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The partisan divide in the House of Representatives is expected to worsen next year, with a former lawmaker calling it a "nightmarish" scenario.

When Republicans took control of the House two years ago, they held control with a margin of 222–213. Now, Republicans hold power with just 219 seats, with a few races still too close to call or battling over recounts.

Donald Trump and his right-hand man, tech billionaire Elon Musk, want to abolish federal tax subsidies for electric vehicles. But California Gov. Gavin Newsom is issuing a threat, reported The Daily Beast: if those tax credits go away, California will pass its own— and add a requirement that disqualifies Musk's company.

Musk, who headed up a key super PAC that ran voter outreach for Trump in the 2024 election, has been tapped to head up an unofficial task force alongside far-right businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, after an internet meme. The task force's job is to recommend ways to slash government spending and inefficiency and it has pledged to balance the budget, which experts have reservations about.

Donald Trump is expected to use special counsel Jack Smith’s abandonment of his criminal cases against him to try to kill charges he’s also facing in Georgia, according to a report.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference case has been on hold for several months — and will not be tried before Trump moves into the White House in January.

Alina Habba, an attorney and advisor for Donald Trump, argued Tuesday that it was a "tremendous tragedy" that writer E. Jean Carroll won a defamation case against the president-elect after he denied sexually assaulting her.

While speaking to right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, Habba claimed that Trump would have been imprisoned if he had not won the 2024 presidential election. The remarks came after special counsel Jack Smith dropped cases against Trump for election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents on Monday.

Michigan law professor and former prosecutor Barbara McQuade on Tuesday tried to reassure critics of special counsel Jack Smith that the Justice Department wasn't bowing down to the Donald Trump administration when it filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against the president-elect.

Speaking to MSNBC, McQuade said that she believes Smith's move was the best option "under the circumstances."

Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged additional funding to the Canada Border Services Agency to lock down the U.S.' northern border.

Ford addressed the media Tuesday at Queen's Park in Toronto about President Donald Trump's proposed 25% tariff on Canadian goods, according to the CBC. He called the tariff plan "the biggest threat we've ever seen," comparing it to "a family member stabbing you right in the heart."

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said that efforts to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon were "in the final stages", and that a deal could help end the Gaza conflict.

"We're not there yet, but I believe we are in the final stages," Blinken told reporters after a meeting near Rome with G7 counterparts, adding that "by de-escalating tensions in the region, it can also help us to end the conflict in Gaza".

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) recently promoted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in a newsletter to constituents in which he tried to defend the honor of controversial Trump cabinet pick Tulsi Gabbard.

As the Arizona Mirror reports, Gosar responded to a constituent's question about Gabbard's qualifications to serve as national intelligence director by hailing her lack of experience within the intelligence community as a virtue.

Racist messages scrawled in letters to Santa have been found at a Tennessee museum

The messages were left in the form of letters at the Discovery Park of America in Union City. Some were removed by visitors.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has already deactivated her account on the video-for-hire Cameo platform.

The Colorado Republican had started offering short video greetings for $250 over the weekend, following in the footsteps of disgraced former congressmen Matt Gaetz and George Santos, but she took her profile offline amid ethics questions, reported Yahoo News.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani raged against U.S. District Court Judge Lewis J. Liman Tuesday for refusing to postpone his trial so he could attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January.

Following a court hearing in Manhattan, Giuliani told reporters that Liman "ruled against us on everything."

The White House briefing room might look a lot different in Donald Trump's second presidency, according to his eldest son.

During the latest episode of his podcast, "Triggered With Donald Trump Jr.," his co-host Michael Knowles floated an idea to reorder the seating chart in the briefing room to punish some journalists and elevate others, reported The Daily Beast.