December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM EST
'Nothing is stopping him': Veteran calls Trump's tanker seizure a 'significant escalation'

Veterans of America CEO Paul Rieckhoff likened President Donald Trump's recent seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker as an official announcement that he can take other nations' property with impunity "You and I have talked for months about this," Reickoff told MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday. "I think the biggest story in the world is that Donald Trump can do anything he wants with the most powerful military the world has ever seen, and nothing is stopping him. That includes now seizing oil tankers. It includes potentially killing survivors. It includes potential black sites. I mean, he is all gas and no brakes right now. And when I spoke to you a couple weeks ago, I said the pieces were in place for a strike on Venezuela. It was just a matter of when. This is a significant escalation today."

December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM EST
'Special kind of delusion': Top Democrat calls Trump's speech on prices a 'train wreck'

Tuesday night was the first stop on President Donald Trump's new affordability messaging tour, but it was a "train wreck," U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said. Trump may have read all his lines at his Pennsylvania rally, but he also ad-libbed a lot, mocking the affordability crisis in America as a "hoax."

December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM EST
Federal grand jury keeps rejecting Trump's Justice Department

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is no stranger to losing grand jury cases, but now that federal agents have moved into Chicago, prosecutors there are being blocked from prosecutions, too. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday that a federal grand jury has turned down another case connected to the so-called "Midway Blitz."

December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM EST
Lauren Boebert accused of violating campaign finance laws to go on date with Kid Rock

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo) is now in hot water after her latest campaign finance filings show questionable expenditures that are believed to be unrelated to official campaign business. According to a Wednesday report in the Daily Beast, the 38 year-old Colorado Republican is accused of spending campaign money to see 54 year-old Kid Rock (whose real name is Robert James Ritchie) at his Rock N Rodeo in May of this year at the Professional Bull Riding Championship World Finals at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Federal Election Commission filings show that three days after the event, Boebert spent $2,455.83 at "Live by Loews," which is an Arlington hotel. She also spent $925 on "event tickets" at AT&T Stadium.

December 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM EST
Pentagon insiders say his war threats have no teeth

In his interview with Politico on Monday, President Donald Trump threatened Venezuelan President Nicola's Maduro and wouldn't rule out sending American soldiers to fight in a ground war in the country. But according to six GOP lawmakers, Pentagon officials and White House advisers, the threats are empty. According to a Wednesday report, the lawmakers and top officials told Politico that for all of Trump's tough talk, there's no real action behind it.

December 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM EST
GOP strategist: Trump's 'meandering' PA speech reveals 'confusion and mental weakness'

President Donald Trump made a rare appearance at a Pennsylvania event on Tuesday to convince voters of his economic agenda, but according to one Republican strategist, his "meandering" speech only showed that his "confusion and mental weakness" are getting worse. Trump's Pennsylvania speech was part of an effort by the GOP to have Trump campaign more for the party ahead of the 2026 midterms, where they face strong headwinds from Democrats over voter discontent over affordability. Trump is also attempting to convince voters that his economic agenda remains sound, and that concerns about the cost of living are a "con job" against him by his political enemies.

December 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM EST
White House official admits Trump was wrong on Putin -- and says he knows it

When President Donald Trump came into office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio counseled him not to believe Vladimir Putin. Now, according to Semafor,Trump realizes Rubio was right all along. Semafor reported Wednesday that a top official to the White House said that Trump may not admit it, but he knows he was wrong.

December 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM EST
Economist Paul Krugman torches fatal flaws of Trump's losing 'message'

President Donald Trump is angrily lashing out at Democrats for their heavy focus on inflation, insisting that "affordability" is a Democratic "hoax." Trump is also saying that voters should be thanking him because of how much he has improved the economy. But liberal economist Paul Krugman, in a Substack column posted on December 10, argues that Trump has a losing message on the economy.

December 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM EST
Judge issues sharp warning as feds claim 'shocking' right to 'a perpetual police force'

In a court ruling posted on Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the National Guard soldiers must leave Los Angeles. But his comments on the ruling include a sharp warning. Ryan Goodman, a legal scholar and editor-in-chief of JustSecurity.org, highlighted a key excerpt on page 10:

December 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM EST
US ally's intel service says country now a 'security risk' over Trump's Greenland fixation

For the first time, a close European ally of the US has called it a "security risk" in response to President Donald Trump's insistence that Greenland should become an American territory, according to Bloomberg. Trump first began expressing his desire to take control of Greenland during his first term, but his rhetoric escalated from the start of his second, falsely claiming that Greenland's residents were in favor of the idea and refusing to rule out the use of economic or military means to accomplish it.

December 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM EST
Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years

Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open. Premiums can rise if the costs of the medical services they cover increase. Using consumer price indices for the main components of medical care - such as services provided in clinics and hospitals as well as administrative expenses - based on federal data and data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, we found that the cost of hospital services increased the most, while the cost of physician services and prescription drugs rose more slowly.

December 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM EST
2025's words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment

Which terms best represent 2025? Every year, editors for publications ranging from the Oxford English Dictionary to the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English select a "word of the year."