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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Ex-Prosecutor Spots The Jack Smith Move That May Keep Donald Trump ‘Cases Alive’ — It's “not at all” about “obeying an authoritarian in advance,” argued Barbara McQuade. — LOADING — Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade broke down why Jack Smith would preemptively “pull the plug” …
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Raw Story
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
End of Trump prosecutions renews scrutiny of DOJ's pace — Special counsel Jack Smith's move to dismiss Donald Trump's two federal indictments has sparked finger-pointing from those eager to see the president-elect held to account, with critics airing their frustrations at the Department …
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Tampa Free Press
Barbara McQuade / MSNBC:
How Jack Smith quietly ensured Trump's Jan. 6 case isn't actually going anywhere
How Jack Smith quietly ensured Trump's Jan. 6 case isn't actually going anywhere
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USA Today, Daily Caller News Foundation, Raw Story, NBC News, Scripps News, Forbes, The Dispatch, ABC News and Washington Times
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Mexican President's Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam — Donald Trump's angry threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports from Mexico—delivered Monday via the cautious diplomatic language of a Truth Social rant—is widely being depicted as a bluff.
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CBC News:
Ford says Trump's tariff threat ‘like a family member stabbing you in the heart’
Ford says Trump's tariff threat ‘like a family member stabbing you in the heart’
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New Republic, Raw Story, The Hill and Townhall
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Grassley: Trump's new tariff threats are just ‘negotiating tool’ — for now
Grassley: Trump's new tariff threats are just ‘negotiating tool’ — for now
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E&E News, Bangor Daily News, Bloomberg, Cafe Hayek, Radio Iowa, Raw Story, Politico, The Independent, The Bulwark and USA Today
Eric Martin / Bloomberg:
Trump's Latest Tariff Threat Is Straight From His First-Term Playbook
Trump's Latest Tariff Threat Is Straight From His First-Term Playbook
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CNN, Breitbart, OutsideTheBeltway, Fortune and New York Times
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed — The Harris campaign's internal polling apparently never had her ahead of Trump. — LOADING — Senior advisers to Vice President Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign suggested this week that there just wasn't much else Harris …
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Harris aides say internal polling never had her ahead of Trump — The leadership of outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign said that internal polling never had her ahead of President-elect Donald Trump. — After President Joe Biden began lagging heavily behind …
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Jacobin, Breitbart, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Fox News, Associated Press, ABC News and Rolling Stone
Bob Hoge / RedState:
Kamala Harris Returns From Hawaiian Vacation, Immediately Reminds America That We Dodged a Bullet
Kamala Harris Returns From Hawaiian Vacation, Immediately Reminds America That We Dodged a Bullet
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The Hill, Fox News, realtor.com, Townhall and IJR
Public Notice:
Trump's radical plan to purge the civil service — “It's explicitly about retribution.” — ∙ Paid … 🥘 — Trump has been bloviating for nearly a decade now about his desire to “drain the swamp.” He finally has a real plan to do it. — In the final months of his first term …
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New York Times:
3 Americans, Including F.B.I. Informant, Are Said to Be Freed in China Swap — The three men, John Leung, Kai Li and Mark Swidan, are on planes heading to the United States, officials said. — The Biden administration has negotiated a prisoner swap with China for the release of three American men …
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Politico, Axios, Associated Press and Just The News
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Reuters:
US brokers release of three Americans it says were wrongly detained in China — The United States has brokered the release of three Americans it said had been wrongfully detained in China for many years, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday. — The White House national security …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, CBS News and Fox News
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts — On Monday, X filed an objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars out of bankruptcy. In the objection, Elon Musk's lawyers argued that X has “superior ownership” of all accounts on X …
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Raw Story and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for ‘Machine Learning Research’ — Update: Following the publication of this article on Tuesday evening, van Strien removed the dataset. “I've removed the Bluesky data from the repo,” he wrote on Bluesky.
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Balloon Juice and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg:
Musk Calls for Abolishing Consumer Finance Agency: ‘Delete CFPB’ — GOP has long sought to neutralize agency proposed by Warren — Musk, Ramaswamy leading DOGE effort to cut federal government — Billionaire Elon Musk called for eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Rudy Giuliani draws rebuke for a courtroom outburst accusing judge in assets case of being unfair — In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani accused a judge Tuesday of making wrong assumptions about him as he tries to comply with an order requiring him to turn …
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Washington Examiner, Politico, HuffPost, Mediaite, New York Daily News and CBS News
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
'I can't pay my bills,' Rudy Giuliani says in courtroom outburst
'I can't pay my bills,' Rudy Giuliani says in courtroom outburst
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Raw Story, New York Post, Mediaite and New Republic
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Picks Stanford Physician Who Opposed Lockdowns to Head N.I.H. — As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world's premier medical research agency, with a $47 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.
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Erin Schumaker / Politico:
Trump picks NIH critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency
Trump picks NIH critic Jay Bhattacharya to lead the agency
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Washington Post:
Trump signs transition agreement with Biden, but it lacks key guardrails — The Trump team is still refusing to accept several typical trappings of the presidential transition process, including federal funding, equipment, office space or security. — The Trump transition team said Tuesday …
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The Hill, Washington Times, Fox News, Scripps News, E&E News and Los Angeles Times
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Politico:
Katie Porter alleges ‘persistent abuse,’ files domestic violence restraining order against ex-boyfriend — Julian Willis' alleged threats to leak “false” information to the press “poses a serious risk to my career and personal reputation,” Porter wrote. Willis said the filing was an effort to preempt his own claims against her.
Theron Mohamed / Business Insider:
Maye Musk welcomes Elon's bromance with Donald Trump and says they ‘just seem to be having fun’ — Maye Musk commented on her son's friendship with Donald Trump in a Fox Business interview. — Elon Musk and the president-elect are having “a lot of fun,” she said.
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The Independent and Fox Business