Month: October 2025

Vice President Vance on Wednesday discussed his close relationship with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, following President Trump’s suggestion that they could succeed him on a 2028 ticket. The New York Post’s Miranda Devine raised the issue with Vance on the podcast “Pod Force One” and noted Trump has not specified who would be president…
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Paramount is slashing hundreds of jobs as part of a broader effort to trim down the company’s expenditures, the latest chapter in its transformation since the legacy media brand was bought by entertainment studio Skydance this summer. In a memo sent to staff on Wednesday morning and obtained by The Hill, the company’s chief executive…
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Human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States may have committed a war crime with a springtime strike on a prison in Yemen. The group claimed Wednesday its own investigation found “that a US air strike on a migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen, on 28 April 2025 that killed and…
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A federal judge disqualified President Trump’s pick for chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles from several cases after finding he is serving in the temporary post unlawfully. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright. ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, should have left the position by the end of July, when…
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“The Trump administration has pulled a complete 180,” an administrative law expert tells HuffPost

President Trump floated working with Democrats on an alternative to ObamaCare on Wednesday, saying the two parties could come up with a “much better” option.  “We have to fix health care because ObamaCare is a disaster,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to South Korea.  “When you see the increases in ObamaCare,…
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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on Tuesday urged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to stop sharing criticism about GOP lawmakers’ approach to solving the lapse in Affordable Care Act subsidies and present her own plan.  “If this is something she‘s passionate about, put pen to paper, write a bill, present an option,” Moreno said during an…
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President George W. Bush’s march to war in Iraq was a formative moment for me as a high school sophomore in Indiana. Like millions of Americans, I watched in disbelief as Congress, cowed into compliance by the horrors of September 11 and misled by the White House, ultimately granted Bush sweeping military authority under the…
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Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D) said he will not move forward with a mid-cycle redistricting push in his state, warning colleagues that the risk would be “catastrophic.” In a “Dear Colleagues” letter dated Tuesday, the Democratic leader outlined the reasons he is bucking many of his fellow Democrats who have pushed him to pursue…
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South Korean President wooed President Trump on Wednesday, gifting him a replica of an historic golden crown and a coveted medal, while the nations searched for an agreement on trade in the latest stop on Trump’s Asia swing this week. Trump attended the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Gyeongju, South Korea. He said Seoul…
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The Trump administration’s tariffs could make holiday shopping more expensive this year, pushing up prices on imported goods from clothing to electronics. A new LendingTree analysis estimates that if current tariffs had been in effect last year, American consumers would have faced an additional $28.6 billion holiday gift burden — about $132 per shopper. “For…
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Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, becoming the first African to do so.

A Toyota executive pushed back on President Trump’s recent claim that the company pledged to invest $10 billion into U.S. auto plants but stressed the automaker‘s commitment to continued investment. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo, Toyota executive Hiroyuki Ueda said he thinks the $10 billion Trump mentioned…
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But the ABC News correspondent hinted at a twist to come in the Trump presidency.

South Korea gifted President Trump a golden crown and a coveted medal in a show of flattery during Trump’s visit to the country on Wednesday.  South Korean President Lee Jae Myung presented his U.S. counterpart with the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, South Korea’s highest honor, as well as a replica of a historic gold crown.…
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President Trump said early Wednesday that the U.S. has “pretty much” reached a trade deal with South Korea.  “We reached a deal. We did a lot of different things. Great session,” Trump told reporters, according to a White House pool report. “We came to a conclusion on a lot of very different items.” The White House…
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The president held court on Air Force One on his way to South Korea.

California voters appear likely to approve a new Democratic-friendly map next week, a move that would deliver a major political win for Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) as he mulls a possible White House bid. Public polling indicates that Proposition 50, which would enact a new set of congressional lines that gives Democrats a handful of…
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When President Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping later Wednesday, he will be extending a hand to a leader that Washington and national security experts have identified as the biggest threat to American global dominance.  Trump’s main priorities in courting Xi are advancing a trade deal, securing American access to Chinese critical minerals, increasing…
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Few politicians have more on the line outside the actual candidates than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in next week’s New York City mayoral election. The New York progressive has been a staunch supporter of Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who won the Democratic Party’s nomination and is the favorite to win the election. As…
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The White House is in no rush to mediate a deal to end the government shutdown, lacking any urgency to help lawmakers reach an agreement as pressure increases on both parties to solve the stand off. President Trump has had no direct communication with top Democrats since the shutdown began nearly one month ago. In…
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Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and furloughed workers — as they’re under new pressure from the nation’s largest federal workers union to pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government. They also plan to introduce legislation to pay for Supplemental…
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The Trump-trolling show also put a satanic spin on the president’s East Wing teardown.

Donald Trump’s granddaughter, currently No. 461 in the AJGA Girls ranking, will play in a LPGA event that typically has one of the strongest fields outside the majors.

The late night host said it’s all about avoiding another issue.