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Donald Trump's transition team will make a recommendation that would sabotage the government's ability to investigate and regulate the safety of self-driving vehicles like those Elon Musk's company is developing, according to a new report.

Reuters obtained a document developed as part of a 100-day strategy showing the recommendation to spike a crash-reporting requirement opposed by Musk's company Tesla, which has accounted for 40 out of 45 fatal crashes involving automated-driving systems reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The selection of two-time failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake to lead Voice of America in President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration came as welcome news in MAGA world – and is also reportedly being applauded by some Republicans in her own home state – albeit for a different reason.

Lake, a former TV news anchor turned staunch Trump loyalist, has dominated Republican politics in Arizona, but has lost two statewide bids in the past four years. And her back-to-back electoral losing streak and unique brand of MAGA, election-denying politics has fueled skepticism from other conservatives in the state, POLITICO reported.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly declined to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration next month in Washington, despite the president-elect personally extending an invitation to the foreign leader.

Xi, whose over two decades in power as China’s president has been described by experts – and President Joe Biden – as “dictatorial,” had been invited as an inauguration guest by Trump shortly after he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, CBS News reported Wednesday night, citing multiple sources.

In early June, Federalist Society President Eugene Meyer announced his retirement from the right-wing judicial outfit. Meyer made it clear, however, that he wasn't leaving right away and planned to stick around until a suitable replacement was found.

The Federalist Society is still deciding on that replacement. The New Republic's Steve Kennedy discussed that search in an article published Thursday, stressing that the group has been enormously influential on the right.

A Florida woman was charged after police said she threatened an insurance company with the phrase "delay, deny, depose."

An arrest affidavit obtained by WFLA said the FBI contacted the Lakeland Police Department on Tuesday with information about an alleged threat.

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson is taking a victory lap after winning a lawsuit from Donald Trump's ally, Michael Flynn.

In a Substack post, Wilson cited "Flynn’s legal lackeys at the Binnall Law Group," which works on behalf of conservatives, "threatening critics and trying to muzzle free speech."

As with 2016, President-elect Donald Trump has made sweeping promises of what he intends to accomplish on his first day in office.

It took about a week for Trump to pen an executive order to ban people from coming into the U.S. from predominantly Muslim countries. The courts immediately stopped it, and after months of litigation, it had to be rewritten to include at least one non-Muslim country.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sounded happy to be rid of his Democratic nemesis, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), on the House Oversight Committee.

Raskin is seeking to become the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, which clears the way for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) or another candidate to replace him as the top Democrat on the oversight panel that Comer chairs.

Comments made by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) noted in a recent Bulwark report drew a scathing response from "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough on Thursday morning.

Discussing Donald Trump's desire to have lawmakers who investigated him over the Jan 6 insurrection hauled in and prosecuted, Comer claimed they were fair game.

According to the Bulwark, the Republican from Kentucky replied, "With politicians, if you’ve used a congressional committee and you’ve lied and tried to set people up and falsely imprisoned people, then you should be held accountable."

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After co-host Mika Brzezinski read the quote, MSNBC's Scarborough pounced.

"Wow. I mean that's a hell of a confession by James Comer who lied repeatedly, repeatedly, about Joe Biden," he exclaimed.

"Is he going to send himself to jail? Is that what he is telling us right here," he asked with tongue in cheek.

Co-host Brzezinki carried on, reporting that Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) agreed with Comer, adding, "If they broke the law, then they should [be imprisoned]. Now we know that they’ve manipulated evidence, so—if that’s the case, then absolutely.”

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Health care workers expressed frustration this week, feeling branded as part of an "evil empire" following the killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive, who was gunned down outside a New York City hotel, igniting a dayslong nationwide manhunt for the assassin.

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, gunned down Brian Thompson with a 3-D printed handgun and fled on a bicycle, authorities have said. He was nabbed days later at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania following a tip.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made what seemed to be another criticism of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, cautioning that the country is in a "dangerous" global situation similar to the years leading up to World War II, and pointing out that Trump's campaign slogan echoes that historical period.

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II,” he told The Financial Times in an article published Wednesday. “Even the slogan is the same. 'America First.' That was what they said in the '30s."