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Trump sues Des Moines register, escalating threats against the media
(NYTimes) — President-elect Donald Trump has sued The Des Moines Register for running a poll before the election that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, escalating his threats to seek retribution against the mainstream media and his political enemies. Trump has long said that people he claims have wronged him should be prosecuted, including President Joe Biden. In recent months, he has filed various legal actions against the media that amount to a warning shot. Prevailing in court may be beside the point, said Samantha Barbas, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. The lawsuits “are not so much geared toward winning as much as threatening,” she said.
After winning, Republicans trust elections again
(NYTimes) — Americans are more confident in the country’s election system than they have been at any time since the 2020 election, according to a new study — a shift owed to a sea change in Republican sentiment since Donald Trump’s election. According to Bright Line Watch, a consortium of political scientists that commissioned the survey from YouGov, 89% of all respondents recognize Trump’s victory in last month’s election as legitimate. Only 65% said the same of Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 in the group’s survey that November. About 83% of Democrats view the outcome of the 2024 election as legitimate; only 27% of Republicans viewed the outcome of the 2020 election as legitimate at the time.
Syria’s rebel leader vows to disband and integrate armed factions
(NYTimes) — The leader of the rebel coalition that took power in Syria this month said that all armed opposition groups in the country would be dissolved, Syrian state media reported Tuesday, as the new government worked to build a functioning state. Coalition leader Ahmad al-Sharaa said rebel fighters would be brought under the authority of the Defense Ministry. It was not clear how or when this would be achieved. “Everyone will be subject to the law,” al-Sharaa said, according to Syria’s state news agency, SANA. His comments came more than a week after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime, as the new authorities sought to project stability after 13 years of civil war.
US releases Kenyan prisoner held for nearly 18 years without charges
(NYTimes) — The Pentagon has released a Kenyan prisoner who was held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly 18 years on suspicion he was tied to an affiliate of al-Qaida that plotted attacks in East Africa two decades ago. Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 51, was never charged with a crime. He was repatriated to the custody of Kenya on Tuesday, three years after a task force of U.S. intelligence officials approved his transfer. The board described him as a well-behaved detainee from a defunct extremist network. A lawyer told the board in 2021 that Bajabu had two sisters in Kenya and a wife and children in Somalia, who would move to Kenya to be reunited with him.
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