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10+ min ago (527+ words) Donation of $6.25bn for children's investment accounts prompts wave of questions " but details remain scarce A tech billionaire and his wife said on Tuesday they would pour $6.25bn into individual investment accounts for 25 million children under 10, prompting a wave of new questions about how these so-called "Trump accounts" will work. The creation of these accounts was included as part of Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill, which he signed into law in July. Every child born between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2028, can receive a Trump account that includes a $1,000 initial deposit from the administration. The money will then be invested. "Trump accounts will be the first " I guess you could say " first real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations, generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and grow," Trump said in a press conference at…...

18+ min ago (571+ words) But the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) was among those wondering whether the Dells' investment of $6.25 billion'a fraction of their $148 billion fortune'would ultimately benefit wealthy investors far more. The Dells, who are behind Dell Technologies, announced the investment plan months after President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. The tax and spending law includes a provision that would start an investment account for every US citizen child born between January 2025 and December 2028, with a $1,000 investment from the US government. As Jezebel reported, the couple's contribution would go to an additional 25 million children, up to age 10, who were born prior to the 2025 cut-off date for the initial Trump Accounts. "Around 80% of children born between 2016-2024 would theoretically qualify, although there are cutoffs based on household income: Applying families would have to live in ZIP codes where the median…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (264+ words) U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder 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. "Sir, you made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane " you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that," Noem said. The Homeland Security secretary's praise of Trump was immediately met with ridicule from various elected officials, journalists and commentators. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), took a sarcastic tone while also…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago (283+ words) U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs the House floor, following the vote of the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed the bill seeking to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 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. "Increasingly, rank-and-file House Republicans are bringing their spats with Johnson into the open, suggesting the speaker is losing further control over his restive members as his already slim majority threatens to narrow further and potentially devastating…...

1+ hour, 26+ min ago (161+ words) President Donald Trump wants to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's final report classified, according to a new court filing Tuesday. In the filing from his personal lawyer, the president told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon " a judge he appointed and his first direct request of her " to continue an extension on an 11-month order to block the Justice Department from sharing the report, Politico reported. Smith submitted it just before Trump's second inauguration and reportedly tells the story of the criminal case against the president after he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, including in a bathroom. "The filing is infused with the typical disdain Trump has expressed for his former prosecutors, labeling Smith a 'so-called special counsel' and saying the case was 'marred by numerous deficiencies and repeated abuses of office,'" the outlet reported. ALSO READ: GOP judge…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago (1716+ words) A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues. British history. Its political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide. Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time " Israel's two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity. Now, under a current supposed ceasefire, Israel is still killing Palestinians and their plight in Gaza remains dire, as the world sees the extent of the mass destruction visited on them. Throughout the attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies. Still now, significant sanctions on Israel are completely off the government's agenda " a striking contrast to Russia " because the establishment chooses to back Israel even in its…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

1+ hour, 42+ min ago (729+ words) As 24th annual meeting of member states kicks off. International Criminal Court (ICC) officials on Monday said the court is implementing countermeasures to protect the court from US sanctions, but they will remain confidential to ensure their effectiveness. The officials spoke in The Hague on the first day of the annual meeting of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), which is made up of representatives from 125 countries that have ratified the ICC's founding Rome Statute. The gathering is taking place at a time of unprecedented threats to the court, prompted mostly by its investigation into Israeli officials over alleged war crimes in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. Since February, US President Donald Trump's administration has imposed financial and visa sanctions on the court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. In August, Trump then sanctioned two deputy prosecutors, Nazhat Shameem Khan and Mame Mandiaye…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago (493+ words) Tunisia opposition says charges are fabricated, as police enforce a five-year prison sentence. By Caol'n Magee and News Agencies Police in Tunisia have arrested prominent opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home to enforce a five-year prison sentence after an appeals court upheld convictions against dozens of the administration's political opponents on charges of conspiracy against state security. The court last week confirmed jail terms ranging from four to 45 years for opposition leaders, business figures and lawyers accused of plotting to overthrow President Kais Saied, who has conducted a crackdown on opposition figures for years. "If you are seeing this video, I have been arrested," Hammami, who served as minister of human rights in 2020, said in a video posted by his family on his Facebook page on Tuesday. "I have spent years fighting for democracy, freedom, rights. I will turn…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago (497+ words) Fourteen workers who signed a petition that warned cuts put the US at risk were initially suspended in August The Trump administration is reversing the reinstatement of workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) who were placed on administrative leave after writing an open letter of dissent. Fema in August suspended 14 workers who signed a petition warning that cuts to the agency were putting the nation at risk of repeating the mistakes made during the botched response to 2005s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Last Wednesday, those 14 workers received notices that they were being reinstated at the beginning of this week. But within hours, Trump officials moved to re-suspend the staffers, after CNN broke the news of their return to work. Jeremy Edwards, former deputy of public affairs at Fema who signed the August petition, said the reversal "represents the…...