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Jon Levine / New York Post:
Trump supports immigration visas backed by Musk: ‘I have many H-1B visas on my properties’ — President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue.
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Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Trump Weighs In on Immigrant Visa Debate but Offers Little Clarity — He said in an interview that he had used the visas for skilled workers “many times.” But he has mainly used visas for unskilled workers like housekeepers. — President-elect Donald J. Trump appeared to weigh in on Saturday …
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Krugman wonks out and Townhall
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Trump appears to side with Musk, tech allies in debate over foreign workers roiling his supporters — President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten / Fox News:
Trump says he is a ‘believer’ in H-1B visas for skilled migrant workers as right spars on immigration: report
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@amuse, Breitbart and Fox Business
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he'd have defeated Trump — President also regrets picking Merrick Garland for attorney general, as he was slow to prosecute Trump for January 6 — Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year's presidential race and believes …
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Power Line, Townhall, HuffPost, Reason and The Gateway Pundit
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Patti Davis / New York Times:
The Blaming of Joe Biden — We are now in the final weeks of Joe Biden's presidency, and I've been thinking about the year he had — how different it was from what he hoped last winter as he sought re-election. All presidents think about what they wanted to achieve, in the end, and how Americans will regard them.
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Twitchy
Tyler Pager / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy
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The Independent, New York Post, Mediaite, RedState and The Post Millennial
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Playbook: Trump lets Johnson twist in the wind
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Wonkette and Washington Examiner
Christopher F. Schuetze / New York Times:
Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right Party — The world's richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections. — Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a close adviser …
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Bloomberg and Civil Discourse …
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Musk writes op-ed backing far-right German political party
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Reuters and The Gateway Pundit
Lauren Floyd / Axios:
Trump calls federal judge's decision on border wall “major, crucial WIN” … - The attorney general's office said in a news release Paxton asked for a probe “to uncover potential legal violations committed by the Biden Administration after recent reports that segments of the border wall were auctioned off for pennies on the dollar.”
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Post Millennial, Texas Attorney General, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post and Raw Story
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The Hill:
Democrats taunt Trump with ‘President Musk’ moniker — Democrats are taunting President-elect Trump with claims that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is calling the shots instead of the incoming president. — And with Musk set to play a major role in Trump's second term …
New York Times:
How Donald Trump Went From Backing a TikTok Ban to Backing Off — In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration's effort to do just that. — Four years ago, President Donald J. Trump denounced TikTok, the Chinese-owned video sharing app, as a threat to America's national security.
Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times:
Putin Apologizes but Does Not Take Responsibility for Azerbaijani Plane Crash — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.” — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia …
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Peter S. Goodman / New York Times:
Mexico, Betting Trump Is Bluffing on Tariffs, Sees an Opportunity — Business leaders in Mexico say the incoming U.S. administration will enhance the appeal of their factories as an alternative to plants in China. — Monterrey in Mexico, a country that emerged as an attractive manufacturing hub …
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The Japan Times
Fox News:
University of Iowa announces plans to close Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department — The University of Iowa announced that it would close its Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department as public universities in the state continue to respond to a changing DEI landscape.
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RedState, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Slate:
Dear Jurisprudence: Can Trump Really Run for a Third Term? — At the end of 2024, we consider reader questions (and worries) about 2025. … Dear (Juris)Prudence, — Every so often, Trump throws out the phrase “If I'm reelected.” Politicos talk about Trump being a lame duck and how impossible that is …
Washington Post:
Democracy in 2024 was noisy and chaotic. It was also resilient. — Voters want government to work better, but they prefer democratic systems to the alternatives. — In Japan, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered its worst defeat in over a decade, and Prime Minister Shigeru …
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