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Trump takes populist turn against health insurers

11/28/25 5:00 PM ET President Trump is blaming health insurers for rising health care costs, adopting a populist approach as he seeks to counter attacks by Democrats that the GOP has done too little to keep health care affordable. Democrats are pushing Congress to quickly hold a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Trump is reportedly preparing a proposal that would extend the subsidies for two years, along ...

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FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths

FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths Vinay Prasad, the nation's top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children's deaths, necessitating a new approach. November 29, 2025 at 12:05 a.m. EST Today at 12:05 a.m. EST 6 min Moderna coronavirus vaccines are displayed during a 2021 vaccination campaign in California. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) By Dan Diamond and Rachel Roubein The nation's top vaccine r ...

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Rubio plans to skip NATO meeting at key moment for Ukraine, sources say

November 28, 2025 3:26 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two U.S. officials said, in a highly unusual absence of the top U.S. diplomat from a key transatlantic gathering. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau will represent Washington instead, said one of the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss matters that have not yet been made public. It wa ...

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Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker

Media Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker A new White House webpage presents a "Hall of Shame" for news reports the president disagrees with, coming after the president has voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg. November 28, 2025 at 9:42 p.m. EST Yesterday at 9:42 p.m. EST 3 min President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Tuesday. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) By Scott Nover The Whi ...

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No West Virginia National Guard troops deployed in D.C. have asked to leave since deadly shooting, governor says

November 28, 2025 / 8:26 PM EST / CBS News Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Friday that no West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have requested to return home in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two West Virginia Guard members that left one dead and the second critically wounded. "I haven't heard of anyone step back," Morrisey told CBS News in an interview. "They wanted to stay. They wanted to complete the mission and serve their state and country.& ...

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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary's order to leave no survivors. The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an "armed conflict" with the U.S., these officials and experts say. Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats "am ...

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Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response

7h Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines. Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to accumulate for two months, triggering immune-cell death and sustained inflammation. The ink also weakened the antibody r ...

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President Donald Trump says he's terminating all orders Biden signed with autopen

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump said on Friday that any document signed by former President Joe Biden using an autopen "is hereby terminated." "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden," Trump posted on his social media platform. It is unclear which orders Trump is referencing and how he is making those determinations. ABC News has reached out to the White House for more information. Trump cla ...

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Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%. The latest decline follows three months of stability, with 40% to 41% of Americans expressing approval of his handling of the presidency. His prior second-term low point in approval was a statistically similar 37% in July, and his all-time low was 34% in 2021, at the end of his first term after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capit ...

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D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack

D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack If enacted on a long-term basis, the change would significantly shift the way National Guard troops have worked with law enforcement in the District since their arrival. November 28, 2025 at 12:37 p.m. EST Members of the Louisiana National Guard depart the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, a day after two National Guard members were shot. (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) By Jenny Gathright, Emily Davies and Olivia Geor ...

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America stares down erasure of Black history and progress

10 min ago - 8h In the past year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted major pillars of America's civil rights protections and racial equity infrastructure, wiping away public data, slashing research funding and erasing Black history. Why it ma ... (msn/Axios)

Major 401(k) Changes Being Considered By Congress

1 hr ago - Published Nov 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM EST Congress is weighing a plan that could let workers move money from their 401(k) plans into personal annuities without leaving their jobs, in a shift that could reshape how Americans save for retirement. The prop ... (Newsweek)

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for 'Shakespeare In Love,' has died at 88

1 hr ago - British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Academy Award for 'Shakespeare In Love,' has died at 88 The Associated Press November 29, 2025, 1:38 PM FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, British playwright Tom Stoppard poses as he arrives for the worl ... (Associated Press, via WTOP)

Group launches targeted ad to spoil Trump's Thanksgiving weekend at resort

2 hrs ago - November 29, 2025 12:09PM ET The Women’s March WIN political action committee launched an ad campaign this weekend with an ad encouraging Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers to quit their jobs, and kicked off the campaign with ads runni ... (Raw Story)

National Guard victim's ex-boyfriend says she described limits of DC deployment as 'pointless'

2 hrs ago - National Guard victim's ex-boyfriend says she described limits of DC deployment as 'pointless' Adam Carr, the former boyfriend of US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom -- the National Guard member killed in an ambush-style attack in Washington, DC -- spoke to ... (CNN)

US Representative Troy Nehls announces retirement

2 hrs ago - November 29, 2025 12:59 PM EST Updated 1 hour ago WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Troy Nehls announced on Saturday that he would not seek re-election at the end of the current congressional term. "I have made the decision, after co ... (Reuters)

US small businesses sound alarm over Trump's tariffs amid crucial holiday season

3 hrs ago - Sat 29 Nov 2025 05.00 EST Last modified on Sat 29 Nov 2025 05.02 EST Donald Trump’s tariffs have increased prices on an array of popular holiday goods and driven a “massive” number of small firms out of business, industry leaders have ... (The Guardian)

Congressional Black Caucus fears GOP redistricting will shrink its numbers

4 hrs ago - November 29, 2025, 5:07 AM President Donald Trump's redistricting push to preserve a Republican majority in Congress and allied voting rights cases in Texas and Louisiana could wipe out nearly a third of the 62-member Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) ... (ABC News)

Israel has 'de facto state policy' of organised torture, says UN report

4 hrs ago - Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes Israel has “a de facto state policy of or ... (The Guardian)

Flooding in southern Asia leaves hundreds dead

5 hrs ago - Torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing about 600 people. Monsoon rain exacerbated by tropical storms caused some of the region's worst flooding in years, with millions affected in Indonesia, Malay ... (BBC)

Senate committee vows 'vigorous oversight' in killing of boat strike survivors

6 hrs ago - National Senate committee vows 'vigorous oversight' in killing of boat strike survivors The Republican-led Senate Armed Service Committee's pledge came after The Post reported that the defense secretary ordered that a U.S. strike on an alleged narcot ... (Washington Post)

Democrats bet on a 'Trump slump' to take back Nevada

6 hrs ago - 11/29/2025 07:00 AM EST LAS VEGAS — Democrats looking to win back Nevada’s gubernatorial mansion want to tie incumbent GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo to Donald Trump’s agenda — but the first-term governor is not making it easy. Despite rec ... (Politico)

Trump Again Funneling Money From Political Committees He Runs Into His Own Pocket

7 hrs ago - Nov 29, 2025, 08:00 AM EST WASHINGTON – Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political commi ... (Huff Post)

Hegseth responds to report that boat survivors were killed as a result of his orders to military

8 hrs ago - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to a report that he ordered the military to kill all passengers aboard a boat suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September. According to The Washington Post, the Sept. 2 boat strike initially ... (ABC News)

College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order

8 hrs ago - A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security ... (AP News)

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

8 hrs ago - A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict. Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East stud ... (The Guardian)

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety

8 hrs ago - Nov 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed in its entirety. Trump, in a Truth Social post said: "To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, plea ... (Reuters)

Trump administration agrees to restore $790 million to Northwestern University

9 hrs ago - November 28, 2025 11:03 PM EST Updated 8 hours ago WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has reached agreement to restore nearly $800 million in federal funds it withheld from Northwestern University and to close government investig ... (Reuters)

No West Virginia National Guard troops deployed in D.C. have asked to leave since deadly shooting, governor says

10 hrs ago - November 28, 2025 / 8:26 PM EST / CBS News Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Friday that no West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have requested to return home in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two West Virginia Guard membe ... (CBS News)

Long-awaited $3.6B in heating assistance released to states and tribes

11 hrs ago - Published November 28, 2025 2:50pm PST Approximately $3.6 billion in delayed funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, has been released to states and tribes, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Associat ... (KTVU-TV Oakland, CA)