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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump will ‘most likely’ pardon Capitol rioters on Day 1 and says Jan. 6 committee members should be jailed — The president-elect also said during an exclusive interview with “Meet the Press” that he won't request a special prosecutor to investigate outgoing President Joe Biden.
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Peter Nicholas / NBC News:
Trump details sweeping changes he'll carry out on day one and beyond in an exclusive interview — Trump vowed to launch a mass deportation effort, impose tariffs and pardon many convicted in the Jan. 6 attack in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported — President-elect Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with “Meet the Press,” also said he is open to working with Democrats on a legislative way to keep Dreamers in the United States.
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Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Donald Trump says he won't try to remove Fed chief Jerome Powell
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Abbey Fenbert / The Kyiv Independent:
Syrian rebels announce fall of Russia-backed Assad regime — Syrian rebels announced on Dec. 8 that they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad from the capital city of Damascus. — “The tyrant Bashar al-Assad has fled. We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” rebel leaders said in a statement.
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Reuters:
Syria rebels celebrate in captured Homs, set sights on Damascus — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
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Reuters:
Russia says Syria's Assad has left country and gave orders for peaceful power handover — Russia said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left office and departed his country after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, but did not say where he was now or whether the Russian military planned to stay in Syria.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Syrian Regime Collapsed Gradually—And Then Suddenly — Assad's fall offers the possibility of change. — As Hemingway once wrote of bankruptcy, the collapse of autocratic regimes tends to happen gradually and then suddenly—slowly, and then all at once. This is not just a literary metaphor.
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Associated Press:
Jubilation and gunfire as Syrians celebrate the end of the Assad family's half-century rule — Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule but raising questions …
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Timothy Nerozzi / Washington Examiner:
Syria's sudden uprising is a stark reminder of Obama's failed foreign policy
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Simon J. Levien / New York Times:
Trump Transition Live Updates: Trump Gives First Televised Interview Since Election — Where Things Stand — President-elect Donald J. Trump insisted in an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press” to air on Sunday that he would not direct his administration to seek retribution …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Did Trump Drain Democrats' Energy? These Races Will Be the First Test. — As Democrats try to fire up their fatigued base, two contests for the Virginia legislature will serve as the first measure of partisan enthusiasm since Donald J. Trump's victory. — Even as the exhausted nation recovers …
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Democrats inch toward the anger phase of their election loss
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Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
Public housing didn't fail in the US. But it was sabotaged. — A brief history of how America's public housing experiment was designed to fail. … The stereotypical image of public housing in America is one of deteriorating buildings, urban blight, and dysfunctional housing authorities in seemingly never-ending crises.
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Biggest Lies from His ‘Meet the Press’ Interview — From immigrants to Obamacare, the president-elect continued his campaign trail falsehoods — Donald Trump gave his first network interview since the election and spread falsehoods about immigrants, the Affordable Care Act and — of course — the 2020 election.
Arnab Datta / New York Times:
Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump — Donald Trump's return to Washington might seem like a terrifying moment for the fight against climate change. The incoming administration is not just hostile to the energy transition; it's also expected to pull …
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Helen Ouyang / New York Times:
What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans' Health Care Anger — I rushed around the patient as he lay motionless with his eyes closed in the emergency room. He was pale and sweaty, his T-shirt stained with vomit. You didn't have to be a health-care worker to know that he was in a dire state.
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
US announces nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support for Ukraine — The United States will provide nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday as the Biden administration rushes to spend all the congressionally approved money …
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