On his first day in office, Donald Trump has great intentions. The guy found guilty of killing Laken Riley is sentenced to life in prison. Additionally, Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize the first millennial saint in the history of the Catholic Church.
What to know today is as follows.
Trump s plans for his first day in office
Donald Trump, the president-elect, intends to start his second term in office quickly. More than six sources with knowledge of transition plans predicted that he would sign a slew of executive actions on Day One and reverse some policies from the Biden administration. According to a Trump campaign staffer, the rate of the changes will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
According to two people familiar with the plans, Trump is anticipated to limit transgender service members’ access to gender-affirming therapy and terminate travel reimbursement for military personnel seeking abortion care in an effort to reverse restrictions put in place by President Joe Biden.
However, Trump’s main campaign platform, halting illegal immigration, would probably be a major part of his Day One objectives. According to three Trump supporters, he is anticipated to release at least five executive orders to address the problem. In the first week of his previous tenure, he signed that many orders on all matters. According to a key friend, there would be pressure to put on a big early show and demonstrate that his campaign pledges were genuine.
What about the rest of Trump’s program, though? He pledged to put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in a day. He also pledged a package to eliminate Social Security and tip taxes. Trump’s allies and former cabinet members have been developing measures he may implement in the years after he left office. However, it will take longer to implement all of those adjustments.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
floated ending remote work for federal workers
in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that laid out their first concrete policy suggestions in relation to their new government efficiency roles.
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Trump named former acting Attorney General
Matt Whitaker
as his pick to be the next ambassador to NATO, a key alliance that Trump has long criticized.
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Serious allegations of sexual impropriety against three of Trump s Cabinet picks have been
thrust back into the spotlight
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Members of the House Ethics Committee
did not reach an agreement
on whether to publicly release a report about their investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
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Trump s selection of Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, coupled with Oz s evolving views on health care policy,
leave open a question
of what an overhaul could look like.
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North Carolina Republican lawmakers, who are slated to 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
rejected a ballot measure
that would have increased the minimum wage in the state to $18 per hour.
Man given life sentence for murder of Laken Riley
The case that became a focal point in the immigration debate earlier this year came to a close when the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was convicted guilty of murder and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In 2022, Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national who entered the country illegally, did not testify in his own defense and forfeited his right to a jury trial.
Using DNA and other evidence that they claimed connected Ibarra to Riley on the day of her death, the prosecution contended during the trial that Ibarra killed Riley after she resisted his attempt to rape her. The defense team contended that Ibarra was not unquestionably linked to the murder by the evidence. Riley’s friends and family gave victim impact statements before to sentence. Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillip, referred to Ibarra as a monster, destroying all of our wonderful memories with her that we will never be able to recreate.Go here to read the entire story.
Two additional prominent crime stories had updates yesterday:
The mother who stunned the country thirty years ago by confessing to the murders of her two boys, Susan Smith, was not granted parole.
According to a judge, if Bryan Kohberger is found guilty of the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, prosecutors may pursue the death penalty against him.
DOJ calls for breakup of Google and sale of Chrome
Google was found to have a monopoly in the search industry in August, prompting the Department of Justice to demand that the firm sell off its Chrome browser. Google’s 2008 debut of Chrome gives the search engine giant data that it uses to target advertisements. According to the DOJ, requiring the business to discontinue Chrome would level the playing field for rival search engines.
The DOJ further stated that Google should not be allowed to sign exclusionary contracts with companies such as Apple and Samsung. In addition, the DOJ recommended that Google be barred from favoring its search service above its other goods and that requiring the search engine giant to sell off its Android mobile operating system would also help to revive competition.
Three-quarters of all ad sales during the third quarter of parent firm Alphabet came from search advertising, which generated $49.4 billion in income.Go here to learn more.
Pope to give Catholic Church is first millennial saint
A teenager known as God’s influencer is about to become the world’s first millennial saint. According to Vatican News, Pope Francis declared yesterday that Carlo Acutis, who passed away from leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be canonized in April at the Jubilee for Adolescents. He will be the first digital saint as well as the first millennial saint in the history of the Catholic Church.
Acutis was a web designer who maintained websites for regional Catholic organizations and posted online accounts of miracles. He has been credited by the church with two miracles.
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Artist Maurizio Cattelan s Comedian, which is just a banana duct-taped to a wall,
sold at an auction for more than $6 million
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The FBI is investigating whether a spate of burglaries at the homes of pro athletes including the Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce
is linked 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 and nationally ranked.
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 slew of other characters
is retiring from the show
after 35 years.
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The movie Rust debuted more than three years after the fatal on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Director Joel Souza
reflected on the tragedy
in an interview with NBC News.
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