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Trump Names Nigeria 'Country of Particular Concern'
President Donald Trump on Friday announced he is formally designating Nigeria a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC), citing what he called the "mass slaughter" of Christians by radical Islamist militants.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:55:00 EDTMcDonald's Rounding Totals to Offset Penny Shortage
McDonald's is among several large companies adjusting to a growing shortage of pennies following the U.S. Mint's decision to stop producing the coin two months ago, according to USA Today.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:34:48 EDTTrump Renovates Lincoln Bathroom in Marble
President Donald Trump said he has renovated the Lincoln bathroom in the White House entirely in marble.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:06:50 EDTICE Marks Halloween by Arresting More 'Real-Life Monsters'
As American children prepared to don costumes and hit the streets for Halloween trick-or-treating, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were busy taking real-life monsters off those same streets.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:01:28 EDTBloomberg Throws $5M Against Mamdani via Super PACs
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg injected $5 million into super PACs mobilized against democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani this week, making the billionaire businessman the largest individual donor in the current mayoral cycle.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:01:25 EDTTexas Judges May Refuse Same-Sex Marriages on Religious Grounds
Texas judges may now decline to perform same-sex marriages if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs, under an order issued Friday by the Texas Supreme Court. The ruling modifies Canon 4 of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct...
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:57:51 EDTFBI Busts ISIS-Inspired Halloween Weekend Attack Plot in Mich.
Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:19:00 EDTPentagon to Resume Nuclear-Weapons Testing at Trump's Order
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Department of Defense is moving "quickly" to implement President Donald Trump's directive to resume nuclear-weapons testing.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:26:04 EDTLAFD Told to Leave Blaze That Became Palisades Fire
Los Angeles Fire Department crews were ordered to abandon a smoldering hillside blaze that later reignited into the catastrophic Palisades Fire - a move firefighters on the ground warned was a "bad idea," The Los Angeles Times reported.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:17:21 EDTForeign Activists Dropped Nearly $2B Into Climate Push
A new report by Americans for Public Trust claims that a group of foreign-based charities has quietly spent almost $2 billion funding U.S. nonprofit organizations engaged in climate advocacy, litigation, and policy campaigns.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:22:04 EDTTrump: US 'Will Not Restart' Trade Discussions With Canada
President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States "will not restart" trade discussions with Canada, signaling a fresh freeze in relations between the two longtime allies after months of stalled negotiations, reports Reuters.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:01:45 EDTJudge Approves Abrego Garcia Transfer for Tennessee Hearing
A federal judge in Maryland on Friday approved the transfer of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from detention at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, to Nashville for his hearing in his criminal case brought by the Trump administration.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:02:41 EDTJudges Order Trump Admin to Use Emergency Funds for SNAP
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:11:09 EDTPentagon Backs Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine
The Pentagon has reportedly signed off on Ukraine receiving long-range Tomahawk missiles from the U.S., if that's what President Donald Trump decides to do.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:09:01 EDTAngel Dad Backs DHS Crackdown Honoring Daughter Killed by Illegal Migrant
Illinois Angel Dad Joe Abraham wrote an opinion piece published in the Chicago Tribune supporting the ongoing Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement surge in Chicago. His daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed...
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:21:38 EDTWhite House Public Tours Resume in December
The White House will reopen its doors for public tours beginning Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, the White House announced Friday.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:56:58 EDTTrump Declines to Rule Out Underground Nuclear Tests
President Donald Trump reaffirmed on Friday that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, and he did not answer directly when asked whether that would include the traditional underground nuclear tests that were common during the Cold War.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:49:58 EDTSec. Bessent Slams Sens. Klobuchar, Schumer Over Shutdown
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday escalated his criticism of Democratic leadership, calling on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., to break ranks and vote for a funding bill that would end the monthlong government shutdown.
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:19:18 EDTSpeaker Johnson Cautions Against Ending Filibuster
House Speaker Mike Johnson cautioned on Friday that eliminating the Senate filibuster rule to bypass the chamber's 60-vote threshold to reopen the government could unleash unintended and severe consequences. He told reporters that the filibuster has long served as a "very...
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:05:36 EDTSen. Blackburn Accuses Google's Gemma AI of Defamation
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., on Monday formally pressed Google and its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, for detailed explanations after the company's large language model (LLM) system, known as Gemma, generated fabricated criminal allegations that linked her name to rape...
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