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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, January 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM EST Now that 2025 has arrived, the political landslide is about to change considerably. A new Congress will be seated on January 3, with Republicans still controlling the U.S. House of Representatives while taking over the U.S. Senate. And 17 days later, President Joe Biden will exit the White House when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term. January 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM EST Hours after 10 people were killed and 30 were injured when a man plowed through Bourbon Street in his pick up truck on New Year's Day, ABC News reports that last month, authorities warned police that "low-tech vehicle-ramming" could potentially occur during the holiday season and urged them to "prepare". Per the report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center on December 6 "issued a joint intel bulletin warning law enforcement about the ongoing serious threat posed by lone offenders during the winter holiday season." January 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM EST One of the groups of voters Democrats lost in the 2024 presidential election to Republicans, are union workers. The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey explains in a report published this week by The Atlantic what the party can do redeem themselves in 2028. January 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM EST With 2025 having arrived, Donald Trump's second presidency is less than three weeks away. And when the president-elect is inaugurated on Monday, January 20, both branches of Congress will have small Republican majorities. Trump's Democratic critics fear that most Republican lawmakers in Congress will go along with his far-right MAGA agenda, and conservative attorney George Conway -- a vocal Never Trumper -- doubts that most Senate Republicans will have enough "spine" to reject the more "appalling" nominees for his administration. January 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM EST During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made a concerted effort to distance himself from Project 2025 -- the Heritage Foundation's controversial, far-right 920-page blueprint for a second Trump Administration. Trump obviously viewed Project 2025 as a political liability, claiming that he had "nothing to do" with it and knew nothing about it. But Trump's critics, including Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, were quick to point out that Project 2025's architects included many of his close allies. January 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM EST Just a few hours after a man plowed his pickup truck into a crowd on New Orleans' Bourbon Street on New Years Day killing ten people, reports confirmed that the suspect -- who died after a firefight with police -- intentionally carried out the attack. At a Wednesday morning press conference, it was confirmed that the FBI is taking over the investigation into the mass casualty event. January 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM EST With the arrival of 2025, the United States is getting ready to enter a new political phase. Joe Biden's presidency is winding down, a new GOP-controlled Congress will be seated on Friday, January 3, and President-elect Donald Trump's second term will begin on January 20. In a listicle/opinion column published on New Year's Day 2025, MSNBC's Alexander Nazaryan lays out five "key" political questions to ask this year. January 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM EST Although Elon Musk -- the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter -- was critical of Donald Trump at times in the past, he became a strong supporter during the 2024 presidential race. Musk was a major donor to Trump's 2024 campaign, and now, the president-elect is calling for Musk and MAGA businessman Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new advisory committee that would be named the Department of Government Ethics (DOGE). January 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM EST Just weeks ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, the "stakes are high" for green-energy companies as they fear the upcoming right-wing takeover in both the White House and in the House of Representatives, according to the Wall Street Journal. Per the report, "Significant reductions to tax credits, and Trump's promised tariffs on imports, could reduce investment in new renewables plants by $350 billion over the next decade, said Chris Seiple, vice chairman of power and renewables at Wood Mackenzie." December 31, 2024 at 4:50 PM EST Citing "deepfakes" and "targeted disinformation campaigns," the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Tuesday sanctions against affiliates of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alleging they "aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate during the 2024 U.S. election." Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz may have been the target of one such effort, according to a previous Washington Post report. December 31, 2024 at 2:06 PM EST This Friday, January 3 in the United States, a new Congress will be seated -- and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is hoping that he will remain in that position. President-elect Donald Trump gave Johnson his "complete and total endorsement" on December 30. But according to reporting from Axios' Andrew Solender and The Hill's Emily Brooks, Johnson may not have the votes needed for confirmation. December 31, 2024 at 1:32 PM EST President-elect Donald Trump's second term is less than a month away. And when he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025, Congress will have small Republican majorities in both of its chambers. In an article published by The New Republic on the last day of 2024, journalist/author Liza Featherstone describes a New Year's resolution: closer bonding with friends and neighbors in case 2025 and the second Trump Administration bring civil unrest. |
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