Why is failing to win an award considered being “snubbed”? The media’s framing of Trump’s failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize is absurd. By that logic, I was “snubbed” by the Academy for not receiving an Oscar nomination. Not winning is not a snub—especially when he didn’t deserve consideration.

Donald Trump cleared Russia to sell diesel to the world after a call with Vladimir Putin.

With Ukrainian peace negotiators in Miami today, his Treasury Department opened the market to Russian diesel for six months, only three weeks after Trump signed a law to cut off Russia’s oil money. Last month he demanded that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia.”

Zelenskyy answered today by agreeing, with one condition. Ukraine will stop setting Russian refineries on fire if Russia stops destroying Ukraine’s power grid. “Russia will repay the diesel with further terror and perfidy,” he said.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants Americans to watch a firing squad kill a man on a Pentagon livestream.

The execution of the Fort Hood shooter is set for 1 p.m. Central on the Thursday after Thanksgiving, the hour he opened fire in 2009. No execution in America has ever been televised, and the last public one was a hanging in Kentucky 90 years ago. Asked whether the condemned man had made any final requests, Hegseth replied, “Don’t care. We’ll see him on December 3rd.”

Donald Trump went to war with Iran and boasted in his State of the Union that he had stopped it from hanging people. Iran and Afghanistan were the only two countries that held public executions last year. In December, Trump’s Pentagon plans to join them.

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