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Recent events have been clues to how Donald Trump's next administration will turn out, an ex-prosecutor said Wednesday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote in her Substack blog about the failure to get Donald Trump's criminal cases to trial before the election. She then ponders why the Attorney General won't take steps to make the rest of special counsel Jack Smith's work public, especially as it relates to Trump's criminal documents case.

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth's appearance before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he seeks approval to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense, got a thumbs down on MSNBC Wednesday morning.

After sharing clips of the embattled Hegseth attempting to blow off credible accusations of public drunkenness and sexual improprieties, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough singled out what he called an "outrageous lie" from the Trump nominee.

Beginning by stating Hegseth and the GOP senators indulged in enough "misinformation" to fill the morning show's entire four hours, he focused on Hegseth saying the job finally requires someone with "dust on their boots" –– implying former defense secretaries lacked his experience.

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"This idea, Republicans that we need somebody with dust on their boots and this position and the suggestion that we haven't had people with dust on their boots in this position is either willfully lying or willfully ignorant," he told the panel.

"We have had actually some of the most decorated, heroic, brave, battle-tested men that have been holding the top positions over the past 4 to 8 years in the military and yes, women as well that have been there," he continued. "So the idea that this is some feel good exercise ignores the fact that whether from 'Mad Dog' Mattis to General [Mark] Milley, you have people that have been fighting and in Iraq and Afghanistan were there at the worst times in Fallujah."

"We've just got to go full stop because I'm sick and tired of people tearing down the men and women in uniform that are protecting us," he stated before later adding, "This insult that somehow our military is weak and woke is just an outrageous lie and it's an insult to our men and women in uniform."

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Different values, different spelling -- different country. Donald Trump's unlikely plan for Canada to become the 51st U.S. state is leading to a surge of national pride north of the border and a pushback against an often imposing neighbor.

"There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States," reacted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, summing up many Canadians' sentiments.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday published the second part of its investigation into how prescription drug middlemen are marking up the prices of specialty generic drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by hundreds—and in some cases, thousands—of percent, underscoring what advocates say is the need for urgent action by policymakers.

The FTC's second interim staff report on consolidated pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) found that the three largest of these middlemen—CVS Health's Caremark Rx, Cigna Group's Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx—"marked up two specialty generic cancer drugs by thousands of percent and then paid their affiliated pharmacies hundreds of millions of dollars of dispensing revenue in excess of estimated acquisition costs for each drug annually."

Business leaders are knuckling under Donald Trump's demands for cash, and the president-elect's team expects him to build up a $500 million war chest to exert his dominance over the Republican Party.

The former and impending president doesn't want to be seen as a lame duck after returning for a non-consecutive second term, even though he's constitutionally prohibited from running again, so he's stockpiling cash to help his GOP allies and punish anyone who steps out of line, reported Axios.

by Danny KEMP

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Wednesday that the "soul of America" is still at stake, as he prepared to deliver his farewell address to the nation before the return of Donald Trump.

by Claire LEE

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol rose from star prosecutor to the presidency in just a few years, but after a series of scandals and a bungled martial law decree, he's become the country's first-ever sitting president to be arrested.

by Arunabh SAIKIA

For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding your family and clothes after the chilly dip.

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense is one step closer to receiving the GOP votes he needs to sail through his Senate confirmation process after Republican Sen. Joni Ernst – once a critical holdout in her support of Pete Hegseth – revealed Tuesday she would indeed give his nomination the green light.

“After four years of weakness in the White House, Americans deserve a strong Secretary of Defense,” Ernst said in a statement Tuesday night, adding she “will support President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense.”

Thousands of islanders are set to be evacuated after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia, spewing a towering column of smoke and ash into the atmosphere, officials said Wednesday.

Mount Ibu, located on the remote island of Halmahera, erupted for a fifth time this year on Wednesday, sending a column of smoke four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the sky.

by Acil Tabbara

In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism, in a scene unimaginable under president Bashar al-Assad's rule.

Australia said Wednesday that "all options are open" in its response to the reported killing of one of its citizens after his capture by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the government was working "very hard" to confirm a report that Australian Oscar Jenkins had been killed.

A CNN anchor grilled a Republican senator over his defense of an embattled Cabinet nominee for President-elect Donald Trump;

Kaitlan Collins, host of "The Source" asked Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on Tuesday night about his fiery defense of Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth, who underwent a contentious nomination hearing earlier in the day to become Trump's Pentagon chief.