Boys in the Assemblies of God join the Royal Rangers for Bible study and backpacking. But the ministry has also drawn sexual predators, an NBC News investigation found.
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.
Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayoral race in Florida, the first time someone from her party has done so in nearly 30 years. Her Opponent was endorsed by Trump but lost with only 41% of the vote.
The Justice Department moved to end long-standing civil rights policies that prohibit local governments and organizations that receive federal funding from maintaining policies that disproportionately harm people of color. Repealing the government's 50-year-old "disparate impact" standards will make it harder to challenge potential bias in housing, criminal law, employment, environmental regulations and other policy areas.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation that bars civil immigration arrests from being made in or near state courthouses, and gives residents more leeway to sue federal agents over alleged civil rights violations.
President Donald Trump's administration is being sharply criticized by conservatives in both government and media for reportedly sending tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban-controlled government in Afghanistan. Newsweek reported Tuesday that, according to Amrullah Saleh, (who leads the anti-Taliban political party Afghanistan Green Trend) the Trump administration flew $45 million in cash to Afghanistan on Monday. Saleh's group alleged that the money was "flown in via a chartered flight by Moalem Airlines," which is based in Kyrgyzstan. The post caught the attention of conservative commentator Ann Vandersteel, who said of the cash payment "this is not America First" but rather "America deceived." Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who is a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, responded to Vandersteel's post by adding that the massive cash shipments to the Taliban are happening "every week." He then called on the U.S. Senate to "pass my bill."
Georgia Democrats scored a major upset in a special election on Tuesday night, flipping a conservative legislative district in the Athens area"the 25th such gain for the party nationwide this year, against zero for the GOP. Democrat Eric Gisler, who works in the insurance technology industry, defeated Republican Mack "Dutch" Guest IV, the owner of a trucking company, to win the 121st House District in the Athens area by a 51-49 margin. In a pair of special elections last month for Georgia's Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, both Democratic candidates racked up identical 63-37 margins in the 121st District en route to landslide wins statewide.
Rightwing white supremacist Nick Fuentes (27), a Latino with a long history of making misogynistic, homophobic, and antisemitic comments, admitted he has never slept with a woman before going on to bash the female gender and suggesting that they should not be allowed to vote.
The National Weather Service is working to hire back hundreds of positions laid off or otherwise cut by the Trump administration, but it's progressing at a snail's pace, with about 80 final job offers accepted for meteorologists, hydrologists and other specialized staff. The agency received permission in late July to add a total of 450 people after about 550 were cut by DOGE earlier this year. Read more
President Donald Trump certainly made himself feel better. Whether he did the same for gloomy voters haunted by high prices is more doubtful. Trump relished returning to a campaign-style event Tuesday night, working the crowd like a standup comic, trashing his script and emphasizing wild rhetoric with classic hand gestures, as if playing an imaginary accordion. Read more
Eileen Higgins will be the first Democrat to serve as Miami mayor since 1997. Despite the election technically being non-partisan, her victory may indicate a huge partisan preference in south Florida. Higgins received 59.5% of the vote on her way to defeating Trump endorsed Republican Emilio Gonzalez by 19 points. Current Mayor Francis Suarez, Republican, won the office with 78.6% of the vote in 2021.
"Activated on 5 December 2025 and headquartered at Fort Bragg, NC, US Army Western Hemisphere Command (USAWHC) is an operational warfighting theater command headquarters that is focused on homeland defense, defense support to civil authorities, and theater security cooperation across the Western Hemisphere."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis designated one of the country's largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups as a foreign terrorist organization " and now the group says it plans to sue.
The governor's move came after fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas issued a similar order in November against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Read more
Especially interesting that 'remigration' is being popularized in a nation that was built on immigration. But quite apparently, for the current regime of bigots, immigration is only acceptable if the immigrants aren't POC.
If there is nothing truly damaging to President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, he and his administration did a great job of making it look like there could be. How else to explain their promises of full transparency, their sudden and inexplicable U-turn, and then their (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to fight Congress' push to get the files? It seems the administration didn't learn its lesson from that episode. Because it looks like history could be repeating with the boat strikes video. Read more
On Monday, US District Court Judge Patti Saris vacated a Trump executive order that brought a halt to all offshore wind power development, as well as some projects on land. That order had called for the suspension of all permitting for wind power on federal land and waters pending a review of current practices. This led states and an organization representing wind power companies to sue, claiming among other things that the suspension was arbitrary and capricious.
