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A spirited debate on one of CNN’s primetime shows — over the cascade of political issues swirling around the 2024 election, President Donald Trump’s executive actions, and his recent remarks — quickly wandered off course when accusations of racism crept into the conversation.

The on-air exchange happened Wednesday on CNN’s “NewsNight” when journalist Cari Champion butted heads with Republicans on the roundtable when she said the defining issue of the 2024 election “was never about eggs, it was about race.”

The commander of a crack South Korean special forces unit told a court Thursday he had been asked by a superior officer how to cut electricity to parliament during last year's failed martial law order by impeached president Yook Suk Yeol.

Colonel Kim Hyun-tae, who leads the country's elite 707th Special Mission Group, was in charge of troops attempting to stop lawmakers voting down Yoon's shock order.

by Jay Deshmukh with Danny Kemp in Washington

Israel's defense minister ordered the army on Thursday to start making preparations to allow for "voluntary" departures from the Gaza Strip, after U.S. President Donald Trump floated a proposal to move Palestinians out of the territory.

by Hiroshi HIYAMA

Days after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, Japan's then-prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to deliver him a gold-plated golf club, becoming the first leader to visit and setting the tone for a relationship both men said was close.

China's controversial former ambassador to France Lu Shaye has been appointed to a prestigious post in charge of European affairs, Beijing announced Thursday.

Lu was a prominent "Wolf Warrior" diplomat -- a nickname given to those who respond vehemently to critics perceived as hostile to China.

Attorneys for the Justice Department have reportedly agreed to temporarily limit tech billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the Treasury Department's payment system.

The agreement, reported by NBC News, comes after union members and retirees sued the Treasury Department, saying that giving such access to the payment and collections system, as well as the large amount of Americans' data in it, violated federal privacy laws.

Hollywood actor Ben Stiller took to social media Wednesday to swat away what he called "lies coming from Russian media" — and promoted by Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who was indicted along with Donald Trump and 17 others in Georgia's election interference case.

Powell – who has a history of promoting baseless conspiracies — shared a video Wednesday morning from a right-wing account with the watermark "E News" in which a narrator said the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, sponsored American celebrity visits to Ukraine following Russia's invasion.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow didn’t mince words Wednesday night as she offered viewers her insight into the current state of political affairs in America and sounded the alarm on the growing number of executive power grabs swirling around the new administration.

Maddow, during her show’s opening monologue Wednesday night, also flagged a key sign that the opposition to President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk are growing.

President Donald Trump has been discussing his idea for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip "for months," MAGA aides told Politico Wednesday.

Per the report, "It was clear Wednesday that they did little to prepare the rest of the world for Trump’s pitch to relocate nearly 2 million Palestinians from their homeland in Gaza so the U.S. could assert ownership of the area and turn it into 'the Riviera of the Middle East."

Ten "high-threat" migrants have arrived at Guantanamo and are being held at the notorious American base in Cuba, the Pentagon said Wednesday, with the White House later identifying them as members of a powerful gang.

President Donald Trump last week ordered the preparation of a 30,000-person "migrant facility" at the base, which is primarily known as a detention center for suspects accused of terrorism-related offenses, but which also has a history of holding migrants.

Google parent company Alphabet has stopped making diversity and inclusion a workplace priority, according to a filing Wednesday with US regulators.

The internet giant's annual 10-K report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), no longer contained a commitment to workplace inclusion and diversity that had been there the prior year.

by Frankie Taggart and Daniel Avis

President Donald Trump's so-called "A Fork in the Road" initiative, the most sweeping move against federal spending since he returned to office on January 20, has been wrongly characterized as a "buyout."

by Frankie TAGGART

Critics complain that Congress has been slow to react in the face of a full frontal assault on the Founders' vision of the separation of powers -- but warn that the Republican president is on a collision course with the courts.