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Time:
Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME  —  President-elect Donald Trump, TIME's 2024 Person of the Year, sat down for a wide-ranging interview at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 25.  —  Over the course of the interview …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices  —  The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.  —  LOADING  —  President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Discussion: Business Insider and Alternet.org
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump is named Time's Person of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell
Time:
Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME
The White House:
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.
Patrick Smith / NBC News:
Biden to commute sentences of 1,500 ‘non-violent’ offenders, in the biggest single-day act of clemency to date
Tamara Keith / NPR:
Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day
Discussion: Washington Post and USA Today
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 …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's Kari Lake ‘pick’ sparks fears at Voice of America  —  Presidents don't ordinarily pick the director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the US government.  But President-elect Donald Trump says he wants his ally Kari Lake to take over VOA.
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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Leo Sands / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund
Discussion: HotAir and Fox Business
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Chris Wray folds like cheap suit.  Don't be Chris Wray.  —  The FBI director obeys in advance. … 🚔  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray became the latest public official to remove his own spine and dissolve into a puddle of genuflecting goo for the greater glory of MAGA …
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Jonathan Chait / The Atlantic:
A Scandalous Resignation  —  When Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017 …
CNN:
Pete Hegseth, Trump's Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda  —  Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a …
Discussion: Alternet.org
Oriana Pawlyk / Politico:
FAA chief resigns, opening another spot for a Trump pick  —  Mike Whitaker's resignation comes at a time of turmoil for the agency, which is facing air traffic controller shortages and aging equipment.  —  The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is resigning in January …
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
FAA administrator to resign on Trump swearing-in
Discussion: Bloomberg, NPR and Associated Press
New York Times:
Blue States are Unaffordable.  The Price Will be Political.  —  Every year, millions of Americans bounce around the country like electrons, moving from one state to another.  But there are patterns in this chaos, and one of the clearest in recent decades is that Americans are moving from blue states to red states.
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
Democrats Lost the Propaganda War  —  The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024.  There's a better way.  —  A Fox News ad is displayed outside the Fiserv Forum on the eve of the Republican National Convention, July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee.
Discussion: Mostly signs
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 …
Discussion: New York Post, The Sun and Mediaite
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
House passes bipartisan judges bill that Biden has vowed to veto  —  The federal judiciary has long requested new judges and both parties agreed, but Donald Trump's election win turned Democrats against the bill.  —  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday passed …
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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 …
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
End the Medicare For All wars  —  It's time to talk about other health care policy ideas  —  I'm a little uncomfortable with the fact that health care policy is back on the American political agenda because of the murder of UnitedHealth Care's CEO.  But, given that it is, I do want to write about it.
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
FBI missed ‘basic step’ when gathering intel in the lead-up to Jan. 6, DOJ watchdog finds  —  Investigators found no evidence of undercover FBI employees at the Capitol, but the presence of FBI informants could further fuel right-wing “fedsurrection” conspiracy theories.
New York Times:
Musk's Foundation Gave Away Less Money Than Required in 2023  —  Private foundations must donate 5 percent of their assets every year.  Elon Musk's enormous charity missed that standard for three consecutive years.  —  For the third year in a row, Elon Musk's charitable foundation did not give away enough of its money.
Melissa Koenig / Daily Mail:
Trump's border czar Tom Homan reveals which Democrat city is first on his list for mass deportations  —  President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has revealed that the nation's largest mass deportation effort will begin in Chicago.  —  Homan, 63, the former acting head of Immigration …
Irie Sentner / Politico:
Murkowski: 'I'm not attached to' Republican label  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday she felt “more comfortable” with no party label than with “an identity as a Republican,” an escalation of the Alaska senator's occasional bucking of her party as the chamber readies itself for a slew …
Karissa Waddick / USA Today:
Rep. Bennie Thompson says he'd take a Biden pardon after Trump's Jan. 6 jail threat  —  “I've never heard an elected official other than the incoming President talk about retribution,” Thompson told CNN.  —  WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, former chair of the House Jan. 6 committee …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and Politico
New York Times:
Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump's Support for Hegseth  —  The president-elect became convinced that letting Pete Hegseth fail would set off a feeding frenzy among senators.  What followed was a MAGA swarm that helped salvage his bid, at least for now.
Discussion: Althouse
Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
FTC accuses alcohol distribution giant Southern Glazer's of ‘unfair pricing’  —  For the first time in almost a quarter-century, federal regulators are trying to enforce a law that bars suppliers from charging different prices for the same product.  —  The Federal Trade Commission filed …
Discussion: CNBC
Ian Campbell / The Hill Times:
Rise of Bluesky may create progressive ‘echo chamber,’ say observers as more MPs join  —  'If you don't allow yourself to be exposed to opposing viewpoints, that can actually increase polarization,' says former Conservative staffer Jennifer Laewetz.  —  SPONSORED CONTENT
 
 
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Jim Garamone / U.S. Department of Defense:
DOD Dealing With Climate Change as a Security Concern for Africans
Discussion: Townhall and IJR
Reuters:
Trump invites China's Xi to inauguration, experts call it political theater
Reuters:
No Iranian drone ‘mothership’ off the United States, Pentagon says
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump's conspiracy cabinet is about to take over the deep state
Axios:
Trump open to detaining immigrants in camps in deportation push
Discussion: Breitbart
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump says daughter-in-law Lara could carry on political dynasty
Discussion: Business Insider and New York Post
 Earlier Items: 
ProPublica:
The FDA Hasn't Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly
Charles Sykes / The Atlantic:
The Crisis Neither Party Is Equipped to Handle
Discussion: American Greatness
David French / New York Times:
Biden Has a Pair of Gifts for Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Zuckerman / Plain Dealer:
Bill forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other requested treatments nears finish line
Raphael Boyd / The Guardian:
From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk's ‘digital town square’?
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
BuzzFeed reaches a deal to sell Hot Ones owner First We Feast for $82.5M in cash to a consortium of investors led by an affiliate of Soros Fund Management

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Warner Bros. Discovery announces a restructuring to create two separate units: one for linear TV networks and one for production studios and streaming platforms

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Current and former Netflix staff say the company has walked back its parental-leave benefits, after shifting its focus from subscriber growth to profitability

 
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