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• Tulsi Gabbard raked in massive income engaging Republican audience, filing shows

  20-01-2025 23:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Tulsi Gabbard reported a net worth of $55 million to $127 million, her personal financial disclosure report shows.
  
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• Without putting hand on Bible, Trump takes oath of office

  20-01-2025 23:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Donald Trump didn't place his hand on the Bible as he took the oath of office on Monday.
  
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• AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies

  20-01-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Parlex is one of several artificial intelligence systems being developed within the governmentA new artificial intelligence tool can warn ministers whether policies are likely to be very unpopular with their party’s MPs, using a search described as a “parliamentary vibe check”.Parlex is one of a suite of AI tools– called Humphrey, after the Yes Minister character – being developed for ministers and civil servants which allow them to predict which topics might cause
  
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• Trump preparing sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 defendants: Sources

  20-01-2025 23:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Trump is preparing to issue sweeping pardons for many charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, including hundreds convicted of violent attacks, sources say.
  
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• Donald Trump's kids, grandkids at inauguration: See then and now

  20-01-2025 22:45 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Donald Trump's family was by his side on Inauguration Day.
  
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• Notre Dame and Ohio State meet in Atlanta for the College Football Playoff National Championship

  20-01-2025 22:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Follow the latest news live as the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the CFP National Championship game in Atlanta.
  
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• Young siblings who went missing from Ohio months ago found in Iceland

  20-01-2025 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  A pair of young siblings who were reported missing in Ohio in October were found this month thousands of miles away in Iceland, the U.S.
  
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• Trump claims to be ‘peacemaker’ as he vows to ‘take back’ Panama canal

  20-01-2025 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Desire to be ‘unifier’ rubs up against 47th US president’s ambitions for territorial expansionDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump offered a bombastic and contradictory vision for US foreign policy at his inauguration on Monday, declaring that he would be a “peacemaker and unifier” even as he repeated his vow to “take back” the Panama canal.In his speech, Trump said that the Panama canal, which was built by the US in the early 1900s
  
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• Mike Pence, Joe Rogan, tech CEOs attend Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2025 22:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  As Donald Trump prepares to be sworn in for his second term, a bevy of political leaders, tech CEOs, celebrities and others are in attendance in the U.S. Capitol.
  
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• Trump set to dismantle DEI within federal government in first day executive action

  20-01-2025 22:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Incoming President Donald Trump will issue an executive order that would dismantle all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government.
  
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• Watch Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton react to Trump announcing Gulf of Mexico name change

  20-01-2025 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  During his inaugural address, Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton could be seen visibly reacting to that part of Trump's speech. It is not clear if a U.S. president has the authority to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the area is considered international waters.
  
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• What Biden said following Trump's inauguration

  20-01-2025 21:49 via abcnews.go.com
  
  "I've been doing this for 50 years, you’re the best group of people," Joe Biden told his staffers. "It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president."
  
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• Trump executive actions on border, immigration: What to know

  20-01-2025 21:42 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Trump promises to sign executive actions to address immigration and border security. Some will likely spark legal battles.
  
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• Can Trump really rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America?

  20-01-2025 21:38 via theguardian.com
  President plans to sign an order to change the name within the US – but other countries would not have to follow suitTrump signs order to rename Gulf of MexicoIn his inaugural speech, Donald Trump repeated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.The ocean basin – bounded by the US Gulf coast, Mexico’s eastern states and the island of Cuba – is an important centre of economic activity, including fishing, maritime transport, and oil and gas product
  
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• WATCH: JD Vance sworn in as vice president

  20-01-2025 21:33 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The former Ohio senator took the oath of office with his wife Usha at his side.
  
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• Trump prepares a slew of Day 1 orders on immigration, gender and more

  20-01-2025 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump will sign at least a dozen executive orders after he's sworn in as president Monday, looking to quickly implement his agenda.
  
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• ‘My arrest was unjustified’: released Palestinians decry their imprisonment

  20-01-2025 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Palestinian prisoners describe being held in poor conditions after their release as part of ceasefire dealIn the dead of night on Sunday, after hours of waiting, a white bus carrying dozens of Palestinian prisoners, released in exchange for three Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas to Israel, arrived at Fawakeh square in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A group of young men had climbed on to the vehicle, waving Palestinian and Hamas flags. Disembarking from the coach were mostly women and many m
  
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• Elon Musk says he is 'fired up for the future' at Trump's inaugural rally

  20-01-2025 21:18 via nbcnews.com
  Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk shared his excitement for the future during President Donald Trump’s inaugural rally. At one point, the crowd chanted, "Elon! Elon!" Musk then forcefully touched his heart, before raising his hand and saluting supporters.
  
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• WATCH: Biden boards Air Force One for final time

  20-01-2025 21:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former President Joe Biden saluted the crowd at Joint Base Andrews after delivering his farewell address.
  
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• Swing state voters from PA, NC share hopes for America in a second Trump term

  20-01-2025 20:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Voters and small business owners in the swing states of Pennsylvania and North Carolina speak to ABC News about their hopes for President Trump and America.
  
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• Trump to issue 10 executive orders on immigration upon taking office

  20-01-2025 20:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  An incoming White House official said President-elect Donald Trump plans to declare a national emergency at the border, end birthright citizenship and reinstate the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
  
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• Trump to sign executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs

  20-01-2025 20:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign executive orders proclaiming that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies.
  
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• Senate Republicans hope to confirm some of Trump's nominees on Day 1

  20-01-2025 20:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  The GOP-led Senate hopes to hit the ground running Monday and begin confirming newly inaugurated President Donald Trump’s nominees on his first day.
  
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• Trump heralds a 'golden age' in promise-filled inaugural address

  20-01-2025 20:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump declared that the "golden age of America begins right now" and vowed that the nation's challenges would be "annihilated" by his MAGA movement in a bare-knuckled inaugural address Monday, which echoed the themes and grievances of his trademark rally speeches.
  
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• David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights – as it happened

  20-01-2025 20:21 via theguardian.com
  Former footballer collects Crystal Award for work on children’s rights, as World Economic Forum begins in DavosThe UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will travel to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this week in the hope of convincing some of the world’s largest companies to invest, with allies saying she will use spending cuts rather than further tax increases to meet her own fiscal rules.At the same time, the Treasury is considering a push to cut the benefits bill
  
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• Trump admin to acknowledge only a person’s gender assigned at birth, officials say

  20-01-2025 20:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President Donald Trump is set to issue a slew of executives actions on his first day in office Monday that would affect transgender Americans.
  
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• Thirty-two people to give evidence for Guardian in libel case brought by actor Noel Clarke

  20-01-2025 20:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Documents for high court hearing show that 26 will support allegations of serious misconduct against himThirty-two people are to give evidence in support of the Guardian’s defence of legal action brought against it by the actor and producer Noel Clarke.The details were set out on Monday at the high court in London in a pre-trial review hearing before a defamation and data protection trial, scheduled to start at the beginning of March. Continue reading...
  
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• Australian oysters’ blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find

  20-01-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Protein found in Sydney rock oysters’ haemolymph can kill bacteria and boost some antibiotics’ effectiveness, scientists discoverFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn antimicrobial protein found in the blood of an Australian oyster could help in the fight against superbugs, new research suggests.Australian scientists have discovered that a protein found in the haemolymph – the equivalent of blood &nda
  
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• Pope dissolves Peru-based Catholic movement after ‘sadistic abuses’

  20-01-2025 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Sodalitium of Christian Life ended after investigation found sexual and spiritual abuses and financial mismanagementPope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium of Christian Life (SCV), after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The investigation uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and spiritual abuses by its top members.The Sodalitium on Monday confirmed the dissolution,
  
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• Trump sees Biden and Harris off after inauguration ceremony

  20-01-2025 19:24 via nbcnews.com
  Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris made final goodbyes to President Donald Trump and Vice President Vance after the inauguration ceremony. Biden and former first lady Jill Biden then boarded a helicopter to Joint Base Andrews.
  
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• Gulf Coast bracing for rare winter storm with frigid temperatures and snow

  20-01-2025 19:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  More than 55 million people throughout the Gulf Coast are bracing for a historic winter storm that will bring rare snow and frigid temperatures to the region.
  
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• Trump presidency will help to ‘occupy Brussels’, says Orbán

  20-01-2025 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Hungary PM says US leader will bolster Europe’s rightwing forces as nationalist politicians attend inaugurationDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump’s presidency will boost rightwing political forces across Europe, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said, as he announced an offensive “to occupy Brussels”.A Trump ally, Hungary’s long-serving prime minister was speaking as European far-right and nationalist politicians flocked
  
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• Trump not expected to carry through on Day 1 tariff threats

  20-01-2025 19:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump isn’t expected to carry through on his threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the first day of his presidency, a move that economists have warned could lead to higher prices for Americans and hurt U.S. businesses.
  
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• WATCH: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US president

  20-01-2025 19:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Chief Justice John Roberts administered the presidential oath of office to Donald J. Trump.
  
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• Full: Watch Donald Trump’s inaugural address as 47th U.S. president

  20-01-2025 18:52 via nbcnews.com
  Watch Donald Trump’s full speech after being sworn in as president of the United States. He promised immediate action on issues from immigration to culture wars, and declared that “America’s decline is over.”
  
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• Trump promises 'tide of change' in inaugural address: 'America's decline is over'

  20-01-2025 18:34 via nbcnews.com
  In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised to "reverse a horrible betrayal" by the outgoing Biden administration and to "give people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed their freedom."
  
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• 'I was saved by God': Trump cites divine intervention in assassination attempt

  20-01-2025 18:25 via nbcnews.com
  Citing the assassination attempt that left him wounded, President Trump said "I was saved by God to make America great again" in his inaugural address.
  
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• Gaza ceasefire: ‘Shocked’ Palestinians return to their homes as rescue workers ‘ramp up’ aid deliveries – as it happened

  20-01-2025 18:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The search for thousands of people buried under rubble has started as the ceasefire in Gaza enters its second dayFull report: Palestinians celebrate as prisoners freedThe Spanish government has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which will allow for an increase in aid to the strip. The Spanish foreign ministry said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) is “essential and irreplicable” to the delivery of humanitarian relief in the territory.Israel’s government is sti
  
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• Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, dies at 67

  20-01-2025 18:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cecile Richards, a women's rights activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, has died at 67, her family said.
  
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• Trump takes presidential oath of office

  20-01-2025 18:07 via nbcnews.com
  Watch as President Trump is sworn in to serve as the 47th president as he takes the presidential oath administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
  
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• WATCH: JD Vance is sworn in as vice president

  20-01-2025 18:03 via nbcnews.com
  Watch as JD Vance is sworn in as the 50th vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the inauguration of Donald Trump.
  
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• Vivek Ramaswamy to leave DOGE and launch a run for Ohio governor

  20-01-2025 18:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Vivek Ramaswamy will launch a campaign for governor in Ohio early next week and is parting ways with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming DOGE.
  
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• Biden pardons family members minutes before Trump sworn in

  20-01-2025 18:02 via nbcnews.com
  Minutes before his term is set to end, Biden announced that he was pardoning several members of his family, including his brother James Biden, sister-in-law Sara Biden, sister Valerie Biden Owens, brother-in-law John T. Owens and brother Francis Biden.
  
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• Israeli president calls Trump a 'true friend' on Inauguration Day, praises his work to release hostages

  20-01-2025 17:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli President Isaac Herzog is praising Donald Trump on Inauguration Day, calling him a "true friend" of the country and thanking him for his efforts to secure the release of hostages from Hamas. "On behalf of the people of Israel, I send my heartfelt congratulations to you, President Donald Trump on your inauguration as the 47th POTUS," Herzog wrote on X. "You are a true friend of Israel. Thank you for your unwavering commitment to Israel’s security and to building a better f
  
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• Colombia vows war against leftwing guerrillas amid more than 100 deaths

  20-01-2025 17:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Security forces rush to tamp down on rising leftwing violence as 11,000 people remain displacedColombia has vowed “war” against leftwing guerrillas, as security forces rushed to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 100 people and threatened to derail the country’s troubled peace process.In just five days, violence has been reported in three different Colombian departments, from the remote Amazon jungle to the rugged border with Venezuela, where fighting has disp
  
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• Palestinians begin search for Gaza’s missing as they return to ruined homes

  20-01-2025 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Ceasefire celebrations replaced by shock and sorrow as people begin to assess the scale of devastationAfter the first night in Gaza for more than a year without the sound of drones or bombing overhead following the successful implementation of a ceasefire, people in the besieged Palestinian territory have begun returning to destroyed homes and searching for missing loved ones.The truce that took effect on Sunday with the release of the first three hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 90 Palest
  
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• WATCH: Trump children arrive at US Capitol for inauguration

  20-01-2025 17:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s sons and daughters entered the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday.
  
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• Giorgia Meloni to Javier Milei: far-right leaders flock to Trump inauguration

  20-01-2025 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Gathering of conservative politicians marks first time that foreign heads of state attend a US presidential inaugurationWhat time is Trump’s inauguration? How to watch the eventsDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesConservative leaders and politicians from around the world have descended on Washington DC as foreign heads of state will attend a US presidential inauguration for the first time in history.The arrival of four sitting leaders and scores of other conservative politicians
  
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• South African police launch hunt for alleged illegal mining ‘kingpin’

  20-01-2025 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, described as an ‘embarrassment’South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from custody following a rescue operation last week in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illicit goldmine.James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, has been accused by other illegal miners of being a ringleader who was allegedly responsible for assaults, tortures and death
  
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• WATCH: Inauguration moments then and now

  20-01-2025 17:18 via abcnews.go.com
  
  ABC News’ Danny New looksback at the distant and recent past for a day that brings tradition and unity.
  
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