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Behind the scenes, the family of right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch is in a battle over who will take over his media empire when he dies. The family drama that inspired the HBO show "Succession," is now sparking curiosity to one of the companies suing Fox News over its promotion of lies about the 2020 presidential election.

CNN reported Friday that Smartmatic is going to probate court in Nevada to ask commissioners to turn over secret documents related to the succession battle that the firm believes could help bolster the defamation suit against Fox News.

A Massachusetts lawmaker on a House committee focused on China's government told CNN on Friday afternoon he's seen no evidence to support Donald Trump's claim the country is essentially strongarming the Panama Canal, and said the president-elect's focus on the waterway "makes us look petulant."

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that while two Hong Kong-based shipping companies are in the Canal Zone, he hasn't seen evidence that they present a "security threat" to the United States.

Former Donald Trump adviser turned far-right pundit Steve Bannon came down hard against tech billionaire Elon Musk in the battle that flared up this week between right-wing businessmen and the MAGA activist class, The New Republic reported on Friday.

The heart of the issue is the H1-B visa system, which is used to give work permits to high-skilled white collar workers, like software engineers, who want to immigrate to the U.S. Musk, who was born in South Africa and ironically has been reported as once having worked illegally in the U.S. himself, relies on these programs at many of his companies, which puts him at odds with much of the MAGA community that not only wants to crack down on illegal immigration, but restrict legal immigration as well.

An afternoon outing turned racist when a MAGA fan allegedly made a slur at a Black family.

Brown University politics Professor Deva Woodly, who studies social movements, political opinion, public meaning, and democratic theory, posted on Blue Sky that her husband was called the N-word outside of a car dealership.

Donald Trump's sudden infatuation with seizing control of the Panama Canal, buying Greenland and attempting to get Canada to become a U.S. state appears to be part of a campaign of smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that he is already reneging on campaign promises before he is even sworn in.

That is the opinion of the Washington Post's Dana Millbank who accused the president-elect of laying down a "smokescreen of chaos" to occupy social media commentators and the press, both of which would otherwise be picking apart his walk-backs.

Government watchdogs have opened an investigation into the so-called Department of Government Efficiency over what appear to be clear conflicts of interest involving its co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Donald Trump has tapped the duo to lead the advisory commission to recommend up to $2 trillion in budget cuts, but ethics experts Virginia Canter, Richard Painter and Gabe Lezra published a column on MSNBC saying they would be closely monitoring DOGE for legal and ethical violations.

Just a few weeks ago, panic spread through the progressive movement about Democrats in the U.S. Senate confirming as many judicial nominees as possible before Republicans take over the new Congress.

Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King noted that lawmakers' empty promises ultimately led to 10 judicial nominees that will go unfilled, thanks to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) letting the Senate break.

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast on Friday to warn President-elect Donald Trump against letting X owner Elon Musk into his administration.

In an interview with Bannon, Loomer charged that Musk had major conflicts of interest and said that it could turn into a major scandal if Trump keeps him in his inner circle.

Reacting to new unsympathetic comments from Donald Trump's pick to be his "border czar" about the fate of children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants, conservative political advisor Brendan Buck suggested the president-elect rein his nominee in.

During a recent NBC News interview, Tom Homan was asked about a move in San Diego by the Board of Supervisors to restrict local law enforcement from helping round up immigrants which led the Trump nominee to reply, "I'm shocked that San Diego did it and, bottom line, we're going to come to San Diego and do our job. It is more difficult, but we're still doing it."

Pressed about the American-born children, Homan bluntly stated, "Our plan, we have to plan to separate children from parents. The parents will have to make a decision. That is parenting 101. If you choose to have a child here in the United States while you know you're here illegally and on a court order to deport, that is on you."

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Asked about the border czar's candid response, conservative Buck first told MSNBC host Christina Ruffini, "The how is really important, not just the what here. Immigration enforcement as a concept is very popular and there is a lot of things that Donald Trump could be doing in a few weeks here, in a few months, that I think would be really beneficial to him."

"When it comes to the interior enforcement, though, I think Donald Trump appreciates that," he elaborated. "When he gets asked about this in any more specificity, he always pivots to, 'We're going to start by going after the criminals and the dangerous people who are here.' Now that is a much easier said than done. If people knew that there were dangerous criminals here, we would be deporting them already. So, I think he understands after the experience of his first term that there are ways that you could do this to become really unpopular."

"If we know anything about Donald Trump, he wants to be popular," he continued. "I think Tom Homan here is a political liability. Tom Homan clearly has so much zeal for this issue and such disregard for the views of other people on this, that if he's let loose to run wild on this, he could do stuff damaging to Donald Trump politically, not to mention the real world effects to the people here in this country."

"So I think this is something that Donald Trump needs to keep a close eye on, not just let Tom Homan do whatever he wishes," he advised.

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It has been 16 years since the Wall Street crash in 2007-2008. Now, Wall Street is reportedly risking everything once again.

The New York Times reported Friday that billionaire investor Doug Ostrover has devised a new strategy for being the cash cow for risky loans that wouldn't normally pass muster in traditional banks.

CNN's Pamela Brown on Friday grilled attorney Tim Parlatore about the seemingly contradictory statements made by Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, who was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense.

During the interview, Brown pointed to seemingly contradictory claims that Hegseth was both completely innocent of any wrongdoing, but also that he was a "changed man."

A Georgia judge has ruled that District Attorney Fani Willis must appear before the State Senate to answer questions from Republican lawmakers angry over her racketeering case against Donald Trump and others.

The Associated Press reported that the Republican-led Senate committee subpoenaed Willis in August to answer questions in September, demanding she answer allegations of "various forms of misconduct."