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8:00 PM ET, January 19, 2025

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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.
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Fox News:
Trump to take more than 200 executive actions on day one  —  EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day—a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families …
David McCabe / New York Times:
TikTok Flickers Back to Life After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban  —  Some users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.  —  TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Sign Executive Orders on Immigration, Energy, Government Hiring
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order
Washington Post:
Trump's first orders likely to include border, drilling, DEI policies
Discussion: Grabien
NBC News:
TikTok begins restoring service for U.S. users after Trump comments
David Shepardson / Reuters:
TikTok goes dark for US users; Trump signals intervention
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.
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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 …
CBS News:
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE  —  Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with entrepreneur Elon Musk, is expected to soon step away from the task force, CBS News has learned.
Discussion: Townhall and The Post Millennial
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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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Returns to White House With More Deferential Allies and Foes
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Semafor
Charles Homans / New York Times:   The Trump Resistance Won't Be Putting on ‘Pussy Hats’ This Time
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Clemency Actions  —  America is a country built on the promise of second chances.  As President, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality by issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Biden Pardons Five More, Including Late Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey
Reuters:
Live Updates: First Hostages Return to Israel as Gaza Cease-Fire Takes Hold  —  The initial stage of a truce between Israel and Hamas prompted celebrations in Gaza and hope for an end to the 15-month war.  Three women were the first Israeli hostages to be released.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
‘Lady McBiden’: Alexandra Pelosi Blasts the First Lady  —  The feud between the president and ex-speaker intensifies in the waning days of his presidency.  —  Since breaking her hip in Europe last month, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has been deluged with messages, flowers and calls of concern …
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote.  Why Doesn't It Feel That Way?  —  In 2024, Donald Trump won the popular vote by 1.5 points.  Trump and Democrats alike treated this result as an overwhelming repudiation of the left and a broad mandate for the MAGA movement.  But by any historical measure, it was a squeaker.
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Most Americans optimistic about Trump's return to office: Poll  —  A new survey found that most Americans are optimistic about President-elect Trump returning to the White House.  —  The survey, conducted by CBS News and YouGov, found that 60 percent of respondents say they feel optimistic about Trump's second term.
Discussion: New York Times
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Joe Wilkins / Futurism:
Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust  —  The Anne Frank Experience  —  You're probably familiar with Anne Frank, a European Jewish girl whose posthumously-published diary documents her time hiding from Nazi persecution …
Politico:
National Guard troops worry Trump will deploy them for mass deportations  —  “I don't want to be seen as a Gestapo,” one former senior military official said.  —  National Guard members fear landing in the center of a political tussle between red state governors and blue state attorneys general …
Discussion: Raw Story and DNyuz
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe  —  What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally  —  What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday?  I don't know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact.
 
 
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Teri Kanefield:
Part 3: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Return Nudges Economists' Inflation Outlook Higher
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Joshua McElwee / Reuters:
Pope Francis says Trump's immigration raids would be a ‘disgrace’
Discussion: DNyuz and Metro.co.uk
Associated Press:
Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Rep. Chellie Pingree / The Hill:
Make America healthy again? Let's see if they're serious
Discussion: New York Post
Melanie Lidman / Associated Press:
Who is Itamar Ben-Gvir, the far-right minister who resigned from Netanyahu's Cabinet?
Discussion: Associated Press and WHDH-TV
Robert Costa / CBS News:
Trump ally says first 100 days will be “shock and awe”
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
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David French / New York Times:
Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom
Politico:
A president's final days
Discussion: Associated Press and HuffPost
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Trump Oligarchy Is Moving to Washington, and Buying Up Prime Addresses
Discussion: The Guardian
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Prepares to Cover a Government Filled With Fox News Alumni
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
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:
Two influential Chinese bloggers say China is considering a ban on Hollywood movies as part of a set of measures to retaliate against Trump's tariffs

Nicole Meir / The Associated Press:
The AP Fund for Journalism announces a pilot program supported by the Google News Initiative to provide content, tools, and training to ~50 nonprofit news orgs

 
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