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Biden passes baton to Trump as oldest president, foreshadowing age scrutiny

President-elect Donald Trump will become the oldest person ever sworn in as president on Monday, but concerns about his age haven’t dogged him the same way they sunk President Joe Biden.

Leaderless Democrats move forward on anointing a new Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair

Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel stares down tough confirmation test among Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats

Department Of Justice (DOJ) accuses Walgreens of filling illegitimate opioid prescriptions

TikTok goes dark in U.S. as ban takes effect

FEATURED VIDEOS:

The Debrief: Supreme Court looks ready to stand for age-verification laws video

The Debrief: Trump navigating tricky future Middle-East negotiations video

On Deadline: White House press access, CA recalls, and confirmation hearings video Washington Examiner


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TWELVE Disgraceful Acts Biden Has Committed (So Far) On His Way Out The White House Door - While set to leave office in the next few days, Biden isn’t done making stupid and dangerous decisions that harm Americans.

Federalist CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler, Pennsylvania Trump Assassination Attempt In Tucker Carlson Interview

Sean Davis: “Strategically Incompetent” Secret Service Left Trump Vulnerable In Butler, Pennsylvania By Design

How BlackRock And The Rest Of The “Climate Cartel” Stacked EXXON’s Board With Fossil Fuel Haters

Biden’s Biggest Lies In MSNBC Oval Office Exit Interview

FEATURE:

Department of Justice (DOJ) Official Mary McCord Who Led “Russiagate” Investigation Warns Attorney General Nominee Pamela Bondi To Avoid “Weaponization”

Trump Should Pardon D.C.’s Good Cops Victimized By Biden’s Soft-On-Crime Department of Justice (DOJ)

An Embarrassment For Every Month: The Worst Blunders, Failures, And Flops Of Biden’s Final Year

Jury Finds CNN Is Literally Fake News

Cleveland: Pam Bondi Crushed Democrats’ Confirmation Curveballs video

Hemingway: Democrats Elicit Censorship. Republicans Encourage Free Speech. video

Lyman: Left-Wing Media Are Scared Of Losing Control After Meta Updates Policies video The Federalist


Top News Stories - Photos (Daily Wire)

TOP STORIES:

BYE-DEN: President Caps Five Decades In Politics In Final Oval Office Address

Trump Inauguration To Be Moved Indoors

Los Angeles Fire Chief Gets Backing From Union After Reportedly Being On Mayor’s Chopping Block

Wife Of American Held Hostage By Taliban Hopes For Her Husband’s Return Under Trump

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case On Parental Rights And LGBT Content In Schools

Trump’s Defense Department Nominee, Pete Hegseth Faces Onslaught Of Hysterical Female Senators

Air Force Official Held Event Pushing Critical Race Theory, Bemoaning “White Middle Class Problem”

Revisiting Reagan’s 1985 Indoor Inauguration Ahead Of Trump’s Inside U.S. Capitol Rotunda Daily Wire


Top News Stories - Photos (News Busters.org)

NBC Hypes Biden's “Warning”, Networks Skip Attempt To Amend Constitution By Tweet

Taxpayer-Funded “DEFUND” PBS News Hour’s Jonathan Capehart Wonders If Voters “Gave Up On Democracy”

Navy Veteran Zachary Young Speaks Out to NewsBusters About His Defamation Victory

Wolf in the Morning, Acosta to the Dungeon - CNN Mulling MASSIVE Changes

Fareed Zakaria's Diarrhea: CNN Host Says Bidenomics “Resounding Success”, Forget Working Class

ICYMI: Petty Prick White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Reportedly Barred National Security Advisor And Spokesman John Kirby From Final WH Briefing

NewsBusters Podcast: Nick Fondacaro on CNN Found Guilty of Defamation audio News Busters.org

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CORRUPTION CHRONICLES: San Francisco Settles Lawsuit with Judicial Watch!

San Francisco Settles Judicial Watch Taxpayer Lawsuit - Shuts Down Discriminatory Guaranteed-Income Program Limited to Transgender Individuals with Preference to Biological Black and Latino Men Who Identify as Women; Agrees to Pay $3,250 in Attorney’s Fees and Costs

INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS: Judicial Watch: District of Columbia Board of Elections - 388 Noncitizens Voted in D.C.’s November Election

“Weather Events” Among the Reasons Nearly a Million Illegal Aliens Get Humanitarian Amnesty

Judicial Watch Sues California Coastal Commission for Records on Controversial Decision against Elon Musk’s SpaceX Judicial Watch.org


Top News Stories - Photos (Daily Mail)

DRAINING THE SWAMP - PREPARE FOR FIREWORKS: Jubilation in D.C. as beaming Trump and Melania make triumphant return to capital for inaugural festivities

EXCLUSIVE: Biden's final humiliation: Most Americans can't name one success and will remember him for doing “NOTHING”

EXCLUSIVE: Americans pick which “migrants” Trump should send home first as voters give his mass deportation plan universal support

Trump's Border Czar Tom Homan forced to pause plan for immediate deportations in woke Democrat cities after news of raids was leaked

Biden staffers lift the lid on how they hid president's cognitive decline as 82-year-old is accused of an unforgivable lapse

EXCLUSIVE: My husband has been a Taliban prisoner for two years... Trump has finally gave me hope our children will see him again

CNN “Black Sheep” Scott Jennings is branded “a handsome devil” on air as he dons tuxedo before inaugural events

TIKTOK GOES DARK: TikTok influencers go into meltdown as app “Goes Dark” for 170 Million American users over Communist China fears

Extraordinary photo of brave Iranian smiling broadly with a noose round his neck moments before his execution for killing a notorious “Hanging Judge” resurfaces after guard shot dead two supreme court justices reviled for condemning protestors to death

A Sculptor's Vision: A hidden chamber meant to outlast civilization, and faces etched into rock. Mount Rushmore's iconic design was supposed to be so much more Daily Mail


Top News Stories - Photos (Times of Israel)

ISRAEL AT WAR - Day 471: Red Cross heading to pick up hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher

Ceasefire takes effect after Hamas names the three women hostages to be freed Sunday

Israel to free up to 1,904 Palestinians in 1st stage of hostage deal, including killers

These are the 33 hostages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire

Body of soldier Oron Shaul, killed and captured by Hamas in 2014, recovered from Gaza

With doctors and therapists: Army completes preparations to receive hostages

Otzma Yehudit exits coalition over Gaza deal, blasting it as “victory for terrorism” - Chairman Ben Gvir tells Netanyahu he’s proud of party’s “significant achievements under your leadership” but slams him for crossing “all ideological red lines”

Daily Briefing January 19, Day 471: Under ceasefire, Hamas terrorists step out of shadows as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) looks on audio Times of Israel


Top News Stories - Photos (South China Morning Post)

China logs 5% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in 2024 as exports, stimulus provide year-end boost

China’s population drops for third year in a row despite uptick in births

Unplug “Great Firewall” to help China compete, Shanghai lawmaker says

China’s electronic war gadget turns small drone into flying stadium on radar

TikTok prepares to shut down app in U.S. on Sunday, sources say

North Korea Nuclear Crisis:

Opinion: Why the U.S. will not allow a nuclear-armed South Korea

North Korea declares “strongest” U.S. strategy in key party meeting

Revolution, elections and a baby hippo, this was the year in Asia

Opinion: U.S. presidential transition is the thread tying world’s crises together South China Morning Post


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FEATURE: Saturday citations: New cretaceous predator just dropped; neutron star mountains; a cool 'living seawall'New n-doped transparent conductor shows promise for all-polymer electrochromic displaysDual-reactor system converts CO₂ to consumable single-cell protein

Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in CanadaStudy reveals native plants' role in managing road salt pollutionTraffic jams? Study reveals ants' secrets to smooth traffic flow

New model predicts solar storm particle acceleration and escapeMicrobial diversity mapped: 42% of bacteria lack genomic data, study findsBacteria in polymers create cable-like structures that grow into living gels

Turning the Hubble tension into a crisis: New measurement confirms universe is expanding too fast for current modelsIsotopes in early South African hominin teeth show they ate little meatMapping the mind: New framework links brainwaves to individual cognitive states Phys.org