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3:50 PM ET, December 16, 2024

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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.
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 …
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and NOTUS
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Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg runs for Democratic committee post: 'We can't win without young voters'  —  Gun safety activist bidding for a DNC vice-chair post says party defends institutions when it needs to reform them  —  David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting turned gun safety …
Discussion: ABC News
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
National anti-violence activist David Hogg launches bid for DNC leadership
Discussion: ABC News, Breitbart and New Republic
Grace Harrington / The Daily Beast:
Trump Says He'll Sue Pollster Ann Selzer for Wrong Prediction  —  Donald Trump announced Monday he would sue political pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, who published a shock poll showing Trump losing Iowa by three points.  “I'm not doing this because I want to …
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Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Trump says he supports polio vaccine despite signs of RFK Jr's opposition - live
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:
Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Resigns, in Blow to Trudeau's Hold on Power
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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Joshua Keating / Vox:   How China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:   Are the Years of Madness Ending?
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.
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
Paul Krugman / Krugman wonks out:
Crypto is for Criming  —  It's not digital gold — it's digital Benjamins  —  The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee crypto players the right to a checking account …
Discussion: Raw Story, Balloon Juice and The Sun
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Why we need more sunshine in government, and less Daylight Saving time in the USA  —  Good afternoon from Washington, where I've been holding down the fort for a tween, two dogs, and a growing end-of-year checklist.  —  I hope you and yours are well.  If you're receiving this message …
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Daniel Schuman / The Bulwark:
Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They're Needed Most
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, SoftBank CEO to Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S.  —  The president-elect is set to appear with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at Mar-a-Lago on Monday  —  PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are set to jointly announce on Monday that the company …
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Trump to announce $100B SoftBank investment in the US
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Blocked Muslim Judicial Nominee Decries Senate ‘Smear Campaign’  —  Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim American federal appellate court judge, wrote an angry letter to President Biden describing bigotry he faced in the confirmation process.  —  The first Muslim American …
Discussion: New Jersey Online and The Hill
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
ABC bends the knee  —  📝 Public Notice is made possible by paid subscribers.  If you aren't one, please click the button below to sign up and support our independent journalism.  📝  —  🎄 Subscribe to Public Notice 🎄  —  Since the election …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims  —  A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.  —  For years, worker advocates and some government officials …
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Phillip Nieto / Mediaite:
New House Repub Tells Audience ‘We Need a Lot More Daniel Pennys’ Because There Are ‘Far Too Many Jordan Neelys’ In This Country  —  Congressman-elect Brandon Gill (R-TX) on Sunday opened his remarks at the New York Young Republican Club annual gala with praise for Daniel Penny …
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Trump vows to fire 49K work-from-home federal employees if they don't return to office  —  The 2020 pandemic resulted in many businesses moving employees work from home — and some have yet to return to their office spaces.  President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that included 49,000 federal workers …
Washington Post:
Kamala Harris grapples with her future in a wounded Democratic Party  —  As questions loom about a run for president or governor, many Democrats do not blame Harris for her loss, but that doesn't mean they want her to run again  —  When Mitt Romney lost his 2012 presidential race …
Wall Street Journal:
Why Musk Doesn't Have Access to SpaceX's Biggest Government Secrets  —  Executives haven't sought higher security clearance for the CEO to avoid questions about his drug use and contact with foreign officials; the answers might no longer matter  —  The payloads SpaceX launches into the heavens …
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Trump says Russia-Ukraine peace may be harder than Middle East  —  President-elect Trump on Monday expressed confidence that he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine but also stressed that it would be difficult and possibly harder to solve than the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent and Politico
Ellen Ioanes / Vox:
How Trump could gut the refugee program  —  A second Trump presidency could be even worse for refugees than the first. … President-elect Donald Trump has promised to halt refugees from coming to the US in his second term — a promise that will largely be within his power as president to keep.
Max Tani / Semafor:
Kamala Harris' digital chief on Democrats ‘losing hold of culture’  —  Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty turned his attention to sports.  —  The campaign needed to introduce Harris quickly to people who aren't obsessed with politics.
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 …
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
Supreme Court declines appeal from Peter Navarro; Trump White House aide to return after prison term  —  The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Peter Navarro, the former White House official who is set to return in Donald Trump's second term after serving prison time on contempt of Congress charges.
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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Steve Liesman / CNBC:
Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey
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Mark Jacob / Stop the Presses:
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CBS News:
Armed man with Glock switch in his underwear arrested outside Pentagon
Discussion: RedState
Stephen Rodrick / Rolling Stone:
Pete Buttigieg Hits The Road One Last Time (For Now)
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump transition team to roll back Biden EV, emissions policies
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
Some workers are losing pay raises after overtime rule was struck down
 

 
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Major news outlets like Fox, MSNBC, and CBS are leveraging their reporters' personal TikTok accounts rather than the companies' own to reach younger audiences

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
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