Puck News reports: You’re not alone in raising both eyebrows at Sunday’s news that Amazon will release a Melania Trump documentary directed by Brett Ratner, the Rush Hour filmmaker who has not made a Hollywood movie since 2018, when he was accused of sexual malfeasance by several women. (He’s denied the claims.) Of course, that this vanity documentary will air …

Bloomberg News reports: Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 in a video explaining his company’s decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the U.S. The Meta Platforms Inc. chairman sports a Greubel Forsey ‘Hand Made 1’ on his left wrist in the video posted to Facebook on Tuesday unveiling the policy …

NBC News reports: Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance: They’re refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, both inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in …

CBS News reports: Former President Jimmy Carter’s casket arrived Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., for a military tribute and other ceremonies before he will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Carter’s family is accompanying the 39th president’s remains on a flight — dubbed by the U.S. Air Force as Special Air Mission 39 — to Joint Base Andrews …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of a man from Greenland asking him to purchase the Danish colony. As it turns out, the man, Timmy Zeeb, is a convicted drug dealer according to DR News. In Trump’s video post, Zeeb also seemed to call Americans “too fat” which Trump may have missed due to Zeeb’s …

The Hill reports: A New York appellate judge on Tuesday declined to suspend President-elect Trump’s Friday sentencing on his hush money criminal conviction. Judge Ellen Gesmer of the state’s midlevel appeals court rejected Trump’s emergency petition to immediately halt the proceeding, which is set to cement his status as a felon before he returns to the White House. Now, Trump …

The Daily Beast reports: Gun lover Rep. Lauren Boebert is finally trying to make good on her dream of abolishing the government agency that regulates firearms. The Colorado Republican introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF). Boebert has been talking about getting rid of the ATF since at least 2023, when she …

Mediaite reports: President-elect Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning even “violent” January 6 protestors during a stream-of-consciousness press conference Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago. He went on to curiously suggest that members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah participated in the riots four years ago. “We’re looking at it and other people are there, and 26, 28 people from the FBI …

The Associated Press reports: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security. Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a …

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from “releasing, sharing, or …

“Mexico’s really in trouble. A lot of trouble. Very dangerous place. We’re going to be announcing at a future date – pretty soon – we’re going to change, because we do most of the work there and it’s ours. We’re going to be changing. It’s sort of the opposite of Biden where he’s closing everything up, essentially getting rid of …

Politico Europe reports: Greenland has made it clear that it is not for sale, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday, in response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s fixation with buying the massive Arctic island. Frederiksen said Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede “has been very, very clear … that there is a lot of support among the people of Greenland …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: The Georgia Republican Party’s State Executive Committee has unanimously voted to expel former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan from any future involvement with the party. “Geoff Duncan is hereby expelled from the Georgia Republican Party,” the resolution states, adding that he is “banned from all property owned or leased by the Georgia Republican Party and all …

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the President-elect, has landed in Greenland with media personality Charlie Kirk and businessman Sergio Gor. “Greenland is beautiful,” Trump Jr. posted to X. Justin Wells, the producer of Art of the Surge, posted on X that they were filming for Season 2 of his Trump documentary series. The President-elect called into …

Politico Europe reports: What are you waiting for, Brussels? Elon Musk’s decision to host German far-right leader Alice Weidel in a livestream on X is sparking fury from European Union leaders and lawmakers, who on Monday urged Brussels to deploy its full legal might to rein in the billionaire tech magnate. In response, the European Commission said the SpaceX founder …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his former lawyer John Eastman was right about the illegalities and improprieties in the 2020 election and that his strategy to pursue challenges were correct. “I’m a big fan of John Eastman,” President Trump said. “Ya’ know, he was right. He happened to be right.” …

The New York Times reports: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved on Tuesday to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, potentially lifting the credit scores of about 15 million Americans and making it easier for them to obtain loans. The finalized new rule would effectively prohibit loan providers from using medical information while making lending decisions. It is …

First, there’s this from yesterday: Former GOP Representative Adam Kinzinger has mocked Republican lawmakers who changed their tune on the January 6 Capitol attack by reposting statements they made four years ago. Kinzinger hit out at Republicans who have backpedaled on their criticism of Trump and the violent events of that day in 2021. Among the senators Kinzinger roasted was …

Mediaite reports: Viewers of Fox & Friends will be forgiven if they now believe that the state of New Jersey no longer requires its school teachers to be able to read to get a job because that’s precisely how a new state law, signed by Governor Phil Murphy, was presented as news Monday morning. The law, designed to remove redundant …

NBC News reports: Two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane in Florida during routine post-flight inspections on Monday, the company has said. “Tragically, both individuals were deceased. At this time, the identities of the individuals and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation,” the company said in a statement …