Polls open in Uruguay for a runoff election to pick the next president of the stable South American nation
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Polls open in Uruguay for a runoff election to pick the next president of the stable South American nation.
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BuzzFeedPeople Can't Believe Donald Trump's Response To Being Asked About His Plans To Lower Grocery Prices
"Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard." —Donald Trump
- The Canadian Press
Unique among 'Person of the Year' designees, Donald Trump gets a fact-check from Time magazine
Time magazine gave Donald Trump something it has never done for a Person of the Year designee: a lengthy fact-check of claims he made in an accompanying interview.
- The Hill
Cuban says he ignored notes from Harris campaign
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban said he ignored notes that Vice Presidential Harris’s campaign was giving him while he was their acting surrogate on the trail. “I would go into immigration and, you know, I was honest, I would not let the Harris campaign tell me what to say. They would try to give me notes…
- The Daily Beast
‘The View’s’ Ana Navarro Scolds Joy Behar for NSFW Trump Joke
Joy Behar earned herself a scolding from co-host Ana Navarro on Friday’s The View when she made a NSFW quip about Donald Trump’s comment that it’s “hard to bring things down when they’re up,” while discussing his campaign promises on cost of groceries with Time magazine. “I think it’s the other way around too,” Behar said with a wink during the show’s first segment, prompting smirks and grimaces from her co-hosts. In case the audience didn’t catch the joke, she doubled down, “It’s very hard—very
- The Hill
Trump team rejects Bragg’s ‘Dark Dream Scenario’ for hush money case
President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush money criminal conviction, going as far to call one of them “unhinged” and “absurd” Friday. It remains unclear if New York Judge Juan Merchan will consider the new filing, as he previously wrote he would only accept one written…
- The Canadian Press
Ex-soccer player Kavelashvili becomes Georgia's president in a blow to country's EU aspirations
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili became president of Georgia on Saturday, as the ruling party tightened its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s EU aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia.
- The Canadian Press
Former Trump attorney lashes out at 'lawfare' after court appearance in Wisconsin fake electors case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s former Wisconsin attorney lashed out Thursday at the state’s Democratic attorney general for filing felony charges against him and two others related to the 2020 fake electors scheme, saying after their initial court appearance that he was the victim of “lawfare” that wreaked havoc on his life.
- The Canadian Press
Current, future North Carolina governor's challenge of power-shifting law could be first of many
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 elected to statewide office last month.
- The Hill
These are the Trump appointees who have faced legal troubles
President-elect Trump has named several people to his next administration who have faced legal troubles — including Trump himself, who was convicted in a New York hush money case during his 2024 campaign. Some of his appointees have served jail time, including cases that involve protecting Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. Other convictions and allegations…
- HuffPost
Trump Downplays Trans Bathroom Debate After Spending Millions On Anti-Trans Ads
“It's a very small number of people we're talking about,” the president-elect said in an interview with Time.
- BBC
Georgia's turmoil deepens as ex-footballer named president
After 17 days of pro-EU protests, a former Manchester City footballer is appointed president.
- Rolling Stone
Dems’ New Progressive Leader: ‘Diet’ Republicanism Won’t Work
Texas Rep. Greg Casar talks Trump’s lies, Democrat soul searching, and kicking corporate interest “in the shins”
- The Conversation
Is Reform really pulling ahead of Labour? Polling expert on what to really make of Farage’s supposed lead
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- The Hill
Opinion - Trump was the only possible choice for Person of the Year
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- The Canadian Press
A voter-approved Maine limit on PAC contributions sets the stage for a legal challenge
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A pair of conservative groups on Friday challenged a Maine law that limits donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections, arguing that money spent to support political expression is "a vital feature of our democracy.”
- USA TODAY
Judge upholds guilty plea of Trump co-defendant Kenneth Chesebro in Georgia election case
The judge's ruling nixes effort by Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump election lawyer in 2020, to say his guilty plea violated his right to due process.
- CNN
Big donors secure big roles in the incoming Trump administration
Nearly three dozen President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to serve in his incoming administration donated to his campaign or to the deep-pocketed outside groups that worked to elect him, a CNN analysis of federal campaign records shows.
- CBC
Elaine Auger wins race for chief in K'atl'odeeche First Nation, N.W.T., with 60 per cent of votes
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- Bloomberg
Georgia Selects New President, Affirming Shift Away From West
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- CNN
Nevada attorney general refiles charges against 2020 fake electors
Nevada prosecutors have refiled criminal charges against the six Republican “fake electors” who tried to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat in that state.