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President Donald Trump shakes hands with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump talks after meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump waits to welcome Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani seeks after his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump talks after meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump and New York City\u2019s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met Friday at the White House and focused more on their shared goals rather than their combustible differences.<\/p>\n
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The president has previously said Mamdani is a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d and a \u201ctotal nut job.\u201d Mamdani has called Trump\u2019s administration \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and described himself as \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n
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At their first-ever meeting they discussed housing affordability and the cost of groceries and utilities, as Mamdani successfully used frustration over inflation to get elected, just as the president did in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually,\u201d said Trump. Asked if he\u2019d be comfortable living in the city under the incoming mayor, the president said: \u201cI really would, especially after the meeting.”<\/p>\n
Greene says legislature \u2018mostly sidelined\u2019 since Republicans took control of Washington<\/p>\n
Since January, she said, her bills \u201cjust sit collecting dust.\u201d She complained that Speaker Mike Johnson kept the House out of session during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s how it is for most members of Congress\u2019 bills,\u201d Greene said. \u201cThe speaker never brings them to the floor for a vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
A special election will fill Greene\u2019s seat<\/p>\n
The opening means Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will have to set a special election date within 10 days of Greene\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n
It would include party primaries and a general election to fill out the remainder of her term through January 2027.<\/p>\n
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Those votes could take place before the party primaries in May for the next two-year term.<\/p>\n
Greene was closely tied to Trump since launching her political career in 2020<\/p>\n
As she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared with white supremacists, the Republican congresswoman was opposed by party leaders but welcomed by the president. He called her \u201ca real WINNER!\u201d<\/p>\n
Greene, in her video, underscored her longtime loyalty to Trump except on a few issues and said it was \u201cunfair and wrong\u201d that he attacked her for disagreeing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLoyalty should be a two-way street, and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district\u2019s interest, because our job title is literally \u2018representative,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Greene swept to office at the forefront of the MAGA movement and swiftly became a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her often beyond mainstream views.<\/p>\n
Yet over time she proved a deft legislator, having aligned herself with then-GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who would go on to become House speaker. She was a trusted voice on the right flank until he was ousted in 2023.<\/p>\n
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning from Congress<\/p>\n
Greene, who fell out with Trump in a public feud, said Friday that she is resigning in January.<\/p>\n
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The Republican congresswoman has criticized the president\u2019s foreign policy focus and his reluctance to release more documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
Trump responded by supporting a primary challenge against her and called her \u201cWacky\u201d Marjorie.<\/p>\n
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US Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased<\/p>\n
The high court temporarily blocked the lower-court court ruling, which held that the state\u2019s 2026 congressional redistricting plan likely discriminates on the basis of race.<\/p>\n
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The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map favorable to Republicans to be used in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n
The court\u2019s conservative majority has blocked similar lower court rulings because they have come too close to elections.<\/p>\n
Alito handles emergency appeals from Texas.<\/p>\n
Coast Guard reverses course on policy to call swastikas and nooses \u2018potentially divisive\u2019<\/p>\n
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as \u201cpotentially divisive\u201d \u2014 a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDivisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,\u201d the latest Coast Guard policy,<\/a> released late Thursday, declared before adding that this category included \u201ca noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co-opted or adopted by hate-based groups.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not an updated policy but a new policy to combat any misinformation and double down that the U.S. Coast Guard forbids these symbols,\u201d an accompanying Coast Guard statement said.<\/p>\n The late-night change came the same day that media outlets, led by The Washington Post, discovered that the Coast Guard had written a policy earlier this month that called those same symbols \u201cpotentially divisive.\u201d<\/p>\n Brazil hails Trump\u2019s tariff rollback on some farm products as \u2018significant progress\u2019 and seeks more exemptions<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to exclude more products and move forward in the negotiation,\u201d Vice President Geraldo Alckmin told journalists in Brasilia. Alckmin, who also serves as Trade minister, led the negotiations with the U.S. along with Brazilian diplomats and business leaders.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Cecaf\u00e9, Brazil\u2019s coffee exporters council, also celebrated Trump\u2019s order and called the tariff hike \u201ca complete loss of competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe tariff reversal comes after months of intense work representing the interests of Brazilian coffee. It is a historic victory for the entire coffee agribusiness production chain,\u201d the council said in a statement.<\/p>\n Brazil has long been a key supplier of beef and coffee to the United States. On Thursday, Trump lifted tariffs on Brazilian goods as part of an effort to lower consumer costs. The decision affected coffee, fruit and beef, among other products.<\/p>\n Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he directed CDC\u2019s new guidance on vaccines and autism<\/p>\n The health secretary, a longtime vaccine critic, told The New York Times that he personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don\u2019t cause autism.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n The CDC\u2019s \u201cvaccine safety\u201d page now claims that the statement \u201cvaccines do not cause autism\u201d is not based on evidence because it doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility that infant vaccines are linked to the disorder. The page also was updated to suggest that health officials have ignored studies showing a potential link.<\/p>\n Public health researchers and advocates strongly rebutted the updated website, saying it misleads the public by exploiting the fact that the scientific method cannot satisfy a demand to prove a negative. They noted that scientists have thoroughly explored potential links between vaccines and autism in rigorous research spanning decades, all pointing to the same conclusion that vaccines don\u2019t cause autism.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Read more about RFK Jr. and the website change<\/p>\n Texas seeks Supreme Court order to use a congressional map judges held is likely racially biased<\/p>\n The state is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to be allowed to use a congressional redistricting plan favorable to Republicans in the 2026 elections despite a lower-court ruling saying the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Texas called on the high court Friday to intervene to avoid confusion as congressional primary elections approach in March. The justices have blocked past lower-court rulings in congressional redistricting cases, most recently in Alabama and Louisiana, that came several months before elections.<\/p>\n Texas redrew its congressional map in the summer as part of President Trump\u2019s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House next year, touching off a nationwide redistricting battle.<\/p>\n Key senators say Trump\u2019s Ukraine plan rewards Putin and weakens America<\/p>\n \u201cThis deal will not create a just and lasting peace,\u201d Democratic Sens. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Mark Warner of Virginia, Patty Murray of Washington, Chris Coons of Delaware, Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said in a statement.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cIt will leave Ukraine vulnerable, Europe unstable, and America weaker.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawmakers added that Trump must work with Congress alongside partners in Ukraine and NATO allies \u201cto find a lasting solution that will make Americans and the world safer.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet us be clear: this is a war of Russian aggression, led by a dictator who has commanded his troops to commit war crimes, steal children from their families, and torture civilians,\u201d the senators said.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump is rewarding President Putin for these crimes while cutting out the Ukrainians who have fought and died for the cause of democracy and our European allies who have stepped up to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Takeaways from Trump and Mamdani visit: Both men get something they want, GOP loses a punching bag<\/p>\n The two had called each other \u201cfascist\u201d and \u201ccommunist,\u201d but when the president and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faced reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, they were just two iconoclastic New York politicians who were all smiles.<\/p>\n The much-anticipated face-to-face showed how the politicians\u2019 shared love of the city \u2014 and no doubt some political calculus \u2014 could paper over months of insults. Both men used a plainspoken, wry approach tailor-made for the age of social media to make their points, and each left the meeting with something he needed.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Read more about takeaways from the encounter<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Sen. Mitch McConnell suggests Trump should dump his Ukraine advisers<\/p>\n \u201cPutin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool,\u201d the former GOP leader said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cIf administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the president ought to find new advisors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cRewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n FAA warns all pilots of risks of flying over Venezuela due to \u2018worsening security situation\u2019<\/p>\n The agency said to \u201cexercise caution\u201d in the country\u2019s airspace \u201cdue to the worsening security situation and heightened military activity.\u201d<\/p>\n The message said unspecified threats \u201ccould pose a potential risk to aircraft at all altitudes\u201d as well as planes taking off and landing in the country and even aircraft on the ground.<\/p>\n The warning comes as Washington ramps up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The U.S. has conducted bomber flights up to the Venezuelan coast and sent an aircraft carrier to the region.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n A former inspector general for the Department of Transportation said the FAA puts out this kind of notice anytime there is a military conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t take it as necessarily there\u2019s any kind of attack is imminent, because I\u2019ve seen these issued many times before. But as a pilot myself, I\u2019d certainly heed it,\u201d Mary Schiavo said.<\/p>\n Schiavo said the U.S. may be anticipating Venezuelan military action or it could be planning additional action against drug boats, and it\u2019s hard to read into this notice and know what is behind it.<\/p>\n ConEd stock drops on heels of Trump and Mamdani meeting<\/p>\n The big loser in the meeting between Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani might be Consolidated Edison Inc., the New York City energy and utility company.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n ConEd stock fell from $102.28, when the two began taking reporters\u2019 questions, to close at $100.16. That was a 2% drop in roughly 15 minutes.<\/p>\n What spooked investors? Probably what Trump said.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember, we talked about Con Edison,\u201d the president said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten fuel prices way down, but it hasn\u2019t shown up in Con Edison. And we\u2019re going to have to talk to them.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said ConEd has to lower its rates.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n HHS to invest up to $100 million in mental health initiative<\/p>\n The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that it will spend those funds on data testing the effects of innovative mental and behavioral health interventions.<\/p>\n The new initiative, Evidence-Based Validation & Innovation for Rapid Therapeutics in Behavioral Health, or EVIDENT, aims to use data to better predict which treatments will work best for individuals, the agency said.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cWith robust data and novel therapies, we are paving the way for understanding the best uses of groundbreaking treatments and demystifying the field of mental health,\u201d said Alicia Jackson, director of ARPA-H.<\/p>\n North Carolina governor presses Noem on immigration crackdown<\/p>\n North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein wants more answers from the Department of Homeland Security about the crackdown based in Charlotte over the past week that the department said has resulted in hundreds of arrests.<\/p>\n Stein wrote Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday criticizing what he called the \u201clack of transparency from federal officials regarding the actions and plans\u201d of U.S. Customs and Border Protection since the effort began<\/a> roughly a week ago.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n