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11+ min ago (392+ words) Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has ripped into a series of Truth Social posts made by Donald Trump. The 58-year-old comedian would tear down a post made by the president which included his Thanksgiving message and a controversial attack on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Speaking in the opening address of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host suggested one of Trump's posts in particular had people laughing at him, not at the country. Kimmel would take aim at the "laughed at" section of the post, using it as a segue into people mocking the president and his later comments on Truth Social. The talk show host said, "'Murdered, mugged, beaten, and laughed at?' I hate to be the one to tell you, our country isn't being laughed at, they're laughing at you." Kimmel would then turn his attention to later in the…...

16+ min ago (897+ words) CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins hit President Donald Trump and his Defense Department with a receipt from the Pentagon's Law of War Manual in response to the deadly strikes on alleged drug boats. Trump has waged a campaign of aerial bombardment against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean for months, killing dozens of people in at least 21 strikes that we know of. The campaign has been criticized over the legality of the strikes " and that was before the revelation that survivors of one strike were ordered to be killed. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was blamed for giving the order in initial reporting, but has since pointed the finger at Admiral'Frank Bradley " while claiming to fully support him. On Monday night's edition'of CNN's'The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the anchor ran down the latest developments in a…...

25+ min ago (335+ words) Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we'll give one to someone who can't afford access. It's a simple way for you to support Vox's journalism and share it with someone who needs it. On Monday, Vox announced the launch of a major, multi-year editorial project exploring what it will take for the United States to restore its capacity to build " from new energy solutions, to upgrading transportation systems, to dramatically expanding the nation's housing supply. Vox received a grant from Arnold Ventures to support this project, though Vox retains full editorial control over all content produced as part of the project. The first editorial package, The Case for Growth, is live today, with additional stories rolling out over the next month. This series will explore why the US turned away from a…...

25+ min ago (644+ words) A Hispanic couple recently found themselves face-to-face with a woman who appeared to be racially profiling them in the Delray Beach Market garage. The woman cornered the couple, yelling at them from outside their car and telling them to go back to "wherever" they came from. She eventually moved, but only after another driver and building security stepped in. @mdlex posted a video of the encounter and a follow-up explaining what happened, and it quickly spread on the internet. The raw footage has pulled in 5.9 million views since Nov. 23. Many viewers expressed outrage at the encounter, later identifying the woman"s name and general location." Jose and his partner were driving out of the parking garage when they noticed the woman in front of them driving a bit "erratically." She came to a full stop right before the garage exit....

25+ min ago (1309+ words) In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect "digital confessions." At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 [] In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect "digital confessions." At a music festival near Amsterdam, the researchers asked attendees to share a secret anonymously by chatting online with either a priest or a relatively basic chatbot, assigned at random. To their surprise, some of the nearly 300 participants "offered deeply personal confessions, including of infidelity and experiences with sexual abuse. While what they shared with the priests (in reality, incognito scientists) and the chatbots was "equally intimate," participants reported feeling more…...

32+ min ago (335+ words) MS NOW writer and editor Hayes Brown says the list of lawyers willing to jeopardize their reputations and their law licenses to pursue President Donald Trump's lawfare against his perceived enemies is "growing blessedly shorter." "As it stands, the scramble to find lawyers who are both sufficiently loyal and able to make ridiculously political arguments hold up in court is failing," said Brown. Monday saw a federal appeals panel confirm that Alina Habba's controversial appointment as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey wasn't legitimate. This ruling came on the heels of a different federal judge's determination that Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed to serve as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Filling in the gaps from the thousands of departures with qualified MAGA-friendly lawyers is even more difficult. The Washington Post reported last month that a…...

48+ min ago (585+ words) Missouri Republicans have been doing everything they can to block a referendum to put the state's gerrymandered congressional map on the 2026 ballot. The latest twist came late last month when Attorney General Catherine Hanaway accused a company hired to collect signatures for the campaign of human trafficking. You read that right: Human trafficking. If true, it would be a massive scandal " and a grave tragedy. But so far, the only evidence Hanaway has cited are "reports." After she made the initial accusation on social media, we sought clarification from her office on where she heard these allegations, what "reports" she was referring to and what led her to believe they were credible enough to seek assistance from ICE, the federal agency that enforces immigration laws. Her office didn't respond. A few days later, Hanaway issued a statement announcing she had…...

52+ min ago (753+ words) It's a criminal offense'war crimes or murder are criminal offenses. Hegseth doesn't have the immunity that the President of the United States does." ' Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), quoted by Time, on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's role in the boat strikes. In politics, nothing is more valuable than voter data. Scammers know that too. They're not guessing your number ' they're buying your personal information from the same kinds of data brokers that fuel political targeting. Your phone, your email, even the clues about your habits and interests" all of it gets packaged, sold, and used to come after you. Incogni cuts off that pipeline. It automatically forces data brokers to delete your information, shutting down the lists scammers rely on. Think of it as your own personal opposition-research blackout: once you're off their rolls, you're a much harder target. If…...

54+ min ago (430+ words) Republican Party officials have a "serious concern" that Democrats could make huge gains in typically red states. Lower polling numbers than expected for the GOP and candidates who are, according to insiders, not taking their races seriously, are worrying Republicans running election campaigns this year. A special election Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District could be an indicator of how the 2026 midterms will turn out " and GOP members worry it's leaning towards a Democrat sweep. Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested the party had been "over-performing" in parts of the country that Trump's administration had flipped in the 2024 election. He told NOTUS, "Democrats have been over-performing the 2024 Trump numbers since the very beginning of his presidency, starting in late January in Iowa, where we flipped a district that Donald Trump had just won." While Republican Matt Van Epps is projected…...

59+ min ago (306+ words) It's been a rough week for a particular group of lawyers'specifically, those who served as President Donald Trump's personal attorneys while he was out of office, only to be rewarded with legally dubious appointments to top jobs as federal prosecutors earlier this year without Senate approval. Yes, there is somehow more than one such attorney walking the earth. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that Alina Habba, the person supposedly serving as the acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, had been unlawfully elevated to that position. The three-judge panel ruled that the Trump administration had violated a federal law that governs vacant positions by tapping her to serve as the chief federal prosecutor in New Jersey. Each decision would be a humiliating setback for a normal presidential administration. For this one, however, such sloppiness is…...