Satellite images of the White House in October 2024 in comparison to Thursday morning show the entire East Wing has been demolished.

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Writers Guild plans to oppose Paramount-Warner Bros merger, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/47ArjKh

US inflation is back above 3%, the highest it's been since January https://cnn.it/47oTU3Z

The White House has released a list of donors who contributed to President Trump’s new ballroom, amid a backlash over the demolition of the decades-old East Wing to make way for the project. https://wapo.st/4nhvJKD

Breaking News: President Trump said that he was terminating all trade negotiations with Canada, throwing the countries’ close partnership into turmoil.

BREAKING: Hegseth says U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup in the region.

When thieves climbed to a second-floor window of the Louvre, grabbed jewels of staggering worth and descended to their getaway scooters, many in France were stunned and furious. But the German company that made the elevator saw a once-in-a-lifetime marketing opportunity. Read more: nyti.ms/477z9Lm

A surveillance camera captured the moment a Russian strike hit a Kyiv resident’s apartment on Oct. 22. The strike killed two and injured 29 in the city, and several fires broke out.

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The estimated price tag for the president’s planned renovations now stands at about $300 million — much higher than the initial $200 million that the White House put forward. https://to.pbs.org/47kwkFt

⚡️ Russia sentences 21-year-old admin of 'Melitopol is Ukraine' Telegram channel to 14 years in prison.

Yana Suvorova was held in detention center №2 in Russia's Taganrog, which is known for the use of torture against prisoners.

The bulldozers that razed the White House’s East Wing to make room for Donald Trump’s new ballroom have also demolished a garden named for Jackie Kennedy.

The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s environmental jewels. https://to.pbs.org/3L2XI3q

Breaking News: The U.S. military accepted a private donation of $130 million to help pay troops during the shutdown. The move is highly unusual and a potential violation of federal law.

The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigation Unit's newest documentary exposes Russia’s vast system that indoctrinates Ukrainian children, using education and leisure programs in occupied territories to build Russia’s future army.

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Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.

Former special counsel Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Department allow him to testify publicly, according to a new letter he sent to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

⚡️ 'Russians hunting Ukrainian farmers' in intercepted drone footage, Azov claims.

The video clearly shows at least four men in a field abandoning agricultural equipment and running from the drone.

The DOD accepted an anonymous $130 million gift from a wealthy donor to help pay military salaries during the government shutdown.

The department would not release any additional details about the unusual move.

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W

BREAKING: Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada because of TV ads protesting tariffs.

One police department in Maine ended an agreement after 900 people signed a petition opposing it.

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
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