Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

🇪🇨🇻🇪By order of Ecuadorian President Noboa,the country's armed forces have launched a military operation in the border province of Imbabura near Colombia to dismantle groups linked to Venezuelan and Mexican drug cartels,as well as criminal gangs and organizations involved in illegal mining activities

Trump: "Israel can say that 'we killed 50,000' and so you'd say it's a whole net set of people. And it is. They get replaced by other people. Young people."

Trump: Maduro "has offered everything. You know why? Because he doesn't want to fuck around with the United States"