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2+ min ago (745+ words) US paused asylum decisions, halted Afghan visas, and will review green card requests after national guard shooting News that the Trump administration has paused asylum decisions, halted visas for Afghans who assisted the US war effort and is reevaluating green card applications for people from countries "of concern" has left asylum seekers across the US reeling " and pushed deeper into limbo. "People say that fear travels faster than information. And that's exactly what has happened," said Reza Hussaini, a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan who came to the US in 2022 and is still awaiting an interview to evaluate his case. The new rules could affect nearly 1.5m pending asylum cases with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Legal experts expect that the broader asylum pause and other policy changes will face challenges in court. Advocates have warned that the administration's…...

6+ min ago (183+ words) Nuzzi says the allegations of her personal and journalistic violations would "never meet standards for publication at any legitimate outlet" The post Olivia Nuzzi Responds to Ex Ryan Lizza's Misconduct Allegations: "Fan Fiction-Slash-Revenge Porn' appeared first on TheWrap. In her direct response to Ryan Lizza's multi-part series recounting his experience of Olivia Nuzzi's affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Nuzzi said his posts read as "obsessive and violating fan fiction-slash-revenge porn" meant to "harass, humiliate, and harm" her. She also said she feels sorry for him. Nuzzi provided her thoughts on the series, Lizza, Kennedy and other topics in a Q&A with readers of Emily Sundberg's Feed Me newsletter, which published the exchanges on Tuesday. The remarks mark some of her first public responses since a New York Times interview marked the start of her promotional efforts for her book…...

6+ min ago (810+ words) The latest wave of dealmaking underscores how the desire to merge these days is more about survival than hunger for growth UPDATE: Since this newsletter was first sent out, a new round of bids for Warner Bros. Discovery landed. Here's our coverage of those new bids: "WBD's Bidding War Escalates: Here Are the Challenges Facing Comcast, Netflix and Paramount | Analysis." Tomorrow marks the deadline for the second round of bids for Warner Bros. Discovery, underscoring what has become an exciting year for M&A in media and entertainment and quite a turnaround from the year's sleepy start. It's also just a reminder of how the nature of mergers & acquisitions has changed, rooted more in survival than a rationale for growth. That some of the mightiest names in Hollywood (in this case, Warner Bros. Discovery) are not the hunters but the…...

6+ min ago (895+ words) Jennifer Capasso has endured a lot of hate while undergoing care at one of the world's best cancer hospitals. Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman with stage four rectal cancer, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City after she secretly recorded her surgical team allegedly making transphobic comments about her. MSK denied her accusations and said her recording violated worker privacy. Capasso claimed that operating room staff preparing to remove her malignant lung tumor said that she had "man parts," referred to her and her trans partner as "men," and said that being trans was "not right" and "doesn't make sense," The New York Times reported, recounting accusations from a lawsuit she filed last March in New York's Supreme Court. Capasso also said that during the March 7, 2022 procedure, an operating room…...

6+ min ago (305+ words) Hosted by Ryan Seacrest, this year will mark the longest telecast in the show's history ABC will be ringing in the new year with some of the biggest names in the music industry. Chappell Roan, 50 Cent and Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami, aka the voices behind the "KPop Demon Hunters" band HUNTR/X, are all set to perform at "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026." The ABC special will star in New York and continue through Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and more cities as the night unfolds. The celebration starts on Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET and will run through 4 a.m. ET on Jan. 1. The 2026 "New Year's Rockin' Celebration" will be available to watch on ABC during its live premiere and the next day on Hulu. This year's special will set a record as the longest telecast in…...

13+ min ago (594+ words) Brent Dusing could have gained the world. After selling his mobile coupon company, CellFire, for $108 million, his options were limitless. But a crisis in America nudged his soul. As a father, Dusing was troubled by the toxic content that children encounter through gaming. So in 2023, he started TruPlay, a Christian gaming platform for kids and teens. As with many online companies, an essential part of Dusing's venture required running ads through Google and TikTok. But since TruPlay's inception, both tech giants have continually restricted Dusing's ads, which often contain Christian messaging, according to Dusing. "I mean, we're hit with violations every week or two by TikTok and Google," Dusing told The Western Journal in a phone interview. "And it's because our ads are deemed offensive, or religious content, or whatever. And then meanwhile, games that promote sexual content to kids,…...

13+ min ago (496+ words) President Donald Trump pledged before taking office a second time that he would fix the U.S. economy around "very quickly," but as a new supercut from the Washington Post revealed on Tuesday, he has spent a lot of time since then asking for more time. The video was put together by J.M. Rieger, a senior video reporter for the Post known for his revealing supercuts. Some of his past works have focused on Republicans changing their stances on tariffs after Trump pushed for them, and Republicans promising an Obamacare alternative over the years that never materialized. "Weeks before taking office, Donald Trump promised to turn the economy around quickly," Reiger wrote in a post to X with the supercut. "Since then, the Trump administration has repeatedly asked for more time to improve the economy." The video begins with a clip taken from…...

15+ min ago (1245+ words) Double strikes" allegedly used on Venezuelan boats accused of trafficking drugs were also used extensively under the US"s Obama administration. The White House has confirmed that a top US Navy commander ordered a second round of strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in September despite almost completely destroying it in the first attack. A double-tap strike essentially means carrying out two strikes on the same target " often wounding or killing medics and civilians who are coming to the aid of people harmed in the first attack. Here is more about how the United States has used such strikes throughout history. The US military struck a boat in the Caribbean on September 2, as part of its ongoing military campaign against drug-trafficking networks. Its campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has, so far, killed more than 80 people while targeting…...

23+ min ago (497+ words) Combat veteran Jan Carey, who was charged with a misdemeanor for burning a flag outside the White House in August, says he absolutely had the right to do so, according to The Baltimore Sun. "It was hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect the American flag from 'desecration,' and Jan Carey said he knew what he had to do," Jeff Barker writes. "According to court documents, Carey, 54, a North Carolina combat veteran, set a flag down on bricks in a park across from the White House and announced with a bullhorn that he was an Army veteran about to burn a flag to protest Trump's order he believes violates free speech rights. Then he lit the small flag on fire," Barker explains. Carey tells the Sun "that was my way of pushing back. [Trump] said 'You…...

27+ min ago (297+ words) Members of the military attend a meeting convened by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Quantico, Virginia, U.S., September 30, 2025. REUTERS Kevin Lamarque CNN National Security correspondent Natasha Bertrand reports the Trump administration is causing headache with its back and forth over who is responsible for a deadly double strike that destroyed a Caribbean boat and then killed its stricken passengers floating in the water. Former military officials are saying Bradley would be court martialed "under normal circumstances" for ordering strikes against helpless swimmers after an initial strike destroyed their boat. This, said Bertrand, suggests "a little bit of vulnerability" on the part of both Hegseth and the Trump administration. "The reality is that there are serious questions about why they made that decision to kill survivors of that first strike and ultimately why they then changed course…...