Trump confirms he will declare national emergency to carry out mass deportations … - A Truth Social post early Monday is the first time the president-elect has confirmed how his administration will execute the controversial plan. … - Trump reposted Fitton's comment Monday with the caption, “TRUE!!”

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Musk, top Trump adviser clash over Cabinet picks … - Musk — who fueled Trump's election effort by giving at least $119 million — has questioned whether Epshteyn has had too much influence in Trump's selections, especially his top Justice Department picks and the White House counsel …

A Wistful Biden Says Goodbye in a Closing Appearance on the World Stage  —  His valedictory visit to South America marks an end to an era as other leaders look ahead to a Trump presidency  —  RIO DE JANEIRO—After defeating Donald Trump four years ago, President Biden declared at his first summit “America is back.”

The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers  —  “All of these men are now hopelessly trapped in a problem their own platforms and algorithms created.”  —  The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel is one of the most blunt voices in American media.

Matt Gaetz feels the heat  —  The would-be attorney general is facing new pressure this week from his accusers and from Senate Democrats.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general.  Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report …

Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff  —  The legendary pollster is ending her relationship with the Des Moines Register, which dates back to 1997.  —  Two weeks after her firm incorrectly found Vice President Kamala Harris surging in increasingly red Iowa …

13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth  —  Secretary of Defense is one of the most complex and consequential positions on earth.  The person in that position is responsible for overseeing the world's largest bureaucracy, the Department of Defense, with over 2.6 million employees and a budget of over $840 billion.

Trump's Impossible Task: Delivering for the Working Class and Billionaires  —  He's attempting to pull off plutocratic populism, but the math doesn't square. … He improved on his 2020 vote share nearly everywhere on the map.  And he made significant gains with working-class Latino and Black voters …

A common sense economic agenda  —  A growing private sector and a strong safety net  —  Having written a nine-point Common Sense Democrat Manifesto, it now falls to me to explain in greater detail what I mean.  —  I chose to start the list with a point about economics …

From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy  —  Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that's underway …