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Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday with strong buying of technology shares helping lift some benchmarks, while oil prices surged more than 1% after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela. Trump's move followed the seizure by U.S. forces last week of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region as his administration ramps up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro. U.S. futures edged lower. Tokyo's Nikkei

Asian shares are mixed and oil prices jump as Trump orders a blockade of oil tankers to Venezuela

2 big rail unions oppose $85B Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger over safety and cost concerns

Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died

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Candace Owens won’t take back conspiracies about Charlie Kirk’s death after meeting with Erika Kirk

In her first podcast episode after what she described as a 4.5-hour conversation with Erika Kirk, conservative podcaster Candace Owens said Tuesday that she still does not believe that the person charged with murder for Charlie Kirk’s death is solely responsible.Erika Kirk’s efforts to tamp down on speculation about her husband’s murder have not appeared to dissuade Owens, one of the nation’s most-watched personalities, who has seen her prominence grow while boosting conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes about Charlie Kirk’s death.Owens said Tuesday that her suspicions about cer

Jared Kushner pulls out of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

Trump orders ‘total and complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers coming to and leaving Venezuela

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Marjorie Taylor Greene warns the ‘dam is breaking’ in the GOP and slams Trump for being tone deaf on multiple issues

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday slammed President Donald Trump for his comments on the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, as she predicted more Republicans will follow her lead in breaking with Trump.“I thought that statement was absolutely completely below the office of the president of the United States, classless, and it was just wrong,” Greene told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”Trump on Monday in a Truth Social post lambasted the beloved director for his left-leaning politics and suggested Reiner had brought his demise upon himself.“MAGA faithful reacted big

Trump expected to sign executive order reclassifying marijuana, easing restrictions on the drug

House GOP leaders plow ahead with plan that will allow Obamacare subsidies to lapse

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Full video showing follow-up strike on alleged drug boat won’t be released to the public, Hegseth says

The Pentagon will not release to the public the full video of the US military’s strike on an alleged drug boat on September 2, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said.The attack, which included a follow-up strike that killed two crew members who survived an initial strike, has been at the center of a debate over the legality of the US military’s ongoing campaign in the Caribbean.“In keeping with longstanding Department of War policy — Department of Defense policy — of course we’re not going to release a top secret, full, unedited video of that to the general public,” Hegseth told

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Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who can travel and emigrate to the U.S. The Trump administration included five more countries as well as people traveling on documents issued by the Palestinian Authority to the list of countries facing a full ban on travel to the U.S. and imposed new limits on 15 other countries. The move is part of ongoing efforts by the administration

Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks and other close friends of Rob and Michele Reiner pay tribute

Trump says Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’ after Berlin talks, but is it? Here are the key sticking points

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Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says president ‘has an alcoholic’s personality’ and much more in candid interviews

The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler. She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution. Wiles su

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An aspiring neurosurgeon and a ‘faithful bright light:’ What we know about the two students killed in the Brown mass shooting

As college students across the country wrap up their fall 2025 semesters, finishing grueling finals and preparing to head home for the holidays, students at Brown University in Rhode Island ended theirs abruptly after a mass shooting on campus Saturday killed two of their own and wounded nine others.The campus remains on edge, plagued with fear and overwhelming anxiety with the perpetrator still at large. Authorities are pursuing a new lead based on photos and videos of someone taken hours before the attack, and the FBI has announced a $50,000 reward leading to an arrest and conviction. A pers

Vance acknowledges Americans’ economic pain in speech that contrasts with Trump’s tone on affordability

Hegseth says he won't publicly release video of boat strike that killed survivors in the Caribbean

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Australia in mourning as first funerals held for Bondi attack victims

Mourners gathered in Sydney on Wednesday as the first funerals began for some of the 15 people killed in Australia’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades.There were emotional scenes outside the Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, where large crowds paid their respects ahead of the service for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in Sunday’s massacre that targeted Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah.Family members wept as Schlanger’s coffin, draped in black velour bearing a gold Star of David, was wheeled into the synagogue.Schlanger, 41, organized the “Chanukah by the

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Terence Crawford, boxing's top pound-for-pound fighter, retires on top with 42-0 record

Terence Crawford, who claimed the title of best pound-for-pound boxer with a convincing victory over Canelo Alvarez in September, announced his retirement on Tuesday. The 38-year-old Crawford is the only male boxer to capture three unified division titles, which he accomplished with that unanimous decision over Alvarez before 70,482 fans at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. That gave Crawford the super middleweight championship and a 42-0 record with 31 knockouts. His final 20 bouts came with a belt on the line. “Every fighter knows this

Trump expands travel ban list to 39 countries

Exclusive: House Judiciary Committee expands Jack Smith probe

Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, criticizes Bondi and opines on Trump in Vanity Fair

Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair that sent the West Wing into damage control. The startlingly candid remarks from Wiles, the first woman to ever hold her current post, included describing the president as someone with “an alcoholic’s personality,” and Vice President JD Vance as a calculating “conspiracy theorist.” The observatio

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South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship

The South African government briefly held, then released, two US government employees on assignment in South Africa as part of the Trump administration’s bid to admit Afrikaners to the United States, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.The incident appeared to mark an escalation in the already-tenuous relationship between the United States and South Africa, which has rejected the premise of the Trump administration’s push to admit White South Africans as refugees. It also revealed some of the hiccups and hurdles US personnel have faced in the administration’s unprec