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.

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.

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.

A president's final days  —  As Biden leaves office, his term is ending where it began: Trump.  —  On a recent Tuesday morning, in a dim underground parking garage in west Los Angeles, President Joe Biden sat idly in his car, seemingly paralyzed by events.

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.

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 …

Bannon: Billionaire CEOs have surrendered to Trump  —  Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon said he sees the presence of billionaire CEOs and tech moguls at President-elect Trump's inaugural events as a white flag of surrender from “the oligarchs.” … - “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day …

Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom  —  The Supreme Court of Texas just heard oral argument in a case challenging a remarkably punitive and malicious attack on religious liberty by the state of Texas.  That attack isn't just dangerous on its own terms, it's also a potential preview …

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.

The Trump Resistance Won't Be Putting on ‘Pussy Hats’ This Time  —  The Democrats who mobilized against Donald J. Trump in 2017 feel differently about protesting his return.  —  The week after Election Day in 2016, Shirley Morganelli, a women's health nurse and lifelong Democrat …

‘Reactionary nihilism’: how a rightwing movement strives to end US democracy  —  Money, Lies, and God exposes a Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others  —  There is a “real and very, very present” threat to the US …

Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows  —  Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies …

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 …

Fox News Prepares to Cover a Government Filled With Fox News Alumni  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump has leaned heavily on familiar faces from the cable network as he fills out his second-term cast.  —  Nineteen ... and counting.  —  That's the number of former Fox News hosts …