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New York Times:
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles — With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
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Reuters:
Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia — President Joe Biden's administration will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a significant change to Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment — The president-elect's early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government. — Somehow disruption doesn't begin to cover it.
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Raw Story
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David French / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail — That was quick. — Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political demise. The corrupt, incompetent and extremist men and women he's appointing to many of the most critical posts in his cabinet are direct threats to the well-being of the country …
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Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo and The Guardian
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
Enough — For the past decade, as Donald Trump has risen in political stature, I have waited for that precarious but inevitable moment when his well-documented liabilities would end his political ascendancy, when it would all finally be too much. I waited through scandalous allegations …
J. Ann Selzer / Des Moines Register:
Pollster Ann Selzer ending election polling, moving ‘to other ventures and opportunities’ — Public opinion polling has been my life's work. I collected my first research data as a freshman in college, if you don't count a neighborhood poll I did at age 5.
Wall Street Journal:
Messy Fight for Trump's Treasury Chief Spills Into Public — Howard Lutnick's chances were falling, but Elon Musk took to social media Saturday in an attempt to bring him back—and discredit rival Scott Bessent — A messy fight over who should be President-elect Donald Trump's Treasury secretary …
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Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Fortune, The Independent, Associated Press, Robert Reich and Bloomberg
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Bloomberg:
Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars — Policy leaders are being pursued for key Musk priority — Tesla CEO, named to efficiency role, plans push on robotaxis — Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team have told advisers they plan …
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Naomi LaChance / Rolling Stone:
Trump Makes RFK Jr. Pose with McDonald's Meal — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's set to run the Health and Human Services Department, recently complained that flying with Trump means eating “poison” — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services …
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Telegraph, Fortune, New York Post, Fox News, Washington Examiner and Althouse
Stephen Starr / The Guardian:
Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win — City subjected to false rumors from Trump loses residents integral to community over mass deportation fears — From a tiny office behind a Haitian grocery store on Springfield's South Limestone Street …
Associated Press:
Biden becomes the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest — Joe Biden toured the drought-shrunken waters of the Amazon River's greatest tributary Sunday as the first sitting American president to set foot in the legendary rainforest, while the incoming Trump administration seems poised …
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Washington Post, NPR, The Hill, Bloomberg, New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, Politico, PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner and Reuters
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Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world — In the wake of Trump's unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance — 1 When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth denies sexual assault allegation, acknowledges payment to accuser — In a statement, Hegseth's attorney said the former Fox News host paid a woman in 2023 who had previously accused him of sexual assault but maintained that the woman lied.
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CNN, Salon, Associated Press, USA Today, Breitbart, New York Post, Mediaite, The Independent, The Guardian, Raw Story, Daily Mail, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
The Guardian:
In Donald Trump, the morality of civil society has been abandoned — Limiting access to civic education in US schools leads people to be less well educated in basic principles — The reason Donald Trump won is because he exemplifies men who think only of themselves.
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Cabinet of Wonders — The President-elect's nominations look like the most flagrant act of vindictive trolling since the rise of the Internet. But it is a trolling beyond mischief. — In the first few days after the reëlection of Donald Trump, one heard across …
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Breitbart
Adeola Adeosun / Newsweek:
AOC Blasts Rumored DNC Chair Contender: ‘Disease’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) launched a blistering critique of former Chicago mayor — ) chair, slamming the Democratic establishment's donor-focused approach. — “There is a disease in Washington of
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