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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM EST Admiral Frank M. Bradley - who was in charge of the September 2, 2025 mission in which the U.S. military killed two shipwrecked survivors of a boat strike in the Caribbean Sea -- is being left out to dry by President Donald Trump's administration, according to multiple experts. The New York Times' Helene Cooper and John Ismay reported Tuesday that recent comments from Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt all suggest that Bradley is being cast as the central figure in the controversial strike. The Washington Post reported that after the initial missile strike that blew up a boat in international waters, the two survivors were seen clinging to the wreckage of the vessel, and that Hegseth demanded officials overseeing the operation "kill everybody." Dan Maurer, retired U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) officer, characterized the operation as "murder." December 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM EST House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) grip on power appears to be slipping, as a growing number of the House Republican Conference publicly denounces his leadership. That's according to a Tuesday article by Politico's Meredith Lee Hill and Hailey Fuchs, who reported that Johnson's tenure as speaker appears to be teetering "on a razor's edge" as numerous Republicans take stances against him. December 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM EST One Republican member of Congress with an extensive military record is calling on President Donald Trump to fire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. During a Tuesday interview with CNN reporter Manu Raju, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and serves on the House Armed Forces Committee, expanded on his view that the embattled defense secretary should be "held accountable" in the wake of a Washington Post report alleging that he ordered the deaths of two people who survived a missile strike. December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM EST Alleged Washington D.C. shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal may have been coerced into carrying out last week's attack on two members of the West Virginia National Guard, according to a new report. The Daily Beast's "The Swamp" newsletter reported Tuesday that U.S. intelligence sources are investigating whether the Taliban may have blackmailed the 29 year-old Lakanwal into shooting 24 year-old Andrew Wolfe and 20 year-old Sarah Beckstrom. Wolfe remains in critical condition, while Beckstrom died from her injuries. Lakanwal was also shot during the ambush-style attack and remains hospitalized. December 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM EST President Donald Trump's recent pardon of an international drug kingpin has ruffled feathers among members of his own party, according to a new report. The National Review's Audrey Fahlberg reported Tuesday that Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Herna'ndez has caused consternation among several Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who say that the clemency measure takes the wind out of the sails of his stated goal of combating drug traffickers. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who is retiring from the Senate in 2026, said the pardon was "horrible optics" and sent a "mixed message" about the administration's goals. December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM EST President Donald Trump is urging U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to block any release of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report on his investigation into the president's alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents, in a case that had been charged in part under the Espionage Act. On Tuesday, Trump argued in a court filing that Smith's report should never be made public, in what would be a deviation from previous practice, Politico reported. December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM EST Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made an eyebrow-raising comment about President Donald Trump during a recent meeting of the Trump administration's Cabinet. While in the middle of her remarks at the meeting, Noem observed that no hurricanes had made landfall in the U.S. during the 2025 hurricane season, which typically lasts from June through November. Her comment was met with laughter from the assembled Cabinet members. December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM EST President Donald Trump reportedly erupted at a Fox News reporter on Tuesday after a lengthy Cabinet meeting, in response to a somewhat tough question. That's according to The Independent's Andrew Feinberg, who tweeted Tuesday that Trump had confrontation with reporter reporter Ed Lawrence at the White House. Feinberg noted that Lawrence asked the president if he thought Americans were "getting impatient with the reforms you're making." December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM EST In an episode of The New York Times podcast "The Opinions," opinion editor Meher Ahmad, columnist and sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom and photo editor and creative consultant Emily Keegin discuss how, thanks to MAGA, "country and cowboys have a hold on our culture and our political imagination." "Rural aesthetics are in, from cowboy boots to country albums by pop stars to pastoral idealism peddled by influencers," they explain. December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM EST These trying times under the second term of President Donald Trump is the fault of two men in particular, writes The Hill's opinion contributor Bill Press. "With all the problems under this second Trump administration -- the economy teetering on collapse, military forces deployed in American cities, the Justice Department preying on Trump's enemies, America waging a questionably illegal war against alleged drug smugglers from Venezuela, presidential pardons flowing from the White House, Congress surrendering its independence to the executive branch, and American politics hopelessly and bitterly divided -- these are also 'times that try men's souls,'" Press writes. December 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM EST Georgetown University School of Business Senior Fellow Robert J. Shapiro says President Donald Trump likely won't be fixing his "affordability" conundrum in time to save himself or his Republican Party. "There's little the government can do about either in time for the 2026 midterms, and even the 2028 presidential election. Exacerbating matters, the president and Congress insist on making it worse," Shapiro told Washington Monthly. "President Donald Trump famously promised to lower prices 'on Day One' in his 2024 campaign. That was bluster, of course". Yet he's dead set against the standard way to do it -- keeping interest rates elevated to slow demand." December 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM EST A portion of House and Senate Republicans would like to extend the Obamacare subsidies that expire on December 31, but an even larger portion would not. There is no consensus among Republicans in either chamber on how to move forward, and Democrats are complaining that Republicans are unwilling to negotiate to save the subsidies before the fast-approaching deadline -- a feat that is being seen as increasingly unlikely. "There are no Republicans willing to negotiate over this. None," lamented U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), according to The Hill. "Where is Donald Trump? Where is the Republican leadership in the House or the Senate? None of them want to talk about health care assistance for American families." |
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