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Robert Draper / New York Times:
Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz — The computer file is said to contain testimony from the woman who said she had sex with Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be attorney general, when she was 17.
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New York Times:
Trump Transition Live Updates: Hacker Is Said to Have Obtained Damaging Testimony About Gaetz — President-elect Donald J. Trump's attorney general candidate, Matt Gaetz, was investigated, but not charged, with having sex with a 17-year-old girl. The computer file included testimony from the girl …
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Washington Post:
President-elect Donald Trump is now receiving intelligence briefings — Trump took regular intelligence briefings during his first term but has a history of being cavalier with classified information. — President-elect Donald Trump, the only former president to have been charged …
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, New Republic and FDD
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Senate Republicans deliver a message to Trump: Gaetz's confirmation is in jeopardy — They're privately hoping Trump doesn't make them walk the plank. — Numerous Republican lawmakers told Donald Trump and his team that they believe his pick to be attorney general, controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz …
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Nick Akerman / The Hill:
Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified — Senate Republicans should reject them — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated three political hacks to highly sensitive and important federal positions: former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) …
New York Times:
Gaetz May Not Be Confirmed, Trump Admits. He's Pushing Him and Others Anyway. — The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won't dare to turn them all down. — In his private conversations over the past few days …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators deride idea of replacing FBI background checks for Trump nominees
GOP senators deride idea of replacing FBI background checks for Trump nominees
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Politico:
Negative signs for Gaetz as senators brush off questions amid Trump pressure
Negative signs for Gaetz as senators brush off questions amid Trump pressure
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Punchbowl News:
11/19/24 ☀️ AM: — Johnson could be the only leader who wants a CR
11/19/24 ☀️ AM: — Johnson could be the only leader who wants a CR
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Fox News and Washington Times
Charlie Dent / MSNBC:
Don't let Matt Gaetz escape accountability — release the ethics report
Don't let Matt Gaetz escape accountability — release the ethics report
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Hill, Steady, HuffPost, CBS News, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Axios and NBC News
Brian Stelter / CNN:
‘Morning Joe’ meeting with Trump was driven by fears of retribution from incoming administration, sources say — New York CNN — “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced Monday, in dramatic fashion, that they went to Mar-a-Lago last week for a fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
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CNN:
Behind the Mar-a-Lago meeting — Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's fence-mending meeting with President-elect Donald Trump has the media world buzzing. Now I have some new reporting to share about why it happened. — Yesterday, as outraged “Morning Joe” fans registered their objections …
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Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Republican bathroom bill targets Congress's first transgender member — South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduces bill two months before Sarah McBride is to be sworn in — After Delaware elected the first ever openly transgender member of Congress earlier this month …
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NBC News:
Prosecutors say sentencing in Trump hush money case can be postponed — The president-elect had been scheduled to be sentenced later this month after being convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. — New York prosecutors told the judge who presided …
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Nov. 26 Hush Money Sentencing Called Off, Court Says
Trump's Nov. 26 Hush Money Sentencing Called Off, Court Says
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Raw Story, Townhall, New York Post and The Sun
Axios:
Trump's New York hush money case sentencing paused by court
Trump's New York hush money case sentencing paused by court
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Breanne Deppisch / Fox News:
NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing
NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing
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Washington Examiner, New York Daily News, Trending Politics …, RedState and Reuters
CNN:
Trump expected to nominate Lutnick for Commerce secretary — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as secretary of commerce, two sources familiar with the process told CNN. — Lutnick, who has served as the co-chair of Trump's presidential …
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Nicole Narea / Vox:
The law is clear on birthright citizenship. Can Trump end it anyway? — Ending birthright citizenship has been on President-elect Donald Trump's wish list for years, and he's pledged to kill it once and for all in his next term. But ending it may not be as easy as he's promised.
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Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones:
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President — Donald Trump's popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted. — Pocket — “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate …
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Daily Mail:
Ukraine fires first US-made missile into Russia: WW3 fears as Kremlin threatens ‘nuclear response’ if long-range Western weapons are used on its territory — Ukrainian officials confirmed the use of ATACMS on Russian soil for the first time — Comes as Kremlin said its updated nuclear doctrine allowed a ‘nuclear response’
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Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
US Won't Adjust Posture After Russia Lowers Nuclear Threshold
US Won't Adjust Posture After Russia Lowers Nuclear Threshold
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Politico, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Reuters
Maia Davies / BBC:
Ukraine fires US-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia for first time
Ukraine fires US-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia for first time
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New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Bloomberg, Courageous Discourse™ …, The Hill, Sputnik News, The Guardian, Metro.co.uk and FDD
Public Notice:
RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat — Dems like Jared Polis shouldn't pretend pretend otherwise. — ∙ Paid … Donald Trump, in his vacuous orange wisdom, has nominated vaccine denier, crank, and champion of disease Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Politico, Daily Mail and CNBC
Politico:
Why House Democrats stayed the course with their leaders — Despite coming up short in their fight for the majority, House Democrats aren't tossing their leaders aside. The caucus opted to keep their top slate of leaders in Tuesday's party elections, with every single top Democratic leader reelected without opposition.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Hakeem Jeffries reelected as House Democratic leader
Hakeem Jeffries reelected as House Democratic leader
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NBC News:
Nancy Mace defends anti-trans bathroom bill, says it ‘absolutely’ targets Sarah McBride — McBride, the first out transgender person elected to Congress, will be serving in the House starting next year and Mace doesn't want her using women's bathrooms at the Capitol.
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Mother Jones, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network and NOTUS
NOTUS:
Sen. Thom Tillis Faces an Early Trump Loyalty Test … Calen Razor and Alex Roarty — Copy — Donald Trump's controversial Cabinet selections are already making life difficult for Republican senators. — No one should know that better than Thom Tillis.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price
Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price
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Raw Story
Buddy Carter / Washington Post:
I sleep in my office. The rest of Congress should, too. — The House would be more bipartisan if lawmakers made the Hill their home away from home. — Buddy Carter, a Republican, represents Georgia's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more — Republicans complain nominees weren't “properly vetted,” but don't get that accusations are a feature, not a bug — Having endured Donald Trump in their faces for nearly a decade now …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: GOP Covered Up ‘Sexual Harassment and Assault’ Claims — THROWING DOWN — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made a sensational allegation that her Republican colleagues in Congress have covered up “sexual harassment and assault claims” by paying off victims with taxpayer money.
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Mediaite