President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic complaining to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 2025. During a late December lunch at Mar-a-Lago, the U.S. president was overheard bragging about the wars he has claimed to have stopped. "But to both of them, I said, 'We're going to cut you off, no more trade,'" Trump said. "Then I put 200% tariffs on. The next day, they called. We looked at 35 years of fighting, and they stopped. Do I get credit for it? No." "I did eight of them," he added. "How about India and Pakistan? And then, so I did eight."
President Donald Trump slathered a fresh coat of makeup on his right hand for another round of peace talks with Ukraine on Sunday -- but it was his other hand that drew attention. read more
The arrests of more than 4,500 people in a mission, the Department of Homeland Security said targeted "the worst of the worst." The reality is that most of them were people with brown skin who were at the right place -- their landscaping jobs, the hardware store, a Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru -- at the wrong time. read more
Russia doesn't seem to agree with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's assessment that the country is "fully committed" to achieving peace with Ukraine. read more
The Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown " whose investigative reporting helped lead to the arrest of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein " questioned Sunday why her name and sensitive information appeared in the latest Department of Justice dump of Epstein files. Brown wrote on X, "Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?" "As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me?" Brown asked. Brown's groundbreaking reporting began in 2017, and was published in The Herald as a three-part investigation called "Perversion of Justice" in November 2018. According to The Herald's website, the series "awakened the world to a decades-long injustice suffered by dozens and perhaps hundreds of young girls, many of whom had never spoken about their abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein."
Was the big facility "totally obliterated?"