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'Farms will come to a stop': Farmer warns of soaring food prices and shortages under Trump

A lifetime farmer who lives in an area filled with signs supporting Donald Trump fears one of the president-elect's key campaign promises, according to a report.

Joe Del Bosque of Del Bosque Farms on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, expressed concerns about what will happen if promises for mass deportations are kept.

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'Rich people get to do things': Alan Dershowitz argues Diddy should not be in jail

Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a previous defender of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, argued that Sean "Diddy" Combs should be released from jail while awaiting trial because he is wealthy.

During a Tuesday interview on Newsmax, Dershowitz explained why he believed Combs should be released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

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FBI seizes its largest ever cache of homemade explosives from alleged extremist's farm

The Justice Department is fighting to keep an anti-government extremist in custody after the FBI allegedly seized the largest cache of "finished explosive devices" in its history from a farm outside of Norfolk, VA.

Brad Kenneth Spafford, 36, was arrested on Dec. 17 for allegedly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. The single-count charge led to a search of Spafford's 20-acre farm, where federal investigators said they found a mass quantity of homemade explosives.

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Trump plan 'would provide legal framework' for unilateral attacks in Mexico: expert

Foreign policy experts are warning that President-elect Donald Trump's plan to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations could give him authorization to launch military strikes inside of Mexico.

Semafor reports that Trump's decision to designate the cartels as terrorists would grant him the same authority to launch military unilateral strikes against them as American presidents have done for years against organizations such as Boko Harum and Islamic State.

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Canadian PM Trudeau's party has given him just days to decide if he's quitting: report

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's party wants to know within days if he plans to quit.

Politico reported Tuesday that party members want him to reveal his plans as soon as the holidays are over.

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Don Jr. trashes New Year's at Mar-a-Lago: Dad's pals treat me like a 'freaking imbecile'

Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he dreaded attending the annual New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago because his father's drunk friends treat him like a "freaking imbecile."

While speaking on Monday's Triggered podcast, Trump said ringing in the New Year at Mar-a-Lago would be "a little rough."

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Congress just committed a 'New Years Eve ethics massacre': watchdog

Daniel Schuman, the executive director of the American Governance Institute and a former legislative attorney for the Congressional Research Service, is flagging a new change being enacted by the House Ethics Committee that he says amounts to a "New Year's Eve ethics massacre."

Writing on his Substack page, Schuman accuses both Republicans and Democrats on the committee of passing rule changes that make corruption easier to get away with.

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Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip

Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Oz” and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid, has sparked controversy over resurfaced remarks from a 2013 speech, where he addressed the balance between personal and governmental responsibility for the uninsured.

Dr. Oz told members of the National Governors' Association (video below) that uninsured Americans "don't have the right to health," but should be given "a way of crawling back out of the abyss of darkness of fear over not having the health they need." That, he suggested, could come via physicals in a "festival-like setting."

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'Absurd': Retiring House Republican lashes out at GOP colleagues over speaker attacks

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who is retiring at the end of this term, has a warning for conservatives he says are fostering an "absurd" goal of reigning in the powers of the House speakership while hoping for "conservative outcomes".

In an exit interview with Politico, McHenry said that a strong Congress was essential to balance the powers of the executive branch.

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Judge hands Rudy Giuliani loss on eve of new trial involving defamation case

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is headed to court for a trial over whether he must turn over his Florida condo to the Georgia election workers he defamed — and he had a request shot down by the judge this week.

The once GOP presidential candidate and lawyer to Donald Trump asked to keep his witness list a secret, but U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman refused.

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Bannon escalates war on ‘toddler’ Elon Musk: ‘We took you on and ripped your face off!’

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon continued his assault against billionaire Elon Musk's push to expand H-1B visas for foreign workers.

On his Tuesday morning War Room broadcast, Bannon called out Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chairs of President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

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'Squander the potential': Dems told they're wasting vital chance to rebuild voter base

Donald Trump's election win underscored the need for Democrats to boost their messaging to voters who don't necessarily tune into political coverage — and a media expert is offering a strategy for doing that.

Democrats have been discussing how to build out a liberal equivalent to the Republican noise machine conservatives have constructed over decades, and which now includes podcasts and streaming. Political and media historian Brian Rosenwald, writing for MSNBC Tuesday, said efforts to push back against talk radio have provided useful lessons.

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'There's no question': Ex-advisor issues Canada warning about Trump's threats

President-elect Donald Trump has caused consternation in Canada with his threats to make the country part of the USA and his floating a 25% tariff on any imports. And a former economic adviser says it's part of his typical negotiation tactics.

Speaking to the Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Stephen Moore — an economic adviser to Trump during the first administration — said it's an effort to create leverage.

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