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Dec. 8, 2025, 5:05 AM ESTBy Yuliya TalmazanPresident Donald Trump has said he is “disappointed” with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who he said had not read the latest plan to end Russia’s war.Trump’s criticism adds to mounting U.S. pressure on Kyiv as Zelenskyy prepared to meet Monday with top European leaders, amid fears on the continent that Washington was pushing a deal that was favorable to Russia. Trump’s team held talks with Ukrainian officials in Miami after flying to the Kremlin with a revised version of the peace proposal, but the push from Washington has so far failed to find a breakthrough. The Kremlin has not publicly supported a plan and has stuck to its hardline demands.

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President Donald Trump has said he is “disappointed” with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who he said had not read the latest plan to end Russia’s war



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Dec. 8, 2025, 5:00 AM ESTBy Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday weighs whether to drive the final nail into the coffin of the long-standing concept of independent federal agencies that operate at arm’s length from the president.In a significant case on the structure of the federal government, the conservative-majority court is hearing arguments on whether President Donald Trump had the authority to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission regardless of a law enacted by Congress to insulate the agency from political pressures.The court has already signaled, with strong opposition from the three liberal justices, that Trump is likely to win the case by allowing the Democratic-appointed commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, to be removed from office while the litigation continues.Trump fired Slaughter and the commission’s other Democratic appointee in March. The FTC, which is responsible for consumer protection and antitrust enforcement, currently has just two of five commissioners, both Republican-appointed.Since taking office in January, Trump has sought to dramatically remake the federal government by downsizing agencies whose missions he does not favor, withholding Congress-approved spending he opposes and firing thousands of career federal employees.The MAGA movement and allied business interests have long targeted federal workers and the agencies where they work as a shadowy, unaccountable “deep state.”Government bodies set up by Congress to be independent of the president have been a particular focus of the Trump administration. Many of those agencies wield considerable regulatory power and have long been loathed by business interests.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest business group in the nation, is among the organizations that filed a brief backing the administration over Slaughter’s firing.Trump’s legal team has fully embraced a conservative legal argument called the “unitary executive theory,” which asserts that the president has the exclusive authority under Article 2 of the Constitution to exert executive power, including making regulatory decisions.In line with that argument, which has been favored by conservative Supreme Court justices in previous cases, Trump has sought to take over agencies, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed by Congress.Under the 1914 law that set up the FTC, members can be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Other agencies have similar restrictions.Nevertheless, Trump has fired, without cause, members not just of the FTC but also many other agencies that have power over vital health, safety, labor and environmental issues, including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Surface Transportation Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The administration has also gone further afield, asserting the power to fire officials in bodies set up by Congress that are not under the executive branch, including the Library of Congress.Just last week, the administration added Trump’s name to the sign on the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, a private corporation created by Congress. Trump removed various board members upon taking office, with an appeals court allowing him to do so despite ongoing litigation.The principal legal question before the Supreme Court is whether a 1935 Supreme Court ruling called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, which upheld restrictions on the president’s power to fire FTC members, should be overturned.A second legal question concerns whether Slaughter even has a legal avenue to remain in office if she ultimately wins on her argument that the firing was illegal.The ruling would apply not just to the FTC but also to the other federal agencies with similar restrictions. In addition to allowing Trump to fire Slaughter, the Supreme Court also allowed firings at some of the other affected agencies, further signaling that the majority favors Trump’s position.In doing so, the conservative majority has faced considerable criticism over how it has frequently ruled in favor of Trump via emergency orders without hearing oral arguments or issuing detailed rulings.One significant exception in the firings context is Trump’s effort to remove Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. In a May order, the court suggested that the Federal Reserve is different from other agencies because it is “uniquely structured.”The justices will hear arguments in Cook’s case in January.Lower courts ruled in favor of Slaughter before the Supreme Court stepped in.Lawrence HurleyLawrence Hurley is a senior Supreme Court reporter for NBC News.
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Dec. 8, 2025, 6:17 AM ESTBy Mithil AggarwalAmerican singer Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have hard-launched their relationship on social media, laying to rest months of dating rumors. Perry, a 13-time Grammy nominee, posted on Saturday a video on Instagram that showed her eating sushi in Tokyo as Trudeau, with his arm behind her, looked on with an amorous gaze. “Tokyo times on tour and more,” Perry wrote in the caption of a carousel that included the video and also a selfie with Trudeau. The pop star was performing last week in Saitama, about 15 miles north of Tokyo, as part of her “Lifetimes” tour.Perry’s post came after Trudeau on Thursday reposted on X a picture of the pair posing with Japan’s former prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and his wife, Yuko.Kishida, who met with Trudeau multiple times during their time in office, said in his Japanese-language post that the Canadian had “visited Japan with his partner and joined me and my wife for lunch.”“Katy and I were so glad to have the chance to sit down with you and Yuko,” replied Trudeau, who left office in March after almost 10 years as prime minister.Perry and Trudeau in Tokyo.@katyperry / via InstagramThough neither Trudeau nor Perry have officially commented on their relationship, their social media confirmation is the culmination of months of speculation that began when the couple was first spotted in July having dinner in Montreal.Trudeau was then seen singing “Firework” at one of Perry’s concerts in the Canadian city. The duo was then publicly spotted holding hands in Paris on Perry’s birthday on Oct. 25, with videos showing Trudeau leading Perry into a car after attending a cabaret show while being swarmed by photographers.Pop Culture Scoop: Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, ‘AJLT’ Finale04:00Trudeau said in August 2023 that he was separating from his wife of 18 years, Sophie Grégoire, with whom he has three children: sons Xavier and Hadrien and daughter Ella-Grace.Meanwhile, Perry has a 5-year-old daughter, Daisy Dove, with American actor Orlando Bloom. Perry and Bloom, who had been engaged since 2019, announced they had officially split in July.Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
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Nov. 23, 2025, 5:45 AM ESTBy Evan BushThree Category 5 storms, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, zero U.S. landfalls and a mystifying lull at the usual peak of activity: Together, these and other factors made for a “screwball” hurricane season this year.That’s how atmospheric scientist Phil Klotzbach put it, anyway.“It was just a strange year,” said Klotzbach, who studies hurricanes at Colorado State University. “Kind of a hard year to characterize.”Hurricane season comes to its official close on Nov. 30. In some ways, 2025 fits what researchers expect to see more often as the climate warms: Hurricanes continued forming late into the season and several intensified at extreme rates to produce some of the most intense storms in history.But in other ways, it was simply odd. Fewer hurricanes formed than experts predicted, but almost all of them became major storms. And the continental U.S. was spared a landfall for the first time in a decade. The surprises were a reminder of hurricane season’s unpredictability — particularly in a warming world — even as forecasting gets more accurate.Fewer hurricanes, higher intensityForecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in May predicted an above-average season with six to 10 hurricanes. Of those, at least three were expected to be major storms, meaning Category 3 or above, with sustained winds at or above 111 mph.Klotzbach came up with the same forecast independently, and other hurricane-tracking groups were in the same ballpark.In the end, fewer hurricanes formed, but of the five that did — Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda and Melissa — four were considered major.Hurricane Imelda over Bermuda on Oct. 1.NOAA“That’s the highest ratio there’s been in the past 50 years,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.What’s more, three of those major storms were Category 5, the highest level of intensity.Forecasters’ predictions of an above-average season still proved accurate despite the lower number of storms because of a metric called accumulated cyclone energy — essentially a calculation of the overall intensity and duration of all tropical storms in a season.Klotzbach predicted the accumulated energy would be 125% of the 30-year average. The season ended up at 108%, which, given the low number of hurricanes, means each packed a punch.“It was a quality season, not a quantity season,” he said.Nine of the past 10 Atlantic hurricane seasons have been above normal, according to Klotzbach, who attributes the trend to high ocean temperatures and La Niña, a seasonal circulation pattern that tends to weaken the high-altitude winds that discourage hurricane formation.McNoldy, who closely tracks Atlantic water temperatures, said 2025 was “anomalously warm.”“Whatever storms were out there definitely had a lot of fuel to tap into,” McNoldy said. Ocean heat drives evaporation, causing warm, moist air to rise from the surface to create convection; hurricanes require ocean temperatures of at least 79 degrees Fahrenheit to form.
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