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Trump melts down over G20 summit location

Story by Erik De La Garza • 6h • 2 min read President Donald Trump erupted Friday on Truth Social, declaring it a “total disgrace” that next year’s G20 summit will be held in South Africa – and vowing that no U.S. officials will attend the global gathering as long as “human rights abuses” continue there. “It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump wrote Friday. “Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) ar ...

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Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions

Donald Trump has exempted Hungary from sanctions over its continued purchases of Russian oil and gas for one year, a White House official has confirmed to BBC News. Earlier, the US president said he would consider an opt-out for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a close Trump ally who has maintained good relations with Russia throughout the Ukraine war. Speaking on Friday during Orban's visit to the White House, Trump said an exemption was under consideration because "it's very diffi ...

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Private prisons see record revenue growth under Trump administration's immigration surge

Posted 6:42 PM, Nov 07, 2025 Two of the nation's biggest operators of private immigrant detention centers are announcing major revenue growth. One of those companies is GEO Group, with 6,000 beds at their immigration detention centers around the country. This includes Delaney Hall in New Jersey, where a congresswoman's clash with ICE agents led to her arrest in the spring. GEO Group's third quarter update shows revenues increasing 13%, fueled by contracts with ICE, helping to give investors a ...

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Newsom brutally mocks Republicans suing California over redistricting map: 'Good luck, losers'

Friday 07 November 2025 18:01 EST Shortly after California voters approved the new U.S. House map, Republicans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday. Backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Proposition 50 is designed to assist Democrats flip as many as five congressional House seats in the 2026 midterms. Newsom's office said on a social media post that the state hasn't reviewed the lawsuit but is confident the challenge will fail. “Good luck, losers,” the post reads. The lawsuit alleges the map-makers ...

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Josh Shapiro Calls Out JD Vance's Appalachia Roots In Slam Over SNAP Benefits Cut

Nov 7th, 2025, 5:39 pm Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) delivered a blistering rebuke of Vice President JD Vance at a Philadelphia press conference on Friday, fuming that he “turned his damn back” on the Appalachian communities he once claimed to represent and of overseeing policies that leave Americans “hungry.” Shapiro’s comments came after he was asked by a reporter about Vance’s public condemnation of a court-ordered directive to release SNAP funding as “absurd.” The governor clap ...

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Democratic leader offers deal to reopen government, but Republicans sneer

Published Fri, Nov 7 2025 2:50 PM EST Updated 31 Min Ago Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer on Friday offered a new plan to Republican lawmakers that would allow the U.S. government to reopen from a shutdown that began Oct. 1. But Republicans quickly dismissed Schumer's proposal. That deal hinges on protecting enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for at least one year in exchange for Democrats dropping their demand that a long-term extension of ACA tax credits be included in a stopgap gover ...

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Questions raised as Biden impeachment witness goes missing from prison after lying to FBI

Travis Gettys November 7, 2025 1:02PM ET ..................... Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to making up a story that former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter had gotten millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian energy company, but journalist Jacqueline Sweet reported on her Disaster Girl Substack page that he's apparently no longer serving a six-year prison term imposed days before Trump returned to office. "Despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russ ...

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Treasury official warns of widespread economic damage if Supreme Court rules against Trump's tariffs

The Trump administration is warning that if the Supreme Court were to dismantle President Trump's tariffs, it would cause "unnecessary economic pain and hardship," damaging financial markets and confidence. "To the extent that the policy would be reversed or watered down, that would damage financial markets," Counselor to the Treasury Secretary Joe Lavorgna said this week in an interview with Yahoo Finance. "You've seen record high equity markets, record low credit spre ...

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Cornell agrees to pay $60 million in agreement with Trump administration

November 7, 2025 at 12:38 p.m. EST Cornell University agreed to pay $30 million to the federal government and invest an additional $30 million in research on farming, in a deal with the Trump administration that closes federal investigations and restores the university's research funding. The agreement "explicitly recognizes Cornell's right to independently establish our policies and procedures, choose whom to hire and admit, and determine what we teach, without intrusive government moni ...

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ICE is recruiting NYPD officers after Zohran Mamdani's victory

PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2025, 2:11 PM ET US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory to recruit police officers to leave the New York Police Department. On Friday, ICE posted a recruitment message to social media calling on police officers to “Defend the Homeland” and “work for a President and a Secretary who support and defend law enforcement—not defund or demonize it.” ICE’s message references Mamdani’s history of police criticism, including his past suppo ...

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U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow

37 min ago - Nov. 8, 2025, 6:00 AM EST Nine seismic stations in Alaska are set to go dark this month, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data used to determine whether an earthquake will send a destructive wave barreling toward the West Coast. The stat ... (NBC News)

Qcells furloughs 1,000 workers at US solar factories due to stalled shipments

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Justice Department Issues Flurry Of Subpoenas In Fresh Inquiry Into Trump-Russia Probe: AP Sources

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Letitia James calls mortgage fraud case against her vindictive and asks judge to dismiss it

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Conservative Warning To Judges: Get On Board With Trump's Agenda Or Get Impeached

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Senate Fails to Advance Bill to Pay Essential Workers During Shutdown

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Private prisons see record revenue growth under Trump administration's immigration surge

3 hrs ago - Posted 6:42 PM, Nov 07, 2025 Two of the nation's biggest operators of private immigrant detention centers are announcing major revenue growth. One of those companies is GEO Group, with 6,000 beds at their immigration detention centers around the coun ... (Scripps News)

National Mall trust avoids most lawmaker questions about White House ballroom project

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UPS and FedEx ground some cargo planes after Kentucky air disaster

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Newsom brutally mocks Republicans suing California over redistricting map: 'Good luck, losers'

4 hrs ago - Friday 07 November 2025 18:01 EST Shortly after California voters approved the new U.S. House map, Republicans filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday. Backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Proposition 50 is designed to assist Democrats flip as many as five cong ... (The Independent)

Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions

4 hrs ago - Donald Trump has exempted Hungary from sanctions over its continued purchases of Russian oil and gas for one year, a White House official has confirmed to BBC News. Earlier, the US president said he would consider an opt-out for Hungarian Prime Minis ... (BBC)

Serbia clears the way for controversial Trump-linked property plan

4 hrs ago - Serbia's parliament has passed a law which paves the way for a controversial property development led by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in the capital Belgrade. His firm Affinity Partners has sought to build a luxury hotel and a ... (BBC)

Senate Republican: Leadership 'ignores me' on shutdown solution

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Josh Shapiro Calls Out JD Vance's Appalachia Roots In Slam Over SNAP Benefits Cut

5 hrs ago - Nov 7th, 2025, 5:39 pm Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) delivered a blistering rebuke of Vice President JD Vance at a Philadelphia press conference on Friday, fuming that he “turned his damn back” on the Appalachian communities he on ... (MEDIAite)

Trump administration looks to delay last round of student loan relief in Borrower Defense settlement

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Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump's attacks

6 hrs ago - Fri 7 Nov 2025 15.05 EST Last modified on Fri 7 Nov 2025 16.55 EST Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned ... (The Guardian)

Jack Smith makes a sly jab at Trump in new letter from his lawyers

7 hrs ago - November 7, 2025 4:29PM ET Former special counsel Jack Smith sent Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) a new letter about setting the record straight with his public testimony, Politico reported on Friday. The letter, written by lawyers fo ... (Raw Story)

Trump melts down over G20 summit location

9 hrs ago - Story by Erik De La Garza • 6h • 2 min read President Donald Trump erupted Friday on Truth Social, declaring it a “total disgrace” that next year’s G20 summit will be held in South Africa – and vowing that no U.S. offi ... (msn.com)

Former President Joe Biden in Omaha says Trump taking 'wrecking ball' to America

10 hrs ago - Josh Reyes Nov 7, 2025 Updated 22 mins ago Former President Joe Biden enjoyed a hero's welcome in Omaha as a crowd of Nebraska Democrats chanted, "Thank you, Joe," after Biden delivered a message of resilience. Biden was the keynote speaker at the a ... (Omaha World Herald)