Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence  —  David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.  —  President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less …

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine  —  Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy.  It ravaged his Central American country.  —  He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses.”

Silicon Valley's Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends … In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.  He had convened top government officials …

Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine  —  The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business.  To Europe's dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.  —  Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month …

Steve Bannon Was Epstein's Comeback Consultant.  Where's the Uproar?  —  The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.  —  IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already …

Trump's pick to replace DeSantis faces a Republican pile-on in Florida … The result is a disjointed and increasingly nasty primary in the nation's third-largest state — one unfolding as Republicans continue to widen their voter registration advantage in the former battleground.

‘Appalling spectacle’: Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being ‘compromised’  —  Republican senators are “compromised,” according to a GOP strategist.  —  Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, wrote an article on Saturday called None Dare Call It Treason …

‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense  —  An explosive Washington Post report, the subject of so much discussion the past two days, says that, in the first missile strike the Trump Defense Department carried out against operatives of a boat suspected of transporting narcotics …

OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there  —  Don't call it a bubble!  Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments …

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Noem says deportation operation decisions are hers amid case over flights to El Salvador  —  The Justice Department has said that she made the final call on deportation flights after a judge ordered them to turn around.  —  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …

Several Arrested as Protesters Block Federal Agents in Manhattan Garage  —  The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.

Empathy is the new Christian battleground  —  As the U.S. grows more diverse, a quiet civil war is unfolding within American Christianity over who deserves empathy.  —  Why it matters: Conservatives ranging from evangelical pastors to Elon Musk have started framing empathy not as a virtue …

A shocking new warning about global poverty should unsettle everyone  —  One of humanity's biggest achievements may be slipping away. … Thanksgiving is traditionally a good time to start counting your blessings.  And for years, hundreds of millions of people have had this to be thankful for …

In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity  —  The president has used the language of divisiveness at a time when tragedy demands leadership.  —  Just now  —  There was a time, not that far in the past, when a shocking tragedy would bring the country together.

Disappeared to a Foreign Prison  —  The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.  —  One Saturday morning in early September, I got a WhatsApp video call …

Cory Booker Weds Alexis Lewis in a Private Ceremony  —  The couple legally married at a courthouse in Newark days before hosting an intimate wedding in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.  They shared their wedding details exclusively with The New York Times.  —  Senator Cory Booker …

All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches  —  From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump's family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election  —  A crusading prosecutor in the Balkans comes under pressure to drop a big case.

November 29, 2025  —  In the wake of yesterday's report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees …

DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals.  Many have no record.  —  Aggressive tactics have been deployed to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.  —  CHICAGO — Juan Manuel Armenta was at a bus stop en route to pick up his paycheck …

From power brokers to protesters: NYC landlords prepare for battle under Mamdani … NEW YORK — After Zohran Mamdani's resounding victory in New York City's mayoral race, Brooklyn landlord Humberto Lopes took to TikTok to blast out a warning: “The storm is here.”  —  He'd been preparing for it.

France's far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack  —  'I'm relieved:' Blind Ontario man awarded $28,000 for facing discrimination  —  17-year-old in hospital following stabbing in Scarborough  —  Crash seriously injures pedestrian in Langley, RCMP say