Category: USA
Trump taps Mel Gibson as ‘special ambassador’ to Hollywood
Jerusalem Post Once shunned for antisemitic remarks, Mel Gibson now represents Trump’s Hollywood agenda. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-837937
Read MoreFormer Central Banker Mark Carney Seeks Leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party
Wall Street Journal Carney disclosed his intentions to a crowd in Edmonton, Alberta, the western Canadian city where he spent the bulk of his youth, promising an economic agenda focused on lifting the country from a period of stagnant growth. https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-central-banker-mark-carney-seeks-leadership-of-canadas-liberal-party-178072a6
Read MoreJohnson Installs Crawford on Intelligence Panel, Pulling It Closer to Trump
New York Times The speaker replaced a Republican who had criticized the president-elect and broken with him on key issues, and who had drawn the ire and suspicion of those close to the president-elect. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/rick-crawford-house-intelligence.html
Read MoreBiden Tightens Cybersecurity Rules, Forcing Trump to Make a Choice
New York Times The president’s latest executive order accelerates the move to mandatory compliance by software providers. It may run afoul of the Trump mandate to deregulate. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/biden-trump-cybersecurity.html
Read MoreTrump Picks a Jet-Setting Pal of Elon Musk to Go Get Greenland
New York Times Negotiations over an 836,000-square-mile island may fall to a close friend of Elon Musk with experience in deal-making. Just not that kind of deal-making. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-greenland.html
Read MoreICE says it will needs massive funding hike, tens of thousands more beds to implement Laken Riley Act
Fox News Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is telling lawmakers that the Laken Riley Act, an anti-illegal immigration bill expected to hit President-elect Trump’s desk in the coming weeks, will cost an additional $3 billion due to the agency needing an additional 60,000 detention beds. ICE responded to questions by Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., on…
Read MoreBiden’s Meta ‘censorship’ revelations ‘vindicated’ Alito dissent in RFK Jr case
Fox News The announcement by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook and Instagram would end their work with third-party fact-checkers and ease certain content restrictions was praised by some conservative activists, who cheered it as a “vindication” for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented from the rest of the court in late 2023 in…
Read MoreBiden thanks US troops for defending Israel in last military address
Jerusalem Post The road to that deal was not easy, Biden said, adding he laid down the elements of that deal in May that were embraced by countries around the world. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-837927
Read MoreFBI closed DEI office in December, agency says
Fox News EXCLUSIVE: The FBI has closed its DEI office, Fox News can confirm. “In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024,” the agency told Fox News Digital on Thursday. The agency didn’t specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans…
Read MoreBiden Administration Withdraws Protections for Endangered Whales
New York Times The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with rare North Atlantic right whales. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/biden-administration-slow-ships-whales-proposal-withdraw.html
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