No deal in sight as shutdown nears - Roll Call Congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday without any agreement to head off a partial government shutdown. Roll Call · Sep 29, 2025
Washington might send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, Vance says Amid growing impatience over the Kremlin’s reluctance to participate in direct talks with Ukraine, Washington is now considering providing Kyiv with Tomahawk missiles, according to US Vice President JD Vance. Euronews · Sep 29, 2025
Investors are betting big on 'prediction markets' Kalshi and Polymarket—will the gamble pay off? The two startups generated huge buzz by accurately predicting the 2024 election results. Their young founders still face long odds. Fortune · Sep 29, 2025
Trump Calls Michigan Church Shooting, Blaze 'Horrendous' As Four Dead, Eight Injured, Vance Says It Is An 'Awful Situation' A gunman drove his truck into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during Sunday services, opening fire on worshippers before setting the building on fire, leaving four dead and eight others injured, officials said. Benzinga · Sep 29, 2025
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy urges west to cut off Russia’s energy revenues, saying decisive action ‘long overdue’ President’s plea comes after Russia bombards Kyiv and elsewhere in one of its most sustained attacks of the war. What we know on day 1,314 The Guardian - AU · Sep 29, 2025
This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue In Silicon Valley’s unofficial literary canon, few works loom as large as The Sovereign Individual. A kind of survival manual for 21st-century tech billionaires, it has been enthusiastically championed by Palantir and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel (mentor to JD Vance), who wrote the foreword to the 2020 edition. The Conversation · Sep 28, 2025
Trump to attend Hegseth’s ‘warrior ethos’ speech dragging generals in from around the globe: report Hegseth continues to focus on U.S. military’s aesthetics as image-obsessed Trump to join speech at Quantico The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2025
Larry Ellison once predicted 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid constant recording. Now his company will pay a key role in social media “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on,” Ellison said last year. Fortune · Sep 28, 2025
JD Vance says ‘certainly gonna be more indictments’ coming against Trump enemies over rest of president’s term Senate GOP leader dodges on Justice Department politicization while Trump and Vance vow openly to keep targeting enemies The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2025
Tom Cruise tipped to become latest A-lister to move into the Cotswolds Tom Cruise’s personal assistant has reportedly been sent to survey local properties in the area Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2025
Thomas Skinner speaks out against backlash to first Strictly 2025 performance Former ‘Apprentice’ star hit out at ‘hate frenzy’ he said the media had created against him, after emerging as the most controversial contestant on this year’s series The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2025
Trump and Putin are carrying out a pincer movement on Europe’s democracies. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2025
Kamala Harris’s new book details her steep challenges without acknowledging her failures In 107 Days, Harris leaves little room for nuance – nor is she afflicted with a surplus of self-awareness The Guardian - US · Sep 27, 2025
JD Vance admits groceries and housing are too expensive but bizarrely blames Biden ‘I would say they're too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we're making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2025
The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2025 Trump’s pick for State Dept. deletes violent tweets as GOP blames left for political violence after Charlie Kirk killing Some tweets labeled January 6 Capitol rioters as “political prisoners,” another suggested Joe Biden should be imprisoned, and one called for a political opponent to be executed.
Fortune · Sep 26, 2025 JD Vance values TikTok the same as Snapchat’s parent, and Wall Street loses its mind. ‘This is crazy’ “This is crazy. I mean, the number’s got to be wrong. It doesn’t make any sense.”
The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2025 JD Vance says Jimmy Kimmel should use his platform to apologize to Erika Kirk Kimmel has previously said he was ‘touched’ by Erika Kirk’s speech at her husband’s memorial
The Mary Sue · Sep 26, 2025 ‘Lying right through his eyeliner’: JD Vance has skipped work again to propagate a fabricated shutdown narrative instead JD Vance has been the Vice President of the United States for over eight months now, but by some counts, he’s clocked maybe eight actual working days in office. The rest of the time? He’s been either on vacation or busy peddling false narratives to keep the MAGA base entertained.
Reason · Sep 26, 2025 California Got This One Right: ICE Agents Shouldn't Be Allowed To Wear Masks Masked agents are the unmistakable sign of a police state.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2025 Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal MGX, chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will take 15% stake, with social media firm valued at $14bn
Euronews · Sep 26, 2025 Donald Trump approves proposed deal to put TikTok under US ownership. Here's what we know Vice President JD Vance said that “there was some resistance on the Chinese side.
We Got This Covered · Sep 26, 2025 ‘Fight like hell not to take it’: Trump’s Tylenol warning softened by Vance and Oz as top Republican sounds alarm Trump and RFK Jr. are playing doctor again.
Fortune · Sep 25, 2025 The U.S. will now actually control TikTok’s algorithm, JD Vance says With the Ellisons (Oracle) and Murdochs (Fox) in the mix, Trump allies are poised to take at least partial control over the app’s recommendation engine.
Tom’s Guide · Sep 25, 2025 Trump signs TikTok deal — live updates Will this be a giant day for the future of vertial videos?
Axios · Sep 25, 2025 Trump signs order allowing TikTok deal to proceed A deal still isn't done, but it's closer to happening than it's ever been before.