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President-elect Donald Trump wants to end Daylight Saving Time changes – and he said Friday the Republican Party will work to do just that.

Americans have grown increasingly irked by the need to adjust the time every spring and fall, and many have called for a change — though abolishing the seasonal changes would require an act of Congress.

A number of tech billionaires — including many who have not previously backed Trump — are beginning to open their pocketbooks for President-elect Donald Trump, contributing large amounts of money to his inaugural fund. Among them are Amazon's Jeff Bezos, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.

Their donations triggered a furious reaction from many commenters on social media.

Advisers of President-elect Donald Trump are pushing to cut the U.S. budget by one-third — and women's groups are bracing for much of that cash to come from services they depend on.

“With this new administration that is coming in … I really am concerned about the lives of women. We are seeing so many policies, so many budget cuts,” said Christian Nunes, president of the National Organization for Women, in an interview with The Guardian.

FBI Director Christopher Wray announced this week he would step down ahead of Donald Trump's swearing-in to help the FBI avoid unnecessary drama and distraction from his agents' work.

Legal analysts at Slate wrote Friday that this was a huge mistake on his part — and they're not the only ones in the legal community lambasting the law enforcement leader.

Conservative CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton implored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday to extricate himself from the efforts of a key adviser to get the FDA to revoke the decades-old polio vaccine approval.

Appearing with host John Berman, Singleton was asked about a report in the New York Times that RFK Jr's advisor, Aaron Siri, "is waging war against vaccines of all kinds."

Donald Trump has named the so-called "mayor of Mar-a-Lago" to the powerful but unglamorous position of director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, where he will essentially serve as "the general manager of the government."

Sergio Gor is an ingratiating presence at the Palm Beach, Florida, resort, where he’s known as one of Trump’s most loyal foot soldiers, having earned the former president's trust by standing by him after the Jan. 6 insurrection and winning over the rest of the MAGA movement.

No foreign head of state has attended the inauguration of any U.S. President, at least not in modern recorded times, but this week, President-elect Donald Trump invited the President of China to Washington, D.C. for the January 20, 2025 event. His invitation has been rebuffed.

"This is a power move to intimidate the Chinese leader—if he declines, it's disrespectful, and Trump will take it personally," Fox News host Jesse Watters trumpeted on Wednesday, praising the President-elect (video below). "And if he accepts, he'll be forced to observe President Trump at his most powerful moment with all the presidential pageantry America can muster. You put Xi Jinping in a subservient position, plus you can spy on him the whole time he's in D.C."

Donald Trump’s “informal” inauguration invitations to foreign leaders have at times baffled even his close aides, CNN reports.

Correspondent Kristen Holmes on Friday spoke with CNN’s Manu Raju to discuss Trump’s invitation of China’s Xi Jinping, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, among others, to attend his Jan. 20 inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.

To hear Donald Trump tell it, his first administration was on a roll and doing well until the 2020 pandemic hit the country and shut down the global economy. Now conspiracy theorists think that President Joe Biden will try to sabotage a new incoming administration by starting another plague or even a civil war.

Mother Jones reported Friday that the right fears the spread of avian flu will take hold in the U.S. and that Trump will be forced to put aside his agenda to deal with it. In addition to avian flu, "last week, a mysterious flu-like outbreak was identified after killing dozens of people in Congo, where it is circulating alongside a new strain of pox that is also spreading elsewhere in eastern and southern Africa," the report said.

Judge Scott McAfee has denied an effort by one of Donald Trump's former lawyers to withdraw his guilty plea.

After Trump won the 2024 election, Ken Chesebro sought to "invalidate" his plea agreement with the court. According to his filing, Chesebro said that it should "constitutionally void on similar grounds and its continued imposition a violation of Due Process."

In a column for the Washington Post, a senior political correspondent for the National Review suggested one of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees might want to withdraw their name because the position isn't worth the peril to their reputation.

According to conservative journalist Jim Geraghty, the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is low-reward and high-risk for whoever takes it, as history has proved.

Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter widely known as the "Trump Whisperer," identified two things that she said will always control the actions of President-elect Donald Trump: television and the stock market.

In a Times piece she co-authored with Jonathan Swan, Trump was painted as being in his element when ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday after being named the TIME "Person of the Year."