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Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, criticizes Bondi and opines on Trump in Vanity Fair

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and BILL BARROW
Dec 16, 2025 2:41 pm - Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in a series of observations that were published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. The magazine’s two-part profile of Wiles immediately sent shock waves through Washington while sending the West Wing into damage control.
The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6%

By PAUL WISEMAN
Dec 16, 2025 7:58 am - The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports.
Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State group

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and ROD McGUIRK
Dec 16, 2025 7:36 am - A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.
Search for the Brown University shooter continues as questions swirl about campus security

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM
Dec 16, 2025 7:31 am - Authorities knocked on doors in search of video and sifted through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two students and wounded nine others.
Zelenskyy says proposals to end the war in Ukraine could be presented to Russia within days

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Dec 16, 2025 7:27 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals being negotiated with U.S. officials for a deal to end the fighting in Russia's nearly 4-year-old invasion of his country could be finalized within days, after which American envoys will present them to the Kremlin before possible further meetings in the U.S. next weekend.
The Latest: Judge rules case can proceed against former Trump allies over 2020 election scheme

By The Associated Press
Dec 15, 2025 8:22 pm - A Wisconsin judge has ruled there is enough evidence to proceed to trial in a felony forgery case against an attorney and an aide to President Donald Trump related to act...
4 charged with plotting New Year’s Eve attacks in Southern California, prosecutors say

By JULIE WATSON and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Dec 15, 2025 5:11 pm - Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple sites of two U.S. companies on New Year’s Eve in Southern California after arresting members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group.
US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases

By MAE ANDERSON
Dec 15, 2025 2:06 pm - Along with the unpredictable tariffs, stubborn inflation and weak hiring have shaken consumer confidence in the U.S. economy.
US to give Ukraine safety guarantees in peace talks

By STEFANIE DAZIO and AAMER MADHANI
Dec 15, 2025 10:54 am - The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.
Authorities renew search for the Brown University shooter after releasing a person of interest

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and AMANDA SWINHART
Dec 15, 2025 9:19 am - Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the evidence pointed "in a different direction.”

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