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Emily Yoffe / The Free Press:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’  —  The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns.  Also: ends housing of biological men in women's prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.  —  Toward the end of the 2024 presidential campaign …
CNN:
TikTok is coming back online after Trump pledged to restore it  —  New York CNN —  TikTok appears to be coming back online just hours after President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday that he would sign an executive order Monday that aims to restore the banned app.
New York Times:
Miller tells Republican leaders Trump will strip protections from career civil servants.  —  Miller Tells Republicans Trump Will Strip Protections From Civil Servants  —  Behind the Scenes as Trump's Inauguration Moves Indoors  —  Haiyun Jiang  —  On Friday, Trump announced that his inauguration …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
TikTok Engineered Its Shutdown to Get Saved.  But Trump's Solution May Fall Short.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump's idea, a 50-50 “joint venture” between the existing Chinese owner and some kind of American entity, was more politics than substance.  —  When TikTok pulled …
New York Times:
Trump Aims for Show of Strength as He Returns to Power
Discussion: RedState and Boston Herald
David McCabe / New York Times:
TikTok Flickers Back to Life After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Sign Executive Orders on Immigration, Energy, Government Hiring
Joshua McElwee / Reuters:
Pope Francis says Trump's immigration raids would be a ‘disgrace’
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
Trump's first orders likely to include border, drilling, DEI policies
Discussion: Breitbart and Grabien
NBC News:
TikTok begins restoring service for U.S. users after Trump comments
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order
Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Trump promises to delay TikTok ban in U.S. with Monday executive order
New York Times:
Trump's Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the World's Most Valuable  —  The new business venture by the Trump family is generating intensifying criticism, even as it has turned into an overnight phenomenon, generating a windfall on paper.  —  The Trump family's new crypto token surged …
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Felix Salmon / Axios:
Donald Trump, crypto billionaire … - After another massive overnight rally, as of Sunday morning Trump's crypto holdings were worth as much as $58 billion on paper, enough — with his other assets — to make him one of the world's 25 richest people.
Billy Bambrough / Forbes:
It's ‘Just Begun’—Trump Meme Coin Suddenly Crashes Back As Melania Coin Shock Hits Crypto
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Scores of career State Dept. diplomats resign before Trump's inauguration  —  Trump's team requested the high-level resignations as the president-elect prepares a sharp break with the Biden administration.  —  Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Department effective …
Discussion: HuffPost
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office.  The War Rages On.  —  Donald J. Trump's promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be hyperbole.  —  After they win elections and move into the White House …
Discussion: Politico
Yascha Mounk / The Boston Globe:
Trump is back.  But a return of total resistance would be a bad strategy.  —  A guide for how liberals should approach the next four years.  —  When Donald Trump was first elected president in the fall of 2016, his elevation to the most powerful office in the world seemed like an aberration.
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Biden pardons the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as 4 others and commutes 2 sentences  —  President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.
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Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Accused 9/11 Mastermind Agrees to Use of Disputed Confession for Life Sentence  —  Lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed have said for years that the confession was tainted by torture.  Mr. Mohammed has now agreed that portions can be used at his sentencing trial if prosecutors agree to settle his case.
NPR:
First Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners freed in ceasefire deal with Hamas  —  Around 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were freed from Israeli jails and into the occupied West Bank on Sunday, as part of an exchange under ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel that went into effect Sunday morning.
Discussion: DNyuz, Associated Press and KFMB
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Teri Kanefield:
Part 3: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny  —  As coincidence has it, I was reading Book VIII of Plato's The Republic and considering a blog post about the interplay of democracy and oligarchy when Biden gave a speech warning Americans of a rising oligarchy.  I did not intend my blog post about The Republic to be so timely.
 
 
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A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward

Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
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