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 …

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in possible targeted attack: sources  —  The CEO of UnitedHealth was fatally shot in the chest Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in what police say was a targeted attack.

Trump Replaces His White House Counsel Before He Even Started the Job  —  The shake-up is a sign that the new administration may see the same chaos and infighting that so often plagued President-elect Donald J. Trump's first term in office.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday replaced …

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.”

Nadler to Relinquish Democrats' Top Judiciary Post, Bowing to Calls for Change  —  Democrats' longtime leader on the panel faced a challenge from Representative Jamie Raskin, and pressure from colleagues who wanted a younger, more strategic figure at the helm.

Democrat Adam Gray captures California's 13th US House District, ousting Republican Rep. John Duarte  —  Democrat Adam Gray captured California's 13th Congressional District on Tuesday, unseating Republican Rep. John Duarte in the final U.S. House contest to be decided this year.

No-confidence vote topples French government, plunges country into chaos  —  The support of Marine Le Pen's far-right lawmakers was key to the motion, which made this the shortest-serving administration in the modern French republic.  —  A no-confidence vote in the French parliament …

Trump Picks Cryptocurrency Advocate Paul Atkins For SEC Chair  —  Trump said Atkins, the CEO of Patomak Partners and a former SEC commissioner, was a “proven leader for common sense regulations.”  —  LOADING  —  President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends …

Dictators for a Day  —  South Korea and America  —  South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, invoked martial law, tried to install a military dictatorship — and failed completely.  In his actions there are some likely similarities with the coming Trump regime, and some clear lessons for Americans to learn right now.

9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding  —  With Donald Trump's return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is back on the chopping block.  —  USE OUR CONTENT

Elon Musk's harassment of federal employees proves DOGE is weaker than he pretends  —  Musk's relentless misbehavior on X leads MAGA into a “cowardly troll” era  —  Shortly after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, he announced, with great fanfare, that billionaire Elon Musk …

Former Trump Campaign Lawyer Wants To Invalidate Guilty Plea In Georgia Election Case  —  Kenneth Chesebro, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in the Georgia 2020 election meddling case against the president-elect and others, wants to invalidate that plea.  —  LOADING

The Sound of Fear on Air  —  This morning, I had an unsettling experience.  —  I was invited onto MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk from a studio in Washington, D.C., about an article I'd written on Trump's approach to foreign policy.  Before getting to the article, I was asked about the nomination …

Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail  —  Without a voting public to face again, Trump is gearing up to cut Social Security and Medicare  —  There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus …

Hawley says Hegseth cancelled meeting as DeSantis name gets floated  —  Sen. Joshua Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, says Pete Hegseth's team canceled a meeting before the Senate confirmation process begins.  Axios' Juliegrace Brufke joins CBS News with more on President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense.

Trump's Notre Dame Appearance Means More Than You Think  —  Emmanuel Macron, the French President, invited President Donald Trump to attend the grand re-opening of Notre Dame Cathedral after 5 years of reconstruction.  —  It will be a grand affair, attended by 50 heads of state …

Inside the GOP leadership's plans for government funding  —  House and Senate leaders are honing in on a CR that would keep government funded until late March.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson told us in a brief interview late Tuesday that he anticipates the stopgap funding bill will expire in late March 2025.

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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