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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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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Wednesday that fascism could return as X owner Elon Musk, an ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, "openly attacks our institutions" and "stirs up hatred".

Donald Trump lashed out at California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a Truth Social rant blaming him for wildfires that have forced tens of thousands from their homes in the Los Angeles area.

At least two people have been killed in the Eaton Fire, one of several life-threatening wildfires driven by high winds across Los Angeles County, and the president-elect took up a long-standing feud with the governor over water access in the state.

Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bail him out of sentencing in his New York hush money case, and CNN's Elie Honig tried to predict whether they would even take up the appeal.

The president-elect's attorneys asked the court to halt Friday's scheduled sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to shield payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, saying that moving forward with the case while he appeals the conviction would do harm to the presidency and the federal government. Prosecutors were expected to file a response by Thursday morning.

Two people have been killed by wildfires raging out of control in the Los Angeles area, according to local authorities.

The Eaton Fire blazing through communities around Pasadena and Altadena, California, has forced 32,500 residents to leave their homes under evacuation orders Wednesday morning, down from 50,000 overnight, and Los Angeles County sheriff Robert Luna confirmed two fatalities already.

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.

Joe Biden thinks he could have won reelection if he had stayed in the White House race, he said in an interview published Wednesday -- while conceding he was unsure if he would have served another full term.

The 82-year-old Democrat, who leaves office on January 20, was asked by USA Today if he believed victory over Republican Donald Trump was a realistic prospect last November, and he pointed to unspecified polling and said: "I think yes."

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, author and co-founder of Spy magazine, Kurt Anderson, pointed to a moment during Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago press conference when he boasted about still cashing in on Saudi money.

Speaking with the hosts, he claimed the incoming administration has all the hallmarks of becoming rife with what he called "brazen corruption."

"What we're seeing, what Donald Trump wants to do -- we certainly saw it at this incredible press conference yesterday -- is his embrace of the kind of robber baron gilded-age corruption that was endemic in that period," he explained. "We had the Teapot Dome scandal back then."

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"We had just brazen corruption that led to –– in addition to the great depression and reform in the New Deal –– just incredible inequality. We have the highest inequality of course since the 1920's as well," he added. "He put it on parade during that press conference saying, 'Oh, here's my Emirati billionaire golf course developer partner. We're going to give him some government deals to build data centers all over the United States.'"

Continuing paraphrasing Trump he added, "'My son Eric is off in the Middle East building some Trump Towers right now. Oh, by the way, the Saudi golf tour is doing great business, they just announced they're going to bring their tour to my hotel, the Doral in Miami,' and on and on."

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Legal analysts are up in arms Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court revealed it would accept arguments for Donald Trump's New York state case, which some say should have gone to the New York State Supreme Court instead.

Trump's legal team also submitted a request to the top court in New York, however.

President-elect Donald Trump is looking for a way to legally justify his plan to impose huge trade tariffs on goods coming into the United States, according to a new CNN report.

CNN cited four anonymous sources saying that Trump may be intent on declaring a "national economic emergency" in order to accomplish this goal.

Donald Trump's talk about U.S. territorial expansion has infuriated foreign allies, according to national security experts.

The president-elect has been musing about retaking control of the Panama Canal, purchasing Greenland and merging with Canada, and CNN's John Berman said leaders in other countries don't appreciate his apparent threats.

Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that he intends to release Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on election subversion by President-elect Donald Trump but not a report on the mishandling of classified documents.

In a motion filed before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Garland opposed Trump's effort to block the release of the reports. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump, recently blocked the release of the reports until the court of appeals could review Trump's opposition to the reports' release.

A new book written by Politico's Alex Isenstadt claims that President-elect Donald Trump gave serious consideration to making Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo his vice-presidential nominee.

As CNN reports, Isenstadt claims that Bartiromo was a "Trump favorite" at the network given her penchant for conducting "numerous softball interviews with him over the years."