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HuffPostJoe Biden Calls Himself 'Stupid' For Not Doing 1 Donald Trump Thing
The president said he "learned something" from the president-elect.
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Authoritarianism Expert Flags Chilling Thing That’s ‘Happening Now’ With Donald Trump
Ruth Ben-Ghiat talked about the "personalist rule" and its worrying effects.
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Kari Lake's New Trump-Announced Gig Has Critics Fuming
Social media users slammed the role as "shameful."
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Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World'
The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.
- France 24
Russia threatens to retaliate after Ukrainian ATACMS strike in Rostov
Moscow on Wednesday accused Kyiv of firing US-supplied ATACAMS missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region and threatened to retaliate. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine's "destructive" approach made peace impossible. Russia on Wednesday vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region.President Vladimir Putin has previously threatened to launch a hypersonic ballistic missi
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Russia tells citizens to avoid travel to the West - and responds to Donald Trump's call for Ukraine ceasefire
Russia has issued a travel warning to its citizens as it said tensions with the US are "teetering on the verge of rupture".
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Critics Slam Time's 'Person Of The Year' Award For Donald Trump
Commenters also damningly recalled a brutal previous recipient of the title.
- The Daily Beast
Jimmy Kimmel Knows Why Trump Sent Don Jr.’s Fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle Packing
Although Donald Trump Jr. and right-wing media personality Kimberly Guilfoyle have not officially broken up their engagement, rumors are spreading after Trump Jr. was spotted in Palm Beach on Monday with another woman: model/influencer Bettina Anderson. The pair’s romance is reportedly an “open secret” in the area. As Jimmy Kimmel explained in his monologue Tuesday, “The first boy has not made an announcement about the status of his relationship with former Fox Newser Kimberly Guilfoyle, but som
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GOP Never Trumper Mocks Kevin McCarthy's Trump Support To His Face
“Donald Trump lied about an election being stolen and ... you’re the one who went down and resurrected him,” Sarah Longwell told the former House speaker.
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Elon Musk Gloats as Trump Announces Billionaires Will Be Exempt From Normal Environmental Rules
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dancing with joy now that his new father figure has promised him that he will no longer have to abide by pesky environmental rules. On Tuesday, president-elect Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that the government would be for sale after all, promising that any company investing $1 billion in the US government would "receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals." "GET READY TO ROCK!!!" Trump ex
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Time Undercuts Trump Interview With 2,300-Word Fact Check
Time magazine contested Donald Trump’s claims about undocumented immigrants, a link between vaccines and autism, and gender-transition regret in a sprawling fact-check published alongside its Person of the Year interview. The president-elect was awarded the magazine’s Person of the Year title—which has gone to influential figures as disparate as Taylor Swift and Joseph Stalin—for the second time, having also won it in 2016. Trump proudly attended the award ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange
- The Independent
Syria - live: US man Travis Timmerman found after months in Assad prison as rebels set to suspend constitution
American Travis Timmerman was found by Syrian rebels, as Israel continues its bombardment around much of the country
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Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al Assad.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Has Invited China’s Xi Jinping to Inauguration: Report
President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration in January, multiple sources told CBS News on Wednesday. The president-elect reportedly sent the invite to the leader of China, a nation he has threatened with tariffs for months, shortly after his electoral victory in November, the sources told the network. It is unclear if the Chinese government has accepted the invite, and the Chinese Embassy has not commented on the invitation. A Chinese head of stat
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Trump Calls Resignation of FBI Director A 'Great Day For America'
Christopher Wray is resigning before Donald Trump has a chance to fire him.
- The Hill
US warns experimental Russian missile may be used against Ukraine soon
Russia could soon launch another attack against Ukraine using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), according to a U.S. official. The official said that Russia could fire its Oreshnik IRBM at Ukraine “in the coming days” in an attempt to intimidate Ukraine and its supporters. “We assess that the Oreshnik is not a game-changer on…
- The Hill
Opinion - Democrats should stop saving the Republicans from themselves
If Republicans want to drive the government into a shutdown or default — or refuse to fund disaster aid — let them.
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Donald Trump Offers Vague Answer On Melania's White House Plans
The president-elect also praised his wife's role in the 2024 campaign during an interview with Time magazine.
- The Independent
Fox News host floats idea Trump could expand America through a land purchase
The suggestions comes as Donald Trump has been trolling Canada about becoming a U.S. state
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Democratic exit poll: Trump’s economic message transcended demographics
A new exit poll of battleground state voters found that President-elect Trump’s economic message broke through demographic barriers, building a national coalition that Vice President Harris was unable to match. The poll, commissioned by Way to Win, a pro-Democratic electoral strategy group, oversampled Black, Latino and Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Arizona, Georgia,…