A federal judge temporarily blocks the release of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump criminal cases.
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Motion denied. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News. President-elect Trump's sentencing on criminal hush money charges is still scheduled to happen Friday, 10 days before he takes office again. The New York appellate court has turned aside the Trump legal team's attempt to throw out the president-elect's conviction.

and stop sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to an adult film actress according to judge juan mershon prison time is not likely fox's grinnell scott a federal judge in florida meantime blocks the release of special counsel jack smith's report on trump two volumes on two investigations the first is the election interference case the other is the classified documents case so neither of those went to trial judge cannon told

the Justice Department to hold off from releasing the report until the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals makes some sort of decision. Fox's David Spunt, President-elect Trump spoke and took questions for about an hour at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, talking about those investigations and also saying he would not rule out using military force to take control of the Panama Canal and acquire Greenland for national security reasons. Another suggestion? We're going to be

changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name.

And it's appropriate. The first known map calling it the Gulf of Mexico is from the 1600s. It touches coasts in what are now five U.S. states to the north, Mexico to the west, and Cuba to the southeast. President-elect Trump has also spoken recently about the idea of making Canada the 51st state. Outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today on social media writes there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. President Jimmy Carter's body is now being taken.

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Some numbers on online Christmas shopping are in. Online holiday spending jumped nearly 9% during the 2024 holiday season compared to the year before, thanks in part to deep discounts in the use of artificial intelligence, according to Adobe Analytics.

which found AI-powered chatbots helped spur purchases. The 8.7% increase translates to $241.4 billion from November 1st to the end of December. Electronics, apparel, and furniture and home goods were the top categories, and analysts finding that as prices of groceries and housing remain elevated, consumers are

waiting to buy non-essential goods at times of the year, they might pay less. For instance, Amazon Prime Day or President's Day. Lillian Wu, Fox News. Immigration is a higher priority for some Americans than it was a year ago. Seven in ten Republicans say immigration or the border wall should be a top priority of the incoming Trump administration. That's up 45 percent from just two years ago. When it comes to the economy,

80% of Republicans surveyed in a new APNORC Center for Public Affairs research poll want the federal government to move that to the top of the list, with most Democrats also on board. But the poll found Democrats don't have a clear second priority, with 4 in 10 naming health care and health issues, and a third mentioning political issues, the environment or climate change or immigration.

with about 2 in 10 Democrats considering immigration something that should be a primary focus for the federal government.

C.J. Popper, Fox News. President Biden's trip to Southern California to announce the creation of two new national monuments today is canceled because of dangerously high wind there. We're told he'll speak about it at the White House next week instead. There are wildfires popping up around L.A. with wind picking up even more tonight with gusts 80 to 100 miles per hour. On Wall Street, the Dow is up 170, down 178. The Nasdaq is down 375. I'm Chris Foster, Fox News.

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