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90-year-old English legend Dame Judi Dench shared that her eyesight is almost completely gone due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). (Karwai Tang / Getty Images)

Judi Dench on her AMD vision loss

CK Smith
Reports are now out that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered multiple missile strikes to make sure there were no survivors on the supposed "drug boats" from South America. (Felix Leon / AFP via Getty Images)

Hegseth ordered 2nd strike on survivors

CK Smith
A deadly fire in a recently renovated apartment complex in Hong Kong devastates the community and provokes international donations, especially from the K-pop community. (Wang Shen / Xinhua via Getty Images)

Grief, solidarity, help in Hong Kong

CK Smith
Donald Trump used social media again to dictate policy. This time to end migration from "Third-World Countries" and call out Minnesota's Somalian community. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: "Patriotic" immigrants only

CK Smith
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Native Americans still have trouble proving to officials that they are not foreigners in America. Many officials just aren't trained to recognize federally granted Tribal IDs. (BRYAN R. SMITH / AFP via Getty Images)

Native American ID deemed "fake" by ICE

CK Smith
It's no secret that President Trump loves his golden gifts. After the Swiss brought "diplomatic gifts" of gold supposed to be for the Trump Presidential Library, but Swiss politicians see it as a possible bribe due to the timing. Just days later, Trump cut tariffs to Switzerland. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

Swiss calls gold bars to Trump a bribe

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Macy's 99th Thanksgiving Day Parade was calm, uneventful and windy. But that made it perfect and comfortable in a crazy world right now. (Kevin Mazur / Getty Images)

Macy's parade plays it safe and chilly

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Two National Guardsmen were shot by an Afghan evacuee. The soldiers are still in critical condition, but the security in D.C. and for other potential evacuees from areas of conflict are now being reassessed. The motive for this attack remains unclear. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

National Guards shot near White House

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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Saint Petersburg on April 11, 2025. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov / POOL / AFP)

Lawmakers call Trump's envoy a "traitor"

Garrett Owen
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on September 24, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. The former president spoke to attendees on various plans including the tax code, U.S. manufacturing, and future economic opportunities if reelected a second term. Trump continues campaigning around the country ahead of the November 5 presidential election. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Election case against Trump dismissed

Troy Farah
Former Speaker of the House U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as he greets U.S. veterans in the Capitol Rotunda on October 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

McCarthy: MTG was just the beginning

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump pardons National Thanksgiving Turkey Gobble during the 78th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation in the Rose Garden of the White House on November 25, 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Trump repardons Biden turkeys

Alex Galbraith
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U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to press before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kelly brushes off court-martial threats

Alex Galbraith
Lindsey Halligan, attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Comey case thrown out

Garrett Owen
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) speaks to the press on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2025. ( Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP fears "rough" 2026 midterms

Garrett Owen
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Republicans mourn passing of DOGE

Garrett Owen
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates as he takes the stage at his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount on November 4, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Mamdani defeated Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the closely watched election for New York City mayor. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Mamdani: White House visit was no stunt

Alex Galbraith
Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin (D - MI) delivers a speech on a "new vision" for America's national security at the Council of Foreign Relations on September 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Slotkin: Trump threats are a distraction

Alex Galbraith
New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (L) and President Donald Trump met in the Oval Office to find common ground after a contentious political race, including Trump saying it's fine for Mamdani to call him a "fascist." (Demetrius Freeman / Getty Images)

Trump: Mamdani can call him a "fascist"

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Somali-Americans and refugees in Minnesota are concerned about possible ramifications of Trump's latest social media proclamation. State officials like US Rep. Ilhan Omar (L) and State Sen. Omar Fateh are both of Somali heritage and pledged to support the large Somali population in their districts. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)

Trump: End Somalian refugee status in MN

CK Smith
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Elon Musk envisioned a future with optional work and irrelevant money thanks to the domination of artificial intelligence. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

The creepy logic of a post-money society

CK Smith
Marjorie Taylor Greene chose her beliefs over party politics in a bold move against President Trump, resigning and calling out the GOP for not sticking to its own values of "America First" politics. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

MTG quits Trump, MAGA and Congress

CK Smith
ALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 21: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter sits docked at Coast Guard Island Alameda on November 21, 2025 in Alameda, California. In response to mounting public and congressional backlash, the U.S. Coast Guard reversed a proposed policy that would have called swastikas and nooses “potentially divisive,” reinstating a strict prohibition on those symbols as “divisive or hate symbols” under its updated guidance. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Coast Guard: Swastikas are bad, actually

Garrett Owen
ANKARA, TURKIYE - NOVEMBER 7: In this photo illustration, Elon Musk's photo is displayed in front of Grok logo on a phone screen, in Ankara, Turkiye on November 7, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Selim Korkutata/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Grok gets "absurdly positive" over Musk

Garrett Owen
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