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8:05 AM ET, January 9, 2025

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ABC News:
Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing  —  Alito spoke to Trump to recommend an ex-clerk for a job in his administration.  —  President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Jan. 7, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing  —  The justice said that the call was a routine job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect's sentencing did not come up.  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden postpones Italy trip amid raging Los Angeles fires  —  President Biden will no longer travel to Italy this weekend as fires rage in Los Angeles County, the White House said Wednesday.  —  “After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police …
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The White House:
Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  —  After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today he had met with police, fire and emergency personnel fighting the historic fires raging in the area and approved a Major Disaster declaration for California …
Discussion: NBC News and New York Post
Joey Garrison / USA Today:
It's a boy: Naomi Biden, Joe Biden's granddaughter, welcomes first baby
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Alex Nieves / Politico:
With Bass abroad, even Democrats are slamming LA mayor over wildfires  —  Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong and developer Rick Caurso led the chorus of criticism against the mayor.  Tommy Vietor, a former Obama staffer and Pod Save America host, piled on.
Los Angeles Times:
Lack of water from hydrants in Palisades fire is hurting firefighters, Caruso says
New York Times:
Ozempic, Legos and Hearing Aids: What Trump's Greenland Plan Could Hit  —  Putting tariffs on Denmark unless it cedes the island of Greenland could hurt access to a few key products, including popular medicines.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened tariffs on many countries for many different reasons.
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
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Public Notice:
Taking Trump's imperialist trolling seriously (for a moment)  —  We've come a long way from bringing down egg prices.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Speaking as someone who's been covering Trump for nine years now, paying attention to what he's doing instead of obsessing over what he's saying is generally a good rule of thumb.
Discussion: The Hill
Ellen Ioanes / Vox:
Are North Carolina Republicans trying to steal a state Supreme Court seat?  —  North Carolina's Supreme Court has temporarily prohibited the state's Board of Elections from certifying the election of sitting Democratic Justice Allison Riggs to the bench on Tuesday, despite her 734-vote victory …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The gravity of a GOP election challenge in N.C.: ‘Invites incredible mischief’
Discussion: Carolina Journal and Raw Story
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega / New York Times:
Poking Fun at Trump, Mexico's President Suggests Renaming the U.S.  —  President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico also said Donald Trump was ill-informed when he said Mexico was “essentially run by the cartels.”  —  Mexico's president rejected several of President-elect Donald J. Trump's assertions …
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CNN:
Trump team resurfaces plans to designate Mexican cartels as terror organizations
Discussion: New Republic
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
House Republican bill would pave way for Trump to acquire Panama Canal for US  —  Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) will introduce a bill that would authorize the president to purchase the Panama Canal and put it under U.S. control, an acquisition that President-elect Trump has been pushing over the last several weeks.
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Costas Paris / Wall Street Journal:
Panama Canal CEO Says Meeting Trump's Demands ‘Will Lead to Chaos’
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and New Republic
NBC News:
AG Merrick Garland intends to release special counsel report on Trump's Jan. 6 case, DOJ says  —  The portion of the report about the classified documents case is being withheld pending litigation in Florida federal courts.  —  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has turned …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Biden Has Presidential Immunity. He Should Use It.
Discussion: The Atlantic, Forbes and The Hill
Bonchie / RedState:
Prepare to Be Shocked: Los Angeles' Fire Chief Is a DEI-Obsessed ‘LGBTQ’ Woman Who Wasted Millions  —  In perhaps the most unexpected, shocking revelation to come out of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, it turns out their Fire Chief is an “LGBTQ+” woman who is obsessed with DEI.
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts  —  Musk previously said his Department of Government Efficiency would be able to recommend cuts to the federal budget of “at least $2 trillion.”  —  Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort …
NBC News:
Trump transition considering D.C.-area showcase immigration raid in first days of administration  —  The raid under consideration would target immigrants allegedly living in the U.S. illegally at a workplace in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.  —  The incoming Trump administration …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Hawaii Gov: RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Misinformation Left Dozens Of Kids Dead In Samoa  —  The Senate is poised to make “an absolute life-or-death decision” in confirming Kennedy as HHS secretary, warned Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician.  —  LOADING  —  WASHINGTON — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green …
Philip Marcelo / Associated Press:
Disgraced former US Rep. George Santos granted 3-month delay in sentencing for fraud and ID theft  —  Disgraced former congressman George Santos, facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with more than half a million dollars in court fines — including from work on his new podcast.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship  —  In early December I got the kind of tip we've been getting a lot over the past year.  A reader had noticed a post from someone on Reddit complaining about a very graphic sexual ad appearing in their Instagram Reels.
New York Times:
Trump Inauguration, Awash in Cash, Runs Out of Perks for Big Donors  —  The president-elect has raised more than $170 million for his swearing-in, an inaugural record, as wealthy Americans flock to curry favor with him and some give money even without the prospect of V.I.P. access.
Discussion: Sludge, Raw Story and The Dispatch
New York Times:
Powerful Labor Group Joins A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ahead of New Trump Era  —  A marriage between the service employees union and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. could better equip organized labor to deal with a less-friendly administration.  —  Two prominent labor groups are joining forces in an attempt …
Discussion: Associated Press, NBC News and HuffPost
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Ex-FBI informant behind fake Biden-Ukraine bribery allegations sentenced to 6 years in prison  —  The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, according to court records.
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Capitol Police arrest man with machete at entrance for Jimmy Carter viewing  —  Police said the man was arrested at a security checkpoint for people waiting to offer their respects to former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda.  —  Capitol Police said a man …
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Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:
Capitol Police arrest man with machete amid Carter visitation and ahead of Trump meeting
 
 
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Canadian leaders say Trump's talk about Canada becoming the 51st state isn't funny anymore
Bernie Sanders / Fox News:
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: H-1B visas hurt one type of worker and exploit another. This mess must be fixed
Discussion: CT Mirror, The Hill and Mediaite
Christina Larson / Associated Press:
New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction
Discussion: Nature and The Hill
Clive Thompson / Mother Jones:
The Secret to a Better City Is a Two-Wheeler
Washington Post:
Trump huddles with Senate Republicans on early legislative strategy
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David Strom / HotAir:
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Threatening Canada  —  Trump posted this last night on Truth Social.  —  A lot of people went off on him.
Discussion: MSNBC
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Pre-election leaks from the Justice Department have also aided Trump
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced
 

 
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Ivanti warns that threat actors exploited a critical-rated zero-day in its widely used Connect Secure VPN tool to compromise its corporate customers' networks

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin says Mark Zuckerberg met with Trump the day before announcing that Meta would replace fact-checking with Community Notes
 
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