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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.
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NBC News:
Live updates: At least 3 dead in shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin — Police say one of the dead is a juvenile believed to be the shooter at the K-12 private school. … A handgun was recovered at the school — Officers found a handgun …
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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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 …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Judge rejects Trump request to toss Bragg charges in New York on basis of presidential immunity
Judge rejects Trump request to toss Bragg charges in New York on basis of presidential immunity
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump passes over RFK Jr.'s daughter-in-law for CIA's No. 2 job — Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former undercover C.I.A. operative, faced strenuous opposition from some Republicans, including Sen. Tom Cotton. — President-elect Donald Trump has told close aides he is no longer considering …
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 …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump is surrounding himself with vaccine skeptics
Trump is surrounding himself with vaccine skeptics
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
AOC loses key vote in House Oversight race to Gerry Connolly … - The House Democratic caucus still has to vote on whether to accept the recommendation - though that ratification is rarely denied.
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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
Senior Democrat Gerry Connolly beats out AOC in key vote for top party post on Oversight panel
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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 …
Grace Harrington / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Sue Pollster Ann Selzer for Wrong Prediction
Trump Says He'll Sue Pollster Ann Selzer for Wrong Prediction
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
ABC bends the knee
ABC bends the knee
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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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’
Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’
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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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Robbie Gramer / Politico:
The post-Biden job scramble begins — With help from Daniel Lippman, Jack Detsch, Maggie Miller and Sam Skove — Resumes are flying around Washington as President JOE BIDEN's national security team frantically searches for jobs once they're kicked out of office next month.
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Mitch McConnell / Foreign Affairs:
The Price of American Retreat
The Price of American Retreat
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New York Times:
Trump and SoftBank CEO Announce $100 Billion Investment in US Projects — The technology company plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects, echoing the multibillion-dollar pledge it made after Donald J. Trump's first election victory in 2016. — President-elect Donald J. Trump's …
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Japan's SoftBank plans to invest $100 billion in US projects over the next four years.
Japan's SoftBank plans to invest $100 billion in US projects over the next four years.
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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.
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 …
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 …
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Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Back, This Time Without Disdain — As his domestic critics have gotten in line, so the world has saluted his restoration, if reluctantly. — Almost exactly eight years ago, President-elect Trump hosted a gathering at Trump Tower for the leaders of America's biggest technology companies.
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.
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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.
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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 …
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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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