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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

US Naval Academy Superintendent USMC Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte relieved Commandant of Midshipmen USN CAPT Gilbert Clark Jr five months after he assumed the position "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to effectively lead the Brigade of Midshipmen."


Donald Trump's health care plan is in limbo after pushback from Republicans who were caught off guard by the president's forthcoming proposal -- questioning, in particular, whether it would include additional abortion restrictions. Trump had been expected to unveil a new policy framework Monday afternoon, said two people familiar with the plan and granted anonymity to describe deliberations around it. That framework was expected to center around a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies with income caps and other new limits backed by conservatives. Read more


White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says "all orders" from President Trump are "lawful orders," and troops have no right to question him. Read more


In a leaked lecture, mega-oligarch South African racist Peter Thiel says he's urged VPOTUS JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions like immigration, intimating that the Pontiff is a potential manifestation of the Antichrist.


In an unusual diplomatic move, China supremo Xi Jinping telephoned Dummkopf Trumpf to discuss Taiwan, a flashpoint that has surged to the forefront in recent days as Japan takes a more assertive stance on the island's autonomy.


The billionaire Binance founder pardoned by Donald Trump has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars' worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. In a complaint filed in US federal court on Monday by American citizens whose family members were murdered, maimed or taken hostage in the assault, Changpeng Zhao and the cryptocurrency exchange he founded are alleged to have knowingly provided "substantial assistance" to militant groups including Hamas and Hizbollah, helping them conceal the movement of funds. The payments allegedly laundered through Binance " the largest crypto exchange in the world " continued even after the company paid more than $4.3bn in November 2023 to settle US charges of violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, lawyers for the victims claim in the lawsuit. Read more


THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S lying-to-Congress case against former FBI director James Comey is a comedy of legal errors that could move offstage soon. (UPDATE, November 24, 2025, 3:00 p.m.: The case was dismissed, several hours after this article was published.) But it has highlighted the plain fact that American life and America itself are now being shaped"in terrible, even tragic ways"by people who really did mislead and outright lie to Congress under oath. Let's start at the top. Not just once but twice, Donald Trump put his hand on a Bible and swore to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He's been violating that oath, and lying nonstop in all conceivable venues, ever since. Read more


A Republican lawmaker in the House of Representatives was so distraught by the latest proposed peace deal for Russia's war in Ukraine that he considered resigning from Congress, according to a new report. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told Axios that he was "appalled" by the 28-point peace deal, which some experts have said seems to have been written by the Russians. The proposed peace plan also made several pro-Ukrainian lawmakers on The Hill furious, including several Republicans, according to the report. The plan calls for Ukraine to significantly reduce the size of its military, cede land to Russia, including land that Russia does not currently control, give up its long-range missiles that can reach Moscow, and stop attempting to join NATO. Read more


President Donald Trump appears poised to announce a two-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, due to expire at the end of December, while setting new limits on who is eligible to receive the tax credits, according to reports. Without an extension of Covid-19-era Obamacare subsidies, insurance premiums for nearly 22 million American citizens threaten to more than double early next year, a point made repeatedly by Democrats during the recent 43-day government shutdown, who refused to sign a stopgap spending bill that did not address the problem.


Monday, November 24, 2025

President Donald Trump is still working on a proposal to address a spike in Obamacare health insurance premiums, but the eventual plan may differ significantly from details reported over the weekend, the White House said Monday. As you all know, sometimes you report things and then President Trump comes out with an announcement, and those things are not always true from what you hear from sources inside the building," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.


Speculation over former President Donald Trump's health surged over the weekend after a viral video from his latest golf outing appeared to show him struggling with mobility. The footage, which quickly gained traction on social media, has prompted a wave of theories and discussions about the 78-year-old's physical condition, with particular attention paid to his right leg. In the now-viral footage, Trump can be seen exiting his golf cart with visible difficulty, seemingly dragging his right leg as he approaches the tee. Observers on social media quickly pointed out what they perceived as an unusual stiffness or imbalance in his movement, leading to a cascade of speculation regarding his health.


The battle over the fate of Tina Peters, a disgraced Colorado elections official who was convicted of felonies related to efforts to interfere with the 2020 election on Donald Trump's behalf, grew thornier on Sunday with the intervention of the president himself.


Greene, long a staunch and outspoken ally of the president, announced on Friday evening that she will be resigning from Congress on Jan. 5...


A wave of high-end residential burglaries across southeastern Wisconsin has prompted a coordinated law enforcement response and drawn political attention at both the local and national levels. The Mequon Police Department (MPD) says the burglaries share striking similarities, suggesting a professional operation.


Under the vague category of "national security grounds," for four hours Canadian Border Security Agents (CBSA) detained Richard Falk, a 95-year-old Jewish professor emeritus of international law who has spent decades documenting violations against the Palestinian people.


A legal fight is brewing over a Maryland county board of elections' heavy redactions to the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who served as superintendent of Iowa's largest school system until he was arrested by federal authorities this year, Fox News Digital has learned. "This was shocking," Justin Riemer, CEO and president of the conservative legal group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview on Friday. "When I saw the news reporting, and they showed screenshots of the registration applications with all this information redacted, I was just shocked."


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