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Reports that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) will be the first Democratic lawmaker to visit the incoming president at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort — coupled with his comparison of MAGA flirtations of taking Greenland to the famed Louisiana Purchase — provoked an immediate stream of reaction Thursday from political observers across social media.

The internet began to speculate immediately after the Pennsylvania senator confirmed in his own social media post that he would head to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump's team is searching for a disease that they can use to declare a public health emergency to seal the border, reported The New York Times on Thursday.

Specifically, Trump wants an excuse to invoke Section 265 of Title 42, the provision that suspends entries through the border and summarily expels migrants during a period when the surgeon general has declared a communicable disease emergency. This power, which became a big part of Trump's border control strategy in his first term, was invoked at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and remained in place for several years until the Biden administration lifted it.

Steve Bannon lashed out at former President George W. Bush on Thursday afternoon because he didn't shake President-elect Donald Trump's hand at the funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.

During his Thursday "War Room" podcast, Bannon complained that all presidents snubbed Trump.

Kohl's joined Macy's on Thursday in announcing dozens of store closures.

Kohl's on Thursday afternoon said it would close 27 stores, Axios reported. That announcement followed Macy's own earlier in the day that it would shutter 66 more stores this year.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) sent an official letter to Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) saying that his resignation will be effective at midnight Thursday in a move that leaves the Republican majority in the Senate at 51.

"To the people of Ohio, I extend my heartfelt gratitude for the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate," Vance said in his letter. "When I was elected to this office, I promised to never forget where I came from, and I’ve made sure to live by that."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead" Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump's repeated fantasies about acquiring Canada as a U.S. state are never happening.

Trudeau, who this month stepped down as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada amid electoral struggles, suggested that Trump's real motive is to take the spotlight off his controversial plans to levy massive new tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which economists have warned could be catastrophic for consumers.

The devastation created by the wildfire disaster in California also spurred a new round of falsehoods and groundless attacks on Democratic officials from MAGA world – but none of the noise has anything to do with the real point, according to a Washington Post columnist.

“There’s no real question that climate change contributed to what’s happening in Los Angeles,” Philip Bump wrote in an op-ed published Thursday. He went on to dissect for readers a handful of myths circulating in right-wing circles surrounding the wildfires that he said are an attempt “to keep the realities of climate change from spreading.”

People forced to flee their homes by massive wildfires tearing through Los Angeles were taking turns to patrol their streets to ward off looters on Thursday.

At least 20 people have been arrested in the aftermath of massive fires that have razed whole neighborhoods, officials said.

Washington Post columnist Phil Bump on Thursday warned readers that they should take President-elect Donald Trump's musings about using the military to seize Greenland from Denmark seriously.

In his column, Bump made the case that there are "some echoes of the pre-Iraq War era" in Trump's overtly imperialist desires to expand American territory even if it means declaring war on a fellow NATO ally.

President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon briefed the top directors of agencies that will help the state with the California fires.

Among the complaints from those on the ground is that fire hydrants had gone dry after other areas used the stored water.

False information has flooded the right-leaning media about the California fires and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office is fighting back with facts.

One of the fact-checks involved a statement from Republican State Assemblymember Kate Sanchez, who alleged that Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed the state "to retain seasonal firefighters."

President-elect Donald Trump's phone call with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at the same time he was filing a motion to the Supreme Court to block his sentencing in his New York criminal case prompted immediate outrage from legal experts, as it created the appearance of Trump trying to improperly sway the court's decision.

But that might not be the only reason Trump wanted to speak to the far-right justice, court analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern wrote for Slate on Thursday.