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- The U.S. Supreme court rules 5-4 that Trump era pandemic limits preventing migrants from coming to the U.S. to seek asylum will stay in place for now.
- The death toll continues to climb in Buffalo New York following a historic storm that has buried the city and its roads. More than 100 state law enforcement officials are brought in to enforce a ban on driving.
- Looking ahead to the new year and the US Supreme Court’s docket, legal experts are sounding the alarm that the highest court is enacting a radical conservative legal movement that is unraveling civil rights and legal protections. KPFA’s Corinne Smith reports.
- One of the leaders of the right wing plot to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Governor is sentenced to 16 years in prison.
- The Democratic opponent of New York’s newly elected Congressman George Santos says the Republican should resign after he was found to have told one lie after the other about himself and his accomplishments.
- Newly released January 6 transcripts show that Cassidy Hutchinson says she saw her former boss, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows burning documents in his office fireplace December of 2020 and January 2021.
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