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‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention | CNN

While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster.

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Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to inauguration

President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to his inauguration next month, according to multiple sources.

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Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE arrests at churches, schools, hospitals

The long-standing policy has prevented ICE agents from arresting immigrants at so-called "sensitive locations" except under certain circumstances.

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Opinion | Did Christopher Wray Just Defy Donald Trump?

Now, the Senate has to do its job.

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Customise your own cute front door! @cherrysungho on X

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'Betrayal': Dems livid as outgoing senators deliver 'crushing blow'

Decisive votes against extending President Joe Biden’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board by two outgoing independent senators provoked an immediate stream of reaction Wednesday from political observers across social media.The internet began to chime in after it became clear that Sen. Joe...

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CNN Poll: Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House | CNN Politics

Most Americans expect President-elect Donald Trump to do a good job upon his return to the White House next month (54%), and a majority approves of how he’s handling the presidential transition so far (55%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

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Colleges Warn International Students to Return Ahead of Trump Term

Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans.

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Decivilization May Already Be Under Way

The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.

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How Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Is Avoiding Billions in Taxes

The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.

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Cozy Cabin Cafe | Personality Quiz

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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes

Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

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Elon Musk calls Justin Trudeau 'insufferable tool' in new social media post

Billionaire Elon Musk is calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 'an insufferable tool' in a new social media post on Wednesday. 'Won't be in power for much longer,' Musk also wrote about the prime minister on 'X.'

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Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A ‘Very Dangerous World’

The GOP's outgoing Senate leader said he plans to spend his final two years in office pushing back against the Trump-fueled isolationism within his party.

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Feds warn J6 rioters pardon won't 'unring the bell of conviction' — quite the opposite

The Justice Department is signaling to Jan. 6 defendants that accepting a pardon from Donald Trump will not eliminate guilt, Politico reported Wednesday. “[A] pardon at some unspecified date in the future ... would not unring the bell of conviction,” federal prosecutors said during proceedings befor...

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Roll Call 500 Roll Call 500, Bill Number: H. R. 5009, 118th Congress, 2nd Session

VOTE QUESTION: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment, DESCRIPTION: WILD Act, VOTE TYPE: Yea-And-Nay, STATUS: Passed

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House passes defense policy bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender children | CNN Politics

The House voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for some transgender children that further inflamed the politics around the must-pass piece of legislation.

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Ford threatens to cut off Ontario's energy supply to U.S. if Trump follows through on tariffs | CBC News

Premier Doug Ford says Ontario could cut off energy to the U.S. if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on a threat to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods.

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Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938 | TIME

Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic...

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New tower shows Trump unconcerned with 'being beholden to a foreign state': writer

As President-elect Donald Trump continues to plot his White House comeback, his international dealings are also taking shape.On Wednesday, Eric Trump took to social media to announce a new Trump Organization project in Saudi Arabia: Trump Tower Jeddah. “Incredibly proud to officially launch a projec...

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