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Is the Senate’s bipartisan border security bill a good deal?

From the Left: The New York Times Editorial Board (Left bias) stopped short of endorsing the bill, but deemed the negotiation efforts a “necessary and long overdue step” to address the immigration system. While determining that Democratic lawmakers have been “too slow to respond” to the crisis and commending Republican

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection, The Wall Street Journal (Center bias) reported.

Facing Threats: Haley attributed the request to “multiple issues”  her campaign has faced recently. Last week in Columbia, South Carolina, a protesting Israel’s war in Gaza was apprehended by Haley’s private security team when she tried to rush the stage

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled former President Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again and ordered his name be excluded from the state’s Republican primary ballot.

For Context: Groups in a number of states recently brought cases arguing that Trump should be disqualified from holding public office due to alleged violations of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Taiwan “will surely be reunified” with mainland China in a New Year’s speech, once again raising concerns of potential conflict over the democratic island.

Key Quote: “China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese