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HuffPost'Massive Reversal': Trump Ripped For Already Backpedaling On Key Campaign Promise
The president-elect and one of his advisers just shifted an important timetable.
- People
Mike Pence Reveals What He Said to Donald Trump During Their First Conversation in 4 Years
The former vice president and the president-elect shook hands and briefly chatted at Jimmy Carter's state funeral on Jan. 9
- The Daily Beast
Vance Breaks With Trump on ‘Day One’ Promise
Vice President-elect JD Vance appeared to walk back President-elect Donald Trump’s promises of near-blanket pardons for January 6 rioters in a Sunday interview. Vance, on Fox News Sunday, said the “very simple” process would mean pardons for those who protested peacefully and who he claimed were “treated like a gang member” by Attorney General Merrick Garland. But for those convicted of violent crimes, including assaulting Capitol police officers, “obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.” “There’s
- The Telegraph
China constructing ‘D-Day style’ barges for possible Taiwan invasion
China is reportedly constructing “D-Day style” barges which could be used in an invasion of Taiwan.
- The Telegraph
North Korean diary reveals use of horrific tactic in Ukraine war
The last written notes of a North Korean soldier have revealed how Pyongyang’s troops are being used as “bait” to lure out and shoot down Ukrainian drones.
- The Daily Beast
Broke Kamala Harris Fund Still Cash Grabbing Two Months After Loss
More than two months after Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump, the joint fundraising committee she set up with the Democratic National Committee is still charging recurring donors, according to a Politico report. Some of them are miffed. “It’s silly, out of touch, and needlessly takes advantage of our most loyal supporters,” one Democrat told Politico, sharing screenshots of charges to their accounts continuing into January.
- The Independent
‘I’m going to have him run out of here by inauguration day’: Steve Bannon escalates his war with Elon Musk
Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist branded the tech tycoon as a ‘truly evil person’ and said stopping him before Janaury 20 has become ‘a personal issue’
- The Daily Beast
Bannon Sets MAGA Expiration Date for ‘Evil’ Elon Musk
Steve Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s former advisor who helped steer conservative media into the arms of the xenophobic far-right, has vowed to get Trump’s new favorite confidant booted from the White House orbit before next week’s inauguration. “I will get Elon Musk kicked out by the time he’s inaugurated,” Bannon told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. "He won’t have a blue pass with full access to the White House. He’ll be like everyone else.” Bannon, a former investment banker an
- Fortune
Jamie Dimon isn’t surprised Donald Trump won the election—he says people were tired of being lectured to by a ‘swamp’ of ineffective government
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was not surprised Trump won the White House, saying people grew tired of ineffective government.
- Sky News
Donald Trump isn't the first US president to want Greenland - here's why
When President-elect Donald Trump talked about acquiring Greenland for the United States he was following a long tradition of US presidents musing about this issue. In 1867 President Andrew Johnson thought about trying to buy Greenland. During the Second World War the US occupied Greenland to prevent anyone else from getting access to it, and in 1946 President Harry Truman made Denmark another offer for it.
- CNN
Protests turn violent in China after student falls to his death
Violent protests have erupted in China after the death of a teenage boy sparked accusations of a cover-up by authorities, videos from the northwestern region of Shaanxi have shown.
- Associated Press
EU's executive branch denies cover up over the health of its president, Ursula von der Leyen
The European Commission denied on Monday that it had tried to cover up the state of health of its president, Ursula von der Leyen, after the head of the EU’s executive branch was hospitalized with severe pneumonia. Von der Leyen, 66, is the EU’s most high-profile political figure. In September, she marked the start of her second five-year term as commission president by traveling to Ukraine and then later to South America for a major trade meeting.
- INSIDER
A US passport is no longer the golden ticket it once was
The Henley Passport Index has moved the US passport from the top spot in 2014 to 9th place for 2025.
- Associated Press
Russian forces bypass a key stronghold in a bid to cut off its supplies, a Ukrainian officer says
Russian forces are bypassing a key stronghold in eastern Ukraine that they have fought for months to capture and are focusing instead on cutting supply lines to it, a Ukrainian official said Monday. Russian troops are going around the vital logistics hub of Pokrovsk, where a steadfast Ukrainian defense has kept them at bay, and are taking aim at a highway that leads from there to the central Ukraine city of Dnipro, Maj. Viktor Trehubov, a local Ukrainian army spokesperson, told The Associated Press. Cutting the highway traffic would also severely weaken Pokrovsk.
- HuffPost
Justin Trudeau Reveals How He Got Trump To 'Immediately' Change The Subject On Canada
The outgoing Canadian prime minister says he made a joke offer that the U.S. president-elect didn't think was funny.
- The Hill
Opinion - Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine
Trump could sweeten the deal by making Putin an offer he can’t refuse.
- The Independent
California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim
Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting
- The Guardian
Syria’s new rulers invite Assad security officials to surrender
Headquarters of intelligence service in Damascus is now ‘settlement centre’ where those who served inside turn themselves in
- The Hill
Trump: Jack Smith shouldn’t be allowed to release report
President-elect Trump said Sunday that former special counsel Jack Smith shouldn’t be allowed to “issue a ‘report’ on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me.” “Why would Deranged Jack Smith be allowed to issue a ‘report’ on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me, strictly for political purposes, when he was thrown off…
- HuffPost
Don Lemon Has Blunt Message For Democrats Over Obama's 'Cringey' Exchange With Trump
"Why does Karen Pence remember that but you don't?" the former CNN host said.