“January 20th cannot come fast enough! Everybody, even those that initially opposed a Victory by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration, just want it to happen. It is my obligation to protect the People of our Country but, before we even begin, we have to think of the Inauguration itself. “The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the …

CBS News reports: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to name Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the Senate seat that Vice President-elect JD Vance is vacating, multiple sources tell CBS News. DeWine is expected to announce his selection at a 1 p.m. press conference Friday. The announcement will end months of speculation and jockeying for the seat Vance held …

CNN reports: President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the plans told CNN. Plans are underway to have Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance sworn into office inside the US Capitol Rotunda, the sources said. Discussions regarding where to hold …

Florida Politics reports: Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody hasn’t been sworn into the Senate yet, but she’s already eyeing her first federal election next year. Moody, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis announced as the replacement for future Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will be buoyed by the eponymous Moody for Florida committee, according to Federal Election Commission records. However, Moody may …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights. It will, however, certainly draw swift legal challenges – and its next steps remain extremely unclear as Biden prepares to leave office. The …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: The America First Policy Institute, a MAGA movement think tank founded by former Trump aides, has raised millions in tax-exempt funds to promote policies that would undermine public education, restrict access to abortion, limit voter registration and voting, roll back environmental protections, gut government’s ability to regulate corporate behavior, pursue campaigns against transgender …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a blow to TikTok by upholding a law that could potentially lead to the video-sharing social media platform being banned in the United States. The justices rejected a free speech challenge filed by the company, meaning the law is set to go into effect on Sunday as planned. The bipartisan law …

Rahm Emanuel writes for the Washington Post: What’s 18-karat gold, bears the face of a Swedish inventor and keeps Donald Trump awake at night? The Nobel Peace Prize. Trump began obsessing over the annual award long before he failed to win one during his first term as president. Much of his griping has been aimed at Barack Obama, who was …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: The biggest names in pop, rock and country are coming together to raise funds for victims of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires and assist with the recovery. A benefit concert, FireAid, will take place on Jan. 30 on two stages, one at Intuit Dome and the other at The Kia Forum, organizers announced on Thursday. …

NBC News reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, will testify today at a confirmation hearing held by the Senate homeland security committee. If she is confirmed, Noem will oversee a workforce of more than 260,000 people across several agencies. Noem had at one time been viewed as a possible …

Axios reports: Former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) conspicuous silence is starting to spook Tulsi Gabbard’s team. Voting against Gabbard would resume hostilities between McConnell and Trump. It could have implications for big policy questions down the line, from funding Ukraine to raising tariffs. Two key GOP swing votes sit on the Intel committee: Sens. Susan Collins (R-Me.), a …

Houston’s CBS affiliate reports: A judge in Texas ruled Thursday that three other states can move ahead with their effort to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug mifepristone. The states of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri made the request in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas. The only judge …

CBS News reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced early Friday local time that Israel has finalized its ceasefire agreement with the militant group Hamas that will see the release of hostages held in Gaza. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the prime minister “has been updated by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a …

ABC News reports: A Missouri man who brandished a Nazi flag after a thwarted attack on the White House in 2023 was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on Thursday. Sai Varsith Kandula traveled from St. Louis, Missouri, to Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2023. Four hours after his arrival, Kandula — then 19 years old — crashed the …

Politico reports: It’s been a dozen years since the Stonewall Democrats, a once-prominent LGBTQ+ rights group, went defunct. But now, on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, a new coalition of state-level advocacy groups is reestablishing a national presence to gird against the incoming president and a Republican-controlled Congress. The group, the National Federation of Stonewall Democrats, comes together at …

Mediaite reports: President-elect Donald Trump signaled he might investigate FBI Office of Diversity, and Inclusion, demanding the agency “preserve and retain all records, documents” after the organization shuttered the office the month after Trump’s election win. The DEI office within the FBI closed its doors in December 2024, according to Fox News, but did not give a reason as to …

The Globe & Mail reports: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith refused to sign off on a joint statement issued by fellow provincial leaders and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday on how Canada plans to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff threats. The Premier blamed the federal government’s unwillingness to rule out export levies or restrictions on energy exports as part of potential …

Variety reports: President-elect Donald Trump is hoping to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” by naming Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as “special ambassadors,” whose goal will be to bring back business lost to “foreign countries.” It appears that the newly appointed ambassadors had little advance notice on the news, as Gibson said he found out at the …

“We will always be part of NATO. We will always be a strong partner for U.S. We are close neighbors, we have been cooperating in the last 80 years, and I think the future have a lot to offer to cooperate with, but we want to also be clear. We don’t want to be Americans, we don’t want to be …

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden said Friday he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, cementing his legacy as the president who has issued the most individual pardons and commutations in U.S. history. “Today’s clemency action provides relief for individuals who received lengthy sentences based on discredited distinctions between crack and powder cocaine, …