On October 14, 2025, President Trump posthumously awarded conservative activist Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been his 32nd birthday. The honor was accepted by Kirk’s widow, Erika, during an emotionally charged ceremony in the Rose Garden.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to former Special Counsel Jack Smith, demanding that he testify on the weaponized Department of Justice under the Biden administration.
President Donald Trump declared before the Knesset that the beginnings of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel marks a "historic dawn of a new Middle East."
First Lady Melania Trump announced that eight Ukrainian children have been returned to their families after being displaced in the country's war with Russia.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for President Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for assisting in the peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
The State Department fired a Foreign Service officer who admitted to having a romantic relationship with a woman connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
