LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump won’t deploy federal troops to San Francisco after all, he and city Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday. Trump said San Francisco Bay Area tech CEOs Jensen Huang of NVIDIA and Marc Benioff of Salesforce were among those who called him. Benioff was met with immense outrage earlier this month for saying Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco. “This doesn’t make our city safer, it terrorizes our communities,” Lurie said of federal deployment in the city. “We don’t exactly know what the federal government is planning in San Francisco and across the Bay Area, but we do know this federal administration has a playbook in cities across the country.”Advertisement

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGMore than three weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration is calling back furloughed workers at the federal agency that administers health care for millions of Americans. Thousands of employees at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are being instructed to return to work on Monday. They noted that open enrollment has already begun for Medicare and will soon begin for the Affordable Care Act. “CMS will continue to abide by rules governing the Democrat-led government shutdown.”AdvertisementNearly half of the agency’s more than 6,000 workers would have been furloughed, according to its contingency plan. Kogan said Trump has been violating the law by refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated and also by spending money Congress has not authorized it to — for example, by tapping Defense Department research-and-development funds to pay the troops.

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The pardon caps a monthslong effort by Zhao, a billionaire commonly known as CZ in the crypto world and one of the biggest names in the industry. He and Binance have been key supporters of some of the Trump family’s crypto enterprises. Zhao was released from prison last year after receiving a four-month sentence for violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Changpeng Zhao, former chief executive officer of Binance, arrives at federal court in Seattle, Washington, US, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. ___Because Truth Still Matters Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Reporting In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays grounded in facts and empathy.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGNew footage of Sunday’s shocking heist at the Louvre shows two suspects using a slow-moving lift to escape in broad daylight, with what’s assumed to be France’s crown jewels. Museum guards could be heard in the footage cursing and expressing frustration that the suspects were getting away. Four days later, the hunt for the suspects and the jewels continues. Because Truth Still Matters Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Reporting In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays grounded in facts and empathy. Your membership fuels journalism that strengthens democracy.

Advertisement“In remarks to the press this week, you described a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional effort to steal $230 million from the American people,” the letter states. The $230 million in damages he is seeking would need to first be approved by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Civil Division head Stanley Woodward Jr. before likely needing Trump’s ultimate approval. Blanche previously served as Trump’s personal attorney during these investigations, while Woodward served as counsel for Trump aide Walt Nauta in the classified documents case. And now I won, it sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?”Raskin and Garcia agree that it looks bad. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.

AdvertisementSpeaking on the tarmac of Tel Aviv’s international airport before departing Israel, Vance said that if the Knesset vote was a “political stunt, then it is a very stupid political stunt.”“I personally take some insult to it,” Vance said. Vance (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speak to the media before the interdelegational meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in West Jerusalem, on October 22, 2025. US Vice President JD Vance (L) and Israeli President Isaac Herzog hold a meeting at the presidential residence in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025. AdvertisementHe is then expected to meet Israel’s Defense Minister, Israeli military leaders and other officials at the army’s headquarters in Tel Aviv. Some 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli fire, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGMore than 200 new Immigration and Custom Enforcement agent recruits have been dismissed as the Trump administration ramps up hiring at the agency, NBC News reported exclusively on Wednesday. A majority of the dismissed recruits didn’t pass the physical and academic requirements. “The vast majority of new officers brought on during the hiring surge are experienced law enforcement officers who have already successfully completed a law enforcement academy. (The agency claims on its website at the time of writing that it has “more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel” globally.) Because Truth Still Matters Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Reporting In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays grounded in facts and empathy.

The East Wing, which was built in 1902 and expanded in 1942, is expected to be fully torn down by this weekend, per a New York Times report. The Washington Post similarly reported that a White House spokesperson said the “entirety” of the East Wing would be rebuilt. Demolition of the East Wing began on Monday, and the White House still hasn’t submitted any plans to the federal agency that oversees construction of federal buildings. It’s my favorite.”The East Wing of the White House being demolished by work crews on Tuesday. Another angle of Trump's demolition of the East Wing, which Trump said in July he wouldn't touch as part of his renovations because "I'm the biggest fan" of the East Wing building.

Joe Marler with Celebrity Traitors host Claudia Winkleman BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan CherryJoe Marler has admitted there was one aspect of The Celebrity Traitors that he had some difficulty with. “In the rugby world, rugby’s massive. Everyone knows about rugby, you think it’s massive,” he explained to the former Made In Chelsea star. They’re like ‘Oh right, league or union or what sort of thing?’”AdvertisementJoe Marler pictured in the Celebrity Traitors castle BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan CherryRather than taking any offence, Joe insisted it was actually “really good” to “have a bit of perspective”. AdvertisementMeanwhile viewers were left on tenterhooks after last night’s episode, which saw a Traitors first as the vote was split between historian David Olusoga and actor Mark Bonnar.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGNBC News’ Kristen Welker on Wednesday asked Mehmet Oz — the former talk show host and heart surgeon who now runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — about President Donald Trump’s repeated claim, mockingly dubbed “MAGA math,” that he’ll get pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices by more than 100%. AdvertisementThen Welker asked Oz the obvious: “Cutting drug prices by 400%, anything over 100%, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? They’re equal, so it’s 100%.’”Welker pointed out that Trump has boasted about reducing drug prices by up to 1,500%. Oz fired back: “Well, if you take a drug that is $200 or $240 like we did last week and reduce it to $10, those are the numbers you’re talking about.”AdvertisementWhat? He then pivoted to talking about how important it was to reduce drug prices.

Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was prepared to sue the Trump administration in a “nanosecond” if the White House moved forward with the deployment of the National Guard to San Francisco. Newsom’s statement comes as the Trump administration is preparing to dispatch more than 100 federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area this week as it ratchets up immigration enforcement in the region, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. Local leaders, meanwhile, have stressed that troops aren’t needed and emphasized that the National Guard isn’t equipped to address issues like a drug crisis. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, meanwhile, emphasized that the presence of federal agents would only spur anxiety and fear. Because Truth Still Matters Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Mission Your Support Fuels Our Reporting In a time of misinformation and noise, HuffPost stays grounded in facts and empathy.

Republican gubernatorial challenger state Sen. Darren Bailey participates in a debate, on Oct. 18, 2022, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) via Associated PressFour family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois were killed in a Montana helicopter crash, his campaign said Thursday. Zachary Bailey was piloting the helicopter when it went down, said Aaron Del Mar, who is Darren Bailey’s running mate and serving as a family spokesperson. Pritzker said on Thursday that he and his wife expressed their condolences to the Bailey family. During his run governor, Bailey railed about crime in Chicago and proposed eliminating the state’s gun licensing system, saying it doesn’t stop people from using guns illegally.