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Reuters:
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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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden  —  Today, after many months of intensive diplomacy by the United States, along with Egypt and Qatar, Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage deal.  This deal will halt the fighting in Gaza, surge much needed-humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians …
Andrew Wilks / Associated Press:
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.
Reuters:
Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal designed to end 15-month Gaza war  —  Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.
NBC News:
Israel and Hamas reach deal on Gaza ceasefire and hostage release
Associated Press:
WATCH: Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
AG nominee Pam Bondi won't say Trump lost 2020 election  —  Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi dodged a question from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday about whether President-elect Trump lost the 2020 election.  —  Bondi echoed other Republicans in stating President Biden is now the president …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump's Attorney General Pick to Face Questions Over Lobbying
Ashley Oliver / Washington Examiner:
Pam Bondi pledges ‘new golden age’ at DOJ if confirmed as Trump attorney general
Elie Honig / New York Times:
Would Pam Bondi Stand Up to Trump as Attorney General?
Amelia Thomson-Deveaux / Associated Press:
Few US adults confident Justice Department and FBI will act fairly under Trump, AP-NORC poll finds
Discussion: The Hill
emptywheel:
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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Jennifer Rubin / The Contrarian:
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 …
Discussion: The Mahablog and TheGrio
US Food and Drug Administration:
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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NBC News:
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 …
Discussion: New York Post, UPI and Common Dreams
Reuters:
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 …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
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 …
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Biden's Cuba bombshell shocks Florida Democrats … - In Florida — where Hispanics make up 19% of the voters — the issue of “socialism” turns off many people with roots in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Colombia, countries many of them escaped to avoid leftist violence or regimes.
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Michael Schuman / The Atlantic:
No More Mr. Tough Guy on China
Discussion: Bloomberg and Semafor
Mary Ann Akers / The Daily Beast:
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 …
Discussion: New Republic and Democrats
NOTUS:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Gram Slattery / Reuters:
Trump advisers concede Ukraine peace deal is months away
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Euromaidan Press
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
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.
Harry Litman / New Republic:
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.
Kara Voght / Washington Post:
Jill Biden still hopes for a good ending  —  The first lady, after a half-century in public life, reflects on the past year — and looks to the future.  —  The first lady says she's at peace with this ending.  But.  —  “Let's just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded.”  —  Why?
Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press:
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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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.
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
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 …
Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
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.
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo has nearly $8M in his warchest  —  The ex-governor's legal bills are less than they've been in the past.  —  ALBANY, New York — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has $7.7 million in his state-level campaign finance account, according to a disclosure report he submitted Wednesday morning.
Politico:
Ramaswamy and DeWine met to discuss Ohio Senate appointment  —  The DOGE co-leader previously took himself out of the running for the post.  —  Two months after taking himself out of the running for an Ohio Senate seat, Vivek Ramaswamy is under consideration for the post …
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Kenneth C. Brill / The Hill:
Overhaul national intelligence without Tulsi Gabbard at the helm  —  President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a remarkably unqualified person, Tulsi Gabbard, to be the director of National Intelligence.  The Senate should reject her nomination, but also strengthen oversight of the Office …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
New York Times:
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.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
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 …
Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Pornography age-verification laws get warm reception at Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to upholding a Texas law requiring age verification for accessing pornography online, though the debate turned murkier on the standard of scrutiny that should be applied to it and similar laws in more than a dozen states.
 
 
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