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Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivorsNov 29, 2025 9:15 pm - The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged “vigorous oversight” after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first U.S. strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year.
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Blaming some child deaths on COVID shots, FDA vows stricter vaccine rulesNov 29, 2025 7:25 pm - The nation’s top vaccine regulator on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals, citing his team’s conclusion, without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children, according to an internal Food and Drug Administration email obtained by The Washington Post.
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Trump says airlines should consider Venezuelan airspace closedNov 29, 2025 5:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Saturday said that commercial airlines should consider Venezuelan airspace closed, increasing pressure on the country’s leadership after weeks of escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas and the growing threat of a U.S. attack against the country.
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Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias trackerNov 29, 2025 5:01 pm - The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories it disagrees with.
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Why a 400-mile long fog bank lingered over California for a weekNov 29, 2025 4:47 pm - A fog bank hundreds of miles long in California’s Central Valley reappeared every day for a week and was likely to linger into the weekend.
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She’s torn between her love for Trump and her work with migrantsNov 29, 2025 4:37 pm - In the streets outside, agents — sent by the president she had voted for — were rounding up suspected undocumented workers. But here, in a small basement apartment, Aleah Arundale found herself hatching an escape plan for a Venezuelan woman and her family.“It will be calmer there,” Arundale said into a translation app on her phone that showed the words on the screen in Spanish. “And there is a school 10 minutes away.”
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The US has been cutting cyber defenses as AI boosts attacksNov 29, 2025 3:29 pm - The federal government’s ability to counter cyberespionage, destructive hacks and organized criminal scams is declining under the Trump administration just as artificial intelligence supercharges those threats, according to interviews with current and former officials as well as outside cybersecurity experts.
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Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.Nov 29, 2025 3:12 pm - President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them allNov 28, 2025 9:49 pm - The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a verbal directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.
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DC police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attackNov 28, 2025 4:39 pm - National Guard troops patrolling in Washington, D.C., will be paired with local law enforcement personnel, at least temporarily, in the wake of the Wednesday attack that killed one Guard member and critically injured another, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post and two D.C. police officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss planning that is still in progress.