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Judge hits pause on Trump’s election interference criminal case

Judge hits pause on Trump’s election interference criminal case

NBC reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal election interference case has granted a request from special counsel Jack Smith to hit pause on the process and give him a month to formally request how to move forward — likely the first step in ending the prosecution. In a filing on Friday, Smith said that “as a result of the election” the prosecution “respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government…

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The next pandemic?

The next pandemic?

Fortune reports: Almost from the beginning of the spread of H5N1 bird flu among farms and ranches in the U.S. earlier this year, experts and researchers warned that a critical lag in the blood testing of exposed workers might lead to an underestimation of the virus’s potential transmission to humans. Those warnings have proved prophetic. And the federal Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) now finds itself not only trying to blunt the spread of the virus, but also…

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Qatar to pause Gaza ceasefire mediation, source says

Qatar to pause Gaza ceasefire mediation, source says

Reuters reports: Qatar will stop trying to mediate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal until Hamas and Israel are willing to resume talks, an official briefed on the matter said, while also casting doubt on the continued presence of Hamas’ political office in Doha. The Gulf country has been working alongside the United States and Egypt on months of so-far fruitless talks between the warring sides in Gaza and its withdrawal from that process would further complicate efforts to…

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‘Party of the elites’: How Republicans tapped into anti-elitist sentiment

‘Party of the elites’: How Republicans tapped into anti-elitist sentiment

  “What went wrong is the question a lot of people are asking right now.” Harris underperformed Joe Biden in every single state across the country, eviscerating any path she may have had to victory. To discuss how her campaign made so many wrong turns and was painted as elitist by billionaires like Trump and Musk, Mehdi talks to Ryan Grim, co-founder of Drop Site News, and Don Calloway, former Missouri Representative and founder of the National Voter Protection Action…

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America’s political discordance: The Trump voters who want progressivism

America’s political discordance: The Trump voters who want progressivism

Amanda Marcotte writes: Perhaps out of fear of insulting their audiences, the pundits, journalists, and political consultants engaged in the lengthy post-mortem about Donald Trump’s horrific victory Tuesday are avoiding the most obvious cause: ignorance. Millions of people who desperately want more progressive policies cast their ballots for a man whose agenda is exactly the opposite of what they want. On Fox News Wednesday, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt insisted, “The American people delivered a resounding victory for President Trump and…

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Stop pretending Trump is not who we are

Stop pretending Trump is not who we are

Carlos Lozada writes: “We’re not going back,” Harris told us. The tragedy is not that this election has taken us back, but that it shows how there are parts of America’s history that we’ve never fully gotten past. In her book “America for Americans,” Erika Lee argues that Trump’s immigration policies and statements are part of a long tradition of xenophobia — against Southern Europeans, against newcomers from Asia, Latin America and the Middle East — a tradition that has…

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The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind

The wreckage Merrick Garland leaves behind

Lisa Needham writes: It has often been said that Donald Trump was running for president to keep himself out of prison. Mission accomplished. But the fact that Trump wasn’t behind bars long ago, that he didn’t suffer any consequences for his criming and now likely never will, can be laid squarely at the feet of one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump for election interference and pilfering classified documents, making it easy for him…

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Despite climate concerns, young voter turnout slumped and its support split between the parties

Despite climate concerns, young voter turnout slumped and its support split between the parties

Inside Climate News reports: For 19-year-old Carson Carpenter, voting for Donald Trump was a “no-brainer.” Carpenter, who grew up in Prescott, Arizona, and was president of Arizona State University’s College Republicans until this week, said he was mainly influenced by concerns about the economy, particularly affordability. He also strongly believes in environmental protection, and he feels that progress on the environment will continue under Trump. “I think that people that say Trump is bad for the environment, they would be…

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Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

Undoing the ‘deep state’ means Trump would undo over a century of progress in building a federal government for the people and not just for rich white men

By Joseph Patrick Kelly, College of Charleston If elected, Donald Trump has vowed to demolish what he calls the “deep state” – a conspiratorial term for the American federal bureaucracy. A second Trump administration, running mate JD Vance has said, should fire thousands of civil servants and replace them with MAGA loyalists. Trump has said he would tap the billionare Elon Musk as the hatchet man to lead his proposed government commission on “efficiency” in government. Compared with the other…

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Jordan’s former foreign minister says two-state solution is over

Jordan’s former foreign minister says two-state solution is over

  Middle East Eye reports: Jordan’s former foreign minister has told Middle East Eye that Arab countries need to abandon the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. “Practically, that is not going to take place,” Marwan Muasher, who also served as Jordan’s deputy prime minister and opened the kingdom’s first embassy in Israel in 1995, said of the two-state solution in a video interview with Middle East Eye. The ex-diplomat, who is now vice president for studies at the Carnegie…

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Democrats rage against Biden’s ‘arrogance’ after Harris loss

Democrats rage against Biden’s ‘arrogance’ after Harris loss

Politico reports: Democrats are directing their rage over losing the presidential race at Joe Biden, who they blame for setting up Kamala Harris for failure by not dropping out sooner. They say his advancing age, questions over his mental acuity and deep unpopularity put Democrats at a sharp disadvantage. They are livid that they were forced to embrace a candidate who voters had made clear they did not want — and then stayed in the race long after it was…

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Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top ten

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top ten

The Guardian reports: The wealth of the 10 richest people in the world – a list dominated by US tech billionaires – increased by a record amount after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, according to a widely cited index. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the world’s 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about £49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, registered the largest increase with…

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Trump got away with it — because of the Biden administration’s massive missteps

Trump got away with it — because of the Biden administration’s massive missteps

Ankush Khardori writes: We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history. The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election. At the root of it all are…

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Trump’s biggest courtroom nemesis is looking for an exit strategy

Trump’s biggest courtroom nemesis is looking for an exit strategy

Politico reports: Seventy-five days. That’s how long special counsel Jack Smith has to figure out how to unwind his unprecedented efforts to put former and future President Donald Trump in prison. Smith’s two cases against Trump — one for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election; the other for hoarding classified documents and obstructing justice — were doomed the moment the 2024 race was called. That’s because longstanding Justice Department policy forbids prosecuting a sitting president, and even if it didn’t,…

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Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants

Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s allies and some in the private sector have been quietly preparing to detain and deport migrants residing in the United States on a large scale, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. And with the former president becoming the president-elect, those preparations are now expected to ramp up. Immigration was a cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 campaign, and while he repeatedly touted promises of mass deportation on the trail – putting increased emphasis on interior enforcement…

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The U.S. is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy

The U.S. is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy

Casey Crownhart writes: Voters have elected Donald Trump to a second term in the White House. In the days leading up to the election, I kept thinking about what four years means for climate change right now. We’re at a critical moment that requires decisive action to rapidly slash greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, transportation, industry, and the rest of the economy if we’re going to achieve our climate goals. The past four years have seen the US take climate…

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