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Pope Leo Says Shunning Poor Is Turning Away From God

New pontiff links Christmas message to economic injustice

(Newser) - Pope Leo used his first Christmas Eve sermon to deliver a blunt message: shutting the door on the poor is, in his view, shutting the door on God. Preaching at a packed Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the first US-born pope said the story of Jesus' birth in a...

Father-Son Ellison Duo Are Aiming to Reshape the Media

Oracle founder Larry Ellison backs son David Ellison's bold moves

(Newser) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, 42, is leading a $108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, but it's his 81-year-old father—Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest men—who's anchoring the effort. On Monday, David Ellison told Warner Bros. that his father personally...

Ohio Dem Sues to Undo Trump Renaming of Kennedy Center

Rep. Joyce Beatty's suit argues that board's Trump rebrand violates Congress' authority

(Newser) - A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal court to strip Donald Trump's name from one of Washington's most prominent cultural landmarks. Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio filed suit on Monday against Trump and members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board, arguing that last...

Report: Trump Used Primary Mortgages for Rentals

Records show Trump claimed 2 Palm Beach rentals as primary residences, per ProPublica

(Newser) - The Trump administration has aggressively gone after political rivals over alleged mortgage games. Newly unearthed paperwork, however, suggests he once played a similar game himself. ProPublica reports that Trump signed two mortgages in Palm Beach in late 1993 and early 1994, each time listing the property as his main home....

DOJ Releases Files, Partly Complying With Epstein Law

Criticism follows incomplete trove, redactions

(Newser) - The Justice Department on Friday started putting out a massive batch of records tied to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, meeting part—but not all—of a disclosure mandate Congress imposed and President Trump signed into law last month. Officials said the release would ultimately total several hundred thousand pages, with...

Jack Smith Asks to Testify in Public on Trump Cases

Former special counsel seeks to defend prosecution against Republican accusations

(Newser) - Jack Smith is asking to take his defense of his investigations of Donald Trump out of closed rooms and into public view. In a letter sent Thursday to GOP House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, attorneys for the former special counsel said Smith wants to testify in an "open and...

It's a 'Total Transformation' for Trump Media

President's struggling company to merge with a nuclear fusion firm

(Newser) - After dabbling in social media, streaming, and cryptocurrency, the struggling Trump Media and Technology Group is planning "a total transformation," per the New York Times . The parent company of Truth Social plans to merge with TAE Technologies, a California-based nuclear fusion company, in an all-stock transaction the companies...

Third Term for Trump? Dershowitz Lays Out How

Draft of attorney's book outlines scenarios he thinks Trump may be able to pursue if he wanted to

(Newser) - President Trump has been kicking around a familiar hypothetical in private: Could he somehow serve yet another term as president? Per the Wall Street Journal , Trump met this week in the Oval Office with lawyer and longtime ally Alan Dershowitz, who handed him a draft of a forthcoming book titled...

Trump World Circles Wagons Around Embattled Susie Wiles

Allies rally after WH chief of staff's candid remarks to Vanity Fair on president, aides, Epstein files

(Newser) - Susie Wiles is suddenly the most publicly defended person in President Trump's orbit. After Vanity Fair ran a two-part profile by Chris Whipple based on 11 interviews with Wiles, the White House chief of staff and longtime adviser came under scrutiny for remarks in which she questioned some of...

Mick Foley Splits With WWE Over Trump

WWE Hall of Famer protests company's ongoing alliance with president

(Newser) - Mick Foley is hanging up his WWE boots—at least when it comes to appearances—for as long as President Trump is in the White House, NBC News reports. The wrestling Hall of Famer said on Instagram that he told World Wrestling Entertainment he won't work with the company...

Trump Defines Illicit Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Executive order targets traffickers' assets and aims to boost federal fentanyl prosecutions

(Newser) - Fentanyl just got bumped into the same legal category as chemical weapons. President Trump on Monday signed an executive order labeling illicit fentanyl and its main precursor chemicals as weapons of mass destruction, saying in the Oval Office that "no bomb does what this is doing." The move,...

Trump Sues BBC for $10B for Editing His Jan. 6 Remarks

President claims deceptive edit of speech before Capitol riot, seeks damages

(Newser) - President Trump is taking his long-running feud with the media across the Atlantic, filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the BBC over its handling of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech to supporters who later breached the US Capitol. In a complaint lodged Monday in federal court in the Southern District of...

Police Release New Images of Brown Shooting Suspect

FBI is offering a $50K reward

(Newser) - Police and the FBI released new video and images Monday of someone they've designated a person of interest in the Brown University mass shooting. The video and images, taken around two hours before the shooting on Saturday, are of a man with a mask over the lower part of...

Pelosi Predicts First Woman President 'Within Next Generation'

Pelosi cites growing public openness despite past female nominees' losses

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi thinks the wait for a woman in the Oval Office won't go on much longer, even if she's not sure she'll see it end herself. In a lengthy interview with USA Today 's Susan Page excerpted by the Hill , the former House speaker said...

Thailand: Despite Trump Claims, We Didn't Agree to Ceasefire

Fighting has resumed Saturday along the Thailand-Cambodia border

(Newser) - Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after US President Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he'd won agreement from both countries for a ceasefire. Thai officials have said they didn't agree to a ceasefire, and Cambodia hasn't commented on Trump'...

Newsom Shares AI Clip of Trump, Aides in Handcuffs

California governor mocks ICE 'cuffing season' video amid musicians' backlash

(Newser) - Gavin Newsom just answered a White House "cuffing season" video with one of his own—this time putting President Trump in digital handcuffs. The California governor on Wednesday posted an AI-generated clip on X that shows Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller sitting...

Rising Dem Star Shakes Up Texas Senate Race

Jasmine Crockett looks to unseat GOP's John Cornyn, amid a crowded field

(Newser) - Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, widely seen as a rising star in her party, has formally launched a campaign for the US Senate, aiming to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn. Crockett made her announcement at a campaign event on Monday and released a video using audio of President Trump criticizing...

Eric Trump Is Now the Richest of the Trump Kids

Crypto ventures and overseas deals put Eric Trump on top

(Newser) - Eric Trump has quietly become the wealthiest of the Trump siblings, amassing a fortune that now eclipses that of his siblings, which include brothers Donald Jr. and Barron and sisters Ivanka and Tiffany. Despite not owning a direct stake in the Trump Organization's real estate empire, Eric has leveraged...

Grand Jury Says No to Reindicting Letitia James

There's nothing to keep Trump's Justice Department from another attempt

(Newser) - A federal grand jury in Virginia on Thursday voted against reindicting New York Attorney General Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges, delivering another setback to the Trump administration's efforts to prosecute her. The decision comes a week after a judge dismissed the initial indictment , ruling that Lindsey Halligan, a...

The 10 Most-Read Wikipedia Pages of 2025

Charlie Kirk's page had notched nearly 45M page views as of Tuesday

(Newser) - There were lots of headlines vying for attention over the last year, but the Wikipedia page for one person in particular has catapulted to the top of 2025's most-read article on the online encyclopedia. Per the Guardian , the page of murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk had drawn nearly 45...

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