Jack Smith to finish Trump circumstances and resign, report says; Musk and Ramaswamy roles trigger battle of curiosity issues

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  Donald Trump mentioned he would nominate far-right Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be the US lawyer common on Wednesday. Gaetz’s nomination is without doubt one of the most important up to now. As lawyer common, he could be the nation’s chief regulation enforcement officer and oversee the authorized positions that the federal government takes on key points, together with abortion, civil rights legal guidelines, and first modification points.

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  The choose proved extraordinarily controversial even amongst Republicans, with many critics pointing to a Home ethics committee that’s investigating him for allegations of intercourse trafficking and corruption amongst different issues, which he denies. Gaetz resigned from Congress after information of his nomination broke, that means that the investigation will come to an finish.

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  Trump named the previous Democratic congresswoman and Trump marketing campaign surrogate Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence. That alternative additionally raised eyebrows given Gabbard’s alternative to satisfy Syrian president Bashar al-Assad her skepticism about well-documented atrocities throughout the nation’s civil warfare.

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  The president-elect formally named Florida senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state. The son of Cuban immigrants is a hawk on China and Iran and a agency supporter of Israel.

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  Joe Biden met Trump at the White House, extending a courtesy to the president-elect and avowed political adversary that the Republican didn’t reciprocate in 2020, when he refused to acknowledge Biden’s election victory. Melania Trump declined an invite to satisfy with Jill Biden.

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  Earlier than heading to the White Home, the president-elect stopped by a gathering of Home Republicans, who appear on course to protect their majority, the place he joked about in search of a 3rd time period. The structure prohibits that, since he already served one time period within the White Home.

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  Home Democratic minority chief Hakeem Jeffries acknowledged that “we will not regain control of the Congress in January”. In an announcement, he mentioned Democrats would “proceed to hunt bipartisan widespread floor on any concern … whereas pushing again on far proper extremism every time vital.”

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  Home Speaker Mike Johnson won the House Republican nomination to remain on the job, on observe to maintain the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump forward of a full Home vote within the new 12 months.

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  Republican senators chose South Dakota’s John Thune as their new chief, changing long-serving Mitch McConnell, who opted to not stand once more for the job.

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  Jack Smith will reportedly wind down his two prosecutions of Trump, one regarding the 2020 election and the opposite the labeled paperwork discovered at his properties, and resign earlier than the inauguration. The president-elect has vowed to fireside Smith upon taking workplace, and justice division coverage additionally prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.

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  The unofficial leads to the race for the US Senate seat in Pennsylvania triggered a legally required statewide recount, commonwealth secretary Al Schmidt mentioned. Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick have vote totals throughout the one-half of 1% margin that triggers a compulsory recount beneath state regulation, Schmidt mentioned in an announcement.

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  US authorities workers have been injured by UFOs and the US authorities has carried out a secret UFO retrieval program, a former division of protection official advised a congressional committee on Wednesday. The listening to lacked any direct proof to again up the startling claims.

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Republican representative Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, has confirmed reports that he was detained by police at an airport near Washington, DC earlier this month, the Associated Press reports. The news wire writes:

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McCaul said he became “disoriented” at Dulles International Airport after he took medication and drank alcohol before his scheduled flight back home to Texas.

n “Two weekends ago, I made a mistake – one for which I take full responsibility. I missed a flight to Texas and found myself disoriented in the airport. This was the result of a poor decision I made to mix an Ambien – which I took in order to sleep on the upcoming flight – with some alcohol,” McCaul said in a statement.

n “Law enforcement officers briefly detained me while I waited for a family member to pick me up. I have nothing but respect and gratitude for the officers who intercepted me that evening. This incident does not reflect who I am and who I strive to be. As a human, I am not perfect. But I am determined to learn from this mistake and, God-willing, make myself a better person.”

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n McCaul was reelected this month to an 11th term in his district that runs from Austin to the Houston suburbs.

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic minority leader, has acknowledged that “we will not regain control of the Congress in January”.

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In a statement, he said House Democrats had “overperformed the national political environment” and praised them for running “aggressive, forward-looking and people-centered campaigns.”

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He also said Democrats would “continue to seek bipartisan common ground on any issue … while pushing back on far right extremism whenever necessary.”

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Related Press has but to make an official name on the Home, the place the Republicans are one seat wanting a majority with 11 races but to be formally known as.

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The Pentagon has been stunned by Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, a national guard veteran and Fox News presenter who has called for a purge of generals for pursuing “woke” diversity policies.

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Hegseth has questioned whether the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Charles Brown, was given the top job because he is black and accused him of “pursuing the radical positions of leftwing politicians”.

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Hegseth was a major in the Minnesota national guard who served as a prison guard at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and served in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming an outspoken rightwing critic of the military.

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He has argued for faster provision of more US weapons to Ukraine for its defence against Russia, but also called US Nato membership into question. His nomination is also a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested that Jews could build a new temple on the sacred compound around al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.

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Hegseth told an audience in Jerusalem in 2018: “There’s no reason why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not possible.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has won the House Republican nomination to stay on the job, on track to keep the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump ahead of a full House vote in the new year the Associated Press reports.

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While Johnson has no serious challenger, he faces dissent within his ranks, particularly from hard-right conservatives and the Freedom Caucus withholding their votes as leverage to extract promises ahead.

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Trump told House Republicans, during the president-elect’s first trip back to Washington since the party swept the 2024 election, that he’s with the speaker all the way, according to a person familiar with the remarks but unauthorized to discuss the private meeting near the Capitol.

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Johnson heaped praise on Trump, calling him the “comeback king”.

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The unofficial results in the race for the US Senate seat in Pennsylvania have triggered a legally required statewide recount, commonwealth secretary Al Schmidt has said.

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Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick have vote totals within the one-half of 1% margin that triggers a mandatory recount under state law, Schmidt said in a statement.

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As of Wednesday, McCormick led by about 28,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million ballots counted.

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Counties must begin the recount no later than November 20 and must finish by noon on November 26. It largely involves running paper ballots through high-speed scanners, a process that former election officials say might not change the outcome by more than a few hundred votes.

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Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican of Alaska, was open about her views on Matt Gaetz’s nomination.

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“We need a serious attorney general. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to consider somebody that is serious,” she told reporters. “This one was not on my bingo card.”

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The New York Times also quoted her as adding: “I think it is really important that we don’t roll over on that role of advise and consent and we move through the nomination process.

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“If we get good candidates, we will be able to move through the nominations process, hopefully, really readily and that’ll be good for the president, good for him to get his team. But when you put forward picks that are really going to generate controversy, and not just controversy on one side of the aisle, it is going to take longer.”

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Donald Trump has been busy planning for his presidency, continuing to nominate a cadre of loyalists with few relevant qualifications to key posts. He named the former Democratic congresswoman and Trump campaign surrogate Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence, raising eyebrows given Gabbard’s choice to meet Syrian president Bashar al-Assad her skepticism about well-documented atrocities during the country’s civil war.

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He also named Matt Gaetz, who has protested election results along side far-right Proud Boys and is facing an ethics investigation over allegations he engaged in sex trafficking and had sex with a 17-year-old girl.

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  Trump has officially named Florida senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state. News of the choice filtered out over the past day or so, but Trump had not made it official, until today.

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  Joe Biden met Trump at the White House, extending a courtesy to the president-elect and avowed political adversary that the Republican did not reciprocate in 2020, when refused to acknowledge Biden’s election victory.

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  Before heading to the White House, the president-elect stopped by a meeting of House Republicans, who appear on course to preserve their majority, where he joked about seeking a third term. The constitution prohibits that, since he already served one term in the White House.

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  Republican senators chose South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, replacing long-serving Mitch McConnell, who opted not to stand again for the job.

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  Jack Smith will reportedly wind down his two prosecutions of Trump, one concerning the 2020 election and the other the classified documents found at his properties, and resign before the inauguration. The president-elect has vowed to fire Smith upon taking office, and justice department policy also prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.

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Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general has sparked outrage and shock.

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“This guy has been on the run from the law for quite some time now, so he’ll think he’s above it. He’ll be corrupt as hell,” said Olivia Troye, a former official in the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration who has become an outspoken critic of the former president.

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Robert Weissman, the co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen said it was “hard to imagine a worse and more unqualified candidate” than Gaetz.

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“As a member of Congress, Gaetz has demonstrated contempt for the rule of law, truth and decency. He is singularly unqualified to lead an agency that enforces civil rights laws and environmental protection statutes. Under Gaetz, we’d have every reason to expect an America where corporate criminals walk free but immigrants and people of color are harassed or rounded up with minimal pretext,” he said in a statement.

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Meanwhile, Republicans in the Senate have been evading questions from reporters about whether they found Gaetz to be qualified and whether they would approve his nomination.

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Thom Tillis, a Republican senator of North Carolina, told Politico’s Burgess Everett: “I’m all about counting votes, and I would think that he’s probably got some work cut out for him.”

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Susan Collins, the moderate Republican senator of Maine told reporters she was “shocked” but the Matt Gaetz nomination.

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“I was shocked by the announcement – that shows why the advise-and-consent process is so important,” Collins said. “I’m sure that there will be a lot of questions raised at his hearing.”

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Matt Gaetz, the Florida congressman who Donald Trump just nominated to be his attorney general, has for years faced allegations of sexual misconduct.

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Last year, Gaetz said the justice department had closed an investigation that began after allegations emerged of the congressman having sex with a 17-year-old girl and paying for her travel. The House ethics committee earlier this year announced that it was beginning its own inquiry into whether Gaetz “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favours to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct”.

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That investigation has not yet been publicly concluded. Here’s more about it:

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Donald Trump has chosen Matt Gaetz, of his most prominent defenders in Congress, to serve as attorney general.

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The appointment could put Gaetz in charge of Trump’s promised effort to retaliate against his political opponents, including officials who served in his previous administration but have since repudiated him. Trump announced the nomination, which must be confirmed by the Senate, on Truth Social:

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It is my Great Honor to announce that Congressman Matt Gaetz, of Florida, is hereby nominated to be The Attorney General of the United States. Matt is a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney, trained at the William & Mary College of Law, who has distinguished himself in Congress through his focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice. Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department. On the House Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight of DOJ, Matt played a key role in defeating the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, and exposing alarming and systemic Government Corruption and Weaponization. He is a Champion for the Constitution and the Rule of Law…

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Gaetz, a congressman representing a very conservative district in the Florida panhandle, became known nationally last year when he was a key player in the putsch that ousted Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.

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Donald Trump has named former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence. Gabbard is another loyalist who frequently joined Trump at campaign events.

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Here’s what he had to say in announcing in picking Gabbard, who represented Hawaii from 2013 to 2021, and endorsed Trump after leaving the Democratic party:

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I am pleased to announce that former Congresswoman, Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi Gabbard, will serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI). For over two decades, Tulsi has fought for our Country and the Freedoms of all Americans. As a former Candidate for the Democrat Presidential Nomination, she has broad support in both Parties – She is now a proud Republican! I know Tulsi will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our Intelligence Community, championing our Constitutional Rights, and securing Peace through Strength. Tulsi will make us all proud!

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Donald Trump has just officially named Florida senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state.

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News of the choice filtered out over the past day or so, but Trump had not made it official, until now. Here’s what he said:

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It is my Great Honor to announce that Senator Marco Rubio, of Florida, is hereby nominated to be The United States Secretary of State. Marco is a Highly Respected Leader, and a very powerful Voice for Freedom. He will be a strong Advocate for our Nation, a true friend to our Allies, and a fearless Warrior who will never back down to our adversaries. I look forward to working with Marco to Make America, and the World, Safe and Great Again!

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Jean-Pierre said she won’t go into “granular detail” about the Biden-Trump meeting.

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“What I can say it was indeed cordial, very gracious and very substantive. National security was discussed. Domestic policy issues were discussed,” she said.

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She added that Biden stressed the importance of a peaceful transition.

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“We have a mandate from the American people – a mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the Biden-Harris-Schumer agenda but also to deliver on President Trump’s priorities,” Thune said.

n Thune said the party would give Trump the tools to “enforce border security laws and remove violent criminals who are wreaking havoc in every one of our states”.

n Cracking down on immigration has been a key plank of Trump’s campaign.

n Trump’s newly appointed “border czar” Tom Homan said earlier this year: “I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.””

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“It’s a new day in the United States Senate and it’s a new day in America,” John Thune said in a press conference shortly after being chosen as the new Republican Senate conference leader.

n “This Republican team is united. We are one team and excited to reclaim the majority.”

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Thune vowed to clean up the “mess” left by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer.

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John Thune had this to say following his election as the Senate Republican leader, a position in which he will be tasked with steering the incoming president’s legislative proposals through Congress’s upper chamber:

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I am extremely honored to have earned the support of my colleagues to lead the Senate in the 119th Congress, and I am beyond proud of the work we have done to secure our majority and the White House. This Republican team is united behind President Trump’s agenda, and our work starts today.

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Thune will likely face two obstacles in the job over the next two years: Democrats, who can use the filibuster to stop Trump’s bills, and Republicans who are not onboard with Trump’s proposals, or Thune’s strategy.

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Joe Biden is presently meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, extending a courtesy to the president-elect and avowed political adversary that the Republican did not give him in 2020, when he instead refused to acknowledge Biden’s election victory. Despite all that, the meeting appeared friendly, at least from what reporters witnessed, with Biden promising “a smooth transition” and Trump saying “it is a nice world today”. Before heading to the White House, the president-elect stopped by a meeting of House Republicans, who appear on course to preserve their majority, where he joked about seeking a third term. The constitution prohibits that, since he already served one term in the White House.

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Here’s what else has happened today so far:

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  Republican senators have chosen South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, replacing long-serving Mitch McConnell, who opted not to stand again for the job.

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  Trump is reportedly considering nominating former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence. She’ll have to be confirmed by the Senate, who might want to know more about her visit with Bashar al-Assad.

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  Jack Smith will reportedly wind down his two prosecutions of Trump, one concerning the 2020 election and the other the classified documents found at his properties, and resign before the inauguration. The president-elect has vowed to fire Smith upon taking office, and justice department policy also prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.

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Republican senators have elected John Thune of South Dakota as their new leader, replacing Mitch McConnell, the Associated Press reports.

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Thune, who serves as the minority whip, the second-highest-ranking position among Republicans, will become the chamber’s majority leader in January, once newly elected GOP lawmakers take their seats and give the party control of the Senate.

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McConnell has led Senate Republicans since 2007, spearheading the opposition to Barack Obama and assisting Donald Trump during his first term in office. The Kentucky senator played a decisive role in creating the supreme court’s conservative supermajority by blocking Obama from appointing a justice, then presiding over the confirmation of three of Trump’s appointees.

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McConnell opted not to stand again as Senate leader, but holds his seat through 2026.

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Reporters were let into the Oval Office for Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s meeting for a short period of time, and heard the two men say little.

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“Politics is tough and in many cases it’s not a nice world, but it is a nice world today,” Trump said, in one of the few comments either made.

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Video of their encounter shows Trump and Biden sitting in chairs by the fireplace and smiling as reporters shout questions. Neither man answers, though Trump appears to mouth “thank you” at one point.

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Press photographers were allowed into the room at the beginning of Donald Trump’s meeting with Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Here’s what they saw:

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden are meeting in the Oval Office, according to reporters at the White House.

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The press was only let into the room for about a minute, but could hear Trump say something about how politics is tough, and thank Biden for a smooth transition of power. “You’re welcome,” the president replied.

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Donald Trump is scheduled to at 11am sit for a meeting with Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the transition between their administrations.

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No such meeting happened after Biden won election in 2020, because Trump refused to acknowledge his victory, and instead tried to prevent him from taking office.

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Biden and Trump have spent the past four years denouncing each other, but the president quickly reached out to set up a meeting with the Republican after he won last Tuesday’s election.

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Reporters are scheduled to be allowed into the Oval Office, where Biden and Trump are meeting, for a few minutes when it begins. We’ll let you know what the two leaders have to say.

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Donald Trump joked about running for a third term as president, during an address to House Republicans in Washington DC.

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“I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you say, he’s good, we got to figure something else,” Trump said.

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The constitution prohibits Trump from running for re-election, since he previously served one term in office that lasted from 2017 till 2021.

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Donald Trump is considering appointing Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who left the party and endorsed his candidacy, as his director of national intelligence, Punchbowl News reports.

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Gabbard represented Hawaii from 2013 through 2021, and made a failed attempt to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

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As a congresswoman, she made an unusual trip to government-controlled areas of Syria during its civil war, met with its president, Bashar al-Assad, and later publicly doubted his responsibility in a well-documented chemical weapons attack. Should Trump nominate her for the job overseeing US intelligence agencies, you can expect that episode to come up at her confirmation hearings. Here’s more about her, from when she made her bid for president:

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As the dawn of a new Trump era looms, two blue state governors are launching an initiative to confront the threat of authoritarianism and safeguard American democratic institutions.

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Governors Safeguarding Democracy is a non-partisan coalition of governors, chaired by Illinois governor JB Pritzker and Colorado governor Jared Polis.

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“We founded GSD because we know that simple hope alone will not save our democracy,” said Polis. “We need to work together, especially at the state level, to protect and strengthen.”

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Across the country, Democratic governors and attorneys general are preparing for a second Trump administration by readying lawsuits and legislation that could serve as a bulwark against any attempts to undermine state-level climate initiatives, abortion access or federal disaster relief funding. The governors said they would seek input from thinktanks, legal experts and democracy advocates.

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“What we’re doing is pushing back against increasing threats of autocracy and fortifying the institutions of democracy that our country and our states depend upon.” Pritzker told reporters on Tuesday.

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The governors said they have been in contact with several governors about joining the initiative, including Republicans, but did not offer the names of any other members.

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The alliance is modeling itself after the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a governors’ working group that formed after the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade. According to Pritzker and Polis, the new coalition will provide a more formal structure allowing for cross-state collaboration on policies that reinforce and protect the rule of law and democratic institutions. It is also aimed at allowing for a more coordinated response to “emerging threats”.

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Polis said the governors were particularly concerned about threats to the integrity of the US election system, but that the group would also be focused on “protecting the principle of an independent judiciary, our Constitutional principles, the health of democracy and civil society”.

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Another story to watch today is the behind-closed-doors election Senate Republicans are holding to replace outgoing leader Mitch McConnell.

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McConnell is one of the most influential conservative politicians in the country. The Kentucky lawmaker led the opposition to Barack Obama’s presidency and blocked him from appointing a supreme court justice in 2014, paving the way for Donald Trump to appoint three justices that decisively tilted the court to the right and overturned Roe v Wade. But after a series of health scares, the 82-year-old announced earlier this year that he would not stand again to lead the party in Congress’s upper chamber.

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Three candidates stand to replace him: top-ranking senators John Thune of South Dakota and John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott, a Florida senator who has lately received a boost from people aligned with Trump’s Maga agenda. Whoever emerges as the GOP conference’s pick will become Senate majority leader next year, when the party officially takes control of the chamber from Democrats. He’ll also become a leading figure in implementing Trump’s legislative agenda.

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It’s worth noting that we still do not know for sure if Republicans will continue to hold a majority in the House of Representatives.

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Ballot counting is ongoing in a small number of close races in western states, but according to the Associated Press, the GOP has won 216 seats to the Democrats’ 207, with 218 seats needed for a majority. Donald Trump’s allies have managed to pick up four Democratic-held seats, while the Democrats have flipped only one.

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Should Democrats pull of surprise victories in enough outstanding seats to gain a majority, it would put them in a position to block Trump’s legislative proposals. Even if the GOP wins the majority again, it will likely be a small one – which can pose its own problems.

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Donald Trump will meet with the House GOP before he sits down with Joe Biden to discuss the presidential transition at the White House.

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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson announced the meeting yesterday, which comes as Republicans appear on track to keep their majority in Congress’s lower chamber. Politico reports that the president-elect will appear at the meeting beginning at 9am.

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Justice department special counsel Jack Smith plans to end his two prosecutions of Donald Trump and resign before the president-elect takes office, the New York Times reports.

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Smith last year indicted Trump for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat, and for conspiring to hide classified documents. Neither case made it to trial before Trump’s election victory last week, which appeared to make it impossible for Smith to continue. Justice department policy prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents, and Trump has vowed to fire Smith within “two seconds” of becoming president again.

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Here’s more, from the Times:

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Jack Smith, the special counsel who pursued two federal prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, plans to finish his work and resign along with other members of his team before Mr. Trump takes office in January, people familiar with his plans said.

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Mr. Smith’s goal, they said, is to not leave any significant part of his work for others to complete and to get ahead of the president-elect’s promise to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in.

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Mr. Smith, who since taking office two years ago has operated under the principle that not even a powerful ex-president is above the law, now finds himself on the defensive as he rushes to wind down a pair of complex investigations slowed by the courts and ultimately made moot by Mr. Trump’s electoral victory.

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Mr. Smith’s office is still drawing up its plan for how to end the cases, and it is possible that unforeseen circumstances — such as judicial rulings or decisions by other government officials — could alter his intended timeline. But Mr. Smith is trying to finish his work and leave before Mr. Trump returns to power, the people familiar with his plans said.

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As he prepares for his last act as special counsel, Mr. Smith’s ultimate audience will not be a jury, but the public.

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Department regulations call for him to file a report summarizing his investigation and decisions — a document that may stand as the final accounting from a prosecutor who filed extensive charges against a former president but never got his cases to trial.

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It is not clear how quickly he can finish this work, leaving uncertain whether it could be made public before the Biden administration leaves office. But several officials said he has no intention of lingering any longer than he has to, and has told career prosecutors and F.B.I. agents on his team who are not directly involved in that process that they can start planning their departures over the next few weeks, people close to the situation said.

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Secretary of state Antony Blinken is in Brussels in Belgium, where he has been meeting recently appointed Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.

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In comments after the meeting, he set out to the media how Joe Biden’s administration intends to continue supporting Ukraine as the transition to the second Donald Trump administration gets under way. He told reporters:

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We have a very intense and important agenda over the next couple of months. And as I said to the secretary general, president Biden fully intends to drive through the tape and use every day to continue to do what we’ve done over these last four years, which is strengthen this alliance that’s so critical to the security of the US and security of countries throughout Europe.

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And we will do that and as well to continue to shore up everything we’re doing for Ukraine to make sure that it can effectively defend itself against this Russian aggression.

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Associated Press has described Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, as “someone largely inexperienced and untested on the global stage to take over the world’s largest and most powerful military”.

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The news agency points out that in an interview the Shawn Ryan Show podcast, Hegseth has previously expressed the view that allowing women to serve in combat increases the number of casualties the US military suffers.

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It quotes him saying:

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Everything about men and women serving together makes the situation more complicated, and complication in combat, that means casualties are worse.

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He said minority and white men can perform similarly but the same isn’t true for women, adding that by opening combat slots to women “we’ve changed the standards in putting them there, which means you’ve changed the capability of that unit”.

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Donald Trump appointee Vivek Ramaswamy is somewhat less known outside the US than Elon Musk.

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Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur, who ran for the Republican nomination for president against Trump, dropping out of the race early in 2024.

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His parents moved to the US from Kerala, and he has attended Harvard and Yale. The 39-year-old lives in New York and has a house in Ohio, and is married with two children.

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Forbes has stated he is one of the 20 youngest billionaires in the US, and his business interests have included biotech firm Roivant Sciences, Chapter Medicare and he also worked at hedge fund QVT.

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Ramaswamy also notoriously appeared to broadcast himself urinating during a live X talk that featured Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Matt Gaetz and others.

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US politics website the Hill is reporting that the hardline Trumpist Republican Freedom caucus in the House is to drop its objection to the re-election of speaker Mike Johnson, and will not be putting up an alternative candidate.

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Instead it is believed the group will force an on the record vote on Johnson’s role, which will allow them to register their onjection to his reappointment. The caucus is unhappy with proposed rule changes intended to enforce better party discipline on the more rebellious Republican members of the House.

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Joe Biden will host Donald Trump later today at the White House as part of transition efforts between the current administration and the incoming one.

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Yesterday White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters “[Biden] believes within the norms, he believes in our establishment, he believes within the peaceable switch of energy. That’s what’s the norm. That’s what is meant to occur.”

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Reuters experiences that Brian Vance, a spokesperson for the Trump transition, mentioned “The Trump-Vance transition attorneys proceed to constructively interact with the Biden-Harris administration attorneys relating to all agreements contemplated by the Presidential Transition Act.”

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Welcome to the Guardian’s ongoing coverage of US politics. Here are the headlines …

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  President-elect Donald Trump has continued to make appointments as he prepares to return to the White House. Former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who once said he dreamed of building a holiday home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, will be the US ambassador to Israel

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  South Dakota governor Kristi Noem will lead the Department of Homeland Security. Fox News host Pete Hegseth will serve as secretary of defense, while John Ratcliffe will lead the CIA and William Joseph McGinley will serve as White House counsel

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  Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency”, which Trump says will not actually be a government agency. They will, according to Trump, work from outside the government to “drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to government never seen before”. Both men already have lucrative government contracts, leading to questions about an immediate conflict of interest

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  Republican Rep David Valadao sealed California’s 22nd Congressional district, beating Democrat Rudy Salas, and edging the Republicans closer to the 218 mark which will give them control of the House

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  The judge in Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush-money case has postponed deciding on whether to throw out the conviction on presidential immunity grounds

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  Joe Biden’s administration has said it will not halt arms transfers to Israel, despite eight international aid groups saying Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has failed to meet US demands to increase humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip

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The announcement that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would lead a new non-governmental “Department of Government Efficiency” has immediately raised questions about conflicts of interest.

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Both men, CNN notes, “lead companies with existing, lucrative government contracts”. Musk runs companies including Tesla, SpaceX, X and Neuralink while Ramaswamy is a wealthy biotech entrepreneur.

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In his statement announcing the new roles, president-elect Donald Trump said of Musk and Ramaswamy:

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Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal agencies.

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Reacting to his appointment, and giving his view of what he sees as government bureaucracy, Ramaswamy posted to X to say “Shut it down”.

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Ramaswamy also announced he was ending his bid to be appointed Ohio senator in stead of JD Vance, who is set to become vice president.

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• Donald Trump mentioned he would nominate far-right Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be the US lawyer common on Wednesday. Gaetz’s nomination is without doubt one of the most important up to now. As lawyer common, he could be the nation’s chief regulation enforcement officer and oversee the authorized positions that the federal government takes on key points, together with abortion, civil rights legal guidelines, and first modification points.

• The choose proved extraordinarily controversial even amongst Republicans, with many critics pointing to a Home ethics committee that’s investigating him for allegations of intercourse trafficking and corruption amongst different issues, which he denies. Gaetz resigned from Congress after information of his nomination broke, that means that the investigation will come to an finish.

• Trump named the previous Democratic congresswoman and Trump marketing campaign surrogate Tulsi Gabbard as his nominee for director of national intelligence. That alternative additionally raised eyebrows given Gabbard’s alternative to satisfy Syrian president Bashar al-Assad her skepticism about well-documented atrocities throughout the nation’s civil warfare.

• The president-elect formally named Florida senator Marco Rubio as his nominee for secretary of state. The son of Cuban immigrants is a hawk on China and Iran and a agency supporter of Israel.

• Joe Biden met Trump at the White House, extending a courtesy to the president-elect and avowed political adversary that the Republican didn’t reciprocate in 2020, when he refused to acknowledge Biden’s election victory. Melania Trump declined an invite to satisfy with Jill Biden.

• Earlier than heading to the White Home, the president-elect stopped by a gathering of Home Republicans, who appear on course to protect their majority, the place he joked about in search of a 3rd time period. The structure prohibits that, since he already served one time period within the White Home.

• Home Democratic minority chief Hakeem Jeffries acknowledged that “we will not regain control of the Congress in January”. In an announcement, he mentioned Democrats would “proceed to hunt bipartisan widespread floor on any concern … whereas pushing again on far proper extremism every time vital.”

• Home Speaker Mike Johnson won the House Republican nomination to remain on the job, on observe to maintain the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump forward of a full Home vote within the new 12 months.

• Republican senators chose South Dakota’s John Thune as their new chief, changing long-serving Mitch McConnell, who opted to not stand once more for the job.

• Jack Smith will reportedly wind down his two prosecutions of Trump, one regarding the 2020 election and the opposite the labeled paperwork discovered at his properties, and resign earlier than the inauguration. The president-elect has vowed to fireside Smith upon taking workplace, and justice division coverage additionally prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.

• The unofficial leads to the race for the US Senate seat in Pennsylvania triggered a legally required statewide recount, commonwealth secretary Al Schmidt mentioned. Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick have vote totals throughout the one-half of 1% margin that triggers a compulsory recount beneath state regulation, Schmidt mentioned in an announcement.

• US authorities workers have been injured by UFOs and the US authorities has carried out a secret UFO retrieval program, a former division of protection official advised a congressional committee on Wednesday. The listening to lacked any direct proof to again up the startling claims.

Indivisible, a leftwing political umbrella motion based in response to Donald Trump’s election as president in 2016, has responded to Trump’s alternative of Matt Gaetz as lawyer common with a strongly worded press launch titled “For Fuck’s Sake”. Amongst different issues, it says:

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Placing Matt Gaetz answerable for the Division of Justice is like handing a matchbook to an arsonist and asking him to guard the forest. This can be a man who’s been investigated for intercourse trafficking a minor, attended drug-fueled events with underage women and continues to be beneath Home Ethics investigation for sexual misconduct.

This isn’t only a reckless alternative; it’s a calculated transfer to dismantle the DOJ and switch it into Trump’s private revenge squad.

The vice-president elect, JD Vance, has dismissed widespread issues about Trump’s number of Matt Gaetz as lawyer common, saying in a publish on X:

The primary concern with Matt Gaetz is that he used his workplace to prosecute his political opponents and licensed federal brokers to harass dad and mom who have been peacefully protesting in school board conferences.

Oh wait, that’s truly Merrick Garland, the present lawyer common.

Till he resigned moments ago, Gaetz was beneath investigation by a Home ethics committee over allegations of “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper presents, disbursed particular privileges and favors to people with whom he had a private relationship, and sought to impede authorities investigations of his conduct.” He has denied all wrongdoing.

Garland was criticised by Republicans over a memo he issued in 2021, wherein he raised issues a few “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” at faculties, sparking false claims by Republicans that Garland had accused dad and mom of “home terrorism”.

Home overseas affairs chair Michael McCaul confirms he was detained at airport

Republican consultant Michael McCaul, the chairman of the Home overseas affairs committee, has confirmed experiences that he was detained by police at an airport close to Washington, DC earlier this month, the Related Press experiences. The information wire writes:

McCaul mentioned he grew to become “disoriented” at Dulles Worldwide Airport after he took treatment and drank alcohol earlier than his scheduled flight again dwelling to Texas.

“Two weekends in the past, I made a mistake – one for which I take full duty. I missed a flight to Texas and located myself disoriented within the airport. This was the results of a poor choice I made to combine an Ambien – which I took so as to sleep on the upcoming flight – with some alcohol,” McCaul mentioned in an announcement.

“Legislation enforcement officers briefly detained me whereas I waited for a member of the family to select me up. I’ve nothing however respect and gratitude for the officers who intercepted me that night. This incident doesn’t mirror who I’m and who I attempt to be. As a human, I’m not good. However I’m decided to study from this error and, God-willing, make myself a greater particular person.”

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McCaul was reelected this month to an eleventh time period in his district that runs from Austin to the Houston suburbs.

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US authorities workers have been injured by UFOs and the US authorities has carried out a secret UFO retrieval program, a former division of protection official told a congressional committee on Wednesday, although the listening to lacked any direct proof to again up the startling claims.

The listening to on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), which has change into the extra accepted time period for UFO, additionally heard that the federal government has a “big quantity” of secret info on UAPs, together with “images, video, images, different info”. Nevertheless it additionally discovered, following a question from Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, that there isn’t a proof of aliens having a secret underwater “base” on this planet.

The listening to got here greater than a 12 months after the Pentagon was accused of working a secret UFO retrieval program by whistleblower David Grusch, although no bodily proof has additionally ever emerged to again up these claims.

The dearth of concrete proof has been a constant thorn within the aspect of those that imagine the federal government is harboring UAPs, with Wednesday’s listening to once more focussing on testimony from individuals who mentioned they have been conscious of secret authorities applications, moderately than witnesses presenting precise exhausting proof.

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Matt Gaetz has resigned from Congress after Donald Trump nominated him for the publish of lawyer common, the Related Press is reporting, ending a bipartisan Home ethics probe into him that was launched in June over longstanding allegations of sexual misconduct, illicit drug use and different alleged moral breaches.

Just a few extra reactions to Trump’s number of Matt Gaetz to be lawyer common have additionally been coming in, with one Republican consultant, Mike Simpson, reportedly responding “Are you sh—ing me?” when requested whether or not he had the suitable character for the position.

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One other Republican consultant, Max Miller, known as the choice “foolish,” in keeping with NBC, including:

I imagine that the president might be rewarding him for being such a loyal soldier to the president. However the president is sensible sufficient, and his crew is sensible sufficient to know that Mr Gaetz won’t ever get confirmed by the Senate by any means.

Hakeem Jeffries acknowledges Democrats ‘won’t regain management’ of Home

Hakeem Jeffries, Home Democratic minority chief, has acknowledged that “we won’t regain management of the Congress in January”.

In a statement, he mentioned Home Democrats had “overperformed the nationwide political surroundings” and praised them for working “aggressive, forward-looking and people-centered campaigns.”

He additionally mentioned Democrats would “proceed to hunt bipartisan widespread floor on any concern … whereas pushing again on far proper extremism every time vital.”

Related Press has but to make an official name on the Home, the place the Republicans are one seat wanting a majority with 11 races but to be formally known as.

Pentagon surprised by Trump defence secretary choose Pete Hegseth

Julian Borger

The Pentagon has been surprised by Donald Trump’s choose for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, a nationwide guard veteran and Fox Information presenter who has known as for a purge of generals for pursuing “woke” range insurance policies.

Hegseth has questioned whether or not the chair of the joint chiefs of employees, Gen Charles Brown, was given the highest job as a result of he’s black and accused him of “pursuing the unconventional positions of leftwing politicians”.

Hegseth was a serious within the Minnesota nationwide guard who served as a jail guard at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and served in Iraq and Afghanistan earlier than changing into an outspoken rightwing critic of the army.

He has argued for sooner provision of extra US weapons to Ukraine for its defence in opposition to Russia, but in addition known as US Nato membership into query. His nomination can be a lift for the far proper in Israel, as he has proven assist for territorial growth and steered that Jews might construct a brand new temple on the sacred compound round al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, recognized to Jews because the Temple Mount.

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Hegseth advised an viewers in Jerusalem in 2018: “There’s no purpose why the miracle of the re-establishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is just not potential.”

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The top of the Facilities for Illness Management Prevention, Dr Mandy Cohen has voiced issues concerning the potential position of Robert F Kennedy Jr in a Trump administration, saying he might use it to unfold misinformation.

Trump has said he desires Kennedy, a vaccine-sceptic and opponent of the fluoridization of drinking water, to “handle well being” in his second administration.

In an interview with the New York Instances, Cohen mentioned that even when Kennedy was not appointed to a high-level place, he seems more likely to have some position on the White Home and in that case would “have numerous affect in issues”. She added:

Even with out altering one regulation or one piece of steering, the sharing of misinformation from a spot of energy is regarding.

She additionally mentioned she hoped “we are able to all have a dialog with scientists who work on fluoride” to “ensure we’re all trying on the similar set of information and proof.”

Mike Johnson wins Republican nomination to remain on as Home Speaker

Home Speaker Mike Johnson has received the Home Republican nomination to remain on the job, on observe to maintain the gavel after a morning endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump forward of a full Home vote within the new 12 months the Related Press experiences.

Whereas Johnson has no severe challenger, he faces dissent inside his ranks, notably from hard-right conservatives and the Freedom Caucus withholding their votes as leverage to extract guarantees forward.

Trump advised Home Republicans, throughout the president-elect’s first journey again to Washington for the reason that get together swept the 2024 election, that he’s with the speaker all the best way, in keeping with an individual acquainted with the remarks however unauthorized to debate the non-public assembly close to the Capitol.

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Johnson heaped reward on Trump, calling him the “comeback king”.

Senator Tammy Duckworth, one of many first ladies to fly fight missions in Iraq, has condemned Trump’s alternative of Fox Information presenter Pete Hegseth for subsequent secretary of defence, calling him “dangerously unqualified” and known as on her Republican colleagues to oppose the nomination. In an announcement, she mentioned:

This choose is harmful, plain and easy. Being Secretary of Protection is a really severe job, and placing somebody as dangerously unqualified as Pete Hegseth into that position is one thing that ought to scare all of us.

By selecting to place a TV persona with little expertise working a lot of something answerable for the Protection Division’s nearly 3 million troops and civilian workers, Donald Trump is as soon as once more proving he cares extra about his MAGA base than holding our nation protected—and our troops, our army households and our nationwide safety can pay the value.

Our troops and our nation deserve higher. On this second, my Republican colleagues should acknowledge the hazard that confirming a completely unqualified Secretary of Protection nominee would put our nation in, cease rolling over for Donald Trump and oppose this nomination.