The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said President Nicolás Maduro and his wife had been captured and expelled from the country after months of intense pressure from Washington – an extraordinary overnight operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack. Multiple explosions erupted and … Read more
WASHINGTON/DETROIT, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Julie Yukari, a musician based in Rio de Janeiro, posted a photo taken by her fiance on social media site X just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, showing her in a red dress curled up in bed with her black cat, Nori. The next day, somewhere among the hundreds … Read more
Donald Trump has publicly humiliated his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, by contradicting her repeated assurances and apologies about his health problems. Since Trump, 79, returned to office last January, speculation has run wild about bruises on his hands and his cognitive capacity, particularly after he underwent a mysterious scan in the fall — with the Daily … Read more
Want to know if Trump’s economy is really doing as he promised? Subscribe to Economy Hate Watch newsletter and never miss our monthly update. BuzzFeed (AKA the unemployment rate, the cost of eggs, the price of gas, inflation, the Dow Jones, whether citizens received a stimulus check, and Trump’s overall approval rating.) Earlier this month, … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more space at the White House for entertaining, the executive residence’s longest-serving top adviser says, lending support to Trump’s rationale for his ballroom construction project. Gary Walters spent more than two decades as the White House Chief of Staff to Presidents Ronald … Read more
Donald Trump’s public persona is loud, forceful and relentlessly self-assured. But behind closed doors, former aides, advisers and staffers — many of whom were loyal until they weren’t — painted a much less flattering picture. Through interviews, books, testimonials and off-the-record accounts, a model emerges that is less about ideology and more about temperament, drive … Read more
HE NEEDS TO KNOW In the hours following the death of Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, President Donald Trump took to social media to mock the famous political family. At Truth Social on the afternoon of December 30, Trump shared screenshots of MAGA supporters insulting Kennedy for their response to his recent decision to add … Read more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is making an emergency request to demolish more than a dozen historic buildings in Washington, DC, citing a “risk to life and property” that she says puts federal agents at risk. The proposal, first reported by The Washington Postwould destroy 17 buildings from St. Elizabeths West Campus, drawing outrage and … Read more
By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tenn., decided a few years ago that she wanted to buy a home, she started poring over her Experian credit report. She was shocked by what she found. Her student debt had been counted twice, making it … Read more
Credit: X / @abdolah_abdi Mass protests broke out in Iran, calling for the “death of the dictator” due to the regime’s economic crisis. Tear gas was used to disperse the protesters as shops closed their shutters in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar and main markets. Students called on their colleagues to join the demonstrations, as chants rang … Read more