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President Donald Trump strongly suggested Thursday night that the United States may soon be launching ground operations in Venezuela as his administration continues its military escalations with the South American nation.

President Donald Trump first ordered strikes on suspected drug-carrying sea vessels in the Caribbean in September, strikes that have gone on to kill at least 83 people as of Nov. 25. The Trump administration has gone on to continue escalations, deploying a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group off of Venezuela’s coast, and has considered outright assassinating Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

President Donald Trump was asked at a press conference on Thursday whether he intends to go to the funeral of the murdered National Guardswoman, Sarah Beckstrom — and Trump detoured from the question into bragging about how popular he is in Beckstrom's home state of West Virginia.

"It's in the early stages, obviously, but do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?" asked a reporter.

Bloomberg opinion columnist Ronald Brownstein argued recent elections show Republicans’ treacherous path to winning in 2026 is more narrow and dangerous than ever.

“For Republicans, November was bookended by two ominous developments: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation and the party's resounding defeats in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races,” said Brownstein.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained indigenous actress Elaine Miles in Redmond, Washington while she was heading to the bus stop for a shopping run — then accused her of faking her tribal ID, reported The Seattle Times on Thursday.

"Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in 'Northern Exposure,' 'Smoke Signals,' 'Wyvern' and 'The Last of Us,' handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon," said the report. "Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues."

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Thursday for refuting his claims that Afghan migrants who entered the United States were unvetted, calling the reporter a “stupid person” in an explosive rant.

“There was no vetting or anything, they came in unvetted! And we have a lot of others in this country, we're going to get them out,” Trump said during a press conference in Palm Beach, Florida.

As Americans around the country settled down to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with family, far-right Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) workshopped an idea for how to disrupt one of those family's dinners next year for a political stunt.

"Next year, I think I’m going to hold a contest to show up at someone’s Thanksgiving day dinner to debate their leftist family members," Luna suggested on X. "What do you think?"

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, one of the two victims in the Washington, D.C. shooting on Wednesday, has passed away, President Donald Trump said Thursday, according to Fox News and The New York Post.

“He just announced that one of those guardsmen, the female, Sarah Beckstrom, the 20 year old from West Virginia, has passed away,” a Fox News anchor announced Thursday.

The alleged perpetrator of the recent shooting of two National Guard members in downtown Washington D.C. may have been kept out of American society if not for budget cuts by President Donald Trump's administration.

That's according to #AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver, who told MS NOW on Thursday that alleged shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal – an Afghan national who came to the United States in September of 2021 — could have potentially been stopped before carrying out his act. He cited the 2024 arrest of 19 year-old Afghan national Abdullah Haji Zada, who was apprehended for plotting an Election Day mass shooting in Oklahoma City, as an example of how federal resources can work to prevent acts of terrorism before they happen.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dunked on President Donald Trump Thursday over his failure to end the war in Ukraine, among the president’s key pledges on the campaign trail in 2024.

“The U.S. instigated the costly war in Ukraine but failed to achieve its goals,” Khamenei wrote Thursday in a social media post on X. “The current U.S. President had claimed he would end it in three days.”

Kalshi, one of the nation's largest "prediction markets," has been hit with a nationwide class action lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, alleging that the platform has predominantly become an illegal sports betting site that secretly tricks consumers into rigged bets against the house, when they think they're betting against other users on the platform.

The suit, filed this week, was reported on X by sports betting and gaming attorney Daniel Wallach.

Despite having a centrist Democratic governor in Andy Beshear, Kentucky is a deep-red state that Donald Trump carried in three presidential elections in a row. Nationally, Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in 2024; in Kentucky, he won by 31 percent.

But in an article published on Thanksgiving 2025, The Nation's Zachary Clifton focuses on struggling Trump voters in Kentucky who are feeling disillusioned with his economic policies.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) took to Fox News Thursday to demand the execution of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan man suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

“I hope that the [Justice Department] and the judge in this case will put this terrorist down,” Mace said, speaking to Fox’s Kevin Corke. “He doesn't deserve to live!”

A key MAGA ally of President Donald Trump called on an activist in charge of a nonprofit that helps with Afghan resettlement to be hauled into Congress for an investigation, after the D.C. shooting of two National Guard troops allegedly by an Afghan on a special immigrant visa for his work assisting the U.S. military.

"Our hearts go out to the brave guardsmen attacked today," stated Shawn VanDiver of the AfghanEvac nonprofit in a post to X on Thursday. "We will not let the action of one deranged a------ be the excuse used to cause harm to an entire community of people."