18+ min ago (632+ words) The man Donald Trump appointed to help guide the future of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency in the United States is turning his power into profit'and podcast promotion. David Sacks, a Silicon Valley staple known for his early involvement in PayPal, has steered policy from Washington as one of Trump's top technology officials'even as he continues to work as an active investor in the tech world, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The Times reported that Sacks has said that it's "a great honor to have a foot in each one of these worlds." The 53-year-old, whose net worth is estimated at between $2 and $3.1 billion, has also set his sights on amplifying his own podcast while in office. Titled All-In, the show features Sacks and three of his Silicon Valley venture capitalist comrades'Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and David Friedberg'and dives…...

21+ min ago (432+ words) Ukrainian officials were in Florida on Sunday for meetings with senior members of the Trump administration, which has been pressing Kyiv to agree to a proposal to end the war with Russia. Missing from the Ukrainian group was Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky's right-hand man and chief of staff who resigned on Friday amid a corruption investigation. Mr. Yermak had served as lead negotiator in recent talks with American officials. Ukrainian officials have insisted that the dynamics of the discussions due to take place on Sunday would not fundamentally change, even though Mr. Yermak had played a central role. The American negotiators planning to attend the talks include Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Trump; and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a businessman who does some international diplomacy for Mr. Trump. In Mr....

31+ min ago (409+ words) Once-again embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a meme to seemingly defend himself from war crimes allegations over his orders to strike two survivors of a missile attack. The Washington Post reported last week that Hegseth verbally ordered a follow-on attack Sept. 2 of two survivors clinging to wreckage of a bombed boat that administration officials say was smuggling drugs from Venezuela to the U.S., and that led a military commander to carry out the second strike. Hegseth did not directly contradict the newspaper's reporting, which was based on claims by a number of sources familiar with the matter and came a week after Democratic lawmakers recorded a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders, but called the allegations "fabricated and inflammatory." President Donald Trump seemingly distanced himself from Hegseth in comments Sunday evening aboard Air Force One,…...

55+ min ago (844+ words) President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September. Trump said Hegseth told him "he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent." During an attack on a boat on Sept. 2 " the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere " a live drone feed showed two survivors from an original crew of 11 clinging to the wreckage of their boat after an initial missile attack, The Post reported Friday afternoon. In order to comply with a spoken order from Hegseth to kill everyone, the Special Operations commander overseeing the mission ordered a second strike that killed the two survivors, according to two people…...

55+ min ago (844+ words) President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September. Trump said Hegseth told him "he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent." During an attack on a boat on Sept. 2 " the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere " a live drone feed showed two survivors from an original crew of 11 clinging to the wreckage of their boat after an initial missile attack, The Post reported Friday afternoon. In order to comply with a spoken order from Hegseth to kill everyone, the Special Operations commander overseeing the mission ordered a second strike that killed the two survivors, according to two people…...

57+ min ago (408+ words) A Hamas commander and three other terrorists equipped with a slain Israeli soldier's rifle were killed trying to escape a Gaza tunnel housing dozens of trapped operatives, the IDF said Sunday. The terrorists were spotted emerging from a tunnel under Israeli control in eastern Rafah early Sunday and taken out by nearby Israel Defense Force soldiers and the Israeli Air Force. Israeli Col. Arik Moyal appeared on social media to announce the attack, which killed the commander of Hamas' East Rafah Battalion, his deputy, a company commander and the son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. Moyal is seen in the footage holding a Tavor assault rifle recovered from the slain terrorists, which he said belonged to Staff Sgt. Or Mizrahi, an IDF soldier killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the Times of Israel reported. "This is what happens to those…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago (552+ words) Just days before a tense presidential election in Honduras, President Donald Trump threw himself into the center of the race. "It's an abomination," said a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked on the Hern'ndez case and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about a sensitive case. "Ludicrous to even consider, much less actually go through with." Gustavo Ir'as, the executive director of the Center for Democracy Studies in Honduras, said Trump's action "distorts the fragile Honduran democracy and escalates to a new level the political polarization of the country and the risk of an institutional crisis." Hondurans began voting Sunday morning and are choosing between three candidates in what polls suggest is a close race: Asfura, the former mayor of Honduran capital Tegucigalpa; Rixi Moncada, a former defense minister aligned with the current leftist government; and…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (517+ words) President Donald Trump has doubled down on his push to revoke some Americans" citizenship. In the wake of Wednesday"s shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. by an Afghan national, Trump declared that he would "denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility" in a Truth Social post. On Sunday, a reporter questioned Trump aboard Air Force One about his vow to "denaturalize" American citizens. "You mean people that are in here that shouldn"t be here?" replied Trump, who was flying back to D.C. after spending Thanksgiving weekend at his resort in Palm Beach. "Well, that became Americans," the reporter said. "Are you trying to revoke their citizenship?" "We"ll see, I mean, yeah, we have criminals that came into our country and they were naturalized maybe through Biden or somebody that didn"t know what they were doing," the 79-year-old…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (517+ words) President Donald Trump has doubled down on his push to revoke some Americans" citizenship. In the wake of Wednesday"s shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. by an Afghan national, Trump declared that he would "denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility" in a Truth Social post. On Sunday, a reporter questioned Trump aboard Air Force One about his vow to "denaturalize" American citizens. "You mean people that are in here that shouldn"t be here?" replied Trump, who was flying back to D.C. after spending Thanksgiving weekend at his resort in Palm Beach. "Well, that became Americans," the reporter said. "Are you trying to revoke their citizenship?" "We"ll see, I mean, yeah, we have criminals that came into our country and they were naturalized maybe through Biden or somebody that didn"t know what they were doing," the 79-year-old…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago (355+ words) A bar in Idaho is getting pummeled with one-star reviews online after offering customers "free beer for one month" if they provide proof of having assisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deporting an undocumented migrant. "ALERT: Anyone who helps ICE identify and ultimately deport an illegal from Idaho gets FREE BEER FOR ONE MONTH at Old State Saloon!" reads an online post Saturday from Old State Saloon, a bar and grill in Eagle, Idaho. The bar's Google page was immediately flooded with negative reviews, many of which staff at Old State Saloon responded to, calling reviewers "angry progressive liberals" and "liars." "And the 1 star reviews roll in from the loser LEFT," reads another post from the Old State Saloon X account. One such one-star review reads: "Don't bother. Place is trashy and overly political." Old State Saloon staff, in turn,…...