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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Trump announces $20 billion foreign investment to build new U.S. data centers … President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $20 billion foreign investment to build new data centers across the United States.  —  Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani, a Trump associate and founder …

Danish king changes coat of arms amid row with Trump over Greenland  —  Design shows intent to keep control of Faroe Islands and Greenland - which Trump says he would like the US to buy  —  The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland …

Why Mike Johnson's fake “Jefferson prayer” matters  —  Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement  —  One cannot say for certain that Rep. Mike Johnson was deliberately lying during his acceptance speech to return as Speaker of the House.

Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96  —  Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front party who tapped into working class concerns over immigration and globalisation, shaking up the French political establishment, has died, sources close to his daughter Marine Le Pen said on Tuesday.

Trump could be setting himself up for a ‘powerful’ early failure  —  Trump wants to go big with his first legislative priority, but major pitfalls await — if he even recognizes them.  —  President-elect Donald Trump has never been terribly concerned with the legitimate obstacles in front of him or the finer points of legislating.

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.

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 …

Trump Asks Appeals Court to Freeze His New York Criminal Sentencing  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is trying to expunge his conviction before he is inaugurated.  He would be the first felon elected to the Oval Office.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday intensified …

The New Rasputins … frosty pine trees rim the edge of an icy lake.  Snow is falling; spa music plays in the background.  A gray-haired man with a pleasant face stands beside the lake.  He begins to undress.  He is going swimming, he explains, to demonstrate his faith, and his opposition to science, to technology, to modernity.

10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021  —  After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their political influence.