City Journal reports that the company PlumpJack contracts to manage Newsom's Oso Vineyard has what the authors call a long history of employing illegal labor. The report is pointed in places, and several claims rest on thin or single-source evidence.
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba Mildon was terminated from a four-year, $50 million-plus general counsel deal with a company run by the daughter of a Venezuelan banker Trump pardoned. The reporting comes through secondary outlets, and the order of events is not fully settled.
Alexander Darchiev, the diplomat Vladimir Putin appointed in 2025 as Russia's ambassador to Washington, has died at 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced. The ministry said he died suddenly, and a spokeswoman later cited a chronic illness.
Headlines say 22 percent of college students agree America deserved the September 11 attacks. The survey behind the number has not been located, and its question wording and sample remain unknown.
Former Jets coach Rex Ryan turned himself in to Nashville police on six misdemeanor warrants after, police allege, his pickup ran over two pedestrians' feet on Broadway and he drove off after an argument. No response from Ryan has been reported.
The Federalist reports that President Trump told 60 Minutes his immigration enforcement may have been too tough and named immigration as an area to work with Democrats. The outlet calls that the wrong lesson from the midterms.
The NTSB says it recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County on Nov. 1, killing all nine aboard. Whether it holds usable audio is not yet known.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Paris that sanctions and a naval blockade are squeezing Iran hard enough that President Trump does not need major combat operations. He rejected the idea that holding off amounts to a stalemate.
Russian, Ukrainian and American negotiators met in Abu Dhabi for the first three-way talks since February. Rubio called the first day very productive, but no deal has been announced.
House Republicans reportedly chose Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan over Majority Leader Steve Scalise to lead the conference in the next Congress, though the vote count has not been independently verified.
ESPN and the College Football Playoff have reportedly agreed to a five-year deal worth about $1.7 billion, though The Hill puts the media rights at more than $1 billion, that would grow the bracket to 24 teams in 2027. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the move short-sighted.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced he will commute all 548 California death sentences to life without parole. Marc Klaas, father of Polly Klaas, called the decision "absolutely heartbreaking."
President Trump says he thinks he will meet Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at next week's APEC summit in Shenzhen. Moscow says work is underway, but nothing is confirmed and Beijing's position is unclear.
The Supreme Court has stayed a lower-court injunction that halted border barrier and road construction in Texas's Big Bend Sector. The stay does not settle whether the project is lawful, and the legal fight continues.
A day after publicly offering UFC chief Dana White the press secretary job, President Trump posted an animated video of White's fighters pinning reporters in the briefing room. White said he would meet Trump Monday, and whether he wants the job is unsettled.
Charlie Kirk's widow posted on X that a culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. She named no one, and the reports about a podcast and Dave Chappelle rest on two right-leaning outlets.
President Trump told 60 Minutes his deportation policy was "too tough," three days after Republican midterm losses. CBS reports it is unclear whether the administration will change how it enforces immigration law.
