The Memo: Democrats brace for a new Trump presidency |
Democrats are bracing for a new — and, for them, bleak — political era as President-elect Trump prepares to take office for a second term.
Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20 will be a massive rebuke to Democrats — and not only because it renews the focus on Vice President Harris's decisive defeat in November.
Trump is viewed by many Democrats as an actual threat to the American Republic. And the voters have put him back into power handily. That is both a dispiriting and worrying reality for many in the opposition party. |
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A new study has experts beaming with hope as it shows teen drug use at a record low, but they admit confusion as to why the trend is happening and how to ensure it continues. The annual national Monitoring the Future survey found the use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes and e-cigarettes among high schoolers is at its lowest level since the study began. Two-thirds of 12th graders in the survey, which included 24,000 students in total, said they haven't used any of those substances in the last 30 days, and 90 percent of eighth graders and 80 percent of 10th graders said the same. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND JULIA MUELLER |
President-elect Trump has spent parts of the holiday season vowing to take over the Panama Canal, calling for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark and suggesting Canada could become the 51st state. It all suggests Trump is focused on somehow expanding the U.S. on his watch, though it's hard to tell how serious it all is. |
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BY EMILY BROOKS AND JULIA SHAPERO |
A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect's new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration MAGA base on the other. The clash is a preview of the challenges in holding the Trump coalition together as his administration executes his immigration policy, an issue that drove his 2024 victory. |
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BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND JULIA SHAPERO |
President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the deadline for a potential TikTok ban, which is slated for the day before his inauguration. The court has agreed to hear TikTok's challenge to the potential ban on an expedited schedule, but Trump told the justices that delaying the law until he returns to the White House could obviate the need for the court to weigh in. |
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A second Democratic Florida legislator has switched parties to the GOP this month, citing her former party's lack of unified support for Israel. State Rep. Hillary Cassel (R) said in a Friday statement on the social platform X that she is not making the decision lightly, but she is joining the Republican Party because she believes in its "vision for a better, more prosperous Florida." |
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Tech mogul Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have faced backlash within President-elect Trump's base after the two signaled their support for the H-1B work visa, a key program to attract international talent that's been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse. The backlash heightened on the tech billionaire's social platform X within the last week as Ramaswamy and Musk have faced scrutiny from some in the GOP, including far-right activist Laura Loomer and other hard-line anti-immigration Republicans. |
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggested in a letter to Congress on Friday that the department doesn't think the U.S. will need to take "extraordinary measures" on Jan. 2 to avoid defaulting on its obligations, and instead expects that it will reach the new limit between Jan. 14 and 23. "Treasury currently expects to reach the new limit between January 14 and January 23, at which time it will be necessary for Treasury to start taking extraordinary measures," Yellen wrote in the letter. |
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Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.), a former chair of the House Freedom Caucus, is the latest Republican to decline to commit to supporting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as the House prepares to formally elect a Speaker on Jan. 3, adding uncertainty to the GOP leader's prospects of retaining his gavel. "Right now, I think that Mike has done an admirable job under tough conditions, but I'm going to keep my options open. I want to have a conversation with Mike," Perry said Friday on "Mornings with Maria" on Fox Business. |
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OPINION | Most Americans are unaware that today's Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats (Sykes and Picot) after World War I to advance their empires' economic and political interests. They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen, and we have lived with the consequences ever since. |
OPINION | Americans voted for radical change in November, and judging by the chaos he's already generated before taking office, Donald Trump might give them more than they bargained for. Can Democrats offer a saner alternative? So far, the signs aren't encouraging. Instead of taking a hard look at how they managed to lose to the most ethically tainted and unpopular presidential candidate in memory, many in the party seek refuge in self-exonerating excuses. |
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BY ARYN BAKER AND ABU BAKR BASHIR |
For the past several weeks, Fadia Nasser, a widow sheltering in Deir al Balah in central Gaza, says she has subsisted on nothing but a small sandwich of herbs for breakfast and a tomato she shares with her daughter for lunch. Eleven miles away in a tent camp in southern Gaza, Said Lulu, who used to run a small coffee kiosk in Gaza City, says he is suffering in pain from kidney disease but has no access to the clean water doctors say he must drink to keep it from getting worse. |
BY BERTRAND BENOIT, DAVID LUHNOW AND VIPAL MONGA |
The progressive moment is over—at least for now. This past year showed that the progressive politics that dominated most industrialized countries over the past two decades or more is shifting to the right, fueled by working-class anxieties over the economy and immigration, and growing fatigue with issues from climate change to identity politics. The return of President-elect Trump to the White House is the most dramatic and important example—but it is far from the only one. |
Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all. Battles are so intense that some Ukrainian commanders can't evacuate the dead. Communication lags and poorly timed tactics have cost lives, and troops have little way to counterattack, seven front-line soldiers and commanders told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity so they could discuss sensitive operations. |
Earlier this year, Rep. James E. Clyburn met President Biden at the White House to deliver a stern message: Biden had to find a way to revitalize his flagging campaign. Clyburn, who had been pivotal to Biden's 2020 victory, also made a confession about his own long-standing belief that substance is more important than style in politics. "I have come to the conclusion in recent days that I'm wrong about that," the South Carolina Democrat, 84, remembers telling Biden. "The new environment that we currently live in — style seems to carry the day more than substance." "Your style," he told the president, "does not lend itself well to the environment we're currently in." |
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