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“The incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration went back and forth on Saturday over the status of TikTok and whether a ban of the service would take place, after the video app said that it would be forced to ‘go dark’ on Sunday when a federal law takes effect,” the New York Times reports. President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News that he would “most likely” find a way to give the company a 90-day extension once he takes office on Monday “because it’s appropriate.” Earlier on Saturday, the White House press secretary called TikTok’s claim it would go dark “a stunt.”

President-elect Donald Trump has told advisers he wants to travel to China after he takes office, seeking to deepen a relationship with Xi Jinping strained by the president-elect’s threat to impose steeper tariffs on Chinese imports, the Wall Street Journal reports.

ProPublica: “In the past few years, school vouchers have become universal in a dozen states… and, with Donald Trump returning to the White House, they will likely have federal support.”

“The incoming Trump administration wants regime change in Venezuela, where dictator Nicolás Maduro stole his election, jailed a rival and this month even threatened to invade the U. S. territory of Puerto Rico,” Axios reports. “Venezuela under Maduro has been a massive problem for Latin America and the U. S. It’s accounted for the largest modern-day migration in the Western Hemisphere — nearly 8 million people have fled Maduro’s regime in the past decade.”

President Donald Trump ran his 2024 campaign on a promise to enact mass deportation, and to do so immediately. The Wall Street Journal reports that four people familiar with the plan say the incoming administration is preparing for a large-scale immigration raid to begin in Chicago on Tuesday, and last a week.

It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the global war on terror, during the Iraq War—a disaster we now know was based on a lie. At the time, however, in the aftermath of 9/11, the battlefield was filled with troops who believed they were serving and defending their country against terrorism. “Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” said Mike Ergo, a team leader with the U.