Readers, Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight. Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence. Read More

Vought, who led Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term, deeply involved in rightwing manifesto. Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of Project 2025, the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to be director of the US Office of Management and Budget, a powerful agency that helps decide the president’s policy priorities and how to pay for them. Vought, who was OMB chief during Trump’s first term, would play a major role in setting budget priorities and implementing Trump’s campaign promise to roll back government regulations. Read More

Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has signaled his intention to nominate hedge fund executive Scott Bessent as his Treasury secretary, sources tell CNBC and NBC News. The founder of Key Square Group had been considered a strong favorite for the position along with a few other close contenders including former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh and private equity executive Marc Rowan. Read More

More than two weeks after Election Day, deep-blue California is still yet to finish counting ballots. The lengthy waiting period is the result of a combination of convoluted policy and a lack of manpower, with staffing shortages, lax mail-in ballot rules and a lengthy window to certify votes all impeding the process, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The two uncalled races could have significant impacts on the balance of power in the House as the GOP currently has just 219 seats locked up — one more than the 218 needed for a majority — with three of the seats to be left vacant as special elections are conducted to replace Trump cabinet nominees and former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. (RELATED: GOP Challenger Unseats Dem Incumbent To Win Alaska’s Lone House Seat) Read More

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Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin reportedly stalling promotion of Lt Gen Christopher Donahue. The US general who oversaw the withdrawal from Afghanistan and was photographed as the last American soldier to leave is seeing a promotion blocked by a sole Republican senator, multiple outlets reported. The move comes amid separate reports that the incoming Trump administration is considering courts martial, for offenses including treason, for officers involved in the evacuation. Read More

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Russia has a stock of powerful new missiles "ready to be used", President Vladimir Putin has said, a day after his country fired a new ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. In an unscheduled TV address, the Russian leader said the Oreshnik missile could not be intercepted and promised to carry out more tests, including in "combat conditions". Read More

Sources: Universal (L), Paramount (R) The box office this weekend will be painted pink and green, with a splash of red. Universal's "Wicked" and Paramount's "Gladiator II" arrive ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and are expected to tally more than $200 million in combined ticket sales this weekend. Read More

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives. Read More

After activist investor Quentin Koffey’s Politan Capital Management won a proxy battle at med tech company Masimo, the company’s new leadership is suing founder and ex-CEO Joe Kiani as well as shareholder RTW investments. Read More

Teachers can opt in, but state is offering financial incentive of $60 a student for participating school districts. The Texas board of education voted 8-7 on Friday to approve a new Bible-based curriculum in elementary schools. The curriculum, called “Bluebonnet Learning”, could be implemented as soon as August 2025 and affects English and language arts teaching material for kindergarten through fifth grade public school classes. Read More

New regulations could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list, according to email. The Biden administration is set to unveil new export restrictions on China as soon as next week, the US Chamber of Commerce told members in a Thursday email. The new regulations could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list that bars most US suppliers from shipping goods to the targeted firms, the email from the powerful Washington-based lobbying group said, according to an excerpt seen by Reuters on Friday. Read More

Transgender ideology has made its way to the halls of Congress. For anyone who has been in the fight against the gender cult long enough, it was obvious that it would only be a matter of time before it came knocking on their door. Like most cults, it’s a cancer that spreads slowly at first, but if you don’t fight it, the disease will metastasize, killing you from every angle. The U.S. Congress is just its latest victim. Read More

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand were part of operation bringing increasing numbers of Indians into US. A jury has convicted two men of human smuggling charges after an Indian family froze to death attempting to cross the Canada-US border. After a brief deliberation on Friday, a jury in Fergus Falls, Minnesota delivered the verdict in the case against Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who used the alias “Dirty Harry”, and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida. Prosecutors say the pair were part of a broader criminal enterprise that helped migrants cross from Canada into the United States. Read More

Antoine Arnault, son of LVMH CEO and Chairman Bernard Arnault, told CNBC the investment in the second-tier club was about "emotions" rather than finances. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to comment on the specific case but said the government would fulfil its "legal obligations". Read More

An image shared on Facebook claims the U.K. government has announced free bus fares for immigrants. Verdict: False There is no evidence to support the claim. Both Logically Facts and U.K.-based outlet Full Fact have debunked the claim. Fact Check: Starmer said he has “no plans” to join the social media platform Bluesky, according to […] Read More

The United States' fruit and vegetable production, as well as the number of farms in the country, has been declining for decades while it increasingly relies on other countries to fill in the gap, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. "We have nearly a billion acres of farmland, we have a population of just 330 million people, yet we're not feeding ourselves, and we're increasingly reliant on imports for our key foods," said President and Co-Founder of Farm Action Angela Huffman. Read More

On Friday, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced that communities in the state shouldn’t add fluoride to drinking water because of what he called the “neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride exposure.” Read More

Getty Images The stakes have never been higher in the Ukraine-Russia war. In the week that saw the conflict pass its 1000th day, Western powers substantially boosted Ukraine's military arsenal - and the Kremlin made its loudest threats yet of a nuclear strike. Read More

Gus gained 3.5kg during his 20-day stopover before being released back into the Southern Ocean on Wednesday.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Gus, an emperor penguin who gained international fame after travelling about 3,000km from Antarctica to the West Australian coast, is on his long way home after being released into the Southern Ocean. Emperor penguins can travel up to 1,600km on foraging trips, when they hunt fish, squid and krill. So Gus’s arrival on Ocean Beach, Denmark, on 1 November sparked surprise. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads. Read More

A study suggests that expanded screening for lung cancer could save more lives, especially among Black Americans. A 70-year-old woman who participated in the study says she was saved by earlier screening. NBC News' Anne Thompson. Read More

A urologist convicted of sexual abuse has been sentenced to life in prison, and now hundreds of patients are demanding more accountability from the hospitals where he worked. NBC News' Tom Llamas reports. Read More

Social Media/Handout For Australian friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, it was their first big trip venturing out to explore the world. Like so many 19-year-olds, they were drawn to the romance of backpacking across South East Asia - where food is great, people are friendly and the scenery stunning. Read More

On Friday, lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs asked a third judge to set him free on bail.Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries won bail on sex-trafficking charges, Combs' lawyers noted.On Friday, prosecutors said that Combs' case is more like R. Kelly's than like Jeffries'. Prosecutors compared Sean "Diddy" Combs to sex-trafficking convict R. Kelly during two hours of bail arguments in federal court in Manhattan on Friday. Read More

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday previewed next week's important Wall Street action, suggesting it's wise to pay attention to a slew of retail earnings as well as reports from Dell and CrowdStrike. He also said that the coming week is typically a good one for the market and advised investors to ring the register on some of their more volatile stocks that have seen significant gains. "If you have huge profits in the month of November, could you do me a favor?" he said. "I would show a little thanks next week and take something off the table in your most risky positions." Read More

Healthcare startup Forward just closed its doors last week, but its executives are already onto their next venture. Adrian Aoun, Forward's former CEO, is cofounding a new company alongside the startup's former head of operations, Jonathan Lesser, and its former head of product, design, and engineering, Bali Raghavan, according to messages seen by Business Insider. Read More

Whoever said happy and healthy don't mix probably hasn't tasted the nutritional fare the happiest place on earth has to offer. Sure, Disneyland and adjacent Disney California Adventure (DCA) offer plenty of unhealthy foods like fried Monte Cristo sandwiches, Ghirardelli milkshakes, and cream-covered churros — and it's a major blemish that the park doesn't publish calorie content on its menus or websites. But Disney is known for working harder than most theme parks at providing a wide variety of nutrient-dense foods to choose from. Read More

"Outlander," "Based on a True Story," and "The Sex Lives of College Girls" return this week.Movies including "Blitz," "The Piano Lesson," and "Alien: Romulus" are streaming.New shows like "Interior Chinatown" and "A Man on the Inside" are out, too. Several popular TV shows had their premieres this week. The beloved historical drama "Outlander" is back with the second half of its seventh season, over a year after the last episodes aired. The Peacock drama "Based on a True Story" returns for its second season, and the HBO Max comedy "The Sex Lives of College Girls" premieres its third season. Read More

Makeup artist Alexandra Rutkay launched City Mouse after growing frustrated by most diaper bags. Her side hustle now brings in six figures in annual revenue. Read More

Vancouver-based UniDoc Health is releasing a shippable doctor’s office, lab, or even tiny mobile hospital. It’s called the H3 Health Cube, and the company says its AI-powered health clinics will deliver medical care closer to those in rural areas, bringing high-tech diagnostic tools and real-time automated triage assessments to wherever there’s a need. “Limited access to comprehensive medical care affects people globally, particularly remote areas with limited transportation and infrastructure,” Antonio Baldassarre, CEO of UniDoc, said in a statement. “The H3 Health Cube can help to fill the gap for care and reduce the burden placed on hospitals and local clinics by offering robust medical care access independently of existing infrastructure.” Read More

When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Following a lengthy, nearly year-and-a-half-long wait, Outlander is back for the rest of its seventh season. We've compiled everything you need to know about where to watch Outlander, including live streaming options for those without cable. Read More

Loyalist lawmakers give green light to constitutional amendment as authoritarian president, 79, tightens grip. Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment elevating her to the position of “co-president” and boosting the pair’s joint control over the state. Under sanctions for human rights abuses, Ortega himself had proposed the change, which also increases the president’s control over the media and extends the presidential term from five to six years. Read More

Social media censorship and arrests over posts online have become prevalent in the United Kingdom (U.K.), especially in 2024. The U.K. has been at the forefront of implementing digital speech laws that regulate what civilians can and cannot say online, with prohibitions on what it defines as “hate speech” or disinformation. As the country’s definition of what constitutes acceptable speech expands, individuals with seemingly no harmful intent have found themselves under arrest or criminally charged, especially this year, according to a review of multiple reports. (RELATED: Trump, Elon Musk Reportedly Spoke To Zelenskyy About Future Support For Ukraine) Read More

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) So is Pete Hegseth, Fox weekend host, Urban I fan boy, and nominee for Secretary of Defense, the next one over the side? By what we now can call the Gaetz Standard, he ought to be. He's vain, unqualified, and he has a history of sexual assault allegations that he denies, but which has a considerable mound of evidence piling up behind it. And Vanity Fair seems to think the skids are getting greasy beneath him. Read More

Far-right influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has become the target of an anonymous hacktivist group. Sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of subscribers to Tate’s “online university” was stolen. On Thursday, hackers announced their breach of Tate's "The Real World" website by flooding the private members' chatroom with pro-feminist emojis and transgender pride flags, as first reported by DailyDot. The hackers also uploaded an emoji featuring an AI-generated photo of Tate with an exaggerated rear end, draped in the trans pride flag. Tate was streaming on the right-wring video platform Rumble while the hackers took over his website's primary chatroom. Read More

I’ve always been a little bit of a skeptic when it comes to Amazon Echo devices. Most of my family were early adopters — even my parents have multiple Echos throughout their home — but, while I love the concept of a fully integrated smart home, I wasn’t really sure if adding an Alexa device would really “level up” my experience. While I use (and love) things like WiFi-enabled lights and a smart thermostat, I was satisfied with using my iPhone to help me control all of these devices. When I got the opportunity to try out the 3rd generation of the Amazon Echo Show 10, however, I was able to see for myself if it was just a glorified speaker or something more robust. Everything you need to know about the Echo Show 10 Straight out of the box, the Echo Show 10 was a quick and easy install. Once I decided where it was going to live on my kitchen counter, it only took a few minutes to connect it to my WiFi, give it access to my Amazon account, and install a few updates before it was ready to go. Read More

The woman at the center of sexual assault allegations against Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth did not appear to witnesses to be intoxicated before or after their sexual encounter, according to the police report on the incident. The alleged victim, referred to throughout the redacted report as “Jane Doe,” said that she did not remember details of how she returned from a bar to a hotel room with Hegseth or much of their tryst, possibly because she may have been drugged or because she had been drinking, the police report states. However, multiple witnesses who recounted what they saw that night in October 2017 to the investigating police officers said that Jane Doe did not appear to be drunk before or after the sexual encounter. Read More

Richard Lingeman. Noel Parmentel was, according to his former lover and mentee, Joan Didion, the ‘outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.’ The post Sundays With Noel appeared first on The Nation. Read More

ACLU obtains documents showing agency’s effort to expand state’s detention capacity for undocumented immigrants. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials could add 600 beds to detain unauthorized immigrants in New Jersey, according to new documents obtained by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday. An additional 600 detainees could mark a significant increase in the number of people held in New Jersey. The Elizabeth detention center – the only facility in the state that holds detainees – can currently accommodate up to 300 detainees, the Bergen Record reported in April. There were 285 detainees in the facility as of the end of October, according to data analyzed by the Guardian from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Read More

Turkey has ousted two more elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office, citing terrorism-related charges against them An Interior Ministry statement said the mayors were replaced with state-appointed administrators over their past convictions or current... Read More

Six foreign tourists, including an unnamed U.S. man, have died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, Southeast Asia. The tourists are thought to have fallen ill after drinking alcohol laced with the deadly chemical about a week ago in the backpacking town of Vang Vieng. But methanol poisoning is has not yet been confirmed. Read More

A post on X implies that a SpaceX Super Heavy Booster rocket “exploded” unintentionally when landing in the Gulf of Mexico. SpaceX Super Heavy booster has exploded while attempting a landing in the Gulf of Mexico. pic.twitter.com/k8DkXsECG1 — 🆂🅲🅾🆃🆃 (@RandomHeroWX) November 19, 2024 Verdict: False The maneuver was pre-planned, and the result was expected. Fact […] Read More

Policy stances from the incoming Trump administration, bullish quarterly earnings and an "Elon Musk premium" led to lofty stock returns, experts said. Read More

Giants grant Jones release days after demotionFormer No 6 pick signed $160m contract in 2023Jones, 27, went 24-44-1 as a starter with Giants The Daniel Jones era in New York is over. The Giants quarterback was granted his release on Friday by the team just days after the franchise said they were benching him in favor of third-stringer Tommy DeVito. Read More

Google's Pixel Tablet once felt like a solid contender in a crowded market. But apparently, it didn’t make enough of a splash, as the follow-up might have been canceled. Android Authority reported on Thursday that the so-called Pixel Tablet 2 has been canceled internally at Google before it was ever officially announced. The timing on this report is a bit strange for multiple reasons. Read More

Apple is reportedly working on a Siri LLM to compete with ChatGPT. While the voice assistant has been given some updates, this project will rebuild Siri from the ground up. Read More

A viral post shared on Threads claims 10 major companies, including Disney, have stopped posting on X as of November 2024.   View on Threads   Verdict: Misleading The claim is misleading. Only IBM and The Colbert Show have stopped posting on X, with their last activity on the platform being in late 2023. Fact […] Read More

UN climate talks looked set to overrun into the weekend as a deep gulf formed between richer and poorer countries over cash to help those most vulnerable in a warming world. Wealthier nations offered to more than double to $250bn a year the cash they give developing countries annually to fight climate change. Read More