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8:45 PM ET, January 9, 2025

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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court allows Trump's sentencing in New York hush money case  —  The decision means that a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday can go ahead as planned.  The president-elect had asked the high court to intervene.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court refuses to delay Trump's hush money sentencing  —  President-elect Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to stop the sentencing, citing the conservative majority's explosive immunity opinion.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Kanishka Singh / USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases
CBS News:
Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago  —  Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has accepted an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to meet with him at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way  —  By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants who have committed nonviolent crimes, all but ensuring that it will move forward.
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly clears first hurdle in Senate with help from Democrats
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Ridiculous Greenland Trip Just Took a Dark Turn  —  A MAGA visit intended to make Greenland look pro-Donald Trump appears staged from the bottom up.  —  The so-called tourism trip saw Donald Trump Jr., far-right political pundit Charlie Kirk, and Trump administration …
Discussion: NBC News and Raw Story
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Politico:
Donald Trump Jr.'s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker  —  A senior Greenlandic politician slammed Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to the island as “staged,” and warned the United States not to “invade us” given its historical treatment of Alaska's indigenous people.
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump's advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to justify …
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's 100 executive orders … - Senators were given previews of some of what they were told would be 100 executive orders, two sources who were in the room told Axios.  — Stephen Miller, Trump's longtime immigration adviser, dove into how they intend to use executive power …
Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area … As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies.  In a series of posts on Truth Social …
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Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
'Can't Even Respond': Gavin Newsom Reacts To Trump's Los Angeles Wildfires Attack
Kevin Drum:
Elon Musk is the new emperor of misinformation
Discussion: Raw Story
New Republic:
Trump's Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story
Discussion: PolitiFact, The Guardian and Raw Story
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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands of homes destroyed or damaged in Palisades firestorm, LAFD estimates  —  Los Angeles fire officials said Thursday that thousands of homes appear to have been damaged or destroyed in the firestorm in Pacific Palisades, an estimate that would significantly heighten the scale of the disaster.
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location  —  This article was produced with support from WIRED.  —  Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data …
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
CNN's Scott Jennings Makes L.A. Fire Hell All About DEI  —  Scott Jennings felt the ire of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who took a blowtorch to him after he appeared to suggest on CNN NewsNight that the southern California wildfires are worse because there are not enough white men working …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
'It's Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now': Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes  —  Meta employees are furious with the company's newly announced content moderation changes that will allow users to say that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness,” according to internal conversations obtained …
Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral  —  This was the first time Mike Pence and Donald Trump have been together publicly since the insurrection.  —  LOADING  —  Former second lady Karen Pence appeared to snub President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.
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Paige Skinner / HuffPost:
Watch Barack Obama Laugh At Something Donald Trump Says At Jimmy Carter's Funeral
Chris Koseluk / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anita Bryant, Singer and Crusader Against Gay Rights, Dies at 84  —  She has hits with songs like “Paper Roses” and served as a spokesperson for Florida orange juice before her career came crashing down.  —  Anita Bryant, the pop singer and Oklahoma beauty queen who gained fame by convincing America that a …
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 …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims  —  Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.
Luke Barr / ABC News:
“Pizzagate” gunman dies in officer-involved shooting in North Carolina  —  Edgar Madison Welch was stopped by officers outside of Charlotte.  —  Signs of support hang on the building at Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2016.  The business is set to reopen after Edgar Maddison Welch …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Trump's talk of retaking Panama Canal becomes a GOP bill … - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday she plans to introduce a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” … - The bill authorizes the president and secretary of state to …
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary  —  Their letter calls the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for promoting false medical claims, “a slap in the face” to health care professionals.  —  More than 15,000 doctors have signed …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Reality bites Trump … - “I do think that you kind of have to have some overage,” Musk, co-head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE), told former Clinton pollster Mark Penn on X.  — “I think if we try for $2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting $1 trillion,” he added …
Discussion: Financial Times
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking  —  Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Ashli Babbitt's mother says Trump called her and told Jan. 6 rioters to ‘keep their chins up’
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexandra Hutzler / ABC News:
Biden says federal government to cover 100% of costs for initial LA fire recovery
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The ‘Ice Maiden’ Cometh: Can Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, Survive?
Discussion: Florida Politics
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Surprise! The media just discovered Bidenomics works.
Discussion: Newsbusters
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Venezuelan opposition leader is arrested after a protest against Maduro
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Democrats and the Ruthless Aggression Era
Discussion: Raw Story and CT Mirror
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Soon, The Buck Stops With Him
Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic:
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Slow Boring:
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
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