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9:45 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
NBC News:
Appeals court allows special counsel's report about Trump's election interference case to be released to public  —  The president-elect could still appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.  —  A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report …
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
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Divided Supreme Court denies Trump request to block sentencing in NY hush money case  —  Trump argued the sentencing for his conviction of falsifying business records interferes with preparations for his Jan. 20 return to office.  —  WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court …
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New York Times:
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing  —  After the court declined in a 5-to-4 decision to block Donald J. Trump's criminal sentencing, he is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied President-elect …
Kanishka Singh / USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases
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, The Independent 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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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”  —  Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.
Discussion: Associated Press
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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
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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Tristin Hopper / National Post:
Elizabeth May proposes California, Oregon, Washington join Canada after Trump's 51st state threat
Discussion: Daily Kos
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
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
The ‘Ice Maiden’ Cometh: Can Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, Survive?
Discussion: Florida Politics
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Reality bites Trump
Discussion: Financial Times
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Surprise! The media just discovered Bidenomics works.
Discussion: Newsbusters
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
More than 15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr. as health secretary
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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