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Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after he developed a fever, a top aide told NBC News on Monday. Clinton, 78, "has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing and observation after developing a fever," said Angel Ureña, Clinton's deputy chief of staff. Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21. Clinton campaigned vigorously for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris this year and recently released a memoir about his post-presidential life. Clinton has spoken at every Democratic National Convention since 1976, including this August.

Persons: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Angel Ureña, Ureña, Hannah Beier, Kamala Harris, “, ” Organizations: NBC, Georgetown University Hospital, Democratic National Convention, Bloomberg, Getty, Presbyterian Hospital, Democratic Locations: Washington, Clinton, Chicago, NewYork, California

☆ Former President Bill Clinton is in the hospital after developing a fever, spokesperson says
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-23 | by ( Jeff Zeleny | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Meet the Press – December 22, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +54 min

I don't think I'm in a minority that want to figure it out. The latest poll I saw was over 70% of the country – people in the country don't like the direction of the country. And so this was really, really tough. I'm going to worry about my job and my salary, and I don't think I'm going to participate. I'm really, really for that.

Persons: KRISTEN WELKER, PRES JOE BIDEN, DONALD TRUMP, DEBBIE DINGELL, MIKE JOHNSON, MATT, FRANK DWYER, DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, James Lankford of, Raphael Warnock of, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Russell Moore, Antonia Hylton, Kristen Welker, Abraham Lincoln, PRES, BILL CLINTON, GEORGE W, BARACK OBAMA, –, Lincoln, Roosevelt, I'm, Steve Kornacki, Steve, STEVE KORNACKI, Kristen, We've, Trump, Harris, might've, Barack Obama's, Donald Trump, Clinton, James Lankford, SEN, JAMES LANKFORD, RAPHAEL WARNOCK, Warnock, Lankford, It's, we've, We're, they're, I've, There's, – SEN, demagogues, it's, we're, you've, Ted Cruz, That's, That’s, Raphael Warnock, that's, person's, – KRISTEN WELKER, Let's, Merry, cohost, ”, Jim Crow, Doris, John Adams, Republican Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, Jefferson, Adams, . Moore, RUSSELL MOORE, Mildred's, Rodney, Luke, Antonia, – You've, ANTONIA HYLTON, Dr, Martin Luther King Jr, JOE LIEBERMAN, TED OLSON, LILLY LEDBETTER, NIKKI GIOVANNI, there's, who's, JAMES EARL JONES, VADER, BETTY COLE DUKERT, Caitlin Clark, FDR's, you'll, Wow, Moore, We'll Organizations: Republican, Democratic, U.S . Senate, Christianity, NBC, Press, Republicans, Trump, Hyde Park, Senate, D.C, Fox News, Republican Party, Democrat, Jim, Jim Crow Asylum, Evangelical, Federalist, that's, Civil Rights, Unite, TIM, –, WNBA, Air Force, Army, Civil Rights Movement Locations: Washington, America, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, U.S, Lincoln, Hyde Park , Chicago, West Virginia, McDowell County, Washington ,, Oklahoma, New York, Maine, Washington State, Alabama, Georgia, Providence , Rhode Island, Evangelical America, Texas, North Carolina, Paris, Brussels, American, New York City, Staten Island, Mississippi

☆ Looks of the Year: The most stylish people of 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Each week of 2024, CNN Style has delved into the standout or most talked-about celebrity fashion moment of the last seven days, from Heidi Klum’s show-stopping E.T. Looks ranged from flamboyant red carpet moments to surprising celebrity street style (remember when Rosalia was spotted wearing a straitjacket while out in New York?). Most reliably best-dressedZendaya has claimed more Looks of the Week than any other celebrity since our series began. Mario Anzuoni/ReutersBest archival pullIn 2024, accessing museum-grade archives is still one of the biggest flexes for a fashion-forward celebrity. For the MTV VMAs red carpet in September, Sabrina Carpenter arrived in a 1991 vintage Bob Mackie sequined gown custom originally made for Madonna.

Persons: Heidi Klum’s, Harris, Walz camo, Rosalia, we’ve, Zendaya, Cher, Pedro Almodóvar, Law Roach, Kevin Kane, Margot Robbie’s, “ Barbie, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Mario Anzuoni, Sabrina Carpenter, Bob Mackie sequined, Madonna, Udo Salters, Patrick McMullan, Michael Kors, Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, octogenarian John Cleese —, Monty Python, “, ” —, Miu Miu, John Cleese, —, Britain’s, Rishi Sunak, Critics, … Sunak, ” Sunak, ”, Naomi Osaka, Naomi Osaka’s, Yoon Ahn, Timothy A, Clary, Brooke Shields, Monique Lhuillier, Dimitrios Kambouris, Rihanna, Neil Mockford, Monica Lewinsky’s, Lewinsky, she’d, Bill Clinton, Clinton Organizations: CNN, Roll Hall of Fame, Fair, MTV, London, Adidas, ” Former British, Nike, Getty, White Locations: New York, Spanish, Fair Spain, Los Angeles, London, Osaka, Japanese, AFP

In a stroke of deluxe good fortune, Dr. Ruth Westheimer might have stopped by to be the enlightenment. Bettmann/Getty ImagesWhat Donahue knew was that we — women especially — were eager, desperate, to be understood, to learn and learn and learn. Ruth Westheimer arrived to us from Germany, where she started as Karola Ruth Siegel and strapped in as her life corkscrewed, as it mocked fiction. My favorite Dr. Ruth word was “pleasure.” From a German mouth, the word conveys what it lacks with an American tongue: sensual unfurling. I miss the way Dr. Ruth talked about sex.

Persons: Phil Donahue, Ruth Westheimer, Donahue, geniality, ”, ’, Dr, Ruth, Donahue’s, Bill Clinton, Toya Jackson, Read More Donahue, Bettmann, —, “ Donahue ”, Karola Ruth Siegel, Zelda Rubinstein, Linda Hunt, Yoda, Mapplethorpe, Prince, Ruth’s, ” Westheimer, Thomas Hoepker, “ Donahue, “, masturbate, Westheimer, ‘, Wesley Morris Organizations: Reds, Chevy Motors, Israel Defense Forces, Columbia University, Pepsi, Sling, Irish, The New York Times Locations: Cleveland, Germany, Madison, Philadelphia, Swiss, Harlem

CLEVELAND — Fresh off a comfortable re-election victory in 2018, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, considered running for president on a populist message aimed at the many working-class Midwest voters who had fled the Democratic Party in favor of Donald Trump. He spoke of a “post-Senate mission” to reorient Democrats as the “party of workers” in Middle America. “But I lost in large part because the national reputation of the Democratic Party is that we are sort of a lighter version of a corporation — a corporate party. And that’s one of the reasons that working-class voters have been willing to look away from the Democratic Party. Brown talks of NAFTA like it’s an original sin for his party — the moment Democrats began losing the working class.

Persons: Sen, Sherrod Brown, Donald Trump, Brown, Trump, ”, “, ” Brown, …, JD Vance’s, “ I’m, “ I’ve, We’re, It’s, Republican Bernie Moreno, Kamala Harris, Brown’s, Marcy Kaptur, Emilia Sykes, I’ve, Harris, ” Moreno, “ He’s, ” Jai Chabria, Vance, it’s, Bill Richardson, Bill, ’ ” Brown, Bill Clinton, “ It’s, Lori Chavez, —, “ She’s, they’ve, Butch Lewis Organizations: CLEVELAND, Midwest, Democratic Party, White, Democrats, Trump, Ohio, North American Free Trade, NBC News, Democratic National Committee, Senate, Republican, Democratic, NAFTA, Republicans, PAC, Democrat, Oregon Republican, Biden, Ohio Teamster Locations: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Middle America, Canada, Mexico, Washington, Dayton, Mahoning, Youngstown, Trump, Mahoning Valley, Trumbull, Iowa, Texas

☆ Trailblazing politician Shirley Chisholm is awarded Congress' highest honor
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( Donna M. Owens | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Bipartisan legislation to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman, became law last week, as the 118th Congress winds down with a final flurry of bills. President Joe Biden signed the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act on Thursday, posthumously honoring Chisholm, who died in 2005, with Congress’s highest award for her distinguished service and achievements. Vice President Kamala Harris signs the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act, which grants the late congresswoman the highest civilian award Congress can bestow. Vice President Kamala Harris“I see no one more deserving than Shirley Chisholm,” Lee added. “I can’t help but think that Shirley Chisholm is looking down at all of us and saying how proud she is that we have gotten here,” Rep. Sheila Cherfilus McCormick, D-Fla., told colleagues that evening.

Persons: Shirley Chisholm, Joe Biden, Chisholm, Kamala Harris, Sen, Laphonza Butler, Barbara Lee, ” Lee, Lee, Kamala Harris “, ” Butler, Adam Schiff, Chisholm “, “, Shirley ” —, ”, Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, Arthur Hardwick, Charles Rangel, —, Congressional Black Caucus —, “ Barbara, … ”, Chisholm’s, Hakeem Jeffries, Maxine Waters, Yvette Clarke, Byron Donalds, Butler, Raphael Warnock, Jonathan Jackson, Shontel Brown, Sheila Cherfilus McCormick Organizations: U.S . Senate, U.S . Treasury Department, Smithsonian Institution, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, New York State Assembly, National Organization for Women, Congress, Democrat, Agriculture, Women, New, Congressional Black Caucus, CBC, Republicans, Democratic, ” Locations: D, New York, Barbados, Guyana, Brooklyn , New York, Vietnam, Kansas, United States, Florida, Jamaica, Buffalo , New York, Ohio

☆ RFK Jr. takes his turn in the spotlight: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

In today’s edition, Robert F. Kennedy begins meeting with senators in Washington, while Donald Trump holds his first post-election news conference. “Obviously, HHS under the first Trump administration was very clear on the issue of abortion conscience protections and all those things. On the reported sightings of drones over New Jersey and New York, Trump said, “The government knows what is happening.” He declined to say whether he had received an intelligence briefing about it. In 2000, Al Gore got oh-so-close to winning the White House when Bill Clinton’s approval rating was at 57%. Read more →That’s all from the Politics Desk for now.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Kate Santaliz, Sahil Kapur, Brennan Leach Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s, John Thune, John Barrasso, Mike Crapo, Kennedy’s, Sen, Rick Scott, ”, “, ” Scott, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, McConnell, ” McConnell, Katie Miller, Trump, ” Sen, James Lankford, Joe, ” Lankford, Rebecca Shabad, Rob Wile President, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Masayoshi, Eric Adams, Brian Thompson, Read, Mark Murray, Harris, Joe Biden’s, Biden, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Bush, Ronald Reagan’s, Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s, Hubert Humphrey’s, Lyndon Johnson’s, Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Humphrey —, 🗞️, remo, e work, Rea, viv e d a high, Hou Organizations: NBC, White House, Capitol, RFK Jr, Health, Human Services, Education, Labor, Pensions, New York Times, FDA, HHS, Trump, Apple, Amazon, New, New York City, ’, White, ics Locations: Washington, Idaho, Alaska, Ky, New York, New Jersey, George H.W ., Afghanistan, Poli

☆ Meet the Press – December 15, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-15 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +53 min

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM:Yeah, I'm in a good place with Pete, unless something I don't know about comes out. Unless somebody is willing to come forward, I think he's going to get through. If he's, if he’s called to do something, he's going to do it, all the way. So I – I think he's going to have a hard time doing this. He was very clear, “no,” when I asked him should President-elect Trump, his administration, jail the January 6th committee members.

Persons: KRISTEN WELKER, Chris Wray, he’ll, Donald Trump's, Kash Patel, KASH PATEL, SEN, LINDSEY GRAHAM, AMY KLOBUCHAR, Biden, ANITA DUNN, Lindsey Graham of, Bernie Sanders, Bashar al, Assad, there’s, Austin Tice, PRES, JOE BIDEN, Debra Tice, Ryan Nobles, Amna Nawaz, Ashley Etienne, Harris, Peggy Noonan, It’s, Kristen Welker, Trump's, Trump, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, Joni Ernst, PETE HEGSETH, THOM TILLIS, LISA MURKOWSKI, Hunter Biden, Anita Dunn, Christopher Wray, CHRISTOPHER WRAY, I’d, FBI Hoover, Patel, Graham, SEN.LINDSEY GRAHAM, Bashar Al Assad, “, King, Jordan, Pete, ‘, Kavanaugh, Justice Kavanaugh, we're, I've, He's, We’ll, he's, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Donald Trump, LINDSEY GRAHAM Well, J, Edgar Hoover, Comey, – SEN, –, you've, Stephen Miller, President Trump, Merry, Sanders, Press . SEN, BERNIE SANDERS, It's, ? SEN, Kristen, Lindsey Graham, Biden's, Hunter, DAVID MUIR, Will, Kristen –, Putin, Brian Thompson, Elizabeth Warren, ELIZABETH WARREN, Warren, ”, Elizabeth –, There's, Am, Yep, ” KRISTEN WELKER, We're, We'll, Austin's, Tice, DEBRA TICE, Austin, NBC News's Richard Engel, Sahar, Richard, we’re, They've, they're, we've, Richard Engel, Travis Timmerman, it's Austin, it's, Travis, let's, he’s, Kristine, Bill Clinton, Roger, Joe Lieberman, JOE LIEBERMAN, there's, TIM, You'll, Kamala Harris, ” Peggy, Ryan, RYAN, Matt Gaetz, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Amna, – AMNA NAWAZ, AMNA NAWAZ, Wray, Peggy, PEGGY NOONAN, sparky, Ashley, ASHLEY ETIENNE, Tulsi Gabbard's, I'm, Joe Biden, Gaetz, – KRISTEN WELKER, – there's Organizations: FBI, Trump, White, Vermont, NBC, Capitol Hill, PBS, Wall Street, Press, Capitol, Army - Navy, Fox News, Iowa, Senate, Republican, TRUMP, ISIS, Defense, intel, United States Senate, Press ., Justice Department, ?, Biden, FDR, RFK Jr, State Department, Austin, U.S, Hostage, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, America, Republican Party, Department of Health, Human Services, RFK, Bureau, Democrats Locations: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Syria, Washington, U.S, America, Europe, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, United States, Turkey, Afghanistan, Russia, Russian, Vermont, New Jersey, East Coast, American, Damascus, Austin, Lebanon, –

☆ Sony hasn’t been this hot since it made the Walkman
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( John Towfighi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But as opportunities arise in streaming, Sony is trying to transition from being a legacy consumer electronics company to an original content and entertainment company. In addition to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which makes the PlayStation, the behemoth Sony Group also includes Sony Pictures, which produces films like the Spider-Man series, and Sony Music, which includes Columbia Records. Robert Lawson, the chief communications officer for Sony Group, said in a statement that since 2018 when the company acquired EMI publishing, making Sony Music the world’s largest publisher of music, Sony has invested approximately 1.5 trillion yen into content IP across various entertainment businesses. Sony has also been involved with music since the 1960s through a joint venture with CBS that became Sony Music Entertainment in 1991. Richard A. Brooks/AFP/Getty ImagesA customer walks away after purchasing the new Sony Playstation PS5 in Seoul on November 12, 2020, after Sony launched the new console in select markets around the world.

Persons: Bill Clinton, Damian Thong, ” Thong, Joost van Dreunen, NYU Stern, van Dreunen, Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Liane Hentscher, ”, Robert Lawson, ” Lawson, Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka, Japan’s, Katsumi, Haruyoshi Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi Ota, Van Dreunen, “ We’re, what’s, Richard A, Brooks, Ed Jones, Thong, Anna Kerr, NYU Stern’s van Dreunen, “, Kenichiro Yoshida, Tom Holland, Hiroki Totoki, Soichiro Koriyama, Kerr Organizations: CNN, Sony, PlayStation, SONY, Macquarie, Sony Group, NYU, Bungie, Sony Interactive Entertainment, behemoth Sony, Sony Pictures, Sony Music, Columbia Records, HBO, Max, Netflix, Disney, EMI, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, Sony Corporation, CBS, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Corp, Bloomberg, Getty, Trinitron KV, Ginza Sony, Ampere, Sony PlayStation, Ampere Analytics, ”, Kadokawa, “ Sony, ” Sony, Sony Group Corp, Apple, Nasdaq Locations: Japan, American, United States, Tokyo, Ginza, AFP, Seoul, PlayStation5

As President Joe Biden makes a final push to confirm judicial nominees before his term in office ends, he is on track to have appointed more federal judges of color than any president before him. If Cheeks is approved, Biden will have appointed 63 Black federal judges, the most of a presidency of any length, according to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Both Obama and Bill Clinton each appointed 62 Black judges over the course of their two terms. Senate Democrats vowed to confirm as many Biden nominees as possible before Trump takes office in January and Republicans take control of the Senate. They’ve confirmed dozens since Election Day, but these circuit nominees are in limbo amid some opposition from Democrats as well as GOP senators.

Persons: Joe Biden, Tiffany Johnson, Benjamin Cheeks, Serena Raquel Murillo, Cheeks, Biden, Ben LaBolt, ” “, Lena Zwarensteyn, they’ve, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jimmy Carter, Obama, Bill Clinton, Trump, They’ve, Chuck Schumer, Biden’s, ”, Marge Baker, “, ” Baker, Abdullah Mangi, Julia M, Karla M, Campbell of, Ryan Young, There’s, ” Biden, He’s, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ” “ Biden, Black, Dedrick Asante, Muhammad, Elliot Mincberg, ” Zwarensteyn, “ He’s Organizations: Senate, Northern, Northern District of Georgia, NBC News, U.S, Committee, Leadership Conference, Civil, Human, White House, People, Circuit, 1st, 6th, of, 4th Circuit, White, Supreme, Joint Center, Political, Economic Studies Locations: Northern District, New Jersey, Maine, Campbell of Tennessee, of North Carolina, Washington

☆ After a CEO was gunned down, will health insurers change their ways?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-13 | by ( Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Any shifts in the nation’s complex health care system, however, will not come easily, nor quickly, experts say. Policyholders rebelled because they felt they couldn’t access the care they needed, said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonprofit health policy research group. “If you think health care costs are rough now, imagine them without constraints,” said Rodney Whitlock, vice president at McDermott+, a health care consulting group, and a former health policy adviser on the Senate Finance Committee under Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Health insurers, however, do at times backtrack when faced with intense blowback. However, there is now more bipartisan appetite on Capitol Hill to enact reforms, said Wendell Potter, a former Cigna executive and vocal critic of the health care industry.

Persons: Brian Thompson, Andrew, it’s, ”, “, Brian, ” “, ” AHIP, Julie Utterback, ” Utterback, Bill Clinton, policyholders, HMOs, Policyholders, Larry Levitt, Helen Hunt, Harold Ramis, HMO, ” Hunt, ” Ramis, Levitt, Rodney Whitlock, Republican Sen, Chuck Grassley, Wendell Potter, Whitlock, Luigi Mangione, Potter Organizations: CNN, UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealth, Health, Morningstar, Employers, McDermott, Senate, Republican, Iowa, Congressional, Lawmakers, Capitol Locations: Congress

☆ Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | Em Steck | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness. “But because I naïvely believed that’s what ending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was all about. “It started with Clinton under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’” he said. “So it started, you know, we saw it under Clinton with the tinkering of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and the reasons for those changes,” Hegseth said on a podcast promoting his book. “It was stuff like, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ which was their immediate target, right?

Persons: Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s, Hegseth, DADT, Bill Clinton, Obama, Don’t, Ben Shapiro, “, ”, ” Hegseth, Don’t Tell, ‘ don’t, they’re, “ don’t, Trump, Pete, Defense James Mattis, Joe Biden, don’t, Clinton, ’ ”, Donald Trump's, Jennifer Rauchet, Sen, Susan Collins, Mark Schiefelbein, ’, it’s, ” CNN’s Manu Raju, Alison Main, — Organizations: CNN, Warriors, Fox News, Defense, Minnesota Army National Guard, America, DADT, Meidas News, Navy, CNN Wednesday, Pentagon, Trump, Pew Research, RAND Corporation, Research, Capitol, Army, Obama Locations: Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Maine, Washington

☆ This is what 4 of Trump’s cabinet picks think of the agencies they would lead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Linda Qiu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

This is what 4 of Trump’s cabinet picks think of the agencies they would lead. If confirmed, Ms. Gabbard would oversee more than a dozen spy agencies and have access to highly sensitive intelligence. by firing its top officials, closing its headquarters in Washington and going after Mr. Trump’s rivals. But that case is not particularly relevant to Mr. Trump’s, as a federal judge ruled that the audiotapes were personal records. The letter does not contain evidence that Ms. Bowser turned down Mr. Trump’s authorization of additional National Guard troops.

Persons: Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kash Patel, Donald J, Trump, Hegseth, “, Biden, ”, who've, Gabbard, “ Tucker Carlson, Victoria Nuland, Nuland, Carlson mischaracterized Ms, Nuland’s, Ms, mischaracterizing, General Merrick B, Garland, ’, ” Ms, Kash Patel F.B.I, Mr, Patel, Shawn Ryan’s, Shawn Ryan, ” Mr, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Trump’s, Nancy Pelosi, Steve Bannon’s, Stephen Bannon, Pelosi, Muriel Bowser, Bowser, Kennedy, Kennedy’s, PolitiFact Organizations: Fox News, Fox, Pentagon, Army, Democratic Party, Trump, Ukraine, Russia, YouTube, United Nations, State Department, Mr, Justice Department, Presidential, National Archives, Records Administration, House Republicans, Capitol, Capitol Police, D.C, National Guard, Kennedy Jr, Health, Democratic, Louisiana House, ”, Centers for Disease Control, Prevention Locations: Washington, Afghanistan, United States, China, ideologues, Hawaii, Ukraine, Trump’s Florida, Louisiana

☆ CNN Poll: Most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Jennifer Agiesta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Majorities overall express at least some confidence in Trump across seven different issue areas and presidential actions tested in the poll. On other measures with data from 2016, confidence in Trump is largely about the same. Independents’ confidence has also faded, with only 18% expressing a lot of confidence in Trump on appointments, down from 26% in 2016. Independents split 50-50 on Trump’s handling of the transition now, in 2016, they divided 44% approve to 43% disapprove, with 13% unsure. Most Americans (54%), say they disapprove of that decision, while 45% say they approve.

Persons: Donald Trump, White, Trump, Joe Biden’s, Roe, Wade, George W, Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kat Cammack, Anna Moneymaker, Barack Obama, Biden, Clinton, Hunter Biden, Jack Smith, CNN’s Edward Wu, Ariel Edwards, Levy, Henry Gertmenian Organizations: CNN, SSRS, Independents, White, Democratic, Trump, Justice Locations: Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Washington , DC, There’s

Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Angus King, I-Maine, cut a bipartisan deal to give Dreamers legal status while giving Trump money for his border wall, Trump’s White House successfully fought to kill the deal because it didn’t also curtail family-based immigration. Cornyn noted that any such bipartisan deal would take a backseat to border security and enforcement, which Republicans are making plans to provide funding for in a big party-line bill early next year. “Last term, President-elect Trump walked away from four different bipartisan compromises with Democrats to solve the DACA crisis. Last year, Trump successfully fought to sink a bipartisan deal to toughen border security as he campaigned on the issue. When asked if protecting Dreamers is “amnesty,” Kennedy echoed a famous dodge used by former President Bill Clinton.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, ” Trump, Kristen Welker, “, ”, Trump’s, Republicans didn’t, John Thune, everything’s, ” Sen, John Cornyn, Trump, ” Cornyn, Mike Rounds, Angus King, didn’t, Cornyn, he’s, Dick Durbin, I’m, ” Durbin, Sen, Brian Schatz, “ He’s, Rick Scott, John Kennedy, he’s “, who’ve, ” Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Kennedy, Clinton Organizations: NBC, Press, Democrats, Republicans, Committee, NBC News, Trump, House, ., Democratic Locations: Texas, U.S, Sens, Maine, ”, Hawaii, . Sen, “

Back in the late 1880s, when unqualified political appointees were wasting taxpayer dollars, there was a move to professionalize government workers in a merit-based bureaucracy. The political “spoils” system, which the bureaucracy replaced, was demonized for its cronyism, inefficiency and graft. His charge to then-Vice President Al Gore was to streamline government through a National Performance Review, or NPR. There are some major differences, but then, as now, the plan was to take a holistic look at government and recommend changes to improve how taxpayer dollars are spent, including by culling the federal workforce, cutting regulations and more. Reagan’s Grace Commission: In 1982, President Ronald Reagan’s commission began its quest to get rid of hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending.

Persons: James Garfield, Donald Trump, Clinton’s REGO, There’s, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Reagan’s Grace, Ronald Reagan’s, Grace Commission’s, CNN’s Allison Morrow, Matt Egan Organizations: Elon, Capitol, of Government, NPR, DOGE Locations: REGO

☆ Here's what some of the world's most powerful people have to say about Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While Elon Musk was not in attendance, he was the most-talked-about person there. Here's what business leaders and politicians had to say about the richest person on Earth. Several masters of the universe convened on Wednesday, and they had one name on their lips: Elon Musk. At the annual New York Times DealBook Summit, the world's richest man was a topic of conversation among his fellow billionaires, CEOs, and political elite. "It would be profoundly un-American to use political power, to the degree that Elon has it, to hurt your competitors and advantage your own businesses," Altman said.

Persons: Elon Musk, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Musk, Donald Trump, Ken Griffin, Tesla, Griffin, Sam Altman, Altman, Elon, Jeff Bezos, Trump, Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Jerome Powell, Bill Clinton —, Powell, Clinton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: New York Times, Summit, New York Times DealBook, Department of Government, SpaceX, Trump, Ukrainian

☆ Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little is being done to curb the risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Sharon Lerner | Al Shaw | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +28 min

The result is that even the EPA’s alarming estimates of cancer risk vastly underestimate — by as much as fourfold — the chances of formaldehyde causing cancer. But four former government scientists with experience doing statistical analyses of health harms told ProPublica that the myeloid leukemia risk calculation was sound. The agency’s sprawling assessment shows that, among scores of individual air pollutants, formaldehyde poses the greatest cancer risk — by far. As the EPA admits, its cancer risk calculation fails to reflect the chances of developing myeloid leukemia. Nationwide, that’s the average lifetime cancer risk from air pollution; formaldehyde accounts for most of it.

Persons: ProPublica, Biden, Jennifer Jinot, “, ”, Jinot, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump, They’ve, Trump, what’s, William Boyd, Boyd, Mary Faltas, “ It’s, Faltas, Ronald Reagan, John Todhunter, Todhunter, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Sen, James Inhofe, Obama, David Vitter, ” Jinot, David Dunlap, Dunlap, recusing, didn’t, Rocky Rissler, Rissler, Rick, she’s, I’ve, Tracey Woodruff, ” Trump, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Robert Sussman, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Lee Zeldin, Zeldin, Woodruff Organizations: Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Trump, UCLA School of Law, National Cancer Institute, National Cancer, Department of Health, Human Services, Foundation for Chemistry Research, Koch Industries, Biden EPA, White, Fontana, ProPublica, West Virginia —, Biden, Fertilizer Institute, of America, Toy Association, National Chicken Council, Independent, Manufacturers, RV Industry Association, Industry Alliance, American Chemistry Council, Reproductive Health, University of California, Republican Congress, CNN, CNN Health, Heritage Foundation, U.S . Rep Locations: United States, U.S, Los Angeles, San Bernardino , California, Apopka , Florida, George H.W ., Hurricane, Georgia, Pacific, Fontana , California, ProPublica ., Fontana, Weld County , Colorado, Colorado , New Mexico, North Dakota, West Virginia, San Francisco, New York

☆ Trump’s victory has some liberal judges reversing their retirement plans
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Other judges have reversed retirement plans after electionsA handful of judges in recent years have also reversed retirement plans when they have not been able to secure a preferred successor, including US District Judge Karen Caldwell, a judge who sits in McConnell’s home state. Cogburn and Marbley are also not the first judges to back off retirement plans after an election. As McConnell himself highlighted, a district judge did the same about-face after President George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004, and another changed his retirement plans when Obama won in 2008. CNN’s messages seeking comment from the two judges submitted with the judges’ courts were not returned. But, Wheeler said that McConnell “may be having the effect he wants” if the two appellate judges are “wavering” about whether to keep to their retirement plans.

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☆ Bill Clinton Defends Joe Biden’s Decision to Pardon His Son Hunter
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And what good did it do us? You can’t take the politics out of these pardon decisions if the president’s in any way involved. So, I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it. I think it does weaken his case. But there’s also a reason the founding fathers gave this pardon power to the president because all kinds of things are always happening that you can’t reconcile in terms of this, that and the other thing, and you can’t figure out how to solve it.”

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☆ Coming Up This Morning: Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel; Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI; Serena Williams; and former President Bill Clinton
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-04 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Coming Up This Morning: Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel; Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI; Serena Williams; and former President Bill ClintonWho will be speaking at the DealBook SummitLearn more Listen to this article · 0:15 min Share full article

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The lineup for DealBook Summit 2024On Wednesday, DealBook will be live and in person at our annual summit in New York. The DealBook team and reporters from The Times will be reporting live from the conference. Even if you are not with us, you can follow along here beginning around 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Here are the speakers in order of appearance (the conversations that will be livestreamed on NYTimes.com are noted in parentheses):Ken Griffin , the founder and C.E.O. of GoogleShawn Fain , the president of the United Auto Workers, and Sara Nelson , the international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, C.W.A., A.F.L.-C.I.O.

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