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Speed Read

Monday, December 01

🚨NATION

  • Trump MRI results drop as White House confronts mounting questions over president’s health (FOX)

  • Luigi Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO (AP)

  • Appeals court upholds ruling that disqualified Alina Habba from serving as New Jersey’s top prosecutor (NBC)

  • Indiana House releases draft congressional map that could net Republicans 2 seats (POLITICO)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

  • Pope Leo visits a wounded Lebanon in his first trip to the Middle East (NPR)

  • Netanyahu aides say he won’t admit guilt after request for pardon in corruption trial (TIMES OF ISRAEL)

  • Hong Kong arrests 13 on suspicion of manslaughter over apartment fires (GUARDIAN)

  • Thousands in the Philippines protest corruption and demand return of stolen funds from flood projects (AP)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

  • Shopify outage disrupts some merchants on Cyber Monday (CBS)

  • Eli Lilly cuts Zepbound prices in competitive weight loss drug market battle (FOX)

  • Starbucks settlement with New York City will give backpay to more than 15,000 workers (ABC7)

  • Supreme Court leans toward internet service providers in copyright battle with nation’s music industry (CNN)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Disney’s “Zootopia 2” becomes the highest-grossing animated foreign film ever in China while also topping domestic Thanksgiving weekend box office(NBC/HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)

  • Super Bowl 2026: Pregame performers will include Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile, and Coco Jones (AP)

  • Ariana Grande gives ‘loving reminder’ about body-shaming amid ‘Wicked: For Good’ press tour scrutiny (E! NEWS)

  • King Charles leads tributes to Sir Tom Stoppard, the late British playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love’ (BBC)


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