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‘Huge relief.’ CEOs exhale after Trump taps Scott Bessent to lead Treasury 2024-11-25
CNN

Business leaders say they are relieved President-elect Donald Trump made a safe choice to lead the Department of Treasury after more unconventional selections to other cabinet posts. Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived an internal squabble over the role of Treasury secretary, a key position...

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Trump, NATO Secretary-General Rutte meet in Florida 2024-11-24
Taipei Times

AP and Reuters, BRUSSELS US president-elect Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-Genera Mark Rutte have met for talks on global security, a spokesperson for the transatlantic military alliance said on Saturday. “They discussed the range of global security issues facing the Alliance,” NATO...

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Case closed on "nude" AI images of girls. Why police are not charging man who ... 2024-11-22
Yahoo Daily News

While investigators have charged his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Jaylyn Lee, with disseminating the pictures, they say the former Washington High School student who made them didn’t break the laws they applied to his case, which included “promotion of an altered sexual depiction” and...

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Requiem for an Empire 2024-11-22
Scheerpost

President Joe Biden greets President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith) By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove...

photo: White House / Adam Schultz

The downfall of Matt Gaetz 2024-11-22
New Statesman

It is hard to know which of the myriad allegations swirling around Matt Gaetz finally put an end to the former Florida congressman’s short-lived bid to become Donald Trump’s attorney general. The 42-year-old, who Trump had nominated to become the nation’s top law enforcement official, has variously...

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What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump's new pick for attorney general 2024-11-22
The Call

NEW YORK (AP) — Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, was chosen Thursday by Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general hours after his first choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration after a federal sex trafficking investigation and ethics probe made his ability to be confirmed...

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Inside Trump’s dramatic potential plan to shake up the FBI 2024-11-22
CNN

President-elect Donald Trump is considering shaking up the leadership at the FBI by firing the director and installing an experienced former agent and MAGA loyalist in the top two roles. Trump has planned for months to fire Christopher Wray if he was elected, but in recent days has struggled to find...

photo: AP / Charlie Neibergall, File

US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza ceasefire, saying it doesn’t guarantee release of hostages 2024-11-21
Egypt Independent

CNN — The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, on the grounds it would not have secured the release of hostages. “We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire...

photo: UN / Loey Felipe

Federal Reserve’s likely slowdown in rate cuts could disappoint borrowers 2024-11-21
Santa Cruz Sentinel

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a few weeks ago, the path ahead for the Federal Reserve looked straightforward: With inflation cooling and the job market slowing, the Fed appeared on track to steadily cut interest rates. In September, its officials...

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The Advancing MAGA Mob is Not a Monolith 2024-11-21
WhoWhatWhy

According to the old cliché, a frog dropped into a pot of boiling water will immediately leap out, while the same frog placed in a pot of room-temperature water is incapable of noticing the water slowly coming to a boil, and will remain in the pot, unaware of the impending doom, until it is cooked...

photo: AP / Charlie Neibergall