Month: December 2025

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) on Friday said the Justice Department (DOJ) violated the law by releasing only a portion of information tied to its probe of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Trump last month, required officials to produce files, images, flight logs and…

The United States is interdicting and seizing a vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, U.S. officials said.

Whoopi Goldberg on Friday took a page from President Trump’s playbook, accusing Trump of suffering from “Obama and Biden Derangement’ Syndrome. Trump addressed the nation earlier this week in a late-night speech, touting his accomplishments since returning to the Oval Office and declaring that he inherited a mess, including affordability issues and economic woes, from…

“And then you have ‘Marjorie Traitor Brown,’ I call her … because green turns to brown under stress,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina.

Brett Smiley, the Democratic mayor of Providence, R.I., is asking the FBI to issue a reward to the anonymous Reddit user whose tip led to the suspect in last week’s Brown University shooting. The FBI offered a reward of up to $50,000 for any information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the individual…
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The State Department on Friday restricted the visas of two Honduran officials over national security concerns, claiming they tried to impede on a special vote count following the nation’s election last month. The Trump administration revoked a visa for Mario Morazán, a magistrate of the Electoral Justice Tribunal. Marlon Ochoa, a member of the Honduras…

President Trump, while speaking to reporters in North Carolina on Friday, boasted about his claim against the federal government requesting a large payout in taxpayer money over legal battles he faced after leaving office in 2021. Turmp submitted two claims against the Justice Department (DOJ) seeking up to $230 million in damages, The New York…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a lead co-sponsor for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, said Friday that lawmakers were mulling possible impeachment moves after the Justice Department (DOJ) released a tranche of heavily redacted files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Khanna raised questions about the “quality” of the documents released and the…

Maria Farmer, among the accusers of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, rejoiced Friday after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released swaths of files tied to its probe of the disgraced financier. Farmer, who detailed reporting Epstein’s crimes to the FBI in 1996, said authorities “hung up” on her mid-sentence at the time. A…

“Welcome to what the world realized years ago, Rob.”

“So he watched the Hunger Games and thought that was a great idea.”

President Trump is closing out the first year of his second term with a slight rebound in his approval ratings, but the numbers are still far lower than where they stood at the beginning of the year as concerns over the economy take hold. Trump’s approval tumbled to a second-term low of 41 percent last…

Sean Strickland said he’d take part in the fighting event on the South Lawn under one condition.

President Trump on Friday attacked former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and claimed she became a “stone cold liberal,” asking supporters at a rally, “What the hell happened?” Trump revived the feud by calling her “Marjorie Traitor Brown,” which he said was “because green turns to brown under stress.” “But what the hell happened…

President Trump on Friday told supporters that Democrats will shut down the government over health care in January, after Affordable Health Care (ACA) tax credits are set to expire going into the new year. “The problem is that Democrats will shut down the government because they are beholden … to the insurance companies,” Trump said…

Andrew Weissmann said a “huge part” of the administration’s Epstein scandal is now the material that the DOJ isn’t sharing with the public.

The order, titled “Ensuring American Space Superiority,” emphasizes the role of the upcoming Artemis missions for Americans to journey to the moon and Mars.

President Trump will hit the next stop in his tour to tout his economic agenda on Friday evening: North Carolina. Trump has rated the economy under his second term an “A plus plus…” in recent weeks, arguing that affordability concerns and inflation were inherited from former President Biden and are being fixed by his administration….

The University of Virginia’s (UVa) board on Friday announced that Darden School of Business dean Scott C. Beardsley will serve as the university’s next president, defying Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s request to choose a new president after she is sworn in. The board unanimously voted for Beardsley. In a statement, the board said Beardsley “will…

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday released a tranche of thousands of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that included public court records, photographs, flight logs and other materials. The release came in response to a law that garnered near unanimous support, with only one House member voting against it that gave…

“This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance,” Hegseth said on social media.

The Justice Department has appealed the dismissal of cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), two of President Trump’s political adversaries. The prosecutions were thrown out after a federal judge found the lawyer Trump hand-picked to lead the office prosecuting them, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. U.S.…
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Kerry Kennedy, daughter of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, said she will “grab a pickax” to remove President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center after Trump’s name was added to the building Friday. “Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going…

The U.S. military conducted strikes against several Islamic State group sites in Syria on Friday, retaliating a week after two U.S. service members and one civilian were killed by a gunman tied to ISIS in an ambush attack. U.S. forces, as part of “Operation Hawkeye Strike,” eliminated ISIS fighters, weapons sites and infrastructure in response…
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President Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan to be the next leader of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) on Friday, a week after Adm. Alvin Holsey formally retired from the post two years ahead of schedule.  Holsey — who spent more than three decades in the Navy and since November 2024 had led Southcom, which…