December 4, 2025 8:11AM ET President Donald Trump is planning a nationwide tour to defend his economic agenda to voters, amid rising discontent over the cost of living, reported Axios on Thursday. This comes after a number of election scares for Republicans, including blistering losses around the country in November, and a special election this week that saw Democrats coming within single digits of flipping of Tennessee seat Trump won by 22 points. "Trump's approval rating has sunk as h ...

Fear not, MS NOW super-fans: A direct-to-consumer platform is coming soon. Versant, MS NOW’s parent company, says that it is planning to launch the new DTC offering next summer. Details remain scarce, but the company says that it will be “centered around community, membership, and democracy and as a digital hub for progressives,” rather than a traditional streaming platform. Versant says that it is still in the research phase of the product, but that it is pouring “significant investment” into ...

Thu 4 Dec 2025 00.05 EST Last modified on Thu 4 Dec 2025 13.56 EST Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a 2ft high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published on Thursday by Amnesty International alleges. The human rights group said migrants held at the state-run Everglades facility, and at Miami’s Krome immigration processing center operated by a private company on behalf of ...

By Jonathan Edwards and Dan Diamond President Donald Trump has replaced the architect he handpicked to design his White House ballroom, according to three people familiar with the project, ending the involvement of a boutique firm whose selection raised questions from the start about whether it had the capacity to complete the massive, high-profile endeavor. For more than three months, James McCrery II and his architecture firm led the effort to design Trump’s $300 million ballroom building — ...

By Todd Spangler Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press who is now also editor-in-chief of CBS News, is hosting a "town hall" forum with Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk, for the news network. "Three months after her husband was assassinated, Erika Kirk will open up about life, loss, the state of political discourse, and much more," CBS News said in announcing the special. The one-hour "A Town Hall With Erika Kirk" moderated by ...

(NBC News) Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him — including a member of Johnson’s own leadership team. This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a congressional stock trading ban, posting on X that she’s “pissed” that leadership isn’t moving fast enough on the issue. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna’s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill.

(The Hill) Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have “a real problem” after the party eked out a narrow victory in a ruby red Tennessee district in Tuesday’s special election. “I’m always concerned, to be honest,” Burchett told CNN’s Manu Raju when asked about the race, which was more competitive than in recent years. “We got a real problem, and we better wake up,” Burchett added. Republican candidate Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn by roughly 9 percentage points on Tuesday, in a district that includes part of Nashville and some rural parts of the state. The district voted overwhelmingly for President Trump in 2024, backing him over former Vice President Harris by more than 20 points.

(Raw Story) Virginia Democrats threatened to go nuclear on the GOP in their retaliatory mid-decade redistricting, potentially deleting as many as four Republican seats to create a map where Democrats win 10 out of 11 districts. Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was asked about redistricting at a meeting of the Virginia Property Owners Alliance. In response, he replied, "10-1 is not out of the realm to be able to draw the maps in a succinct and community-based way," according to Punchbowl News' Ally Mutnick.

(Wall Street Journal) California Democratic Representative and Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Robert Garcia said bank and financial records are the next “biggest thing” in the release of case files related to the federal sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Garcia appeared on MS NOW's Chris Jansing Reports after the release of photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday.

(Newsweek) California Democratic Representative and Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Robert Garcia said bank and financial records are the next “biggest thing” in the release of case files related to the federal sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Garcia appeared on MS NOW's Chris Jansing Reports after the release of photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday.