President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated that he is weighing whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a statement that mirrors similar comments he made earlier this year and during his 2024 presidential campaign. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, the president said he was considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug. "We are considering that. A lot of people want to see it, the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can't be done unless you reclassify," Trump said on Monday.

For fifteen years I've scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career. I was thirty-one, I'd been in Los Angeles for five years writing scripts. There had been minor successes, a couple of small projects optioned, and I'd recently started writing with my best friend. We were writing constantly, making each other better, building momentum. Success felt close. Back then it always did.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals negotiated with US officials on a peace deal to end Russia's war in Ukraine could be finalised within days, after which American envoys will present them to the Kremlin. After two days of talks in Berlin, US officials said on Monday they had resolved "90%" of the problematic issues between Russia and Ukraine, but despite the positive spin it is not clear that an end to the war is any closer, particularly as the Russian side is absent from the current talks.

The U.S. is offering Ukraine security guarantees similar to those it would receive as part of NATO, American officials said Monday. The offer is the strongest and most explicit security pledge the Trump administration has put forward for Ukraine, but it comes with an implicit ultimatum: Take it now or the next iteration won't be as generous.

President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse. The lawsuit claims the broadcast removed portions of his remarks in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.

The BBC has said it will defend a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump against the BBC over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Trump accused the broadcaster of defamation and of violating a trade practices law, according to court documents filed in Florida. The BBC apologised to Trump last month, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was a "basis for a defamation claim". Trump's legal team accused the BBC of defaming him by "intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech". A BBC spokesperson said: "As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case."

President Trump sued the BBC on Monday, seeking $10 billion in damages for alleging defamation over how a documentary aired shortly before the 2024 election edited a speech he delivered on Jan. 6, 2021. Why it matters: It marks the third lawsuit the president has waged against a media company while in office. Trump filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times in September, and refiled the case the following month after the original complaint was dismissed for being unnecessarily long. He sued the Wall Street Journal in July over its reporting about his purported contribution to Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book.

President Donald Trump on Monday evening filed a lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) seeking $10 billion in restitution for alleged defamation in a news special that aired last year. The 33-page legal filing accuses the BBC of making "a false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump … that was fabricated and aired by the Defendants one week before the 2024 Presidential Election in a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence the Election's outcome to President Trump's detriment." The BBC aired an episode titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" on Oct. 28, 2024—one week before the 2024 presidential election.

Rob Reiner's son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday.

Rob Reiner and his son Nick Reiner got into a heated argument at a Saturday night holiday party the night before the director and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were killed on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 14, multiple sources at the party tell PEOPLE. TMZ first reported on Monday that Reiner, 78, and his 32-year-old son got into a "very loud argument" at a Christmas party hosted by Conan O'Brien on Saturday night.