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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) walked back previous guidance indicating furloughed employees would receive back pay during the government shutdown Thursday, writing that an agency under the president would provide further information. “An earlier memo circulated on furlough guidance incorrectly stated the nature of the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019 as it relates…
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First lady Melania Trump is expected to give an announcement from the White House on Friday morning. Her remarks come after Amazon announced Thursday that its “Melania” documentary will be released in theaters on Jan. 30, 2026 and then later be available on its Prime Video platform. The film is set to give “unprecedented access…
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Another Trump enemy indicted, Chicago gets some relief, and Turning Point USA goes up against Bad Bunny, just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

Former Vice President Harris denounced the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday, pointing to a lack of evidence in the case. “Today, I learned that the attorney general of New York just got indicted, even though the prosecutor who first looked at the case, who I’m told is a very conservative…
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Park managers will tell you: Keeping them open endangers cherished sites and can prolong the standoff in Washington.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of putting “politics over peace,” early Friday, after the panel did not select President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of…
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Communications director Steven Cheung accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of putting “politics over peace.”

President Trump’s hopes of taking home the coveted Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 were dashed early Friday, after the committee announced Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as this year’s winner. Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, said Machado was chosen as a unifying figure in Latin America, determined in her commitment…
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Donald Trump’s failure to win was slammed by his base.

Israel’s military announced early Friday that the ceasefire in Gaza is now in effect, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved the first phase of President Trump’s 20-point peace plan. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote in a post online that its troops have “began positioning themselves along the updated deployment lines in preparation…
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One of Donald Trump’s most impressive political gifts is in choosing enemies.  As president, he often manages to select targets for his power grabs or retribution that are hard to defend. Trump’s prosecution of James Comey, who was a hyperpolitical peacock of an FBI director, makes critics of Trump’s heavy hand with the Justice Department…
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The left’s political operatives have launched a relentless campaign to vilify FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. He has become a target, and supposedly the number one threat to democracy, simply because he empowered small local broadcast stations to comply with statutory requirements. Carr’s critics paint him as censor-in-chief — ignoring Joe Biden’s massive censorship initiatives. But…
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The film about first lady Melania Trump captures “critical meetings, private conversations, and never-before-seen environments,” per the promo blurb.

They went “behind enemy lines” to document what’s really going down.

It’s still not adding up.

“Always with the quiet part out loud,” one critic said of the Trump Health and Human Services secretary’s comment.

The “Tonight Show” host revealed exactly how the president “always stops things from escalating too far.”

The “Late Night” host pointed to one wild clip showing how the president’s brain is absolute “mush.”

Former Vice President Harris said on Thursday that any checks and balances to hold back President Trump have not worked. On tour to promote her new book about her campaign, “107 Days,” Harris spoke with journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher at the Warner Theatre to a sold-out audience. “The point is that the guardrails have…
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The Senate late Thursday approved its massive annual defense policy bill as the U.S. government remains shut down. The GOP-led chamber approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 70-20, which funds the U.S. military at $924.7 billion in fiscal year 2026. The vote came after lawmakers reached a deal earlier in the day to unlock…
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and migrant advocates filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials on Thursday, alleging that federal immigration officers are violating the law in arresting migrants in the state.  The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado, lists Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, acting Immigration and Customs…
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96 <!– {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment <!–   The Big Story  More Energy Department funding faces chopping block The Trump administration is eyeing major additional cuts to green energy projects beyond the billions of dollars in cuts it has already announced.  © Associated Press A list that circulated in Washington this week…
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Social media users love how protesters in Portland, Oregon, are countering ICE and the Trump administration’s fearmongering with weirdness.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s federalization and deployment of hundreds of National Guard members throughout Illinois.   U.S. District Judge April Perry, an appointee of former President Biden, partially granted state and city officials’ request for a temporary restraining order barring Trump from taking over National Guard troops and sending them across…
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Throughout his second term, President Trump has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president, his allies and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have renewed the push since Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan Trump proposed last month. The honor, first awarded in 1901 to France’s Frédéric Passy and…
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