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An Englishman is raffling his home to Americans who are looking for a foreign "safe haven" from President Donald Trump for just $10 per ticket, according to a new report.

The Guardian reported on Thursday that Tristram Biggs is raffling his nearly $1 million property in a Buckinghamshire, England village to Americans who are "uneasy about the political temperature at home."

Winsome Earle-Sears, a MAGA-aligned candidate for the Virginia governor's office, claimed during a debate on Thursday that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying is not "discrimination," a claim that observers quickly bashed online.

Earle-Sears debated her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, on Thursday night. It was the first debate for either candidate since reporters uncovered violent texts from Jay Jones, a Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General. The Hill reported that Earle-Sears gave an "aggressive" performance, and LGBTQ+ rights were a flash point of the debate.

Popular podcaster Joe Rogan appears to have broken with President Donald Trump on one of the president's key policy platforms during a recent episode, a move that stunned one former GOP analyst.

During a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan said Trump's effort to send people to deport immigrants to foreign countries "shows no heart."

President Donald Trump has repeatedly and publicly demanded to be given a Nobel Peace Prize — and the government of Norway is starting to prepare for the risk he could exact revenge on their country if it doesn't happen.

According to The Guardian, "The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday," which would mean they did not take into consideration the ceasefire agreement from Israel and Hamas that, while still in tentative preliminary phases, Trump had a hand in brokering.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig had much to say on CNN Thursday evening about President Donald Trump's latest loss in court over his use of the military to keep order in U.S. cities.

A federal district judge in Illinois, April Perry, put Trump's plans to send the National Guard to Chicago — long threatened as he has escalated his rhetoric against America's third-largest city — on hold for two weeks. And she did so while tearing into Trump's reasoning for the planned deployment in the first place.

A White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security was investigated for accusations he harassed a lower-ranking co-worker by canceling her hotel room and having them share a room together, according to a report.

Paul Ingrassia, who previously wrote for National Review, Human Events, and The Daily Caller, and a group of DHS workers were at a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando in July, Politico reported Thursday night. When the group went up to the front desk, a lower-ranking female colleague — also a Trump appointee — learned she didn't have a room and would have to share with Ingrassia.

A pair of liberal analysts chided President Donald Trump's cabinet members on Thursday for continuing to participate in an ongoing series of "humiliation rituals."

Former Obama aides Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, who co-host the podcast "Pod Save America," said during a recent episode that Trump's cabinet meetings are no longer a place where elected officials conduct official business. They made their comments after Trump held a cabinet meeting on Thursday morning.

A prominent former federal prosecutor tore into a top White House advisor on Thursday, blasting the aide's comment that a judge committed "legal insurrection" as an "absurd" "self-cancelling oxymoron."

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller made the remarks while answering reporters' questions on Monday. He was asked to clear up his recent attack on a Trump-appointed judge.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) posted a video on Thursday evening that landed him in fierce controversy.

The video, shared to X, showed Ian Carroll, an independent journalist with a long history of antisemitic conspiracy theories, praising Khanna for not taking money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.

One of President Donald Trump's former advisors said on Thursday that the president's prosecution of his political enemies is "bad for America."

David Urban, one of Trump's senior advisors during his 2016 campaign, said during an interview on CNN that prosecuting New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud is causing people to lose trust in the American justice system. His comments came just hours after Trump's hand-picked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, returned an indictment against James from a grand jury.

A federal food program serving vulnerable women and children could run out of money next week due to the Republican government shutdown, a prospect that on Thursday spurred calls for Congress to pass a bipartisan funding bill that protects nutritional assistance for needy Americans.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides free staples including fresh produce, milk, and formula vouchers for nearly 7 million pregnant and breastfeeding parents and children under the age of 5. The program currently benefits more than 1 in 4 young US children.