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26+ min ago (264+ words) U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made an eyebrow-raising comment about President Donald Trump during a recent meeting of the Trump administration's Cabinet. While in the middle of her remarks at the meeting, Noem observed that no hurricanes had made landfall in the U.S. during the 2025 hurricane season, which typically lasts from June through November. Her comment was met with laughter from the assembled Cabinet members. "Sir, you made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane " you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that," Noem said. The Homeland Security secretary's praise of Trump was immediately met with ridicule from various elected officials, journalists and commentators. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), took a sarcastic tone while also…...

47+ min ago (161+ words) President Donald Trump wants to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's final report classified, according to a new court filing Tuesday. In the filing from his personal lawyer, the president told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon " a judge he appointed and his first direct request of her " to continue an extension on an 11-month order to block the Justice Department from sharing the report, Politico reported. Smith submitted it just before Trump's second inauguration and reportedly tells the story of the criminal case against the president after he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, including in a bathroom. "The filing is infused with the typical disdain Trump has expressed for his former prosecutors, labeling Smith a 'so-called special counsel' and saying the case was 'marred by numerous deficiencies and repeated abuses of office,'" the outlet reported. ALSO READ: GOP judge…...

1+ hour, 2+ min ago (1716+ words) A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues. British history. Its political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide. Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time " Israel's two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity. Now, under a current supposed ceasefire, Israel is still killing Palestinians and their plight in Gaza remains dire, as the world sees the extent of the mass destruction visited on them. Throughout the attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies. Still now, significant sanctions on Israel are completely off the government's agenda " a striking contrast to Russia " because the establishment chooses to back Israel even in its…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (729+ words) As 24th annual meeting of member states kicks off. International Criminal Court (ICC) officials on Monday said the court is implementing countermeasures to protect the court from US sanctions, but they will remain confidential to ensure their effectiveness. The officials spoke in The Hague on the first day of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which is made up of representatives from 125 countries that have ratified the ICC's founding Rome Statute. The gathering is taking place at a time of unprecedented threats to the court, prompted mostly by its investigation into Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. Since February, US President Donald Trump's administration has imposed financial and visa sanctions on the court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. In August, Trump then sanctioned two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago (493+ words) Tunisia opposition says charges are fabricated, as police enforce a five-year prison sentence. By Caol'n Magee and News Agencies Police in Tunisia have arrested prominent opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home to enforce a five-year prison sentence after an appeals court upheld convictions against dozens of the administration's political opponents on charges of conspiracy against state security. The court last week confirmed jail terms ranging from four to 45 years for opposition leaders, business figures and lawyers accused of plotting to overthrow President Kais Saied, who has conducted a crackdown on opposition figures for years. "If you are seeing this video, I have been arrested," Hammami, who served as minister of human rights in 2020, said in a video posted by his family on his Facebook page on Tuesday. "I have spent years fighting for democracy, freedom, rights. I will turn…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago (497+ words) Fourteen workers who signed a petition that warned cuts put the US at risk were initially suspended in August The Trump administration is reversing the reinstatement of workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) who were placed on administrative leave after writing an open letter of dissent. Fema in August suspended 14 workers who signed a petition warning that cuts to the agency were putting the nation at risk of repeating the mistakes made during the botched response to 2005s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Last Wednesday, those 14 workers received notices that they were being reinstated at the beginning of this week. But within hours, Trump officials moved to re-suspend the staffers, after CNN broke the news of their return to work. Jeremy Edwards, former deputy of public affairs at Fema who signed the August petition, said the reversal "represents the…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (1209+ words) The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant. U.S. Border Patrol agents raided a humanitarian aid station in the Arizona desert late last month, taking three people into custody and breaking into a trailer without a warrant. Video taken by No More Deaths, a faith-based aid group out of Tucson that operates the site, shows agents with flashlights prying open a trailer door and entering the structure. The camp, located just miles from the U.S.Mexico border, has long been used to provide medical care to migrants crossing one of the world's deadliest stretches of desert. Monica Ruiz House, a No More Deaths volunteer who'd recently been involved in deportation defense work in Chicago, said the warrantless raid spoke to a rising culture of lawlessness among…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (277+ words) U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reacts as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder One Republican member of Congress with an extensive military record is calling on President Donald Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Tuesday interview with CNN reporter Manu Raju, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and serves on the House Armed Forces Committee, expanded on his view that the embattled defense secretary should be "held accountable" in the wake of a Washington Post report alleging that he ordered the deaths of two people who survived a missile strike. "We do not kill two survivors who are not posing an imminent threat to anybody," Bacon said. "I just want to make sure I get the facts....

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (64+ words) US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is vowing to continue military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea. Hegseth vows more boat strikes amid accusations he broke the law US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is vowing to continue military strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea, saying "we've only just begun striking narcoboats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean."...