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Apr 25, 2025 - World

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has told senior Pentagon officials to launch a comprehensive review of the equal opportunity programs within the armed forces.

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term, made a bold prediction for Politico about the future of the current White House press secretary.“After she’s spokesman for a year or two, I think she’s going to get a Cabinet position. Maybe chief of staff,” Bannon told correspondent Adam Wren for his extensive profile on Leavitt.Wren added that Leavitt was "open to the idea but has said she’s not qualified to be chief," according to a source "familiar with her thinking."At 27, Leavitt is the youngest press secretary to ever hold court in the White House briefing room. Before that, "she was a 23-year-old MAGA diehard staging a longshot congressional campaign" for New Hampshire's first congressional district in 2022.Leavitt lost by eight percentage points, according to Wren, and reflected on the race by saying, “This was the best experience I could ever have had, 25 years old, like I can’t wait for what’s next.”ALSO READ: 'We know where this leads': How Trump’s crackdown puts Jewish people in perilIt's Leavitt's "self-conceived grit that led her from the White House mailroom to this office in Upper Press," and could take her further, Wren postulated.The youngest ever chief of staff, known as "White House Appointments Secretary" in 1965, was 28-year-old James Jones under President Lyndon Johnson. Once the title was officially changed to "Chief of Staff," 34-year-old Dick Cheney served in the position for President Gerald Ford.For now, President Donald Trump views Leavitt as a loyal ally, and her future remains bright. Wren wrote, "Today, whenever her campaign comes up in conversation, Trump always says the same thing to Leavitt about her loss that November, according to two people who have heard or been briefed on the remarks: 'They cheated you out of it,' the president tells her. 'I’m so glad they cheated you out of the election, because now you’re with me.'"Read the Politico article here.

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald Trump administration to immediately release the Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.In a New York Times essay published on Friday morning, the US senator Ed Markey and representatives Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley, who all represent Massachusetts, where Tufts is based, shared more details from their visit to Öztürk this week at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in Louisiana, where she has been held since her arrest last month. Continue reading...

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Russian official calls talks with Steve Witkoff ‘quite useful’ as investigation launched into suspected Ukrainian bombingDonald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff has met Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin for high-stakes peace talks, hours after a senior Russian military official was killed in a car explosion near Moscow.Trump has played up Witkoff’s visit – his fourth to Russia in recent months – claiming a deal on ending the war in Ukraine was within reach. “The next few days are going to be very important. Meetings are taking place right now,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “I think we’re going to make a deal … I think we’re getting very close.” Continue reading...

Apr 25, 2025 - World

Crews still working to contain one the state’s largest ever wildfires, amid warm temperatures and dry conditionsWith crews still working to contain one of New Jersey’s largest wildfires on record, fire danger remains elevated across the state and into eastern Pennsylvania, the National Weather Service warned on Friday.“There is an increased risk for rapid fire spread this afternoon across portions of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania,” the NWS said. Continue reading...