17+ hour, 52+ min ago (405+ words) A new mobile phone announced by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump earlier this year and branded around their father is still nowhere to be seen three months past its planned release " with NBC News reporting Monday that the launch date still remains unknown despite the company having already charged customers for pre-orders.The company's website has also scrubbed past mentions of the phone being "built in the United States" since its initial announcement in June, and instead now touts "American hands [being] behind every device."As part of its investigation, NBC News paid the company the $100 pre-order fee in anticipation of its initial launch in August. Making five separate phone calls to the company's customer support line between September and November, one operator told the outlet the phone was slated to ship on Nov. 13.That date came and went,…...

9+ hour, 12+ min ago (236+ words) President Donald Trump and his administration's Department of Justice got a brutal tongue-lashing by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Monday for the failure of their "revenge lawfare" scheme, branding them as the "gang that couldn't indict straight." This follows a federal judge's move to dismiss the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey for false statements and New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud, because the inexperienced and ill-equipped prosecutor Trump installed, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed to the U.S. attorney's office. The vacancy law that lets presidents fill prosecutor offices on a 120-day basis, wrote the board, "is designed for a temporary fill-in, not Senate circumvention" " and the judge called out the DOJ on their misuse of the law. The upshot, the board wrote, is that "This is what happens when officials don't follow legal…...

17+ min ago (1759+ words) On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic's shop on Lamar Avenue. He never came home. On the return trip, law enforcement officers with the Memphis Safe Task Force pulled over his 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup and arrested the brothers on immigration charges. The Guatemalan brothers " both longtime Memphians " are known in national Pentecostal Christian circles as well-traveled worship singers, performing at churches from New York to Florida. They were moved from one immigration detention center to another, finally arriving at a lockup in Louisiana, more than 300 miles from Memphis. The younger brother, Eber Gomez, a 30-year-old with no known criminal record, was soon deported, leaving behind a wife and two young children in Memphis. Delmar Gomez, a 38-year-old husband and father of four U.S. citizen children, is still holding…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago (275+ words) A new lawsuit against a cryptocurrency company whose billionaire founder was recently pardoned of federal crimes by President Donald Trump argued that the firm "knowingly" helped finance the Oct. 7, 2021, attack on Israel by Hamas, Reuters reported on Monday. The firm, Binance, serves as an exchange for cryptocurrency trading, and was the primary competitor to FTX before the latter firm was implicated in a fraud scheme by its CEO and declared bankruptcy in 2022. "According to a complaint made public on Monday, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange laundered money for Hamas even after pleading guilty in November 2023 and paying a $4.32 billion criminal penalty for violating federal anti-money-laundering and sanctions laws," reported Reuters. The plaintiffs, who include 306 American victims and relatives of victims, "accused Binance of knowingly enabling Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iran's Revolutionary Guard to move more than $1 billion through…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago (965+ words) Head of Texas" largest business organization accused of sexual assault in lawsuit by Kayla Guo and Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune November 24, 2025 An unidentified woman accused Glenn Hamer, president and CEO of the Texas Association of Business, of sexually harassing and assaulting her before retaliating against her through his perch atop the powerful business group when she rejected his overtures, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County. The woman, identified in her court filing as "Jane Doe," was described on social media by her attorney, Tony Buzbee, as the founder and executive director of Texas Venture Alliance, an advocacy group for startups and entrepreneurs. She is seeking more than $10 million in damages. In a statement, TAB Board of Directors Chair Bill Jones said the organization was aware of the lawsuit and was putting Hamer on administrative leave "while…...

26+ min ago (258+ words) House Speaker Mike Johnson played up his trendiness in a podcast due to be aired Tuesday, dropping a hand sign as he gushed over his admiration for rapper and country singer Jelly Roll. The Louisiana Republican gave what The Daily Beast called an "excruciating" performance while talking with Stephen Miller's wife Katie for her podcast, due to be aired Tuesday night. In a teaser, Miller asked Johnson if he knew Jelly Roll, prompting the super awkward attempt at trendiness, the Beast wrote. Johnson "gives an offended look and lets out a scoff," before awkwardly flashing a "shaka" hand sign " a symbol of friendship in Hawaiian culture and a "hang loose" sign among surfers. "Do I know who"yes, we have selfies together!" Johnson exclaimed, as Miller and the speaker's wife Kelly, a counselor and evangelical Christian who was also on…...

5+ hour, 19+ min ago (1712+ words) ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It's a New Record. It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon as she finished an errand, Imelda Carreto planned on joining her family as they gathered scrap metal to earn a little extra cash. Her fianc, Julio Matias, and 15-year-old nephew, Carlos, had set out early, hitching a trailer to the back of their beat-up gray truck. Carreto didn't carry any proof that she had custody of the boy. She had left it in another car in her rush. She recalls officers saying her nephew would likely be released to her in a few days once she presented the proper documents. Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, "Don't cry. I don't know how, but I'll get you back....

11+ hour, 21+ min ago (208+ words) The White House postponed the unveiling of President Donald Trump's health care plan on Monday. The new proposal, which is not final and could change, is expected to offer a temporary extension of subsidies, restore an income cap, offer a monthly premium for enrollees and health savings plan for lower-tier plans, CNN reported. It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the delay. With Affordable Care Act subsidies expected to expire, Republican and Democrat lawmakers have been at odds on how to take the next steps to keep health care affordable " a major point of contention that led to the more than 40-day government shutdown. "It's a little worrying the Republican Congress pushed back so much they basically delayed the proposal and they're just kicking the can down the road one more time," Zack Cooper, professor of Health Policy at Yale University,…...

14+ hour, 18+ min ago (238+ words) The Real America's Voice MAGA network has begun pushing back against President Donald Trump's tariffs by highlighting his small-business supporters who have been hit hard. On Monday, Real America's Voice host David Brody spoke to Kenneth Bernardo of the Bay Crane Company. "President Trump has repeatedly touted his use of tariffs, but how are they impacting American companies?" Brody began. "It is really hurting American construction." For his part, Bernardo said he supported the president but insisted that the tariffs were causing "canceled orders and a limitation of growth." "Some people in our industry " understanding that about 85% of our industry is family owned and small business, enterprises, you know, these additional tariffs and the cost that they put on these products that are not available in the United States are limiting a lot of these small businesses from going out…...

18+ hour, 51+ min ago (900+ words) Since Donald Trump has been back in office, energy prices have increased at more than double the rate of inflation. The Consumer Price Index from the end of October reported an "all items price index" increase for food, shelter, and transportation of 3.0 percent over a 12-month period, while energy services for the same period rose by 6.4 percent. After promising to slash energy prices, Trump has done the opposite. His energy policies reflect the same ethos driving everything else in his retribution playbook: reward donors and inflict pain on Democrats, even when the economic consequences are nationwide. In early October, Trump announced the claw-back of billions of dollars in federal funding for utilities, money that had been appropriated to reinforce power grids and reduce electricity prices. Targeting blue states exclusively, Budget Director Russ Vought announced the cancellation of "nearly $8 billion in…...