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Witkoff takes fire over call with top Putin aide: 5 takeaways

President Trump is standing behind his most trusted negotiator, Steve Witkoff, following the leak of a phone call with a senior Russian official, which Ukraine’s backers have criticized for what they see as the special envoy’s attempts to sabotage American support for Kyiv and broker a deal favorable to Moscow. It’s the latest twist over a chaotic week in which the Trump administration’s behind-the-scenes dealmaking between Russia and Ukraine has spurred both optimism and questions about progress toward peace. This includes the leak last week of a 28-point plan for ending Russia’s war that was heavily criticized as hewing to Moscow’s maximalist.

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Johnson: Carlson interview with Fuentes was a ‘big mistake’

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his podcast last month was a “big mistake.” “He has a lot of listeners, and I think giving Nick Fuentes that platform is a big mistake,” the Louisiana Republican told The Hill in an interview published Tuesday. Johnson said that he had not listened to Fuentes before but that he “sort of knew” who the far-right provocateur is. After listening to a compilation of some of the “worst things” Fuentes has said, Johnson called it “vile, terrible stuff.” “I mean, it’s not just antisemitic, it’s.

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Deranged husband kills baby, wife’s 7-year-old and the boy’s father — before turning gun on himself

An Ohio man allegedly ambushed his wife as she tried to move out, fatally shooting her two children and the father of the eldest before turning the gun on himself in a grisly apparent murder-suicide, cops said. Ryan Eagon, 42, went on the deadly rampage Wednesday night, killing the 7-month-old baby he shared with his wife, her 7-year-old son, and the child’s father after discovering his spouse was moving out of their Seneca County home amid ongoing domestic troubles, according to the Tiffin Police Department. “As a community, we are not accustomed to events of this horrific and heartbreaking nature.

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Judge dismisses Trump suit against NY law blocking courthouse immigration arrests by Zach Schonfeld – 11/18/25 8:59 AM ET

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the Trump administration’s challenge to a New York law that blocks immigration arrests for people traveling to and from state courthouses. U. S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino rejected the administration’s claims that New York’s restrictions create unconstitutional obstacles to immigration enforcement and are preempted by federal law. “To hold to the contrary would improperly elevate the concerns of the federal sovereign over that of a State and deprive New York of its essential ability to protect its sovereign interests in the face of undue federal interference,” D’Agostino wrote in her 41-page opinion. New York passed.

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UFO tracker maps eerie clusters of unidentified objects lurking beneath US shorelines: ‘We’re being lied to’

A popular UFO-reporting app has been making waves after reportedly recording tens of thousands of mysterious underwater objects up and down the United States’ coastlines, raising eyebrows and leaving experts with more questions than answers regarding their origin. Enigma, a non-partisan organization that boasts its “largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings,” has recorded roughly 30, 000 UFO sightings since its launch in 2022, according to the company’s website. However, users have turned their attention away from the skies in the hunt for proof that life may exist elsewhere.

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