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 • The Debrief: Trump navigating tricky future Middle-East negotiations • On Deadline: White House press access, CA recalls, and confirmation hearings Washington Examiner
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 Hemingway: Democrats Elicit Censorship. Republicans Encourage Free Speech. Lyman: Left-Wing Media Are Scared Of Losing Control After Meta Updates Policies The Federalist
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
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 News Busters.org 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
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
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 Times of Israel
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
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 displays • Dual-reactor system converts CO₂ to consumable single-cell protein Watch doorbell camera capture rare meteorite strike in Canada • Study reveals native plants' role in managing road salt pollution • Traffic jams? Study reveals ants' secrets to smooth traffic flow New model predicts solar storm particle acceleration and escape • Microbial diversity mapped: 42% of bacteria lack genomic data, study finds • Bacteria 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 models • Isotopes in early South African hominin teeth show they ate little meat • Mapping the mind: New framework links brainwaves to individual cognitive states Phys.org