has approached it:
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Can I trademark “Sorauteur”?
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The Supreme Court refuses to let President Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. It schedules oral arguments for January.
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