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If you type “who will take over” into Google, the first autocomplete result is “Who will take over after Trump?” This is undoubtedly the most pressing question in American politics for the Republican party today, since Donald Trump is constitutionally ineligible to run for president again in 2028.

Starting in December 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) launched “Operation Metro Surge," an operation aimed at arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants, in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. In the midst of the operation, CBP and ICE agents were involved in many controversies regarding but not limited to their use of force and conduct.

In October 2025, Tucker Carlson made headlines for what many considered to be a blatant endorsement of white supremacy: interviewing extremist streamer Nick Fuentes. Over the two-hour interview, the pair bonded over discussions of "organized Jewry" threatening the United States and praising authoritarian figures, such as Joseph Stalin.

In George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series, the Iron Bank is a quietly menacing figure that lingers in the background of Westeros’s civil war. The exact power wielded by the world’s most powerful financial institution is made clear when the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister informs the Iron Bank that she would delay repayment indefinitely. In response to Cersei’s default, her creditor throws its financial heft behind another rival, quadrupling his forces overnight and shifting the war’s balance in one fell swoop.