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Trump’s vile post about Reiner garnered wide condemnation, with many on social media describing his remarks as “disgusting.” Rocker Jack White took to Instagram to slam the president, writing: “Trump you disgusting, vile, egomaniac, loser, child. Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this gross, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much.”AdvertisementThe concept of a so-called “derangement syndrome” has been used against critics of past presidents before. But Trump has a history of frequently using the phrase against his naysayers himself. Alexandra Cromer, a licensed professional counselor with Thriveworks, believes that Trump’s habit of leveling the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” reveals a lot about his leadership style. There’s a reason why Trump’s attack on Reiner sparked a rare rebuke from his loyal supporters, experts say.

Two weeks after topping *Sportico*'s list of highest-paid female athletes in the world for the third straight year, Coco Gauff has also ranked as Forbes' highest-earner. With an estimated $33 million earned in 2025, the world No. 3 racked up the fourth-highest dollar figure for a female athlete ever according to the publication, behind Naomi Osaka's ($57.3 million) and Serena Williams' ($45.9 million) 2021 totals, and her own $34.4 million haul from a year ago. Both on-court and off-court earnings are factored in Forbes' rankings, with the former rounded to the nearest $100,000 and the latter to the nearest $1 million. Read more: Coco Gauff inks deal to become global brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday, which allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. He has not been deterred if they are enshrined in law, like the diversity visa lottery, or the Constitution, as with a right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil.

But even still, I hadn’t planned on marriage, let alone marrying a man nearly three decades my senior. I knew he was older than me, but I wasn’t sure of his age. Courtesy of Nicole ReedI wasn’t actively seeking an older man, but, then again, I wasn’t necessarily seeking anything. And though I have some anxiety about what happens when Christopher gets older, he isn’t the only one aging in this relationship. It took falling for someone much older to realize that time doesn’t make love more real — or less worth it.

Photo by George Pak : https://www.pexels.com/photo/two-tourists-eating-a-chinese-food-on-the-street-7969195/ Couple eating food on holidayOne of the best parts of travelling and going on holiday is trying new foods. This year, I visited Prague for the first time and enjoyed the culinary delight that is tartar sauce on chips and have not looked back since. Dr Rajan adds: “Travel stress also hits the vagus nerve… the communication superhighway between gut and brain. “When stress is high (tight connections, delays, mysteriously expensive airport sandwiches), vagal activity drops. Our bodies are tense, our brains are trying to keep on top of everything and we have likely been on the go for hours.

Supplied Diane and Rob ParsonsThis December, we’re championing kindness in all its forms through HuffPost UK’s Kindness Advent Calendar. A few days before Christmas, 50 years ago, Diane and Rob Parsons heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. Advertisement“The knocking wasn’t loud, but it was persistent,” recalls Rob Parsons. What’s with the frozen chicken?’”Rob recalls how Ronnie said somebody had given it to him for Christmas, but he had no way of cooking it. Not long after that life-changing door knock, he got a job as a refuse collector.

President Donald Trump could only make it two minutes into a speech at the White House’s Hanukkah reception Tuesday before completely derailing it by yapping about his favorite topic: himself. After reading off a few generic lines about how the antisemitic act that killed 15 Jewish people was a “terrible, terrible thing,” he moved on to introduce those in attendance at the reception. AdvertisementWhen he read the name of Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) — the former White House physician turned GOP lawmaker — Trump decided to very abruptly change gears. “He was my White House doctor,” Trump said before taking a few familiar jabs at his Democratic predecessors. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) is welcomed to the stage by Trump at a rally in 2024.

(Diaz Morales’ legal team told HuffPost Thursday night that they were able to schedule a virtual appointment for Monday, Dec. AdvertisementThe locator system is known to be frequently out of date, so it’s unclear whether Diaz Morales really is at that facility. Diaz Morales’ father referenced the danger posed by Jalisco Nueva Generación, a cartel. Reentering the country without documentation does not affect whether someone is a U.S. citizen, Diaz Morales’ attorneys noted. In the hearing Thursday morning, ICE maintained that it believed Diaz Morales’ documents were fake, Slatton said.

Florida executed 58-year-old Frank Walls by lethal injection as punishment for the 1987 killings of Edward Alger and his girlfriend Ann Peterson when Walls was 19 years old. AdvertisementWalls’ death marked the 47th execution of 2025 — nearly twice the number of executions from the previous year. Ahead of his execution, Walls asked the Supreme Court to halt the killing, arguing that his intellectual disability made him ineligible for execution and that execution logs from the Florida Department of Corrections showed the state’s execution practices were error-prone. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court denied Walls’ request, as it has done with every single request to stay an execution this year. DeSantis has indicated he wants to challenge a 2008 Supreme Court case that held that the death penalty for rape would violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Florida executed 58-year-old Frank Walls by lethal injection as punishment for the 1987 killings of Edward Alger and his girlfriend Ann Peterson when Walls was 19 years old. AdvertisementWalls’ death marked the 47th execution of 2025 — nearly twice the number of executions from the previous year. Ahead of his execution, Walls asked the Supreme Court to halt the killing, arguing that his intellectual disability made him ineligible for execution and that execution logs from the Florida Department of Corrections showed the state’s execution practices were error-prone. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court denied Walls’ request, as it has done with every single request to stay an execution this year. DeSantis has indicated he wants to challenge a 2008 Supreme Court case that held that the death penalty for rape would violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

The actual story of food prices and affordability in 2025 doesn’t really line up with Trump’s claims, according to November data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released on Thursday morning. Data from a Politico poll conducted by Public First from November found that 50% of Americans said that they struggle to pay for food. Hopefully, Republicans will use this irrefutable fact!”Yet, he’s also continued to say that Democrats are “making up” the numbers. “Our energy costs are way down. AdvertisementThat aforementioned Politico poll also found that most Americans (55%) hold the Trump administration responsible for the increase in costs — including 22% of his own voters.

The actual story of food prices and affordability in 2025 doesn’t really line up with Trump’s claims, according to November data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released on Thursday morning. Data from a Politico poll conducted by Public First from November found that 50% of Americans said that they struggle to pay for food. Hopefully, Republicans will use this irrefutable fact!”Yet, he’s also continued to say that Democrats are “making up” the numbers. “Our energy costs are way down. AdvertisementThat aforementioned Politico poll also found that most Americans (55%) hold the Trump administration responsible for the increase in costs — including 22% of his own voters.