7+ min ago (169+ words) Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced an uncomfortable and revealing exchange on Sunday after attempting to blame last week's deadly shooting of two National Guard members on the Biden administration'only to be confronted with the fact that the suspect's asylum was actually approved under former President Donald Trump's second administration. But moderator Kristen Welker quickly challenged Noem's account, noting a key fact that undermined her claim: Lakanwal's asylum request was approved this April, during the Trump administration'not under Biden. "His asylum was approved in April of this year on the Trump administration's watch, so just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?" Welker asked. "But was he vetted when he was granted asylum'are you saying he wasn't vetted when he was granted asylum?" Welker asked, attempting to pin down a clear…...

8+ min ago (468+ words) Pete Davidson is one step closer to fatherhood. The "Saturday Night Live" alum, 32, attended his pregnant girlfriend Elsie Hewitt's bunny-themed baby shower over the weekend, where the couple shared a passionate kiss in Hewitt's Instagram post that documented the event. In one video, Hewitt, 29, and her friends lined up at a table and raced to diaper teddy bears, before the model turned around and kissed Davidson, who was watching the competition with a big smile on his face. Hewitt's post also included footage of her holding a small diapered teddy bear, her posing with a flower-decorated cake, and a table filled with packages of Coterie brand diapers. "sweetest special-est day filled with love and cake and diapers and fwends and hugs and bagels and gifts for my lil bunny on the way ," she wrote in her caption. Davidson and Hewitt…...

8+ min ago (353+ words) We're thankful for the Big Apple's street sweepers. The city Department of Sanitation ended up picking up a horrendous 41.54 tons of tossed food, discarded clothing and other rubbish that was littered across the 2.5-mile route of Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The dirty post-parade haul was equal in weight to a chubby humpback whale. It also was significantly more than the 36 tons collected after last year's famed shindig, which drew packed crowds despite the rainy weather. Still, this year's disgusting tonnage is relatively small potatoes compared to the decade-high 65 tons scooped up after the 2023 parade. An average of 62 annual tons were collected in the years before. "In addition to the usual confetti and shredded paper, a cold sunny day like [Thursday] also means a lot of coffee cups, doughnut boxes and extra layers of clothing that marchers leave behind," a…...

8+ min ago (353+ words) We're thankful for the Big Apple's street sweepers. The city Department of Sanitation ended up picking up a horrendous 41.54 tons of tossed food, discarded clothing and other rubbish that was littered across the 2.5-mile route of Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The dirty post-parade haul was equal in weight to a chubby humpback whale. It also was significantly more than the 36 tons collected after last year's famed shindig, which drew packed crowds despite the rainy weather. Still, this year's disgusting tonnage is relatively small potatoes compared to the decade-high 65 tons scooped up after the 2023 parade. An average of 62 annual tons were collected in the years before. "In addition to the usual confetti and shredded paper, a cold sunny day like [Thursday] also means a lot of coffee cups, doughnut boxes and extra layers of clothing that marchers leave behind," a…...

11+ min ago (539+ words) A top comedian has lifted the lid on some of the surprising ways one of America's largest immigrant communities relates to notoriously anti-immigration President Donald Trump. "I can give you a hot take'I mean, the Indian community loves Trump," stand-up comedian and New York Times bestselling author Zarna Garg told Joanna Coles on the latest episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. "We don't have the problems with him that a lot of people in America have." Aside from occasional frictions over trade, the MAGA leader has maintained a consistently warm relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi since first assuming office in 2017. Despite turbulence over tariffs against the most populous South Asian nation, Trump told reporters ahead of a meeting with Modi earlier this year that the U.S. bond with India is "the strongest, I believe, it's ever been." Supporters say…...

11+ min ago (539+ words) A top comedian has lifted the lid on some of the surprising ways one of America's largest immigrant communities relates to notoriously anti-immigration President Donald Trump. "I can give you a hot take'I mean, the Indian community loves Trump," stand-up comedian and New York Times bestselling author Zarna Garg told Joanna Coles on the latest episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. "We don't have the problems with him that a lot of people in America have." Aside from occasional frictions over trade, the MAGA leader has maintained a consistently warm relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi since first assuming office in 2017. Despite turbulence over tariffs against the most populous South Asian nation, Trump told reporters ahead of a meeting with Modi earlier this year that the U.S. bond with India is "the strongest, I believe, it's ever been." Supporters say…...

17+ min ago (836+ words) By Evan Ellis, Latin America Research Professor, US Army War College. As an analyst who has worked on security issues for over 30 years, I've been monitoring the US military build-up in the Caribbean for months. The US administration now has the potential to take decisive military action in Venezuela. Washington has described Nicol's Maduro as the leader of a terrorist group and deemed his regime illegitimate. The US has named its mission in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean "Operation Southern Spear" and briefed President Donald Trump on military options. The arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford gives the US Joint Task Force established in the region the option to launch a high volume of attacks against land targets, should Trump give the order. According to media reports, there are now 15,000 troops in the region, including marines on ships…...

18+ min ago (1142+ words) Die Walk're," the second opera in Wagner's mammoth Ring" cycle, is a major tipping point in the drama. Power begins This "Walk're" didn't exactly break new ground with its setting in a postapocalyptic dystopia " opera stages seem to be filled nowadays with postapocalyptic dystopias " but it succeeded in its specificity. With unified designs by Rebecca Ringst (sets), Ingo Kr'gler (costumes), Michael Bauer (lights) and, especially, Sarah Derendinger (video), Bieito constructed a decayed environment that is inhospitable to life, where characters need an oxygen mask and protective clothing to venture outdoors. Wotan, like a desperate autocrat, builds a surveillance state to shore up his power as the world around him crumbles. Throughout the show, the audience could see the grainy, real-time footage of an onstage security camera projected onto the set. Several scenes confined the characters to a claustrophobic, rectangular box....

19+ min ago (674+ words) We're giving this sale our kiss of approval. Scarlett Johansson's skincare line, The Outset, has earned a place in Page Six editors' medicine cabinets "no small feat for any brand, let alone a celeb-founded one. But the clean products deliver, and hero items like Lip Oasis have become our go-tos. Ahead of Cyber Monday, the sensitive skin-safe line is offering incredible deals on the cult-fave lip balm as well as 25% off the entire skincare catalog. (The brand also outdid itself with gift sets this season, so shop for yourself and cross off your holiday list all at once.) Made with humectants and plumping peptides, the lip hydrator has nearly five-star reviews everywhere it's sold. "Lip Oasis is really a two-for-one product to me, because it feels like a treatment or balm but looks like a gloss," shares Page Six Style…...

21+ min ago (830+ words) In President Donald Trump's first term, we got used to hearing "dog whistles." Trump's populist nationalism was riven through by In President Donald Trump's first term, we got used to hearing "dog whistles." Trump's populist nationalism was riven through by messaging that implicitly demonized minorities and migrants. Undocumented arrivals were "rapists," inner city youths were "rabid" animals, neo-Nazi marches included "very fine people," and some countries were simply, in Trump's derogatory parlance, places teeming with excrement. The president brought into the mainstream a style of rhetoric brimming with contempt that had previously been kept at bay on the fringes of U.S. political life. In Trump's second term, the margins are now the center and the dog whistle has been replaced by a blowhorn. As his administration steps up a sweeping campaign of mass detention and deportations, Trump and his allies routinely…...