- Ryan Bort @ Rolling Stone: Oklahoma Superintendent Demands Students Watch Him Pray for Trump
Ryan Walters has already been under fire for using state money to purchase Trump Bibles for classrooms.
- Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee, Vaughn Hillyard and Mosheh Gains @ NBC News: Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible courts-martial
All of the officers were involved in the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which independent reviews have blamed on both the Trump and Biden administrations.
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: ‘TRUE!!’ Trump Confirms Plans to Declare a National Emergency to Use the US Military For Mass Deportations
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will declare a national emergency and use the US military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented migrants.
- Edith Olmstead @ The New Republic: Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn
Donald Trump has nominated a Project 2025 author to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
- Michael Kranish, Josh Dawsey and Jonathan O'Connell @ The Washington Post: Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says
Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about allegation and the response by Trump’s defense secretary pick.
- Will Steakin and Peter Charalambous @ ABC News: Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex
An attorney representing two women who testified before the House Ethics Committee told ABC News in an interview that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid both his adult clients for sex.
- Phil Williams @ NewsChannel 5: Aiming to 'radicalize Main Street,' Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee
An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation has discovered that those Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Middle Tennessee county, hoping to attract hundreds, even thousands, of like-minded people from across the country as part of efforts, in the words of one activist, to “radicalize Main Street.”
