by Ebony Davis | Nov 11, 2026 | culture, News, White House
Members of the Kennedy family filed a motion to join a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s proposed Independence Arch near Arlington National Cemetery.
In a 27-page filing Tuesday, nine children and grandchildren of Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy asked to intervene in litigation challenging the administration’s plans to construct the massive arch at Memorial Circle near the cemetery in Washington.
“President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines to the existing gravesites and memorials established in the Kennedy family’s honor at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes,” the filing said.
The proposed monument would stand at least 250 feet tall, more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial. The Kennedy relatives argue that the arch would disrupt a historic sightline designed to symbolize national reunification after the Civil War.
The family has a “particular interest in protecting the Kennedy Gravesites” as a memorial to its legacy, their attorneys wrote.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already blocked construction of the arch through at least next week while the legal challenges proceed.
The filing comes days after the National Capital Planning Commission approved the administration’s plans for the arch on Nov. 5.
The project already faces multiple lawsuits, including one filed in February by private plaintiffs. The District of Columbia and Virginia also filed separate lawsuits Oct. 31, which a federal judge consolidated that same day.
The Kennedy relatives argue that the monument threatens the burial sites of their parents and grandparents, including former President John F. Kennedy, Robert
by Jacques Berlinerblau | Nov 9, 2026 | culture, elections, Opinion
Given the prominence of religious Christian Democrats who rode the blue wave to victory this midterm election, one might be forgiven for questioning whether lawmakers who often ground their politics in their deeply held Christian faith will continue to weaken the crumbing wall of separation between church and state.
But the truth of the matter is much more complicated.
Newly elected senators like James Talarico and Adam Hamilton have a major opportunity — and challenge — when it comes to defending church-state separation. Their task is fraught; they are not only mounting a defense against red state conservatives, not only against the John Roberts Supreme Court, which has worked to dismantle the wall brick by brick, but against Obama-era orthodoxies as well.
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That Democrats fielded religious candidates isn’t all that new. After all, Black Democrats have historically used their Christian faith to guide their politics. But what’s new here is the emergence in red states of a small cluster of white Democrats who are deeply committed to mainline Protestant traditions and who link their theological convictions to liberal policies — often to remarkable effect. Their views on church and state issues, while still evolving, may mark a break with Democrats’ recent approach to this issue.
Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, trounced Republican Ken Paxton as Texas turned blue. In Kansas, Methodist megachurch pastor Hamilton defeated GOP incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall. Two ministers in Iowa, one Lutheran (Sarah Trone Garriott) and one Presbyterian (Lindsay James), are now House members-elect. (The Hawkeye State’s incoming governor, Rob Sand, is a Bible-quoting Lutheran layperson.)
Not every
by Clarissa-Jan Lim | Nov 7, 2026 | culture, News, White House
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has offered Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the role of White House press secretary.
“I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States,” Trump announced on Truth Social.
The surreal announcement was met by an equally uncanny response, with the longtime Trump ally appearing to accept the offer.
White posted a picture of himself in front of the briefing podium on his Instagram story that read, “On to the next chapter.“
In a second story, White shared a screenshot of the president’s Truth Social post offering him the job.
Trump said he asked White to bring on several mixed martial artists as assistants — two of whom are Russian nationals — and added, “We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left.” Trump then implored White to “please take the job!”
White, a millionaire who has been a vocal supporter of the president, does not appear to have any professional experience that would qualify him for the role as the White House’s chief public communicator.
White did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment. The White House has not publicly confirmed that White will assume the position.
White’s first-of-its-kind UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in June to mark Trump’s 80th birthday came under intense ethics scrutiny, costing an estimated $60 million.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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by Anthony L. Fisher | Nov 5, 2026 | Congress, culture, elections, Opinion, White House
The final tally of Republicans’ midterm electoral carnage wasn’t even close to being counted Tuesday when it became the proverbial Night of the Long MAGA Knives.
As Democrats took decisive control of the House and Senate, flipping numerous “safe” Republican seats along the way and even turning Texas — Texas!! — blue by winning every statewide office up for election, President Donald Trump’s heretofore powerful MAGA coalition took to the internet, and its “thought leaders” began lashing out at anyone they could blame for the historic electoral collapse. Often the targets were one another.
Chaya Raichik — the far-right operator of the Libs of TikTok X account — blamed Democrats, who she falsely claimed “imported millions of foreigners, handed them a bunch of free shit, and then registered them to vote,” adding, “If we ever want to win again we need deportations and denaturalizations ramped up on steroids or our country will forever be lost to the communists.”
Laura Loomer — the self-described “pro-white nationalism” influencer known for pushing false, racist conspiracy theories and for being Trump’s McCarthyite loyalty enforcer — spread the blame around too. She said it “would have been best to ban Tik Tok,” called out Christian nationalists (“Where was your God last night?”) and blamed the GOP’s humiliating defeat on America’s racial diversity (“America was always intended to be a majority White country. Not a cesspool for third world minorities”).
Surging fuel prices, exacerbated inflation, financial instability and apparent failure to achieve any of the administration’s oft-shifting goals for the war cannot be hidden from the American public.
“Pizzagate” propagandist Mike Cernovich blamed the post-Charlie Kirk leadership of Turning Point USA,
by Zeeshan Aleem | Oct 4, 2026 | culture, Opinion, White House, World
When I learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called for passing a law aimed at revoking the citizenship of two Israeli directors who made a new documentary about the war in Gaza, I figured that he was engaging in his typical flair for dramatics. But when I saw the film for myself, I immediately understood why he felt so threatened by it.
“NAZA,” which is set to release in theaters across the U.S. in the coming weeks, is a jaw-dropping indictment of Netanyahu’s military operation. Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor interview 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers — whose appearances and voices are digitally altered to provide them with anonymity — to reveal vivid, often horrifying details of the Israeli military’s incursion into Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 war crimes.
One might wonder what’s left to learn or condemn after Gazans have documented so much of Israel’s brutal treatment of civilians through videos that have, at times, made social media feeds almost unwatchably grim. Moreover, many human rights organizations and scholars of genocide have for years characterized Israel’s ongoing operation as genocidal.
Yet even if you follow the conflict fairly closely, “NAZA” will likely reveal new information to you about how the Israeli military dominates Gaza and internally rationalizes its brutalization. And if you’re unconvinced that Israel’s military operation is beyond the pale, this might just be the thing that changes your mind.
What might frighten Netanyahu more than anything is some of the interviewees’ ultimate assessment of what they participated in.
“NAZA,” which is a Hebrew military acronym that means “collateral damage,” shreds the myth that the Israeli military
by Clarissa-Jan Lim | Oct 3, 2026 | Business, culture, News, World
The FlyDubai pilot who allegedly attacked his captain on a flight to Israel earlier this week used a crash ax and tried to seize control of the aircraft in an attempted terrorist act, a United Arab Emirates official said.
The pilot, who has been identified as an Omani national, used a crash ax to attack the flight’s captain and then tried to take control of the plane, UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said in a statement reported by Emirates News Agency. A crash ax is a tool to break windows during an emergency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke by phone on Saturday with Captain Smit Machchhar, who described taking blows “one after the other” during the call.
The Israeli ambassador to the UAE, Yossi Shelley, previously told MS NOW that the pilot had been employed by FlyDubai for a year.
The plane was traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when the incident happened. As it closed in on the Israeli border, the aircraft plunged more than 14,000 feet in 30 seconds, according to FlightRadar data.
Most of the passengers on the flight were Israeli, according to Netanyahu. Four were Americans. Machchhar, an Indian national, despite having been bludgeoned, described fighting back and opened the cockpit door so that others could intervene and subdue the alleged attacker.
Netanyahu called him a “hero.”
An investigation into the incident is underway. FlyDubai, an Emirati government-owned airline that has operated commercial flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv since 2020, has since temporarily suspended service to the Israeli city.
Inzamam Rashid contributed reporting.
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