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White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles attends a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles makes Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women list

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been named among Forbes’ 2025 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, making her the only American woman working in politics to make the list.

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump waits for the arrival of Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese at the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Albanese is visiting the U.S. Capital to meet with President Trump and later visit the Pentagon. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump: Strikes on Venezuelan land could begin ‘pretty soon’

President Donald Trump indicated on Thursday that U.S. military strikes on Venezuelan soil could come “pretty soon,” following a recent seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker.

First Lady Melania Trump looks on as US President Donald Trump prepares to pardon Gobble, one of the National Thanksgiving turkeys, during the White House turkey pardon ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on November 25, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pardons turkeys ‘Gobble’ and ‘Waddle’ in annual Nat’l Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation ceremony

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participated in the White House’s National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation ceremony, where they pardoned two Butterball turkeys named Gobble and Waddle.

US President Donald Trump welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives for a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on October 17, 2025. (Photo by TOM BRENNER / AFP) (Photo by TOM BRENNER/AFP via Getty Images) / White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to journalists outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Leavitt: ‘Tremendous progress’ made toward Ukraine peace deal, though specifics still need to be sorted

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the “tremendous progress” being made on a Ukraine-Russia peace deal, noting that only “a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details” still need to be resolved.

(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (R) speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) / (L-Top) Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Photo via: DOJ) / (L-Bottom) TOPSHOT - Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally on Saturday, in a chaotic and shocking incident that will fuel fears of instability ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood smeared across his face after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, while the gunman and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Leavitt says Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks’ motive to assassinate Trump: ‘And I believe the president does too’

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt proclaimed that the American people deserve answers about the motive of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks following conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s investigation, which suggested that the FBI is withholding information.

AT SEA- OCTOBER 1: In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, The From front to back, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), Royal Moroccan Navy FREMM multipurpose frigate Mohammed VI (701), and Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6), steam in formation while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar, on October 1, 2025. Carrier Strike Group 12 is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operation to support the warfighting effectiveness, lethality and readiness of U.S. Naval Forces, Europe-Africa, and defend U.S., Allied and partner interest in the region. (Photo by Alyssa Joy/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Trump receives updated briefing on options for potential military action in Venezuela

President Donald Trump received an updated briefing on options for potential military operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, as the United States continues to signal imminent war.