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12:50 PM ET, December 28, 2024

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Axios:
Elon Musk pledges “war” over H-1B visa program, calls opponents racists … - Trump, who has remained silent thus far on the schism, faces a quickly deepening conflict between his richest and most powerful advisors on one hand, and the people who swept him to office on the other.
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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 …
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.
Samantha-Jo Roth / Washington Examiner:
Trump base splits over Musk and Ramaswamy's support for foreign worker visas
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
Steve Bannon Joins War Against Elon Musk as MAGA Implodes
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Dean Phillips Was Right About Joe Biden.  He Finds It ‘Awfully Unsatisfying.’  —  The three-term lawmaker and presidential candidate is deeply disappointed with his fellow Democrats.  —  Outgoing Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips poses for a portrait at his home in Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 16.
Discussion: The Hill, The Guardian and Fox News
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Playbook: Trump lets Johnson twist in the wind  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — “Putin Apologizes but Stops Short of Taking Responsibility for Kazakhstan Crash,” by NYT's Anatoly Kurmanaev: “The statement stopped short …
Discussion: Daily Kos and New Republic
Colleen Slevin / Associated Press:
Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying 'This is Trump's America now'  —  A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump's America now,” according to court documents.
The Guardian:
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party  —  Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics  —  The tech entrepreneur and close adviser to Donald Trump Elon Musk has taken a stunning …
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
Discussion: New York Post
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy  —  In his presidency's final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently  —  Earlier this year, Rep. James E. Clyburn met President Joe Biden at the White House to deliver a stern message …
Discussion: The Guardian
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
Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Experts confused but delighted by low rates of teen drug use  —  A new study has experts beaming with hope as it shows teen drug use at a record low, but they admit confusion as to why the trend is happening and how to ensure it continues.  —  The annual national Monitoring the Future survey found …
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Does Trump Jan 6.  Pardon Plan Include the Seditionists?  —  Trump's transition team is not ruling it out  —  With Donald Trump winning back the White House, his Big Lie that Jan. 6 was just an enthusiastic rally that got out of hand, rather than an insurrectionist mob he unleashed to disrupt …
Discussion: HuffPost
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 …
Discussion: Forbes and Politico
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
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Bernie Sanders / Fox News:
SEN BERNIE SANDERS: Two Americas, the people vs. the billionaires
Discussion: BizPac Review and The Hill
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Judge signals that contempt hearing for Rudy Giuliani over his assets might not go well for him
Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
America Needs a National Healthcare System
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNBC:
Rep. Chip Roy: Won't vote for a debt ceiling increase unless we have significant spending cuts
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, a cable TV industry pioneer who launched HBO and AMC Networks and whose family controls Madison Square Garden, dies at 98

CBS News:
Greg Gumbel, a CBS Sports anchor and commentator who covered the NFL and college basketball for more than 20 years, died at 78 of cancer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law
 
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