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Dec 7, 2025 - World

Donald Trump's recent attempt at political "bribery" has backfired, and is now causing the public to see the president's major weakness, according to a former senior advisor to Obama Sunday.Dan Pfeiffer, former senior advisor to Obama and current host to Pod Save America, recently predicted a clip featuring Trump will make its way into about a million advertisements to be used against the president and the GOP. Now, Pfeiffer is seizing on the president's pardon of a Democrat accused of bribery.Trump this weekend lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as “such a lack of loyalty.” But in doing so, he raised a red flag for political analysts.Liberal political network MeidasTouch said, "Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a 'lack of LOYALTY.' In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat."For Pfeiffer, Cuellar being able to pull this off means something even bigger."If Trump is getting played by Henry Cuellar, imagine how much people like Putin are taking his lunch money every day," he wrote on social media Sunday.If Trump is getting played by Henry Cuellar, imagine how much people like Putin are taking his lunch money every day.— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 7, 2025

Dec 7, 2025 - World

President Trump's Golden Dome czar says he has held "one-vs.-one" talks with more than 300 private companies in recent months to hash out the secretive architecture of the futuristic missile defense shield that the administration is determined to put into operation over the entire U.S. homeland by mid-2028.

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) made a startling admission Sunday on NBC News that at no time during his briefings on the potentially “illegal” strike last month on a suspected drug-carrying sea vessel was he provided proof that the boat was actually headed toward the United States.According to a whistleblower, the Trump administration approved a follow-up strike on a boat last month in an effort to kill its survivors, who were observed clinging to the wreckage, which, if accurate, would likely constitute a war crime.Cotton has received a private briefing on the strike, which included video of the incident. On Sunday, however, he may have potentially undercut one of the Trump administration’s potential justifications for the strike, that the boat was deemed an imminent threat.“Senator, is there any hard evidence that shows that this particular boat was headed to the United States?” asked NBC News’ Kristen Welker.“That didn’t come up in my briefing,” Cotton admitted. “But again, there’s very reliable multiple sources of intelligence that tells us that this boat had drugs on it, that everyone on that boat is associated with these designated terrorist organizations that are trying to kill American children.”President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February to designate drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, a designation that gives the administration far more leeway in targeting suspected drug traffickers with lethal force. Even so, targeting enemy combatants who pose no imminent threat and are surrendering would still constitute a war crime in most cases, regardless of the combatants designation.Given as much, Welker pressed Cotton on the matter, asking if he was “comfortable” with the Trump administration targeting a boat that he hadn’t seen evidence proving it was “actually heading to the United States.”“Any boat loaded with drugs that is crewed by associates and members of Foreign Terrorist Organizations that are trying to kill American kids, I think is a valid target,” Cotton said. “I’m not just comfortable with it, I want to continue it.”WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefingWELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I… pic.twitter.com/JObokcszyn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 7, 2025

Dec 7, 2025 - World

Ankara’s foreign minister suggests international partners should start by separating Israeli troops from Hamas The international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza should make its priority the separation of Israeli troops and Hamas rather than the disarmament of the Palestinian group, the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, has said.He also suggested that Indonesia and Azerbaijan, two countries that have offered to contribute troops, would prefer that Turkey was a member of the planned UN-backed force, something Israel is seeking to veto. Continue reading...

Dec 7, 2025 - World

A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows "nothing remarkable," the Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday, and he would not oppose its public release if the Pentagon were to declassify it.