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U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in December, a modest gain but still enough to suggest that the economy entered the new year with solid momentum.

A bitter winter storm is causing havoc on the east coast of the United States, bringing freezing temperatures, snowfall, and flooding to areas from Florida to Maine.

John Solomon reports at The Hill that the Department of Justice has launched a new investigation into the activities of the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state.

On a special Thursday edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, and Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour will take your calls and untangle the news of the day. Dale Wilcox, Executive Director & General Counsel

Brandon Carter and Brett Samuels reported in an article from The Hill:

On a special Wednesday edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, and Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour will take your calls and untangle the news of the day. Special guest Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to discuss the push

As President Trump considers his 2020 re-election strategy, the “America First” agenda championed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is in conflict with the “Economy First” agenda supported by most of Trump’s current White House advisers on trade policy and the importance (or lack thereof) of the promised border wall, Mike Allen reports in Axios.

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon describes Don Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort’s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 campaign as “unpatriotic” and “treasonous,” according to a new book by Michael Wolff called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

Hollywood’s first awards show of the new year included a visit from Wonder Woman Gal Gadot and a promise from Jessica Chastain that “major change is coming” to how women are treated in the industry.

“Let’s be honest: 2018 doesn’t feel good,” Eurasia Group’s president, Ian Bremmer, and chairman, Cliff Kupchan, wrote in their annual “Top Risks” report.

The cap that Congress’s tax reform bill places on federal deductions for state and local taxes offers an opportunity for blue states to exercise fiscal discipline or face a migration out of their high-tax states, writes Alfredo Ortiz, the president and CEO of the Job Creators Network, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

On Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM, broadcast live from Los Angeles, California, Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak will take your calls and discuss the news of the day. Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State and

Alfredo Ortiz writes in the Wall Street Journal the new cap on deductions for state taxes created by congress in its tax reform legislation will serve to further shrink the populations of blue states that assess disproportionately high tax rates.

Scott Galupo writes in THE WEEK that the tax reform legislation passed by congress doesn’t fulfill Trump’s campaign promises to give breaks to the working and middle class by clamping down on the wealthy and the big banks:

BOCA GRANDE, FLORIDA | There is so much to love about President Trump that it is hard to settle on the single greatest thing about the 45th president. His name is not “Hillary Clinton,” has to be in the top 10 best things

On the special New Year’s Day edition of Breitbart News Tonight broadcast live from Los Angeles, California, Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak will take your calls and discuss issues from immigration reform and amnesty proposals to recent

In his 2018 wish list, John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream and author of the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism, writes that he hopes Pope Francis “repents or else resigns” this year.

Axios reports that former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon predicts January will “define” Donald Trump’s presidency and will be his former boss’s “best chance to make good on his most controversial campaign promises.”

From The Hill, Rebecca Savransky reports that former CIA Director James Comey makes an apparent dig at President Trump on Sunday when he expressed his wish for “ethical leadership” in 2018.

Breitbart Executive Chairman and former White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, plans on keeping his crusade against the GOP establishment in full force in 2018.

(Reuters) – The torrent of arctic air that poured into many parts of the United States this week tightened its grip on Friday and brought record cold to some spots, as forecasters warned revelers from Memphis to Maine to expect numbing conditions on New Year’s Eve.

Ed Pilkington complains at the Guardian that legislation is being pushed in multiple states to prohibit the practice of Islamic religious law in US courts.

Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times that even though he is happy with the policy achievements of the Trump Administration in its first year, he will never support Donald Trump because he is offended by the president’s personality.

Lawrence Hurley and Idrees Ali reports for Reuters that Federal Courts ordered that transgendered people will be allowed to enlist in the military for the first time starting Monday.

On a special Friday night edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon will take your calls and kickoff this New Year’s weekend with a discussion of the battles of 2018. Bannon will be joined by Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca

Sue Grafton, author of the best-selling “alphabet series” of mystery novels, has died in Santa Barbara. She was 77.

Mark Landler reports in the New York Times on the “globalist vs. nationalist” divide within the Trump administration’s foreign policy and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s contention that this ideological “chasm” “can’t be bridged.”

On a special Thursday edition of Breitbart News Tonight, Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon will join Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to take your calls, untangle the news of the day, and look forward to the coming political battles in 2018.

Brady Dennis and Juliet Eilperin write in the Washington Post that under Trump’s EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt the formerly punishing regulatory agency is moving in a whole new direction.

New York Magazine’s Ed Kilgore looks at the fall of the Never Trump movement one year later.

SANDY HOOK, Ky. (AP) — The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute. Despite the president’s dismal approval ratings and lethargic legislative achievements, he remains profoundly popular here in these mountains, a region so badly battered by the collapse of the coal industry it became the symbolic heart of Trump’s white working-class base.

On the Wednesday edition of Breitbart News Tonight, broadcast live from Los Angeles, California, Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak will take your calls and untangle the news of the day as we approach the new year. Breitbart

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, 2017 proved to be an outstanding year for the world’s richest people, seeing their net worth rose 23 percent from $4.4 trillion in 2016 to $5.3 by the end of trading on Tuesday, December 26.

In his Christmas day op-ed, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman praises the left-wing Resistance movement against President Trump, singling out the pussy hat-clad women’s march participants for “dwarfing the thin crowds at the inauguration.”

On the Tuesday edition of Breitbart News Tonight — broadcast live from Los Angeles, California — Breitbart Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak will take your calls and untangle the news of the day as we approach the new year.

Remain campaigner and former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is rumored to be on the New Year’s Honours List in the United Kingdom, with Her Majesty’s government set to award the one of the Brexit losing-side’s biggest figures a knighthood