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11:30 AM ET, January 12, 2025

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New York Times:
Pardoned by Trump, Manafort Is Back and Looking for Foreign Work  —  The president-elect's 2016 campaign chairman, four years after receiving clemency, is testing the international market with a team of Trump-linked consultants.  —  Constant Méheut and Michael Schwirtz
New York Times:
Inside Elon Musk's Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs  —  Mr. Musk has turned to Silicon Valley to help recruit executives who will take up unofficial positions across the federal government.  —  An unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Mike Ives / New York Times:
Trump Calls Officials Handling Los Angeles Wildfires ‘Incompetent’  —  Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles County authorities have invited President-elect Donald J. Trump to tour the devastation, but he has not publicly responded.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump offered fresh criticism early Sunday …
Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone:
Trump Plans a Cruel Deportation Propaganda Blitz to Scare Away Immigrants  —  The president-elect and his allies plan to take their racist Springfield terror campaign national  —  Donald Trump is coming back into office this month on a vow to initiate the “largest” mass deportation operation …
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Annie Grayer / CNN:
Trump border czar privately tempers Republican lawmaker expectations on administration's initial deportation operation  —  President-elect Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan has privately told Republican lawmakers to temper their expectations for the incoming administration's initial deportation operation …
New York Times:
Jack Smith, Who Led Prosecutions of Trump, Resigns  —  Mr. Smith, a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, had signaled that he would step down before Donald J. Trump's inauguration.  —  Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two unsuccessful federal prosecutions …
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Politico:
Special counsel Jack Smith resigns from DOJ
Cybele Mayes-Osterman / USA Today:
DOJ says judge was ‘plainly’ wrong to block Trump election interference report
Fox News:
Special counsel Jack Smith resigns after 2-year stint at Department of Justice
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / Breitbart:
Steve Bannon: ‘I Will Do Anything’ to Keep Elon Musk out of the White House  —  ROME — Former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing to have the tech billionaire kicked out of the White House by the time Donald Trump is inaugurated.
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden Awards Medal of Freedom to Pope Francis  —  President Biden, a Catholic, awarded the medal with distinction to the pontiff, to whom he has turned for personal guidance.  —  President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction to Pope Francis on Saturday …
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Tony Czuczka / Bloomberg:
Biden Awards Pope a Presidential Medal in Waning Days of Term
Discussion: RedState
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Republican congressman calls for halting of disaster relief to California  —  Warren Davidson of Ohio says aid should be withheld until the state ravaged by wildfires reforms forestry management  —  A Republican US congressman from Ohio has called for federal disaster relief to be withheld …
Washington Post:
Trump's expansionist designs prompt worried responses from foreign leaders  —  As some Republicans line up behind Trump's annexation threats, leaders in Greenland and Denmark are trying to de-escalate.  —  President-elect Donald Trump's fixation on expanding the nation's territory to include Greenland …
Discussion: The Hill and Reuters
Karoun Demirjian / New York Times:
F.B.I. Briefs Top Senators on Armed Services Panel About Hegseth  —  The committee's Republican chairman and its top Democrat were briefed on F.B.I. findings into Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's defense secretary pick.  Democrats questioned whether there were gaps.
Alex Nitzberg / Fox News:
Dem senator warns ‘LA fires are preview of coming atrocities,’ claims Trump bought off by ‘Big Oil’  —  Ed Markey claims there is a ‘climate crisis’  —  As fires wreak havoc in California, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., claimed in a post on X the catastrophe is “what a climate emergency looks like.”
Discussion: Townhall
Wendy Benjaminson / Bloomberg:
Vance Says Violent Jan. 6 Protesters Shouldn't Be Pardoned  —  Vice President-elect JD Vance tempered his boss's promise to pardon all the protesters involved in the US Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, saying those who behaved violently should “obviously” not receive pardons.
Politico:
Trump tells House Republicans to find a ‘fair number’ on SALT  —  New York Republicans left a meeting with the incoming president saying he supported increasing the cap on the SALT deduction.  —  New York Republicans came out of a Mar-a-Lago meeting with Donald Trump on Saturday confident …
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Hill
CNN:
More than a dozen states have passed new laws that led to restrictions on pornography.  Now, the Supreme Court will weigh in  —  In Texas, Florida, and more than a dozen other states, users who try to access the world's largest pornography website are greeted by a surprising sight …
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Ilana Berger / Media Matters for America:
As fast-moving wildfires rage in Los Angeles, right-wing media misleadingly blame forest mismanagement
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman / USA Today:
Supreme Court to examine stalled Biden plan cancelling debt for defrauded students
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