Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn't radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers  —  Pete Hegseth Congressional news  —  The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel …

Supreme Court allows Texas to use a congressional map favorable to Republicans in 2026  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year's elections to be held under the state's congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed …

Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed  —  Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people  —  Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth  —  The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks …

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says  —  Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it.  Donate to sustain Prism's mission and the humans behind it.

Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources  —  The FBI director's use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he's “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”  —  FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting …

MAGA's Affordability Crisis Will Soon Get Worse  —  And Trump's numbers will continue to slide  —  Long ago, probably in a long-forgotten hotel room, I watched a 1974 movie called The Internecine Project — now available, as you'll see if you follow the hyperlink, on YouTube.  In truth, it's a pretty bad movie.

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk's X, straining ties with US  —  US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’  —  This article is also available in: French  —  BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million fine on Elon Musk's X …

Trump's Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour  —  The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating.  —  After months of holding steady, President Trump's approval rating has taken a dip over the past several weeks …

Scoop: Security upped for Rep. Jamie Raskin after alleged incident  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had his security increased this week after a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was previously convicted of threatening him and former President Obama allegedly showed up near his house Monday night, Axios has learned.

Trump hires new White House ballroom architect  —  Although the two had clashed over the size of the project, the decisive factor was the small firm's limited capacity to handle such an enormous project. … President Donald Trump has replaced the architect he handpicked to design his White House ballroom …

Trump Says Europe Risks Being Wiped Away Unless Societies Change  —  The Trump administration said that European civilization is at risk of “erasure” as a result of decades of economic decline, political censorship and immigration.  —  In a 29-page National Security Strategy published Friday …

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers  —  Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

On Immigration, Stephen Miller Is no Calvin Coolidge  —  Nativists extol the 30th president for closing the golden door.  But he never broadly disparaged immigrants and often praised diversity.  —  President Donald Trump, during his December 2 cabinet meeting, spewed among …

Trump reveals what he wants for the world … It has an unusually heavy focus on the Western Hemisphere that it casts as largely about protecting the U.S. homeland.  It says “border security is the primary element of national security” and makes veiled references to China's efforts to gain footholds in America's backyard.

Dec 04 Challenger Report: 71,321 Job Cuts On Restructurings, Closings, Economy  —  NOVEMBER CUTS FALL FROM OCTOBER; UP 24% FROM NOVEMBER 2024  —  U.S.-based employers announced 71,321 job cuts in November, up 24% from the 57,727 job cuts announced in the same month last year.

How RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Policy Put a Doctor-Turned-Senator in a Political Bind  —  Health secretary is poised to oversee the undoing of a vaccine norm that Sen. Cassidy worked to promote  —  During Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmation hearings in Congress, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) …

Mike Johnson scrambles to pass Pentagon bill as GOP ranks seethe … Other deeply divisive issues remain, ranging from cryptocurrency policy to in vitro fertilization, that could threaten to further splinter the House GOP and imperil the typically bipartisan Pentagon bill.

Trump's closure of Voice of America is coming back to bite him  —  As the president threatens Venezuela, Russia and China are filling the information vacuum. … President Donald Trump has said he won't rule out anything when it comes to removing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro from power.