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Crockett: MTG couldn't 'take the heat' from Trump

11/23/2025 11:01 AM EST Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Sunday appeared to show little sympathy for her colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican announced her upcoming resignation from Congress. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” the Texas Democrat, long a foe of President Donald Trump, said Greene’s decision came after she was on “the opposite side of the president” for only one week. “You’re on the other side of the president for one week, an ...

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'People better get fired': GOP lawmaker puts Trump admin on notice for latest 'buffoonery'

November 23, 2025 7:40AM ET A Republican congressman who serves as a member of the House Armed Services Committee put the Trump administration on notice this weekend over what some outside observers have dubbed "one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history." Controversy erupted from the Department of State after a Ukrainian proposal was reported to have been provided by Russian officials. Some administration officials reportedly affirmed that assessment, while others at the ...

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Congress is considering pre-disclosing their stock trades. Some see a distraction from the need for a ban.

Sun, November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM EST A formal debate over lawmaker stock trading got underway on Capitol Hill this past week and injected a new term into the now years-long debate: pre-disclosure. As lawmakers outlined it, pre-disclosure of stock trades could provide a way to limit congressional day trading while still allowing lawmakers to play the market. "I think pre-disclosure is something that we ought to consider," offered the Manhattan Institute's James Copland as he testi ...

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Defiant GOP congressman rejects push by party bosses to drop out of Texas primary, scrambling race for Senate majority

Updated Nov 23, 2025, 12:02 PM ET PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2025, 7:01 AM ET GOP leaders in Washington are ramping up pressure on Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt to drop out of the Texas Senate race, warning that his candidacy could cost their party tens of millions of dollars and even upend their midterm map. But a defiant Hunt told CNN in an interview that he is “absolutely” staying in the heated three-way race against long-time incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and firebrand Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ...

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Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan

Below is the text of a European counter-proposal to the United States' draft 28-point Ukraine peace plan, seen by Reuters on Sunday. The counter-proposal, drafted by Europe's E3 powers of Britain, France and Germany, takes the U.S. plan as its basis but then goes through it point by point with suggested changes and deletions. ...

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Trump teaming up with Jack Nicklaus to revamp 'president's golf course' at Joint Base Andrews

Updated 7:18 PM EST, November 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews — adding a site long known as the “president’s golf course” to his long list of construction projects. The president took an aerial tour of the Courses at Andrews aboard Marine One on Saturday, and promised, “We’re going to do some work” there, as well as to other parts of the base. “We’re doing some fix- ...

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Trump's Net Worth Drops $1.1 Billion

12h Topline President Donald Trump’s net worth has declined $1.1 billion since September, as stock in his family’s social media and crypto company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), traded at all-time lows this week. Key Facts Trump’s $6.2 billion net worth is down from a record $7.3 billion in September. The decline comes as his technology company stock TMTG, which trades under the ticker DJT, dropped to $10.18CK Friday, near an all-time low, amid a steep dip in bitcoin and other t ...

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Trump administration cannot expand rapid deportations, US appeals court rules

November 22, 2025 7:34 PM EST Updated 9 hours ago Nov 22 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to clear the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to expand a fast-track deportation process to allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far away from the border. A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to put on hold the central part of a ruling by a lower-court judge who had found that the administr ...

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TACO Trump Chickens Out of Sending Troops to New York

Published Nov. 22 2025 3:35PM EST Donald Trump is no longer keen on deploying the National Guard to New York City after his chummy meeting with the Big Apple’s new mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani. When asked by reporters Saturday if he was still interested in sending the National Guard to his home city, Trump, 79, said, “If they need it. Right now, other places need it more. We had a very good meeting yesterday. We talked about that. But if they need it, I would do it.” The statement is a stunn ...

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Democrats plan full-court press on DOJ to release Epstein files

12h Democrats won a huge victory this week in getting Republicans to enact legislation compelling the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein. Their next battle is keeping the pressure on the Justice Department to comply. Democrats are eyeing a series of tactical maneuvers — letters, lawsuits, additional subpoenas and votes of contempt — designed to keep the spotlight on the issue and ensure the documents see the light of day. They’re bracing for a brawl. “It will ...

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Kelly: 'We've heard very little' from Republicans since Trump's sedition posts

32 min ago - 11/23/25 3:07 PM ET Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday called on Republicans in Congress to denounce President Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who said that service members can disobey illegal orders. “We&# ... (The Hill)

Woman in Slender Man stabbing is missing after cutting off monitoring device, authorities say

3 hrs ago - A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age 12 to please the online horror character Slender Man is missing after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home, authorities said Sunday. Madison po ... (LA Times)

Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho,' 'Andy Warhol's Frankenstein,' Dies at 81

4 hrs ago - Nov 23, 2025 4:02pm PT By Jack Dunn Udo Kier, a German actor and cult icon who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning, according to his partner, artist Delbert McBride. He was 81. Among the m ... (Variety)

Airlines cancel flights to Venezuela after FAA warns of worsening security, military activity

5 hrs ago - Updated 12:45 PM CST, November 23, 2025 CARACAS (AP) — International airlines increasingly canceled flights to Venezuela on Sunday after t he U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots to use caution when flying in the country’s air ... (AP)

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem admits to handing out 'fake' bonus checks for photo op: report

7 hrs ago - November 23, 2025 9:20AM ET U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem admitted over the weekend to handing out "fake" checks, according to a new report. In an article called "ICE Barbie Makes Big Show of Handing Out Fake Bonus Checks," the Daily B ... (Raw Story)

In Russian-Occupied Mariupol, Everything Ukrainian Must Go

7 hrs ago - Full/gift article at link, look at the pictures "... More than three years after Russian troops captured Mariupol in May 2022, after a brutal three-month siege, the Kremlin is pouring billions of dollars into remaking the city, constructing scores of ... (NYT)

US, Ukraine say they have an 'updated and refined' peace framework, but questions remain

7 hrs ago - November 23, 2025 6:58 PM EST Updated 15 mins ago GENEVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russiathat apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by th ... (Reuters)

Bessent Says Health-Care Announcement Coming This Week

8 hrs ago - 8h (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is working on bringing down US health-care costs and an announcement to address the issue is planned for this week. “We believe health care’s going to come dow ... (msn/Bloomberg)

Epstein survivor condemns Trump for calling file release fight a 'hoax'

8 hrs ago - Sun 23 Nov 2025 09.16 EST First published on Sun 23 Nov 2025 07.00 EST A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse has condemned Donald Trump for dismissing the victims’ fight for transparency as a “hoax”. Shortly after signing a bill t ... (The Guardian)

Kelly says Trump should understand his words could have "serious consequences"

9 hrs ago - Updated on: November 23, 2025 / 2:32 PM EST Washington — Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona criticized President Trump for his recent comments, in which the president accused him and other Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior," with Kelly saying ... (CBS News)

No recession risk for US economy as a whole after $11 billion shutdown hit, Bessent says

9 hrs ago - November 23, 2025 12:22 PM EST Updated 5 hours ago WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said the 43-day government shutdown caused an $11 billion permanent hit to the U.S. economy, but he was optimistic about grow ... (Reuters)

Leading Democrat calls rise in ICE detention deaths under Trump "stunning"

10 hrs ago - 12h. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat, told Newsweek on Friday that the number of deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention is “unprecedented” after almost two decades monitoring conditions.  ... (msn/Newsweek)

The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal

10 hrs ago - Haaretz Today The Epstein Chaos Has Begun: Why Netanyahu Is Sharing Leftist Conspiracy Theories About a Mossad Sex Cabal It is not every day that a right-wing populist world leader reposts an article by Jacobin magazine, the small New York-based soci ... (Haaretz)

'People better get fired': GOP lawmaker puts Trump admin on notice for latest 'buffoonery'

10 hrs ago - November 23, 2025 7:40AM ET A Republican congressman who serves as a member of the House Armed Services Committee put the Trump administration on notice this weekend over what some outside observers have dubbed "one of the biggest foreign policy scan ... (Raw Story)

US touts progress in talks with Ukraine, but Russia's stance remains to be seen

10 hrs ago - • US Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted “tremendous progress” in today’s talks with Ukrainian officials in Geneva, Switzerland, saying the sticking points on the Trump administration’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal are  ... (CNN)

Big changes to the agency charged with securing elections lead to midterm worries

11 hrs ago - Updated 12:29 PM EST, November 23, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Since it was created in 2018, the federal government’s cybersecurity agency has helped warn state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign governments, show ... (AP)

Congress is considering pre-disclosing their stock trades. Some see a distraction from the need for a ban.

11 hrs ago - Sun, November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM EST A formal debate over lawmaker stock trading got underway on Capitol Hill this past week and injected a new term into the now years-long debate: pre-disclosure. As lawmakers outlined it, pre-disclosure of stock t ... (Yahoo! Fnance)

Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan

11 hrs ago - Below is the text of a European counter-proposal to the United States' draft 28-point Ukraine peace plan, seen by Reuters on Sunday. The counter-proposal, drafted by Europe's E3 powers of Britain, France and Germany, takes the U.S. plan as its basis ... (Reuters)

Trump faces rare rift with Florida Republicans over offshore drilling plan

12 hrs ago - 11/23/25 12:00 PM ET Florida Republicans are fuming as the Trump administration proposes to open up new drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. “The new maps released today by @SecretaryBurgum and @Interior outlining potential new offshore oil d ... (The Hill)

Crockett: MTG couldn't 'take the heat' from Trump

12 hrs ago - 11/23/2025 11:01 AM EST Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Sunday appeared to show little sympathy for her colleague Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Georgia Republican announced her upcoming resignation from Congress. In an interview with CNN’s Jake ... (Politico)

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