The, kind of, divide in MAGA, Karl said. Which is a relatively new phenomenon I mean, there was always a little bit there, but if I were to say what the most surprising story [of the year] was, I would say Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes not just a Trump critic, but a Jennings cut him off. MTG becomes a lib! Jennings said.
President Donald Trump took Christmas Eve calls from children inquiring as to the whereabouts of Santa Claus, according to NORAD's Santa Tracker. At one point, he fielded a call from a child in Pennsylvania, and it went as one might expect. Trump spoke to the children on speakerphone in front of cameras and was connected with a five-year-old boy and his mother in State College. Pennsylvania's great, Trump told the boy. We won Pennsylvania, actually, three times. We won Pennsylvania. We won it in a landslide, so I love Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, CBS will broadcast the annual Kennedy Centers Honors. Yesterday, the newly appointed board of the Kennedy Center voted to change the facility's name to the Trump-Kennedy Center. But it would take Congressional approval to officially change the name. Therefore, CBS News will continue to use the Kennedy Center. If the president or other administration officials use the new name in a soundbite, that is their prerogative.
It has been a year dominated by Donald Trump. It has not yet even been 12 full months since his return to the White House in January but already the changes he has wrought in the US and around the world would have seemed scarcely conceivable in 2024. Katharine Viner, the Guardian's editor-in-chief, tells Annie Kelly what it has looked like from the editor's chair:
He bent the Republican-controlled Congress to his will and dismantled much of the federal bureaucracy. He brought powerful institutions, including prestigious universities and law firms, to heel, demanding that his ring be kissed and his wallet fattened. He upended the nation's economic and diplomatic relations with the world. He hijacked Americans' attention-he was everywhere!-while openly musing about tearing up the Constitution and serving a third term.
On October 7th, the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold published a video of Trump, circa 2005, chatting merrily on a bus with Billy Bush, the co-anchor of "Access Hollywood," as Trump prepared to make a guest appearance on an episode of the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." Trump bragged of his impulsivity. "I don't even wait. And, when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," he said. "Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything."
Not everybody loves Jesus, but you can certainly say the following: He was a duly elected president of these United States, perhaps overwhelming by the popular vote, as well as the Electoral College. End of story,
Susie Wiles has the gimlet eye of an alcoholic's daughter. She is always on edge, vigilant to the slightest movement, fearful of sudden danger, and has learned to withdraw herself from the chaos in order to survive. She is keenly observant, sees through people around her who are not drinkers to decipher their underlying motives that might flare into unexpected menace, and practiced in passive aggression of which her interview with Vanity Fair is a classic case study.
US President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled plans for a new class of Navy ship named after himself. While speaking at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the president claimed the "Trump-class" Navy vessels "will be the largest battleship in the history of our country." The new initative will start with two "Trump-class" vessels before being expanded to up to 25 new ships, which is being dubbed the "Golden Fleet."
The story of Elise Stefanik's political rise and fall is a parable of a young woman's all-consuming drive for political stardom and her crushing downfall at the hands of a despotic tyrant. Stefanik was the youngest woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A Harvard educated liberal with political ambitions, she was skilled at impressing people with her intelligence and work ethic.
Buying a home and signing up to a 30 to 35-year mortgage is already the biggest financial commitment you'll ever make. But would you be prepared to go a step further and commit to paying the same interest rate for 30 years?
Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States. In 2017, a reckoning over sexual violence called #MeToo swept the globe. Eight years later, has the movement done enough for survivors? And what will it take for some of the world's most powerful men accused of sexual misconduct to face consequences?
At this year's ceremonial turkey pardon, Trump praised a farmer from Wayne County, North Carolina, for raising two "record-setting" birds, but then pivoted to his own electoral margin of victory: "I won that county by 92 percent." (In fact, he won it by 16 percentage points.) At a McDonald's corporate event last month, Trump claimed that the United States controls 92 percent of the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf of America, as he calls it). It's really about 46 percent.
The justice department's partial release of the Epstein files on Friday signaled how the agency is using a variety of tactics to try to bury and obfuscate Donald Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein. As the department raced towards a legally mandated Friday deadline to release its files, little emerged about what it planned to release. There never really seemed to be a doubt that the department would release the files late on Friday afternoon,
