Donald Trump slammed Jimmy Kimmel’s presenting skills once again ahead of the president’s hosting of the Kennedy Center Honors over the weekend. “That was very hurtful,” Kimmel sarcastically said, adding, “I thought we were friends. I’m starting to think he might have a crush on me.”Kimmel aired footage of Trump before the ceremony saying, “If I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president.”Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“I agree. I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with anything more than that,” Kimmel responded. I’ll come on, I’ll tell a few jokes, I’ll draw something, I’ll play my clarinet.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGHope Walz, the 24-year-old daughter of 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee and current Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, completely unloaded on President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. this week, in response to him promoting his dad’s use of an ableist slur toward her father. Walz’s Monday video comes in response to a dig Trump Jr. made against her dad on X, where he reposted a video of the Minnesota governor saying people are driving by his house and yelling the slur. “They’re not wrong,” Trump Jr. wrote. As The Hill reported, in that now-deleted TikTok post, Walz defended her family, especially her brother Gus, who has a nonverbal learning disorder.

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Politics: 'This Is Sick ****': Nicolle Wallace Shreds Donald Trump's Latest Troubling Pattern“No doubt the tariffs are a factor in this, Bret,” Hume told “Special Report” host Bret Baier. “There’s no getting around that,” Hume said Monday about the impact of Trump’s tariffs. “And it’s put the president now in a position where he’s got to try to help the farmers. He has repeatedly maintained that foreign countries, rather than American consumers themselves, will foot those increased costs. Hume called it a “thorny issue,” arguing that Trump would only be further pilloried for ignoring the problem, one Hume himself had noted earlier was at least partially caused by Trump’s tariffs.

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Mangione is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in an early morning attack in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024. AdvertisementAlthough Mangione had his face covered with a medical mask and hat, his caterpillar eyebrows were clearly visible, alerting the police tipster. Prosecutors showed images and body camera video of Mangione’s arrest, including items in his backpack, which included the “pluck eyebrows” note. Mangione’s defense team has argued that the items in the backpack shouldn’t be included as evidence in the trial because Mangione was illegally searched and not correctly read his Miranda rights. Judge Gregory Carro will decide whether or not the evidence can be used at trial following the conclusion of the hearing, which is expected to continue this week.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that she feels “very sorry for President Trump” when asked for her reaction to his latest Truth Social rant against her. In his 250-word screed against her Monday morning, Trump raged against Greene, using one of his new nicknames for her. Advertisement“The only reason Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted! “Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD - She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple!

LOADING ERROR LOADINGFIFA President Gianni Infantino’s fawning adoration of President Donald Trump, complete with seemingly creating an award just for him, is now the subject of an ethics complaint. Most visibly, Infantino last week awarded Trump the organization’s first-ever FIFA Peace Prize ― an award, FairSquare notes, Infantino appears to have both created and awarded to Trump without input from the rest of FIFA. Endorsing Trump’s foreign policy during the Dec. 5 award of the FIFA peace prize itself. “This complaint is about a lot more than Infantino’s support for President Donald Trump’s political agenda,” McGeehan said. The FIFA president at the time, Sepp Blatter, was not among those named in the indictment, though he was forced from office after 17 years atop FIFA as a result of the scandal.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGNEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department can publicly release investigative materials from a sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime confidant of Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said on Tuesday. The law requires the Justice Department provide Epstein-related records to the public in a searchable format by Dec. 19. Engelmayer is the second judge to allow the Justice Department to publicly disclose previously secret Epstein court records. A request to release records from Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking case is still pending. The Justice Department said Congress intended the unsealing when it passed the transparency act, which President Donald Trump signed into law last month.

But Lee v. Trump, a civil case brought by a group of lawmakers, has survived every bid Trump has made to bury it for four years. AdvertisementIn a series of exclusive interviews with HuffPost, some of the lawmakers suing Trump discussed their yearslong fight for accountability for one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. The appeals court then instructed Mehta to review more evidence tied to Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 and decide definitively what occurred. If Trump doesn’t face any consequences, she said, she worries there could be another day like Jan. 6. In the lawsuit, Trump has defended his conduct on Jan. 6 as necessary and normal for a president concerned with goings-on across government.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job openings barely budged in October, coming in at 7.7 million with ongoing uncertainty over the direction of the American economy. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 7.67 million vacancies in October, close to September’s 7.66 million. Job openings have come down steadily since peaking at a record 12.1 million in March 2022, when the economy was roaring back from COVID-19 lockdowns. Meanwhile, the 43-day federal shutdown has made a mess of the government’s economic statistics. The October report on job openings came out a week late, and the September version was not published separately because federal data collectors were on furlough.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during an event at the State Department on Monday in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein via Associated PressIn a social media post about the operation involving missile strikes that have killed scores of people in the Caribbean Sea, a U.S. military account featured no American flags ― but a large cross was plainly visible. Many consider the Jerusalem Cross, as the ornate design is known, to be a simple profession of Christian faith. The strikes fall under what the administration calls Operation Southern Spear. This, the administration says, makes them fair game for military strikes, as opposed to Coast Guard drug interdiction, which typically does not involve lethal force at all.

LOADING ERROR LOADING“Here’s a hard truth Republicans don’t want to hear,” Mace wrote. “Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican in this century.”AdvertisementRead the whole essay at The New York Times. Given that Pelosi is the only Democratic speaker of the 21st century among five Republicans, that would perhaps mean Mace is effectively calling her the best at the speaker role in this era. Advertisement“Today Republicans have a governing trifecta: the House, the Senate and the White House,” Mace wrote. And we will deserve it.”Mace practically gushed over Pelosi's stints as House speaker in a New York Times essay.