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Trump's Inner Circle Braces for a New Year's Shakeup

Updated Dec. 28 2025 3:45PM EST Published Dec. 28 2025 2:29PM EST President Donald Trump may be plotting a radical purge of top advisers as his administration staggers into the second year of his second stint at the White House. “I think we will see some senior advisers in the West Wing leave,” CBS News’ senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs told the network Sunday. Jacobs clarified that Trump’s “main pack” of inner circle advisers—Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Deputy Chief of Staff Ste ...

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US Justice Department using fraud law to target companies on DEI, WSJ reports

December 28, 2025 10:01 PM EST Updated 8 hours ago Dec 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Google (GOOGL.O) and Verizon (VZ.N) are among a list of companies that have received Justice Department demands for documents and information about their workplace programs, the report said, citing people familiar with the investigations. Reut ...

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US pledges $2B for UN humanitarian aid as Trump slashes funding and warns agencies to 'adapt or die'

Updated 12:10 AM EST, December 29, 2025 GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to “adapt, shrink or die” in a time of new financial realities. The money is a small fraction of what the U.S. has contributed in the past but reflects what the administration believes is a generous amount that will maintain the United Stat ...

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Netanyahu to meet Trump in US amid fears of Israeli regional offensives

Mon 29 Dec 2025 01.00 EST Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Donald Trump at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday evening amid growing fears Israel could launch new offensives against regional enemies, potentially plunging the Middle East further into instability. The Israeli prime minister left Israel on Sunday on his fifth visit to see Trump in the US this year. High on the agenda will be the ceasefire in Gaza, which in October halted the devastating two-year-long war. Thou ...

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Ukraine has 'different position' to Russia on Donbas, Zelenskyy says

5h ago17.13 EST Ukraine has 'different position' to Russia on Donbas, Zelenskyy says Zelenskyy is then asked about his take on the Donbas issue. ................ He says Ukraine’s attitude to Donbas is “very clear” and that Ukraine has “a different position to Russia”. He also says in response to a subsequent question that the question of territory has to be answered by the people of Ukraine. We can have [a] referendum on any kind of points of this plan. Of course, our society has to choo ...

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New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches fully to tap-and-go fares

Updated 11:31 AM EST, December 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky magnetic strip are following the token into retirement. The last day to buy or refill a MetroCard is Dec. 31, 2025, as the transit system fully transitions to OMNY, a ...

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Trump's inner circle is filled with architects of Project 2025. Here are the policies they have implemented so far

Sunday 28 December 2025 07:11 EST Approximately half of the recommendations in Project 2025 have become official policies, presidential directives or overall goals of the Trump administration in the first 12 months of President Donald Trump’s second term. The nearly 1,000-page ultra-conservative policy blueprint emerged from the Heritage Foundation think tank in 2023 and was widely seen as a possible manifesto for a second Trump turn despite denials by the candidate himself and many of those ...

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Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

December 28, 2025 6:00 AM ET The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now there's a shortage. The imbalance is expected to start affecting prices of all sorts of products powered by technology. "I keep telling everybody that if you want a device, you buy it now," said Avril Wu, a senior research vice president at TrendForce, a Taiw ...

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'You know what I like': Epstein files reveal disgraced financier's routine abuse of girls

Sun 28 Dec 2025 08.00 EST Last modified on Sun 28 Dec 2025 08.02 EST By the mid-2000s, Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teen girls was routine. From 2002 to 2005 alone, the late financier victimized “dozens” of underage teens by luring them into sex acts for payment under the auspices of massage work, some as young as 14, prosecutors said. Epstein leaned on a coterie of employees and associates – including British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell – to secure a “steady supply of minor victims”. He ...

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Trump welcomes Zelenskyy for talks, asserts Russia and Ukraine both want peace, however elusive

By WILL WEISSERT, SEUNG MIN KIM and ELISE MORTON Updated 1:27 PM CST, December 28, 2025 Leer en español PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin truly want peace, as he welcomed the “brave” Ukrainian leader for talks at his Florida resort. “The two leaders want it to end,” Trump said at the outset of the meeting at Mar-a-Lago. Before Zelenskyy arrived, Trump spoke with Putin by pho ...

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Zelensky: 15-year US security guarantee part of peace proposal

18 min ago - 12/29/25 7:56 AM ET Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Monday that the United States is offering a 15-year security guarantee in the latest draft of the 20-point peace proposal to end Kyiv’s war with Russia. Zelensky, answe ... (The Hill)

Winter storm brings blizzard conditions and dangerous wind chills to US Upper Midwest

1 hr ago - By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JEFF MARTIN Updated 10:54 PM CST, December 28, 2025 A potent winter storm threatened blizzard-like conditions, treacherous travel and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest as other areas of the country braced Monday for p ... (AP)

TikTok has dethroned YouTube and Instagram and become the top social app for news among young people

1 hr ago - Dec 29, 2025, 5:08 AM ET TikTok has unseated its social media rivals as the top spot for young people to get their news. TikTok is now the most popular social app for news among 18- to 29-year-olds in the US, according to new survey data from the Pew ... (Business Insider)

Netanyahu to meet Trump in US amid fears of Israeli regional offensives

2 hrs ago - Mon 29 Dec 2025 01.00 EST Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet Donald Trump at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday evening amid growing fears Israel could launch new offensives against regional enemies, potentially plunging the Mi ... (The Guardian)

US Justice Department using fraud law to target companies on DEI, WSJ reports

2 hrs ago - December 28, 2025 10:01 PM EST Updated 8 hours ago Dec 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has launched investigations into the use of diversity initiatives in hiring and promotion at major U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sund ... (Reuters)

US pledges $2B for UN humanitarian aid as Trump slashes funding and warns agencies to 'adapt or die'

3 hrs ago - Updated 12:10 AM EST, December 29, 2025 GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United ... (AP)

Public libraries in Illinois now required to store anti-opioid overdose medications after a series of near-deaths

4 hrs ago - Sunday 28 December 2025 17:34 EST A new state law will require all public libraries in Illinois to stock medications that can reverse opioid overdoses after at least one library in the state reported multiple overdoses each year. The new law, which g ... (The Independent)

Ukraine has 'different position' to Russia on Donbas, Zelenskyy says

4 hrs ago - 5h ago17.13 EST Ukraine has 'different position' to Russia on Donbas, Zelenskyy says Zelenskyy is then asked about his take on the Donbas issue. ................ He says Ukraine’s attitude to Donbas is “very clear” and that Ukraine has ... (the guardian)

No deal, no defiance: UC's Trump fight grinds on, leaving UCLA in limbo

5 hrs ago - 12/28/2025 04:00 PM EST President Donald Trump spent a good part of the year trying to bend elite universities to his will, cutting off federal funds as leverage. The assault left schools with a choice: Surrender or fight. But since the president put ... (Politico)

Trump's Inner Circle Braces for a New Year's Shakeup

5 hrs ago - Updated Dec. 28 2025 3:45PM EST Published Dec. 28 2025 2:29PM EST President Donald Trump may be plotting a radical purge of top advisers as his administration staggers into the second year of his second stint at the White House. “I think we wi ... (Daily Beast)

Man admits to leaving bombs at DNC, RNC headquarters, authorities say

11 hrs ago - Local Crime & Public Safety Man admits to leaving bombs at DNC, RNC headquarters, authorities say Prosecutors said Brian J. Cole told the FBI that he planted the explosives on Jan. 5, 2021, because he was frustrated with the workings of the U.S. ... (Washington Post)

Midair helicopter crash in New Jersey leaves 1 dead and another critically injured

11 hrs ago - By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and MINGSON LAU Updated 6:23 PM CST, December 28, 2025 Leer en español HAMMONTON, N.J. (AP) — Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities s ... (AP)

Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as 'the most consequential technology in humanity'

12 hrs ago - Sun 28 Dec 2025 14.00 EST Last modified on Sun 28 Dec 2025 14.01 EST US senator Bernie Sanders amplified his recent criticism of artificial intelligence on Sunday, explicitly linking the financial ambition of “the richest people in the world ... (The Guardian)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Viral Video of Biblical Song Angers DHS

13 hrs ago - Dec 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM EST The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin voiced her anger on social media over Kilmar Abrego Garcia "making TikToks" while the department remains under "gag order by an activist ju ... (Newsweek)

Top Trump Housing Official Tells Fox News 50-Year Mortgage Scheme is Still 'On the Table'

14 hrs ago - Dec 28th, 2025, 10:59 am A White House Cabinet official told Fox News, on Sunday, that President Donald Trump’s widely-criticized 50-year mortgage plan is still under consideration. In an interview on Fox & Friends Weekend, HUD Secretary Sc ... (MEDIAite)

House Republican: 'You cannot be America first and pro-Russia'

14 hrs ago - 12/28/25 1:37 PM ET Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that Russia’s strikes on civilian homes — including on Christmas — are a reminder to Americans that the war against Ukraine is at odds with America’s values. In an inter ... (The Hill)

"GOP has abolished Congress": Pelosi says Republican lawmakers do nothing without Trump's say-so

15 hrs ago - Published December 28, 2025 11:41AM (EST) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks her colleagues across the aisle are a bunch of empty suits. During an interview with ABC‘s “This Week” that aired Sunday, the longtime Democratic Party ... (Salon)

Trump welcomes Zelenskyy for talks, asserts Russia and Ukraine both want peace, however elusive

15 hrs ago - By WILL WEISSERT, SEUNG MIN KIM and ELISE MORTON Updated 1:27 PM CST, December 28, 2025 Leer en español PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian Pres ... (AP)

New York subway ends its MetroCard era and switches fully to tap-and-go fares

16 hrs ago - Updated 11:31 AM EST, December 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. ... (AP)

Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

17 hrs ago - December 28, 2025 6:00 AM ET The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now there's a shortage. Th ... (NPR)

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