Top News

Trump to sit down with Xi AND Putin in Shenzhen next week — nuclear arms control on the table, Post learns... NY Post

City OK'd excavation plans at the site eyed in the deadly Brooklyn collapse — though they lacked key structural support... NY Post

Lutnick agrees to testify Dec. 10 as Bessent blames Commerce over the Nvidia chip scandal... CBS News

Bessent moves onto a military base after Iran-linked death threats — blames WSJ photo of his home: "I'm not going to be a coward"... Washington Examiner

Midterms

Progressive activists urge Pressley to challenge Jeffries for speaker... Semafor

Arizona Dems, now running the whole statehouse, target the ban on aborting babies with Down syndrome... Breitbart

Sen. Kennedy on blaming Biden: "The economy belongs to President Trump... he's got to raise it"... Washington Examiner

Nevada Gov.-elect Ford wants to sign on to the popular-vote compact — Electoral College "based in racist underpinnings"... Breitbart

National Security

U.S. troops respond to "unauthorized drone activity" over RAF Lakenheath — no one hurt, Air Force says... Washington Examiner

Illinois quietly frees an illegal migrant who killed a Marine vet in a drunken crash — four years early... NY Post

Hegseth revives the name of WWII's legendary spy agency in a special-ops power shift... Daily Caller

Supreme Court takes up Trump's suspension of asylum at the southern border... CBS News

Trump's spy chiefs push the GOP Congress to renew FISA before Dems take over: "huge priority"... Fox News

Tech

Microsoft "deeply sorry" as Outlook and Teams crawl back after nearly 24 hours down... BBC

Utah county OKs a startup's plan for up to 120 small nuclear reactors beside data centers... Daily Caller

SpaceX will try to catch BOTH halves of Starship with the tower's "chopsticks"... BBC

Kalshi drops Don Jr. as an adviser after his firm bet big on rival Polymarket... Ars Technica

AI agent startup LangChain more than doubles its valuation to $3 billion... TechCrunch

ChatGPT's new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you — approve with Face ID or a fingerprint... TechCrunch

Mind, Body & Books

Biden's 480-page White House memoir, out Tuesday, is an "unapologetic defense" of his term... WKMG ClickOrlando

Scientists build an AI that predicts your brain waves from a photo or a sentence... PsyPost

Diabetics on metformin had a 39% lower risk of dying in the year after COVID, Stanford study finds... Fox News

CT scan of Jeremy Bentham's skull: the "godless" father of utilitarianism had severe dental and jaw problems... Live Science

Stephen King almost threw "Carrie" in the trash — back when a story paid "two hundred dollars"... Hollywood Reporter

Economy

Fed survey: AI is now the top threat to the financial system, "far exceeding" any other... CNBC

Hassett on a report he's leaving the White House: "Not true"... CNBC

Inflation-adjusted rents down 13% from the Biden-era peak as the border closes... Breitbart

Wholesale prices up 6.5% in a year — biggest jump since 2022: "No silver lining"... NY Post