2+ min ago (696+ words) Julie Inman Grant says Australia's Online Safety Act "does not impinge upon Americans' freedom of speech' Australia's online safety regulator has rejected assertions from a key US Republican congressman that she is a "zealot for global takedowns, as the eSafety commissioner faced questions from the Australian parliament on a Guardian investigation into Roblox. Julie Inman Grant was asked by US Republican chair of the House judiciary committee, Jim Jordan, to speak before the committee last month. The committee produced a report in June arguing the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (Garm), which was shut down in August 2024, had colluded with advertisers and foreign regulators. The committee alleged the group colluded to make demands on then-Twitter about what content it should moderate on its platform. The committee had turned its attention to Inman Grant, after emails from her to the organisation…...

15+ min ago (114+ words) A Democratic lawmaker gave President Donald Trump a verbal tongue-lashing Tuesday over his xenophobic rant against Somali immigrants living in Minnesota. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that the president's rant during the Cabinet meeting and press conference on Tuesday against the Somali immigrant community, including Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), was absurd. Kaine said immigrants have only helped the United States, and blasted Trump's claims as unfounded. "Jake, you know Virginia pretty well. We were one out of 100 foreign-born when I was born in 1958," Kaine said. ALSO READ: GOP judge eyeing challenge to scandal-hit Texas Dem set" to dodge legal pitfall: experts...

53+ min ago (284+ words) A former White House official from President Donald Trump's first term blasted the president's trade agenda on Tuesday during an interview on CNN. Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, discussed Trump's trade agenda on Tuesday's broadcast of "The Arena" with host Kasie Hunt. He commended Trump for bringing energy prices down, but argued that doing so revealed that the president's agenda has been a complete "failure." "The fact that he has lowered energy prices is significant, as he has by 25%, in some way, just exacerbates how bad the trade agenda is, because if you actually lower energy prices by that much, and you still have inflation at 3%, it shows this trade agenda is a failure, and it's not working," Short said. A signature element of Trump's trade agenda is increasing tariffs on foreign goods. Trump…...

59+ min ago (413+ words) This season's most unexpected makeup trend happens to be super wearable The winter makeup forecast is officially cool-toned with an overcast of beige blush. Yes, you read that right " beige. Together, these pros are calling it: winter's statement shade is the one hiding in plain sight. "The whole reason a beige blush exists is because it's in between a blush and a bronzer," said creator @sahar.rohani " who's also the co-founder of Soshe Beauty " in a now-viral video. "It's this rosy beige that brings some dimension and warmth back into your face when you've removed it after putting on a wash of concealer, foundation, or skin tint." Even better? Beige blushes are the gateway shade to cool-toned glam, which has been back in the spotlight recently. After a long run of warmed-up bronzers and peachy everything in the 2010s, the pendulum…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago (527+ words) Donation of $6.25bn for children's investment accounts prompts wave of questions " but details remain scarce A tech billionaire and his wife said on Tuesday they would pour $6.25bn into individual investment accounts for 25 million children under 10, prompting a wave of new questions about how these so-called "Trump accounts" will work. The creation of these accounts was included as part of Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill, which he signed into law in July. Every child born between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2028, can receive a Trump account that includes a $1,000 initial deposit from the administration. The money will then be invested. "Trump accounts will be the first " I guess you could say " first real trust funds for every American child, allowing family members, employers, corporations, generous donors to contribute money that will be invested and grow," Trump said in a press conference at…...

1+ hour, 15+ min ago (571+ words) But the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) was among those wondering whether the Dells' investment of $6.25 billion'a fraction of their $148 billion fortune'would ultimately benefit wealthy investors far more. The Dells, who are behind Dell Technologies, announced the investment plan months after President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill into law. The tax and spending law includes a provision that would start an investment account for every US citizen child born between January 2025 and December 2028, with a $1,000 investment from the US government. As Jezebel reported, the couple's contribution would go to an additional 25 million children, up to age 10, who were born prior to the 2025 cut-off date for the initial Trump Accounts. "Around 80% of children born between 2016-2024 would theoretically qualify, although there are cutoffs based on household income: Applying families would have to live in ZIP codes where the median…...

2+ hour, 1+ min ago (264+ words) U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made an eyebrow-raising comment about President Donald Trump during a recent meeting of the Trump administration's Cabinet. While in the middle of her remarks at the meeting, Noem observed that no hurricanes had made landfall in the U.S. during the 2025 hurricane season, which typically lasts from June through November. Her comment was met with laughter from the assembled Cabinet members. "Sir, you made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane " you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that," Noem said. The Homeland Security secretary's praise of Trump was immediately met with ridicule from various elected officials, journalists and commentators. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), took a sarcastic tone while also…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago (283+ words) U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) departs the House floor, following the vote of the U.S. House of Representatives, which passed the bill seeking to release files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) grip on power appears to be slipping, as a growing number of the House Republican Conference publicly denounces his leadership. That's according to a Tuesday article by Politico's Meredith Lee Hill and Hailey Fuchs, who reported that Johnson's tenure as speaker appears to be teetering "on a razor's edge" as numerous Republicans take stances against him. "Increasingly, rank-and-file House Republicans are bringing their spats with Johnson into the open, suggesting the speaker is losing further control over his restive members as his already slim majority threatens to narrow further and potentially devastating…...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago (161+ words) President Donald Trump wants to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's final report classified, according to a new court filing Tuesday. In the filing from his personal lawyer, the president told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon " a judge he appointed and his first direct request of her " to continue an extension on an 11-month order to block the Justice Department from sharing the report, Politico reported. Smith submitted it just before Trump's second inauguration and reportedly tells the story of the criminal case against the president after he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home, including in a bathroom. "The filing is infused with the typical disdain Trump has expressed for his former prosecutors, labeling Smith a 'so-called special counsel' and saying the case was 'marred by numerous deficiencies and repeated abuses of office,'" the outlet reported. ALSO READ: GOP judge…...

2+ hour, 37+ min ago (1716+ words) A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues. British history. Its political system has utterly failed to confront a genocide. Rather, that system has allowed the British establishment to be complicit in one of the worst horrors of our time " Israel's two-year offensive against Palestinians, complete with ethnic cleansing, systematic attacks on schools and hospitals, and crimes against humanity. Now, under a current supposed ceasefire, Israel is still killing Palestinians and their plight in Gaza remains dire, as the world sees the extent of the mass destruction visited on them. Throughout the attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, British leaders have actively cooperated with Israel in their military, trade and diplomatic policies. Still now, significant sanctions on Israel are completely off the government's agenda " a striking contrast to Russia " because the establishment chooses to back Israel even in its…...