27 h. ago Trump appears to confirm Dan Bongino will step down from FBI role

President told reporters that deputy director ‘did a great job’ and ‘wants to go back to his show’Donald Trump appears to have confirmed reports that the FBI deputy director, Dan Bongino, is planning to step down, telling reporters on Wednesday that “Dan did a great job” and that he thinks Bongino “wants to go back to his show”.The US president made the remarks while answering questions from various reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Stephen Colbert on Susie Wiles’s candid interviews: ‘She dished, bish’

Late-night hosts discussed the White House chief of staff ’s shocking and revealing interviews with Vanity FairLate-night hosts reacted to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s revealing interview with Vanity Fair. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago BBC right to ‘stand firm’ in face of Trump lawsuit, says minister

Stephen Kinnock said the broadcaster had been ‘very clear that there is no case to answer’ when it came to accusations of libel.

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5 d. ago The Katie Miller Podcast: an aggressively vibeless curriculum for the Maga mom

The wife of the Trump adviser aims to entice conservative women into Maga – but like much of the rest of the movement, her sales pitch is fundamentally lackingWhen Katie Miller, the wife of Donald Trump’s powerful adviser Stephen Miller, interviewed Pete Hegseth on her podcast last week, she didn’t ask him about whether the war secretary had ordered the US military to kill the shipwrecked survivors of an airstrike. She didn’t ask him about the settlement he paid a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her. Nor did she ask about allegations of alcohol abuse, or the accusation that he had made his ex-wife so terrified that she hid in a closet.Instead, when Hegseth and his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, appeared on the Katie Miller Podcast, the titular host asked questions like: “If you could write one Hegseth family rule on that whiteboard, what is that?” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Stephen Miller claims he’s banned by CNN as Trump urges new ownership for network

Miller was asked about the situation by Sean Hannity, who said of his past appearances on CNN: “That was some of the best material we’d ever had on the program, in the history of the program, is you schooling these hosts’

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8 d. ago Musk calls Doge only ‘somewhat successful’ and says he would not do it again

Speaking on a rightwing podcast, the billionaire said he would not go back and lead the job-cutting program again Elon Musk has said the aggressive federal job-cutting program he headed early in Donald Trump’s second term, known as the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), was only “a little bit successful” and he would not lead the project again.Musk said he wouldn’t want to repeat the exercise, talking on the podcast hosted by Katie Miller, a rightwing personality with a rising profile who was a Doge adviser and who is married to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration deputy chief of staff. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Inside the Hamas tunnels where Israeli hostages were held and tortured for months

Hamas still needs to release the body of one hostage as Israel prepares for next steps in the ceasefire with Donald Trump

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9 d. ago Unprecedented new look inside ‘Gaza Metro’ terror tunnels where Hamas plotted attacks & hostages were chained & tortured

IT’S impossible to grasp the full horror that the hostages snatched by Hamas endured while being held in the subterranean hell under Gaza. But I got a brief glimpse when The Sun toured a vast tunnel network where the terror group’s senior commanders plotted murderous attacks on Israel. Gasping for breath in the oxygen-depleted darkness,...

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9 d. ago Trump is remodeling Washington to fit his twisted vision of America | Judith Levine

The administration is offloading gems of US architecture while redesigning the city to match the president’s valuesWhile the original architect of Donald Trump’s ever-expanding ballroom steps down and preservationists panic over the fate of New Deal murals inside the Social Security Administration building, the president gushes about painting the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, “fixing” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and erecting his own Arc de Triomphe.To peruse the plans for a Trump-era capital district alongside the General Services Administration’s list of assets identified for accelerated disposition – the federal buildings slated for off-loading – is to discern a diagram of Trump’s values.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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1 week ago DC police chief steps down ‘to spend more time with family’ after Trump crackdown

Smith, a longtime federal law enforcement official and former head of the U.S. Park Police, assumed command during one of Washington’s most volatile years in nearly two decades

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1 week ago First phase of Gaza ceasefire plan nearly complete, says Netanyahu

Israeli PM to discuss next steps with Donald Trump this month but timetable for lasting peace remains unclearBenjamin Netanyahu has said that the first phase of the UN-endorsed Gaza ceasefire plan is close to completion, and that the second phase must involve the disarmament of Hamas.The Israeli prime minister said he would discuss the next steps later this month in Washington with Donald Trump, whose Gaza proposals were codified in a UN security council resolution on 17 November. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief

Defense secretary defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to goPete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation...

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1 week ago Stephen Colbert on Pete Hegseth’s Venezuela scandal: ‘Frantically pointing the finger’

Late-night hosts discussed Hegseth’s deflection of international outrage on to his admirals, Trump’s changed auto standards and new photos of Epstein’s islandLate-night hosts talked Donald Trump’s renaming of the Institute of Peace, Pete Hegseth’s ongoing Venezuela scandal and a new batch of photos from Epstein Island. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Royal Family LIVE: Prince Harry reignites Donald Trump row in awkward clash with Firm

Prince Harry made a surprise appearance on late night American chat show The Late Show With Stephen Colbert where he poked fun at US president Donald Trump, just hours after a major royal event

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2 w. ago Cringeworthy Prince Harry sparks boos on Late Show with Stephen Colbert as he mocks 'King' Trump and make some VERY awkward jokes

The Duke of Sussex roasted Donald Trump as well as Colbert himself and CBS News during a comedy sketch on the liberal comic's soon-to-be canceled late night show.

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2 w. ago Harry gatecrashes The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and cracks joke about Trump

Harry appeared in a comedy sketch that aired on Wednesday night, playing himself as he attempts to audition to become a Hallmark ‘Christmas prince’

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2 w. ago Prince Harry sparks boos on Late Show with Stephen Colbert as he mocks 'King' Trump and blasts his 'baseless' lawsuit against CBS

The Duke of Sussex roasted Donald Trump as well as Colbert himself and CBS News during a comedy sketch on the liberal comic's soon-to-be canceled late night show.

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2 w. ago Trump calls urgent Venezuela summit at the White House 'to discuss next steps'

Donald Trump will hold a meeting in the Oval Office with his top team on Monday to discuss 'next steps' on Venezuela, according to sources.

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2 w. ago ‘I’m p***** off’ – raging Stephen Maguire blames state of snooker table as he crashes out of UK Championship on day one

SEETHING Scot Stephen Maguire was left “p***ed off” at the state of the table after he crashed out on the opening day of the UK Championship.  The former champion, 43, missed a red at a pivotal point during his frustrating 6-4 defeat to world No.1 Judd Trump at York's Barbican.  And the qualifier fumed: “I’m p***ed...

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2 w. ago UK Championship TV channel and live stream details as Judd Trump takes on Stephen Maguire

UK Championship gets underway today in York as world number one Judd Trump takes on Stephen Maguire in the tournament's opening round

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