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ESPN and the College Football Playoff have reportedly agreed to a five-year deal worth about $1.7 billion, though The Hill puts the media rights at more than $1 billion, that would grow the bracket to 24 teams in 2027. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the move short-sighted.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced he will commute all 548 California death sentences to life without parole. Marc Klaas, father of Polly Klaas, called the decision "absolutely heartbreaking."
President Trump says he thinks he will meet Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at next week's APEC summit in Shenzhen. Moscow says work is underway, but nothing is confirmed and Beijing's position is unclear.
The Supreme Court has stayed a lower-court injunction that halted border barrier and road construction in Texas's Big Bend Sector. The stay does not settle whether the project is lawful, and the legal fight continues.
A day after publicly offering UFC chief Dana White the press secretary job, President Trump posted an animated video of White's fighters pinning reporters in the briefing room. White said he would meet Trump Monday, and whether he wants the job is unsettled.
Charlie Kirk's widow posted on X that a culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. She named no one, and the reports about a podcast and Dave Chappelle rest on two right-leaning outlets.
President Trump told 60 Minutes his deportation policy was "too tough," three days after Republican midterm losses. CBS reports it is unclear whether the administration will change how it enforces immigration law.
Headlines describe a Washington Post report that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is preparing a 2028 presidential bid, but they disagree on how he responded. What he actually said has not been confirmed.
After Democrats won control of Congress, prediction-market traders moved sharply toward Ron DeSantis as a 2028 Republican nominee while JD Vance slipped. The figures differ by market and by report.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court hears a New Jersey family farm's challenge to the Labor Department's use of its own in-house proceedings to decide money penalties. The question before the justices is whether Article III of the Constitution allows that.
Georgia's Democratic governor-elect named Tyler Perry a co-chair of her transition team while he faces two sexual assault lawsuits. One outlet reports he denies the allegations, and no court has made any finding against him.
President Trump said U.S. forces carried out new limited strikes on Iranian air defenses on Friday, though damage has not been confirmed. Iran was reportedly reviewing Qatari proposals on its nuclear program at the time, according to Ynetnews.
