Just awful, awful news, wrapped in a beautiful and deeply clear-eyed message of the hope Christ brings. Praying for the Sasse family.

A Syrian expat was dining at Sixty, a restaurant at the top of a Moscow skyscraper, when waiters asked him not to take any photos. The diner looked around to see who the VIP was. It was Bashar al-Assad. Our story on the family’s life in exile:

Read about it here, from @Dahmancnn, me, Thomas and Dana Karni. https://t.co/d3wQNkDCts

Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:

For those who missed it: US intel continues to indicate that Putin has not abandoned his territorial ambitions - something he has stated openly in recent days. Ambition is different than capability. But it matters in the context of deal making https://t.co/dKKykomLPk

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Marco Rubio just spent more than 2 hours answering questions from the press.

Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order. Latest from me and @ZcohenCNN https://t.co/Zjnw6Id8M4

Kennedy Center board member says she was not allowed to speak during the decision to rename it>

Hegseth has had no problem releasing videos of strikes on boats -- except the one that shows the second strike that killed two survivors clinging to the wreckage of a smashed vessel. That one, he says, is too "top secret" to release. @SangerNYT

12:55 pm - Bongino to @MSNOWNews when I asked him for comment on story saying he was leaving his position in January. "Print whatever you’d like. No one believes you anyway." 5:16 pm - Bongino on X: "I will be leaving my position in January."

Leavitt confirms this is something that Trump personally chose to spend his time on.

Rep. Jason Crow says on CNN he asked US military commanders during today's classified briefing if there was any reason they could NOT release full video from Sept. 2 boat strike. "No," was their response, per Crow, who said lawmakers were told the video could easily be prepared

Russian President Putin gave a clear indication Wednesday that he will not compromise on his demands for Ukraine to cede territory and said Russia would take territory by force if necessary. “If the opposing country and its foreign patrons refuse to engage in substantive

Notable given the fact that, since the US began striking alleged drug trafficking boats in the Eastern Pacific on October 21, only four have been struck in the Caribbean. The other 18 have all been in the Eastern Pacific.

NEW: The Coast Guard quietly went ahead with policy Monday that downgrades nooses and swastikas -- that it previously ID'd as hate symbols -- to just ‘potentially divisive.' This despite the acting commandant's directive that those symbols would be prohibited.

A @CNN investigation has uncovered horrific details about atrocities in Sudan, exposing ethnically targeted killings at the hands of the Sudanese Armed Forces and its allies. Worth reading in full:

Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"

“Over lunch, Wiles told me about Trump’s Venezuela strategy: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” (Wiles’s statement appears to contradict the administration’s official stance that blowing up

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shares, um, surprisingly candid views of the Trump team https://t.co/H8Fz2xX3KO