Month: October 2025

Communications director Steven Cheung accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of putting “politics over peace.”

President Trump’s hopes of taking home the coveted Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 were dashed early Friday, after the committee announced Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as this year’s winner. Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, said Machado was chosen as a unifying figure in Latin America, determined in her commitment…
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Donald Trump’s failure to win was slammed by his base.

Israel’s military announced early Friday that the ceasefire in Gaza is now in effect, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved the first phase of President Trump’s 20-point peace plan. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote in a post online that its troops have “began positioning themselves along the updated deployment lines in preparation…
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One of Donald Trump’s most impressive political gifts is in choosing enemies.  As president, he often manages to select targets for his power grabs or retribution that are hard to defend. Trump’s prosecution of James Comey, who was a hyperpolitical peacock of an FBI director, makes critics of Trump’s heavy hand with the Justice Department…
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The left’s political operatives have launched a relentless campaign to vilify FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. He has become a target, and supposedly the number one threat to democracy, simply because he empowered small local broadcast stations to comply with statutory requirements. Carr’s critics paint him as censor-in-chief — ignoring Joe Biden’s massive censorship initiatives. But…
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The film about first lady Melania Trump captures “critical meetings, private conversations, and never-before-seen environments,” per the promo blurb.

They went “behind enemy lines” to document what’s really going down.

It’s still not adding up.

“Always with the quiet part out loud,” one critic said of the Trump Health and Human Services secretary’s comment.

The “Tonight Show” host revealed exactly how the president “always stops things from escalating too far.”

The “Late Night” host pointed to one wild clip showing how the president’s brain is absolute “mush.”

Former Vice President Harris said on Thursday that any checks and balances to hold back President Trump have not worked. On tour to promote her new book about her campaign, “107 Days,” Harris spoke with journalist and podcaster Kara Swisher at the Warner Theatre to a sold-out audience. “The point is that the guardrails have…
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The Senate late Thursday approved its massive annual defense policy bill as the U.S. government remains shut down. The GOP-led chamber approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 70-20, which funds the U.S. military at $924.7 billion in fiscal year 2026. The vote came after lawmakers reached a deal earlier in the day to unlock…
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and migrant advocates filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials on Thursday, alleging that federal immigration officers are violating the law in arresting migrants in the state.  The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado, lists Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, acting Immigration and Customs…
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96 <!– {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment <!–   The Big Story  More Energy Department funding faces chopping block The Trump administration is eyeing major additional cuts to green energy projects beyond the billions of dollars in cuts it has already announced.  © Associated Press A list that circulated in Washington this week…
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Social media users love how protesters in Portland, Oregon, are countering ICE and the Trump administration’s fearmongering with weirdness.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s federalization and deployment of hundreds of National Guard members throughout Illinois.   U.S. District Judge April Perry, an appointee of former President Biden, partially granted state and city officials’ request for a temporary restraining order barring Trump from taking over National Guard troops and sending them across…
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Throughout his second term, President Trump has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president, his allies and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have renewed the push since Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan Trump proposed last month. The honor, first awarded in 1901 to France’s Frédéric Passy and…
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The dramatic announcement of a deal between Israel and Hamas has raised hopes that a horrific two-year conflict could be at its end. President Trump has been at the fore in lauding the deal, referring to it as a “momentous breakthrough” Thursday. Trump has also underscored what he sees as global support for the agreement…
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Republican Kevin Stitt said “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois governor JB Pritzker “sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Democratic lawmaker alleged Patel “clearly chose to protect and defend Donald Trump,” rather than Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on a fraud charge, becoming the second prominent foe of President Trump to face criminal charges after he vowed to seek retribution against his perceived enemies.   The indictment came in the Eastern District of Virginia following an investigation into allegations of mortgage fraud,…
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he would fire air traffic controllers who are skipping work because of the government shutdown.  “If we have a continual small subset of controllers that don’t show up to work … they’re the problem children,” Duffy said, according to CNN.  “We need more controllers, but we need the…
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Almost every Senate Republican on Thursday urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “reevaluate” whether a newly approved generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone should stay on the market.  The letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary from 51 of 53 Republican senators…
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