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3+ min ago (568+ words) U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend U.S. President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March The New York Times says the Roberts court is giving their favorite president passes he doesn't deserve. "The justices " seem friendlier to claims of executive power under [President Donald] Trump than they were under President Joe Biden. They blocked Mr. Biden's efforts to use his authority to forgive student loans and manage the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, they are enabling a Republican president as he goes much further while relying on weaker rationales," argued the Times. The court will soon hear a challenge to Trump's power to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission " an action that flies in the face of a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent. It will…...

7+ min ago (1702+ words) He just can't let it go. President Donald Trump is still over the moon after receiving the FIFA Peace Prize on Friday, an award invented expressly to stroke his ego. On Saturday morning, the president, after dashing off some angry rants at a CNN reporter and Fox and Friends, dreamily revisited the experience. "Such a great honor," Trump wrote on Truth Social, sharing a Newsmax article about the event. "Thank you FIFA, and have a historic World Cup!" Gianni Infantino, the president of the international soccer league, presented Trump with the brand new award at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. "This is your peace prize," Infantino said, as he handed the president a certificate, a trophy, and a medal. A beaming Trump responded by speaking about how truly honored he was to receive…...

7+ min ago (358+ words) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waffled when asked if he would make good on President Donald Trump's vow to release the video of the controversial double-tap airstrike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. Hegseth spoke at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday. During a question and answer session, moderator Lucas Tomlinson with Fox News asked, "After Admiral [Frank "Mitch'] Bradley's meetings from Capitol Hill with joint chiefs, President Trump said he would have no problem if the full video of the strike is released. When can we see that video? When will you release it?" "We are reviewing it right now to make sure sources, methods " I mean, it's an ongoing operation right now, TTPs," Hegseth said. "We have operators out there doing this now. Whatever we decide, we have to be responsible and we are reviewing it....

15+ min ago (180+ words) U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), 48, has been a consistent ally of Trump except in her push to release files related to the disgraced child sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein. She is known for dominating headlines regardless of what she's involved in. The comments were filled with confusion, with many assuming Mace was pregnant. The top comment is from a popular MAGA account, Noah Christopher, who simply wrote, "Are you pregnant?" Popular journalist Kristi Leigh suggested a cropping job, writing, "Cropping could save you from creating confusion. :/" Other notable accounts simply wrote things like, "When's the due date? Congrats," or, "Omg are you pregnant?!?!?!" The trend was also noticed by the conservative outlet OutKick, which published a piece called, "Nancy Mace's Hand Placement In This Christmas Picture, And What It Implies, Could Be A December Stunner." "Nancy Mace went to bed Friday night…...

37+ min ago (593+ words) A saddening certainty was hammered home on November 17, 2025, when not a single country stood up for them at the United Nations. The Security Council resolved to accept President Trump's plan for Gaza's future, a proposal that makes no effort to hold Israel and the U.S. accountable, in the near term, for war crimes and relentless ethnic cleansing. Anticipating what some call the "Gazafication" of the West Bank, human rights groups are calling on the Israeli military to cease their attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps. Most recently, the Israeli Defense Forces raided homes in the governorate of Tubas after expelling more than twenty families from the besieged Al Far'a refugee camp. Using jeeps, bulldozers, ATVs, rifles, and other equipment supplied by the Israeli government and military, settlers beat civilians with clubs, torch vehicles, steal livestock, and demolish homes. Those Israeli…...

37+ min ago (691+ words) Look, with the season changing into the weather Jack Frost lives for, we need to look out for ourselves; especially when it comes to our self-care routine. We're stocked up on moisturizers and lip balms for days, but for the afternoons we really want to feel like our best; we need a good perfume. A classic perfume can change it all up, making us feel like we really are put together. Luckily, we just found a hidden 90s gem on major sale! The Alfred Sung Shi Women's Perfume is a delicate, elegant perfume that can work with anyone! With fragrance... Look, with the season changing into the weather Jack Frost lives for, we need to look out for ourselves; especially when it comes to our self-care routine. We're stocked up on moisturizers and lip balms for days, but for the afternoons…...

39+ min ago (342+ words) Rosie O'Donnell's hatred of President Donald Trump led her therapist to recently plead with her to go two days without posting anything about the president on social media; O'Donnell, according to a Washington Post profile on Saturday, only lasted "a few hours" before she was compelled to post about Trump again. The comic's "fixation" on the president, as WaPo put it, has also become a concern for her longtime friends. One of those friends, Jeanne Kopetic, insisted O'Donnell has "got to disconnect" from following the news, because she is so consumed by what Trump does. "That kind of obsessiveness is why she knew she had to leave [the States]," WaPo reporter Geoff Edgers wrote. The article, titled "Rosie O'Donnell's life in exile" " although "self-exile" is a more appropriate description " looks at the star's life in Ireland, where she moved following…...

40+ min ago (576+ words) As Trump continues to lodge threats against the Bolivarian Republic. The unprecedented military buildup in the region now consists of aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), F-35 fighter jets, at least eight war ships, and 15,000 US troops, as well as coordinated US military activity in Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic. As the Trump cabinet prepares for fresh violations of international law, they are already feeling the backlash of those already committed. Committees in US Congress have launched investigations into US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for crimes related to missile strikes on boats in the Caribbean, in which the order was reportedly to "kill everybody. "These are serious charges, and that's the reason we're going to have special oversight, said Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as reported by…...

41+ min ago (803+ words) All are welcome if you believe all should be welcome," she said. Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams recently declared that transphobes, among others with bigoted beliefs, should not feel welcome at her concerts. I've always said, all are welcome at our shows," Williams told Clash. But I don't want racists around, and I don't want sexist people around, and I don't want people there who think that trans people are a burden." Williams said that boundary is a hard line for me now." I hope it naturally happens that people who do harbour those harmful ideologies aren't going to feel welcome, because they're going to walk in the door and realize that the gang's all here, all banded together around something positive." She added, All are welcome if you believe all should be welcome" If you don't believe that, you're…...

41+ min ago (552+ words) A man covers his face in shame or regret or confusion with a neon pink blinking gender sign. How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It's anonymous! Dear How to Do It, On Halloween my husband Brian and I (both of us are men) attended a party. I lost track of him for a while and when I found him he was completely hammered. Fortunately I was sober enough to get us home. Yesterday he tearfully confessed something that absolutely blew me away. Apparently, he had had sex with a woman while at the party. Brian had a few relationships with women in the past before he came out, but I thought he was done with that. He said it was a moment of weakness while he was…...