ABC News agreed to settle a lawsuit from President-elect Donald Trump , paying $16 million over comments ABC ’s George Stephanopoulos made about Trump and the writer E. Jean Carroll .

Trump is suing Gannett , the parent company of a newspaper in Iowa , the Des Moines Register for “brazen election interference”.

Media Matters posted an audio clip of Hannity and a graphic of what Hannity supposedly said.

The group edited the clip to make it seem like Hannity was telling the story about having dinner with the heads of Pfizer and Eli Lilly instead of Trump .

But if one spends 22 seconds , copies the clip above, and does a search, one will be taken to a webpage with the transcript of a press conference from Dec. 16 with President-elect Donald Trump and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son .

Dr. Scott Atlas spoke at New College of Florida 's May 2023 graduation ceremony.

He says boos, jeers and jeers were heard at the end of Dr. Atlas ’s 16-minute speech.

Students and parents had signed on to be part of the college long before the current transition, he says.

Frida Ghitis : What would be the future in the U.S. of free speech and civil discourse in higher education? She says mainstream press framed Gov. DeSantis ' move as an attempt to remake New College into a conservative institution.

Ghitis says student body that self-described as 3% conservative, 11% moderate, and the rest liberal or very liberal.

She says students held an “alternative graduation” with a progressive speaker the night before the commencement but most were begrudgingly attending this one.

Governor DeSantis appointed a new board majority after plummeting retention rates, enrollment numbers, and test scores.

The media ignored this reality or brushed by it as if too busy to be bothered to give it much attention.

While it might be inconvenient for their preferred narrative, the numbers showed that it was likely New College would have been shut down.

A car plowed into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday night .

Emergency services reported that at least 60 to 80 people were injured in the attack.

German newspaper BILD reported that the attacker is said to be a man from Saudi Arabia .

The suspected driver of the vehicle was arrested shortly after the attack, officials said.

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security worked with the New York Police Department to carry out a raid against a gang house in the Bronx run by Tren de Aragua .

One of those men, 28-year-old Venezuelan national Jarwin Valero-Calderon , was reportedly wearing an ankle monitoring device that allowed the authorities to track him and the others down to their Bronx location.

The bust comes after members of the Venezuelan gang had taken over entire apartment complexes in Aurora , Colorado , this summer .

A Pennsylvania prison guard twice sexually abused a prisoner, jury awards $ 20k in damages for each assault.

Jury could reasonably have concluded that you were the guy who did the assaulting.

Third Circuit: No and no. Third Circuit is purely a creature of the state.

South Carolina ACLU wants to record and publish an interview with a death row inmate.

A bodybuilder sells a testosterone-boosting herbal supplement called Diesel Test .

A disgruntled customers of Company B start mistakenly complaining to Company A , cease-and-desist letters and trademark-infringement litigation ensue.

The Seventh Circuit (en banc): Yes, and in so holding we realign our circuit with the Supreme Court's precedent.

The Republican -led House passed H.R. 3391 , which would continue funding research of pediatric diseases like childhood cancer.

The legislation never went anywhere in the Senate under the leadership of Democrat Majority Leader Chuck Schumer .

Now Democrats are trying to use sick kids with cancer as leverage to pass 1,500-plus pages of pork.

House of Representatives will hold votes on a continuing resolution to mid-March , disaster relief, and one on agriculture funding.

Julian Zelizer : Congress was on track to handle government funding with relative ease until Elon Musk derailed it with a series of tweets.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is now moving in their direction by deleting the debt ceiling measure.

Trump has to realize that Musk will not be constrained, Zelizer says.

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with House Republicans on Friday afternoon to discuss a plan to avoid a government shutdown.

The new plan reportedly does not include a vote on the debt ceiling.

The shutdown is set to begin at midnight on Friday if no agreement is reached.

The first spending plan was a 1,547 -page stopgap bill negotiated between the GOP -led House and Democrat -controlled Senate on Tuesday night .

Salsabeel ElHelou is one of nine U.S. citizens stuck in Gaza .

She and her family are suing the Biden administration in a bid to compel the government to help the families leave.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges that the government violated the civil rights of Palestinian Americans by abandoning them in a war zone.

The State Department was not able to provide up-to-date numbers on how many U.S. citizens, green card holders, and immediate family members of Americans remain in Gaza .

The plaintiffs are worried for their lives, with untreated medical conditions or facing difficult decisions about separating or staying together.

A spokesperson for the State Department said it believes “the vast majority” of American citizens who were in Gaza and wanted to leave have done so.

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