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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump rings bell at NYSE to cheers of ‘USA’ as Wall Street CEOs, business leaders look on
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
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.
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
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.
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchdog reports
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
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.
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: New Republic and Alternet.org
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
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Informant Agrees to Plead Guilty to Lying About Bidens  —  Alexander Smirnov's deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, though a federal judge would need to review the deal.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
FBI informant accused of lying about Joe and Hunter Biden pleads guilty
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 …
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.
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 and NPR
Brian Platt / Bloomberg:
Canada Weighs Export Taxes on Uranium, Oil If Trump Starts Trade War  — Move would be a last resort to put economic pressure on US  — Some US refiners rely heavily on cheap Canadian crude  —  Canada is examining the use of export taxes on major commodities it exports to the US …
Discussion: Associated Press and The Guardian
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New York Times:
Drones, Dogs, Drug Labs: Canada's Plan to Avoid Trump's Tariffs Takes Shape
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Biden judicial nominations endgame comes into focus  —  The judicial branch will be top of mind in the legislative branch on Thursday.  Senate Democrats are nearing the judicial confirmations total that President-elect Donald Trump achieved in his first term.
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
House passes bipartisan judges bill that Biden has vowed to veto
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
New York Times:
Trump's Middle East Adviser Pick Is a Small-Time Truck Salesman … President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East adviser, Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name.  —  Mr. Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon …
Discussion: USA Today
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
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 …
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 …
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.
Reuters:
No Iranian drone ‘mothership’ off the United States, Pentagon says  —  The Pentagon on Wednesday flatly dismissed claims by a U.S. lawmaker that Iran might be launching drones over New Jersey from a “mothership” off the East Coast.  —  “There is no truth to that,” said Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh.
Daniel Payne / Politico:
Trump says he'll pull vaccines if he finds they're unsafe  —  President-elect Donald Trump said he's open to getting rid of vaccines depending on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s review of their safety.  Trump's comments to Time magazine contradict promises previously made by Kennedy …
Discussion: Reuters, Axios and Mediaite
Ayelet Sheffey / Business Insider:
Hundreds of student-loan borrowers who applied for debt cancellation are being denied relief by a major lender, over 20 Democratic lawmakers say  — Sen. Elizabeth Warren led over 20 colleagues in requesting the CFPB and FTC investigate student-loan company Navient.
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Ian Campbell / The Hill Times:
Rise of Bluesky may create progressive ‘echo chamber,’ say observers as more MPs join
Karissa Waddick / USA Today:
Rep. Bennie Thompson says he'd take a Biden pardon after Trump's Jan. 6 jail threat
Discussion: The Hill, TheGrio and Breitbart
Reuters:
Trump invites China's Xi to inauguration, experts call it political theater
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
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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
New York Times:
Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump's Support for Hegseth
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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Victoria Song / The Verge:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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