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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.
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New York Times:
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing
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NBC News:
Appeals court allows special counsel's report about Trump's election interference case to be released to public
Appeals court allows special counsel's report about Trump's election interference case to be released to public
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Graham Kates / CBS News:
Supreme Court won't stop Trump sentencing in “hush money” criminal case
Supreme Court won't stop Trump sentencing in “hush money” criminal case
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Divided Supreme Court denies Trump request to block sentencing in NY hush money case
Divided Supreme Court denies Trump request to block sentencing in NY hush money case
ABC News:
New York appeals court denies Trump's bid to halt Friday's hush money sentencing
New York appeals court denies Trump's bid to halt Friday's hush money sentencing
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Kanishka Singh / USA Today:
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases
Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Trump - says they didn't discuss legal cases
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Trump call to Alito sparks demands for justice to recuse from sentencing case
Trump call to Alito sparks demands for justice to recuse from sentencing case
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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.
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly clears first hurdle in Senate with help from Democrats
Laken Riley Act overwhelmingly clears first hurdle in Senate with help from Democrats
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Associated Press:
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
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Ursula Perano / Politico:
Schumer will vote to advance Laken Riley Act
Schumer will vote to advance Laken Riley Act
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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 …
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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.
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Jack Detsch / Politico:
Can Trump buy Greenland? Technically, yes. Here are his options.
Can Trump buy Greenland? Technically, yes. Here are his options.
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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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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 …
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Rejects Biden's Title IX Rules, Scrapping Protections for Trans Students — The decision threw out the administration's proposed regulations, which prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. — A federal judge in Kentucky on Thursday struck down President Biden's effort …
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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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Ariel Messman-Rucker / Gay Pride:
Amid Palisades fire, Los Angeles' first LGBTQ+ fire chief is proving lesbians get it done
Amid Palisades fire, Los Angeles' first LGBTQ+ fire chief is proving lesbians get it done
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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 …
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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 …
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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” — Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post “I'm a proud racist” or “Black people are more violent than whites.” — META IS NOW granting its users new freedom to post …
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta's new policies open gate to hate
Meta's new policies open gate to hate
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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
Watch Barack Obama Laugh At Something Donald Trump Says At Jimmy Carter's Funeral
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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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