Trump enjoys royal pageantry during unprecedented second UK state visit

Trump and his allies have regularly done what Kimmel did in his statements — falsely imply that victims of political violence were targeted by their own ideological allies.

Trump routinely spread a false conspiracy theory that the man who broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house in 2022 and attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer was secretly his lover, rather than a believer in the Q-Anon conspiracy theory that posits Trump as a hero who will crush the “deep state.” He continues to make jokes about the attack, which gravely injured Paul Pelosi.

Numerous Republicans — most prominently Utah Sen. Mike Lee — also claimed the killing of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband by a Trump supporter with a long list of other Democrats to target was in fact the act of a leftist, because the man had been appointed to a ceremonial board by the state’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz.

ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely beginning Wednesday after comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing led a group of ABC-affiliated stations to say it would not air the show.

Kimmel, the veteran late-night comic, made several comments about the reaction to Kirk’s assassination on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday and Tuesday nights, including that “many in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

Trump posted on Truth Social, “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.”

He also targeted two other late-night hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, and said they should also be canceled, calling them “two total losers.”

In July, after CBS canceled “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Trump wrote on his social media platform: “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert!”

Like Colbert, Kimmel has consistently been critical of Trump and many of his policies.

The U.S. president, as he remained abroad on a state visit to the United Kingdom, announced that he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”

Antifa, short for short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left militant groups and is not a singular entity. It’s unclear how the administration would label what is effectively a decentralized movement as a terrorist organization, and the White House on Wednesday did not immediately offer more details.

In a social media post shortly before 1:30 a.m. Thursday local time, Trump called antifa a “SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER.”

He also said he will be “strongly recommending” that funders of antifa be investigated.

Trump’s previous FBI director, Christopher Wray, said in testimony in 2020 that antifa is an ideology, not an organization, lacking the hierarchical structure that would usually allow it to be designated as a terror group by the federal government.

Samuel and Lazaro Plata described in Spanish through translators how Ryan Routh left the container filled with pipes, bullets, wires and other items at Lazaro Plata’s home in Greensboro, North Carolina, in April 2024 — months before the alleged assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024, at Trump’s West Palm Beach country club.

Both men have known Routh for about 30 years and had previously worked at his roofing business.

Wednesday was the fifth day of testimony in Routh’s trial.

An FBI agent testified that he found a 12-page letter in the box addressed to “Dear World.” Prosecutors only wanted the first few lines included as evidence, one of which reads: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you.”

Routh had asked that the entire letter be allowed into evidence, arguing the first few lines lacked context.

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A stopgap spending bill to fund the federal government through Nov. 21 has cleared a key test vote in the House.

Republicans muscled a resolution through on Wednesday that establishes the terms for debating the bill later this week. The vote was 216-210.

So far, Republicans are ignoring Democratic calls to negotiate with them to extend enhanced tax credits that make health insurance coverage more affordable for millions who purchase through the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. Democrats want the health insurance relief included in the stopgap bill.

Republicans can get the spending bill through the House if they stay united, but they’ll need some Democratic help when it gets to the Senate.

The 214-213 roll call essentially shelved a resolution from GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and have her removed from two House committees.

The two have feuded viciously on social media.

The effort comes as Trump has pushed to go after those critical of Kirk as well as his own perceived political opponents.

Channel 4 in Britain announced that it will broadcast a special featuring “an unbroken catalogue of over 100 falsehoods, distortions and inaccuracies uttered or written” by Trump since he returned to the White House in January.

The broadcast begins at 10 p.m. in the U.K. on Wednesday.

The channel said in a statement that the program would run “over several hours” and that Trump’s “untrue statements will be punctuated by text-based fact-checks, offering viewers the truth behind the tweets, speeches and soundbites.”

The Princess of Wales showed her support for British craftmanship and creativity on Wednesday by wearing a couture gown by British designer Phillipa Lepley with a full-length, hand-embroidered gold Chantilly lace evening coat over a silk crepe gown.

Kate, as she is commonly known, sat beside President Trump, who described her as “so healthy, so radiant and so beautiful during the banquet for the state visit honoring him. The princess’ coat, featuring hand-embroidered roses with couched gold cording, caught the candlelight and shimmered.

She also wore The Lover’s Knot Tiara, which was once owned by Prince William’s mother, Princess Diana.

King Charles III celebrated the longstanding defense and security alliance between the U.S. and Britain while highlighting the threat posed by Russian aggression in Ukraine as he delivered a speech at a gala banquet honoring President Donald Trump.

“In two World Wars, we fought together to defeat the forces of tyranny,” Charles said at Windsor Castle, west of London. “Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine.”

The speech, on the first day of the president’s state visit to the U.K., comes amid concern that Trump isn’t doing enough to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine.

But Charles lauded Trump’s work as a peacemaker.

“Our countries are working together in support of crucial diplomatic efforts, no least of which, Mr. President, is your own personal commitment to finding solutions to some of the world’s most intractable conflicts, in order to secure peace.”

Trump said the word “special” hardly does justice to the relationship between the trans-Atlantic allies.

He described them as two verses of the same poem, beautiful on their own but really meant to be played together. He also said they have done more good for humanity “than any two countries in all of history.”

“The bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal,” Trump said.

“We had a very sick country one year ago and today I believe we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world,” the Republican president said.

At this time last year, Democrat Joe Biden sat in the White House.

The president was impressed at King Charles’ ability to know the names of, in Trump’s estimation, about 150 people they shook hands with.

“And some of them had bad names like X,Y, Z, dash two-three,” Trump quipped. “And he knew every one of them. Or at least I think I did, because nobody was complaining.”

He also praised his son, Prince William as “remarkable” and “amazing” and his wife, Princess Kate, “so radiant and so healthy, so beautiful.”

He appeared to be alluding to her cancer diagnosis. The princess said earlier this year that her cancer is in remission.

He joked in his remarks before at the start of the lavish state dinner that he hopes no other American president is so honored again.

“This is truly one of the highest honors of my life,” Trump said, reading from prepared remarks.

The king marveled at the shared history of the two nations and their strong relationship which 250 years ago, at the time of America’s founding, would have been unimaginable to George Washington and King George.

“We celebrate a relationship between two countries that surely neither old George could possibly have imagined,” he said.

The king touched on Trump’s British roots, his recent visits to the U.K. and in a nod to the president’s favorite sport, said, “I understand that British soil makes for rather splendid golf courses.”

While Sanders has led efforts in the Senate to block the sale of U.S. bombs and firearms to Israel, he has stopped short of describing the war as a “genocide” — which at times has drawn criticism.

But in a statement Wednesday titled “It’s a genocide,” Sanders said “the conclusion is inescapable.”

““Having named it a genocide, we must use every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire,” said Sanders.

Among those invited to the banquet hosted by King Charles III were technology CEOs Tim Cook of Apple, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind and Sam Altman of OpenAI. Pascal Soriot, who heads drugmaker Astrazeneca, the most valuable company on the London Stock Exchange, was also in attendance.

In a nod to Trump’s love of golf, English golfer Nick Faldo, winner of six major championships, including three Masters’ titles, was also present.

The king is sitting next to Trump at the center of the 50-meter long table in St. George’s Hall, where the ceiling is adorned with the coat of arms of every Knight of the Garter since the order was founded in 1348. Catherine, the Princess of Wales, is seated to the president’s right.

On the other side of the table, Queen Camilla is seated next to first lady Melania Trump and Treasury chief Scott Bessent. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch also has a seat at the table.

King Charles and Trump walked side by side to enter St. George’s Hall, where the banquet is being held.

They were followed by Queen Camilla and Melania Trump.

A place setting was marked at the table for Murdoch, according to journalists given a preview of the event.

The president in July sued The Wall Street Journal and its media mogul owner, Murdoch, over the newspaper’s report on a sexually suggestive letter purportedly written by Trump for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump denied writing the letter, which was later released by Democrats in Congress. The White House has said Trump’s signature on it was forged.
The lawsuit became even more personal when Trump had his lawyers try to force Murdoch to give a deposition quickly in the case, citing the 94-year-old mogul’s age and physical condition.

Murdoch is also the owner of Fox News Channel, a Trump-friendly network from where the president has plucked people to staff his administration.

Senate Democrats on the Armed Services Committee on Wednesday urged Republicans to hold a hearing with Defense Department leaders over the deployment of military personnel to U.S. cities.

In a letter signed by 13 Democratic senators, the group argued the hearing is needed “to help Congress and the public better understand the implications of such large-scale redirection of the U.S. military and defense apparatus for support to traditionally non-military missions.”

The request follows Trump’s order this week to deploy the National Guard to Memphis — mirroring similar actions in DC and Los Angeles — and signals he may target more cities.

“We believe it is critical that we conduct public oversight to ensure that the use of military power remains lawful, constitutional, strategically justified and responsible and transparent to the American public,” the senators wrote.

The State Department has pulled down its remaining efforts to counter foreign mis- and disinformation, disbanding programs that had survived the Trump administration’s dismantlement of the Global Engagement Center earlier this year.

In a statement released Wednesday, the department said it had “ceased all frameworks to counter foreign state information manipulation and any associated instruments” that had been introduced during the Biden administration. It said that like the GEC, those frameworks had “devolved into tools for political censorship instead of protecting Americans from foreign adversarial propaganda.”

Administration critics have predicted that the elimination of such tools will leave Americans more vulnerable to false and misleading information promoted by adversarial nations like Russia, China and Iran. However, administration officials argue that they will be better able to counter mis- and disinformation by promoting free speech.

“Through free speech, the United States will counter genuine malign propaganda from adversaries that threaten our national security, while protecting Americans’ right to exchange ideas,” the department said.

Beefeaters in traditional red uniforms and ruff collars lined the entrance to St. George’s Hall at Windsor Castle on Wednesday night as Britain brought out its royal finery for the state banquet honoring U.S. President Donald Trump.

Inside, the grand Waterloo table was set with 1,462 pieces of silver that sparkles in the light from 139 candles. Seasonal flower arrangements, handpicked from the castle grounds only hours before, made the hall smell like an autumnal garden.

About 100 staff members are on hand to serve 160 guests, who include tech leaders, athletes and Britain’s top political leaders.

Each place has several glasses so the guests can sample a variety of wines. The wine list includes Wiston Estate Cuvee 2016, Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello 2000, Pol Roger Extra Cuvee de Reserve 1998, and Domaine Bonneau de Martray Corton-Charlemagne grand cru 2018.

Vance asked his audience at a manufacturing plant in Howell if they knew that the British royal family was hosting Trump and his wife, Melania, on Wednesday.

“Somebody asked me, ‘Would you rather be in England celebrating the state visit?’” the vice president said. “I said, ‘No, I’d rather be right here in the great state of Michigan where people are building great products for the American people.’”

Vance didn’t really have much of a choice, though. Such invitations are for the head of state, and that is Trump.

A special cocktail, the “Transatlantic Whisky Sour,” was created for the banquet.

It is designed as a twist on a whisky sour, made with Johnnie Walker Black. It’s topped with a pecan foam and a toasted marshmallow set on a star-shaped biscuit meant to evoke campfire s’mores.

The after-dinner menu includes Warre’s 1945 vintage port, a nod to Trump as the 45th president of the United States, Hennessy 1912 Cognac Grande Champagne, from the year Trump’s mother was born, and Bowmore Queen’s Cask 1989, Islay, bottled for Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee in 2002.

The musical playlist includes the theme from James Bond but also staples from Trump’s campaign rallies like Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” and the Rolling Stones’ “You can’t always get what you want.”

“Nessun Dorma” and “Ave Maria,” two operatic classics that Trump also favors, were also on the evening’s playlist.

The first course of the meal at the state banquet that the king is hosting for Trump is a Hampshire watercress panna cotta with parmesan shortbread and quail egg salad.

The second course is chicken — royal style. It the menu boasts organic Norfolk chicken ballotine wrapped in courgettis, with a thyme and savory infused jus.

Dessert will be a vanilla ice cream bombe with a Kentish raspberry sorbet interior and lightly poached Victoria plums.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank committee remains committed to being politically independent, even though a White House employee just joined the board.

Fed Governor Stephen Miran was confirmed this week as an official, even though he’s on unpaid leave from his job as the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Trump has sought to influence Fed policy, suggesting that such independence is unreasonable relative to the interests of voters.

Powell declined to comment more on Miran when asked at a news conference.

“Look, the city of Detroit we know has got some serious crime problems and we know that it’s the people in Detroit who suffer the most,” Vice President JD Vance said at Hatch Stamping Co. in Howell, about 60 miles northwest of the city.

“Gretchen, we are happy to send the National Guard to Detroit, Michigan. All ya gotta do is ask,” he said, referring to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.

The Republican vice president said the administration is proud of surging National Guard troops and federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C., to deter crime.

Trump announced Monday that guard troops will go next to Memphis, Tennessee. The state’s Republican governor appeared with Trump for the announcement.

Fed officials voted 11-1 to cut the central bank’s benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 4% to 4.25%.

The only Fed official dissenting was its new governor Stephen Miran, who just joined the Fed this week and is on leave from his job as the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Miran wanted a larger cut of half a percentage point.

Fed officials said in a statement that economic growth has moderated and job gains have slowed, but inflation remains somewhat elevated. The Fed targets inflation at 2%.

President Donald Trump wants deeper cuts to the benchmark rate and has engaged in a pressure campaign against Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Patel was pressed by Rep. Jared Moskowitz over whether the FBI would investigate Trump’s claim that the sexually suggestive birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein purportedly carrying the president’s signature was forged.

The letter was released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee earlier this month after being handed over by the Epstein estate. Trump has denied writing the letter and creating the drawing.

Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, asked Patel whether he would open an investigation into Epstein’s estate over the letter.

Patel initially responded: “On what basis?” But when Moskowitz pressed again, Patel responded: “Sure, I’ll do it.”

It was not immediately clear whether the FBI would formally open an investigation or what such a probe would involve.

The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a Kennedy ally, criticized the agency’s scientists on social media while senators heard from Monarez.

Jim O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy, blasted the agency for “unpopular policies like mask mandates, social distancing” and vaccine mandates during the pandemic, in a post on X.

“The American people deserve better — and leaders committed to that cause,” he wrote.

O’Neill is an investor with close ties to billionaire Peter Thiel. He previously served in various health roles under former President George W. Bush.
Kennedy tapped him to run CDC on an acting basis after Monarez was forced out of government last month. He continues to serve as deputy health secretary.

In his new role, O’Neill will be responsible for approving changes to CDC’s childhood vaccine recommendations. A panel of advisers handpicked by Kennedy meets Thursday and Friday to discuss shots for COVID-19, hepatitis B and chicken pox.

The U.S. Education Department says it’s working with a new coalition of conservative groups to promote civics and patriotism in America’s schools.

The coalition announced Wednesday will be led by the America First Policy Institute, a think tank co-founded by Education Secretary Linda McMahon. It also includes conservative fixtures like Hillsdale College and Turning Point USA, founded by Charlie Kirk.

McMahon will oversee the project, called the America 250 Civics Education Coalition. She said it will strive to “educate, inspire and mobilize youth toward active and informed citizenship.”

The coalition will not receive department funding but will “amplify Department-funded programming to further the coalition’s goals,” said Billy Atwell, a spokesperson for the America First Policy Institute.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to boost patriotism in schools.

Federal immigration agents’ use of a parking lot at a veterans hospital outside Chicago has prompted swift pushback from elected officials and immigrant rights activists.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, penned a letter Wednesday to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, opposing the use of Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, just over 10 miles west of Chicago. Federal agents are using 12 parking spots as a staging area amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on immigration in the area, according to a spokesperson for Duckworth’s office.

Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and double amputee, said she knows from experience as a patient at the hospital that parking is already a challenge and accused the VA of a “pathetic capitulation to ICE.”

“It adds injury to insult when VA surrenders resources in support of reckless, paramilitary activities that do nothing to enhance Veteran care,” she said.

The DHS has also requested limited logistical support from officials at the Naval Station Great Lakes, 35 miles north of Chicago.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has condemned the death of a man shot by U.S. immigration agents in suburban Chicago.

Sheinbaum said Wednesday that Mexico has requested information from the U.S. government and demanded a thorough investigation of the death of Silverio Villegas González. He died last week after an encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Franklin Park, which is a suburb of Chicago.

Authorities allege he was evading arrest and dragged an agent with his vehicle before he was fatally shot.

Immigrant rights activists and Illinois elected officials have also raised questions about the circumstances.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican and one of Kennedy’s closest allies in Congress, tried to raise doubts about Monarez’s account and claimed that Monarez’s conversation with Kennedy, where they discussed trust between them, was recorded.

The committee’s top leaders expressed concern that such a recording had not been shared with them.

“I also know HHS has a recording. I ask that you release the recording. I don’t know why it was recorded, but releasing the recording could be radical transparency, and this is about promoting the president’s vision of radical transparency,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, the health committee’s chair.

“How does it happen, if it is true, that one senator has access to alleged tape recording to a meeting. Nobody has that, including the chairman,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, the committee’s ranking member for the minority. “This is a very politicized situation, and it’s unfortunate.”

Cassidy said Mullin later told reporters after his remarks that he was mistaken about there being a recording of the conversation between Kennedy and Monarez.

Still, Cassidy said the committee had asked HHS for any recording.

Cassidy, who for decades was a practicing liver specialist, focused his closing remarks on what he terms successes due to newborn hepatitis B vaccination.

Cassidy said newborn infection went down by 68% in the decade after newborns began being regularly inoculated against hepatitis B.

“That is an accomplishment to make America healthy again,” he said, piggybacking on Kennedy’s signature line, of the near-total decline in the deadly infections.

“We should stand up and salute the people that made that decision, because these people who would otherwise be dead, if those mothers were not given that option to have their child vaccinated.”

Newborn hepatitis B vaccinations are considered a success. But members of Kennedy’s new vaccine advisory committee have suggested they want to revisit guidance.

The Fed will announce its interest rate decision at 2 p.m. Wednesday after a meeting that may be unusually contentious.

The central bank is expected to cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point, to about 4.1%. Cuts by the Fed often, over time, lead to lower borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, and business loans.

The Fed’s interest-rate setting committee now includes both a Trump administration appointee, Stephen Miran, a top economic aide who is keeping his White House job, and Lisa Cook, a Fed governor whom Trump has sought — unsuccessfully so far — to fire.

Miran is the first member of the Fed’s governing board to also have a White House job in decades. He is expected to dissent from the Fed’s decision in favor of a steeper reduction.

Investors will closely watch Powell’s 2:30 p.m. press conference for clues as to how many more rate reductions the Fed may implement in the coming months.

Monarez’s Senate testimony is still underway, and both Kennedy and his agency are trolling her on social media in real time.

From its official X account, the Department of Health and Human Services posted several videos of exchanges in which Republican senators questioned the fired CDC director’s trustworthiness.

In one exchange, Sen. Jim Banks on Indiana questioned why she had hired an attorney “heavily involved with President Trump’s first impeachment.”

Kennedy reposted some of the clips from his own official X account, thanking the senators and, in one post, adding, “We will earn back Americans’ trust and refocus the CDC on its core mission.”

Vaccines approved by the FDA and recommended by the CDC go through years, sometimes decades, of testing.

They start with 10 to 15 years of laboratory research, which includes testing in small animals for proof of concept. They are then tested in three phases of clinical trials for safety and effectiveness in humans. The FDA also evaluates the manufacturing facilities where they’re made and tracks batch quality in real time.

Once approved by the FDA, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices reviews data on how safe and effective the vaccine is at different ages, how serious the vaccine-preventable illness is and how many people would get sick if there wasn’t a vaccine. They then recommend how the vaccine should be administered, pending approval from the CDC director.

After the vaccine is in use, multiple safety systems track for rare side effects across millions of people. Childhood vaccines prevent 4 million deaths worldwide every year, according to the CDC.

Asked by Sen. Chris Murphy about the ramifications of the CDC shooting earlier this year, Monarez said she worried that the spread of “misleading information” about vaccines and health overall “will undermine not just the safety and health of our children, but it will also exacerbate some of these tensions.”

Dr. Debra Houry added that some CDC personnel have also asked that their names be removed from documentation about vaccines, or not to speak publicly about vaccines, “because they feel they were personally targeted, because of misinformation.”

Authorities said last month that the man who fired dozens of bullets at the CDC headquarters wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines. At the time, Monarez — then CDC director — told staff that “misinformation can be dangerous. Not only to health, but to those that trust us and those we want to trust.”

In the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the House Oversight Committee is calling on the chief executives of Discord, Steam, Twitch and Reddit to testify on how they are regulating their platforms to prevent violence.

“Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence,” said Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the committee, in a statement.

It’s a change of focus for congressional Republicans, who had previously scrutinized online platforms for policing free speech.

US Treasury Chief of Staff, Dan Katz, is expected to be selected as the next IMF First Deputy Managing Director, according to two people familiar with the decision who were not authorized to comment.\

Katz, who has served during both Trump administrations, most recently helped Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on China trade negotiations, managing four rounds of in-person negotiations with the Chinese, including the recent negotiations over TikTok ownership in Madrid.

Katz would succeed Gita Gopinath, who was the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from January 2022 to August 2025.

In the aftermath of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the House Oversight Committee is calling on the chief executives of Discord, Steam, Twitch and Reddit to testify on how they are regulating their platforms to prevent violence.

“Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence,” said Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the committee, in a statement.

It’s a change of focus for congressional Republicans, who had previously scrutinized online platforms for policing free speech.

Republicans in both states have redrawn congressional districts hoping to help their party in next year’s midterm elections.

Urged on by Trump, the GOP has manipulated how many nonwhite voters are distributed across congressional districts in the two states. That has civil rights advocates and Black voters worried Trump’s efforts will leave Black citizens without adequate representation in Congress.

In Kansas City, Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district has been spliced into three districts. That raises the chances Kansas City residents will no longer have a local representative on Capitol Hill. The NAACP is suing to block the new maps.

▶ Read more about the impact of GOP redistricting on minority representation

The palace said a scheduled flyover by F-35 jets from the U.K. and U.S. militaries was no longer possible due to the poor weather conditions.

But the Red Arrows — the Royal Air Force’s aerobatics display team — still flew over Windsor Castle, leaving streaks of red, white and blue smoke in their wake.

Patel says he doesn’t know offhand how many times Trump’s name is in the Epstein files, but he’s “absolutely not implicated.”

Repeatedly pressed by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee about why the FBI and Justice Department said in July that they would not disclose additional evidence from the case, Patel said the material not shared largely consists of child sex abuse material that’s unfit for public release, and other information is protected from release by court orders.

Democrat Dan Goldman accused Patel of being part of a “coverup.” Patel asserted that the Trump administration had released more than prior administrations.

Staff from MAHA Action, a non-profit political advocacy organization, are handing out “Make America Healthy Again” hats to attendees entering the hearing room.

The hats come in green, beige, pink and other colors. Several attendees welcomed hats from staff and wore them as they meandered around the Senate halls and sat behind Monarez in the hearing room.

“Make America Healthy Again” became the moniker of Kennedy’s heterodox movement after it aligned itself with Trump’s broader “Make America Great Again” campaign.