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from48 hills
1 hour ago

Six big stories you might not have seen in local news media in 2025 - 48 hills

The Gregorian Calendar is a scientific advance, although it was established by a pope. But the idea of January 1 as the start of a "new year" goes back much further, and is probably related to the winter solstice. In some older traditions, the new year started in March, when spring arrived. People in the Chinese and Jewish traditions celebrate the new year in the early fall or in February.
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fromemptywheel
2 hours ago

How SCOTUS Got Us Here - emptywheel

Wealthy conservative networks deliberately captured the Supreme Court through organizations and funding to advance a long-term political project.
#donald-trump
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Conservatives Hit the Roof Over Mamdani's Inauguration Day Vow to Bring The Warmth of Collectivism' to NYC

We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism, vowed Mamdani to cheers from the audience during his swearing-in ceremony. Conservatives on social media, however, were less attracted to the idea. So many people have fled Communism and forced collectivism. Watching one of the largest cities elect someone who wants to impose that ideology here is horrific. This isn't just about rhetoric. The human costs of these policies will be very real. Best of luck, NYC.
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fromAxios
16 hours ago

New IRS tax brackets and 2026 changes could boost paychecks, lower taxes

New tax breaks apply to 2026 returns; 2026 brackets and withholding affect paychecks now and apply to returns filed in 2027.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

Scott Adams Reveals Bleak Health Update: The Odds of Me Recovering Are Essentially Zero'

Scott Adams on Rumble Dilbert creator and political commentator Scott Adams shared a bleak health update with his fans on New Year's Day, saying he received nothing but bad news during his latest visit to his radiologist. The odds of me recovering are essentially zero, Adams said on his Rumble program.I'll give you an update if that changes, but it won't. Adams has metastasized prostate cancer and has been sharing frequent updates with his fans.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Senator Tuberville Says The Enemy Is Inside the Gates' After Mamdani Opts To Be Sworn in Using the Quran

The enemy is inside the gates.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 hours ago

Drivers issued car breakdown warning ahead of Manic Monday'

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

CNN Medical Expert Baffled by Trump's Unorthodox' Aspirin Regimen: It Makes No Sense'

So first of all, when we use any kind of anticoagulant, medications to prevent clotting, those don't thin the blood. It's not like changing something from gumbo to chicken soup. It doesn't make it doesn't make it thinner. It makes you less likely to clot. And it used to be that we would treat a lot of people with aspirin therapy to prevent heart attacks.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 hours ago

George Clooney fires back at Trump after US president mocks his French citizenship

George Clooney lashed out at Donald Trump after Trump criticized France for granting Clooney and his family French citizenship.
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fromThe Verge
12 hours ago

Meet the new tech laws of 2026

State-level tech regulations on AI transparency, right-to-repair, crypto ATM refunds, and app-store rules largely take effect in 2026 amid legal challenges.
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fromAxios
11 hours ago

Trump enacted dozens of Project 2025 goals. Here's what's left

Project 2025 advances major conservative education reforms including dismantling the Department of Education, converting IDEA funding, expanding parental rights, mandatory ASVAB testing, and targeting Head Start.
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fromAxios
14 hours ago

How Trump's agenda lands at the Supreme Court in 2026

Supreme Court will decide challenges to Trump's orders on birthright citizenship and emergency tariffs, potentially overturning 14th Amendment precedent and curbing executive emergency powers.
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fromBusiness Insider
16 hours ago

Lawmakers are beginning to grapple with how their staff use AI

Lawmakers are adopting AI personally but many offices lack formal policies, resulting in informal expectations or outright bans on staff AI use.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 day ago
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Letters: After dropping lawsuit, California should drop high-speed rail

Stop California's high-speed rail project due to wasted billions and broken promises; Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez should resign for promoting antisemitic statements.
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago
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Letters: After dropping lawsuit, California should drop high-speed rail

Terminate California high-speed rail funding and demand Richmond Mayor Eduardo Martinez resign for reposting antisemitic content and failing to condemn Hamas violence.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Colorado lawmaker claims Trump's veto of safe drinking water bill is retaliation

Republican representative Lauren Boebert has fired back at Donald Trump for vetoing a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in her Colorado district, implying the president was playing at political retaliation. The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado's eastern plains, where the groundwater is high in salt and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply.
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fromPadailypost
4 hours ago

Billionaire talks about leaving Palo Alto

Two council members, Greer Stone and Keith Rechdahl, have proposed regulations to stop assembling groups of neighboring homes to form a compound, as Zuckerberg has done. Neighbors have complained about construction noise, unmarked security vehicles and a loss of parking. Billionaires have done this previously in Palo Alto, such as when Google co-founder Larry Page bought up the properties of his neighbors on Bryant Street in the Old Palo Alto neighborhood.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Trump will drop push for National Guard deployments in Chicago, LA and Portland, Ore.

Federal deployments of National Guard to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland were halted after legal setbacks and court rulings constrained presidential authority.
fromAxios
10 hours ago

Prognosticating in 1999: Revisiting turn-of-the-millennium predictions

People will carry around small devices that allow them to constantly stay in touch and do electronic business from wherever they are. They will be able to check the news, see flights they have booked, get information from financial markets, and do just about anything else on these devices.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
6 hours ago

Local News Anchors Marvel at Horrible Spot' Trump Is Putting State's Elected Republicans In

Because either they break with the president and they say, No, that is a fantasy. Elections are not rigged. You have to come out and vote because elections are valid, or they buy into the election-rigging fantasy. And Colorado voters have already shown that they are not interested in doing that. And then you'll have Republicans
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fromwww.theguardian.com
12 hours ago

US federal employees file complaint against ban on gender-affirming care

A legal complaint argues OPM's new policy eliminating gender-affirming care coverage for federal employees constitutes unlawful sex-based discrimination and seeks its rescission.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

Minnesota Mom Says Fraud Is Bad' Then Loses Breath and Abruptly Ends Speech During Press Conference

Federal child care funding was frozen after reports of inactive Minnesota daycares, prompting a press conference where a parent lost her breath mid-speech.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

RFK Jr's SNAP Restrictions On Junk Food Start Tomorrow In 5 States

Americans will no longer be able to use food stamps to purchase various types of junk food in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, and West Virginia starting January 1. These five states are the first of at least eighteen who have enacted restrictions on the kinds of foods that can be bought using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP. The junk food restrictions were put forward by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins earlier in December.
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#elon-musk
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

'They Stole $18 BILLION Dollars!' Trump Fetes NYE Bash With Rant About MN Fraud

They stole 18 billion dollars! said Trump. That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. He went on to claim that there was additional fraud in other Democratic-led states, calling it a reason for a good new year because his administration would get that money back. And California is worse. Illinois is worse. And sadly New York is worse. A lot of other places, he said.
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fromThe Nation
17 hours ago

Zohran Mamdani Must Not Give Good Intentions a Bad Name

This third possibility has often been overlooked by commentary around Zohran Mamdani's election as New York City mayor. However, this scenario fits the tenure of John Vliet Lindsay perfectly: a New York mayor who, from 1966 to 1973, passed progressive legislation that leftists would dream of winning today, but whose administration nonetheless oversaw an erosion of working-class power. Because of this failure, Lindsay's good intentions and accomplishments were largely for naught.
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#affordable-care-act
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fromwww.mediaite.com
23 hours ago

A Tipsy Jim Acosta Boasts to Don Lemon: I'm So Hammered That Even Pete Hegseth' Said Pace Yourself!'

Jim Acosta joked about Pete Hegseth's alleged drinking and criticized Trump-related politics during a drunken-seeming appearance on Don Lemon's New Year's Eve YouTube live show.
fromSlate Magazine
17 hours ago

Celebrate 20 Years of the Political Gabfest

This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz revisit several favorite segments from Gabfests past to celebrate their 20th anniversary: the consequential and eye-opening "don't call the police" debate, the segment in which John shows Bill Clinton how to apologize with his characteristic eloquence and grace, and that time a data scientist definitively answered the important question: which host interrupts the others the most?
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fromTruthout
11 hours ago

Trump's Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook

The Trump administration is undermining higher education and academic independence, advancing policies that risk transforming universities into ideological instruments and fueling a neofascist trajectory.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

Trump is wrong: woke' policies aren't the real threat to Europe | Nouriel Roubini

Europe's principal threat is economic and technological decline, not immigration, leaving it disadvantaged in competition for future tech leadership.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 day ago

Amazon allows visa workers stranded in India to work remotely with restrictions. Here's what they can't do.

Amazon permits employees stranded in India by H-1B visa delays to work remotely until March 2, with strict restrictions on coding, decision-making, and customer interaction.
fromBusiness Insider
17 hours ago

Nearly 30,000 Americans have received about $335 million in basic income. Here are 5 takeaways.

Basic income pilots have distributed over $335 million in economic relief to Americans. A coalition supported by 250 US lawmakers gathered preliminary reports for 27 pilot programs. Of that collection, none of the pilot programs resulted in employment or workforce decline. As Americans navigated economic uncertainty in recent years, including inflation and increased consumer prices, dozens of lawmakers threw their support behind guaranteed income programs.
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#january-6
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fromPortland Mercury
1 day ago

Mercury 2025 Recap: Housing and Homelessness

Portland shifted housing strategy in 2025: mayor prioritized rapid shelter expansion while City Council pursued housing reforms amid uncertain funding.
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fromThe Nation
17 hours ago

Who's Responsible When a Military Order Is Illegal?

Military personnel face legal, ethical, and political pressure when refusing orders tied to alleged atrocities, with potential retaliation and politicized charges.
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

Scott Galloway Rips Trump's TikTok Deal For His Friends': Pure Socialism Meets Cronyism'

Best investment you don't have access to is TikTok, Galloway began. Oh, yeah. Did you get yours? Have you gotten in there yet?' Swisher asked. Well, no, I'm a Democrat. So it's going to Dell, some Saudi person, I forget who it's going to, but it's not going to anyone who wants it or anyone who's a Democrat. But they're basically, Trump's forcing them to sell it for 14 billion, Galloway replied, adding:
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 day ago

Nick Shirley Explains Why Critics Won't Be Able to Take Him Down: I'm a Virgin, I Don't Have Sex'

What sucks for them is they're never gonna be able to get me. I don't drink alcohol, I don't do drugs, I'm a virgin. I don't have sex with random girls. You're not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges. I don't have any addictions, I don't have any vices. So what are these people gonna get me for. They're done.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

You've Been Exposed': Podcaster Shawn Ryan and Dan Crenshaw Escalate Feud Over Alleged Threats

I gave you the opportunity to be a man. You didn't take it, Ryan said. I gave you the opportunity to speak to five and a half million people and prove to them that you are not insider trading. That's a f*cking gift, I might add. A gift and you turned it down. He added, I'm not gonna interview you now, I don't play games, I handle sh*t like a man.
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fromMission Local
1 day ago

San Francisco federal judge restores Temporary Protected Status for thousands

A federal judge restored Temporary Protected Status for nearly 90,000 Honduran, Nepali, and Nicaraguan immigrants, finding the administration's termination unlawful.
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Letters: Neighborhoods suffer under PG&E's outdated infrastructure

We cannot compete globally while navigating a vulnerable, 1970s-era overhead grid. Reliability is a shared responsibility; as neighbors, we are committed to trimming private trees and providing maintenance access. However, we need a matching commitment to modernization. We plead for PG&E and the city to invoke Rule 20A credits to underground our lines. Moving the grid beneath the surface is a public safety necessity for our families and students.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt': Jack Smith Testifies to Congress Trump Engaged in a Criminal Scheme'

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power, Smith told the House, adding: Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and
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#trump
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
7 hours ago

Today begins a new era': Zohran Mamdani begins term as NYC mayor with historic swearing-in

Zohran Mamdani became New York City's first Muslim mayor, pledging to use government power to lower living costs and raise taxes on the wealthy.
#social-security
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fromBusiness Matters
18 hours ago

Ofcom urged to investigate GB News Trump interview over accuracy concerns

GB News aired an interview in which Donald Trump repeated misleading claims about climate change and London no-go areas, prompting numerous Ofcom complaints.
fromwww.theguardian.com
11 hours ago

Trump rings in 2026 at Mar-a-Lago with $2.75m auction of Jesus painting

The portrait of Jesus had been painted onstage by artist Vanessa Horabuena who, the president said, was one of the greatest artists anywhere in the world. To me, she's one of the greatest. In fact, she did something last night that was incredible. She can paint, slowly, a beautiful portrait for the White House, or she can paint the most incredible painting in literally 10 minutes, he added on video of the event broadcast on conservative channel Newsmax.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 hours ago

South Park writer buys Trump Kennedy Center' domain name

Toby Morton, a TV writer and producer who has worked on the long-running and joyfully offensive sitcom, said he purchased the domain in August after predicting the president would change the name from the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after he installed himself as chair and stocked the board with loyalists. The name change has brought turbulence to the institution, with several performers abruptly pulling out of scheduled concerts in protest.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
10 hours ago

White House Slams Report Mar-a-Lago Spa Sent Teens to Epstein

Karoline Leavitt condemned the Wall Street Journal report alleging Mar-a-Lago spa sent teen workers to Jeffrey Epstein and defended President Trump.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

LAFD leaders tried to cover up Palisades fire mistakes. The truth still emerged

The Los Angeles Fire Department failed to pre-deploy extra engines before the Palisades fire and avoided accountability afterward.
#presidential-health
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fromAxios
1 day ago

NYE Washington Monument illumination kicks off Trump's yearlong America 250 celebration

The Washington Monument was illuminated to launch America's 250th birthday year, initiating year-long, Trump-centered semiquincentennial events and national spectacles.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
14 hours ago

The Top 5 Wildest Trump Truth Social Posts of 2025

Donald Trump used Truth Social to issue extreme, punitive calls against political opponents and to mock a murdered filmmaker, blending violent rhetoric with personal attacks.
fromwww.npr.org
1 day ago

Capitol riot 'does not happen' without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress

The Jan. 6., 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee released on Wednesday a transcript and video of a closed-door interview Smith gave about two investigations of Trump.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
16 hours ago

New York enters the era of Zohran Mamdani

As midnight struck in New York, the giant ball of Irish crystals and LED lights descended from atop the building at 1 Times Square to mark, as it does every year, the end of one era and the beginning of another. And the city didn't just welcome 2026, or the second quarter of the 21st century. Its nearly 8.5 million inhabitants also hailed the dawn of a new age, the age of Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
15 hours ago

What to know about the about the 1% tax on remittances coming into effect in 2026

A 1% remittance tax on physical transfers from the U.S., effective January 1, 2026, will disproportionately affect migrants and Mexican remittance inflows.
fromThe Local France
12 hours ago

Trump joins criticism of Clooney's French passport

"Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration,"
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from24/7 Wall St.
13 hours ago

3 Cryptos That Could 5x in 2026 If Trump Delivers on Pro-Crypto Promises: XRP, BTC, and One Surprise

Federal crypto rulemaking and regulatory appointments in 2025 set up 2026 for institutional adoption that could drive Bitcoin, Solana, and XRP gains.
fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

US adapt, shrink or die' terms for $2bn aid pot will mean UN bowing down to Washington, say experts

It's a despicable way of looking at humanitarianism and humanitarian aid. She criticised the way the UN had praised Donald Trump and the pledge as generous despite the many conditions placed upon it. It also points to the fact that the UN system itself is now so subservient to the American system that it is literally bowing down to just one power without actually being more objective in how it views humanitarianism and humanitarian aid, Khan said.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
9 hours ago

Fox News' Leslie Marshall Comforted by Colleagues After She Reveals She's Had 11 Miscarriages On-Air

Leslie Marshall endured 11 miscarriages, fertility treatments, adoption, and child loss while urging empathy for people who struggle to form families.
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