Wed 26 Nov 2025 16.53 EST First published on Wed 26 Nov 2025 14.57 EST The condition of two West Virginia national guard members shot on Wednesday near the White House in Washington is unclear after the state governor received "conflicting reports" and Donald Trump said they were critically wounded. The incident happened near the Farragut West metro station and comes amid a controversial deployment of troops to the US capital city ordered by the Trump administration. While Patrick ...

Published Nov 26, 2025 at 03:13 AM EST updated Nov 26, 2025 at 04:39 AM EST Lawmakers are set to question the need for certain safety mandates in cars, including automatic emergency braking, at a hearing to discuss how to make vehicles more affordable for Americans, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, has announced that the hearing is sched ...

November 26, 2025 WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court will allow the nation’s top copyright official to retain her post for now, deferring President Donald Trump’s request on Wednesday to exert control over the office that advises Congress on issues like artificial intelligence. In a short order, the high court indicated that it wouldn’t rule on Trump’s pending emergency appeal to nix the official’s reinstatement until hearing arguments on other executive branch terminations in December and Ja ...

November 26, 2025 5:27PM ET Political analysts and observers slammed West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, for putting out an unconfirmed statement about the condition of two National Guard members who were shot on Wednesday near the White House. A lone gunman shot two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.'s Farragut Square, according to multiple reports. Initially, Gov. Morrisey tweeted out that "one did not survive the attack and the other was taken to a nearby hospit ...

November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM EST Updated on November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM EST The European Union will unveil a legal proposal in the coming days that would finally enable the bloc to use Russia’s immobilized central bank assets for a €140 billion ($162 billion) loan to Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday that Brussels was now ready to present the text. “I cannot see any scenario where the European taxpayers alone will ...

(CBS News) Speaker Mike Johnson has told the White House that most House Republicans have little interest in extending the Affordable Care Act's enhanced subsidies, sources familiar with the conversation told CBS News. Johnson delivered the message in a phone call with senior administration officials as President Trump's advisers were drafting a plan to continue the subsidies for an additional two years. That plan that was initially expected to emerge this week.

(Politico) The Justice Department acknowledged Tuesday that it was Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem who decided to proceed with the deportation of 100 Venezuelan men to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite a judge’s order to keep them in U.S. custody. The disclosure came in response to demands by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg that the administration identify the officials involved in authorizing an unprecedented deportation operation in March that sent the men to a prison known for abusive treatment.

(Bloomberg) US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump. In an Oct. 14 phone call that lasted a little over five minutes, Witkoff advised Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, on how the Russian leader should broach the issue with Trump. His guidance included suggestions on setting up a Trump-Putin call before Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s White House visit later that week and using the Gaza agreement as a way in.

(The Guardian) The Trump administration is framing its boat strikes against drug cartels in the Caribbean in part as a collective self-defense effort on behalf of US allies in the region, according to three people directly familiar with the administration’s internal legal argument. The legal analysis rests on a premise – for which there is no immediate public evidence – that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments.

(KTUU-TV Anchorage) Alaska’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is defending Democratic lawmakers now under FBI and Pentagon investigation for appearing in a social media video that urged U.S. troops to refuse illegal orders from their commanders. “Senator Kelly valiantly served our country as an aviator in the U.S. Navy before later completing four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut,” Murkowski said in a statement. “To accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that servicemembers can refuse illegal orders is reckless and flat-out wrong. The Department of Defense and FBI surely have more important priorities than this frivolous investigation.”