ISIS ‘Ideology’ Is Linked to Australia Killings, and Trump Files New $10 Billion Lawsuit

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<p>Plus, how foreign patients are paying for U.S. organs. </p><p>Here’s what we’re covering:</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/15/world/bondi-beach-shooting-gunmen-isis" target="_blank">Sydney Gunmen Were Motivated by ISIS, Australia’s Leader Says</a> by Victoria Kim, Jin Yu Young, Yan Zhuang and Livia Albeck-Ripka</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/asia/bondi-shooting-gunmen-philippines-isis.html" target="_blank">Bondi Suspects Were in Southern Philippines, Where ISIS Is Active</a> by Jason Gutierrez and Sui-Lee Wee</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/15/us/brown-shooting" target="_blank">Police Share New Images of Man Sought in Deadly Shooting at Brown</a> by Mark Arsenault, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Jacey Fortin and Mitch Smith</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/trump-sues-bbc.html" target="_blank">Trump Files $10 Billion Suit Against BBC Over Documentary</a> by Michael D. Shear</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/los-angeles-bomb-plot.html" target="_blank">Justice Dept. Charges Four in Los Angeles Over Left-Wing Bomb Plot</a> by Devlin Barrett</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html" target="_blank">Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade</a> by Sonia A. Rao</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/movies/nick-reiner-drugs-rehab-heroin-cocaine.html" target="_blank">Nick Reiner’s Struggles With Drugs Left His Parents “Desperate</a>” by Julia Jacobs and Nicole Sperling</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/organ-transplants-international-patients.html" target="_blank">Transplant Hospitals Court Patients Overseas Despite Organ Shortage</a> by Brian M. Rosenthal and Mark Hansen</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/science/covid-ecology-anthropause-birds.html" target="_blank">How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak</a> by Emily Anthes</p><p>Tune in every weekday morning, and tell us what you think at: <a href="mailto:theheadlines@nytimes.com">theheadlines@nytimes.com</a>.</p> <p><p>Subscribe today at <a href="http://nytimes.com/podcasts">nytimes.com/podcasts</a> or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher">https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher</a>. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.</p></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>