Ranking the Democrats: Here's who the party could nominate next as president

BY AMIE PARNES

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Democrats are licking their wounds after Vice President Harris’s defeat to President-elect Trump, but already are looking toward who might lead their party in a 2028 presidential contest. It’s a fight that looks wide open.

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Democratic senators say they bungled border security in 2024

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Democratic senators are privately acknowledging that their party committed “political malpractice” by bungling the issue of border security, which they view as a driving factor behind President-elect Trump’s sweeping victory and their loss of four Senate seats.

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The Memo: Trump tariff threat muddies economic picture

BY NIALL STANAGE

President-elect Trump’s emphatic promise of new tariffs is sharpening the debate over how he will handle the economy. It’s likely the single most important domestic issue of his second term. Trump is poised to enjoy almost perfect timing in taking the reins of an economy on the rise.

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Trump shake-up spurs optimism and anxiety among key US allies

BY LAURA KELLY

Some of America's key security allies are hopeful that President-elect Trump's impetuous streak might spur resolution to drawn-out conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, but there's also deep anxiety about the “America First” agenda, compounded this week by Trump's tariff threats.

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5 pivotal 2025 contests that could also be Trump litmus tests

BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND JULIA MUELLER

Democrats will be looking to regroup while Republicans will be looking to grow their electoral advantages in 2025, when attention will turn to a handful of off-year races.

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Multiple Democrats say they were targeted by Thanksgiving bomb threats

BY FILIP TIMOTIJA

Multiple Connecticut Democrats, including Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Jim Himes, said they were targeted by bomb threats on their homes on Thanksgiving Day. 

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Biden says he’s thankful for ‘peaceful transition’ of power

BY FILIP TIMOTIJA

President Biden said he is thankful for a “peaceful transition” of power, among other things, during his visit to a fire department in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving.

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5 takeaways from Trump’s new tariff threat

BY SYLVAN LANE

President-elect Trump has put the country’s top three trading partners on notice less than two months before he takes office. Here are five takeaways from his new threat.

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Biden holds Thanksgiving calls with members of US military

BY FILIP TIMOTIJA

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden held Thanksgiving calls with members of the U.S. military, thanking the armed forces and their family members for their service.

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Trump is likely to dial back tribal management of federal land

BY MICHAEL ALBERTUS

OPINION | Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mark the end of a nascent partnership between the federal government and Native American communities on the management of federal land and water resources that are claimed by those communities.

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Message from voters: Remove politicized constraints on fossil energy production

BY BENJAMIN ZYCHER

OPINION | On Election Day, voters delivered at least one clear message: Remove the policy roadblocks standing in the way of greater fossil energy production, American oil and natural gas in particular. 

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The New York Times: Kennedy’s inheritance: How addiction and trauma shaped a turbulent life

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Susanne Craig and Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Donald Trump’s pick to be health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reached a pinnacle of power after a life of fame and addictions and a career intertwined with conspiracy theories.

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The Wall Street Journal: The local sheriffs gearing up to help Trump carry out mass deportations

By Scott Calvert and Michelle Hackman 

The president-elect plans to give county authorities more power in deportation matters—with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and retribution for those that don’t

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The Washington Post: Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire appears to hold amid violation accusations

By The Post Staff

The Israel Defense Forces carried out attacks in Lebanon on Thursday, but the cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah that went into effect early the previous day mostly appeared to hold.

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NBC News: Trump says Mexico's president promised to close the border. She begs to differ.

By Hannah Peart

In what looks like a case of “he said, she said,” President-elect Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appear to have starkly different recollections of a conversation that covered the hot-button issue of migration.

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