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3:55 PM ET, January 7, 2025

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Cannon temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe  —  Two Trump employees charged alongside him in the classified documents case separately asked Judge Aileen Cannon to block the release.  —  The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump …
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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:   Trump Admits Jack Smith Found Vast ‘Criminal Conspiracies’
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases as court fight simmers
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Special Counsel's Final Report on Trump Documents Investigation
Politico:
Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report
Discussion: RedState and New York Post
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump muses over renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’
Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
Judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump's criminal cases
Associated Press:
Trump announces $20B US investment by Emirati businessman
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Release Jack Smith's Report
Discussion: Raw Story
Toronto Sun:
Zuckerberg wears $900,000 watch to announce end of Meta fact checks  —  Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company's decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the U.S.  —  Play Video
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Meta:
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes  —  Meta's platforms are built to be places where people can express themselves freely.  That can be messy.  On platforms where billions of people can have a voice, all the good, bad and ugly is on display.  But that's free expression.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram  —  Meta's chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, joins ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday morning for exclusive interview  —  FIRST ON FOX - Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions …
NBC News:
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a ‘community notes’ system similar to X  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a “cultural tipping point.”
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content  —  Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads  —  Meta will get rid of factcheckers, “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” and recommend …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Zuckerberg Achieves Trump Lap Monkey Badge And Other Platform News
Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy
New York Times:
Live Updates: Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now
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Associated Press:
Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: 'We're going to treat you well'  —  President-elect Donald Trump told residents of Greenland that “we're going to treat you well” as his oldest son visited the mineral-rich Danish territory that's home to a large U.S. military base …
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Politico:
‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders,’ says Danish PM as Donald Trump Jr. arrives
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
In sum: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally  —  Trump regularly declines to rule things out, but this one on Greenland is different.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is the king of not ruling things out.  It's his default response when a possibility …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Sputnik News
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Associated Press:
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
Matthew Belloni / Puck:
Melania Trump Documentary Scores Massive Amazon Payday  —  It's 2025, and even the Walt Disney Co. is kissing Donald Trump's ring.  But it's still stunning that Amazon is paying a whopping $40 million to license the Brett Ratner-directed Melania Trump documentary.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Biden admin finalizes rule to ban medical debt from credit reports … - The CFPB estimates that for Americans with medical debt, the new rule could raise their credit scores by an average of 20 points.  — “People who get sick shouldn't have their financial future upended,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in the press release.
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Final Rule Removing Medical Debt from All Credit Reports
Politico:
Trump's one-bill two-step perplexes GOP senators  —  GOP senators are questioning the president-elect's commitment to “one powerful bill.”  —  If Donald Trump thought he was settling the GOP's most important strategy dispute, Senate Republicans are not getting the message.
Discussion: USA Today, CNN and Raw Story
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New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Drops New Hints on How He'll Screw Over Mike Johnson
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96  —  Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, has died.
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Tassilo Hummel / Reuters:
Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96
Discussion: BBC and Politico
FIRE:
FIRE to defend veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer in Trump lawsuit over outlier election poll  —  “Punishing someone for their political prediction is about as unconstitutional as it gets,” said FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere.  “This is America.  No one should be afraid to predict the outcome of an election.
Discussion: The Hill
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Washington Post Lays Off 4 Percent of Its Work Force  —  The layoffs will affect employees across The Post's business operations, not its newsroom.  —  The Washington Post has started laying off roughly 4 percent of its work force, the company said on Tuesday, as the newspaper struggles to stem millions of dollars in annual losses.
Public Notice:
How Democrats should talk about Trump's corruption  —  “There's really a need for a whole new set of reforms,” Noah Bookbinder says.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Donald Trump is the most brazenly self-dealing president in history.  He's surrounded these days by an obscene cast of billionaires …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
The White House:
Statement by Press Secretary Ernesto Apreza on Vice President Harris' Travel to Singapore, Bahrain, and Germany  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Singapore, Bahrain, and Germany from January 13 to January 17.  —  On January 15, the Vice President will meet with leaders in Singapore and visit Changi Naval Base.
Discussion: Associated Press
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US says Sudanese rebel force has committed genocide, and it imposes sanctions on the group's leaders  —  The Biden administration said Tuesday that a Sudanese paramilitary group and its proxies are committing genocide in a civil war with the country's military that has killed tens of thousands of people …
 
 
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Axios:
Scoop: Senate Dems delay Tulsi Gabbard nomination
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump could be setting himself up for a ‘powerful’ early failure
James D. Zirin / The Hill:
No one is above the law — except Trump
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Why Mike Johnson's fake “Jefferson prayer” matters
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Piers Morgan and News UK strike a deal that gives him ownership of the Uncensored YouTube channel; News UK will get a share of ad revenue until 2029

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Meta will launch a test in Germany, France and the US to publish eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace, after it was fined €798M by EU for abusing dominance
 
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