Donald Trump has big plans for his first day in office. The man convicted of Laken Riley’s murder will receive a life sentence. And Pope Francis is about to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.
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Trump’s plans for his first day as president
President-elect Donald Trump plans to waste little time as he begins his second term. Expect him to sign a series of executive actions on his first day and overturn some Biden-era policies, more than a half-dozen people familiar with transition planning said. The changes, a Trump campaign official said, will happen at a pace that is “like nothing you’ve seen in history.”
When it comes to reversing President Joe Biden’s policies, Trump is expected to end travel reimbursement for military members seeking abortion care and limit transgender service members’ access to gender-affirming care, they said two people who were familiar with the plans.
But many of Trump’s Day One goals will likely center on stopping illegal immigration, the centerpiece of his candidacy. Three Trump allies said he is expected to sign at least five executive orders to address the issue. That’s as many orders as he signed on all issues during the first week of his last term. “There will be a push to make a huge early showing and assert himself to show that his campaign promises were not hollow,” said a top ally.
But what about other parts of Trump’s agenda? He promised to end the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours. He also promised a package to end taxes on tips and Social Security benefits. In the years since Trump was last in office, his administration’s alumni and allies have drafted policies for him to implement. However, implementing all these changes will not happen so quickly.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy forced an end to remote work for federal employees in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal laying out their first concrete policy suggestions regarding their new role as “government efficiency.”
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Trump appointed former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker as his choice to become the next ambassador to NATO, a key alliance that Trump has long criticized.
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There have been serious allegations of sexual impropriety against three of Trump’s cabinet picks put back in the spotlight.
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Members of the House Ethics Committee did not reach an agreement on whether they should publicly release a report on their investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
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Trump’s selection of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, coupled with Oz’s evolving views on health care policy, leave a question open of what an overhaul could look like.
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina, who will lose their supermajority in the state legislature next year, voted to strip the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of key powers.
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California voters a ballot measure rejected that would have raised the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour.
Man gets life sentence for murder of Laken Riley
The man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This brought a conclusion to a case that became a flashpoint in the immigration debate earlier this year. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan citizen who entered the US illegally in 2022, waived his right to a jury trial and did not testify in his own defense.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that Ibarra killed Riley after she rebuffed his attempt to rape her, pointing to DNA and other evidence that they said linked Ibarra to Riley on the day of her murder. Defense attorneys argued that the evidence did not link Ibarra to the murder beyond a reasonable doubt. Before Riley was sentenced, Riley’s family members and friends provided victim impact statements. Allyson Phillip, Riley’s mother, called Ibarra a “monster” who “took away every beautiful memory that we will never be able to make with her again.” Read the full story here.
Yesterday there were developments in two other high-profile crime stories:
→ Susan Smith, the mother who shocked the nation thirty years ago when she admitted to killing her two sons, was denied parole.
→ That’s what a judge ruled Prosecutors can seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted of the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.
DOJ calls for Google to be broken up and Chrome sold
The Justice Department is calling on Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August that the company has a monopoly on the search market. Chrome, which Google launched in 2008, provides the search giant with data that it then uses to target ads. The DOJ said forcing the company to get rid of Chrome would create a more level playing field for search competitors.
Additionally, the DOJ said Google should be prevented from entering into exclusionary agreements with third parties such as Apple and Samsung. The DOJ also said Google would be prohibited from prioritizing its search service within its other products, and suggested that forcing the search company to divest its Android mobile operating system would also help restore competition.
Search advertising accounted for $49.4 billion in revenue in parent company Alphabet’s third quarter, accounting for three-quarters of total ad sales in the period. Read more here.
Pope gives Catholic Church first millennium saint
A tapestry by Carlo Acutis in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, on October 10, 2020.
The world is about to get its first millennial saint: a teenager informally known as “God’s Influencer.” Pope Francis announced yesterday that Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be canonized during the Jubilee for Adolescents in April, according to Vatican News. Not only will he be the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church, he will also be the first digital saint.
Acutis was a web designer who documented miracles online and used his skills to maintain websites for local Catholic organizations. The Church has attributed two miracles to him.
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Artist Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’, just a banana channel stuck to the wall, sold at auction for more than $6 million.
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The FBI is investigating whether a wave of burglaries at the homes of professional athletes — including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — is connected to a transnational crime ring.
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Indiana University has long been known as a basketball powerhouse, but its college football team is 10-0 nationally. Here’s how the Hoosiers football team became an overnight success.
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‘The Simpsons’ actor who voiced Milhouse Van Houten and a host of other characters withdraws from the show after 35 years.
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The film ‘Rust’ debuted more than three years after the fatal shootings on the set of cameraman Halyna Hutchins. Director Joël Souza thought about the tragedy in an interview with NBC News.
Personnel choice: The weird and wacky treasures at HomeGoods
Florida, Stuart, HomeGoods, shopping for customers. (Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A lanky horse statue. A bust of a woman with bubbles on her head. A Christmas mannequin with a pine needle skirt. These are some of the quirky items TikTok users have discovered during trips to their local HomeGoods stores. Turns out there are plenty of strange objects on the shelves that searching for the weirdest finds has become a trend. Culture and trends reporter Daysia Tolentino spoke with two creators about their viral video and the magic of a HomeGoods scavenger hunt. — Saba Hamedy, culture & trends editor
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