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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 …
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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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TikTok says it is ‘restoring service’ after Trump announces he will issue executive order — TikTok says it is “restoring service” in the United States. — The company had turned off its app for its 170 million US users on Saturday. — President-elect Donald Trump said he will issue …
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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 …
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Miller tells Republican leaders Trump will strip protections from career civil servants.
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Trump plans barrage of Day 1 executive actions on border, energy, federal workforce
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’
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Pope Francis says Trump's immigration raids would be a ‘disgrace’
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TikTok Engineered Its Shutdown to Get Saved. But Trump's Solution May Fall Short.
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Trump reveals his plan to revive TikTok
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TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order
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TikTok begins restoring service for U.S. users after Trump comments
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Trump promises to delay TikTok ban in U.S. with Monday executive order
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Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China
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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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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.


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.
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Ramaswamy's future at DOGE is in doubt as he prepares to announce bid for Ohio governor
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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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Biden Pardons Five More, Including Late Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey
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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 …


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.


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 …
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …


‘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 …
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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.


Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general.