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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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New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor

12h Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is floating the possibility that the state withholds federal tax dollars in protest of the Trump administration. The comments from Sherrill — made on comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast — underscores how she's trying to find ways to push back against President Donald Trump’s agenda. Sherrill won New Jersey’s closely watched gubernatorial race earlier this month in a blowout, with the results widely viewed as a referendum on Trump. It is unclear how such ...

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House committee unlikely to interview Ghislaine Maxwell after her lawyer said she wouldn't answer questions

Nov. 21, 2025, 3:14 PM EST WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee has shelved plans to depose convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and confidant, after Maxwell informed the committee that she planned to plead the Fifth. The Committee had intended to travel to Texas, where Maxwell is being held in a federal prison camp, to conduct the interview. But in an interview with Politico, Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said he is re-thinking those plans ...

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Nikki Haley's Son Calls to Ban 'Naturalized Citizens' From Holding Office In Tucker Interview

Nov 21st, 2025, 6:14 pm The son of former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told Tucker Carlson that he believes “naturalized citizens should not be able to hold public office.” Nalin Haley appeared on The Tucker Carlson Show on Thursday to discuss his personal views on politics and share with Tucker how he believes young people feel about white nationalist Nick Fuentes after Carlson’s controversial interview with him gained widespread attention and condemnation. When the topic turned ...

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Senate Democrats are investigating the Kennedy Center for 'cronyism, corruption'

November 21, 2025 4:06 PM ET The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which oversees public buildings, is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are "millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies." The committee's ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter outlining the claims to Kennedy Center president, Richard Grenell. Gren ...

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Trump's DoJ investigating unfounded claims Venezuela helped steal 2020 election

Fri 21 Nov 2025 10.00 EST Last modified on Fri 21 Nov 2025 16.09 EST Federal investigators have been interviewing multiple people who are pushing unfounded claims that Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned. Two promoters of the conspiracy theory have repeatedly briefed the US attorney for the district of Puerto Rico, W Stephen Muldrow, and have shared witnesses and documents with officials, according to four sources. Muldrow declined to comment. ...

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

1 hr 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

1 hr 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'

2 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

2 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

3 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

4 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

4 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

4 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

5 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)

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats

6 hrs ago - Updated November 22, 2025 at 11:10 a.m. EST President Donald Trump and his top White House aides pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers almost as soon as they took office in January, and in the past 10 months have repeatedly ... (Washington Post)

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

6 hrs ago - 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 lea ... (CBS News/AP)

Eric Holder to tear into Supreme Court as major redistricting decision looms

7 hrs ago - 11/22/2025 12:08 PM EST Former Attorney General Eric Holder will assail the Supreme Court in a speech Saturday as the high court prepares to weigh in on a number of key redistricting cases that could dramatically reshape the balance of power in Congr ... (Politico)

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

7 hrs ago - 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 Y ... (Town and Country)

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

8 hrs ago - 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 immigrati ... (The Guardian)

Marjorie Taylor Greene Didn't Tell Speaker Johnson She's Resigning Amid Razor-Thin GOP Majority: Report

9 hrs ago - Nov 22nd, 2025, 12:14 am Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reportedly did not tell Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) she would be announcing her resignation. Greene made the stunning announcement on Friday night, saying she would formally quit the House ... (MEDIAite)

Indiana's governor and at least 8 lawmakers have been swatted or threatened as state Republicans face redistricting pres

10 hrs ago - Updated Nov 22, 2025, 12:10 AM ET PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2025, 5:54 PM ET Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said he and his family are among the Republicans targeted in a wave of threats against state officeholders this week as President Donald Trump pressures Hoos ... (CNN Politics)

Sen. Elissa Slotkin receives bomb threat after urging military to 'refuse illegal orders'

11 hrs ago - Nov. 22, 2025, 12:08 AM EST Michigan State Police responded to a bomb threat at the home of Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a spokesperson from her office said in a statement on Friday. The threat comes after President Donald Trump accused her and othe ... (NBC News)

US tells Nato if Zelenskyy does not sign peace deal Ukraine will face worse in future

11 hrs ago - US officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future. The US army secretary, Dan D ... (The Guardian)

Jair Bolsonaro arrested after being deemed a flight risk

11 hrs ago - Jair Bolsonaro has been taken into custody after being determined a "concrete flight risk" while under house arrest. The former Brazilian president was found guilty of plotting a military coup in September and sentenced to more than 27 years in priso ... (BBC)

Senators want answers from Coast Guard on how it probes displays of swastikas or other hate symbols

12 hrs ago - 12h WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two senators who lead a bipartisan antisemitism task force said Friday they want more information from the U.S. Coast Guard about how it will investigate incidents of swastikas, nooses or other hate symbols being displayed in i ... (msn/AP)

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