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President Donald Trump urged the Justice Department to prosecute Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and James Comey in response to a new report about the alleged mishandling of secure data.

The president reacted to the news that Abedin had emailed State Department passwords to a private Yahoo account.

PornHub has a problem with pirated Hollywood movies that have nothing to do with pornography, as people have turned to the site to stream pirated films that are “safe for work.”

Individuals outside of Mexico who sent money home in 2017 broke all prior records with more than $26.1 billion in 11 months.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) will officially resign on January 2, nearly a month after the Minnesota Democrat revealed on the Senate floor that he will step aside. Numerous sexual assault allegations and pressure from his Democratic colleagues combined to force his departure.

The Senate will swear in Minnesota Lt. Gov Tina Smith on January 3; Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Smith to serve as a senator until the 2018 midterm election.

Highway signs proclaiming California an “OFFICIAL SANCTUARY STATE” appeared in at least three places beneath “Welcome to California” road signs on New Year’s Day.
Two more signs have appeared since, according to the Washington Examiner.

January 1 marked the first day that California’s new sanctuary state bill, SB 54, went into effect, preventing local and state law enforcement from fully cooperating with federal immigration officials.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said that President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico is “first and foremost” before any deal for amnesty for the recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

The AP reported after interviewing Nielsen:

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will hand out awards for dishonest media reporting in several different categories on Jan 8.

The president vented in late November that a contest should be held for the worst political coverage, excluding Fox News. He added that the winner of such an award should get a “fake news trophy.”

Acting director of the immigration and customs enforcement agency Thomas Homan suggested politicians in sanctuary cities and states should be charged with crimes, in a Tuesday interview.

The New York Times published an article over the weekend laying out a new original story for the FBI’s investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government.

Republican Congressman Steve King says census-takers in 2020 should ask if people living in the United States are citizens.

Acknowledging his push to broker peace in the Middle East has stalled, President Donald Trump appeared to threaten to cut off U.S. aid money to the Palestinian Authority, asking why the U.S. should make “any of these massive future payments” when the Palestinians are “no longer willing to talk peace.”

Trump, in a pair of tweets, said “we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect.”

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A witness with knowledge of the Russian probe says participants in the grand jury look like a “Bernie Sanders rally” or something taken from a “Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley.”

According to Page Six, the witness noted that there are 20 jurors, 11 of which are black and two of which wore “peace T-shirts.” The witness said, “there was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor.”

News networks exploded with paranoia about President Trump’s “big nuclear button” tweet, despite North Korea indicating just hours later that it was willing to reduce tensions in the region.