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• Crypto readies its wish list for Trump

  26-12-2024 23:14 via thehill.com
  
  The cryptocurrency industry spent big in the 2024 election, and its investment is about to pay off in the incoming Congress and administration. For more than a decade, there was a lack of clarity from federal regulators that left industry advocates frustrated, especially as the Biden administration went after crypto giants including Coinbase and Ripple for allegedly selling unregistered securities and urged caution with banks and investors. But President-elect Trump, who once dismissed
  
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• Biden arrives in St. Croix for last vacation as president

  26-12-2024 21:09 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday arrived in St. Croix for his last vacation as president before leaving office next month.The president left the White House the day after Christmas with first lady Jill Biden. He arrived in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands around 2 p.m. EST Thursday, along with his daughter Ashley Biden.Biden has traveled to St. Croix for the New Year’s holiday throughout his time as president and was criticized last year for making the trip amid a crisis at the U
  
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• Wasserman Schultz slams Trump’s 'preposterous' calls to seize Panama Canal, Greenland

  26-12-2024 20:13 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) on Thursday criticized President-elect Trump for saying the U.S. should take control of the Panama Canal and purchase Greenland.“It is utterly preposterous to suggest that we are going to send our military into Panama to, quote, 'take back the Panama Canal,'" Wasserman Schultz said during a Thursday appearance on CNN. “We have a treaty with Panama. We have a free trade agreement with Panama,” she added. “We are no more goin
  
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• Trump border czar floats halfway houses for children of migrants

  26-12-2024 19:10 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump’s "border czar" Tom Homan said in a Thursday interview that halfway homes for children of non-U.S. citizens may be a necessary part of Trump's plans for mass deportation of immigrants lacking permanent legal status.“As far as U.S. children — children, that's going to be a difficult situation, because we're not going to detain your U.S. citizen children, which means, you know, they're going to be put in a halfway house,” Homan told NewsNation’s
  
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• Retiring Democrat wants to make room for new generation: Some lawmakers 'just stay forever'

  26-12-2024 17:40 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) is leaving Congress with the goal of opening doors for a younger generation in leadership.
  “I’m trying to set a better example,” Kuster told the Boston Globe in a report published Thursday about her decision to not seek reelection. “I think there are colleagues — and some of whom are still very successful and very productive — but others who just stay forever.”Kuster chocked up her decision to several reasons, including Preside
  
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• Trump ‘border czar’ plans to reinstate family detention centers

  26-12-2024 15:01 via thehill.com
  
  Tom Homan, the incoming “border czar” for President-elect Trump’s administration, said he will reinstate policies that hold families in detention centers in an interview with The Washington Post published Thursday.“You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” he told the outlet.Homan said new detention centers will need to be constructed with a capacity to hold families exiting the country.“We&
  
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• Trump, GOP zero in on Liz Cheney as potential target

  26-12-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump’s fixation on former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is escalating as he suggests she should be prosecuted for her work on the now-disbanded House Jan. 6 committee.In the wake of a report by a House subcommittee that alleges Cheney improperly communicated with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump accused Cheney of committing crimes as she led the panel.“Liz Cheney has been exposed in the Interim Report, by Congress, of the J6 Unselect Committee as having do
  
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• 5 under-the-radar races to watch in 2025

  26-12-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  While elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City will receive the most attention next year, 2025 will also see plenty of lower-profile — but no less interesting — races. From a judicial race in the battleground state of Pennsylvania to several notable mayoral races, political observers will be watching to see how these races could signal which way the political winds are blowing. Here are five under-the-radar races to watch in 2025. New York 21st District spec
  
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• Biden condemns Russia's 'outrageous' Christmas attack on Ukraine

  26-12-2024 03:22 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday denounced Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, declaring the wave of missiles and drones “outrageous.”"The purpose of this outrageous attack was to cut off the Ukrainian people’s access to heat and electricity during winter and to jeopardize the safety of its grid,” Biden said in a statement. “Let me be clear: the Ukrainian people deserve to live in peace and safety, and the United States and the international community must con
  
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• Trump tells 37 people with sentences commuted by Biden to 'go to hell' in lengthy Christmas post

  26-12-2024 01:48 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump on Wednesday used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by President Biden to "go to hell."“Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote in the latter of two Truth Social posts. “I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ bu
  
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• Trump announces ambassador to Panama amid fight over canal

  26-12-2024 01:30 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump on Wednesday announced Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as his pick for U.S. ambassador to Panama.The announcement comes as Trump is sparking a feud with the U.S. ally over control of the Panama Canal.“I am pleased to announce that Kevin Marino Cabrera will serve as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, a Country that is ripping us off on the Panama Canal, far beyond their wildest dreams,” Trump wrote in the Wednesday Truth S
  
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• US officials use National Menorah Lighting to promote peace, unity

  26-12-2024 00:45 via thehill.com
  
  U.S. officials and religious leaders spoke about peace and hope at the National Menorah Lighting hosted in front of the White House Wednesday to mark the beginning of Hanukkah. “We can all benefit from the study of Torah, the mandates to visit the sick, feed the poor, pursue justice, welcome the stranger,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the audience, echoing words from a New York Times op-ed written in honor of the holiday.“There is a yearning for this
  
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