5 min ago - Dec 23rd, 2025, 7:13 pm Back in February, Elon Musk infamously waved around a chainsaw onstage at CPAC as his Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, kicked off its activities, but a new report by The New York Times has revealed t ... (MEDIAite)

30 min ago - Updated 6:51 PM EST, December 23, 2025 The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border ... (AP)

1 hr ago - Updated Dec. 23, 2025, 6:14 p.m. ET The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee called on the Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate new revelations that Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to the FBI for alleged sex crimes in 199 ... (USA Today)

1 hr ago - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has given details of an updated peace plan that offers Russia the potential withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the east that Moscow has demanded. Giving details of the 20-point plan agreed by US and Ukrainian n ... (BBC)

1 hr ago - 12h Afghan migrants are receiving letters ordering them to report to ICE offices on Christmas and New Year's Day as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown during the holidays, according to a top Afghan advocacy group. In a copy shar ... (msn/Scripps News)

1 hr ago - The US State Department said it would deny visas to five people, including a former EU commissioner, for seeking to "coerce" American social media platforms into suppressing viewpoints they oppose. "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have ad ... (BBC)

1 hr ago - Updated: 4:57 PM CST Dec 23, 2025 A new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Missouri is asking a court to halt the use of new congressional maps until voters can weigh in. The ACLU filed the lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court on Tuesday, claiming that th ... (KMBC-TV Kansas City, MO)

2 hrs ago - Tuesday 23 December 2025 16:59 EST More U.S. assets including special ops aircraft and troops arrived in the Caribbean this week as Donald Trump reiterated on Monday that ground-based operations targeting drug traffickers in Venezuela would soon begi ... (The Independent)

2 hrs ago - Dec 23rd, 2025, 4:28 pm Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is livid at Vice President JD Vance for saying white Americans don’t need to apologize for their skin color anymore, with Walz saying it was a clear sign President Donald Trump’s administ ... (MEDIAite)

3 hrs ago - 12h NEWARK, New Jersey — More than six months after a chaotic visit to a New Jersey immigrant detention center that resulted in federal assault charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver, she and her colleagues returned to the facility to advocate for ... (msn/Politico)

3 hrs ago - Dec 23, 2025 at 03:53 PM EST A recently proposed law would allow some Americans to opt back into Social Security after originally declining to take part in the social safety net program. Clergy members routinely choose not to take part in Social Sec ... (Newsweek)

4 hrs ago - 12/23/25 3:10 PM ET The Trump administration has quietly banned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from providing abortion services to veterans and their dependents, including those who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. The ban fol ... (The Hill)

9 hrs ago - By JEFF MARTIN Updated 6:37 PM CST, December 23, 2025 Leer en español ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including a murder suspect, commandeered a terrified Lyft driver’s car to reach south Florid ... (AP)

10 hrs ago - 5h WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday blocked Texas from enforcing a new state law aimed at protecting children by requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of users, in a win for Apple , Alphabet's Google ... (msn/Reuters)

11 hrs ago - Dec. 23, 2025, at 10:56 a.m. BOSTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Immigrant rights advocates ‌have ​filed a lawsuit challenging ‌the Trump administration's decision last month to end the temporary ​protections from deportation granted to ... (US News and World Report/Reuters)

11 hrs ago - Published Dec 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM EST updated Dec 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM EST The Trump administration has confirmed it will drop the lottery selection process for the H-1B visa, replacing it with a weighted system, which it says will favor high-skille ... (Newsweek)

12 hrs ago - 12/23/25 2:57 PM ET The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D), challenging a state law that aims to limit the scope of federal immigration action and protect people agains ... (The Hill)

13 hrs ago - December 23, 2025 / 1:38 PM EST Pop star Taylor Swift has donated $1 million to Feeding America just days before Christmas, the nonprofit said Tuesday. Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said the organization, which oversees a network of ... (CBS News)

14 hrs ago - December 23, 2025 5:14 AM EST Updated 11 hours ago Dec 22 (Reuters) - A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) and its subsidiaries to pay over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed decades of exposure to asbestos in the company’s ta ... (Reuters)

14 hrs ago - 12/23/25 10:50 AM ET House Democrats are demanding more details about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s dealings with the Salvadoran government as the country agreed to imprison more than 200 men in its most notorious detention facility. A Tuesd ... (The Hill)