the thing about election night pizza is I never get any. I'm always somewhere in the wild waiting for polls to close or counts to finish. y'all enjoy it for me 😔

Private prison operator CoreCivic is on track to get a $6.8M boost from the state next year, despite being under federal investigation for civil rights violations and being charged millions in state fines each year for violating contract requirements. tennessean.com/story/news/pol…

Gov. Bill Lee has repaid $1,900 in travel expenses to a Florida resort island conference this summer at the request of the TN Ethics Commission, who found the expenses constituted an indirect illegal gift. More Tennessean tennessean.com/story/news/pol…

As newspapers continue to close across the country, Illinois has been particularly hard hit. The state has lost 86% of its journalists since 2005 — the highest percentage decline in the nation. chicago.suntimes.com/money/2024/12/… via Amy Yee

More than a year after The Wall Street Journal revealed a toxic workplace culture at the FDIC, the agency has decided to suspend pay bonuses for roughly two dozen executives under investigation for misconduct—following an internal debate about whether to do so. w/Gina Heeb wsj.com/finance/regula…

President Biden, citing moral and policy objections to capital punishment, said he was commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates. Instead of facing execution under the future Trump administration, they will serve life imprisonment without parole wsj.com/politics/polic…

Charles Person has died. Mr. Person was the youngest member of the original 13 Freedom Riders. His bravery in the face of racist violence and hate inspired an entire movement that changed the country. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…

The Trump administration has stopped using military aircraft to fly migrants who entered the U.S. illegally to Guantanamo Bay or other countries. The move follows a The Wall Street Journal analysis that found these flights expensive and inefficient. wsj.com/politics/natio…

The Justice Department said it wasn’t obligated to comply with a judge’s oral directive to return planes carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members to U.S. soil on.wsj.com/4bZMeqD

how it started: "Gannett newsrooms, whiter than the communities they serve, pledge broad change by 2025" how it's going: "Gannett will stop publishing diversity information, citing Trump’s executive order"

The Trump administration is preparing to deport a second group of Venezuelan migrants under a rarely used wartime authority Michelle Hackman Mariah Timms wsj.com/politics/polic…

“He’s disappeared? What happened?” 7 weeks after hundreds of men were sent to an El Salvador prison, officials have refused to say why they are accused of gang membership--or even who they are. The imprisonments have upended the definition of due process wsj.com/politics/polic…

Of the dozens of men whose cases the WSJ could verify, the majority had never been charged with a crime. About half were in the country legally. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said "they will never leave" the superprison wsj.com/politics/polic…

Breaking w tradition, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office plans to block press from annual Chicago investors conference that starts today, blames investors for not wanting reporters in room From Justin Laurence: chicagobusiness.com/politics/chica…

If you missed it, yesterday we took a detailed look at the election fraud in Millbourne, a tiny borough outside of Philly. A 2021 candidate for mayor tried to steal that election by registering out-of-town voters and voting mail ballots on their behalf. He and his co-conspirators

Masked arrests. Smashed windows. Greater shows of force. Indiscriminate detentions. How the White House marching orders to "Just go out there and arrest illegal aliens" have triggered a change in ICE tactics-- and a backlash in LA & elsewhere wsj.com/us-news/protes…

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander detained by ICE, his mayoral campaign said nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been detained by authorities at immigration court in Manhattan on.wsj.com/44kwCvG

FBI officials in cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia were told Monday that they should shift resources toward Iran and domestic threats, after manpower had been focused on the Trump administration’s priority of immigration enforcement.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday ICE is “doubling down” in and around Chicago despite opposition from local officials and a legal challenge to the deployment of a federalized National Guard. w/ Mariah Timms wsj.com/us-news/ice-to…