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For the past four years, Texas has made itself an adversary of the White House on immigration. Under Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, the state has flexed its law enforcement power at the U.S.-Mexico border, added miles of razor wire barriers to deter crossings and bused more than 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities in Democratic states, all in defiance of the Biden administration. But as President-elect Donald Trump heads back to the White House next month, touting a plan to carry out the largest deportation of immigrants in U.S. history , Texas is preparing to take on a new role in Washington: ally. Already the state has offered up a 1,402-acre ranch on the Rio Grande as a potential site for detention facilities, and it is ready to share its playbook for muscling through immigration policy changes, such as its executive order requiring hospitals to ask about a patient’s immigration status and a measure that would allow police officers to arrest migrants and empower state judges to order deportations. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham last week announced an initiative to identify land within the 13 million acres owned by the agency that the Trump administration could use for deportation operations, including the recently acquired ranch along the Rio Grande. “We’re actively looking at the properties we have around the state and seeing if it works for the Trump administration,” Buckingham told NBC News. “We’ve identified several properties in the El Paso area that we think are also a good, natural fit,” as well as in some urban areas. Buckingham also said that Texas would look to help guide the incoming administration’s policies on border security. “We’ve come up with a lot of ingenious ways to take these criminals to task, and we are happy to help anybody who is looking for advice or policies that seem to be helpful,” she said. The Trump administration is listening. “You cannot have strong national security if you do not have border security,” Tom Homan, Trump's former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director and incoming "border czar," said at an event with Abbott last week. “There is unprecedented success in Texas. This is the model we can take across the country.” Abbott, at the same event, said that his state was “going to be doing more and faster than anything that’s ever been done to, first of all, regain control of our border, restore order in our communities, and also identify, locate and deport criminals in the United States of America who have come across the border.” Texas’ rise as a prominent ally to the incoming Trump administration follows years of challenging and undermining President Joe Biden’s efforts on immigration. “Texas is a natural leader because of everything they’ve accomplished in the last four years with little public or political pushback,” said Andrea Flores, who was an immigration policy advisor to the Biden and Obama administrations, and is currently the vice president of immigration policy and campaigns at FWD.us, a social welfare organization. One of the most visible forms of opposition was the busing of more than 100,000 migrants from the border to sanctuary cities like New York, Chicago and Denver — a move that overwhelmed those Democratic communities, strained their resources and led to growing anti-immigrant sentiment around the country that seeped into the presidential campaign. The strategy led to “a governor sowing intentional chaos against other states with no one stepping in to try and stop it,” said Flores, who criticized the lack of federal intervention. “The cities’ crisis eclipsed the border crisis, and it led to tremendous backlash.” Other Texas efforts under Biden could serve as a model for what’s to come under Trump, some experts said. “To the extent that there’s coordination, or even cooperation, between the federal government and a state like Texas, it’s possible that the sky’s the limit,” said Rick Su, a law professor at the University of North Carolina. “This may be the missing piece in what I think, at least for the Trump administration, what they intend to do.” In 2021, Abbott declared a disaster at the border, opening the door to launch his Operation Lone Star to pay for the busing and provide $11 billion to deploy thousands of members in the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety to the southern border and create new barriers, including 100 miles of razor wire and buoys in the Rio Grande. Earlier this year, Abbott signed an executive order requiring hospitals to ask about a patient’s immigration status and track the amount of costs from treating undocumented immigrants. “It has been four years of advancing an agenda that we are very likely to see multiple states do the same under the Trump administration,” Flores said. “Texas has given us a preview of what was to come.” The state also passed a law that challenged federal immigration authority and is “arguably one of the most unprecedented sort of modern laws with regard to immigration,” Su said. The law, known as S.B. 4 , would allow police officers to arrest migrants and impose criminal penalties. It would also empower state judges to order the deportation of people to Mexico. The measure’s implementation has been on hold while it is challenged in court . But legal experts, including Su, are watching to see if Trump’s Department of Justice backs off from that and other legal challenges on Texas’ immigration policies that were undertaken by the Biden administration. “In some ways, that is just the beginning,” Su said.
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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the Jan. 6, 2021 , U.S. Capitol attack, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department was committed to holding accountable all perpetrators “at any level” for “the assault on our democracy.” That bold declaration won’t apply to at least one person: Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith’s move on Monday to abandon the federal election interference case against Trump means jurors will likely never decide whether the president-elect is criminally responsible for his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 campaign. The decision to walk away from the election charges and the separate classified documents case against Trump marks an abrupt end of the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal effort that once threatened his liberty but appears only to have galvanized his supporters. The abandonment of the cases accusing Trump of endangering American democracy and national security does away with the most serious legal threats he was facing as he returns to the White House. It was the culmination of a monthslong defense effort to delay the proceedings at every step and use the criminal allegations to Trump’s political advantage, putting the final word in the hands of voters instead of jurors. “We always knew that the rich and powerful had an advantage, but I don’t think we would have ever believed that somebody could walk away from everything,” said Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department official. “If there ever was a Teflon defendant, that’s Donald Trump.” While prosecutors left the door open to the possibility that federal charges could be re-filed against Trump after he leaves office, that seems unlikely. Meanwhile, Trump’s presidential victory has thrown into question the future of the two state criminal cases against him in New York and Georgia. Trump was supposed to be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on 34 felony counts in his New York hush money case , but it’s possible the sentencing could be delayed until after Trump leaves office, and the defense is pushing to dismiss the case altogether. Smith’s team stressed that their decision to abandon the federal cases was not a reflection of the merit of the charges, but an acknowledgement that they could not move forward under longstanding Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot face criminal prosecution. Trump’s presidential victory set “at odds two fundamental and compelling national interests: On the one hand, the Constitution’s requirement that the President must not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty responsibilities . . . and on the other hand, the Nation’s commitment to the rule of law,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. The move just weeks after Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris underscores the immense personal stake Trump had in the campaign in which he turned his legal woes into a political rallying cry. Trump accused prosecutors of bringing the charges in a bid to keep him out of the White House, and he promised revenge on his perceived enemies if he won a second term. “If Donald J. Trump had lost an election, he may very well have spent the rest of his life in prison,” Vice President-elect JD Vance, wrote in a social media post on Monday. “These prosecutions were always political. Now it’s time to ensure what happened to President Trump never happens in this country again.” After the Jan. 6 attack by Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured, Republican leader Mitch McConnell and several other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump during his Senate impeachment trial said it was up to the justice system to hold Trump accountable. The Jan. 6 case brought last year in Washington alleged an increasingly desperate criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters after Trump’s 2020 loss, accusing Trump of using the angry mob of supporters that attacked the Capitol as “a tool” in his campaign to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and obstruct the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory. Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters — many of whom have said they felt called to Washington by Trump — have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries of federal charges at the same courthouse where Trump was supposed to stand trial last year. As the trial date neared, officials at the courthouse that sits within view of the Capitol were busy making plans for the crush of reporters expected to cover the historic case. But Trump’s argument that he enjoyed absolute immunity from prosecution quickly tied up the case in appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. The high court ruled in July that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution , and sent the case back to the trial court to decide which allegations could move forward. But the case was dismissed before the trial court could get a chance to do so. Related Articles National Politics | U.S. Sen. 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Smith appealed to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but abandoned that appeal on Monday. Smith’s team said it would continue its fight in the appeals court to revive charges against Trump’s two co-defendants because “no principle of temporary immunity applies to them.” In New York, jurors spent weeks last spring hearing evidence in a state case alleging a Trump scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. New York prosecutors recently expressed openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump’s second term, while Trump’s lawyers are fighting to have the conviction dismissed altogether. In Georgia, a trial while Trump is in office seems unlikely in a state case charging him and more than a dozen others with conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. The case has been on hold since an appeals court agreed to review whether to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she had hired to lead the case. Associated Press reporter Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed.
Braid: Donald Trump hands Trudeau a crisis he could use to win another electionScarlett Johansson and Colin Jost ’s love story is one for the books. The Golden Globe nominee and the Saturday Night Live star were first spotted together in May 2017 at an afterparty celebrating the NBC variety show’s season 42 finale. One year later, he called Johansson his “girlfriend” during a “Weekend Update” segment on SNL . By February 2019, Us Weekly broke the news that the couple had moved in together. Johansson and Jost revealed their engagement in May 2019 after two years of dating. By October 2020, it was announced that the twosome had quietly tied the knot while surrounded by immediate family and loved ones. You have successfully subscribed. By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from Us Weekly Check our latest news in Google News Check our latest news in Apple News The couple welcomed their first child , son Cosmo, in summer 2021. (Johansson is also the mother of daughter Rose, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac .) Scroll down to see a timeline of ScarJost’s relationship: Credit: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost: A Timeline of Their Relationship Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost ’s love story is one for the books.The Golden Globe nominee and the Saturday Night Live star were first spotted together in May 2017 at an afterparty celebrating the NBC variety show’s season 42 finale. One year later, he called Johansson his “girlfriend” during a “Weekend Update” segment on SNL .By February 2019, Us Weekly broke the news that the couple had moved in together. Johansson and Jost revealed their engagement in May 2019 after two years of dating. By October 2020, it was announced that the twosome had quietly tied the knot while surrounded by immediate family and loved ones.The couple welcomed their first child , son Cosmo, in summer 2021. (Johansson is also the mother of daughter Rose, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac .)Scroll down to see a timeline of ScarJost’s relationship: Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images May 2017 The pair sparked dating rumors after they were spotted making out at a NYC bar. Credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images July 2017 Johansson and Jost spent the July 4 weekend in Montauk, New York, with his brother, Casey, and Casey’s wife, Lisa Kleinman. “[They were] making out” on Ditch Plains Beach, an eyewitness told Us . Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images) October 2017 The lovebirds returned to Long Island for a romantic date night at Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett. “They were holding hands as they sat across the table from each other when the server approached them,” an onlooker told Us . “They sat at a bar table close to the window and were smiling and talking to each other.” Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images December 2017 Johansson and Jost posed together at the American Museum of Natural History Gala, where she wore a red dress and he looked sharp in a black tuxedo. Credit: YouTube December 2017 The couple showed some PDA on the ice rink during the closing credits of SNL . Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic April 2018 Hours after telling Ellen DeGeneres that she is “a Colin fan,” the actress brought her boyfriend to the Avengers: Infinity War premiere. “Their eyes lit up when they looked at each other [on the red carpet],” an eyewitness told Us . Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic May 2018 When Leslie Jones joked on “Weekend Update” that she could never date Jost “because he’s gay,” he fired back, “I’m not gay! I told you, I have a girlfriend!” Credit: Kevin Mazur/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue May 2018 The duo stayed close to each other on the red carpet at their first Met Gala as a couple. Credit: David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images September 2018 The Lost in Translation star and the Staten Island native were all smiles at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, which he cohosted with his “Weekend Update” coanchor, Michael Che . Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney May 2019 Johansson’s publicist confirmed to the Associated Press that the couple were engaged. Credit: Nina Westervelt/WWD/Shutterstock July 2019 Jost admitted during a stand-up set in East Hampton, New York, that he was “so scared of marriage for so long.” Credit: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros. October 2019 Johansson finally shared some details of her fiancé’s proposal, saying on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , “He did, like, a whole James Bond situation. He’s got a lot behind that news desk. He’s very charming and very thoughtful and romantic. I was surprised. Even if you kind of imagine what that moment is going to be like it’s still a beautiful moment.” Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock November 2019 “Colin is a great father figure for Rose,” a source told Us exclusively. “He loves playing with her and she is obsessed with him.” Credit: Rosalind O'Connor/NBC December 2019 The Marriage Story star called Jost the “love of my life” during her SNL monologue. Credit: Shutterstock February 2020 The A Very Punchable Face author supported Johansson at the Academy Awards, where she was nominated for her movies Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit . Credit: Christopher Polk/Shutterstock April 2020 The actress revealed in an interview with Parade that baseball is a “sore subject” for the couple because she is a diehard New York Yankees fan and he loves the Mets. “He just told me that he’d rather see the [Boston] Red Sox win than the Yankees win. Like, what?!” she told the magazine. “I said I was just going to ignore that.” Credit: RCF / MEGA April 2020 In her interview with Parade , Johansson revealed what attracted her to Jost. “What you see is what you get with him,” she told the magazine. “He’s very optimistic, easygoing, funny, nice, and those are the qualities that really drew me to him.” Credit: Shutterstock April 2020 The Oscar nominee opened up about how her relationship with Jost went from platonic to romantic. “It’s so funny to have a long-term shared experience with someone and then the relationship changes,” she told Parade . Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock October 2020 The couple secretly tied the knot more than a year after announcing their engagement. The news of their nuptials was announced by the Meals on Wheels Instagram account. “We’re thrilled to break the news that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost were married over the weekend in an intimate ceremony with their immediate family and love ones, following COVID-19 safety precautions as directed by the CDC,” the statement read. “Their wedding wish is to help make a difference for vulnerable older adults during this difficult time by supporting @mealsonwheelsamerica. Please consider donating to celebrate the happy couple.” Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock November 2020 Days after Jost debuted his wedding band on Saturday Night Live, Johansson stepped out wearing a gold band on her left ring ringer. Credit: MTV May 2021 The comedian decided to join in the fun by pulling a prank on the actress as she was being honored with a Generation Award at the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards. Jost poured slime on Johansson as she was finishing her speech at the May 2021 event. "What the f--k?" the Black Widow star asked her husband. "MTV! You got slimed!" he responded, shortly before being informed that slime was used during Nickelodeon award shows. Jost did help clean up the accident by offering his wife a towel. Credit: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock August 2021 During a stand-up set in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Coming 2 America star revealed that his wife was expecting the couple's first child. “We’re having a baby," he said from the stage. "It’s exciting.” The news came just months after Johansson first sparked pregnancy rumors when she was absent from all in-person press events for Black Widow ahead of the film's July 2021 release. Fans noted that her virtual interviews were all shot as close-ups, hiding everything below her shoulders. Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock August 2021 Johansson’s rep confirmed on August 18 that she recently gave birth to their first child together. The same month, Deadline’ s Mike Fleming Jr. revealed that she went into labor in late July amid her lawsuit with Disney over the streaming release of Black Widow. Credit: Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock November 2021 The couple walked their first red carpet together since the birth of their son Cosmo four months prior. “It’s been wonderful,” Johansson said when asked about parenthood at the 35th Annual American Cinematheque Awards. “I’m in a ‘baby bliss bubble.’” Credit: Kevin Wolf/AP/Shutterstock December 2021 The couple enjoyed a date night at the 44th Kennedy Center Honors on December 5. Credit: Amazon/YouTube February 2022 The parents starred as themselves in an Amazon Alexa commercial, set to air during Super Bowl LVI. In the clip, Jost and Johansson say it's almost like the smart assistant can read minds, and then they imagine scenarios where Alexa reacts to their thoughts. The blender turns on as Jost bores his wife with details of his tanning plans, and Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" plays after Johansson assures her husband that love scenes are "the worst." After Alexa outs them as terrible dinner party hosts, they realize it's best that the automated system hasn't achieved telepathy yet. Credit: Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock March 2022 While reflecting on the beginning of her relationship with the comedian, Johansson revealed that they met multiple times before she took a romantic interest in him. "He’s a very — I think — a cute guy, but the other times that I was [at SNL ], I was in a relationship and I was not [looking]," she recalled during an interview on The Drew Barrymore Show . "This time, it was the timing was right. ... I think you have to recognize when it’s not the right person, but sometimes it’s a good person but the timing is off, and it’s important to be open to that too." It's also a good thing that the pair began dating when they did, as Johansson also joked that she wouldn't have dated her now-husband when they were in high school. "Personally, my brother had that same haircut, both of my brothers, and I just can’t [do that]," the Oscar nominee said after looking at a picture of Jost as a teenager. There’s no way. I mean, who decided on that cut as a stylish thing?" Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock September 2022 Johansson revealed during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show how she and Jost came up with the idea for their son’s moniker. “We just threw a bunch of letters together,” she quipped, referring to the unconventional name. “I just really thought it was charming and our friends liked it.” While the actress and the comedian were fans of Cosmo, Johansson confessed that her mother-in-law wasn’t big on the name when he was first born. “Colin’s mom had a little bit of a harder time with it,” the Sing 2 star said. “She kept suggesting other versions of it for a while. I was like, ‘He’s already here. He’s out. Like, it’s past that time.'” The Robot Chicken alum also noted that there is a connection between Cosmo and her daughter Rose’s name: they both have floral roots. “Cosmo is a really sweet little flower that comes in different shades of orange and yellow and stuff like that,” Johansson explained. “That's why my daughter liked it too.” Credit: MediaPunch/Shutterstock April 2023 The Her actress opened up about finally finding the traits she needed in a partner with Jost. "I didn't know what I wanted or needed from somebody else," she said, recalling her past relationships during an appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow' s "Goop" podcast. “I never realized, 'Oh, it's really important for me, I need to be with a compassionate person. That's a fundamental characteristic that has to be there.' ... I think identifying those things was a game-changer for me.” Johansson added that with the comedian she was "finally able to step back and actually respect myself enough to know what those [fundamental] things were and be OK with it, you know? That was a life lesson." Credit: David Fisher/Shutterstock May 2023 The pair made a rare red carpet appearance at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of her movie Asteroid City . Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images for Prada) June 2023 Johansson revealed the secret to her and Jost’s marriage during an appearance on CBS Mornings . “I will say, we have such a — we laugh a lot and we communicate with one another and check in,” Johansson said in June 2023. “I’m married to a writer, he’s a comedy writer. He can get, like, very in his head sometimes, he’s sort of introverted. I’m extroverted, and so I think the key for us is just always checking in, just asking at the end of the day, ‘How was your day?'” Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for the American Museum of Natural History December 2023 The couple hit the red carpet in color coordinated style at the American Museum of Natural History Gala. Johansson wore a white floor-length coat on top of a black slip dress with a bustier bodice while Jost sported a black tuxedo with a white dress shirt. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images April 2024 Jost gave several sweet shout-outs to Johansson while he hosted the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. “ Doug [Emhoff] , as you can tell by all the comments about my wife, I’m also used to being the Second Gentleman,” he joked, referring to the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris . He also praised Johansson for “enduring lots of jokes,” and “agreeing to individually meet every person in this room after the ceremony.” Credit: Will Heath/NBC May 2024 During the May 2024 season finale of SNL , Jost and his “Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael Che read each other’s jokes without previewing them — which led Jost to reluctantly make a crack at Johansson. “Oh, God,” Jost quipped. “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her . I’ve never bothered to watch because without that body, what’s the point of listening?” Jost quickly buried his face into his hands. Credit: The Hapa Blonde/GC Images November 2024 “He’s a good guy ... He is a very, very, very great guy. I’m extremely lucky,” Johansson gushed about her spouse during an appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark . “He’s a kind person and he’s hilarious and thoughtful and loving and he’s a great dad and I love him. I feel very, very lucky.” The actress teased, “But he’s also, he’s got his naughty side. He keeps it interesting.” After cohost Mark Consuelos asked, “How’s the boat?” referring to the Staten Island Ferry that Jost and Pete Davidson bought in 2022, Johansson used it as example of her husband’s sneaky side. “That’s the naughty part I was talking about,” Johansson replied. “He bought the Staten Island Ferry. A Decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. And it is, yep, still decommissioned.” She noted that Jost rented out the ferry for the Tommy Hilfiger fashion show earlier that year, since they still own it. In order to view the gallery, please allow Manage Cookies For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews – Subscribe on YouTube!
NoneWalmart's DEI rollback signals a profound shift in the wake of Trump's election victory NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups in business. The changes announced by the world’s biggest retailer on Monday followed a string of legal victories by conservative groups that have filed an onslaught of lawsuits challenging corporate and federal programs aimed at elevating minority and women-owned businesses and employees. The retreat from such programs crystalized with the election of former President Donald Trump, whose administration is certain to make dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion programs a priority. Trump's threat to impose tariffs could raise prices for consumers, colliding with promise for relief DETROIT (AP) — If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation. Economists and industry officials say companies would have little choice but to pass along the added costs, dramatically raising prices for food, clothing, automobiles, booze and other goods. The president-elect floated the tariff idea and an additional 10% tax on goods from China, as a way to force the countries to halt the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the U.S. But his posts Monday threatening tariffs on his first day in office could be a negotiating ploy to get the countries to change behavior. Trump’s latest tariff plan aims at multiple countries. What does it mean for the US? WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. On Monday, Trump sent shockwaves across the nation’s northern and southern borders, vowing sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, as well as China, as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. Trump said he will impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders. Federal Reserve officials signal cautious path for rate cuts amid still-high inflation WASHINGTON (AP) — With inflation still elevated, Federal Reserve officials expressed caution at their last meeting about cutting interest rates too quickly, adding to uncertainty about their next moves. Even if inflation continued declining to the Fed’s 2% target, officials said, “it would likely be appropriate to move gradually” in lowering rates, according to minutes of the November 6-7 meeting. The minutes don’t specifically provide much guidance about what the Fed will do at its next meeting in December. Wall Street investors see the odds of another quarter-point reduction in the Fed’s key rate at that meeting as nearly even, according to CME Fedwatch. Canadian officials blast Trump's tariff threat and one calls Mexico comparison an insult TORONTO (AP) — Canadian officials are blasting President-elect Donald’s Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs. The leader of Canada's most populous province on Tuesday called Trump’s comparison of Canada to Mexico “the most insulting thing I’ve ever heard.” Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico and China as soon as he takes office in January as part of efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico. Canadians say their economy and the U.S. one are deeply intertwined and Americans would feel tariffs, too. Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of obese Americans would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. The proposal, which would not be finalized until after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, could cost taxpayers as much as $35 billion over the next decade. It would give millions of people access to weekly injectables that have helped people shed pounds so quickly that some people have labeled them miracle drugs. Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status. One algorithm, for example, ranks immigrants with a “Hurricane Score,” ranging from 1-5, to assess whether someone will “abscond” from the agency’s supervision. It’s almost time for Spotify Wrapped. When can you expect your 2024 recap? NEW YORK (AP) — It’s almost that time of year. Spotify is gearing up to release its annual Spotify Wrapped, a personalized recap of its users' listening habits and year in audio. The streaming service has been sharing these personalized analyses with since 2016. And each year, it’s become a bigger production than the last. Spotify claimed its 2023 Wrapped was the “biggest ever created” in terms of audience reach and the kind of data it provided to users. But information on Wrapped's 2024 release has been kept under ... er, wraps. In previous years, it’s been released after Thanksgiving, between Nov. 30 and Dec. 6. Thanksgiving travel is cranking up. Will the weather cooperate? The Thanksgiving travel rush is picking up, with Tuesday and Wednesday expected to be much busier than the last couple days. A lot of travelers will be watching weather forecasts to see if rain or snow could slow them down. The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen more than 2.8 million people on Tuesday and 2.9 million on Wednesday after handling more than 2.5 million people on Monday. So far, relatively few flights have been canceled this week, but there have been thousands of delayed flights every day. That is becoming normal for U.S. airlines. Federal agency raises the size of most single-family loans the government can guarantee to $806,500 The Federal Housing Finance Agency is increasing the size of home loans that the government can guarantee against default as it takes into account rising housing prices. Beginning next year, mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be able to acquire loans of up to $806,500 on single-family homes in most of the country, the agency said Tuesday. The new conforming loan limit is a 5.2% increase from its 2024 level. FHFA oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy home loans from banks and other lenders. FHFA adjusts the loan limits annually to reflect changes in U.S. home values, which have been rising this year despite a national home sales slump.Stock market today: Wall Street rises to records despite tariff talk
Jonah Goldberg Among elites across the ideological spectrum, there's one point of unifying agreement: Americans are bitterly divided. What if that's wrong? What if elites are the ones who are bitterly divided while most Americans are fairly unified? History rarely lines up perfectly with the calendar (the "sixties" didn't really start until the decade was almost over). But politically, the 21st century neatly began in 2000, when the election ended in a tie and the color coding of electoral maps became enshrined as a kind of permanent tribal color war of "red vs. blue." Elite understanding of politics has been stuck in this framework ever since. Politicians and voters have leaned into this alleged political reality, making it seem all the more real in the process. I loathe the phrase "perception is reality," but in politics it has the reifying power of self-fulfilling prophecy. Like rival noble families in medieval Europe, elites have been vying for power and dominance on the arrogant assumption that their subjects share their concern for who rules rather than what the rulers can deliver. Political cartoonists from across country draw up something special for the holiday In 2018, the group More in Common published a massive report on the "hidden tribes" of American politics. The wealthiest and whitest groups were "devoted conservatives" (6%) and "progressive activists" (8%). These tribes dominate the media, the parties and higher education, and they dictate the competing narratives of red vs. blue, particularly on cable news and social media. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of Americans resided in, or were adjacent to, the "exhausted majority." These people, however, "have no narrative," as David Brooks wrote at the time. "They have no coherent philosophic worldview to organize their thinking and compel action." Lacking a narrative might seem like a very postmodern problem, but in a postmodern elite culture, postmodern problems are real problems. It's worth noting that red vs. blue America didn't emerge ex nihilo. The 1990s were a time when the economy and government seemed to be working, at home and abroad. As a result, elites leaned into the narcissism of small differences to gain political and cultural advantage. They remain obsessed with competing, often apocalyptic, narratives. That leaves out most Americans. The gladiatorial combatants of cable news, editorial pages and academia, and their superfan spectators, can afford these fights. Members of the exhausted majority are more interested in mere competence. I think that's the hidden unity elites are missing. This is why we keep throwing incumbent parties out of power: They get elected promising competence but get derailed -- or seduced -- by fan service to, or trolling of, the elites who dominate the national conversation. There's a difference between competence and expertise. One of the most profound political changes in recent years has been the separation of notions of credentialed expertise from real-world competence. This isn't a new theme in American life, but the pandemic and the lurch toward identity politics amplified distrust of experts in unprecedented ways. This is a particular problem for the left because it is far more invested in credentialism than the right. Indeed, some progressives are suddenly realizing they invested too much in the authority of experts and too little in the ability of experts to provide what people want from government, such as affordable housing, decent education and low crime. The New York Times' Ezra Klein says he's tired of defending the authority of government institutions. Rather, "I want them to work." One of the reasons progressives find Trump so offensive is his absolute inability to speak the language of expertise -- which is full of coded elite shibboleths. But Trump veritably shouts the language of competence. I don't mean he is actually competent at governing. But he is effectively blunt about calling leaders, experts and elites -- of both parties -- stupid, ineffective, weak and incompetent. He lost in 2020 because voters didn't believe he was actually good at governing. He won in 2024 because the exhausted majority concluded the Biden administration was bad at it. Nostalgia for the low-inflation pre-pandemic economy was enough to convince voters that Trumpian drama is the tolerable price to pay for a good economy. About 3 out of 4 Americans who experienced "severe hardship" because of inflation voted for Trump. The genius of Trump's most effective ad -- "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you" -- was that it was simultaneously culture-war red meat and an argument that Harris was more concerned about boutique elite concerns than everyday ones. If Trump can actually deliver competent government, he could make the Republican Party the majority party for a generation. For myriad reasons, that's an if so big it's visible from space. But the opportunity is there -- and has been there all along. Goldberg is editor-in-chief of The Dispatch: thedispatch.com . Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!Mariah Carey responds to claims her Spotify Wrapped video was made with AI
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