A Republican senator has drawn a damning parallel between embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and ousted Trump Cabinet member Kristi Noem.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, whose withering grilling of Noem in the Senate preceded her firing as DHS secretary in March, warned Friday that Hegseth had made the same mistake that ultimately cost her the job.

“@PeteHegseth, cabinet secretaries shouldn’t be wasting taxpayer dollars on campaign style videos. Kristi Noem learned that the hard way,” the 66-year-old Republican senator, who is retiring in January, wrote in an X post.

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Former Patriots tight end Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski was more central to MAGA organization Turning Point’s messaging than he has suggested, according to new screengrabs of the organization’s text message outreach.

The images run counter to the “false narrative” Gronkowski said emerged following his surprise appearance in the battleground state of New Hampshire on Election Day, alongside Turning Point’s other celebrity endorsers, including Nicki Minaj, Mike Tyson, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

According to Courier’s Chief Political Correspondent, Colin Booth, Turning Point heavily featured Gronk in promotional messages.

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Donald Trump’s White House is bracing for a major shake-up after his midterm bloodbath, with chief of staff Susie Wiles leaving the administration and making way for her controversial deputy Stephen Miller.

Trump announced Friday that Miller would take over from Wiles on Monday, November 9, with his chief of staff moving to the president’s political operation.

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A Republican lawmaker has made an unhinged demand to his fellow House members—stop talking to a top Congress reporter, or do not talk to me.

Washington Rep. Michael Baumgartner says anyone who speaks to Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman, known for his frequent scoops on Capitol Hill, should not come to him for backing in leadership roles.

“The slimiest member of the DC press corps who conspires with low integrity attention seekers to leak strategies being discussed in House Republican meetings is Jake Sherman,” Baumgartner has written on X. “To be clear—If you want my vote for leadership you will commit to no on or off record interviews with Jake Sherman for as long as he leaks our confidential team meetings.”

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Jennifer Lopez is showing off her ultra-toned physique and ultra-blond hair color in a nude photo shoot.

The singer and actress showed off her sculpted figure and her lightest hair color yet in a series of sultry photos by Sampson Clark, shared by celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton in a Nov. 5 Instagram post, captioned “Bombshell Barbs.”

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In the NFL, Mr. Irrelevant is the name given to the last player drafted. In American politics, it may be a title that increasingly fits Donald Trump.

For ten years, Trump was the dominant force on the U.S. political stage. This week, on Tuesday, that changed.

Oh sure, Trump will be around for another two years if his health holds up and he doesn’t decamp for a sunny dacha on the shores of the Black Sea. But with every passing day, with every tick of the clock, he will become less important.

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Morgan Fairchild, known for playing Chandler’s romance novelist mother in Friends, is joining OnlyFans. The 76-year-old Falcon Crest star told People that she will be “putting up new pictures and videos. And before anyone asks, no, not that kind!” Fairchild said she plans to share glimpses of her personal life and interests on the site, which is known for hosting adult content. “Mostly, it’s just me being goofy and talking about whatever’s on my mind,” the actress said. According to People, Fairchild’s new venture is advised by the management company Creators Inc., which also helped My Name Is Earl star Jamie Pressly launch her own OnlyFans. Other celebrities, like Donna Mills of Knots Landing, have also joined the site recently to share snippets of their personal lives, instead of OnlyFans’ usual explicit fare.

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Bear Grylls has spoken out after Russell Brand, whom he helped to baptize, was convicted of rape.

The TV host and adventurer addressed Brand’s conviction on X. The MAGA comedian, 51, was found guilty in a London court on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault on Thursday. He awaits sentencing on Monday.

On Friday, Grylls acknowledged both the baptism and “justice” now being served for survivors of Brand’s crimes.

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The View host Ana Navarro is pouring cold water on Democrats’ celebration of their declaration that Donald Trump is powerless.

Navarro said her “fear” is that the Party may not turn on Trump completely, despite crippling midterm defeats across the country, which led Democrats to flip Republican-held Senate seats in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

“I think Donald Trump is going to go completely unhinged, just fall off the cliff of sanity, because he’s already teetering, right? He’s been talking just...I mean, the things Donald Trump is doing are crazy. What concerns me is he’s got nobody around him to tell the emperor he’s got no clothes on,” the former Republican strategist said.

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A newly elected MAGA congressman has already been brutally mocked by The Daily Show over his expletive-laden victory speech.

Anthony Constantino, 44, narrowly beat his Democratic opponent to become the representative for New York’s 21st district—and his celebration has left people clutching their pearls, earning him a brutal roasting from The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper on Thursday.

“Evil media would not tell you what I did. Listen, you scumbags,” Constantino said in his victory speech. “I had to listen to you a--holes. You’re a bunch of f---ing a–holes. Look at that a–hole right there. Him, look at that guy. You’re a bunch of a–holes. Kate Lisa, another f---ing a--hole. I wanna be clear with you: I’m not a politician.”

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Robert F. Kennedy’s measles disaster has reached a bleak new milestone. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show over 5,000 cases across 45 states and Washington, D.C. A total of 5,182 cases have been confirmed, with eight deaths reported: One in New York, one in Wisconsin, and six in Pennsylvania. State health officials confirmed three of them this week, with the death in New York the first in three decades. The CDC has confirmed four of the deaths at the time of writing, but said that the number was “subject to change.” According to ABC News, around 96 percent of cases are among people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown. The CDC noted that only 2 percent of cases were among people who had had the recommended double dose of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine. It comes as Health Secretary RFK Jr. spearheads government efforts to change the official stance on immunization.

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Four days after voters humiliated 80-year-old President Donald Trump, first lady Melania, 56, is clambering for attention, money, or whatever it is she wants from Melania: The Series.

Amazon dropped the trailer for the two-part docuseries, and it’s as confusing as everyone expected. The “series” follows the first lady’s Jan. documentary feature film of the same name, which succeeded only in clearing out movie theaters across the country and yielding a humiliating 9 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Meghan Markle’s father has been arrested after the FBI allegedly found “sexually explicit photographs” of him posing with a “prepubescent girl.”

Federal agents raided a Florida care home on Friday to take Thomas Markle, 82, into custody after searching storage units held in his name in Los Angeles. The Department of Justice said he has been charged with possessing child pornography.

It comes after two weeks of reports alleging Markle kept child abuse images in storage lockers in Mexico and the U.S., as well as at his former home in the Philippines.

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If embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth avoids getting fired, he could find himself up against a formidable group: a Democratic majority in Congress with a growing number of military veterans gunning to take him on.

The controversial top Trump official went on the attack after Election Day amid mounting calls for his resignation or impeachment.

He posted a combative video blasting Democrats and defending his tenure at the Defense Department after his intense politicization of the military over the past two years.

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Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to one-up Barack Obama and win over fans of the Cheesecake Factory on the eve of elections has backfired spectacularly.

After the 80-year-old president and his allies touted the former president’s joke about the restaurant chain as proof of elitist Democrats looking down on middle-class Americans, Democrats had the last laugh on election night, winning more than 70 percent of districts with the popular restaurant chain.

For all the effort Republicans put into using the restaurant to appeal to voters, they were unable to unseat a single Democrat in a district with one of its restaurants by Thursday night. Democrats won at least 124 of those 171 House districts, according to The Bulwark’s analysis of race calls from the NBC News Decision Desk as of the end of Thursday.

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Donald Trump Jr. stumbled onto an uncomfortable truth about the GOP’s midterm disaster in a surprisingly candid account of what went wrong.

President Donald Trump’s 48-year-old son got straight to the chase on his Triggered podcast, declaring, “Our side got smoked on Tuesday.”

“We lost the House, we lost the Senate. Texas just elected a Democrat senator, a Democrat governor, a Democrat attorney general, and really—other than here in Florida—Republicans got demolished up and down the ballot,” Don Jr. said. “So the question really becomes why, and ultimately what, comes next.”

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Legendary singer Tom Jones has revealed he thought he was close to death after a severe bout of flu last week. The Welsh singer, 86, was taken to UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and had to cancel several performances. “[I thought] Oh well, this is it, you’ve had a wonderful life, Tommy, but it’s over right now,” he told fans at a concert this week after recovering. “I must say this, in the UCLA, they really did a wonderful job. So I’m here.” Jones is performing in the U.S. on his Come Round Together tour. He is a Grammy winner and Golden Globe nominee with 19 U.S. top 40 hits, including 1965’s “It’s Not Unusual” and 1971’s “She’s a Lady.” The late Queen Elizabeth II knighted Jones in 2006.

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Newly released helicopter footage shows the moment a woman was rescued after sliding hundreds of feet down Utah’s Mount Timpanogos last month. The hiker was climbing the 11,700-foot peak on October 26 when she tumbled down the steep slope and landed on a narrow cliff ledge, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office. A helicopter team was called to hoist the woman off the mountain and bring her to an ambulance. “We have heard that the hiker is recovering well from her injuries and we wish her a full and speedy recovery,” the sheriff’s office said in a post on Facebook. “This incident is a stark reminder of how fast a fun outing can turn into a life-or-death situation. We here at the UCSO are grateful for the outcome of that rescue.” About 50 miles south of Salt Lake City, Mount Timpanogos is one of Utah’s most popular hiking destinations.

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President Donald Trump’s eldest son has been surprisingly candid in calling out why his father’s candidates got “smoked” in the midterms.

Donald Trump Jr. admits MAGA voters turned on Republicans because his dad launched a war with Iran after promising on the campaign trail that a vote for him was a vote for no new wars.

“I’ve seen a few talking heads—guys like, you know, Mark Thiessen out there trying to claim that the Iran war had nothing to do with Republicans losing, right? There’s no downside to the Iran War,” Don Jr. said on his Triggered podcast. “Disgusting, actually.”

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Top Republicans fear the scale of the party’s defeat in the midterms means that they’ll need to look outside Trump’s circle for a 2028 candidate.

Semafor spoke to half a dozen Republicans in the wake of the Republican defeat, which saw Democrats seize control of both Houses of Congress, and they doubted voters would embrace any successor chosen by Trump.

Vice President JD Vance, long touted as the most likely candidate to succeed Trump, took a swipe at the president’s election strategy in a post on X on Wednesday, blaming the result on the Iran war in an apparent bid to distance himself from the fallout.

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Ohio Governor-elect Amy Acton said she has no intention of speaking to her MAGA election rival, Vivek Ramaswamy, after he used her estranged mother in a twisted campaign ad.

Speaking to CBS Mornings on Friday, the Democrat blasted the Trump-endorsed candidate over the “terrible and despicable” ad featuring her mother, Donna Arthur, in a desperate attempt to cast doubt on her credibility.

Acton has not spoken to her mother for decades after Arthur lost custody of both her children in the late 1970s while standing by her husband, Cledith Arthur, after he was charged with raping Acton when she was a young child.

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John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV—heir to his family dynasty, one of America’s wealthiest families—died Friday at age 89. He died in his home in Washington, D.C., and is survived by former television executive Sharon Percy Rockefeller, 81, and their four children. The family hasn’t released further details of his death. As the great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, America’s richest man, and the nephew of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Jay was part of his family’s political dynasty. He graduated from Harvard University and served for two years in a national service program in impoverished rural West Virginia. After serving two terms as Governor of West Virginia, he went on to serve the poor coal-mining state as a senator for three decades from 1984 to 2015. Described as soft-spoken, he worked fiercely to fight poverty and support coal miners and military veterans. He backed former President Bill Clinton’s failed near-universal healthcare bill, and later did the same for Barack Obama’s much more successful attempt. “Championing those most in need has been my life’s calling, and I will never stop fighting to make a difference,” Rockefeller said during his announcement that he would not seek a sixth Senate term in 2013.

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Donald Trump’s son-in-law and his top MAGA prosecutor have emerged as prime targets of Democratic investigations into soaring costs and corruption following Tuesday’s midterm wipeout.

Days after winning back control of the House and Senate, Democrats have signaled that they intend to haul Jared Kushner into Congress over the Iran war as well as D.C. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over the taxpayer-funded botched Reflecting Pool, which party leaders have dubbed “the Strait of Warm Ooze.”

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Martha Stewart has issued another apology after her Halloween fiasco, this time to Today host Craig Melvin.

The lifestyle mogul has been under fire since she decided that dressing up as a homeless person was an appropriate Halloween costume. In a bizarre turn of events, she blamed Melvin for the controversy.

Stewart, 85, was condemned after she wore tattered clothes, smearing black “dirt” on her face, and held up a sign reading, “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!” She inexplicably accompanied this Halloween post with a pitch to buy her QVC candles.

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The president is scrambling to a network owned by a Trump-friendly billionaire for his first in-depth interview since Republicans suffered sweeping losses in the midterms.

Trump is slated to tape an interview Friday for Sunday’s 60 Minutes, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported on X. The sit-down is Trump’s first in-depth interview since the Republican Party’s midterm losses on Tuesday, and CBS News sources confirmed the plan to CNN while cautioning it hasn’t taken place yet.

The White House schedule lists “a pre-tape interview” at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. It is a high-profile stage, since 60 Minutes is the highest-rated newsmagazine on American TV.

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Jimmy Fallon has mocked the president as his party falls apart after the midterm elections.

On Thursday night, the late-night host highlighted widespread rumors that the Trump administration is falling apart.

“Yeah, the White House is still in shock after the midterms. Right now, they all have what’s being described as resting Patel face,” began Fallon, displaying a photograph of the beleaguered FBI leader Kash Patel.

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Seth Meyers has some choice words for Vice President JD Vance after his fragile attempt to reverse course.

After Republicans faced a devastating loss in Tuesday’s midterm elections, taking back control of both the House and the Senate, Vance issued a lengthy statement distancing himself from his own administration’s alienating and divisive policies. His words appeared to be a rebuke of the president himself, as Vance said the war in Iran was the biggest reason why MAGA took such a hit.

“The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone,” Vance, 42, wrote on X. “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” he said, adding three other reasons: the skyrocketing cost of living, America’s relationship to Israel, and putting “America first.”

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MAGA podcaster Tim Pool warned President Donald Trump that a crucial voter bloc wants to destroy his party.

Pool made the bleak assessment on Thursday’s edition of Jesse Watters Primetime with Fox News host Jesse Watters, after the 80-year-old president’s election disaster this week.

Republicans suffered a wipeout in Tuesday’s elections, with Democrats seizing both chambers of Congress in a sweeping repudiation of Trump and his party. The Republican collapse included GOP strongholds Texas, Kansas and South Carolina.

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A firebrand New York Republican has had a meltdown after the Daily Beast accurately reported on him going after a female reporter.

Anthony Constantino launched into a foul-mouthed tirade while declaring victory in the New York 21st District election against Democrat Blake Gendebien, even though the Associated Press has not called the race.

During his victory speech, Constantino launched a Trump-esque attack on the “evil media” for reporting on his aggressive and confrontational campaign style and social media rhetoric.

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Researchers believe tourists may have unwittingly defaced cave drawings, not realizing they were prehistoric treasures. A new study published this week details the astonishing discovery of at least 280 engravings dating back to the Paleolithic era in a cave in northeastern Spain. The space was first excavated in 1957, and thousands of people are believed to have visited and passed through it since. Many of those tourists left their own markings and likely didn’t realize they were disturbing Ice Age art, researchers say. The cave was shut to tourists in 2019 as part of an effort to prevent further damage to the relics. This week’s study in the journal Antiquity marks the most comprehensive catalog of its contents since that closure and found that the collection includes at least 55 different animal carvings, including deer, horses, and a bear. Researchers now speculate that while prehistoric rock carvings were originally considered rare in the region, more may be hidden in other caves that have yet to be explored.

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President Donald Trump has raged at “foolish” leaders rejecting the “riches” brought by AI, days after millions of voters rejected the president’s tech policies in the midterms.

In a Truth Social post early Thursday, Trump, 80, extolled the virtues of AI, which he has sought to rebrand as ‘Super Intelligence,’ or SI.

“As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI), and will work with the many States in the U.S. that want to become RICH by having them,” posted Trump. “They are GOLD, and only foolish leadership will say “NO” to the riches they bring! President DJT”

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Elon Musk has announced plans to wind down production of his Tesla Cybertruck at the company’s plant in Austin, Texas. The announcement, expected to take effect in the middle of next year, comes with his companies on track to lose roughly $370 billion in value by the end of the week. Investors are fleeing partly over fears Musk could be about to lose the political benefits his relationship with the second Trump has afforded him, after the hundreds of millions he poured into Tuesday’s midterms failed to save the Republican Party from an electoral wipeout. Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck to tepid reception in 2023 but enjoyed a surge of interest from MAGA supporters when Musk switched political allegiances the following year, though sales have since returned to their pre-surge levels. The company’s billionaire CEO said in an X statement that the decision to wind down on manufacturing in Texas was “to make room for increased Cybercab production,” but did not clarify whether the output would be picked up elsewhere or if he plans to discontinue the model altogether.

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James Carville says Democrats are planning to turn Donald Trump’s remaining two years at the White House into a legislative nightmare in an effort to kill off the MAGA movement for good.

“What they want is to humiliate Trump,” he told listeners of his Politicon podcast on Thursday. “We want to watch him wither in anguish and misery and pain.”

The veteran Democratic strategist has unveiled a plan to turn the president’s last remaining weapon against him by flooding his desk with popular bills and using his inevitable rejections to hammer Republicans in 2028.

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A 21-year-old man is being investigated after allegedly leaving a 17-year-old woman on Germany’s tallest mountain in freezing conditions. Police in Austria are investigating the German man on suspicion of endangering public safety after the teenager became stranded on Zugspitze in freezing temperatures on Sunday. She called emergency services, who reached her at an altitude of around 8,200 feet, before rushing her to the hospital in Garmisch-Partenkirchen by helicopter and ambulance. She was suffering from hypothermia when the group of seven rescuers found her. Endangering other people’s safety can land individuals in prison for up to three months in Austria. They had set off from Ehrwald in the Austrian Tyrol. The BBC reports that they set off early to see sunrise from Zugspitze’s peak, but conditions deteriorated and they were soon up to their knees in snow. They became separated, at which point the man allegedly descended the mountain on his own.

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A court in Kenya has sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for murdering hundreds of his followers. Mackenzie persuaded his followers to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus, resulting in the deaths of 191 children and 1 adult. Justice Diana Kavedza said that Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, bore the “primary criminal culpability” for persuading followers to move to a remote rural location and kill themselves through fasting. Mackenzie was found guilty alongside 28 other people who were charged with crimes including helping him enforce his starvation order and burying bodies. Kavedza said the killings were “cold and calculated” and dismissed claims from some accused that the deaths of their own children impacted their role in the killing of other children. The judge said the perpetrators had shown no remorse and were also willing to starve themselves to death. Mackenzie also faces terrorism, child abuse, and torture charges.

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Thousands of live tarantulas have been discovered inside airport luggage bound for Europe. The staggering seizure occurred when security staff at Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru, noticed suspicious movement in three suitcases during a routine baggage screening. Authorities swiftly detained two German nationals and a Polish citizen after discovering more than 3,000 tarantulas stashed inside dirty socks. “We noticed that some of them were moving. There were small ones and large ones,” recalled Cora Suarez, a wildlife control technician with the National Forestry and Wildlife Service. Officials confirmed the smuggled haul spanned every stage of development, ranging from eggs and hatchlings to full-grown adults sourced across several regions. With individual specimens fetching up to $580 on European markets, the single transport was valued at roughly $1.67 million. Authorities turned the three suspects over to environmental crime officers to face criminal proceedings. According to Interpol, the illegal wildlife trade generates approximately $20 billion globally each year and is a primary driver of worldwide biodiversity destruction.

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Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte’s manner of death has been revealed as suicide by hanging. An official inquest produced by Cameron County, Texas, and obtained by Page Six revealed that he was pronounced dead at 1:32 p.m. on October 12. He was 34. The report also revealed that a toxicology test and autopsy had been carried out, but their details were not included. He died in Brownsville, Texas, near the southern border, and his agent had previously confirmed that he had taken his own life. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of beloved actor, philanthropist, and passionate disability rights advocate RJ Mitte,” his agent previously told Page Six. “RJ Mitte was best known for his role as Walter ‘Flynn’ White Jr. on AMC’s critically acclaimed, award-winning series Breaking Bad. Drawing from his own experience living with cerebral palsy, Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion.”

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raked in $1.2 million installing and maintaining Starlink internet at the White House, despite officials previously saying it would be donated for free.

The Trump administration announced last year that the tech broligarch’s space exploration firm would install its satellite internet service at the White House free of charge.

But four separate federal contracts now reveal that the Pentagon has since set aside almost $1.2 million for SpaceX to carry out similar-sounding work at the presidential complex, the Washington Post reports.

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Rep. Haley Stevens pulled out of a post-midterm election event in Washington, D.C., amid intense criticism for betraying her own party by endorsing a MAGA Republican in the Michigan Senate race.

Stevens was originally scheduled to appear on the four-person panel at what would have been a celebratory event at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management on Thursday night to analyze Democrats’ huge success in retaking control of the House and Senate.

However, Stevens has been unable to join her party’s celebrations following her 11th-hour backing of Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race over Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated Stevens in the primary in August.

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Club Kid may be A24’s most conventional movie to date—and that’s not a bad thing.

Arriving in theaters on Nov. 6 after celebrated showings at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, Jordan Firstman’s writing and directing debut is a new spin on Big Daddy and About a Boy, complete with every narrative (and emotional) beat one might expect from its set-up.

Yet clichés persist for a reason, and this charmingly amusing and moving fable distinguishes itself through its rich textures, whether in the dynamic atmosphere of its late-night (and early morning) New York City milieus or in the winning personalities of its protagonists, whose genuineness helps sell the film’s coming-of-age sappiness.

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The GOP is panicking about the future.

Republican operatives fear that the nature of the Democratic win on Tuesday could leave their party with a narrow road to victory in 2028.

Democrats ripped through cherry-red states, dominating former strongholds like Georgia and undoing the right-leaning blue-collar coalition that Trump had built in former swing states like Ohio.

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President Donald Trump’s most loyal fangirl is calling a timeout after the GOP’s midterm disaster.

Laura Loomer, the right-wing agitator and self-described journalist, launched into a long-winded X rant Thursday evening, saying she is taking a hiatus from her podcast, Loomer Unleashed, because she is “running on empty.”

“I’ve been going nonstop supporting President Trump @realDonaldTrump ever since he came down the golden escalator,” she said, referring to June 16, 2015, when Trump slowly descended a golden escalator at his eponymous New York tower to announce his intention to run for the presidency in 2016.

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President Donald Trump is seeking to regain his hold over the GOP after his midterm wipeout with a new fundraising drive.

According to Axios, Trump has told advisors he’ll keep on raising money for his political operation, either through his MAGA Inc. super PAC or another organization.

The move could give Trump considerable sway over the party’s future as it seeks to recover from Tuesday’s disastrous midterm results, when Democrats won both houses of Congress.

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Disgraced Kimberly Guilfoyle’s surprising secret hideout has been revealed.

Guilfoyle was fired last month as U.S. Ambassador to Greece after former Kentucky congressional candidate Eric Deters leaked messages alleging she asked him to settle her $100,000 American Express tab in exchange for access to Donald Trump’s inner circle.

The 57-year-old was given three weeks to leave the official ambassador’s residence, Jefferson House in Athens, before she was forced to find somewhere to stay.

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Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show disaster ultimately helped him become the comedic juggernaut he is today, his longtime sidekick told Obsessed: The Podcast.

O’Brien hosted Late Night on NBC from 1993 to 2009, with comedian Andy Richter as his sidekick until 2000. They then helmed NBC’s The Tonight Show for seven months before the network ousted O’Brien in what became one of late-night’s biggest controversies.

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CNN host Kaitlan Collins has shredded President Donald Trump in a new supercut exposing the dwindling power of his endorsement.

On Thursday’s edition of The Source, Collins flagged how the 80-year-old “personally backed a slew of candidates that lost in huge races.”

Trump spent much of the run-up to the midterms going all-in on several candidates. He traveled to cherry-red states to stump and give them his full support in a bid to shore up votes that once would have been sure things for the GOP.

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Jimmy Kimmel has eviscerated Donald Trump over his latest executive order, predicting the president may leave the White House “sooner than we think.”

Trump, 80, “signed his first proclamation since the bloodbath on Tuesday, and it is to turn the Oval Office into a national monument so that no future president can remove any of his c--p,” explained Kimmel on Thursday night.

“That’s right,” quipped Kimmel. “His historic Diet Coke button will be preserved for many generations to come. I guess Takio really wants to make sure nobody lays a finger on all the beautiful new sconces and knickknacks he had spray-painted gold...”

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White House staff are dreading the next two years of Donald Trump’s presidency after the disastrous midterm results and are already considering jumping ship.

Current and former officials have revealed to MS NOW the dire mood inside the White House after the GOP suffered a devastating electoral wipeout on Tuesday, as Democrats rode a blue tsunami to win control of the House and Senate.

With Trump facing a lame-duck period for the rest of his time in office, several people working closely with the president are now questioning whether they should even bother staying in their roles as the “glitz and glam” of working in the White House has quickly worn off.

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The Donald Trump superfan who turned Palm Beach International Airport into a vanity tribute to the president has lost her seat in the Florida House.

Meg Weinberger campaigned so hard on a pro-Trump platform in Palm Beach County two years ago that opponents and supporters alike started calling her “MAGA Meg.”

Her biggest achievement as a state representative was pushing to rename the local airport President Donald J. Trump International and a slice of nearby highway President Donald J. Trump Boulevard.

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CNN star Kaitlan Collins has riled up President Donald Trump and his White House team.

The White House fired back at the CNN anchor, 34, after she said the network had been blocked from covering Trump’s Oval Office signing event as part of the television press pool.

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Pete Hegseth’s route to a Senate seat appears to have closed, as President Donald Trump weighs firing him over his election disaster.

Hegseth is under increasing pressure in the wake of Tuesday’s midterms, when Democrats seized control of the Senate as millions of voters punished the GOP over the Iran war and the price increases it’s caused.

A Republican operative in Tennessee, where Senator Marsha Blackburn will vacate her seat to become the state’s governor, told The Washington Post that Hegseth is not under consideration to be her replacement.

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Irate staff at 60 Minutes have accused CBS News boss Bari Weiss of throwing them under the bus after it faced backlash from the Trump administration over an immigration story.

On Oct. 25, the now-Trump-friendly network’s flagship magazine show ran a segment on Moussa Diawara, a migrant from Mali who lived in the U.S. for decades before being deported to Ghana over the summer.

Diawara was then deported back to Mali, after a judge ruled in 2012 that he could not be sent there amid fears he would be persecuted if he returned. 60 Minutes reported that Diawara faced persecution because he had converted to Christianity, and that Mali is a Muslim-majority nation grappling with an Islamist insurgency.

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Democrats have set their sights on the first piece of President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda for repeal.

The 80-year-old’s trade war with Canada threatened a long-standing relationship with our northern neighbor and devolved into ugly taunts about the U.S. absorbing Canada as its 51st state. The tariffs are now on the chopping block, according to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee told The Wall Street Journal that “there is overwhelming support for repealing the tariffs on products from Canada.”

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The Democrats are coming for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The party’s midterm election triumph gives them control of both houses of Congress, which means they’ll be in charge of key committees come January—and insiders are already talking about subpoenas, hearings, and even impeachment for the vaccine-skeptic health secretary.

“We’re going to see RFK Jr.’s head on a platter,” Erik Polyak, executive director of the Democratic PAC 314 Action, told Politico.

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Lauren Boebert’s campaign says it is investigating “unusual voting patterns” as the Colorado congresswoman teeters on the edge of losing her re-election bid.

Boebert is trailing Democrat Eileen Laubacher by 0.9 percentage points with more than 97 percent of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press.

She jumped ship to Colorado’s more GOP-friendly 4th District in 2024 after winning re-election in her native 3rd District by just 551 votes.

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Donald Trump’s favorite data guru has fired off brutal new election statistics that he says the president will definitely not be sharing at any future campaign rallies.

CNN’s Harry Enten appeared with Kaitlan Collins on The Source on Thursday to discuss more wild facts and figures from the midterm elections.

That included a record-breaking 62 million people voting for the Democrats in the House, and the remarkable fact that Texas Democrat James Talarico had won his Senate contest even before polls opened on Tuesday. Talarico’s 4.4 million early votes were enough to beat his Republican rival Ken Paxton’s overall total of 4.25 million.

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Jordan Klepper has been stunned by conservative commentator Megyn Kelly ruthlessly snubbing President Donald Trump after his midterm wipeout.

On Thursday, The Daily Show host undertook a post-mortem of Trump’s brutal election loss, pointing out that even some of the president’s most loyal supporters had held him to account for the result.

That included longtime Trump ally, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Klepper noted that the ruby-red state was one where Republicans actually remained popular, joking that, “Much like most of its residents, Florida is where the blue wave went to die.”

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Donald Trump has accused voters who backed Democrats in Tuesday’s midterms of causing the stock market to tumble.

The 80-year-old president lashed out at voters for helping Democrats sweep control of the House and Senate in the midterms, blaming them for trillions of dollars being wiped off global markets on Thursday.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq index fell about 5.5 percent by the end of Thursday’s trading, wiping out around $2.5 trillion, amid concerns about a slowdown or restrictions in the surging AI market now that Democrats control Congress. The Dow and S&P 500 also fell sharply on Thursday.

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Jesse Watters unraveled on air as he warned his audience that the midterm wipeout could force the GOP into political extinction.

On Jesse Watters Primetime Thursday, the Fox News host expressed sheer disbelief at the scale of the electoral upheaval. Reeling from broad losses, he predicted a “massacre” as the Democratic Party gets ready to come after President Donald Trump and other top MAGA figures.

“It’s going to be a massacre. We had a two-year window to dismantle the Democrat Party, shut down their illegal fundraising, whack antifa, and put Tish James, [James] Comey, Fannie [Willis], and her little lover boy behind bars, separate cells for those two. You think the left’s gonna take it easy on MAGA?” Watters fumed during the lengthy monologue.

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Vladimir Putin has used the evacuation of a war-ravaged city brokered by Melania Trump as a propaganda tool to portray himself as a humanitarian, Ukrainian human rights figures claim.

Around 700 Ukrainians were evacuated from Oleshky, a frontline Russian-occupied city in Kherson where 1,700 people have been on the brink of starvation after nearly five years trapped in the hellish war zone.

The first lady hosted a summit at the White House on Thursday, attended by delegations from Russia and Ukraine, where both nations gushed over her efforts to secure peace.

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President Donald Trump’s D.C. crime “miracle” now apparently requires Humvees.

After more than a year of bragging that he made the nation’s capital “one of the safest cities” in the world, his administration is sending in more military muscle.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 46, has authorized National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to deploy boats, dozens of marked police cruisers, Humvees, and Army cargo trucks, according to Politico.

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A hiker who was found dead on California’s Mount Whitney has been identified as Winston Chu, a 49-year-old man from Santa Clara, according to a statement from the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said the Inyo County Coroner’s Office determined that Chu died from “multiple traumatic injuries due to a fall.” Authorities had been searching for Chu since Oct. 19, when staff at a Lone Pine motel reported that a guest had failed to check out and had left all of his personal belongings behind. The following day, deputies found Chu’s car at Whitney Portal and learned that he had obtained a permit for the Mountaineer’s route the previous Sunday. A California Highway Patrol helicopter located Chu along the route to the mountain’s 14,505-foot peak. On Oct. 30, authorities confirmed Chu’s identity. “The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office extends its sincere condolences to Winston Chu’s family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,” authorities said.

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American taxpayers reportedly coughed up nearly $100,000 for Ivanka Trump’s luxury birthday getaway.

The president’s daughter, whose fortune is estimated at between $50 million and $100 million, visited Morocco for her 45th birthday late last month.

Federal records show taxpayers were charged $93,000 for Secret Service agents to stay at two five-star hotels in advance of Ivanka’s trip to Marrakech, according to the Daily Mail.

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Pete Hegseth’s father is rushing to defend his son, whose job security has been questioned after the GOP’s midterm blowout and whose tenure as Defense secretary could face congressional investigations.

Republican lawmakers and allies are reportedly pushing to have Hegseth take the blame for the GOP’s loss of the House and Senate, as the Iran war and the affordability crisis it worsened weighed on voters. Hegseth, 46, responded Thursday by defending the “historic effort” and sucking up to Trump.

Enter his dad, Brian Hegseth.

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A federal judge slammed the brakes on President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot triumphal arch Thursday night, less than 60 minutes after a MAGA-friendly planning commission gave the controversial monument its final approval.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, temporarily blocked construction for two weeks while she considers legal challenges brought by Vietnam War veterans, a historic preservationist, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Her order prohibits the Trump administration from beginning any construction-related work at the site, including excavation, demolition, and road closures.

The ruling came less than an hour after the National Capital Planning Commission, which is stacked with Trump appointees, voted 8-4 to approve the arch following more than eight hours of public testimony, including fierce opposition from veterans, architects, and historians.

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Lara Trump says good things come to those who wait. Unfortunately for Republicans, voters apparently weren’t willing to wait any longer.

Two days after a blue tsunami swept Democrats into control of both the House and the Senate, the president’s 44-year-old daughter-in-law took to Fox & Friends on Thursday to blame Joe Biden—and Americans’ impatience—for the GOP’s crushing defeat.

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Failed Republican candidate for New York governor Bruce Blakeman is lashing out at outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik after his stinging loss.

President Donald Trump endorsed his longtime friend Blakeman after Stefanik exited the gubernatorial race last year. However, Blakeman lost spectacularly this week to Democrat Kathy Hochul, who won her second full term as New York governor.

Blakeman’s link to Trump was successfully exploited by Hochul, who criticized her opponent for supporting the president’s policies. Hochul won almost 60 percent of the vote, compared to Blakeman’s 40 percent.

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The Trump administration has warned thousands of conservative organizations that it’s keeping an eye on their every move.

The White House Office of Public Liaison, which coordinates outreach with outside groups, sent a memo to more than 3,000 conservative organizations detailing President Donald Trump’s accomplishments to maintain unity after Democrats’ sweeping victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The memo emphasized that the White House would not let the new majority party reverse Trump’s policies, and concluded with the following sentence highlighted in yellow: “As always, we are monitoring statements, press releases, and media engagements from your organizations.”

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President Donald Trump has declared his tacky, gold-filled Oval Office a national monument.

Trump, 80, signed an apparently meaningless proclamation to that effect just two days after voters delivered a resounding rebuke of his administration amid mounting cost-of-living concerns.

But rather than address those concerns—which the billionaire president has dismissed as a “hoax”—Trump has turned his attention back to his vanity projects, admiring his under-construction White House ballroom on Wednesday before shifting his focus to the Oval Office and its gaudy gold trim, trinkets, and decor.

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James Talarico defeated his MAGA opponent Ken Paxton in deep-red Texas based on early votes alone, new data shows.

More than 9 million Texans showed up to vote in the midterms, carrying Talarico to an easy victory over the scandal-plagued attorney general in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1988. Over 7 million of those voters cast their ballots early, with data from the Texas secretary of state’s office showing that Talarico would’ve trumped Paxton even if he didn’t receive a single vote on election day.

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The GOP’s midterm bloodbath has left White House officials “fighting for their lives,” according to Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff. And several top aides could soon find themselves out of a job.

On the Daily Beast’s Inside Trump’s Head podcast, Wolff named four top figures he’s heard the president may send packing after Democrats regained control of the House and Senate by substantial margins.

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Picture this: A group of trailblazing female journalists, artists, and businesswomen walk into a bar.

It isn’t the opening of a joke, but rather the scene of Thursday’s Power 100 lunch in midtown Manhattan, the latest installment of the elite, twice-yearly event hosted by The Daily Beast’s Chief Creative and Content Officer, Joanna Coles, and Uber.

“We’ve got CEOs, we’ve got COOs, we’ve got CMOs, we’ve got so many C-words here,” Coles quipped from behind a podium at The Modern, a Michelin-starred restaurant.

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Jon Stewart is baffled by MAGA’s unrelenting “cruelty”—and he said no one exemplifies that trend like Megyn Kelly

The podcaster spent most of her career at Fox News before doing a short stint at NBC at the start of the Trump era. Now, she hosts her own right-wing podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, where she spews Trumpy rhetoric, bashes wokeness, and sometimes lapses into blatant racism.

Stewart thinks Kelly managed to appear reasonable by comparison on Fox. The network’s backdrop of unhinged conservatism let her emerge, purely by contrast, as a reliable voice, the Daily Show host said on his Weekly Show podcast.

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The legendary journalist Lesley Stahl has revealed why she chose to remain a 60 Minutes correspondent after the storied news program gained new, right-leaning, owners.

In an emotional address at The Daily Beast’s Power 100 luncheon on Thursday, Stahl said she considered quitting as new management purged its award-winning staff. But, she said, she feared the show would have “vanished” without her and its other veteran correspondents.

“It was not an easy decision,” Stahl, 84, admitted, as she accepted the inaugural Daily Beast Power 100 Award at the luncheon, which is sponsored by Uber.

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A top Cabinet official may be eyeing an early exit from the second Trump administration after the GOP’s midterm catastrophe.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio let White House officials know he is considering leaving but was asked to stick around, insiders told Bloomberg, citing internal deliberations.

Shortly after reports first broke that he may be the first to abandon ship, Rubio, 55, not only rejected the claims in comments to The New York Times, but also defended Donald Trump’s war on Iran, even as some Republicans blamed the conflict for their midterms wipeout.

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Governor-elect Rob Sand’s high-fashion modeling stint has come to light.

The 44-year-old politician’s secret career as a fashion model resurfaced shortly after he defeated Republican businessman Zach Lahn in Iowa’s governor’s race on Nov. 3.

Sand, a 6-foot-3 willowy Democrat, once walked runways for top fashion houses, including Prada, Giuliano Fujiwara, and Number (N)ine.

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The Department of Justice is ratcheting up its search for the leaker of a landmark Supreme Court decision.

Prosecutors have now launched a criminal investigation into who leaked the high court’s 2022 decision that overturned the right to abortion, according to The New York Times.

While the DOJ said last year it was looking into the issue, sources told the outlet the probe has ramped up in recent weeks, with prosecutors sending out grand jury subpoenas for testimony and seeking information from people who worked at the Supreme Court at the time.

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Megyn Kelly is being hammered online for launching a fierce defense of her MAGA friend Russell Brand, the former Hollywood star who was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault at a court in the U.K.

Kelly wrote in a post on X that one of Brand’s accusers “admitted” to a consensual sexual encounter with the MAGA comedian, 51, before the assault and that Brand and the woman “watched TV together afterward,” which she argued cast doubt on the victim’s claims.

She made similar comments to discredit Brand’s accusers on her Megyn Kelly Show, where she said the woman Brand was convicted of raping “pursued him aggressively” and was “obsessed” with him, and called the conviction a “travesty.”

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Shaquille O’Neal has shocked longtime fans with a dramatic new look featuring a luscious head of hair.

The four-time NBA Champion and playful social media personality, who has been bald for three decades, showed off two completely new hairstyles in Nov. 4 Instagram posts.

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In many ways, Tim Blake Nelson could never have known that his new film, The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, would be so timely. In others, he was sure that was inevitable.

Nelson is one of Hollywood’s most respected actors, especially for his work in Coen brothers classics like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and films like Syriana and Minority Report. (Or, for a certain generation, his appearance in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed might ring a bell.) He’s also made a mark as a writer-director with his movies O and The Grey Zone.

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Pete Hegseth resorted to sucking up to President Donald Trump and singing his own praises in an unhinged video appeal as whispers grow louder that his job is in jeopardy.

“It’s all about the politics of personal destruction. Didn’t work against President Trump, and it won’t work with me. You can rest assured of that,” the defense secretary, 46, declared in a 5-minute video he posted on X Thursday afternoon.

The Fox host-turned-defense secretary appeared to be assuring himself most of all as he defended the war with Iran as a “historic effort” and declared “patriot extremism” is “not a thing” in his much-mocked spoken-word delivery.

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Consuming cannabis as an adult feels very different than doing so as a fresh-faced 21-year-old. So why should your smoking habits make your space feel like a disheveled college dorm room? NWTN Home’s collection of chic smoking essentials offers a more elevated way to enjoy cannabis in the comfort of your home.

NWTN Home is a smokeware brand bringing craftsmanship to the cannabis industry by designing what they call “homeware for the high-minded.” Its weed-associated products are built to double as elegant and functional houseware items, helping you upgrade your home into a full smoking sanctuary.

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MAGA pundits have kicked off a civil war over Twitch streamer Hasan Piker in the wake of their historic midterm loss.

The infighting began Thursday when Donald Trump’s digital strategist, Alex Bruesewitz, suggested that Democrats swept key battleground states because Republicans had fixated on online influencer feuds that “ordinary voters” tuned out.

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has seemingly found a new loophole to feign transparency amid President Donald Trump’s widely panned war in Iran.

U.S. Central Command, the military combatant command leading operations in the Middle East, launched a new podcast on Thursday—exactly six months since the defense secretary’s last Pentagon press briefing and more than eight months since the unpopular war began.

The podcast, Inside CENTCOM, is meant “to introduce the incredible warfighters that make up thousands of troops protecting America forward in the Middle East,” according to its description on YouTube, where comments are turned off.

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Glenn Close, 79, has shared her go-to anti-aging hack for smoothing fine lines on the face.

“It’s been around forever,” the Emmy-winning star told Page Six, referring to the Frownies Facial Patches ($25, Amazon) during a red carpet interview at the New York City premiere of All’s Fair Season 2 on Nov. 2.

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The digital news site Salon has published its last story after 31 years of operation. Known for its political and cultural commentary, the website, founded in 1995, was an early adopter of digital media. The outlet was created by a group of former San Francisco Examiner journalists led by David Talbot, who served as its editor-in-chief until 2005 and as CEO across three separate terms. “It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people,” a letter posted Thursday on its website reads. “Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier.” The letter chalks the closure up to the financial challenges of running an online site. “The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years. After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable.” The outlet helped launch the careers of many writers and journalists, including CNN’s Jake Tapper, who was Salon’s Washington Bureau Chief from 1999 to 2003, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald (2007-2012), MS NOW’s data guru Steve Kornacki (2010-2013), and Dave Eggers (1995-1997). The move comes amid chronic revenue loss in the journalism industry.

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Matt Damon has revealed why he missed the 2024 Oscars when Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer won seven awards, including Best Picture.

The Oscar winner, who won Best Screenplay alongside Ben Affleck for Good Will Hunting in 1998, said his wife, Luciana Barroso, had a brain aneurysm one week before 2024’s Academy Awards. Damon previously missed the ceremony when his 2006 film, The Departed, won four awards.

“We had this whole scary thing happen where my wife had a brain aneurysm,” he told GQ. “She’s totally fine, thank God, but [she] had this brain surgery the week before the Oscars.”

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A 55-year-old TV presenter says she feels “liberated” after ditching Botox and embracing her natural hair color.

Melinda Messenger, a former model and television personality who now works as a psychotherapist in the U.K., dished on her updated beauty routine in the latest issue of Closer Magazine.

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Bravo star Joe Gorga is getting candid about the cosmetic treatments he’s undergone to maintain a youthful appearance.

The real estate developer and husband of The Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member Melissa Gorga, 47, told Page Six ahead of the show’s Season 15 premiere that he’s been getting Botox injections in his face regularly.

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Nicolas Cage has shared his route to rapidly gaining and losing significant weight for his latest role.

Cage portrays late NFL legend and former Oakland Raiders head coach John Madden in Madden. The film will premiere in select theaters and stream on Prime Video Nov. 18.

On Nov. 4, the 62-year-old actor told People about how he gained 25 pounds to better resemble the football icon.

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Republicans revealed their next potential move in the fight over Mississippi’s Senate seat as Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith trails her Democratic opponent Scott Colom.

The Democratic Senate candidate has grown his lead to 1,724 votes over the GOP senator as of Thursday afternoon, as election officials continue counting ballots in the tight race.

Officials are counting provisional ballots from the election, which were cast by voters who could not submit a regular ballot.

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Republican Anthony Constantino launched a brutal attack on the press after declaring victory in his ruby-red seat, going so far as to call one female reporter an “a--hole.”

Constantino, 44, won his race against Democrat Blake Gendebien by about 2 percentage points in New York’s 21st Congressional District, a seat that outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik took in 2024 by 24 points.

The congressman-elect, known for his aggressive Napoleon Complex, was backed in the race by fellow “short king” House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is said to stand somewhere between 5’5” and 5’7”.

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Somehow, the holiday season is just around the corner. The days are getting shorter, the air is crisper, and seasonal save-the-dates are trickling in. Right on cue, Bobbi Brown’s Jones Road Beauty is getting a head start on the festivities with a new, infinitely giftable holiday collection featuring the return of some of the brand’s most coveted limited-edition launches.

For this year’s holiday drop, Jones Road is bringing back four fan-favorite products and sets with a few festive upgrades. Each product is a reimagined take on a past limited-edition launch that loyal Jones Road fans have been begging the brand to bring back: The Pinky Bronze Kit 2.0 (my personal favorite!), The Lip Trio, The Illuminator, and The Eyeshadow Quad.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, is retiring from international duty with Portugal after wearing his No. 7 jersey for 23 years. The soccer star announced it in a lengthy social media post on Thursday, expressing his love and gratitude for his country and team. “The day has come,” Ronaldo wrote. “It was not an easy decision. Because some decisions are not made with the mind alone. They are also made with the heart.” Ronaldo’s 234th appearance for his country in the UEFA Nations League came in a 1-0 win against Wales in September. But he later left the Portugal training camp early without permission following an alleged dispute with Portugal coach Jorge Jesus over his playing time and what Ronaldo said were broken promises. He was then suspended and fined about $286. Ronaldo made his debut for Portugal in 2003 and went on to become men’s international soccer’s all-time leading scorer. He remains the record holder for most international appearances and goals for Portugal, with 146 goals in 234 appearances. Ronaldo is retiring only from international soccer and will continue playing for Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr.

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NFL legend Rob Gronkowski is denying any affiliation with the conservative advocacy nonprofit Turning Point USA after he and his girlfriend, Camille Kostek, appeared in photos with group members on Election Day in New Hampshire.

“It has been upsetting and eye opening to see the narratives around my visit to NH on Election Day with Camille,” the former Patriots tight end wrote on his Instagram story Thursday. “In regard to the images and videos circulating we are not endorsed by or affiliated with Turning Point USA.”

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Donald Trump may be planning a new role for Pete Hegseth to appease voters angry over the Iran War.

Despite his denials, the president is reportedly considering firing the embattled Pentagon chief.

One option may be for him to offer Hegseth a safe Republican Senate seat that will become available in January.

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Polling analyst Nate Silver says he has a “weird intuition” that President Donald Trump might “quit” after the GOP’s midterm catastrophe.

The election forecaster, who correctly called the blue wave that handed Democrats both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, made his prediction while explaining that “Republicans made a deal with the devil in Trump.”

“I mean that in the sense of, like, you get your three Supreme Court justices, you get tax breaks for the wealthy, but you pay a lot of price for that, right? Because Trump has so sucked out the oxygen from anybody else in the Republican party,” he told his co-hosts on the Still Counting podcast.

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A top Trump goon announced her departure from the administration just two days after the midterms ended in a GOP bloodbath.

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, revealed that she spoke with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about resigning weeks ago but was asked to stay on until after the midterm elections.

“I wasn’t asked to resign,” she told Fox News Digital. “I resigned three weeks ago, and Susie asked me to please wait until after the midterms.”

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LIV Golf is officially shutting down after five years, $5 billion spent, and having close ties to President Donald Trump’s beloved golf clubs.

Lawyers for the disruptive golf league, once flush with Saudi money, announced in bankruptcy court on Thursday that it plans to pivot from restructuring to full liquidation, The Athletic first revealed.

That makes LIV the latest sporting entity to fall for what fans have dubbed the “curse of Trump,” in which athletes or teams falter when the president becomes involved.

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A Rhode Island woman unearthed a long-lost Georgia O’Keeffe painting in her aunt’s closet in New York City. The artwork, titled “Near Abiquiu, New Mexico,” was created in 1930 and is valued at $3 million. “I wondered, ‘Is there any way I can keep this?,’” the woman, identified only as Betsy, told the New York Post. “But once we started exploring what the value of the piece was, I realized that it’s worth more than my house.” Betsy said her late aunt, an “incredibly accomplished” former Foreign Service worker, received the painting from her mother as a graduation gift in the 1960s. The 10-by-24-inch painting sat in her closet, in its original box, under a row of fur coats, for four decades. According to the Post, the landscape will go on view in a free, public exhibition at Christie’s New York auction house before going to auction this month.

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