- Senior State Dept. Diplomats Resign; Trump To Suspend Security Clearances In Day 1 Purge (huffpost.com)
- Kristi Noem, a homeland security chief hopeful, banned in parts of her state (washingtonpost.com)
- 📺 CNN’s Jake Tapper Confronts a GOP Senator With Clip of Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Calling for a ‘Museum of the Deep State’ to Replace the Hoover Building (mediaite.com)
- State Dept. Designates American Teacher Held in Russia as ‘Wrongfully Detained’ (nytimes.com)
- Rubio Says He Would Prioritize American Interests as Secretary of State (nytimes.com)
- “BadAss Grandmas” from North Dakota Pushed for an Ethics Commission. Then the State Legislature Limited Its Power. (propublica.org)
- TikTok knew its livestreaming feature allowed child exploitation, state lawsuit alleges (theguardian.com)