Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2011 email Donald Trump had “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with a victim of sex trafficking and said in a separate message years later Trump “knew about the girls."

Trump has dismissed demands for the Epstein files as a Democratic "hoax."

The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.

Multiple videos of the event appeared online.

In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power.All this cash has helped alleviate one initial bottleneck: acquiring the millions of chips needed for the computing power race, and the tech giants are accelerating their in-house processor production as they seek to chase global leader Nvidia.

As heatwaves surge, the UNEP-led Cool Coaltion and #COP30 team up to help countries build resilience to extreme heat and advance cooling solutions that cut emissions and save lives. Let’s make cool moves to #BeatTheHeat: https://coolcoalition.org/pilot-projects/beat-the-heat-in-cities/

The New York mayor-elect appeared in many untrue rumors in November 2025, with no shortage of Facebook commenters believing the claims.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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Independents hold Trump and Republicans responsible for the shutdown by a 2-1 margin, according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos.

RALEIGH, North Carolina — The distribution of full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has been halted in North Carolina and nationwide after the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block a lower court order requiring full funding during the government shutdown. The federal program provides monthly food aid to low-income families, and in North Carolina supports about 1.4 million residents across 600,000 households — roughly 13% of the state’s population. The state Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) said full November benefits were scheduled for release over the weekend before the ruling suspended the effort.

Following his September 10, 2025 arrest in Florida for failing to appear in court, former Congressman Madison Cawthorn, once of North Carolina, seeks a comeback to replace Byron Donalds, marking at least six legal incidents since 2020. https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/madison-cawthorn-attempts-political

After storms swept through the US last summer, a rumor spread that Trump approved FEMA disaster aid for red states while denying the same kind of aid to blue states. We broke down the data: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fema-disaster-aid-october-2025/