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Turns Out NYC's Congestion Pricing Is Working Quite Well

Once-controversial toll has cut down on traffic, sped up buses, raised transit funds in its first year

(Newser) - New Yorkers grumbled when the fees arrived, but the numbers suggest they may be grumbling in faster traffic. A year into Manhattan's congestion pricing program—tolls of up to $9 for most vehicles driving on surface streets below 60th Street during peak travel windows—the New York Times reports...

Another Performance Bites the Dust at the Kennedy Center

Banjo king Bela Fleck cites divisiveness after 'highly politicized' institution adds Trump name

(Newser) - Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck won't be taking the stage at the Kennedy Center next month, saying the venue has become too politically fraught for comfort. The 18-time Grammy winner was slated to perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the National Symphony Orchestra in February, but the...

DeSantis Mulls State Charges Against Maduro

Fla. governor backs seeking separate state case over Venezuela leader's alleged drug crimes

(Newser) - Florida could try to pile on Nicolas Maduro's legal troubles. Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that the attorney general's office in Florida is "looking very seriously" at bringing state charges against the Venezuelan leader, days after Maduro was brought to the US and pleaded not guilty...

Machado Courts Trump— by Offering Him Her Nobel

Venezuelan opposition leader says her movement ought to be in power

(Newser) - Venezuela's most prominent opposition figure used a friendly US TV forum to court the one man now standing between her movement and power: President Trump. In a 10-minute interview on Fox News , María Corina Machado repeatedly praised the president, appealed for his backing, and even offered to hand...

Jack Smith: Jan. 6 'Does Not Happen' Without Trump

House Judiciary Committee releases transcript of ex-special counsel's recent testimony

(Newser) - The Jan. 6. riot at the US Capitol "does not happen" without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020...

Trump Uses Veto Power for First Time This Term

Rep. Lauren Boebert isn't happy about his veto on the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act in her state

(Newser) - President Trump has dusted off his veto pen, blocking two widely backed bills on water and tribal lands and triggering bipartisan pushback from Florida to Colorado. The White House said on Monday that Trump rejected the Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act and the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, his...

We'll Have to Wait a Bit Longer for Trump's $499 Gold Phone

Government shutdown blamed for disrupting shipments of 'proudly American' T1 handset

(Newser) - The latest Trump-branded product is running late. Trump Mobile, a phone venture tied to the Trump Organization and run by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, has delayed delivery of its $499 gold-colored "T1" smartphone, which had been touted for arrival by the end of 2025, reports the Guardian...

Sources: CIA Carried Out Drone Strike Inside Venezuela

Covert attack on alleged drug hub heightens tensions with Maduro

(Newser) - For the first time, the CIA has reportedly taken its drone war inside Venezuela's borders. CNN , citing multiple sources, reports that the agency earlier this month bombed a remote dock on Venezuela's coast that US officials believed a major gang, Tren de Aragua, was using to stash drugs...

Sources Detail Why Trump Banned Epstein From Spa

Trump allegedly acted after 18-year-old Mar-a-Lago spa worker reported sexual pressure

(Newser) - Donald Trump's break with Jeffrey Epstein can be traced back to allegations from an 18-year-old spa worker, former employees say. According to ex-staffers from both Mar-a-Lago and Epstein's Palm Beach estate who spoke to the Wall Street Journal , Trump's club spent years sending mostly young female spa...

Silver Hits $77 as Gold, Platinum Reach Record Highs

(Newser) - Silver just blew past a milestone that may have sounded far-fetched only a year ago. Spot silver surged 7% Friday, to about $77.12 an ounce, its highest level ever and up roughly 167% so far this year, reports CNBC . Analysts link the spike to tight supplies, strong investment, and...

Pope Leo Says Shunning Poor Is Turning Away From God

New pontiff links Christmas message to economic injustice

(Newser) - Pope Leo used his first Christmas Eve sermon to deliver a blunt message: shutting the door on the poor is, in his view, shutting the door on God. Preaching at a packed Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the first US-born pope said the story of Jesus' birth in a...

Father-Son Ellison Duo Are Aiming to Reshape the Media

Oracle founder Larry Ellison backs son David Ellison's bold moves

(Newser) - Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, 42, is leading a $108 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, but it's his 81-year-old father—Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, one of the world's richest men—who's anchoring the effort. On Monday, David Ellison told Warner Bros. that his father personally...

Ohio Dem Sues to Undo Trump Renaming of Kennedy Center

Rep. Joyce Beatty's suit argues that board's Trump rebrand violates Congress' authority

(Newser) - A Democratic lawmaker is asking a federal court to strip Donald Trump's name from one of Washington's most prominent cultural landmarks. Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio filed suit on Monday against Trump and members of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board, arguing that last...

Report: Trump Used Primary Mortgages for Rentals

Records show Trump claimed 2 Palm Beach rentals as primary residences, per ProPublica

(Newser) - The Trump administration has aggressively gone after political rivals over alleged mortgage games. Newly unearthed paperwork, however, suggests he once played a similar game himself. ProPublica reports that Trump signed two mortgages in Palm Beach in late 1993 and early 1994, each time listing the property as his main home....

DOJ Releases Files, Partly Complying With Epstein Law

Criticism follows incomplete trove, redactions

(Newser) - The Justice Department on Friday started putting out a massive batch of records tied to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, meeting part—but not all—of a disclosure mandate Congress imposed and President Trump signed into law last month. Officials said the release would ultimately total several hundred thousand pages, with...

Jack Smith Asks to Testify in Public on Trump Cases

Former special counsel seeks to defend prosecution against Republican accusations

(Newser) - Jack Smith is asking to take his defense of his investigations of Donald Trump out of closed rooms and into public view. In a letter sent Thursday to GOP House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, attorneys for the former special counsel said Smith wants to testify in an "open and...

It's a 'Total Transformation' for Trump Media

President's struggling company to merge with a nuclear fusion firm

(Newser) - After dabbling in social media, streaming, and cryptocurrency, the struggling Trump Media and Technology Group is planning "a total transformation," per the New York Times . The parent company of Truth Social plans to merge with TAE Technologies, a California-based nuclear fusion company, in an all-stock transaction the companies...

Third Term for Trump? Dershowitz Lays Out How

Draft of attorney's book outlines scenarios he thinks Trump may be able to pursue if he wanted to

(Newser) - President Trump has been kicking around a familiar hypothetical in private: Could he somehow serve yet another term as president? Per the Wall Street Journal , Trump met this week in the Oval Office with lawyer and longtime ally Alan Dershowitz, who handed him a draft of a forthcoming book titled...

Trump World Circles Wagons Around Embattled Susie Wiles

Allies rally after WH chief of staff's candid remarks to Vanity Fair on president, aides, Epstein files

(Newser) - Susie Wiles is suddenly the most publicly defended person in President Trump's orbit. After Vanity Fair ran a two-part profile by Chris Whipple based on 11 interviews with Wiles, the White House chief of staff and longtime adviser came under scrutiny for remarks in which she questioned some of...

Mick Foley Splits With WWE Over Trump

WWE Hall of Famer protests company's ongoing alliance with president

(Newser) - Mick Foley is hanging up his WWE boots—at least when it comes to appearances—for as long as President Trump is in the White House, NBC News reports. The wrestling Hall of Famer said on Instagram that he told World Wrestling Entertainment he won't work with the company...

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