2+ hour, 47+ 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…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago (283+ words) U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs the House floor, following the vote of the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed the bill seeking to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) grip on power appears to be slipping, as a growing number of the House Republican Conference publicly denounces his leadership. That's according to a Tuesday article by Politico's Meredith Lee Hill and Hailey Fuchs, who reported that Johnson's tenure as speaker appears to be teetering "on a razor's edge" as numerous Republicans take stances against him. "Increasingly, rank-and-file House Republicans are bringing their spats with Johnson into the open, suggesting the speaker is losing further control over his restive members as his already slim majority threatens to narrow further and potentially devastating…...

3+ hour, 49+ 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....

4+ hour, 27+ min ago (511+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Once again, President Donald Trump appeared to struggle to stay awake, this time during his mid-Tuesday televised Cabinet meeting. At several points, the president was filmed with his eyes closed, occasionally reopening them while seeming disengaged. In one 30-second clip, the president's eyes close numerous times, then Trump nods when he is mentioned. In a shorter clip, Trump also struggles to keep his eyes open, as his hand holds up his head. In a 23-second clip, the president is hunched over, slouching in his chair, his eyes closed in what could be described as appearing to nod off. Trump slouches and appears to try to listen as HUD Secretary Scott Turner…...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago (237+ words) Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino on Tuesday continued to lash out against unflattering reports about his time at the Bureau, calling out a New York Post reporter for "gossipy" coverage which said the colleagues viewed him as "a clown." In a post to X on Tuesday, Bongino attacked the piece and its author, Miranda Devine, chastising her for writing a "timed hit piece" trying to derail his plans. "Deep-state Devine strikes again." Bongino wrote. "Miranda loves attacking our reform agenda with gossipy anecdotes from disgruntled former employees because she's upset that her 'reporting' keeps falling apart under scrutiny. You can always count on Miranda for a timed hit piece when the Director and I make big changes. Miranda prefers tbe [sic] old-guard. I don't. Full steam ahead." This came after Bongino previously appeared to respond to the report on Monday,…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago (257+ words) Brigadier General Leland D. Blanchard II looks towards pictures of two National Guard members who were shot in Washington on November 26, along with a picture of a suspect, Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, at a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel, attorney Jeanine Pirro and other authorities in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 27, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Alleged Washington D.C. shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal may have been coerced into carrying out last week's attack on two members of the West Virginia National Guard, according to a new report. "It is by no means our only line of inquiry," the Beast's source said. "People in this country have no idea about the level of stress these people are under. Most of them have families back home, and if the Taliban cannot get to them, they are making it very clear that they will go after their families." In…...

5+ hour, 3+ min ago (268+ words) President Donald Trump attends an event to announce a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to reduce the prices of GLP-1 weight loss drugs in the Oval Office at the White House on Nov. 6. 2025. (REUTERS Jonathan Ernst) Retired Colonel Cedric Leighton told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan that Trump is the man in charge of a potential war crime attack in the Caribbean " no matter how hard his administration may try to hurl a U.S. commander under the bus. The Washington Post reported last week that on September 2, U.S. forces fired on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, then fired on it again in an obvious "double tap" when it was determined that some of the occupants had survived the initial strike. This reportedly came as the result of a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "kill them all." These strikes,…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago (208+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder President Donald Trump's recent pardon of an international drug kingpin has ruffled feathers among members of his own party, according to a new report. "I hate it. It's a horrible message," Tillis said. "From what I've read about the Honduran president's role in funneling cocaine to the United States, he does not seem like a good candidate for a pardon to me," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told the National Review. "It's hard to reconcile that pardon with the repeated emphasis on drug trafficking as a rationale for our Venezuela interest " period," said Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Last weekend, Trump defended his pardon of the former two-term Honduran leader, calling his sentence a "setup" by former President…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago (407+ words) Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y) is blaming Speaker Mike Johnson for the rejection of an oversight provision she included in the annual defense policy bill the House wants to pass next week . "I just walked out of a briefing on this issue this morning CONFIRMING everything I posted yesterday, that, yes, in fact, the Speaker is blocking my provision to root out the illegal weaponization that led to Crossfire Hurricane, Arctic Frost, and more," said Stefanik on X. "He is siding with [Rep.] Jamie Raskin [D-Md.] against Trump Republicans to block this provision to protect the deep state." Stefanik further threatened to be a vote against the defense bill if her provision remains out: "This is an easy one. This bill is DOA unless this provision gets added in as it was passed out of committee." Johnson denied the allegation on Monday....

7+ hour, 4+ min ago (427+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman during an arrival ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Georgetown University School of Business Senior Fellow Robert J. Shapiro says President Donald Trump likely won't be fixing his "affordability" conundrum in time to save himself or his Republican Party. The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates 11 times under former president Joe Biden, and it slowed inflation from 9 percent to 2.9 percent. But cutting rates alone won't satisfy voters because inflation isn't going anywhere soon. Shapiro said overall prices in America rose 25 percent, including 25 percent increases for eggs, pork, milk, cars and trucks; 30 or 31 percent increases for housing, rent, food overall, and bread; 37 percent increases for electricity; and 55 percent increases for beef. But the other half of Trump's affordability conundrum is income,…...