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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Equal Rights Amendment  —  I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 years, and I have long been clear that no one should be discriminated against based on their sex.  We, as a nation, must affirm and protect women's full equality once and for all.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Biden just announced there's a new constitutional amendment.  Huh?  —  Three days before leaving office, President Joe Biden has made a surprising announcement: He declared that a decades-old proposed Constitutional amendment enshrining equal rights on the basis of sex is now “the law of the land.”
Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment is law.  What happens next is unclear  —  President Biden on Friday declared that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution is “the law of the land,” a surprising declaration that does not have any formal force of effect …
Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ratified
Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday  —  Chicago will be early target and the government will send as many as 200 officers to carry out the operation, according to people familiar with the planning  —  The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid …
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New York Times:
Trump's Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago  —  The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect's goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.  —  The incoming Trump administration intends to carry out …
Fox News:
Trump administration planning illegal immigrant arrests throughout US on ‘day one’  —  The incoming Trump administration is eyeing immigration arrests of illegal immigrants across the country as soon as day one, as top officials say they are ready to “take the handcuffs off” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Discussion: CBS News and New York Post
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice to lead …
CNN:
Trump's inauguration expected to be moved indoors  —  President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation's capital, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the plans told CNN.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: Trump, Citing Cold Weather, Moves Inauguration Indoors  —  Where Things Stand  — President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that he would move his inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday because extreme cold is forecast.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Moves Inauguration Indoors Amid Forecast of Extreme Cold
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap  —  Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration: its planned merger with Skydance Media.
Dylan Wells / Washington Post:
Vivek Ramaswamy plans to announce Ohio gubernatorial run  —  The co-leader of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency initiative plans to announce a run for Ohio governor, two people familiar with his plans said.  —  Biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy plans …
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Associated Press:
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted will succeed JD Vance in the US Senate
David Folkenflik / NPR:
CNN settles lawsuit after $5 million defamation verdict  —  CNN reached a legal settlement with a security contractor Friday after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him by suggesting he was charging “exorbitant prices” to evacuate people from Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Florida jury says CNN defamed Navy veteran in story about endangered Afghans  —  A Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of that country.  —  It was an unusual ruling against a media outlet in a defamation case.
Emily Crane / New York Post:
CNN wants to exile Jim Acosta's show to the ‘Siberia of television news’ to stop him annoying Trump  —  CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta — a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump — to the “Siberia of television news” in a bid to “throw a bone” …
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Acosta at a Midnight Crossroads
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
TikTok CEO thanks Trump for commitment to finding solution after court upholds ban  —  TikTok CEO Shou Chew thanked President-elect Trump on Friday for his commitment to find a solution that keeps the app available in the U.S., after the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring the platform …
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NBC News:
Some U.S. leaders and lawmakers backpedal on eve of TikTok ban
Lottie Joiner / The Guardian:
Washington DC residents flee ahead of Trump inauguration: 'I can't be here'  —  Republicans and conservatives meanwhile are pouring in for celebrations with hotels being nearly 70% booked  —  Alejandra Whitney-Smith has plans for president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next week: spend a week in a cabin without technology.
Discussion: TMZ.com and CBS News
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Eric Adams, With Pardon Talk Swirling, Meets With Trump Near Mar-a-Lago  —  The New York mayor, who has expressed interest in a pardon to resolve federal corruption charges, met with President-elect Donald J. Trump and his son Eric on Friday.  —  Mayor Eric Adams of New York City met …
Wall Street Journal:
Voters Want MAGA Lite From Trump, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Survey shows Biden leaves office with record-low approval and a badly tarnished party  —  Voters support many of the goals President-elect Donald Trump has set for his second term.  They are just not on board with all the ways he wants to accomplish them.
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Boxerman / New York Times:
Live Updates: Israeli Government Approves Gaza Cease-Fire  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the deal, which includes the release of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, would go into effect on Sunday.  —  Here's the latest on the agreement.
Fox News:
FBI assistant special agent in charge who said New Orleans attack ‘not a terrorist event’ reassigned  —  The FBI later put out a statement confirming the Bourbon Street attack was ‘terrorism’  —  The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the New Orleans attack was …
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Yellen: Debt limit will be hit day after Trump's inauguration  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated, and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default.
Tierney Plumb / Eater DC:
Exclusive: Elon Musk May Be the Latest Leader of D.C.'s Line Hotel  —  The president-elect's best new buddy hopes to snap up the hot Adams Morgan address  —  In huge pre-inauguration news, tech titan Elon Musk is slated to be the highest bidder on D.C.'s trendy Line hotel.
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Statements on Supreme Court's Decision in TikTok, et al. v. Garland  —  For Immediate Release  —  The Justice Department issued the following statements from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco on the Supreme Court's decision in TikTok, et al. v. Garland:
 
 
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Michael Smith / Bloomberg:
A Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster
Discussion: Raw Story
US Department of Justice:
Undocumented Individual Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Voting Fraud and Passport Fraud
Emily Crane / New York Post:
The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report
Discussion: acecomments.mu.nu and RedState
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Biden Gives $27 Billion for Clean-Energy Deals in Final Days
Associated Press:
Child labor in slaughterhouses spotlighted by 3 settlements this week
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate advances Laken Riley Act, teeing up final vote
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Will Biden Pardon This Human Rights Lawyer Who Beat Big Oil in Court?
Howard Husock / The Hill:
Fixing the missing ‘N’ in ‘NPR’: Public media must serve the American public at large
Discussion: The Independent
New York Times:
How Biden's Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Leaving His Post  —  The Washington Post building.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
CMS:
HHS Announces 15 Additional Drugs Selected for Medicare Drug Price Negotiations in Continued Effort to Lower Prescription Drug Costs for Seniors
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
Antiabortion advocates look for men to report their partners' abortions
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
From Techmeme:

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple made changes to comply with the DMA

 
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