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At first glance, the image has all the trappings of a Serious Tactical Raid Photo, à la Pete Souza's famous Situation Room snapshot, which showed President Barack Obama and his national-security team tracking the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. But then you see what's behind Hegseth: a large screen displaying an X feed. The photo is blurry, but it seems to show Hegseth and company using X's search function to monitor tweets about the raid.

On Friday night, when Donald Trump met with a small group of senior Administration officials and decided to authorize a raid in Caracas by Delta Force commandos to capture Nicolás Maduro, those present included Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Secretary of War Pete Hegseth; the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe; Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Stephen Miller, the President's most essential policy adviser, omni-portfolio'd and grimly saturnine.

In a telephone interview this morning, President Donald Trump issued a not-so-veiled threat against the new Venezuelan leader, Delcy Rodríguez, saying that "if she doesn't do what's right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro," referring to Nicolás Maduro, now residing in a New York City jail cell. Trump made clear that he would not stand for what he described as Rodríguez's defiant rejection of the armed U.S. intervention that resulted in Maduro's capture.

It began on the first day of his second term, with instructions to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to end the "weaponisation" of prosecutorial power. But with those first strokes of his pen, President Donald Trump instead launched a year of dramatic changes to the Justice Department, the government body responsible for enforcing federal law in the United States. Traditionally, the Department of Justice has cultivated an aura of "prosecutorial independence".

He also suggests Trump's Republican base want a deal and not further unnecessary wars. Araghchi was writing a day after Netanyahu held talks with Trump in the US in which Israel's calls to consider fresh attacks on Iran were discussed alongside the Gaza peace plan. Netanyahu claims Iran may be seeking to rebuild its nuclear programme after joint Israeli-US assaults on Iran in June severely damaged its key nuclear sites.

To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy: Ask not what the federal government can do for you... because the federal government under Donald Trump and his spineless sycophants don't care about you and don't care about governing. Those in power within the current three branches of government should be disqualified from holding public office. Their misguided initiatives, legislation, and rulings show us all very clearly that We the People must govern in coalition to save what remains of our republic and its institutions.

the strikes are a continuation of our conflict with [the Islamic State]. It's been, you know, around the world, Iraq, Syria. You're seeing it now in Nigeria.

I'm honored that President [Donald] Trump put his trust in me and I thank Mayor Foley for taking the time to swear me in as GSA Administrator on such short notice. Over the past four months I've met with GSA employees, listened to what's working well and what we can be doing better. I'm fired up to get to work and proud to start serving in President Trump's Administration for the American people.

I want to thank President Trump, he is fulfilling his commitment, him and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are sending the National Guard back into Louisiana, into New Orleans, he said. They will be there for New Year's Eve, and they will be there for a deployment through February, which we desperately need. Look, We know how to make cities safe, and the National Guard complements cities that are having high crime problems.

For Grandma: A tariff! Did they not want tariffs? That's what we got everyone. Sorry. For Uncle Greg: A TINY CAR!!! (We're making these now.) For Her: A photoshoot with Vanity Fair. Nothing says "glamour" like Vanity Fair. Usually. But sometimes the picture they take of you comes out looking like Dorian Gray's DMV photo-unflattering, but in a way that implies deep spiritual corruption. This gives a fun Russian-roulette aspect to the gift!

Ever since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the federal workforce, attempting to purge tens of thousands of civil servants and shutter entire agencies. The Supreme Court has largely rubber-stamped these mass layoffs, even when they frustrated congressional commands expressly intended to direct, structure, and constrain the executive branch. Last month, however, Congress struck back in a little-noticed move that shifted power away from the Trump administration by outlawing further illegal firings and reversing those already underway.

After waiting four years to return to the White House, President Donald Trump did not hesitate. Congratulations from foreign leaders were still pouring in on Inauguration Day when Trump signed his first directive. That day, he issued a raft of executive orders, proclamations and pardons that remade vast swaths of public policy and upended lives around the globe. Among those affected by his actions were journalists.

Question One Kambree Nelson is ... a) a federal judge, who called legal arguments by the Trump Justice Department in favor of ousting transgender service members "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext." b) a "new media reporter" in the White House press gallery who believed the Democrats had hidden, or maybe destroyed, the moon. c) a crazy mother who sent a death threat to her kid's teacher after the teacher initiated a project that included the rainbow flag.

Since early September, President Donald Trump has overseen a U.S. military campaign targeting boats accused of smuggling drugs through the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that has now killed more than 100 people, according to a detailed investigation by The New York Times. The operation began Sept. 2, with the U.S. military carrying out airstrikes against vessels the Trump administration says were involved in maritime drug trafficking.

The Warrior Dividend that President Donald Trump announced during his televised address to the nation Wednesday is not made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. Instead, the $1,776 payments to troops are coming from a congressionally approved housing supplement money they were already set to receive that was a part of bill of tax cut extensions and expansions signed into law in July.

The reform of immigration courts is one of the measures that has been undertaken by the Trump administration to expedite deportations, which are not occurring at the pace the U.S. president desires. In addition to instructing judges to close asylum cases without a trial, he has sought to replace judges he deemed too favorable to migrants with military lawyers. In recent months, the Republican has dismissed approximately 140 immigration judges and, in their place, hired 36 military lawyers to perform their duties.

Though the impetus for this investigation follows grave concerns about the extent of Russia's penetration of our political system, we must be clear-eyed too about the threat of interference now posed by the United States. In his recent national security strategy, President Trump outlined the US's new policy of cultivating resistance' within Europe. This reflects nothing less than an explicit call for interference in European politics including our own.

Critics of the Trump administration have praised Vanity Fair's interview with the White House chief of staff, and particularly the unvarnished photographs of Trump's inner circle that accompanied it, as overdue scrutiny of a controversial cabinet even as his allies rallied to dismiss it as a hit piece. Over what the magazine said was 11 separate interviews by reporter Chris Whipple, Susie Wiles spoke candidly about her colleagues,

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The article itself brought a massive amount of buzz, and Anderson's photos raised that to a nuclear level, with harsh lighting, unflinchingly close-ups of their faces, and posed photos that seemed clearly intended to communicate critical judgment of these people and the roles they were playing in Trump's second term. Many commentators were struck by the brutal detail of some of the photos, showing wrinkles, smeared makeup, stray hairs, and other facial skin imperfections.

Underneath former President Joe Biden's photograph, which is actually a picture of an autopen (that's called foreshadowing) a newly-installed plaque reads: Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.

In 1773, colonists threw tea in Boston harbor to protest unfair taxation, but on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Bostonians threw ice in opposition to the ICE "terror campaign." Hosted by the activist groups Boston Indivisible and Mass 50501, protesters gathered at the Irish Famine Memorial Plaza - just steps from the original tea party starting point at the Old South Meeting House - on Tuesday, according to the activist groups.