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Top News Stories for Friday, November 21st 2025
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
It's been plain from the start that the Justice Department's prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump's desire for payback against a bitter political enemy. Exhibit A: the president's own September 20, 2025, Truth Social post, stating exactly that. Now it seems that the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence. When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to speak with his U.S. counterpart President Donald Trump in the coming days, after being presented with a peace plan reportedly drafted by Washington and Moscow. In its current form, the deal is reported to require Ukraine to make significant concessions to Russia in order to end the war. "I really don't think it can fly," Guntram Wolff, senior fellow at ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday called a handful of ex-military Democratic lawmakers "traitors" who should be jailed over a video they published online informing active service members of their oath to protect the Constitution and their responsibility to refuse illegal orders. In a series of statements published on his Truth Social media platform, Trump described their actions as "SEDITIOUS ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
President Trump will host New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday for what will be a closely watched meeting between two political rivals who have drawn comparisons in their populist appeals. Mamdani will meet with Trump less than a month after winning his election to become the next mayor of New York City, despite frequent attacks from the president and his allies labeling him a ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with local congressional representatives, state officials and supporters, speaks as he announces the redrawing of California's congressional maps, calling on voters to approve a ballot measure, in response to a similar move in Texas being supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake Gavin Newsom has slammed ...
Source: rawstory.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
We'll keep digging -- no matter who wants the truth buried. Become a HuffPost member and fuel reporting they can't silence. Already a member? The U.S. Coast Guard has again classified swastikas and nooses as hate symbols ― and prohibited them. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that under new guidelines, these items were no longer classified as hate symbols and were instead considered merely ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By A series of proposals aimed at eliminating or reducing non-school homestead property taxes advanced out of a House committee on Thursday, as local-government officials warned about having to decrease services because of potentially billions of dollars in lost revenue. The Republican-dominated House Select Committee on Property Taxes voted along party lines to back seven proposed constitutional amendments that, ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Home » » In a news release, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds as well as making illegal campaign contributions. The DOJ stated that Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick and her brother Edwin Cherfilus worked through Trinity Healthcare Services, ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Friends, family and a few former presidents are gathering in Washington, D.C., Thursday for former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral. , a dominant figure in Republican politics for more than three decades and one of the most influential vice presidents, died on Nov. 3 at age 84 of complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Cheney had received a heart transplant in 2012. Cheney's funeral ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Just a few weeks ago, a December interest rate cut was viewed as practically a done deal by many economists. Now, with fresh government data showing solid U.S. job growth in September , many forecasters think the Federal Reserve is likely to hold off lowering borrowing costs when policy makers meet next month. The probability of a Federal Reserve rate cut now stands at 22%, down from a likelihood of 97% as of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The Department of Justice asked the judge to drop the charges. A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the indictment against two people accused last month of "ambushing" federal agents conducting an immigration sweep in Chicago, including a woman who was shot five times in the incident. U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis dismissed the charges against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz after the Department of ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump 's deployment of 2,000 National Guard soldiers to Washington was illegal, saying the president lacks the authority to dispatch troops "for the deterrence of crime." U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said that while Trump is the commander in chief, federal laws constrain his power to federalize and deploy those troops, particularly in Washington, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month. Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state's largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of Republican President Donald Trump's aggressive mass deportation efforts that have sent the military and immigration ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The United States on Wednesday intensified its manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian who U.S. law enforcement accuses of being a drug kingpin on the scale of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It is not immediately clear how long the United States has been hunting Ryan Wedding but he was first indicted in the United States in October 2024. In March, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
GREENBELT, Md. —A federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff , according to a law enforcement source and a subpoena to a witness requesting information about her communications with individuals purporting to be involved in the probe. The subpoena obtained by NBC News was sent to conservative activist Christine Bish, who ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Karoline Leavitt says president 'calls out fake news when he sees it' after remark to reporter draws severe condemnation The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump 's reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a "piggy" on Thursday, claiming without evidence that the president "calls out fake news when he sees it and gets frustrated with reporters who spread false information". White House ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to end Sudan's grinding civil war at the request of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, condemning "tremendous atrocities" in a conflict he has previously overlooked. Trump admitted that the devastating civil war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was "not on my charts" before de facto Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman pushed him to get involved. ...
Source: digitaljournal.com