Amid Rumors of a Breakup, Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Appointed Ambassador to Greece  —  The announcement came as Donald Trump Jr. has been seen with the socialite Bettina Anderson in Florida.  —  It was an announcement made amid a swirl of tabloid speculation: Kimberly Guilfoyle …

Trump Aims to Remake Federal Trade Commission With Two Picks  —  President-elect says he will elevate Andrew Ferguson to replace Lina Khan as chair and nominate Mark Meador as a commissioner  —  WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Andrew Ferguson to lead …

Playbook: Inside Trump's game of Senate hardball  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW JMART — There's some high internal drama over the Senate Intelligence Committee chairmanship, Jonathan Martin reports this morning: Sen. TOM COTTON …

Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars  —  The ruling dashed, at least for now, the plans of The Onion's parent company to take over Infowars and radically shift its content.  —  A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by The Onion's parent company …

Luigi Mangione's Full Story Isn't Online  —  When the identity of Luigi Mangione, the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter, was revealed on Monday, the online search — a reporting process that's become a collective online ritual — began.  It turns out he left a lot of information online …

Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto  —  I've obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione's manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online.  Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why.

Bragg says Trump's crimes and ‘history of malicious conduct’ are too serious for his hush-money case to be dismissed  — Trump is making an 11th-hour bid to toss his hush-money case before Inauguration Day.  — Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has now filed an 82-page motion opposing Trump's dismissal efforts.

Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden's pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds  —  Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such thing, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History  —  Under President Biden, more than two million immigrants per year have entered, government data shows.  —  The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom …

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes  —  Some of Wall Street's richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.  —  The Secret IRS Files: Inside the Tax Records of the .001%

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By All Means, Jail My Colleagues, Mr. President!  —  An unsettling number of House Republicans are open to Trump's threats against the House January 6th committee.  —  William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Cathy Young  —  The latest Consumer Price Index figures are in this morning …

McConnell falls and sprains wrist after GOP luncheon, colleague says he is ‘fine’  —  Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a GOP luncheon on Tuesday, the latest in a series of medical incidents for him in recent years.

Trump announces 2 picks for OMB positions  —  President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to fill out key posts at the Office of Management and Budget with two staff picks on Tuesday.  Trump picked Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina as deputy director of the OMB.

Tom Cotton blocks bill to shield journalists from betraying sources  —  Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas on Tuesday again blocked the passage of House-approved bipartisan legislation meant to shield journalists and telecommunications companies from being compelled to disclose sources …

South Korea's ex-defense minister attempts to take his own life as presidential office raided in martial law fallout  —  Former South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun has attempted to end his own life while in custody, the head of the country's correctional service said Wednesday …

The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”  —  History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show  —  First things first: welcome to readers new and old.  Now that I have written my last column for the New York Times, this newsletter is coming out of dormancy.

Lawmakers Plot to Force Health Insurers to Sell Off Pharmacies  —  Bipartisan bills would make healthcare companies with pharmacy-benefit managers divest their pharmacies  —  A bipartisan group of lawmakers are set to introduce legislation to break up pharmacy-benefit managers …

Increased Christianity in schools opens the door to Satanic Temple education programs  —  The Satanic Temple is increasing its work in schools across the country, trying to combat a rise in religious teachings.  —  The group, launched in 2013 to battle the “intrusion of Christian values on American politics …

Trump, GOP expected to undo Biden's divisive nursing home rule  —  Republicans are expected to rescind the Biden administration's contentious nursing home staffing rule before it is set to take effect.  —  The move would come as a relief for the nursing home industry, which has argued …

Top Republicans split over strategy to move Trump's 2025 agenda  —  Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune wants to pass two bills: border and energy policy in one, and tax cuts in a second.  The House's top tax writer is pushing for one big package.  —  WASHINGTON — Top Republicans …

Eric Trump Promises the ‘Most Pro-Crypto President’ in History  —  Speaking at a Middle East conference, President-elect Donald J. Trump's son said his family had embraced cryptocurrency because some banks stopped doing business with them after Jan. 6.  —  Eric Trump flew across the world …

Sanders says next term is likely his last  —  Progressive icon was reelected for another six years in November.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders, former presidential candidate and leader of the progressive movement in the United States for decades, said his term starting in January would likely be his last in an interview with POLITICO.

For now, ‘Dreamers’ will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states  —  Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled …

Rep. Nancy Mace allegedly attacked on Capitol Hill; Suspect arrested  — Capitol Police arrested a man for allegedly assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace at the Rayburn Building.  — Rep. Mace condemned “tr*ns violence” and vowed resilience on her X account.  — The suspect entered through …