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14+ min ago (336+ words) Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy'scored a group interview with eight wives of President Donald Trump's cabinet on Saturday " and actress Cheryl Hines, the wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., admitted it has been "fascinating" to get a behind-the-scenes look at the administration. Or, as Campos-Duffy put it, "you're seeing the sausage being made." That comment drew a laugh from Hines and and a few other wives, with the Curb Your Enthusiasm star confirming, "the sausage being made " yes, yes." Hines was not asked about her husband's alleged "digital" affair with writer Olivia Nuzzi, which has become a viral story again over the last month. Campos-Duffy then moved to asking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's wife, Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth,'what the "biggest surprise" has been during their first year; Hegseth said she has been pleasantly surprised by "how quickly" her family…...

14+ min ago (206+ words) President Donald Trump is gearing up to watch Saturday's Army-Navy football game in Baltimore, Maryland, and insisted ahead of the matchup that "everyone" was asking for his take on the highly anticipated bout. "Getting ready to land at Fort McHenry for my short drive to the Army-Navy Game," Trump wrote Saturday on his social media platform Truth Social. "Everyone is asking who am I supporting, Army or Navy? My answer is: "You must be joking if you think I'm going to give you that answer!' The annual tradition of pitting two largest U.S. military branches against each other began as far back as 1890, with the Navy continuing to lead the series with 63-55, which includes a 14-game winning streak from 2002 to 2015. Last year's game saw Navy win out with a score of 31-13. Trump has attended several professional and college football games in…...

19+ min ago (230+ words) While none of Sarah Ferguson's pals are standing by her amid the Epstein scandal, some of the members of the British royal family are. At this point, everyone knows about her close bond with her controversial ex-husband, Andrew Windsor-Mountbatten, and of course, her resurfaced bond with late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. But it seems that's not enough to cut ties with her for some. Many have wondered how her daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, are handling the news of their parents' being disgraced from royal life and the public eye. They've mostly kept a low profile, and even skipped out on the annual Together at Christmas carol service the Wales family hosts. However, it seems that as of right now, the daughters are on their parents' side. In case you missed it, in details obtained by Hello Magazine, it seems…...

26+ min ago (861+ words) CODEPINK is a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs. Founded in autumn 2002 as a grassroots effort to prevent the US war on Iraq, we continue to organize for justice for Iraqis and to hold war criminals accountable. We actively oppose the continuing U.S. war in Afghanistan, torture, the detention center at Guantanamo, weaponized and spy drones, the prosecution of whistleblowers, U.S. support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine and for repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia. I arrived at the Taj Hotel in Baghdad's Jadriyah neighborhood at 6 a.m., worn thin by the long flight from Los Angeles. After sleeping until mid-afternoon, I stepped out into the 90-degree heat on a simple mission: find falafel, fries, and a place to exchange…...

29+ min ago (356+ words) DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shakes hands with TSA officer Monica Degro at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Novermber 22, 2025.Ronda Churchill/AP The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A Times report Friday revealed that information furnished by TSA provided the basis of ICE's high-profile detention of university student Any Luc'a L'pez Bellosa, who was deported following her arrest at Boston's Logan airport en route to visit her family for Thanksgiving. The TSA's participation in immigration enforcement is unprecedented, as is that of ICE with domestic travel; the program, kept secret until Friday's report, represents yet another means of inducing collective fear en masse in travelers and other…...

36+ min ago (345+ words) Oil is, and always has been, at the center of our concerns with Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven reserves (though much of it is in the incredibly dirty and hard-to-recover form of tarsands). At the moment it's a major supplier to China, and it claims sovereignty over a major oil field in Guyana which has attracted big investment from Exxon and Chevron. This kind of coercion on behalf of the hydrocarbon industry is becoming old hat for the Trump administration. It's used tariff policy, for instance, to force country after country to agree to buy huge quantities of American liquefied natural gas. As CNBC reported last spring regarding one deal with the EU: (Justin Mikulka has a pointed take on why this strategy won't work for the LNG industry, and new data emerged this week showing just how…...

37+ min ago (393+ words) Inset top: Jeffrey Limmer (Obituary). Inset bottom: Anthony Landry (Houston Police Department). Background: A McDonald' where Limmer had tried to intervene when Landry was arguing with employees in Houston, Tex. (KHOU). A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing an attorney at a McDonald's in south'Texas after the victim tried to intervene while the defendant was clashing with employees. Anthony Landry, 59, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the murder of 46-year-old Jeffrey Limmer, the Houston Chronicle reported. The day before, a jury took just 20 minutes to find the defendant guilty. According to authorities, the incident began at about 6 p.m. on May 4, 2024, because Landry was upset over his Filet-O-Fish sandwich order. In the McDonald's restaurant along the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas, filled with customers and employees, Landry began to complain. The sandwich was…...

41+ min ago (552+ words) Starbucks and CUNY workers picketed together in New York City's Financial District, showing the importance of every sector of the labor movement supporting one another's struggles. Friday afternoon, deep in New York City's Financial District, roughly 70 workers and students picketed outside the Starbucks location at 2 Broadway. Workers are on strike as part of the 2025 Red Cup Rebellion, a nationwide strike of unionized Starbucks locations demanding a first contract for hundreds of workers and a resolution to the company's many outstanding unfair labor practice charges." Unlike other Starbucks pickets, however, this one was a joint solidarity picket with the campaign to reinstate the CUNY Fired Four, the four adjuncts fired from Brooklyn College last summer in an act their union has described as having "all appearances of an ideological purge" in apparent retaliation for their activism for Palestine." Showing the solidarity…...

44+ min ago (302+ words) The Department of War has cracked the code on making the perfect press corps by welcoming in only its biggest cheerleaders. The welcome was so warm it could've been the first day of school for a new class of kindergarteners, and with the so-called reporters' level of skepticism for the administration, they might as well have been. "I would also like to take a moment today to welcome all of you here to the Pentagon briefing room as official new members of the Pentagon press corps. We're glad to have you," Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in her December 2 briefing. "This is the beginning of a new era." There was no further follow-up from the member of the "press" whom the House Ethics Committee found engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in 2017. (Gaetz has denied wrongdoing.) Since…...

45+ min ago (590+ words) Taylor Swift didn't make an announcement " she didn't even post " but a quiet update to Reputation landed at a very specific moment. On Dec. 12, just one day before her 36th birthday, fans noticed lyric changes to two Reputation tracks as the first two episodes of her six-part Eras Tour docuseries, The End of an Era, premiered. The updates appeared on Apple Music's newly released Dolby Atmos versions of "I Did Something Bad" and "Delicate," quickly reigniting long-running speculation around Reputation (Taylor's Version). On "I Did Something Bad," the lyric "But if he drops my name, then I... Taylor Swift didn't make an announcement " she didn't even post " but a quiet update to Reputation landed at a very specific moment. On Dec. 12, just one day before her 36th birthday, fans noticed lyric changes to two Reputation tracks as the first two episodes of her…...