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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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) speaks with reporters while waiting to catch the Senate subway to the Hart Senate Office Building from the U.S. Capitol on July 25, 2024 in Washington, DC. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the Senator from Arizona and former astronaut is one of many candidates being vetted to be the Vice Presidential running mate to Kamala Harris. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) / (R) GREENVALE, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks onstage during the 2025 Fox Nation Patriot Awards at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts on November 06, 2025 in Greenvale, New York. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Pentagon investigating ‘serious allegations of misconduct’ into Sen. Kelly after being accused of sedition: ‘The Seditious Six’ 

The Department of War has launched a formal investigation into Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, over allegations that he violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice by participating in a video urging U.S. service members to “refuse orders” — should they deem any action “illegal.”

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