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4+ min ago (1755+ words) President Donald Trump is all in on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's plan to exploit the shooting of two National Guard members in order to expand one of the Trump administration's most racist policies: the travel ban. Multiple U.S. officials told CBS News Tuesday that Trump's travel ban would be expanded to roughly 30 countries, up from 19. The Department of Homeland Security also released a statement promising that it would announce a slate of new additions to Trump's travel ban "soon." This announcement comes just days after an Afghan refugee was accused of shooting two guardsmen just blocks away from the White House, spurring the Trump administration to pause asylum case decisions for all nationalities and order a full-scale review of green card cases involving immigrants from the 19 countries currently subject to the travel ban. Not only is it not clear why…...

5+ min ago (252+ words) MAGA influencer Candace Owens insisted that murdered activist Charlie Kirk had been "betrayed" by leadership at Turning Point USA, the organization he founded. "I received information last night that put the final pieces together for me," Owens wrote on Tuesday. "I now can say with full confidence that I believe Charlie Kirk was betrayed by the leadership of Turning Point USA and some of the very people who eulogized him on stage." "Yes I will be naming names and providing evidence for my claims," she added. "And I am making a personal plea to every well-meaning person who donated to this Godforsaken organization to request a refund." Although Owens did not immediately provide details on the alleged betrayal, she has recently said Kirk's murder was a "multinationally planned event." Businessman John Mappin said that he was paying close attention to…...

6+ min ago (345+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Here are five of the wildest moments from Trump's Cabinet meeting. 1. Trump claimed to dramatically lower drug prices. Trump claimed that prescription drug prices soared under Biden but tumbled after he returned to the White House. And he specifically mentioned a weight loss drug, insisting that a "fat drug, F-A-T, for fat people" went from costing more than $1000 under Biden to $135 under his watch. "We have reduced drug prices by 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 percent, depending on the drug, depending on the company." 2. Trump called affordability a "Democrat scam." Democrats are blaming Trump's steep new tariffs for stubborn inflation, but Trump called affordability arguments a "Democrat scam." Trump said of affordability, "It doesn't mean anything to anybody. The word affordability is a Democrat scam. They say…...

8+ min ago (234+ words) The Trump administration is reportedly looking to dramatically reduce the number of people who visit Social Security field offices across the United States, a plan that Democratic lawmakers warned is yet another scheme to disrupt and ultimately cut benefits. One anonymous SSA staffer told the outlet that agency leadership wants "fewer people in the front door and they want all work that doesn't require direct customer interactions to be centralized." "They appear to be quietly killing field offices," the staffer said. The plan comes after the Trump administration carried out the largest staffing cut in SSA history, cutting the agency's workforce by around 7,000. The cut left one SSA worker for every 1,480 beneficiaries, resulting in understaffed field offices and overwhelmed phone operations. Beneficiaries have also repeatedly faced issues this year attempting to access the Social Security website, problems that SSA's plan…...

12+ min ago (999+ words) Teaching staff at a secondary school in Bacup, England are set to strike on December 3 to protest pupils being taught by a virtual teacher (VT). The action underlines the ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention and funding in UK state schools. In July, management at the Star Academies Trust took the decision to incorporate distance learning for top-set pupils at The Valley Leadership Academy in years 9-11 (13-16-year-olds)prompted by the chronic shortage of maths teachers which meant they could not recruit in the locality. According to the National Education Union (NEU), this support is not "guaranteed, so staff at The Valley decided to walk out. Further stoppages are planned for December 10 and 11, and January 6 to the 8 at the beginning of the next school term. NEU members balloted 82 percent in a 75 percent turnout to strike. The BBC reported that in…...

15+ min ago (227+ words) Well, I didn't do it to appoint my conservative relatives " or whatever the opposite of "disappoint' is. I got the tattoo in December 2024. I've lived the last year as someone who has stupid slut tattooed onto themselves. Despite plenty of hindsight and a few sit-down sessions to reflect on it, only one thing startles me: how mundane it feels. It didn't make me think less of myself. The people I want to see me naked don't think less of me for it. The skin in that area didn't melt off, and I doubt it will. In fact, as someone who spends most of my time looking away from my pelvis, I forget its existence until I'm nude or it's pointed out to me. It became refreshingly ordinary after the initial excitement that accompanies any new tattoo. Why'd I do it…...

19+ min ago (220+ words) Disgraced former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) showed up as a member of the media at Tuesday's Pentagon press briefing, according to journalist Aaron Rupar. Gaetz resigned from Congress on November 13, 2024 after President Donald Trump had announced his intent to nominate him for the position of Attorney General. That nomination was rendered null and void after a House Ethics Committee report that found "substantial evidence" he violated federal and state laws, including engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl, paying women for sex and drugs, and obstructing the investigation. Gaetz has denied the allegations and since then, he has hosted his own eponymous weeknight political talk show on the Trump-friendly One America News Network (OANN). Since then, the Pentagon press pool has been filled with MAGA influencers like Gaetz. So-called "MAGA whisperer" Laura Loomer just received her own credentials. National…...

22+ min ago (200+ words) Members of President Donald Trump's cabinet laughed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a joke about military strikes that kill alleged drug smugglers without a trial. During a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Hegseth bragged about "going after narco terrorists and designated terrorist organizations in our own hemisphere." "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they've been poisoning the American people," he continued. "So we're stopping the drugs, we're striking the boats, we're defeating narco terrorists." "We've had a bit of a pause because it's hard to find boats to strike right now." The remark prompted laughter from members of Trump's team " despite the attacks putting Hegseth in the crosshairs of war crime accusations. "Which is the entire point," Hegseth added. "Deterrence has to matter, not arrest and…...

23+ min ago (413+ words) CNN's Audie Cornish compared the unfolding Pentagon scandal to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has consumed much of President Donald Trump's second term so far. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has found himself in the crosshairs after the Washington Post reported that he ordered a follow-on attack against two survivors of a missile strike of an alleged drug smuggling boat, and the Trump administration has been scrambling to shield him from accountability for what has been described as a war crime or even murder. "Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral [Frank] Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. "Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated." Cornish asked her panelists on "CNN This Morning…...

30+ min ago (597+ words) Newsmax's senior judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, argued on Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be prosecuted for a war crime over his order to kill everyone aboard an alleged drug smuggling boat in early September. Napolitano replied, "Well, I wish the White House would reveal to us the laws on which the president is relying. He says he has an opinion from the Justice Department, but neither the Justice Department nor the White House will offer it for public scrutiny." "And it gives me no pleasure to say what I'm about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered. There's absolutely no legal basis for it," Napolitano continued, adding: Everybody…...