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“Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland has put the world’s largest island in an unexpected position of power,” Bloomberg reports. “While Trump’s 2019 bid for the Arctic territory was dismissed as little more than a joke, the president-elect’s timing is better this time around — Greenlanders are intensifying their push for independence from Denmark.

“President-elect Donald Trump said late Thursday that a meeting is being arranged with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, a summit that would be eyed anxiously by Ukraine and its other Western allies,” NBC News reports. Said Trump: “President Putin wants to meet… we are setting it up. We have to get that war over with.

“The fate of a law that would likely ban social media platform TikTok in the United States goes before the Supreme Court on Friday as the justices consider whether to block it,” NBC News reports. “The nine justices on the conservative-majority court will hear oral arguments from lawyers for TikTok, some of its users and the Biden administration, with at least a preliminary decision likely in days, if not hours.”

Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Dave McCormick (R-PA) broke bread in the name of “a stronger Pennsylvania.”

“It did look very friendly, I must say. I didn’t realize how friendly it looked. I saw it on your wonderful network, just a little while ago before I came in and I said ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other.’ And we probably do.” — Donald Trump, quoted by Politico, on the viral video clips of him laughing with Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

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