“Tom, you have our full support. I agree with you, and I would love to meet with you privately about a communications strategy. I don’t know the border stuff like you do, but I know how to win the information war. And I’d love — whenever you’re around here in the winter White House, I’d love to chat with you …

Axios reports: Incoming Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) was told he could not bring his bulldog “Babydog” onto the Senate floor on Tuesday during orientation, three sources in the room tell Axios. Babydog is a political celebrity, often accompanying Justice to events and famously taking the stage at the Republican National Convention. But she apparently won’t be at his side during …

“Can you imagine how different Congress would be, the Capitol would be, if we were to suddenly say on Friday night, ‘Hey, we’re all going to meet together in Fargo, North Dakota as the US capital come Monday morning’? “You leave all those outside regulators, you leave all the the lobbyists, you leave it all behind and you get with …

Via press release from Texas AG Ken Paxton: Attorney General Ken Paxton sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to prevent potential destruction of any records from Jack Smith’s corrupt investigation into President Donald Trump. On November 8, Attorney General Paxton made a Freedom of Information Act request to the DOJ requesting records related …

“He [Trump] appreciates the breadth and reach of TikTok, which he used masterfully along with podcasts and new media entrants to win. There are many ways to hold China to account outside alienating 180 million U.S. users each month. Trump recognized early on that Democrats are the party of bans — gas-powered cars, menthol cigarettes, vapes, plastic straws and TikTok …

Newsweek reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Mike Huckabee as nominee for U.S. ambassador to Israel. “I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,” Trump said in a statement. He continued, “Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader …

Bloomberg News reports: The United States Supreme Court refused to question New York’s rent-control system, turning away two appeals that said the rules violate apartment owners’ constitutional rights. One appeal, pressed by 12 sets of property owners in New York City and Yonkers, targeted restrictions on landlords who want to reclaim rental units for personal use or convert buildings to …

“Right now, based on a judgment that is easily reversed, the $145 million judgment to two women where I’m not able to use the tape recordings or video recordings that support the truth of everything I say because they’ve been taken off the tape deceptively. “I’ve been given a tape of what they did at the center that’s missing three …

CBS News reports: CBS News Miami’s Jim DeFede, citing conversations with multiple Republican sources, reports that several scenarios are being discussed for how DeSantis may proceed. James Uthmeier, who serves as DeSantis’s chief of staff, could act as a caretaker in the Senate role until 2026. This move would give DeSantis the option to run for the Senate seat himself …

The Hill reports: Melania Trump is “on the move” following Trump’s White House win, releasing a $195 digital photo collection showcasing her “dynamic life.” “On the Move is an exclusive collection of 16 digital images,” the former and future first lady’s office said Tuesday in an announcement about the product’s launch. The snapshots, taken by photographer Regine Mahaux, show Trump …

Politico reports: Anti-abortion groups on Tuesday unveiled their “Make America Pro-Life Again Roadmap,” an effort to chip away at federal and state access, including in nearly a dozen states that enshrined protections through ballot measures over the last two years. Drawing on the playbook they successfully used under Roe v. Wade to regulate clinics out of existence and outlaw particular …

The Associated Press reports: A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is “unconstitutional on its face.” U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles in Baton Rouge said the law had an “overtly religious” purpose, and rejected state officials’ claims …

Michael Bloomberg writes for Bloomberg News: Trump should remember that Kennedy spread lies about the Covid vaccine, falsely calling it the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” In any position of influence, Kennedy would jeopardize decades of hard-won advances in public health and put American lives needlessly at risk. Thanks to vaccines, afflictions such as polio are now rare. Smallpox has been …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Here’s the thing. Those people are all entitled to their opinion and they can feel how they feel. But, he is going to be president for four years. He won a four-year term. Just deal with it. AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Some of those people — LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): I don’t think it’s …

The Associated Press reports: A judge is postponing a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money case because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. New York Judge Juan M. Merchan had been set to rule Tuesday. Instead, he told Trump’s lawyers Tuesday he’d delay the ruling until Nov. 19. According to …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a setback to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in his defense against 2020 election interference charges in Georgia, turning away his attempt to transfer his case from state to federal court. His lawyers argued that the case should be moved because he was acting as a “federal officer” …

The Guardian reports: The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has announced that he will step down after facing mounting pressure to quit over his handling of an abuse scandal. Pressure on Welby has been intensifying since the publication last week of a damning report on the church’s cover-up of John Smyth’s abuse in the UK in the late 1970s and …

The New York Times reports: Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s closest allies are privately counseling him to try to block a onetime Republican nemesis from becoming the Senate majority leader, pushing him to impose his will more forcefully on an already compliant G.O.P. Congress. Those advisers believe Mr. Trump should stop Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the No. …

The New York Times reports: The eldest son of President-elect Donald J. Trump will not be a member of his father’s administration — he is joining a venture capital firm. Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd of a few hundred donors on Sunday that he was joining 1789 Capital, a firm whose investments include Tucker Carlson’s media company. Mr. Trump …

Axios reports: Public health efforts were weakened by misinformation and distrust during the COVID pandemic, but a brain drain of the nation’s top scientific minds could hobble research and dissolve institutional knowledge at agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Less than a week after the election, …