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Time:
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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Garrett Ross / Politico:
Playbook PM: Trump's ‘fury’ road to redemption  —  BREAKING — DOJ IG MICHAEL HOROWITZ just released his long-awaited report on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.  The topline, via Kyle Cheney: “NO evidence that there were any undercover FBI employees at the Capitol or nearby protests,” though some FBI informants were present.
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices  —  The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.  —  LOADING  —  President-elect Donald Trump admitted in an interview with Time magazine that it will be difficult for him to reduce consumer prices …
Discussion: Democrats, Mediaite and Raw Story
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump rings bell at NYSE to cheers of ‘USA’ as Wall Street CEOs, business leaders look on
The White House:
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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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency  —  President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Chris Wray's Pre-Surrender
The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Providing Clemency for Nearly 1,500 Individuals on Home Confinement and Pardons for 39 Individuals Convicted of Non-Violent Crimes
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
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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Politico:
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.
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchdog reports
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Daniel Klaidman / CBS News:
Senate Democrats want communications between Boris Epshteyn and potential Trump appointees disclosed  —  Two top Senate Democrats are calling for President-elect Donald Trump's potential appointees to be required to disclose any communications they had with Boris Epshteyn, a longtime Trump adviser …
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New York Times:   Democrats Ask That Trump Cabinet Picks Produce Communications With Epshteyn
Irie Sentner / Politico:   Murkowski: 'I'm not attached to' Republican label
Minho Kim / New York Times:
Trump Chooses Kari Lake to Lead Voice of America  —  Ms. Lake, a former TV news anchor turned right-wing firebrand who has called journalists “monsters,” would be in charge of a federally funded news outlet with a huge global audience.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday night chose Kari Lake …
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump's Kari Lake ‘pick’ sparks fears at Voice of America
CNN:
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 …
New York Times:
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.
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Informant Agrees to Plead Guilty to Lying About Bidens  —  Alexander Smirnov's deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, though a federal judge would need to review the deal.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
FBI informant accused of lying about Joe and Hunter Biden pleads guilty
Reuters:
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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Bruce Shipkowski / Associated Press:
US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be ‘shot down, if necessary’
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Chris Wray folds like cheap suit.  Don't be Chris Wray.  —  The FBI director obeys in advance. … 🚔  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray became the latest public official to remove his own spine and dissolve into a puddle of genuflecting goo for the greater glory of MAGA …
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
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.
Discussion: Mostly signs
New York Times:
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.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
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 …
Rolling Stone:
'It'll Be Brutal': Inside Trump's Planned War on Leakers and the Press  —  Trump 2.0 will feature more media subpoenas, communications seizures, whistleblower prosecutions, and personal lawsuits against news outlets … As BuzzFeed reported at the time, “Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
Leah Willingham / Associated Press:
Newly elected West Virginia lawmaker arrested and accused of making terroristic threats  —  A newly elected state lawmaker in West Virginia is facing at least one felony and is accused of making terroristic threats.  Joseph de Soto, 61, was arrested by state police Thursday in Martinsburg following …
Discussion: New York Times
Clarissa Ward / CNN:
‘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 …
Discussion: New York Post, The Sun and Mediaite
Matt Honeycombe-Foster / Politico:
UK Tory leader: Sandwiches aren't real  —  Kemi Badenoch “will not touch bread if it's moist.”  —  Britain's Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch kicked off a heated political debate about a lunchtime favorite Thursday after declaring that sandwiches are not “a real food.”
Ayelet Sheffey / Business Insider:
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.
Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech / The Hill:
Ohio Senate passes measure forcing hospitals to administer ivermectin, other patient-requested treatments  —  The Ohio state Senate passed a bill earlier this week that will allow patients to force hospitals to administer drugs for off-label use.  —  The passage of the bill comes …
Discussion: Plain Dealer
 
 
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Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
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RFK Jr.'s daughter-in-law meets with Trump's chosen CIA director about possible job
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