Jordanian demonstrators waving green Muslim Brotherhood flags and other banners shout anti-Israel slogans during a mass rally held outside the parliament building (background) in Amman against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip on January 4, 2009. Jordan's King Abdullah II demanded today that the UN Security Council issue a resolution to end Israel's "aggression" on the Gaza Strip, the royal palace said. Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, "is extremely angry and will take all necessary steps to stop the aggression," the king told a meeting of the country's council on national policies. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signs EO directing admin. to initiate process of designating chapters of Muslim Brotherhood as FTOs and SDGTs

Kicking off the week with momentum just ahead of the holiday season, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the State and Treasury Departments to formally initiate the process of designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs).

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 24: First lady Melania Trump welcomes the official 2025 White House Christmas Tree outside the North Portico of the White House on November 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Named the National Christmas Tree Association’s 2025 Grand Champions, Rex and Jessica Korson, of Korson’s Tree Farms, grew the tree on their second-generation evergreen farm in Sidney, Michigan. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Melania Trump welcomes NCTA’s 2025 ‘Grand Champion’ Christmas Tree to WH: ‘It will be beautiful!’

First Lady Melania Trump welcomed the official 2025 White House Christmas tree, a 25-foot concolor fir from a Michigan-based tree farm, to the North Portico of the White House — celebrating the start of the holiday season and her second go-around as First Lady since President Donald Trump’s re-election.

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