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9:40 PM ET, December 16, 2024

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New York Times:
Judge Denies Trump's Bid to Throw Out Conviction Over Immunity Ruling  —  Justice Juan M. Merchan thwarted one of several attempts by Donald J. Trump to clear his record of 34 felonies before returning to the White House.  —  A judge on Monday rejected Donald J. Trump's argument …
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NBC News:
Judge in Trump's hush money case denies bid to toss out guilty verdict  —  The president-elect had argued the charges against him should be dismissed because of a Supreme Court ruling in July on presidential immunity.  —  The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump's hush money trial denied …
Discussion: Daily Mail and abc7NY
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Judge rejects Trump request to toss Bragg charges in New York on basis of presidential immunity  —  Judge Merchan has not yet ruled on Trump's motion to dismiss the charges altogether  —  Judge Juan Merchan on Monday rejected Trump attorneys' request to dismiss charges brought …
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and Reuters
Associated Press:
Judge rejects Trump's bid to toss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Madison: 4 killed, 5 hurt  —  The suspected shooter, a juvenile believed to be a student, is also dead.  —  LIVE  —  Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., where multiple injuries were reported following a shooting, Dec. 16, 2024.
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
3 dead, others injured in a shooting at a private Christian school in Wisconsin  —  A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing two people in the final week before Christmas break.  The shooter also died, police said.
NBC News:
Live updates: At least 3 dead in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin
Richard J. Tofel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Questions ABC News Should Answer Following the $16 Million Trump Settlement … As someone who practiced press law for more than twenty years, and served as a senior executive of news organizations for just as long, I was shocked by the decision of ABC News last week to pay $16 million …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Why ABC News settled with Donald Trump for $15 million  —  George Stephanopoulos ended Sunday's “This Week” program without any mention of him or ABC News settling Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against them.  The suit was triggered by a segment on “This Week,” but ABC News has not reported …
Erin Doherty / Axios:
“Everybody wants to be my friend,” Trump brags after tech CEOs seek audiences
Grace Harrington / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Sue Pollster Ann Selzer for Wrong Prediction
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
The toxic nature of “debate me, bro” culture  —  Dan Dezner has a good blog about how even if the resistance to things like RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines is able to mostly hold the line — far from a guarantee in itself — there is a huge opportunity cost to pretending there is any legitimate …
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and USA Today
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Trump seeks to smooth over concerns about RFK Jr.  —  President-elect Trump tried to downplay concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, telling reporters that his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary won't be “radical.”  —  “I think he's going to be much less radical than you would think …
Associated Press:
Trump says he's a ‘believer’ in polio vaccine, and other news conference takeaways
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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Senior Democrat Gerry Connolly beats out AOC in key vote for top party post on Oversight panel
Discussion: The Hill
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Another Federal Judge Reverses Decision To Retire, Ruins Trump's Plans To Fill His Seat  —  U.S. appeals court judge James Wynn, an Obama appointee, is the third judge to change his mind about retiring since Trump won reelection.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON — For the third time since Donald Trump won …
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CTV News:
Trudeau considering his options as leader after Freeland quits cabinet, sources say  —  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is considering his options as leader, sources tell CTV News, after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland revealed she will quit cabinet.  —  In an explosive resignation letter …
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New York Times:
Top Canada Minister Resigns, Threatening Trudeau's Hold on Power
New York Times:
Hegseth's Guard Left the Army After the Beating of a Civilian During Training  —  John Hasenbein, who has escorted Donald J. Trump's pick for defense secretary to meetings on Capitol Hill, said he was unjustly prosecuted for the 2019 episode.  —  When Pete Hegseth visited senators on Capitol Hill …
Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer: report  —  The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad's forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Meddling for MAGA  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, has dismayed staffers as he curtails critical coverage of Donald Trump.  —  Patrick Soon-Shiong's meddling at the Los Angeles Times has grown more pervasive than previously realized.
Mitch McConnell / Foreign Affairs:
The Price of American Retreat  —  Why Washington Must Reject Isolationism and Embrace Primacy  —  Mitch McConnell  —  Mitch McConnell is a Senator from Kentucky and served as U.S. Senate Republican Leader from 2007 through 2024.  —  When he begins his second term as president …
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Robbie Gramer / Politico:
The post-Biden job scramble begins
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Rather / Steady:
Oh, Never Mind  —  Do you remember when candidate Donald Trump said, “Grocery prices have skyrocketed.  How can a family afford that?  So, when I win, I will immediately bring prices down.”  That was at a rally in August.  —  Or how about this: “We will end inflation and make America affordable again …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Gillibrand makes a last-minute White House push for women's rights constitutional amendment  —  Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is making an all-out push in the waning days of the Biden administration that she believes could bolster reproductive rights, calling on the president to certify …
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
More than 120 House Democrats send letter to Biden urging him to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
Discussion: Florida Phoenix, Truthout and Reason
The Atlantic:
How Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration  —  Not long ago, immigration was a winning issue for Democrats.  When Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama in 2012, his defeat was blamed, in part, on his hard-line stance in favor of “self-deportation”—making life so hard for immigrants that they would choose to return to their home country.
Discussion: HotAir, The Bulwark and Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Maybe Democrats Didn't Do So Badly After All  —  Five days after last month's election, Senator Chris Murphy rendered a damning verdict on his party's performance.  “That was a cataclysm,” the Connecticut Democrat wrote on X.  “Electoral map wipeout.”  Donald Trump had won both the popular vote …
Brandi Buchman / HuffPost:
'There's Not A Darn Thing Anybody Can Do': Rash Of Jan. 6 Pardons Will Mean Trouble, Former Prosecutor Says  —  No president before has pardoned people who were “essentially his co-conspirators in crime,” one legal expert said.  —  LOADING  —  If you take Donald Trump at his word …
Discussion: ArkansasTimes, Forbes and Raw Story
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Japan's SoftBank plans to invest $100 billion in US projects over the next four years.  —  President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump, SoftBank CEO to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S.
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Sanders defends Warren comments on ‘outrageous’ UnitedHealthcare CEO killing  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) defended Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for her remarks about UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's shooting and the country's health care system, calling it “outrageous” Thompson was killed.
Matt Lavietes / NBC News:
Democratic senators seek to ax transgender care ban from defense bill  —  The National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the House last week, would bar transition-related health coverage for service members' minor children.  —  Fourteen Democratic senators will introduce …
Discussion: NOTUS, The Hill and Washington Times
New York Times:
A Constitutional Convention?  Some Democrats Fear It's Coming.  —  Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue.  Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.
Discussion: New Republic
 
 
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Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Back, This Time Without Disdain
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a longtime theater lover, makes her Broadway debut
Eric Martin / Bloomberg:
Trump Team Already in Backchannel Talks on Deportations
Associated Press:
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, chief adviser to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, resigns and expects to be indicted
Ken Klippenstein:
New Crisis Hotline for CEOs?
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
TikTok asks Supreme Court to block law that could ban popular app
 Earlier Items: 
Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey
Discussion: HotAir and The Gateway Pundit
Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
Here's what we WON'T do when Trump takes over
Daniel Schuman / The Bulwark:
Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They're Needed Most
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Todd Spangler / Variety:
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos deactivated his account on X, where he had 2.3M+ followers, over the weekend after ABC News settled Trump's lawsuit

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
DeepMind unveils Veo 2, a next-gen video-generating AI model that can create 2+ minute long clips in resolutions up to 4K, behind a waitlist as part of VideoFX

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube is testing the ability for some US creators to reply to comments on their videos using voice notes in its iOS app

 
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