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Meet the New FBI Boss. He Sued the Old Boss. And Got Laughed Out of Co

The nomination of the Trump hyper loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director is unusual.

First, the job is currently occupied, by one Christopher Wray — himself a Trump appointee — who technically has three years left on his 10 year term of service. On Wednesday, however W

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Picatinny Arsenal also developed drones to counter WMDs

A US military installation in New Jersey — one of the sites where mystery drone sightings have been reported — has been helping develop robotic drones that can counter weapons of mass destruction, The Post has learned.

The US Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engin

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‘Someone who sees enemies everywhere’: How Kash Patel’s time as

Years before he was Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely the kind of federal bureaucrat he has vowed to weed out in his crusade against the so-calle

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Westchester plane crash: Images from the scene

Westchester plane crash: Images from the scene The Journal NewsSmall Plane Crash Near Westchester County Airport Kills One The New York Times1 dead as small plane crashes on I-684 along New York-Connecticut border: Police source NBC New YorkSmall plane crashes on highway in We

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"Wake-up call": Progressives say CEO's killing underscores public ange

Progressive lawmakers joined their colleagues on Capitol Hill to condemn Luigi Mangione's killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but also censured insurance companies for their use of "vile" tactics designed to maximize profits — tactics that have caused many people who s

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Who got the most lake effect snow so far? See 80 totals in Upstate NY

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Yet another lake effect snowstorm is pounding parts of Upstate New York this week, with more than 2 feet falling since the storm started Wednesday morning.

The top spot is the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, with 30 inches of snow as of this morning, according

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White House says it can't corroborate reported drone sightings over Ne

NEW JERSEY -- A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be "shot down, if necessary," as it remains unclear who owns them.

"We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysi

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Syria: Former prison head charged with torture in US

A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday.

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who oversaw the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 and 2008, was charged by a federal grand jury with several counts of torture and conspir

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Hegseth walks back controversial comments on women and gays in the mil

Hegseth has called policies allowing gays and transgender troops to serve in the military part of a “Marxist agenda.” But on Thursday, when he met with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), reporters asked him whether he thought gays should serve in the military, and he replied, “Yes.”

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Maui woman found in Mexico says she won’t be coming home

It has been one month since our family was thrust into the spotlight, and the pain inflicted upon us was laid bare for the entire world to see.

From the beginning, my immediate family was unaware of Hannah’s whereabouts. Until yesterday, we were still in the dark about where s

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Poll shows what Americans think about Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Cab

WASHINGTON (AP) — As several of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for high-level positions in his incoming administration face scrutiny on Capitol Hill, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Americans have their own doubts.

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The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Should Be a Turning Point for Corpor

The murder of Brian Thompson — and the public’s reaction to it — shows that frustration with corporations has reached a fever pitch. We seem to have moved from a world of “I don’t trust you” to “I hate you,” and, many Americans feel a great antipathy toward capita

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Amazon to donate $1 million to Trump inaugural fund in latest Big Tech

Jeff Bezos' Amazon the latest in Big Tech to donate $1 million to Trump inaugural fund AxiosAmazon plans to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration CNNMusk weighs in on Meta after Zuckerberg’s company donates $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund P

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Satellite images show Iran's drone carriers are nowhere near the US as

Mysterious aircraft sightings have been reported around New Jersey lately.

The unexplained incidents have fueled theories, including that Iran may have launched the systems from a ship.

Iran does have drone-carrying vessels, but satellite images show they're far from the US righ

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Mayor Adams says he'll use executive order to change sanctuary after b

Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he would issue an executive order to amend the city’s sanctuary laws during a fiery 10-minute press conference that followed his meeting with Tom Homan, the incoming ‘border czar’ for the Trump administration.

The mayor began his remarks b

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What Americans think about Hegseth, Gabbard and key Trump Cabinet pick

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Amazon donating $1 mln to Trump inaugural fund, to air event on Prime

The Prime Video represents an in-kind donation worth another $1 million, the spokesperson said. The donations were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and executive chairman, will meet with Trump next week, the president-elect said on Thursday

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Amazon is the latest Big Tech company to donate $1mn to Trump fund

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Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charg

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud charges, authorities said Thursday.

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infam

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Xi’s RSVP is a snub to Trump, but the inauguration invite is still a

Imagine the scene, at noon on January 20, on the west front of the US Capitol.

As Donald Trump swears to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution on the same spot where his supporters rioted four years ago, an extraordinary VIP guest looks on, overshadowing ex-presidents, m

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Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power-shiftin

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a portion of a law enacted just a day earlier by the Republican-dominated General Assembly that erodes Stein’s powers and those of other top Democrats

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Trump’s Kari Lake ‘pick’ sparks fears at Voice of America

Presidents don’t ordinarily pick the director of Voice of America, an international news broadcaster funded by the US government. But President-elect Donald Trump says he wants his ally Kari Lake to take over VOA.

Trump’s Wednesday night social media post – in which he sai

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Amazon Plans $1 Million Donation to Trump’s Inaugural Fund

Amazon said on Thursday that it was planning to donate $1

million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, part of a pattern in which tech companies and their leaders are taking steps to repair their relationships with Mr. Trump.

Meta, the parent company of Facebo

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U.S. citizen found in Syria says he was imprisoned for months

BEIRUT — An American citizen who was found in Syria on Thursday told reporters he had been imprisoned for seven months and freed by armed men from his cell on Monday following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The man, who identified himself as Travis Pete Tim

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Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was on the verge of backing a 16-week federal abortion ban earlier this year when aides staged an intervention.

According to Time magazine’s cover story on his selection as its 2024 Person of the Year, Trump’s aides first raised concerns in mid

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Messages posted in Pittsburgh in support of Luigi Mangione, gunman acc

Cryptic messages posted in Pittsburgh in support of accused gunman Pittsburgh Post-GazetteLuigi Mangione, Suspect in CEO Killing, Withdrew From a Life of Privilege and Promise The New York TimesWhat we know about Luigi Mangione, suspect charged in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

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Back trouble and brain fog bothered suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO ki

After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent of the procedure that changed his life for the better.

He repeatedly posted on Reddit about his recovery and offered words of encouragement for peopl

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Trump says reducing food prices will be ‘very hard,’ after campaig

President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that bringing down grocery prices will be “very hard,” after he repeatedly promised during his campaign to cut costs, a major factor in winning over voters dissatisfied with the economy.

In a wide-ranging interview on Nov. 25

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The Republican power grab in North Carolina, explained

Republicans are eroding the powers of incoming Democratic officials — again.

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Woman alleges doctors ‘fast-tracked’ her into gender transition as

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2024 / 15:35 pm

A 20-year-old California woman is alleging that doctors, a children’s hospital, and a pediatric gender clinic negligently pushed her into a hormonal and surgical gender transition beginning when she was only 12 years old in a l

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Amazon plans to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s

Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is expected to visit with Trump in person in the coming days, as he and other tech founders seek closer relationships wi

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Trump’s Pick as Mideast Adviser, Massad Boulos, Is a Truck Salesman

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East adviser, Massad Boulos, has enjoyed a reputation as a billionaire mogul at the helm of a business that bears his family name.

Mr. Boulos has been profiled as a tycoon by the world’s media, telling a reporter in October that

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Fierce Trump ally Kari Lake tapped to lead Voice of America

President-elect Donald Trump said he wants Kari Lake, a fierce ally who has denied the results of the 2020 US presidential election, to lead Voice of America - a federally funded global news outlet.

Donald Trump made the announcement on Wednesday night, writing on his social med

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Grocery prices: Trump just said groceries will be more affordable ‘v

President-elect Donald Trump says Americans not being able to afford groceries will be a relic of the past. “They’re going to be affording their groceries very soon,” he said Thursday before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, where he was honored as Ti

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‘Now she’s the world’s problem’: Some Arizona Republicans reli

“When you’re a two-time loser and you did worse the second time around, that’s a clue that maybe the voters don’t want you,” said Barrett Marson, a GOP strategist in Arizona. “I think it clears space for the conservative but normal wing of the Republican Party in Ariz

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Real estate agent brothers charged with sex trafficking: Here’s what

Two high-profile real estate brokers and their brother have been charged with sex trafficking, accused of drugging, sexually assaulting and raping dozens of women in multiple states over the course of more than decade.

Federal prosecutors alleged that twins Alon and Oren Alexand

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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serv

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 “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.

In his 2024 bo

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FBI informants were at Capitol riot but no agents, watchdog finds

More than two dozen FBI informants were in Washington DC ahead of the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, but no full-time undercover agents were present or took part in the riot itself, according to a new justice department report.

The report said none of the agency's info

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Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes – marking a broad use of the presidential clemency power just weeks from the end of Biden’s administration.

White House

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Blumenthal joins calls for New Jersey drones to be shot down "if neces

Blumenthal joins calls for New Jersey drones to be shot down "if necessary" AxiosHomeland Security shares new details of mysterious drone flights over New Jersey The Associated PressPentagon shoots down Iran 'mothership' claim amid New Jersey drone mystery ABC NewsNew Jersey lawma

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What We Know About Luigi Mangione: Police Have ‘No Indication’ Sus

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A New York Police Department official said Thursday they have “no indication” that Luigi Mangione—the 26-year-old suspect in last week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—was a client of UnitedHealthcare, a development that comes as police g

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‘Wanted’ Posters Posted In Manhattan Showing Healthcare Execs

In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4, “Wanted” posters with names and photos of Thompson and other healthcare executives were spotted around Manhattan this week.

“The posters warn that ‘HEALTH CARE CEOS SHOULD NOT FE

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The Tale of Cousin Wray-Wray and Aileen Cannon

1. The Resistance Will Not Be Televised

Yesterday FBI director Christopher Wray announced that he will resign his position rather than force the next president to fire him.

His decision is weak, misguided, and self-defeating. In order to be clear-eyed about what is happening we

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Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences in sweeping clemency grant

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 more convicted of nonviolent crimes, the White House announced on Thursday, describing it as “the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.”

The people whose sentences will b

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Syria’s new authorities say they’ve secured the release of an Amer

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American citizen who disappeared seven months ago into former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s notorious prison system was suddenly discovered Thursday outside Damascus after being released and handed over to rebel forces, Syria’s new authorities sa

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Trump offers inauguration invites to foreign leaders through calls and

Donald Trump, eager to turn his inauguration into a global event, is personally extending invitations to some foreign leaders, including heads of state that have clashed with the United States in the recent past.

Already, Trump has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend hi

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Donald Trump rings the NYSE opening bell as he's named Time's Person o

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President-elect Donald Trump rang the New York Stock Exchange’s (ICE-1.08%) opening bell on Thursday, a first for the longtime businessman and two-time presidential election winner.

The ceremonial opening of trading also coincided with Trump being named Time mag

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Hegseth backtracks on criticism of gays in the military

Hegseth backtracks on criticism of gays in the military POLITICOTrump's embattled Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth reverses position on women in combat USA TODAYErnst, Hegseth sidestep question of women in combat after meeting The HillPete Hegseth Lamented Don't Ask Don't Tell Chang

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US believes circulating video from Syria could show missing American T

WASHINGTON and LONDON -- A man seen in a video circulating online is believed to be Travis Pete Timmerman, an American who went missing from Hungary earlier this year, two officials familiar with the matter told ABC News.

One official said the U.S. government was able to make co

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DOJ IG reveals 26 FBI informants were present on Jan. 6

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said there were more than two dozen confidential human sources (CHSs) in the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but only three were assigned by the FBI to be present for the event, while stressing that none of the sour

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Biden issues 39 presidential pardons and commutes 1,500 sentences

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.

The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single day. It comes after Biden ma

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Trump invites China’s Xi to his inauguration even as he threatens ma

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend his inauguration next month — extending a diplomatic olive branch even as Trump threatens to levy massive tariffs on Chinese goods.

Trump’s incoming press secretary

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Biden judicial nominations endgame comes into focus

Biden judicial nominations endgame comes into focus POLITICOHouse passes bill under Biden's veto threat that would give Trump more federal judge appointments Fox NewsHouse passes bill to add 66 new federal judgeships, but prospects murky after Biden veto threat The Associated P

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Luxury real estate broker and his twin held without bail on sex traffi

A prominent luxury real estate broker and his identical twin brother appeared in a Florida courtroom Thursday on sexual assault charges. Another brother, who co-founded the real estate firm, is also charged in what federal officials call a longtime sex trafficking scheme.

Oren a

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What We Know About Luigi Mangione: Manhattan DA Reportedly Presenting

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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has begun presenting evidence to a grand jury about Luigi Mangione—the 26-year-old suspect in last week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—multiple outlets reported Thursday, as police gather more phys

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Many New Jersey 'drone' sightings are lawfully operated manned aircraf

White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby claimed Thursday that many of the purported drone sightings spotted over New Jersey for the past several weeks are actually lawfully operated manned aircraft.

"We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone

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Missing American freed from Syrian prison

Missing American freed from Syrian prison AxiosLive updates: The latest in Syria as man thought to be US citizen found in Damascus CNNCBS News speaks with man who says he's just been freed from Syrian prison Yahoo! VoicesU.S. citizen found in Syria says he was imprisoned for mo

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Alert Center • Franklin Fire Update 12/12 6:00 AM

Franklin Fire Update 12/12 6:00 AM - Topanga Canyon Open, PCH closed from Topanga to Kanan. Power restored to Malibu and all signals functioning.

Franklin Fire Update 12/12 6:00 AM - Topanga Canyon Open, PCH closed from Topanga to Kanan. Evacuation Orders and Warnings remain in pl

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund

Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration committee of President-elect Donald Trump, deepening the social media giant’s charm offensive aimed at the incoming administration.

The donation, which was confirmed by Meta spokesman Andy Stone, is the latest effort by Meta CEO Mark

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House Dems broadly denounce UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting after Warren

House Dems broadly denounce UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting after Warren remarks POLITICOAnger After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing Rattles Health Insurance Workers The New York TimesFormer NYPD detective blasts Democrat senator over CEO shooting remarks: 'Twisted assessment' Fo

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Canada Threatens to Cut Power to U.S. Over Trump Tariffs

Canada Threatens to Cut Power to U.S. Over Trump Tariffs The Daily BeastCanadian official threatens to cut off energy to US if Trump imposes tariffs CNNCanada Weighs Export Taxes on Uranium, Oil If Trump Starts Trade War BloombergTrudeau says Americans are realizing Trump's tar

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inauguration

Quick: You’re a billionaire tech CEO with arguably one of the biggest megaphones in the world. You’ve had an up-and-down relationship with the incoming president of the United States who, among other things, has threatened to send you to prison for life. Do you (a) use your p

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No undercover FBI agents were at the January 6 US Capitol riot, watchd

A Justice Department watchdog found that there were no undercover FBI employees at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riot, rejecting speculation from allies of President-elect Donald Trump who have for years suggested that the violence that day was provoked by federal ag

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Biden pardons 39 people, commutes sentences of 1,500 others

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he was pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others who were serving long prison terms.

The moves come over a week after the president signed an u

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US senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey region should

A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” as it remains unclear who owns them.

“We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and

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Ontario to restrict electricity exports to US and bar American-made al

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s most populous province may bar American-made alcohol in addition to restricting electricity exports to Michigan, New York State and Minnesota if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products, a senior official said

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Opinion | Chris Wray’s Resignation Is a Terrifying Sign of What’s

Wray’s decision undermined decades of hard work — by Congress, presidents, the Justice Department and the FBI itself — to move it out of a partisan, political framework. The FBI’s highest guiding principle is supposed to be the rule of law — and federal law is clear: Th

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Trump rings bell on record stock market - but will it last?

Donald Trump stood on Wall Street on Thursday, a euphoric crowd of America's business elite assembled before him, and hammered the bell to kick off morning stock market trading.

The mood was celebratory. Not only had the president-elect just been named Time person of the year, bu

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Probe finds no evidence feds were involved in inciting Jan. 6 attack

An independent watchdog probe uncovered no evidence that federal agents were involved in inciting the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Thursday, undercutting years of baseless claims spread by far-right political figures who have alleged the FBI

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Trump rings opening bell at NYSE following Time’s ‘Person of the Y

Trump rings opening bell at NYSE following Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ honor CNN11 highlights from Trump's Time Person of the Year interview CBS NewsWhy Donald Trump Is TIME's 2024 Person of the Year TIMEColumn | The small asterisk next to Trump’s ‘Person of the Year�

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Morning Report — Wray to exit FBI; Kari Lake chosen for VOA

In today’s issue:

FBI’s Wray makes way for Trump pick Patel

House passes defense bill

Supreme Court dismisses Nvidia appeal

Syrian rebel leader urges “stability and calm”

FBI Director Christopher Wray, who began his tenure atop the bureau in 2017 as the choice of the

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Lawmaker accuses Pentagon of lying about New Jersey’s mysterious dro

Rep. Jeff Van Drew accused the Pentagon on Thursday of hiding the truth about mysterious drones spotted near military sites in New Jersey.

Defense officials balked on Wednesday at the New Jersey Republican’s unsubstantiated claims that car-size drones flying around the state w

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Trump open to detaining immigrants in camps in deportation push

Trump open to detaining immigrants in camps in deportation push AxiosTrump ready to ‘seal’ border from immigrants on Day 1 The HillTrump Wants Mass Deportations. He Will Need Jails and Sanctuary Cities to Help. The New York TimesMichigan immigrant rights groups brace for 'c

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The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capit

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a watchdog report Thursday. It also said no undercover FBI employees were present tha

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Donald Trump Is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for the Second Ti

President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has both derided Time magazine and pined for its approval, was named the publication’s person of the year on Thursday.

Mr. Trump also received the title in 2016, after his first presidential election victory, and now joins a group of 16 peo

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5 biggest FBI scandals during Christopher Wray's tenure as director

FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he will step down from the helm of the federal law enforcement agency ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

"After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the Bureau is for me to serve un

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Ontario premier threatens to cut off energy supply to US

“We need to be ready. We need to be ready to fight. This fight is coming 100 percent on Jan. 20th or Jan. 21.”

Trump has threatened tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican imports on the first day of his presidency if the two countries don’t exercise better control over illega

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Dick Van Dyke Says Neighbors ‘Saved Me’ During Wildfire Evacuation

Dick Van Dyke revealed in an interview on the “Today” show (via People) that his neighbors “saved” him while he was struggling to evacuate his home during this week’s Franklin Fire, which raged across Malibu and burned more than 2,600 acres. The wildfire caused widespre

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Donald Trump's 2024 Person of the Year Interview Transcript

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, Trump discussed his election victory, the economy, and the situations in Ukraine and th

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House sends Biden bill adding judicial seats after veto threat

The House approved a bill Thursday that would create dozens of additional judicial seats over the next several years, sending it to President Biden’s desk after his administration levied a veto threat.

The measure — titled the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencie

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House passes bill under Biden's veto threat that would give Trump more

The House passed a once-bipartisan bill on Thursday that authorizes 63 new permanent district judgeships over the next 10 years, 22 of which President-elect Trump can fill during his next term.

The White House released a statement earlier this week that President Biden would vet

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Video: Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatens to cut off energy to US if

Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to US if Trump imposes tariffs CNNOntario premier says Canada could cut U.S. energy supplies in retaliation for Trump tariffs CBS NewsTrudeau says Americans are realizing Trump's tariffs on Canada would make life a lot more expensive

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Trump will use military for deportations up to 'maximum' legal level;

President-elect Donald Trump has been named Time magazine's "2024 Person of the Year," it was announced on Thursday.

The feature story includes an interview with Trump, in which he discusses immigration, abortion, the economy and his incoming administration.

Part of the celebratio

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UnitedHealthCare CEO shooting: Suspect Luigi Mangione now faces mounti

Marked shell casings from the assassination scene match the gun found on the suspect. His fingerprints match some key items investigators found nearby. And he was arrested this week – after going silent from his mom and friends for months – with a fake ID and a handwritten �

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House passes bill expanding federal courts — but Biden veto looms

House passes bill expanding federal courts — but Biden veto looms POLITICOHouse passes bill under Biden's veto threat that would give Trump more federal judge appointments Fox NewsBiden judicial nominations endgame comes into focus POLITICOHouse sends Biden bill adding judici

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Donald Trump has invited China’s President Xi Jinping to his inaugur

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Wray’s departure will cement Trump’s control over the institutions

FBI Director Christopher Wray’s resignation announcement was the latest, and inevitable, step in the accumulation of massive and unusual power around President-elect Donald Trump.

Wray said Wednesday he would step down at the end of the Biden administration next month to save

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (£786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.

The tech giant's boss, Mark Zuckerberg, dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in November, having sought to repair his and his firm's relat

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Man Found in Syria Appears to Be a Missing American

Syria’s new authorities said on Thursday that an American citizen who had been imprisoned while Bashar al-Assad was in power had been found outside Damascus and handed over to the rebel group that now controls the capital.

In interviews with international news media, the man a

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'Incredibly stupid, incredibly weak': NJ rep rips high-ranking officia

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., responds to high-ranking officials who have dismissed his previous claim that 'reliable' sources said mystery drones flying over New Jersey originated from an Iranian mothership.

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New York City is a top mass deportation target. Its Democratic mayor i

“How do we secure our border? I want to share some of my strategies,” the mayor said in previewing his Thursday confab at City Hall with Trump border envoy Tom Homan. “We need a real decompression strategy. It’s important to go after those who are committing serious crime

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Trump named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ for second time

Donald Trump once publicly speculated that Time would never name him the news magazine’s “Person of the Year.”

Now, the honor has been bestowed on him twice.

Time on Thursday named Trump as this year’s choice, recognizing the president-elect as the individual or group d

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Mistrial declared after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University

A judge Wednesday declared a mistrial in the murder case against Sheldon "Timothy" Herrington Jr., who was accused of killing Jimmy "Jay" Lee, a gay man who was a prominent figure in the LGBTQ+ community at the University of Mississippi, in 2022. Lee disappeared and his body has neve

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Statement from President Joe Biden on Providing Clemency for Nearly 1,

America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances. As President, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation, restoring opportunity for Americans to participate in daily life and contribute to their com

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Time names Donald Trump as person of the year for second time

Time Magazine has named Donald Trump as their person of the year for the second time.

"For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a- generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America's role in the world, Dona

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Judge declares mistrial in Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee murder trial after jur

OXFORD, Miss. — Just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, a judge declared a mistrial in the murder trial for University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee.

The jury said it could not reach a verdict after more than nine hours. The judge said a new venue may be needed for a ne

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SBA staff at Washington headquarters would shrink under Ernst bill

SBA staff at Washington headquarters would shrink under Ernst bill POLITICO

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US man found wandering near Damascus after months in Syrian prison

A US man, detained for months in a Syrian prison after entering the country on foot, has described being freed by hammer-wielding men as rebels overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The man - who later identified himself as Travis Timmerman to the BBC's US news partner CBS - w

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Trump Chooses Kari Lake to Lead Voice of America

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday night chose Kari Lake to lead Voice of America, aiming to put a fierce loyalist who has called journalists “monsters” in charge of a federally funded news outlet that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the globe.

Mr. Tr

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Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee: Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks ove

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. in the 2022 killing of Jimmie “Jay” Lee, a gay man who was prominent in the LGBTQ+ community at the University of Mississippi.

Jurors said they were unable to reach a verdict after over