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How Right Wingers Rushed to DEI Hire Pete Hegseth — Pete Hegseth is wildly unqualified to run DOD. He described yesterday the most people he had ever supervised was 100. The non-profit budgets that went broke under his stewardship were in the $10 million range.
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The Greatest DEI Disaster Ever — Democratic Senators—especially the women—shed an even brighter light on a sketchy, uninformed nominee who has no business lording over the Pentagon — Watching Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth demonstrate his appalling lack of credentials …
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TheGrio and Washington Examiner

Pam Bondi pledges ‘new golden age’ at DOJ if confirmed as Trump attorney general
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The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security
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Wall Street Journal, Slate, ABC News, Letters from an American, The Gateway Pundit, The Free Press, NBC News, Default, USA Today and Vanity Fair

Trump's threat to place conditions on fire aid outrages Democrats
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NPR, Associated Press and New York Post

Few US adults confident Justice Department and FBI will act fairly under Trump, AP-NORC poll finds
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The Hill


Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Agree to Gaza Cease-Fire Deal, Officials Say — The cease-fire would take effect immediately, a White House official said. The first phase of the deal, including the start of hostage releases, would last six weeks, although it was not clear what day that would begin, the official said.
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Israel and Hamas reach deal on Gaza ceasefire and hostage release — The Biden administration is calling for a final push before the president leaves office, with many seeing the Trump inauguration as an unofficial deadline. — WASHINGTON — A ceasefire deal has been reached to end 15 months …


Live updates: Multiple officials tout Gaza ceasefire deal; Israel says details are still in flux — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached and that the final details were still being sorted out.
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NOTUS, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, New Republic, Balloon Juice, MPR News, Semafor and The American Conservative


Biden expected to address Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, officials say — UPDATE: Israel's Netanyahu says a ceasefire deal with Hamas is still not reached — Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, mediators announced Wednesday, pausing a devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip …
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FDA to Revoke Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs — Constituent Update — The FDA is revoking the authorization for the use of FD&C Red No. 3 as a matter of law, based on the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).
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FDA bans Red No. 3, artificial coloring used in beverages, candy and other foods — Evidence shows that the synthetic dye can cause cancer in lab animals. — The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it's banning the use of Red No. 3, a synthetic dye that gives food and drinks …
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New York Post, UPI and Common Dreams

FDA bans red dye No. 3 from foods
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Washington Times, Raw Story, Fox News, One America News Network, Common Dreams, Bloomberg and Kennebec Journal …


Scoop: Trump's $500 million post-election windfall … - “The money is just pouring in at Mar-a-Lago. … - “We're looking at half a billion [dollars] by June, and we're on track,” this adviser said. … - They include the president-elect's inauguration account, the MAGA Inc. super PAC …
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New Republic, Breitbart and Raw Story


Trump will begin his presidency in delicate position, poll finds — As Donald Trump prepares to once again assume the office of the presidency, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds that, despite his claims of an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” Trump may have to be careful about how far he decides to go with what he wants to do.
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CNN, Marist Poll, PBS NewsHour and Issues & Insights


No, Merrick Garland Did Not Let Donald Trump Skate — Some time in the next five days, Merrick Garland will step down as the nation's eighty-sixth attorney general, bringing to a close one of the most distinguished careers in public service in the last century.


Defending Michigan's Auto Industry, Whitmer Warns of Tariff Risks — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addressed the Detroit Auto Show, saying that tariffs should not be used “to punish our closest trading partners,” like Canada. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, a leading Democrat …
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Poland's Tusk Says Russia Planned Terror Acts Against Airlines — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Russia of planning to carry out “acts of air terror” against airlines worldwide as he urged European partners to join forces in countering Moscow's alleged sabotage attempts.
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New York Times
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Yoon becomes South Korea's first sitting president to be detained after martial law chaos — South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was detained in a major law enforcement operation at the presidential compound Wednesday, defiantly insisting the anti-corruption agency …
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S Korea impeached president arrested after investigators scale walls
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Faiz Shakir, Ex-Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief, Joins Race for D.N.C. Chair — Mr. Shakir said his mission, should he win the post, would be to redefine the Democratic Party as the party of the working class. — Faiz Shakir, a former campaign manager for Senator Bernie Sanders …
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Why Greenland? — And Canada, Mexico, Panama... In one way, Trump is utterly predictable. He wants to die in bed rather than in prison, and he wants that bed to be in the White House. That's what they all want, all of these supposedly strong men with their ostensibly national feeling: the eternal clean sheets.


Exclusive: Trump team asks three US senior career diplomats to resign, sources say — Aides to President-elect Donald Trump have asked three senior career diplomats who oversee the U.S. State Department's workforce and internal coordination to step down from their roles …


Paul Krugman Issues Dire Warning On How ‘A Lot’ Of Trump Voters Will Be ‘Brutally Scammed’ — The economist also slammed one of the president-elect's policies as “terrible.” — LOADING — “A lot of people” who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election …
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New Republic, Business Insider and Raw Story


RFK Jr. Admits He Didn't Come Clean on Anti-Vax Fortune — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars he made from his anti-vax crusade, Donald Trump's transition team has admitted to the Daily Beast.Trump's pick for health secretary previously said his career as the founder …
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New Republic and Democrats


Jack Smith reminds us of the futility of truth in the Trump era — Yesterday unfolded in a sort of perfectly stupid synchronicity, with the past crimes of Donald Trump, as detailed in the just-released Jack Smith report, being overshadowed by the confirmation hearing for Trump's secretary of defense nominee, Pete Hegseth.
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Daring Fireball


Michelle Obama signals she's done with Trump — Michelle Obama is done with President-elect Trump, if her decision to skip next week's inauguration means anything. — The former first lady, who once called on Democrats to go high when Trump's Republican Party goes low …
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Daily Mail, Plain Dealer, New Jersey Online, CNN, IJR, USA Today and New York Times


How a major bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion, according to a new federal lawsuit — An explosive new lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleges that Capital One bank cheated its customers out of $2 billion. According to the lawsuit …
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CNN, Quartz, NPR, New York Times, Courthouse News Service, CBS News, Consumer Financial …, Associated Press, KFMB and Reuters


Are We Sleepwalking Into Autocracy? — Since Donald Trump's election victory, we have witnessed striking accommodations to his narrow win and mandate, what has been called “anticipatory obedience.” — Are we sleepwalking into an autocracy? We hope not, and would be glad if the threat does not materialize.


Trump Said He'd Solve Ukraine on Day One. Republicans Say He Didn't Mean ‘Day One.’ — “I don't think the media pressing Day One is specifically ‘Day One,’” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told NOTUS. — Copy — Early on in his latest campaign for president, Donald Trump unveiled a headline-grabbing campaign promise on Ukraine.
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Raw Story


Kamala Harris' potential next move: A book — The outgoing vice president has yet to tell the full story of her 107-day campaign for the presidency in her own words. — WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a lot of options for her next act — including possible runs for governor …


Ramaswamy Has a High-Profile Perch and a Raft of Potential Conflicts … Vivek Ramaswamy became one of the world's youngest billionaires after making his fortune in the pharmaceutical industry.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times — Vivek Ramaswamy is the less famous and less wealthy half …
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Nonprofit Founded by Stacey Abrams Admits Secretly Aiding Her 2018 Campaign — The New Georgia Project, whose leaders also included Raphael Warnock, now a senator, admitted violating campaign finance laws. It agreed to a $300,000 penalty. — A nonprofit founded by Stacey Abrams …
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NOTUS, Associated Press and Axios


Toyota exposed as major funder of climate change deniers: Watchdog — Nearly three decades after its introduction, the hybrid Toyota Prius is still associated with environmental action and the scientific consensus that fossil fuel emissions, including those from vehicles, must be reduced to avoid the worst effects of planetary heating.
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Electrek