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The Hill:
Live updates: Senate approves Social Security bill, prevents shutdown  —  Just as the government funding deadline arrived early Saturday, Congress passed an interim plan to prevent a shutdown after a chaotic few days and nights in Washington.  —  President Biden is expected to sign the funding bill later on Saturday.
New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: House Approves Stopgap Funding Bill Hours Ahead of Shutdown Deadline  —  The new legislation would keep the government open but did not include the debt ceiling increase that President-elect Donald J. Trump had demanded.  It now goes to the Senate.  —  Here are the latest developments.
Axios:
House passes 11th-hour bill to avert government shutdown
Politico:
Playbook: Shutdown?  Averted.  Crisis?  Delayed.  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FOOD FOR THOUGHT — “The ABC Settlement Doesn't Mean the Press Is Caving to Trump,” by Ankush Khardori: “There were good legal reasons for the network to avoid a trial.”
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Eric Levitz / Vox:
House Republicans just exposed the limits of Trump's power
Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair:
Republicans Own This Government Shutdown S—t Show
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips, Democrats Say  —  The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.  —  Justice Clarence Thomas failed …
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Associated Press:
New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors  —  Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991  —  A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of supreme court ethics details …
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Senate Dems' report on SCOTUS ethics inquiry decries “culture of misconduct”  —  Judiciary Dems' majority staff report calls for Congress to act given that “the justices have allowed ethical misconduct to persist for decades.”  —  For the past 20 months, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democrats …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Senate Democrats blast Supreme Court's ‘ethical crisis’ as investigation concludes  —  With Republicans about to take control of the Senate, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee issued a report detailing alleged ethical lapses by justices.  —  WASHINGTON — A lengthy investigation …
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senate confirms Biden's 235th judge, beating Trump's record  —  It's an important milestone for Joe Biden as he tops his predecessor Donald Trump's total number of judicial nominees confirmed before handing the White House back over to him.  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate confirmed …
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Biden secures 235th confirmed judicial appointee, one more than Trump  —  Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden secured his 235th appointment to the federal judiciary on Friday, narrowly surpassing President-elect Donald Trump's first-term tally by one with a record number of women and people of color named to the bench.
Tobi Raji / Washington Post:
Senate confirms 2 Biden judicial nominees, boosting total over Trump
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Senate approves 235th judge of Biden's term, beating Trump's tally
Kate Connolly / The Guardian:
Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’  —  German health minister calls US billionaire's intervention weeks before election ‘undignified and problematic’  —  Elon Musk has caused outrage in Berlin after appearing to endorse the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland.
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Alex Nguyen / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk Applauds the German Neo-Nazi Party
Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration  —  Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who's pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US  —  Curtis Yarvin is hardly a household name in US politics.
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs Commuting Sentences of Death Row Inmates  —  Amid pleas from religious and civil-rights groups, president is considering whether to convert death sentences to life without parole  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden is considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all …
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Trump's ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed  —  Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory  —  They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.
Discussion: Alternet.org
Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir / Bloomberg:
Iceland's Social Democrats Reach Deal for New Government  — Three-party coalition vows prudent budgets, war on inflation  — Referendum on resuming EU entry talks seen before 2027  —  Iceland's new ruling coalition agreed on a platform of budget restraint to fight inflation …
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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