D.C. pipe bomb arrest; Trump’s new ballroom architect; Black Death volcano theory; and more
The 7
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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Friday, December 5. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:00.0 | The FBI arrested a suspect in the January 6th pipe bomb case. President Donald Trump parted ways with his ballroom architect. And teens in Australia are about to kiss their social media goodbye. That's some of what we'll get to on the 7 from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, December 5th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:30.3 | Number one. The military showed lawmakers video from a controversial September boat strike. On Capitol Hill yesterday, |
| 0:40.4 | lawmakers watched footage of a U.S. military attack on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. |
| 0:47.3 | They said they saw a second strike hitting before two survivors could flip their capsized vessel. |
| 0:56.5 | That strike has been at the center of a controversy. The post has reported that defense secretary Pete Hegseth had given a spoken order to |
| 1:03.5 | kill everyone on board the boat. Trump administration officials, including Hegseth, |
| 1:09.3 | have been giving shifting explanations of the incident. |
| 1:13.2 | The video was shown to lawmakers during a day of closed-door meetings with Admiral Frank Bradley. |
| 1:19.4 | That's the commander who oversaw the operation. |
| 1:23.1 | The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Jim Himes, said the video was one of the most troubling |
| 1:29.0 | things he has seen in office. Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia said he's awaiting |
| 1:35.1 | more information about the strikes. I do continue to have concerns that this pattern from |
| 1:43.1 | Secretary Hegstaff of putting our uniform military in harm's way |
| 1:48.1 | if I think it doesn't do the secretary or our armed forces any service by holding back and not being transparent. |
| 1:59.7 | Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, defended the strikes yesterday. |
| 2:04.9 | He called them righteous and lawful. |
| 2:10.7 | President Trump had a victory and a defeat in court yesterday. |
| 2:15.4 | That's number two. |
| 2:17.2 | The good news for Trump came from the Supreme Court. |
| 2:20.5 | Justices cleared the way for a Texas congressional map that could flip up to five U.S. House |
| 2:26.7 | seats to Republicans. Trump had pushed Texas Republicans to redraw the map to help the GOP |
| 2:33.4 | maintain its narrow advantage in the House next year. |
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