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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles looks on during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and members of Trump’s Cabinet at the White House on Oct. 17, in Washington. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A new Vanity Fair profile by author Chris Whipple cracks open the private world of a White House Chief of Staff who rarely speaks and, when she does, doesn’t hedge. Speaking with All Things Considered, Whipple said the piece is based on 11 in-depth, on-the-record interviews over the past year, with an extraordinary level of access…

Politics / December 16, 2025 Every day, Trump is saying and doing things that would get most elementary school children suspended. Ad Policy (ABC News) First off, let me say that today, I mourn. I mourn for the death of Rob and Michele Reiner, for the unfathomable tragedy of a mentally troubled young man killing both of his parents in cold blood. I mourn because in ways both big and small, Rob Reiner made the world a better place. I mourn because there are few people on earth whose work made me belly laugh even when I was feeling down—and…

A model of the statue of Barbara Rose Johns pictured in 2023, two years before the real thing was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol. Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters hide caption toggle caption Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she mobilized hundreds of students to walk out of Farmville’s Robert Russa Moton High School to protest its overcrowded conditions and inferior…

Activism / December 16, 2025 It should guide the Democrats. Ad Policy The COL4 AI-ready data center, located on a seven-acre campus in Columbus, Ohio on July 24, 2025. (Eli Hiller / Getty Images) It was a warm, late summer night, September 11, and hundreds of residents had packed the spacious chambers of City Hall in College Station, Texas, to collectively protest what has become a common occurrence in America: the corporate strip-mining of our resources, our communities, and our future.  Less than a week earlier, the city announced that it was considering selling 200 acres of city-owned land on…

An aerial view of the Warner Bros. logo displayed on the water tower at Warner Bros. Studio on Dec. 5, 2025 in Burbank, Calif. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images Netflix and Paramount are in One Big Battle After Another to buy the storied Hollywood studio Warner Bros. (Yes, One Battle After Another is a Warner Bros. movie). This isn’t the first time Warner Bros. has been at the center of headline-grabbing merger or acquisition. Actually, Warner Bros. has a long history of messy corporate marriages and divorces. It could be a cautionary tale about the…

Feature / December 16, 2025 And how the rest of the country can too. Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. This article appears in the January 2026 issue, with the headline “How LA Defeated Trump.” This article is part of a special Nation package devoted to LA’s bold stand against the Trump administration’s assaults on the city. Donald Trump hates Los Angeles—and for good reason. Los Angeles is a deep-blue city that regularly backs Democrats at every level of government. It is a strong union town in a nation where the labor movement is treading water. It is majority Black and brown, with whites representing…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress. The military said in a statement on social media that the strikes targeted “designated terrorist organizations,” killing three people in the first vessel, two in the second boat and…

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and other Republican leaders discussed health care plans with a vote regarding an extension of the ACA subsidies looming. Heather Diehl/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Heather Diehl/Getty Images We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The circumstances have led to deep consumer concerns about higher…

It’s a big deal that Republicans in Indiana’s state Senate last week squashed President Trump’s demands for a gerrymandered US House map that would have awarded the GOP a 9–0 congressional delegation in the state.Yes, the remaining map is still a GOP gerrymander. It ensures Republicans seven safe seats, which they won in 2024 by an average of 30 percentage points, despite netting just 58 percent of the statewide vote. A more balanced map would include as many as four districts within plausible reach of Democratic candidates.And yes, throughout the rest of the country, Republicans maintain the upper hand during…

Rob Reiner speaks onstage at the screening of “The American President” during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25 in Hollywood. Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM hide caption toggle caption Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM President Trump disparaged Hollywood director Rob Reiner, who died along with his wife over the weekend in what officials are investigating as a homicide. Their 32-year-old son, Nick, has been arrested. Reiner, 78, was a prominent supporter of the Democratic Party and a vocal Trump critic. “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump said in a…