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'We always have troops in Greenland': J.D. Vance hints at Trump's use of military force

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance reminded officials in Greenland that the U.S. military maintained troops in the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Shannon Bream asked Vance about Trump refusing to rule out the use of military force to take possession of Greenland.

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'Let's not be divisive': Fox News host challenges J.D. Vance on California wildfires

Fox News host Shannon Bream challenged Vice President-elect J.D. Vance not to "be divisive" during an interview about the wildfires in California.

"I want to talk to you about the fire situation in California, because your administration will be coming in, taking over the reins as the feds are trying to meet that, along with many other emergency situations they have going on," Bream told Vance during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

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Rachel Campos-Duffy: 'Grumpiest award goes to Laura Bush' for snubbing Trump at funeral

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy slammed former First Lady Laura Bush after she declined to shake President-elect Donald Trump's hand at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

During Sunday's Fox & Friends broadcast, host co-host Charlie Hurt noted that former Vice President Mike Pence had congratulated Trump on his 2020 victory at the funeral.

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'This is alarming': MAGA fans rebel against Elon Musk's X over alleged 'censorship' issues

Donald Trump has forged close ties with the world's richest man in the world, Elon Musk, but the President-elect's fan base is lashing out at Musk's social network.

The apparent origin of the controversy is the blow-up between Musk himself, who advocated for legal immigration policies that benefit his companies, and many in the MAGA base, who hope to curtail all types of incoming immigrants.

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Jeff Bezos' WaPo reeling from losses and 'internal drama' as Trump returns to DC: report

At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Bruell.

In her report for the Journal, Bruell notes that Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Post in 2013 for $250 million, just watched his investment lose around $100 million last year as new management has failed to stop the bleeding.

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Charlie Kirk racist meltdown blames wildfires on lack of 'white men' firefighters

In a racist and bigoted tirade on Thursday, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk blamed the California wildfires on lesbians and a lack of "white men" firefighters.

"California has been the petri dish," Kirk bellowed on his Thursday podcast. "It has been the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the woke mind virus."

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Watch: George W. Bush declines to shake Donald Trump's hand at Jimmy Carter's funeral

Former President George W. Bush declined to shake the hand of President-elect Donald Trump at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

As the former presidents were seated at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, a CBS panel noted that Bush snubbed the president-elect.

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'Doing the worst of all worlds': Facebook whistleblower takes new shot at Zuckerberg

The woman who provided Congress with reams of documentation in 2021showing Facebook (now Meta) was more interested in profits over user safety, took some potshots at founder Mark Zuckerberg in a new interview published on Thursday.

Speaking with the Guardian's Dan Milmo and Robert Booth, Frances Haugen admitted she was unsurprised that Zuckerberg decided to pull the plug on mandating fact-checking on the social media platform that likely pleased Donald Trump.

According to Haugen, the Meta chairman saw which way the wind was blowing with Trump winning re-election in 2024 and made his new policy announcement earlier this week to get on the president-elect's good side.

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"The announcement from Mark is him basically saying: ‘Hey I heard the message, we will not intervene in the United States,’” Haugen told the Guardian while stating, "What Trump wants is for Facebook to step back and not intervene, because Maga knows how to rile up social media. And so it’s not just about content; it’s about behaviour, too."

According to the whistleblower, lack of moderation and fact-checking are not the only problems, with the Guardian report stating she said the social media giant should "... focus more on adjusting the algorithms that served content to users and being transparent about how those algorithms worked."

"They’re kind of doing the worst of all worlds. They’re not doing any of those actual holistic changes, and they’re cutting what little safety systems they did have,” she lamented.

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'Astonishing' Trump meddling with Supreme Court 'should be a final wakeup call': expert

Calling it both "bizarre" and a prime example of legal "feebleness," a law professor from the University of Baltimore School of Law shot down President-elect Donald Trump's attempt to forestall a Supreme Court hearing this week where he is said to have no business meddling.

At issue will be the fate of the popular TikTok platform with the justices poised to hear oral arguments on Friday over a law passed by Congress that could effectively shut it down.

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'I was really in deep trouble': Giuliani claims Trump 'enormously supportive' financially

Rudy Giuliani claimed President-elect Donald Trump had been "enormously supportive personally" as the former mayor admitted to being in "really deep trouble" financially.

One America News Network host Matt Gaetz spoke to Giuliani this week after he was found to be in contempt on Monday related to the $148 million defamation judgment against him. The disgraced mayor was ordered to turn over his assets, including a Mercedes-Benz convertible and watches, for defaming former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. He was previously forced to give up his multi-million Manhattan apartment.

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Andy Biggs uses California wildfires to attack Democrats with migrant funding lies

As homes burned in California on Wednesday, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) used the raging wildfires to blast Democrats by falsely claiming they had diverted FEMA funds to migrants.

During an interview on Newsmax, host Bianca de la Garza asked Biggs if he was concerned about FEMA funding for wildfire relief after the agency was forced to respond to two major hurricanes last year.

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'Not sure': GOP rep. to find out at Mar-a-Lago if funding bill includes Canada takeover

Rep. Kevin Hurn (R-OK) revealed that he was traveling to Mar-a-Lago to determine if the next government funding bill would include provisions for a U.S. takeover of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

During a Wednesday interview on CNBC, host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Hurn about what President-elect Donald Trump called "one big, beautiful bill" that would fund the government and mass deportations through a unique process that could prevent Democrats from stopping it.

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'We don't get it': Media insiders fear they aren't ready to cover new Trump 'catastrophe'

Media insiders who spoke with The Bulwark are warning that their institutions are not ready to cover what they say will likely be a "catastrophe" of President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

In particular, the sources worried about how their institutions would cover Trump's plans for mass deportations, which they predicted would rip entire communities apart.

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