Month: December 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will speak with reporters Friday about the Trump administration’s foreign policy and national security agenda as President Trump’s first year back in office nears its end. From the shuttering of the U.S. Agency for International Development to implementing stricter limits on visas amid Trump’s crackdown on immigration to aiding in…

Claudio Neves Valente, 48, the suspected gunman in the recent Brown University and MIT shootings, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility Thursday night. Authorities told reporters that Neves Valente died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident at Brown University on Saturday left two students dead and several others injured. He has…

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Friday while he’d like to see the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) analysis of 2024 losses, the focus of the party should be forward-looking.  “I‘m always in favor of transparency … and greater knowledge about mistakes that may have been made,” Blumenthal told CNN. “Frankly, my focus is on the future.”…
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The governor even squeezed in an “Office” reference to put the president in his place.

Federal prosecutors attempted to persuade a grand jury to tack a third felony charge onto a failed indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) last week but fell short, court filings show. The sought charge was making a false statement to a financial institution, adding to another such charge and one count of…

Brown shooting suspect is dead, Kennedy family up in arms over new renaming of beloved arts center and Trump’s Hunger Games dream — just some of the stories HuffPost is following today.

A Reddit post from an unidentified user led police to the suspect in the Brown University shooting, which left two dead. An individual, who has been referenced as “John” on Providence police affidavits, reported seeing alleged gunman Claudio Neves Valente ahead of Saturday’s attack. Neves Valente posted about the encounter on the social media site…

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not be releasing the full Epstein files on Friday as required under new legislation, instead sending over a partial batch. Blanche told Fox News the Justice Department would release “several hundred thousand” documents on Friday, “and then over the next couple weeks, I…

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith criticized President Trump on Thursday for prolonging the release of files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting the president was seeking to protect “very influential people.” “I think that exists on both sides of the aisle, where there are some notable people that may have been aware of…

President Trump said Thursday he was not ruling out the possibility of war with Venezuela amid his administration’s escalating pressure campaign against the country and its leader, President Nicolás Maduro. “I don’t rule it out, no,” Trump told NBC News in an interview. “I don’t discuss it,” he added, when asked whether his administration’s recent…

TikTok on Thursday signed a deal to sell U.S. assets to three U.S. investors: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX. Nearly 50 percent of the assets — or 15 percent each — will be held by the three American companies. The rest will remain in the hands of affiliates of existing investors of TikTok’s parent company,…

President Trump on Thursday suspended a green card lottery program used by the suspected gunman in the Brown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology shootings to enter the U.S. The suspect, Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, entered the country in 2017 through the diversity visa (DV) program, which makes up to 55,000 immigrant visas…

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday hits the deadline set by Congress to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed last month, orders DOJ to release all unclassified records and documents it has that are tied to the convicted sex offender. The files have consumed President Trump’s MAGA base, and…

Julie Chrisley says she wants the show to be authentic and wants to cook things that people can actually make.

Speaking at his tightly orchestrated annual news conference, the Russian dictator said Moscow would make more gains by the year’s end.

“It’s really significant when someone like Donald Trump does this,” one psychologist explained. “It sends a signal that it’s acceptable to do this.”

The “Late Show” host mocked the renaming of the Kennedy Center by getting really personal with the president.

The late-night host pilloried the president for packing “a lot of crap” into his primetime address.

Host John Roberts checked Howard Lutnick on the president’s “mathematically impossible” claim.

The “Late Night” host scorched the president over his totally “unhinged” primetime address.

The U.S. military struck two alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing five “narco-terrorists” and bringing the total number of people killed in the Pentagon’s ongoing campaign to over 100.  Three people were killed on the first boat and two people were killed in the strike on the second vessel, the U.S….

A Wisconsin judge was found guilty late Thursday of obstruction for helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities after learning of his imminent arrest but acquitted of concealing him.  After six hours of deliberation, dragging into the night, a jury returned a split verdict against Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan — an extraordinary blow…
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A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on Thursday night after Colorado senators demanded that Congress stop President Trump’s efforts to dismantle a key climate agency. A Democratic senator involved in the negotiations over passing a five-bill package of appropriations…

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.

The Senate on Thursday greenlighted 97 lower-level nominees, marking the third tranche advanced by Republicans since they changed the chamber’s rules in September and one of their final acts of the year before departing for the holiday break. Senate Republicans voted 53-43 to put in place dozens of Trump administration choices to fill vacancies across…
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