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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk calls MAGA element “contemptible fools” as virtual civil war brews … - The schism may force Trump to ultimately take sides between the largely white, working-class supporters who first made MAGA succeed, and the techno-libertarian billionaires like Musk who are at the center of his new administration.
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigration — The claims came after Elon Musk was involved in a public feud with some Republicans over immigration. — Tech billionaire Elon Musk faced accusations of censorship Friday from fellow conservatives …
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy — Feud flared up when president-elect chose Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born entrepreneur, as his AI adviser — Bitter in-fighting has broken out between the tech billionaire Elon Musk and Donald Trump's hardline …
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes — Steve Bannon has joined the MAGA war between hard-line immigration opponents and tech executives like Elon Musk, taking the side of xenophobia on his War Room show Friday. — “H-1B visas? That's not what it's about.
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Samantha-Jo Roth / Washington Examiner:
Trump base splits over Musk and Ramaswamy's support for foreign worker visas
Trump base splits over Musk and Ramaswamy's support for foreign worker visas
Katherine Doyle / NBC News:
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy open rift with MAGA loyalists over skilled worker visas
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy open rift with MAGA loyalists over skilled worker visas
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Rolling Stone:
Trump Ally Laura Loomer Says Elon Musk Is ‘Silencing’ Her Amid Immigration Spat
Trump Ally Laura Loomer Says Elon Musk Is ‘Silencing’ Her Amid Immigration Spat
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Janet Yellen tells Congress US could hit debt limit in mid-January — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14 …
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Michael Stratford / Politico:
Yellen: US will hit debt ceiling in mid- or late-January — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday she expects the U.S. will officially run up against its borrowing limit in mid- to late-January, starting the clock on a major fiscal challenge facing President-elect Donald Trump in his first months in office.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Ban — The president-elect took no position on the app's First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform. — President-elect Donald J. Trump filed an unusual brief on Friday asking …
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NBC News:
Trump urges Supreme Court to hit pause on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. next month — The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on Jan. 10. The law is set to take effect on Jan. 19, one day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.
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World Health Organization:
Acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria (previously undiagnosed disease) - Democratic Republic of the Congo — Situation at a glance — This is an update to the Disease Outbreak News on Undiagnosed disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo published on 8 December 2024 …
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Passing of Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India — Jill and I join the people of India in grieving the loss of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. — The unprecedented level of cooperation between the United States and India today …
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Michael Casey / Associated Press:
US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people — The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts …
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Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
'He's Not Going to Please Everyone.' John Thune's Delicate Task Under Trump — The small-town South Dakotan rose to the Senate's top post by deftly navigating spending fights and the ascent of MAGA
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Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
America Needs a National Healthcare System — The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick and “Scientific Racism” is part of the reason why — There's only one person in this photograph/video of a recent G7 meeting who represents …
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New York Times:
Maggie Shannon for The New York Times — Visuals by Maggie Shannon Text by Isabelle Taft — A Baptist minister, a Presbyterian pastor and a Jewish cantor held burning incense as they walked quietly through the empty, white-walled clinic. They blessed the exam tables and their stirrups …
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Judge signals that contempt hearing for Rudy Giuliani over his assets might not go well for him — A federal judge is signaling that Rudy Giuliani's contempt hearing next Friday might not end so well for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump …