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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 …
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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:
Appeals court allows release of Trump Jan. 6 special counsel report — The ruling can be appealed. President-elect Donald Trump says releasing the special counsel report would interfere with his White House transition — A federal appellate court has cleared the way for the Justice Department …
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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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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
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity
The Supreme Court hands Trump a loss in his bid for legal immunity
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John Fritze / CNN:
Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in hush money case, Supreme Court says in 5-4 ruling
Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in hush money case, Supreme Court says in 5-4 ruling
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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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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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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
Donald Trump Jr.'s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker
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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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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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Ursula Perano / Politico:
Schumer will vote to advance Laken Riley Act
Schumer will vote to advance Laken Riley Act
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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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Blames California's Governor, and His Water Policy, for Wildfires
Trump Blames California's Governor, and His Water Policy, for Wildfires
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Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
'Can't Even Respond': Gavin Newsom Reacts To Trump's Los Angeles Wildfires Attack
'Can't Even Respond': Gavin Newsom Reacts To Trump's Los Angeles Wildfires Attack
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
Scoop: Trump's 100 executive orders
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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.
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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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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Federal judge strikes down Biden Title IX rules — A federal judge in Kentucky struck down changes made to Title IX by the Biden administration Thursday, ruling that the new regulations, which had sought to expand nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students, violate the Constitution.
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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 …
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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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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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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Tristin Hopper / National Post:
Elizabeth May proposes California, Oregon, Washington join Canada after Trump's 51st state threat — The basic idea of ‘Cascadia’ is to calve off B.C., Washington and Oregon to form a super-rich hyper-progressive enviro-state — Amid repeated pledges by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to annex Canada …
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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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Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
Remembering Carter, Biden's truth deficit, and Zuckerberg's choice to raise the risk of genocide — Good evening from Washington, where I am still learning and relearning the lesson not to compose newsletters in the content management system. If you're reading this, you're subscribed to the first edition of Civic Texts in the year.
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.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Falsehoods around the L.A. fires are proliferating on the right — Anything to keep the realities of climate change from spreading. — There is nothing political about the wildfires that have annihilated thousands of buildings around Los Angeles this week, with two exceptions.
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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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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