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.

Trump Says Europe Risks Being Wiped Away Unless It Changes  —  The White House said Europe risks “civilizational erasure” as a result of decades of economic decline, political censorship and immigration, according to an annual national security update that amounts to another sharp Trump administration broadside against the continent.

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 …

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories  —  The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.  —  WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic …

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.

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.

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act  —  Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).  The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ …

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 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 …

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.

Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan  —  Critics of the Supreme Court have argued that it has too often deferred to the Trump administration and that the conservative justices are under the sway of suspicious propositions like the unitary executive theory and the major questions doctrine.