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Trump's Motorcade Reportedly Stops At a 'Random' FL Strip Mall So He Could Buy Marble For His Ballroom Project

President Donald Trump reportedly ordered his motorcade to stop at a Florida strip mall Friday morning so he could purchase supplies for his $400 million White House ballroom. White House pool reports said the presidential motorcade “arrived at a shopping center in Lake Worth, Florida at 9:46 AM” so Trump could go “shopping at Arc Stone & Tile,” an importer of Italian marble. When pressed, a White House official said that the president “is purchasing lake and onyx, at his own expense, for the ...

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Iranian officials warn Trump not to cross 'red line' over threats to intervene in protests

US president’s posts that US will come to the rescue of protesters prompt warnings of ‘regret-inducing response’ William Christou Fri 2 Jan 2026 08.10 EST ............. In a social media post on Friday, Trump said that if Iran were to shoot and kill protesters, the US would “come to their rescue”. He added: “We are locked and loaded, and ready to go”, without explaining what that might mean in practice. Protests in Iran are in their sixth day, and are the largest since 2022, when the dea ...

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Prominent Jan. 6 defendants plan to march to Capitol to mark 5 years since attack

Updated on: January 2, 2026 / 12:47 PM EST / CBS News Washington — The former leader of the far-right group the Proud Boys and other defendants convicted for crimes connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol are set to return to Washington, D.C., for a march marking five years since the attack. The event is billed as a memorial march honoring Ashli Babbitt and four others who died on or after Jan. 6. Babbitt, a supporter of President Trump's, was shot and killed by a U.S. Capi ...

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Potential New Year's Eve terror attack thwarted in North Carolina, authorities say

A potential New Year's Eve terror attack was thwarted in North Carolina, authorities announced Friday. An 18-year-old suspect is under arrest, and had been planning the attack for about a year, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson told reporters during a news conference. The suspect, identified as Christian Sturdivant, allegedly planned to use knives and hammers in the attack, Ferguson said. When the FBI executed a search warrant at his home, investigators found those weapons hidden under his bed and n ...

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Federal judge says substantial evidence Kristi Noem promoted racist theory to strip immigrants of protected status

Jan 2nd, 2026, 11:05 am A California federal judge on New Year's Eve bashed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for deciding in a "pretextual" way that some 60,000 Honduran, Nepali, and Nicaraguan immigrants should be stripped of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), finding it "plausible" that "racial animus" explains the "arbitrary and capricious" behavior. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson, a 2022 appointee of then-President Joe Biden, began her Wednesday partia ...

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Danish PM strikes defiant tone on Greenland in New Year's speech as Trump rehashes annexation plans

(The Independent) The prime minister of Denmark has issued a defiant rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump in her annual New Year's speech, insisting that it will "stand firm" against his plans to take over Greenland. In a televised message Thursday evening, Mette Frederiksen, of the ruling Social Democrats party, said she was rapidly beefing up the Scandinavian kingdom's military force and strengthening security in the Arctic. Her theme was echoed by King Frederik X's annual New Year's Eve address, who highlighted new military training programs and praised Greenlanders' "strength and pride" in a "turbulent time".

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Jack Smith says Trump acknowledged to others that he lost 2020 election

(Reuters) Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel who brought two now-dropped criminal cases against U.S. President Donald Trump, said that the Republican had acknowledged to others that he lost the 2020 election against former President Joe Biden, according to a transcript of a testimony by Smith.

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Fore! Trump spent nearly a quarter of 2025 at his golf clubs

(The Independent) President Donald Trump has spent nearly a quarter of his second term at a golf club, according to a tracking website. The 79-year-old has visited golf clubs at least 79 times since taking office on January 20, 2025, or about 22.8 percent of the presidency, according to DidTrumpGolfToday.com. The tracker, which compiles data based on Trump’s public schedule, does not note how many of those days the president actually hit the courses. It also does not include data from December 2025. Since returning to office, Trump’s golf club visits have cost taxpayers an estimated $110,600,000, according to the website.

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Wicked composer says he'd never 'set foot' in Trump-Kennedy Center as he cancels performance over rebrand

(The Independent) Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz has pulled out of a scheduled performance at the Kennedy Center over President Donald Trump’s renaming of the historic venue. Three-time Oscar winner Schwartz, 77, has joined a growing list of artists to boycott the cultural center over Trump’s potentially illegal attempt to rebrand the institution as the Trump-Kennedy Center. Schwartz, who was scheduled to host the Washington National Opera Gala at the Kennedy Center on May 16, told Newsday there was “no way” he would enter the venue now.

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JUST IN: Another Board Member Bails on Heritage Foundation in Wake of Kevin Roberts-Tucker Carlson Controversy

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Prominent Jan. 6 defendants plan to march to Capitol to mark 5 years since attack

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Federal judge says substantial evidence Kristi Noem promoted racist theory to strip immigrants of protected status

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Potential New Year's Eve terror attack thwarted in North Carolina, authorities say

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