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 …

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.”

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 …

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.

TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users  —  The Chinese-owned company said it would cut off its services unless the U.S. assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for hosting and distributing TikTok.  —  TikTok said late Friday …

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.

The Real Story Behind Mike Turner's Firing  —  The speaker's decision to cashier his Intelligence chair wasn't about Donald Trump.  —  When Speaker Mike Johnson summarily fired House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner this week, everyone assumed it was about Donald Trump.

Fox News' Jessica Tarlov Hits Sean Hannity With Blunt Reality Check On Biden  —  Tarlov spotted the “reason” why Donald Trump “wants to take credit” for numbers coming out of the Biden administration.  —  LOADING  —  Fox News' Jessica Tarlov on Friday took on network host Sean Hannity …

DeWine passes over Ramaswamy, selects Jon Husted for Senate  —  The senator-to-be is an institutionalist Republican similar to the Ohio governor.  —  Gov. Mike DeWine announced his own Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as the next senator from Ohio, passing over entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

After major 2024 defeats, the Democratic Party searches for a new direction  —  DETROIT — The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions about its future.  —  Among them: how to recover from losing the White House and the Senate, in an election that saw Democrats lose …

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.

As Zuckerberg Goes Around Whining About Biden, He Made Sure To First Get His New Approach Approved By Trump  —  Remember how Zuckerberg was “done with politics”?  Remember how he promised that he was going to stop doing what politicians demanded he do?  —  Now it turns out that he not only …

Bill Gates ‘Impressed’ With Trump's Interest in Global Health During Three-Hour Dinner  —  Microsoft co-founder says he discussed HIV, polio and global health with president-elect  —  Add Bill Gates to growing the list of billionaires dining with President-elect Donald Trump before he returns to the White House.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.