For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 on the Hot 100 doesn't contain a single rap song. The space is occupied, instead, by the entirety of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl " now in its third week " as well as hits from Morgan Wallen, Olivia Dean, Kehlani, and Alex Warren, whose single "Ordinary" has spent 37 weeks on the chart.
President Trump has decided that the United States is engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels his team has labeled terrorist organizations and that suspected smugglers for such groups are "unlawful combatants," the administration said in a confidential notice to Congress this week. The notice was sent to several congressional committees and obtained by The New York Times. It adds new detail to the administration's thinly articulated legal rationale for why three U.S. military strikes the president ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month, killing all 17 people aboard them, should be seen as lawful rather than murder.
White House announces its launching its own drugstore "TrumpRx" where U.S. citizens can buy drugs straight from the government. TrumpRx is the administration's latest move to bring down U.S. drug prices, but it's unlikely to save much for the 92% of Americans with health insurance.
Release the Epstein files
Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military's generals and admirals to gather on short notice " and without a stated reason " at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump admin's firing of senior leaders this year.
Ramping up for the immigration riots. Crowd control and removing dead bodies is what they're going to be doing. If only Mexico would've paid for the wall.