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new video loaded: How the Tate Brothers Returned to the United StatesAndrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were prohibited from leaving Romania for years after they were accused of trafficking dozens of women for a porn business. Our investigative reporter Megan Twohey reveals how the Tates courted powerful figures on the American right in order to gain their freedom to travel to the United States.By Megan Twohey, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, David Seekamp, Jon Miller, Joey Sendaydiego and James SurdamDecember 10, 2025 Source link

Culture / December 10, 2025 The multibillion-dollar takeover bids targeting Warner-Discovery show how Trump’s corrupt model of governance-by-payback could destroy Hollywood. Ad Policy The Warner Bros. Discovery flag alongside the American one, outside Warsaw’s TVN broadcasting studio(Aleksander Kalka / NurPhoto via Getty Images)  “None of them are particularly great friends of mine,” President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday, while discussing whom he favored in the current multibillion-dollar financial fistfight over the future of Warner Bros.-Discovery (WBD). Trump was referencing the two current suitors for the beleaguered, serially merged Warner Bros. entertainment empire: Paramount-Skydance and Netflix.  Trump’s announcement that he…

The U.S. Education Department is house in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, pictured here in March in Washington, D.C. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Employees at the U.S. Education Department who were fired in March got an unexpected email on Friday – telling them to return to work. These federal workers, including many attorneys, investigate family complaints of discrimination in the nation’s schools as part of the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). They were terminated by the Trump administration in a March reduction-in-force, but the courts…

Ad Policy Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during the Senate Democrats’ news conference on extending expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits in the U.S. Capitol on December 4, 2025. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Republicans are about to end Obamacare subsidies, driving up premiums for 20 million people during the year of the midterm elections. How have they managed to end up after all these years with no health insurance plan of their own? John Nichols comments. Also: Bob Dylan’s earliest recordings have just been released—the first is from 1956 when he was 15 years…

A woman clutches a U.S. flag as she and applicants from 20 countries prepare to take an oath of citizenship in commemoration of Independence Day during a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio in July 2025. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP The Trump administration is transforming the agency known for processing green cards and citizenship requests into one of its strongest anti-immigration policing arms. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is one of the three branches of the Homeland Security Department that deals with migration. Traditionally, its more than 20,000 employees have focused on the various ways…

Politics / December 9, 2025 During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—and reorder the separation of powers. Ad Policy President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on arriving to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress.(Win McNamee / Getty Images) The Republicans on the Supreme Court are poised to take a major step toward their generational goal of restructuring the constitutional separation of powers. The court heard arguments on Monday aimed at taking away the independence of independent federal agencies created by…

President Trump is pursuing aggressive policies throughout the Western Hemisphere. His administration is calling it the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Trump administration has a new name for its aggressive policies in the Western Hemisphere, including military attacks on alleged drug smugglers and threats of regime change in Venezuela. His administration is reaching back two centuries and calling this Trump’s version of the Monroe Doctrine. NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre is following all this and is with me in the studio now. Good morning.GREG MYRE, BYLINE: Hi, Leila.FADEL: OK. So for those of us…

Politics / December 9, 2025 Democratic Representative Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against the secretary of defense over the murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean. Ad Policy Shri Thanedar and Pete Hegseth.(Alex Wong / Getty Images ; Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty Images) As Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth becomes more deeply mired in the scandal surrounding the military strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, familiar refrains of Beltway discourse have lurched into gear. Democrats in Congress, for instance, are issuing calls for greater “transparency” and official “accountability” and vowing to widen the probes…

“Before, carrying my passport around, I had a feeling of pride, and now I’m carrying it and it has a lot of darkness around it because now I’m just like, ‘I just want to get home safe to my kids.’” We’re in Minneapolis, days after the Trump administration directed ICE to begin targeting and arresting undocumented Somali migrants in the city. “The Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country. We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.” “People from Somalia aren’t garbage. When I heard it the first time,…

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks during the Senate Appropriations full committee markup of commerce, justice, science, agriculture, rural development, FDA, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts and other bills on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 10. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat representing Maryland, says his party must do more to regain public confidence and counter what he calls a “lawless president.” “We’ve become too much the party of the status quo when people want to see us move in a different direction,” Van Hollen said in a Morning…