Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is personally thanking Transportation Security Administration workers who kept showing up through the 43-day federal government shutdown with $10,000 bonus checks. Noem made the announcement Thursday at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where she handed out the first batch of checks to about twenty TSA agents. She said the payments […]
Officials have briefed President Donald Trump on updated U.S. military options for potential operations in Venezuela. Options include possible land strikes, according to senior defense officials who spoke with CBS News, which first broke the story. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, and other senior military officials met with Trump at […]
Blue Origin, founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, successfully launched its massive New Glenn rocket. It took off from Cape Canaveral Thursday carrying twin NASA satellites headed for Mars. The 321-foot-tall rocket, powered by seven methane-burning engines, is now officially on its maiden flight. pic.twitter.com/mRFHLuLi7Q — Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 13, 2025 About 30 minutes after […]
We’re taking your comments and questions straight from YouTube — like how the U.S. is tightening SNAP restrictions for non-American citizens or why some federal agents got paid during the shutdown while others didn’t — and putting them to the test in this week’s Straight From You. Every week, we pull your comments, separate fact from speculation, and […]
A top Trump administration official has referred Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to the Justice Department for a federal criminal investigation. He’s accused of committing mortgage and tax fraud in relation to his Washington, D.C. home. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, made the referral in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi […]
Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly is facing backlash after describing victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “the barely legal type.” Kelly made the comments Wednesday on her SiriusXM talk show. Kelly’s comments “I do know somebody very, very close to this case who’s in a position to know virtually everything,” Kelly said. “This person […]
The BBC said Thursday it had apologized to President Donald Trump after he threatened to sue the network over an edited version of his speech prior to the U.S. Capitol riot in January 2021. But the British broadcaster rejected Trump’s demand for compensation, saying his threat of a defamation lawsuit was unwarranted. Trump’s lawyers sent […]
Home foreclosures in the U.S. surged in October – a worrying sign for an already strained housing market facing high borrowing costs and slowing job growth. Real estate data firm ATTOM reported that 36,766 properties were in some stage of foreclosure last month – a 3% increase from September and a 19% jump from a […]
Retail giant Walmart said Friday that longtime CEO Doug McMillon will retire at the end of January. The company said its former U.S. CEO, John Furner, would take over as overall CEO on Feb. 1. McMillon has held the company’s top executive role since 2014, being only the fifth person to lead the massive Arkansas-based […]
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, November 14, 2025—With settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank spiking, journalists are also facing more frequent and severe attacks. So far in 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented 11 attack incidents involving at least 23 Palestinian and international journalists by Israeli settlers — some alongside soldiers — compared […]
