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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump picks Kristi Noem to serve as his Homeland Security secretary — President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to two people familiar with the selection.
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New York Times:
Trump Expected to Name Marco Rubio as Secretary of State — The president-elect appears to have settled on the Florida senator to be the nation's top diplomat. — President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Senator Marco Rubio of Florida as his secretary of state …
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Blake Mauro / freebeacon.com:
More Trump Cabinet Picks Emerge: Marco Rubio for State, Mike Waltz for NatSec Adviser, Kristi Noem for DHS
More Trump Cabinet Picks Emerge: Marco Rubio for State, Mike Waltz for NatSec Adviser, Kristi Noem for DHS
Riley Beggin / USA Today:
Donald Trump to make first visit to Capitol Hill since winning election
Donald Trump to make first visit to Capitol Hill since winning election
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Bloomberg, ABC News, HuffPost, Axios, Fox News, Washington Examiner and Washington Times
CNN:
Swisher makes prediction on what could push Musk from Trump's favor
Swisher makes prediction on what could push Musk from Trump's favor
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New Republic, Daily Mail, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Beast, HuffPost and The Independent
Common Dreams:
Trump Cabinet Picks So Far Decried as ‘Nightmare Fuel’ — Progressive advocates voiced alarm Monday over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's initial leadership picks—including a border czar who oversaw the separation of migrant families during the Republican's first term …
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Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Who is Lee Zeldin? Six things to know about Trump's selection for EPA chief — President-elect Trump on Monday announced former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) as his nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). — Zeldin has a fairly thin track record on environmental policy …
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NBC News:
Judge delays decision on tossing Trump's hush money conviction — Trump's team wants the case dismissed, and the prosecution says it needs time to evaluate next steps. — The judge overseeing Donald Trump's New York criminal trial delayed a key ruling Tuesday on whether the president-elect's conviction …
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Paula Reid / CNN:
Decision on whether to overturn Trump's New York hush money conviction is delayed
Decision on whether to overturn Trump's New York hush money conviction is delayed
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Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Democrat Ruben Gallego wins Arizona US Senate race against Republican Kari Lake — Democrat Ruben Gallego has been elected Arizona's first Latino U.S. senator, defeating Republican Kari Lake and preventing Republicans from further padding their Senate majority.
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Emmy Martin / Politico:
Schumer invites McCormick and Gallego to Senate orientation
Schumer invites McCormick and Gallego to Senate orientation
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer invites McCormick, Gallego to Senate orientation
Schumer invites McCormick, Gallego to Senate orientation
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Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana's Ten Commandments in public schools law — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms. — U.S. District Judge John deGravelles granted a preliminary injunction …
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emptywheel:
Russia Attempts to Collect Its Winnings — Russia has been engaged in a good deal of dick-wagging with Trump since the election. — After Trump won, Russia did not call to congratulate — at least as far as we know (though Viktor Orbán seems to be Trump's handler and he did).
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New Republic, TASS, Lawyers, Guns & Money, UnHerd and CNN
New York Post:
Melania Trump declines to meet with Jill Biden at White House, citing Mar-a-Lago raid: source — Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration's past raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government's investigation into classified documents.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows appeal in Georgia election interference case — Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff failed in his bid to move the case to federal court to mount immunity arguments. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a setback …
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Brian Flood / Fox News:
No Trump bump: MSNBC hemorrhaging viewers since Election Day, sheds more than half of primetime audience — 'It's a stale product no one will want to listen to going forward,' Curtis Houck says — MSNBC's reliably liberal audience has tuned out the anti-Trump network since Election …
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage
MSNBC Ratings Crater As Viewers Tune Out Trump Victory Coverage
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Daniel W. Drezner / Foreign Affairs:
The End of American Exceptionalism — Trump's Reelection Will Redefine U.S. Power — The only thing uncontroversial about Donald Trump is how he won his second term. Despite polls showing a statistical dead heat and fears of a long, drawn-out wait for election results, Trump was declared the winner early last Wednesday morning.
Carol Anderson / The Guardian:
Will the American project survive the anger of white men? — At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare — A friend recently asked: “Do you think the United States will survive the anger of white men?”
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The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Gears Up for Assault on Wokeness With Education Overhaul — President-elect lays out big changes for America's classrooms, including expanding school choice and closing Department of Education — President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to remake education in the U.S. …
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The Hill, Breitbart, RedState and Racket News
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus's rogue procedural move raises questions about consequences — Key members of the House Freedom Caucus went rogue with parliamentary procedure on the House floor while GOP leaders were far away and focused on other matters on Election Day, raising questions about whether …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Blue state govs gear up to protect their people — “You come for my people, you come through me.” … 👊 — Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election last week has led, inevitably, to a miserable round of Democratic blaming, shaming, bitterness, and general panic.
Rogé Karma / The Atlantic:
The Two Donald Trumps — The central contradiction of Donald Trump's reelection is this: He owes his victory to the fact that millions of voters appear to have seen him as the stability candidate who would usher in a return to pre-COVID normalcy. But he has put forward a second-term agenda …
Mary L. Trump / The Good in Us:
The Media Want to Blame Kamala Harris — With very little insight and even less self-awareness, it looks like some of our so-called elites in the so-called liberal media have figured out what went wrong for Democrats this election. — It was “wokeness.” — After reading Maureen Dowd's column …
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Daily Mail, Breitbart and Mediaite
Politico:
Who's really running Donald Trump's transition — A look at the power players populating Trump's club since the election. — Over the weekend, Donald Trump zipped around his West Palm Beach club on a golf cart with Elon Musk, stopping to introduce him to club members.
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The Independent and CNN
Nick Arama / RedState:
WATCH: Oprah Gets Cornered by Reporter and Asked About That Million Dollars From Kamala (Updated) — Update: — Harpo, Oprah's production company, has now issued a statement saying, “The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
A Common Sense Democrat manifesto — Where do we go from here? — Years ago, I coined a phrase — the pundit's fallacy — to describe the belief that to win elections, a political party needs to cater to the exact views of the pundit writing the column. — So as a believer …
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Brian Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
John Paulson Drops Out of Running to Become Trump Treasury Secretary — Investor says his ‘complex financial obligations’ would prevent him from joining administration — Veteran investor John Paulson is dropping out of the running to become President-elect Donald Trump's Treasury secretary …
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The Information:
How TikTok Courted Conservatives Before Trump's Win — More than a year before Donald Trump's landslide victory in last week's presidential election, TikTok's top leaders insisted on a major shift in the app's content moderation principles to make the platform more appealing for Trump and his supporters.