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CNN

Trump Planning Mass Detention

The incoming Trump administration’s plans to implement strict border measures, strike down Biden-era policies and kick off the detention and deportation of migrants at large scale are underway and starting to come into focus

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Axios

Musk and the Wrecking Ball Theory

Trump is more fixated on a "deep state" blocking his ambitions, than cost savings, advisers tell us. But he has bought into the Musk concept of using AI and lean-business thinking to try to dramatically shrink a government he helped grow, they say.

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The Hill

Trump Spoiling for Fight Over Nominees

The controversial selections put Senate Republicans on the spot. All four nominees will need to be confirmed — or rejected — by the upper chamber. The GOP will hold a 53-47 majority once the new Congress is sworn in.

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CBS News

Witness Claims She Watched Gaetz

A woman who attended a 2017 party with former Rep. Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics Committee she witnessed the then-recently elected congressman having sex with a minor, according to her attorney.

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USA Today

Trump Names Youngest Press Secretary

Leavitt, a 27-year-old New Hampshire native who served as a spokesperson for the Trump 2024 presidential campaign, will be the youngest White House press secretary ever.

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Washington Post

NIH Critic May Run It

Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency. The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington.

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Wall Street Journal

TikTok Parent Value Spikes

TikTok parent ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion, one of its highest valuations ever, even as the Chinese tech giant’s popular TikTok app faces the prospect of a looming ban in the U.S.

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People

The Bare Truth of Iron Mike

The highly anticipated fight between Mike Tyson and former YouTube star Jake Paul featured a cameo from Tyson's almost bare butt — plus a bit of glove biting from the boxing legend.

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Mediaite

Chris Wallace Bids Farewell

Chris Wallace offered a partial goodbye on Saturday’s The Chris Wallace Show following the announcement this week of his departure. Wallace announced on Monday that he was leaving CNN at the end of his contract.

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Daily Mail

Brady: Team Owner or Broadcaster?

Brady’s broadcasting task became more challenging last month when he was finally approved as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, leading the league to slap him with restrictions which heavily affect his Fox duties.

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Huffington Post

Blaming It on Biden

The blame game for Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House has already commenced among Democrats. And there are a lot of causes being tossed around.

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BBC

Birders Overtake UK Town

When news a rare American songbird had been spotted in a sleepy West Yorkshire cul-de-sac eager ornithologists converged on the quiet street faster than a falcon in free fall.

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National Review

Bucks County Counting Illegal Ballots

Bucks County, Pa., commissioners have voted to count ballots lacking proper signatures as the Pennsylvania Senate race heads to an automatic recount due to the razor-thin margins.

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Slate

How Hollywood Is Failing Young Men

Are young men … OK? That’s a question that seems to be on many a mind these days as conversations about gender, sexuality, and what it means to be a “man” reach a fever pitch in the media and beyond.

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SI Live

How Whoopi Boosted a SI Bakery

Earlier this week, the bakery was accused by Whoopi Goldberg from ABC’s “The View” of refusing to fulfill a batch order for Charlotte Russe due to the actress and talk show host’s left-leaning political views.

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The Verge

Crypto’s ‘Clyde’ Gets 5 Years

Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein was sentenced in Washington federal court Thursday after he admitted to hacking the Bitfinex crypto exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 120,000 Bitcoin tokens.

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New York Times

Watch Luzerne County Turn to Trump

For two decades Luzerne County its voters reliably leaned Democratic, but Donald Trump won the county in 2016 and again four years later, both times by solid margins. What’s going on beyond the county line?

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NPR

The Highway to Heaven

This stretch of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland is so packed with houses of worship, it's been called the Embassy Row of Religions. But locals know it as the Highway to Heaven.

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Associated Press

Fossil Fuel Exec Named Energy Secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration.

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Politico

Boeing Issues Layoff Notice to 400+

Boeing has delivered layoff notices to more than 400 members of its professional aerospace labor union, part of thousands of cuts planned as the company struggles to recover from financial and regulatory trouble.

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