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Today's Top News Compilation - Saturday, Jan 4th, 2020

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Bondi tours Alcatraz as part of Trump's plan to reopen former prison

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi took a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay Thursday morning as part of President Trump's directive to revert the popular tourist attraction to a federal penitentiary.

Bondi toured Alcatraz, currently part of the National Park Service, along with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, arriving on a Coast Guard vessel. They were joined by a contingent of administration officials and Secret Service staffers who walked in the chilly bay air among the crumbling buildings, many dating back to the late 19th century.

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Trump wouldn't recommend appointing special prosecutor in Epstein case, Leavitt says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump "would not recommend" that Attorney General Pam Bondi appoint a special prosecutor to handle the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Leavitt's remarks came after the president on Wednesday said the controversy over his administration's handling of information from investigations into the late convicted sex offender Epstein is a "hoax" and "bulls***," and lambasted Republicans calling for more transparency as "weaklings." Many of the president's supporters, including House...
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Citizen Kane sled saved from destruction sells for nearly $15m

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It is one of at least three wooden sleds made for the filming of the classic 1941 film.
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Johnson demands NARA turn over records related to Biden's mental 'decline' amid Senate probe of 'cover-up'

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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Johnson is demanding the National Archives turn over all records related to former President Joe Biden’s "mental and physical health and cognitive decline," Fox News Digital has learned.

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter Johnson, R-Wis., sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is serving as the acting archivist of the United States.

Johnson, who leads the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said he is now conducting an investigation into "the cover-up of former President Biden’s health and cognitive...
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Hiring illegal immigrants could come with stricter penalties under new GOP proposal

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: New legislation would create harsher penalties for executives of publicly traded companies who knowingly fail to comply with federal employment eligibility verification laws.

The proposal comes as federal immigration authorities continue to crack down on alleged violations of immigration laws, including a criminal search warrant that was executed in California earlier this month on a cannabis facility, which resulted in multiple arrests of illegal immigrants and a child labor investigation.

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White House pushes back forcefully on Epstein file criticism: 'Asinine suggestion'

  • News source: FOX News
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The White House is pushing back against criticism of the administration’s handling of files pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein as figures on both sides of the aisle demand their release.

"The fact that Democrats have now seized on this as if they ever wanted transparency when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an asinine suggestion for any Democrat to make. The Democrats had control of this building, the White House, for four years, and they didn't do a dang thing when it came to transparency in regards to Jeffrey Epstein and his heinous crimes,"...
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'Irrelevant': Senators push back against Vought's call for more partisan spending process

  • News source: FOX News
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Senators are not thrilled with a top White House official's comments that the government funding process should become more partisan, and fear that doing so could erode Congress’ power of the purse.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast Thursday morning that he believed "the appropriations process has to be less bipartisan."

His sentiment came on the heels of Senate Republicans advancing President Donald Trump’s $9 billion clawback package, which would cancel congressionally...
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Biden-era policy indirectly paying for unaccompanied minors' abortions rescinded by Trump DOJ

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era legal opinion from the Department of Justice on Thursday that permitted taxpayer dollars to be used for ancillary services associated with helping someone obtain an abortion, such as transportation costs.

The policy was particularly used in aiding unaccompanied minor migrants to get abortions, according to the Trump administration.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Health and Human Services Department took the view that taxpayer dollars – even though...
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Feds charge 3 more men in Maryland MS-13 racketeering conspiracy involving murder: 'Reign of terror'

  • News source: FOX News
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As suspected Maryland MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia stands trial in a high-profile criminal case, three more alleged MS-13 members in the state are being charged with racketeering conspiracy, including murder and drug trafficking.

Commenting on the charges, acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti said the men's actions "furthered MS-13’s reign of terror across communities in Maryland."

The charges, filed against Salvadoran nationals living in Maryland – Maxwell Ariel Quijano-Casco, 24, Daniel Isaias Villanueva-Bautista, 19, and...
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British spies and SAS named in Afghan data breach

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The personal details of spies and soldiers were included in a data leak that also named 19,000 Afghans.
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Samsung boss cleared of fraud by South Korea's top court

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The ruling comes after Lee Jae-yong was acquitted of all charges in two earlier trials.
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Rubio bans overseas outposts commenting on foreign elections unless there's 'clear and compelling' US interest

  • News source: FOX News
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The State Department will now only weigh in on foreign elections when there is a "clear and compelling" U.S. interest to do so, focusing on strategic significance over spreading democratic values.

"Consistent with the administration’s emphasis on national sovereignty, the Department will comment publicly on elections only when there is a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest to do so," according to a new memo articulating Secretary Marco Rubio’s directive obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Messages should avoid opining on the fairness or...
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Unearthed chat sheds light on cozy ties between judges, climate activists, raising ethical concerns

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues – until the email-styled group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found.

The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a "first-of-its-kind effort" that "provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted...
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Trump pushes Texas Republicans to redraw congressional maps to help defend GOP's House majority

  • News source: FOX News
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In the 2026 midterm elections battle for control of the House, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin majority, it seems nothing's out of bounds.

The GOP-controlled state legislature in Texas meets in special session next week, as top Republicans in the red state push to redraw the current congressional maps to reduce the number of districts controlled by already marginalized Democrats.

It's part of a broader effort by the GOP across the country to keep control of the chamber, and cushion losses elsewhere in the country, as the party...
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Not 'honest' news organizations: White House defends yanking $9B ‘worth of crap’ in rescissions package

  • News source: FOX News
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The White House dismissed comments that the Trump administration's efforts to yank already approved federal funds for foreign aid and public broadcasting pose a public safety threat.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

"These are not honest news organizations," Leavitt told reporters Thursday. "These are partisan left wing outlets that are funded by the taxpayers. And this administration does not...
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