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In a recent episode of "The Opinions" by The Salt Lake Tribune, longtime evangelical and New York Times columnist David French, and Jonathan Rauch, a Brookings Institution senior fellow — and atheist — discussed Christianity's past and present role in American democracy.

"You’re an atheist," French began. "You don’t believe in God, but one of the points to your book is for American democracy to flourish, you argue that we need better Christianity. You’re not trying to say that the solution to the crisis in American democracy or problems in American democracy is becoming an atheist. You talk about a solution that is actually about a better version of Christianity, or Christianity living up to its ideals."

The mother of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is pleading for mercy for her son, and shifting blame toward the police who were injured during the riots on Jan. 6 of 2021.

Tarrio is among up to nine members of the group who reportedly served as informants to the FBI. Tarrio was ultimately sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Donald Trump on Sunday once again reaffirmed his desire to take back the Panama Canal.

"We will demand that the Panama Canal be returned," Trump declared a day earlier. He took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to issue a threat to local Panama officials about the famous Panama Canal.

Donald Trump made a statement on Sunday that many critics interpreted as exhibiting his weakness.

President-elect Donald Trump used a speech to MAGA supporters to strongly push back on claims that billionaire Elon Musk had effectively taken over his presidency. While speaking to Turning Point USA's AmFest conference attendees on Sunday, Trump argued that "big companies" wanted him to cut regulations more than slashing taxes.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hinted that he could run for U.S. Senate just hours before a House Ethics Committee report was expected to suggest that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl.

While speaking at Turning Point USA's AmFest conference on Sunday, Gaetz responded to speculation about his next move after backing out as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next attorney general.

On Sunday morning former White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed a statement from Donald Trump's incoming press secretary that her boss is "the Leader of the Republican Party. Full stop," is a bad sign for the president-elect.

Referring to the ongoing appearance that billionaire Elon Musk, lately always seen by Trump's side, is calling the shots for the president-elect, Psaki said the messaging coming from the Trump Team is not what the communications shop would want to be pushing back on before Trump is even sworn in.

On her MSNBC show, she shared clips of Democrats using "President Musk" as a way to get under the president-elect's skin.

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She then commented, "Musk felt the need to go back on X and say it was, quote, the media who was trying to drive a wedge between him and Trump –– also declaring it wouldn't work."

"A Trump spokesperson even felt the need to clarify that the actual president-elect is, in fact, the leader of the Republican Party. I promise you that's not exactly a statement you want to have to make," she added with a smile.

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President-elect Donald Trump used a speech to MAGA supporters to strongly push back on claims that billionaire Elon Musk had effectively taken over his presidency.

While speaking to Turning Point USA's AmFest conference attendees on Sunday, Trump argued that "big companies" wanted him to cut regulations more than slashing taxes.

President-elect Donald Trump paused a speech to MAGA followers after claiming to hear a "strange sound" on stage.

At Sunday's AmFest in Arizona, Trump was complaining about undocumented migrants when he was interrupted by an apparent noise.

One of the 38 Republican House members who voted no on the budget bill passed in the wee hours of Saturday with the help of Democrats expressed his displeasure with his own party on CNN Sunday morning.

Appearing on "State of the Union" with host Dana Bash, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a frequent guest on cable networks lately, claimed he came to Congress six years ago with a mandate from voters in his district to rein in government spending, which has not happened as far as he is concerned.

He then admitted he voluntarily left the House Budget Committee because he saw it as ineffective and a waste of time.

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After saying GOP lawmakers are "abdicating our duties," he told Bash, "We have one duty that I see, we're supposed to follow the Constitution, and the Constitution says that Congress will pass a budget."

"I've been there six years, and I think it's been 30 years since they passed a budget," he elaborated. "I used to be on the Budget Committee, and I asked to be taken off of it because we we're not serious about passing a budget. All we want to do is continue bad spending, policies."

"We are $36 trillion in debt," he complained. "As you know, every hundred days we add another deal and then they push us up against the holidays. and look, that's not by accident."

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President-elect Donald Trump complained about possibly having to walk down steps to reach the stage at a conservative conference on Sunday.

As he walked out to the podium at AmFest in Arizona, Trump began by wishing the audience a Merry Christmas.

Fox News host Howard Kurtz suggested there were "no actual inaccuracies" in reporting by The New York Times and The Washington Post after President-elect Donald Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board for awarding the news organizations for work done to expose Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

"Trump has openly said, he doesn't make any secret of it, that if he loses these lawsuits, he's still satisfied because it puts the journalists or media organization through an ordeal and forces them to hire expensive lawyers," Kurtz explained to Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz on Sunday.

One of the campaign promises President-elect Donald Trump made ahead of his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last month was to carry out the "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history."

According to a Sunday, December 22 Wall Street Journal report, the private prison industry is preparing to benefit greatly from the move — if Trump is able to accomplish it.