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Wall Street Journal: “Titans of the business world are rushing to make inroads with the president-elect, gambling that personal relationships with the next occupant of the Oval Office will help their bottom lines and spare them from Trump’s wrath.” “In the weeks since the election, Trump and his advisers have been flooded with calls from c-suite executives who are eager to get face time with the president-elect and his team at Mar-a-Lago, the private Florida club where the transition team conducts much of its planning for the second term.

New York Times: “Of the more than 80 personnel announcements Mr. Trump has made since Election Day, 45 have been announced in social media posts and emails that he has sent after 6 p.m. Many have come after 10 p.m., prompting a wave of social media chatter and television coverage that sometimes continues throughout the night and into the early morning hours.”

“South Korea’s National Assembly voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday, suspending him from office after his stunning declaration of martial law earlier this month caused widespread outrage and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis,” the New York Times report. “With the impeachment vote, Mr. Yoon has been suspended from office.

Remember Alexander Smirnov, carrier of claims that Joe Biden accepted bribes from Ukraine while his son Hunter was a lobbyist for them? That video up above is Jim Jordan having to admit that yeah, maybe he did lie but so what? Yeah, so what indeed. Smirnov's smears allowed Fox News and every other right wing "news" source to claim that the "Biden crime family" was a threat to U.

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the landscape of international finance for fossil fuels, some of the most important players are obscure government bodies known as “export credit agencies.” These agencies provide funding to companies seeking to build large and risky infrastructure projects, often in developing countries.

Among the many new elected officials coming to Washington, D. C. is a cadre of exciting new pro-Israel representatives.