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Trump teaming up with Jack Nicklaus to revamp 'president's golf course' at Joint Base Andrews

Updated 7:18 PM EST, November 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews — adding a site long known as the “president’s golf course” to his long list of construction projects. The president took an aerial tour of the Courses at Andrews aboard Marine One on Saturday, and promised, “We’re going to do some work” there, as well as to other parts of the base. “We’re doing some fix- ...

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Trump's Net Worth Drops $1.1 Billion

12h Topline President Donald Trump’s net worth has declined $1.1 billion since September, as stock in his family’s social media and crypto company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), traded at all-time lows this week. Key Facts Trump’s $6.2 billion net worth is down from a record $7.3 billion in September. The decline comes as his technology company stock TMTG, which trades under the ticker DJT, dropped to $10.18CK Friday, near an all-time low, amid a steep dip in bitcoin and other t ...

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Trump administration cannot expand rapid deportations, US appeals court rules

November 22, 2025 7:34 PM EST Updated 9 hours ago Nov 22 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to clear the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to expand a fast-track deportation process to allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far away from the border. A 2-1 panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to put on hold the central part of a ruling by a lower-court judge who had found that the administr ...

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TACO Trump Chickens Out of Sending Troops to New York

Published Nov. 22 2025 3:35PM EST Donald Trump is no longer keen on deploying the National Guard to New York City after his chummy meeting with the Big Apple’s new mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani. When asked by reporters Saturday if he was still interested in sending the National Guard to his home city, Trump, 79, said, “If they need it. Right now, other places need it more. We had a very good meeting yesterday. We talked about that. But if they need it, I would do it.” The statement is a stunn ...

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Democrats plan full-court press on DOJ to release Epstein files

12h Democrats won a huge victory this week in getting Republicans to enact legislation compelling the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein. Their next battle is keeping the pressure on the Justice Department to comply. Democrats are eyeing a series of tactical maneuvers — letters, lawsuits, additional subpoenas and votes of contempt — designed to keep the spotlight on the issue and ensure the documents see the light of day. They’re bracing for a brawl. “It will ...

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Tatiana Schlossberg, Granddaughter of JFK and Jackie Kennedy, Shares News of Terminal Cancer Diagnosis in Moving Essay

Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and author, and the granddaughter of Jackie and John F. Kennedy, is dying of cancer. She shared her terminal leukemia diagnosis in a moving essay titled "A Battle with My Blood," published in the New Yorker today. "When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn't be happening to me, to my family," she writes. She recounts how two years ago she was diagnosed with "acute myeloid leukemia, with a r ...

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New Orleans braces for Trump's immigration crackdown: 'We have rights'

Sat 22 Nov 2025 09.00 EST Last modified on Sat 22 Nov 2025 09.01 EST New Orleanians are bracing for a major deployment of US border patrol officers to the city, as Donald Trump forges on with his mass deportation agenda and sweeping federal immigration crackdown in Democrat-led cities. Despite falling crime, as many as 250 federal agents are expected to descend on New Orleans imminently to begin laying the groundwork for “Operation Swamp Sweep”, which the Associated Press reported is due to l ...

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Western leaders say U.S. 28-point Ukraine peace plan needs "additional work"

Updated on: November 22, 2025 / 11:55 AM EST The 28-point peace plan proposed by the U.S. for Ukraine is a basis that "requires additional work," Western leaders gathered at the G20 summit in South Africa said. Group of Seven nations and European leaders met on the sidelines of the summit in Johannesburg to discuss the U.S. peace plan for the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year. The Trump administration boycotted the summit. "The initial draft of the 28-point plan includes i ...

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Trump says Ukraine peace plan offer not final as US, Ukrainian officials to meet in Geneva

November 22, 2025, 12:52 PM President Donald Trump said Saturday his proposed peace deal is not his final offer to Ukraine, underscoring that his administration is pushing hard to end the war. The White House has given Kyiv a Thanksgiving deadline to accept the terms or risk losing U.S. support. But European leaders are voicing concern over provisions that would require Ukraine to cede territory to Russia and limit the size of its military. Asked by reporters Saturday whether this was his la ...

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Trump Embraces Pesticides After Previously Promising Crackdown

Nov 22, 2025 at 05:00 AM EST Despite saying he would protect Americans from "harmful chemicals" like pesticides, President Donald Trump and his administration seem to be embracing their use and have sought to bring in new pesticides that have sparked significant concern among environmentalists and experts. The EPA told Newsweek: "Comments from EPA critics are just another example of partisan organizations pedaling mistruths to the American public to drum up fear and distrust. ...

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Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries

51 min ago - November 22, 2025 8:20PM ET A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries. Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a popular Charlie Ki ... (Raw Story)

Democrats plan full-court press on DOJ to release Epstein files

1 hr ago - 12h Democrats won a huge victory this week in getting Republicans to enact legislation compelling the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein. Their next battle is keeping the pressure on the Justice Department to comply. De ... (msn/The Hill)

Trump administration cannot expand rapid deportations, US appeals court rules

2 hrs ago - November 22, 2025 7:34 PM EST Updated 9 hours ago Nov 22 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to clear the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to expand a fast-track deportation process to allow for the expedited ... (Reuters)

Trump's Net Worth Drops $1.1 Billion

2 hrs ago - 12h Topline President Donald Trump’s net worth has declined $1.1 billion since September, as stock in his family’s social media and crypto company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), traded at all-time lows this week. Key Facts Trump ... (msn/Forbes)

Trump teaming up with Jack Nicklaus to revamp 'president's golf course' at Joint Base Andrews

2 hrs ago - Updated 7:18 PM EST, November 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews — adding a site long known as the “presi ... (AP)

Bolton denounces Trump's latest peace plan as 'selling out Ukraine'

3 hrs ago - 12h Former national security adviser John Bolton ripped President Trump’s 28-point proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, arguing the plan was written from “the Russian point of view.” The Russians “couldn’t have written a b ... (msn/The Hill)

Cook County, which includes Chicago, has made its guaranteed minimum income permanent

3 hrs ago - Nov 22, 2025, 3:47 PM ET Many American cities and counties have been experimenting with a novel concept: Giving financially vulnerable residents free money every month without expecting anything in return. The goal is to let those people decide for t ... (Business Insider)

TACO Trump Chickens Out of Sending Troops to New York

4 hrs ago - Published Nov. 22 2025 3:35PM EST Donald Trump is no longer keen on deploying the National Guard to New York City after his chummy meeting with the Big Apple’s new mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani. When asked by reporters Saturday if he was still i ... (Daily Beast)

Trump admin issues demand to DHS staff to preserve records in litigation about elusive Noem texts

4 hrs ago - Nov 22nd, 2025, 3:12 pm The Trump administration is now telling its own staff to make sure they preserve records in an ongoing lawsuit over allegations the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was violating a legal mandate to retain text messa ... (Law & Crime)

Cargo ship fire in Los Angeles nearly contained after shelter-in-place order lifted

7 hrs ago - By JULIE WALKER and TRÂN NGUYỄN Updated 4:21 PM CST, November 22, 2025 Leer en español A fire on a container ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles was nearly contained Saturday afternoon, though authorities were still assessing wh ... (AP)

Trump and Prince Had 'Disturbing' Call After Khashoggi's Murder, Lawmaker Says

9 hrs ago - Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said he reviewed a classified transcript of the 2019 conversation that would “shock” Americans. Robert Jimison Nov. 22, 2025, 10:24 a.m. ET Representative Eugene Vindman, Democrat of Virginia, cal ... (nytimes.com)

'Horribly wrong': US veterans condemn Trump's politicization of military

11 hrs ago - Sat 22 Nov 2025 06.00 EST Last modified on Sat 22 Nov 2025 09.23 EST Veterans have condemned the politicization of the military after Donald Trump accused Democratic lawmakers of "sedition, punishable by death" after a small group of them released a ... (The Guardian)

US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump's Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan

11 hrs ago - HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Ky ... (AP)

Elizabeth Warren Calls Out CBS Owner On His Own Network: 'One Man Named David Ellison'

11 hrs ago - Nov 22, 2025, 01:20 PM EST | Updated 6 hours ago Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday stopped by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS and had no problem calling out Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, whose company recently ac ... (Huff Post)

'World turned upside down': Top MAGA allies bewildered by Trump's whiplash

12 hrs ago - November 22, 2025 1:42PM ET President Donald Trump's move to cast out loyalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and appear to embrace New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has left his most ardent top allies bewildered, with even former White ... (Raw Story)

Republicans frustrated with Bondi over Epstein, Comey 'messes' at DOJ

13 hrs ago - 12h Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s management of thousands of records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and, more recently, mistakes made by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in h ... (msn/The Hill)

Exclusive: US to launch new phase of Venezuela operations, sources say

13 hrs ago - WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov 22 (Reuters) - The United States is poised to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days, four U.S. officials told Reuters, as the Trump administration escalates pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's ... (Reuters)

World leaders secure compromise climate deal, sidestep fossil fuels

13 hrs ago - Nov. 22, 2025, 1:37 p.m. ET BELEM, Brazil - World governments agreed on Saturday to a compromise climate deal at the COP30 conference in Brazil that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omit any mention of the fossil fu ... (USA Today)

Trump says Ukraine peace plan offer not final as US, Ukrainian officials to meet in Geneva

14 hrs ago - November 22, 2025, 12:52 PM President Donald Trump said Saturday his proposed peace deal is not his final offer to Ukraine, underscoring that his administration is pushing hard to end the war. The White House has given Kyiv a Thanksgiving deadline to ... (ABC News)

Trump Embraces Pesticides After Previously Promising Crackdown

15 hrs ago - Nov 22, 2025 at 05:00 AM EST Despite saying he would protect Americans from "harmful chemicals" like pesticides, President Donald Trump and his administration seem to be embracing their use and have sought to bring in new pesticides that have sparked ... (Newsweek)

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