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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 5, 2025
Nigeria hit by US fallout
Nigeria’s government is learning that disagreeing with Donald Trump’s White House can carry tough consequences.
Trump Admin ROCKED By New Scandals and Incompetence
Trump to attend World Cup draw and receive FIFA 'Peace Prize'
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has tried to ingratiate himself with Trump.
US Supreme Court approves new Texas congressional maps
A lower court said the map was manipulated to eliminate majority-minority districts, an unconstitutional racial discrimination.
Germany's Merz under threat ahead of pensions vote
Friedrich Merz came to power aiming to toughen Germany’s defense industry, revitalize its economy, and fend off the rise of the far right.
Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discriminatory. The 6-3 ruling is another political win for President Donald Trump and his allies, who have gotten a number of favorable rulings from the justices after being stymied by lower courts. Trump has asked Republican-led states to redraw their maps in order to preserve the narrow GOP majority in Congress when voters head to the polls in November 2026. The Texas effort could flip as many as five seats for the party. Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, calls it a “catastrophic ruling” that further normalizes extreme partisan gerrymandering. “This whole exercise made a complete mockery of democracy.”
Your Private Data Is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine
It was National Voter Registration Day, and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was on her way to a small liberal arts college for a voter registration event. That’s when she learned the US Department of Justice was suing her over how she manages Maine’s voter registrant list. While the DOJ appearing as the official […]