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Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME — President-elect Donald Trump, TIME's 2024 Person of the Year, sat down for a wide-ranging interview at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 25. — Over the course of the interview …
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Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
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The Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule
The Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Americans — Today's announcement will commute the sentences of close to 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement and will pardon 39 individuals convicted of non-violent crimes — Today, President Biden announced …
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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
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Clemency Recipient List
Clemency Recipient List
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Chris Wray's Pre-Surrender
Chris Wray's Pre-Surrender
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FBI missed ‘basic step’ when gathering intel in the lead-up to Jan. 6, DOJ watchdog finds — Investigators found no evidence of undercover FBI employees at the Capitol, but the presence of FBI informants could further fuel right-wing “fedsurrection” conspiracy theories.
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FBI didn't deploy undercover agents on Jan. 6, watchdog report finds, undercutting conspiracy theories — The DOJ inspector general also said the FBI should have done more to canvass its sources in advance of Jan. 6 to try to understand the potential for violence.
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DOJ IG reveals 26 FBI informants were present on Jan. 6 — The FBI only directed 3 confidential human sources to attend the events of Jan. 6, 2021, Horowitz says — Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said there were more than two dozen confidential human sources in the crowd on Jan. 6 …
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Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchdog reports
No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchdog reports
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Trump's Middle East Adviser Pick Is a Small-Time Truck Salesman — The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker. Records show otherwise. — The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker.
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Christopher Wray Is Preparing to Sabotage Trump and Patel — On Wednesday, Christopher Wray announced that he is resigning as director of the FBI. — “After weeks of careful thought, I've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration …

Murkowski: 'I'm not attached to' Republican label — Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday she felt “more comfortable” with no party label than with “an identity as a Republican,” an escalation of the Alaska senator's occasional bucking of her party as the chamber readies itself for a slew …
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Jeff Bezos' Amazon Plans to Donate $1 Million to Trump's Inauguration — The tycoon, long a Trump foe, is among tech leaders seeking improved ties with the president-elect — Amazon.com is planning a $1 million donation to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund …
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No Iranian drone ‘mothership’ off the United States, Pentagon says — The Pentagon on Wednesday flatly dismissed claims by a U.S. lawmaker that Iran might be launching drones over New Jersey from a “mothership” off the East Coast. — “There is no truth to that,” said Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh.
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US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be ‘shot down, if necessary’
US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be ‘shot down, if necessary’
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a …
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House Republicans launch investigation into CVS Caremark for potential antitrust violations — House Republicans want to know whether pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark violated federal antitrust laws by threatening independent pharmacies to keep them from using money-saving tools outside the PBM's network.
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FBI informant accused of lying about Joe and Hunter Biden pleads guilty — An FBI informant accused of lying about the Biden family has cut a plea deal with special counsel David Weiss, the prosecutor who led the criminal probe into Hunter Biden. — Alexander Smirnov is set to plead guilty …
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Republicans clash over ‘SALT’ deduction as they seek to extend Trump's tax law — Early battle lines are forming over a contentious issue that has split Republicans in high-tax states from their other colleagues as they plan a big tax bill next year. — WASHINGTON — A group …
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Was mocking Musk a mistake? Democrats think about warmer relationship with the billionaire — Democrats had soured on the richest man on the planet. But a few are starting to wonder if that was a mistake. — Ro Khanna is trading texts with Elon Musk. Josh Shapiro took a call from him.
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Los Angeles Times Owner Wades Deeper Into Opinion Section — Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's public comments and actions, including recently blocking an editorial weighing in on President-elect Trump's cabinet picks, have concerned many staff members. — After President-elect Donald J. Trump announced …
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Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators — Advisers asked potential nominees whether Trump could abolish the FDIC — The Trump transition team has started to explore pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate or even eliminate the top bank watchdogs in Washington.

EXCLUSIVE: Biden Races To Sell Off Border Wall Parts Before Trump Takes Office — ‘The goal is to move all of it off the border before Christmas,’ Arizona border patrol agent tells The Daily Wire — The Biden administration is using its final weeks to haul a massive amount …
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Musk's Foundation Gave Away Less Money Than Required in 2023 — Private foundations must donate 5 percent of their assets every year. Elon Musk's enormous charity missed that standard for three consecutive years. — For the third year in a row, Elon Musk's charitable foundation did not give away enough of its money.
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Democrats Lost the Propaganda War — The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There's a better way. — A Fox News ad is displayed outside the Fiserv Forum on the eve of the Republican National Convention, July 14, 2024, in Milwaukee.
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AOC faces Pelosi-led slugfest for Oversight role … - The fight comes as several septuagenarian committee ranking members are facing desperate battles against - or yielding to - younger challengers. — “Many members are concerned about [the] precedent these races are setting,” one senior House Democrat told Axios.
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Blue States are Unaffordable. The Price Will be Political. — Every year, millions of Americans bounce around the country like electrons, moving from one state to another. But there are patterns in this chaos, and one of the clearest in recent decades is that Americans are moving from blue states to red states.

Hundreds of student-loan borrowers who applied for debt cancellation are being denied relief by a major lender, over 20 Democratic lawmakers say — Sen. Elizabeth Warren led over 20 colleagues in requesting the CFPB and FTC investigate student-loan company Navient.

University of Michigan May Fire D.E.I. Official Over Antisemitism Claim — The official, an administrator of multicultural programs, was accused of making antisemitic remarks in a private conversation. She has denied the allegations. — The University of Michigan is considering firing …
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The FBI's Turning Point — George explains the implications of Christopher Wray's resignation. — ∙ Paid — In this episode, George Conway and Jonathan V. Last, in for Sarah Longwell, break down Christopher Wray's resignation, Trump's escalating legal troubles …

Why The Onion's Infowars bid has been blocked — for now — In November, satirical newspaper The Onion won a bankruptcy auction to purchase Infowars, a website dedicated to hawking anti-government conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, however, a federal bankruptcy judge rejected the purchase …
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‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad's forced detention — While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime's legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN's Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery …
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