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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will file a motion to dismiss the $10 billion lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over its 2024 “Panorama” documentary that distorted his Jan. 6 remarks. Trump sued the BBC for both defamation and for a violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking…
Director Judd Apatow claimed that America is “in a dictatorship” during his remarks at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards Sunday night. Apatow was presenting the award for Best Director when he began commenting about how much has changed since his film, “Trainwreck,” lost a Golden Globe Award to director Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian”…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., warned that the allegations against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell must be legitimate, and not politically influenced, as bipartisan unease over the criminal probe continues to ripple through the Senate. “I haven’t seen the case or whatever the allegations or charges are,” Thune said. “But I would say they better…
Federal agents used tear gas and rubber bullets to push back on protesters outside a federal building in Minneapolis on Monday as demonstrators continued to resist immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities. The tense incident unfolded outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which houses roughly a dozen federal agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs…
House and Senate lawmakers unveiled a new funding package on Sunday night totaling roughly $80 billion in federal spending, but questions still loom about averting another government shutdown at the end of this month. The package combines two of Congress’ 12 annual appropriations bills in what’s called a “minibus.” It covers funding for the State…
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FIRST ON FOX: The State Department revoked more than 100,000 foreign visas in 2025, more than twice that of 2024 in the final year of President Joe Biden’s administration. The figure is an all-time record, and follows on President Donald Trump’s day one executive order on foreign vetting. In 2024, the department revoked 40,000 visas. …
Early in the second Trump administration, analysts openly wondered how long Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s relationship with President Donald Trump would last. Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has long embraced a Cold War–inflected, hawkish approach to foreign policy that initially appeared at odds with Trump’s worldview. Trump had been deeply skeptical of U.S….
Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair CNBC Meta Taps Former Trump Adviser for New Role Driving AI Buildout Bloomberg.com Meta Appoints Dina Powell McCormick as President and Vice Chair The Information Meta taps Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman Axios Dina Powell McCormick to join Meta as president and vice-chair Financial Times
