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Gas prices are expected to drop in 2025 for the third straight year, CNN reports.

Annie Lowrey: “Exit polls indicate that nearly half of union households voted Republican in 2024, up from 43 percent in 2016 and 37 percent in 2000. Other polling shows that Trump commanded a 26-point lead among white voters without a college degree in union homes, up nine points since 2020.

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Rep. Victoria Sparz (R-IN) says she needs to be convinced to re-elect Mike Johnson as speaker.

Bloomberg: “Worries that the world’s richest person would subvert sensitive state-run telecommunications channels around the globe are being replaced by attempts by government officials trying to tap economic incentives.”

President-elect Donald Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday, days before a House vote on Friday to elect a new Speaker, The Hill reports. Said Trump, on Truth Social: “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN.