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FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans — Today's announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes — Today, President Biden announced …
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Providing Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Individuals on Home Confinement and Pardons for 39 Individuals Convicted of Non-Violent Crimes — America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances. As President, I have the great privilege …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund — President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving — Meta Platforms has donated $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund …
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Costas Pitas / Reuters:
Trump picks hardline Republican Kari Lake to lead Voice of America — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America.
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Minho Kim / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Kari Lake to Lead Voice of America — Ms. Lake, a former TV news anchor turned right-wing firebrand who has called journalists “monsters,” would be in charge of a federally funded news outlet with a huge global audience. — President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday night chose Kari Lake …
Leo Sands / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund — Meta's donation comes weeks after Mark Zuckerberg met President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as the Facebook founder seeks to mend ties with the right. — Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration committee …
Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
A Scandalous Resignation — When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017, I was about to drive my daughter and some of her friends to a soccer tryout. I remember that the news came moments before we left; once we arrived, I sat on a bench next to the soccer field …
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office — President-elect Donald Trump has said he will nominate Kash Patel as FBI director, sending a message to Christopher A. Wray that he should resign or prepare to be fired. — FBI Director Christopher A. Wray announced Wednesday …
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Chris Wray folds like cheap suit. Don't be Chris Wray.
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Benjamin Wittes / Default:
The Situation: Chris Wray Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Kash Patel
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New York Times:
Christopher Wray Says He'll Step Down as F.B.I. Director
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to inauguration — President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month, multiple sources told CBS News, and inauguration officials are making plans for additional foreign dignitaries to attend the swearing-in ceremony.
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Manchin, Sinema block Democratic control of NLRB — The Senate on Wednesday blocked Lauren McFerran's re-nomination to the National Labor Relations Board, opening the door for Republican control of the board starting next year under President-elect Trump. — Senators voted 49 to 50 …
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Bloomberg:
No Winners Seen in Trump's ‘Hugely Destructive’ Energy Tariffs — Analysts expect levies to hurt refiners, raise US gas prices — Canada, Mexico also stand to lose in oil, gas trade war — When President-elect Donald Trump announced his plan to impose tariffs on goods coming …
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Clarissa Ward / CNN:
‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad's forced detention — While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime's legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN's Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery …
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Decivilization May Already Be Under Way — The line between a normal, functioning society and catastrophic decivilization can be crossed with a single act of mayhem. This is why, for those who have studied violence closely, the brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and, more important …
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Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic:
Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class? — A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed D.C. office. The Connecticut senator sounded like a man who had done a speedrun through all five stages of grief …
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
North Carolina GOP changes election rules before losing supermajority — Republicans in the state legislature gave an ally control over the state's elections board, rewrote ballot-counting rules and chipped away at the power of the incoming Democratic governor.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library — Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years. During that time, according to a lawsuit Cahall filed earlier this month, she “consistently received …
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Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost:
Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A ‘Very Dangerous World’ — The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party. — LOADING — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …
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Jake Zuckerman / Plain Dealer:
Bill forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other requested treatments nears finish line — COLUMBUS, Ohio - Senate Republicans on Wednesday passed legislation that would enable patients to force hospitals into administering drugs for off-label use if the hospital's own physicians refuse.
CNN:
South Korea's ruling party backs impeachment as president refuses to step down over martial law — South Korea's ruling party has thrown its support behind attempts to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated decision to declare martial law that sparked a political crisis and widespread public anger in the country.
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FIRE:
Silence in the Classroom: The 2024 FIRE Faculty Survey Report — Research & Learn — FIRE's new report finds that faculty members are four times more likely to self-censor than they were in the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War and McCarthyism. — Executive Summary
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Raphael Boyd / The Guardian:
From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk's ‘digital town square’? — Musk's platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million — A mass departure from Elon Musk's X has led to the site losing about 2.7 million active Apple …
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
MSNBC ratings collapse postelection, Fox News surges as cable faces an uncertain future — When a sports team loses, its fans don't hang around for the postgame show. — The same goes for the tribal habits of cable news audiences. — Viewers have fled left-leaning MSNBC since Vice …
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Adam Rittenberg / ESPN:
Flag planting at Ohio State would be felony under proposed law — If an Ohio lawmaker gets his way, teams attempting to plant their flags in the middle of Ohio Stadium during Ohio State games will be dealing with more than just pepper spray. — Ohio state Rep. Josh Williams introduced …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Time magazine to name Trump ‘Person of the Year’ — He also won the honor in 2016. — Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine's “Person of the Year” — and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover, the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning …
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