This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like  —  Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.  —  The president of the United States just barged into America's living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps.

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people  —  The Trump administration is expected to announce several moves Thursday that will have the effect of essentially banning gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal.

'Don's Best Friend': How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women  —  The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship.  Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance.  Female bodies were currency.

Transcript: Mike Johnson Unnerved as ACA Revolt Worsens: “Bullshit!”  —  The following is a lightly edited transcript of the December 18 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.  Listen to it here.  —  Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus  —  This is a developing story.  —  President Donald Trump's $1,776 checks for more than a million troops, announced Wednesday, come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended …

Inflation spikes 2.7 percent despite Trump's claims ‘prices are down’  —  Prices on numerous goods spike as the labor market continues to be sluggish  —  Inflation spike 0.2 percent in November and 2.7 percent in the past 12 months, according to the latest Consumer Price Index report.

Trump Media Targets Nuclear Fusion Through Merger With TAE  —  Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the company behind Truth Social, is getting into nuclear fusion.  —  The company said Thursday it will merge with TAE Technologies Inc., a closely held fusion developer founded in 1998, in a transaction valued at more than $6 billion.

Bari Weiss' Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism  —  The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the ‘Things That Matter’ series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.

The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024  —  Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, ordered the autopsy months ago but is now said to believe that its release would be counterproductive for the party.  —  The Democratic National Committee is killing its autopsy of the 2024 election.

We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine.  It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.  —  Anthropic's Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom.  It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. … You'd toss Claudius's résumé in the trash immediately.

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship  —  An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who've unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.”  —  The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip …

Stephen Miller's hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes  —  The Trump administration originally planned to go after Mexican drug cartels, but pivoted to Venezuela, according to current and former officials.  A trio of legal documents and directives have subsequently authorized an unorthodox lethal campaign.

Trump Told by Alan Dershowitz Constitutionality of Third Term Is Unclear  —  Trump's former lawyer presented him with his forthcoming book that concludes the Constitution is ambiguous on the question  —  President Trump on Tuesday received and discussed a draft copy of a book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz …

Trump Pressed Georgia Speaker to Overturn State's Election Vote in 2020 Call  —  During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.  —  In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020 …

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned  —  Imagine I sent you back in time to July 2015 with the goal of saving liberal democracy in America.  Donald Trump announced his candidacy a month ago, the polls are showing him with a narrow lead, and the media …

November consumer prices rose at a 2.7% annual rate, lower than expected, delayed data shows … Consumer prices rose less than expected in November, giving investors hope that inflationary pressures may be cooling enough for the U.S. monetary policy to be eased more than Wall Street anticipates.

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died  —  Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91.

Prosecutors tried and failed to add 3rd felony charge against Letitia James, court docs show … Prosecutors also asked a magistrate judge to keep records of the proposed indictment sealed after grand jurors rejected all three alleged charges, but the judge declined the request, according to court records.

December 2025 National Poll: Trump's Approval Flips Since Start of the Year  —  Home Polls December 2025 National Poll: Trump's Approval Flips Since Start of the Year  —  Voters Favor “Moderates” in 2028 Matchups  —  The final Emerson College Polling national survey of 2025 finds President Trump …

Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop  —  In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.  —  At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe.

Why a single word disappearing from the FCC's website matters for press freedom  —  FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the agency is not ‘independent,’ sharpening concerns about political pressure on the media … If you went to the Federal Communications Commission website first thing Wednesday morning, you would have read the following:

More photos from Epstein's estate released by House Democrats as deadline to release DOJ files looms  —  Congressional news Federal agencies Homes  —  Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate Thursday — the latest in a series of intermittent disclosures …

White South Africans could get Trump biography for kids in refugee welcome packet  —  White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed.

These House Republicans Won't Commit to Running in 2026  —  Rumors are swirling around Capitol Hill about an impending mass exodus of House Republicans following a number of surprise retirement announcements over the past few months.  —  With estimates about the number of Republicans ready …

Threats Against Judges Could Lead to a Judicial System Crisis  —  “The Domino's pizzas arrived at the homes of federal judges without explanation,” the Times editorial board wrote earlier this year.  “The message was clear: We know where you live.”  In the Opinion Video above, Esther Salas …

The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing.  We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.  —  A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family  —  When President Trump ran for re-election in 2024, he and his family already had vast business interests stretching …