In a December 1, 2025 White House briefing in Washington, D.C., White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confronted New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers, accusing a recent Times piece about President Trump’s energy and stamina of being a misleading portrait. Leavitt said the art
In a White House briefing on December 1, 2025, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, described President Donald Trump’s October MRI as a routine preventive measure tied to his age as part of a comprehensive executive physical. Leavitt framed the imaging within the broader context of ong
The White House unveiled its Christmas decorations for 2025 on December 1, with the seasonal display centered on the theme Home Is Where the Heart Is. First Lady Melania Trump led the momentous reveal, joined by Second Lady Usha Vance and dozens of volunteer decorators. The effort also featured mili
The question of whether the United States will invade Venezuela has moved from fringe speculation to a focal point of regional security reporting in late 2025. Washington’s stated aims include counter-narcotics enforcement, pressuring the Maduro regime, and enforcing sanctions, while Caracas emphasi
A TikTok video claiming the United States would shut its borders on November 1, 2025 circulated online, prompting readers to verify its accuracy. Independent fact-checkers found no evidence of any executive order or Federal Register posting that would close the U.S. border to all travel. Credible ou
Venezuela’s government has formally filed a complaint with ICAO, the UN specialized agency for international civil aviation based in Montreal, regarding remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump that Venezuela’s airspace should be closed. Caracas says the comments amount to unlawful interference in its
In the run-up to a high-profile special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, President Donald Trump issued a post targeting Democratic state representative Aftyn Behn, a Nashville-based candidate campaigning in the district. Trump alleged that Behn hates Christianity and would impleme
In Caracas, the public spotlight returned to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on December 1, when he appeared at an annual specialty coffee awards ceremony in eastern Caracas. The event, far from the presidential palace but central to Caracas’ cultural scene, marked Maduro’s latest public gesture
In Moscow this week, Steve Witkoff—Trump’s special envoy—leads a U.S. delegation that includes Jared Kushner and other American and Ukrainian officials in talks with Vladimir Putin. The purpose of the meeting is to advance a U.S.-backed peace framework, specifically an amended 19-point plan that fol
In a surprise twist, Trump’s MRI results are declared ‘perfectly normal,’ raising eyebrows across the medical community.
President Donald Trump, speaking aboard Air Force One, claimed that the conviction of Honduras’ former president Juan Orlando Hernández was the result of a “Biden-era setup.” He said he plans to pardon Hernández, who was extradited to the United States in 2022 and later sentenced in 2024 to about 45
In Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz publicly pushed back at Donald Trump’s Truth Social tirade against the state, calling the remarks hurtful and demanding transparency about the president’s health by releasing his recent MRI results. The exchange began after Trump—posting on Truth Social—attacked Minne
A teenager from New Zealand is warning others after doctors linked his severe lung problems to heavy vaping. The teen, identified as LeeRay King, said he began vaping at age 14 and continued for years before his health collapsed. He described vaping all day every day and going through several dispos
Late 2025, the United States has deployed a carrier strike group led by the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Caribbean, accompanied by the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and a broader flotilla of surface ships and Marines. Officials describe the posture as deterrence and a means to press counter-narcotics
In the Miami area of South Florida, US and Ukrainian negotiators continued work on a framework intended to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The talks gathered high-level participants, including US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian delegates, and American officials described as Secretary of State Marco Ru
U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators gathered at Shell Bay Golf Club near Miami for a tense five-hour discussion centered on where a de facto border with Russia would be drawn under a prospective peace agreement. The Ukrainian delegation was led by Rustem Umerov, with Andriy Hnatov and Vadym Skibitsky, wh
In late November 2025, President Donald Trump announced he had invited the families of West Virginia National Guard members Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe to the White House to pay respects to Beckstrom and offer support to Wolfe after a shooting near the White House. Beckstr
Nasry Asfura, the conservative National Party candidate backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, holds a slim lead in Honduras’s presidential race as vote counting continues nationwide. Early tallies show Asfura with about 41% of the votes, compared with Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party at rough
Counting of votes is underway across Honduras in a tightly contested presidential race that pits three leading contenders against each other: Rixi Moncada of LIBRE, Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party, and Nasry “Tito” Asfura of the National Party. Voters are also choosing a new Congress and hund
On December 1, 2025, in Lagos at the Citadel Global Community Church in Sabo, Yaba, Pastor Tunde Bakare publicly claimed that President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) and his stern approach to security are motivated by an apparent fascination with Ni
On a Friday in late November 2025, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he would cancel executive orders signed by President Biden using an autopen, alleging that about 92% were signed without Biden’s direct hand. An autopen is a device that can automatically sign documents on a pre
In a piece drawing on coverage from The Independent (UK) and subsequent reporting, Josh Brolin looks back at a friendship formed with Donald Trump before Trump ascended to the presidency. He recalls meeting Trump after filming Wall Street 2, a moment that framed for him a different side of Trump’s b
According to reporting from major outlets, allegations have emerged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered lethal strikes on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, with survivors reportedly killed in a second strike. The initial strike is said to have occurred on September 2, 2025, a
In Washington, a White House official announced that President Donald J. Trump had commuted the prison sentence of David Gentile, the Manhasset, New York native best known as the founder and former CEO of GPB Capital. Gentile had begun serving time for a $1.6 billion securities and wire fraud scheme