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Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Mulls Replacing Pete Hegseth With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — The president-elect is discussing replacing the current Pentagon nominee as the former Fox News host faces mounting scrutiny over allegations about his personal life — President-elect Donald Trump is considering Florida …
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Pete Hegseth's drinking worried colleagues at Fox News, sources tell NBC News — Ten current and former Fox employees say Trump's pick for defense secretary drank in ways that concerned his co-workers. A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims “completely unfounded and false.”
Marc A. Caputo / The Bulwark:
Trump Talks to DeSantis About Replacing Hegseth — DONALD TRUMP AND RON DESANTIS have personally discussed the possibility of the Florida governor becoming the next secretary of defense amid concerns that sexual assault allegations could engulf the president-elect's current nominee for the post, Pete Hegseth.
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Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Now There's Resurfaced Video Of Pete Hegseth Completely Trashing Trump — A clip of the embattled defense secretary nominee may further sink his chances to assume the post. — LOADING — Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth called Donald Trump “an armchair tough guy” who's “all bluster …
New York Times:
Trump Considers DeSantis for Defense Secretary as His Support for Hegseth Falters — President-elect Donald J. Trump is weighing his options, even as Pete Hegseth meets with senators to muster support. Accusations of past misconduct have threatened his nomination from the start.
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NBC News:
Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is in peril in the Senate — As many as six GOP senators are not currently comfortable supporting Hegseth, following allegations concerning drinking and his treatment of women, sources told NBC News. — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's pick …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
James Carville Claims 1 Person Is Secretly ‘Driving’ Trump's Sketchy Nominations
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hegseth faces an ‘absolutely critical’ day as Pentagon hopes hang by a thread
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
I listened to hours of Trump's FBI pick on Steve Bannon's podcast. Oh boy. — Kash Patel, Donald Trump's pick to direct the Federal Bureau of Intelligence, has never served in the FBI. But he has hosted Steve Bannon's podcast. — Patel is a contributor at Real America's Voice …
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CNN:
Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead FBI, has been targeted in an Iranian hack, sources say — Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the FBI, was recently informed by the bureau that he had been targeted as part of an Iranian hack, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Reuters:
Trump taps team geared toward retribution and remaking of government
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Reuters:
Trump team agrees with Justice Dept to begin background checks
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Here Are the Republicans Kash Patel Wants to Target
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Times:
C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare Is Fatally Shot in Midtown Manhattan — The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in the chest in what people briefed on the investigations said appeared to be a targeted attack. — The chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation's largest health insurers …
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New York Times:
Martial Law Didn't Silence South Korea's Media. It Empowered Them. — Journalists criticized the president's attempt to place the press under military control, hardened by years of challenges to press freedoms by the country's political leaders. — When President Yoon Suk Yeol …
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Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
Six hours under martial law in Seoul — A shocking coup attempt sent South Korea into political upheaval. But on the ground, at the protests that would prevent the president from seizing power, people were organized, angry, and a little drunk. … When the South Korean president declares martial law …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Joe Biden's predictable pardon of Hunter didn't threaten his reputation - it cemented an already corrupt legacy — At a noisy holiday party, a friend pulled me aside for a quiet conversation. He's long been a major Democratic donor in New York and nationally but has grown increasingly disenchanted with the party's far-left policies.
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Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
Charlamagne tha God tells Democrats to get off ‘moral high ground’ amid Biden pardon
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
The View's Ana Navarro Cites Completely Fake Pardon of ‘Hunter deButts’ In Defense of the Hunter Biden Pardon
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M.D. Kittle / The Federalist:
Trump Should Pardon Victims Of Dems' J6 Lawfare On Day One
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Jill Cowan / New York Times:
California Democrat Flips Seat in the Last House Race to Be Called — Adam Gray, a former state lawmaker, defeated Representative John Duarte, a Republican, in a reversal of their 2022 race. — A Democratic former state lawmaker defeated the Republican incumbent on Tuesday to flip a seat …
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Anna Gifty / Public Notice:
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Washington Post:
Trump's pick to head DEA withdraws after GOP criticism of his covid policies — Chad Chronister is the second Trump pick to abandon his bid to serve in the administration.
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Steven Monacelli / The Texas Observer:
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts — Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent headline in the Atlantic doesn't mince words: “X is a white supremacist site.”
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Have I been running the Biden Administration? — My not-so-secret disagreements with their approach … Donate to GiveDirectly — Joe Biden has been unpopular for a long time, but the two times I've been polled, I said that I approve of his performance as president.
Washington Post:
Is Kristi Noem ready to run FEMA? South Dakota flood victims doubt it. — Trump has picked Noem as homeland security secretary, a job that includes overseeing federal disaster management. But some residents of her home state say she bungled the response to catastrophic floods in June.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump v. Clinton: The media double standard on the influence of foreign cash — On Monday, Popular Information reported that Justin Sun, a Chinese national currently being prosecuted for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission, sent President-elect Donald Trump $18 million in cash.
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Ryan Deto / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
‘Gut punch’: Trump upsets local union leaders by opposing U.S. Steel-Nippon deal — On Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his opposition to the proposed $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel Co., vowing to block the deal when he takes office.
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Politico:
The new question ballot-measure pollsters have to ask — DRIVING THE DAY — Our Chris Cadelago has an exclusive story out this afternoon on Gov. Gavin Newsom breaking from President Joe Biden over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden: “I took the president at his word,” Newsom told Chris.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A President Shouldn't Pardon His Son? Hello, Anybody Remember Neil Bush? — Nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidency by the fact that he pardoned his progeny. The moral: Shut the fck up about Hunter Biden, please. — Sit yourselves down here around the turf fire, my friends …
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
The Storybook Start—and Bitter End—of Pete Hegseth's First Marriage — Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense is a conservative culture warrior, a central-casting alpha male who believes in guns, God, and the primacy of the family unit. The story of his first marriage …
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