U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed new rules that would require foreign tourists to the United States to provide their social media activity from the past five years. “In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years,” a Federal Register notice read. The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. https://t.co/56K7XNoRm9 — NBC News (@NBCNews) December 10, 2025 NBC News has more: The data would be “mandatory” for new entrants to the U.S., who hail from 42 countries that are part of the visa waiver program, according to the notice from Customs and Border Protection. Residents of the United Kingdom and Germany are among the countries from which visitors do not require visas to visit the U.S., which, according to the notice, could add an extra hurdle for travelers. British citizens and people of other waived countries currently can complete “Electronic System for Travel Authorizations” in lieu of obtaining visas. Providing social media histories would now be part of the requirements to complete the ESTA, according to the proposal. The Trump administration has increased restrictions on people entering the U.S., and President Donald Trump ran a campaign that focused on border and immigration crackdowns. In addition to social media histories, Customs and Border Protection would add other new data collection fields, including email addresses and telephone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the addresses and names of family members, the notice reads. “CBP intends to update the ESTA application website to require applicants to provide a photograph of their face, or ‘selfie’, in addition to the photo of the passport biographical page. In addition, CBP intends to update the mobile application and require third party submissions to include a ‘selfie’ or photograph of the applicant’s face. These photos would be used to better ensure that the applicant is the rightful possessor of the document being used to obtain an ESTA authorization,” the notice read. “Currently, applicants are allowed to have a third party apply for an ESTA on their behalf. While this update would not remove that option, third parties, such as travel agents or family members, would be required to provide a photograph of the ESTA applicant,” it continued. “To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several ‘high value data fields’ to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application,” it added. The high value data fields include: a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years; b. Email addresses used in the last ten years; c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos; d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children); e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years; f. Family member dates of birth; g. Family member places of birth; h. Family member residencies; i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris; j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years; k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years. Homeland Security moves toward scrutinizing foreign tourists' social media accounts before entry https://t.co/rjNL0o8K6p — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) December 10, 2025 The Guardian shared reactions to the proposed rules: Australian tourists have described the US mandate to sweep social media posts, as well as collect comprehensive “high-value data” on family members such as phone numbers, dates of birth and residencies, as “horrifying” and “draconian”. But travel data reveals Australians were already avoiding the US before the detailed rules were announced. They have changed travel plans to avoid entering the US and even moved reunions with family members to other countries. In 2019, the last free year of travel before the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered borders across the world, more than 100,000 Australians would regularly arrive in the US each month. That figure is now consistently in the low 50,000s, and below 50,000 for the first time last month, figures from the US department of commerce show. The number of Australians arriving in the US in November fell to just 45,408, 11% lower than the same month last year. Jonathan, who asked for his surname to be withheld, works in project delivery and is from Sydney. The 42-year-old had planned to return to the US, his country of birth, for next year’s Fifa World Cup but changed his plans several months ago. He said news of the policy changes overnight made him feel he had made the right call. “I have a lot of family and friends there, but I will actively avoid it now,” he said. “The whole thing disgusts me and is horrifying, frankly. While I think I would be protected as a citizen, my son and my wife are not US citizens. My son was really excited to go and he was really sad when I told him we wouldn’t go – but now I feel validated.” He said his wife’s Chinese citizenship was potentially a cause for trouble at the border, though his son was an Australian citizen. CBS News provided additional coverage: Read the full Federal Register notice.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions on affordability and inflation during a sometimes contentious press briefing on Thursday. “Every economic metric does in fact show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration,” Leavitt noted at the top of the briefing prior to taking questions. Eric Bolling of Real America’s Voice kicked off the questioning, pointing to declining energy prices. “Energy prices have been coming down aggressively since Trump’s second term with $55 per barrel and gas prices under $3 for the first time in the past five years,” Bolling began. “Some people in this room want to call this an affordability crisis right now, seeming to want to forget four years prior when we hit 9% inflation. That’s an affordability crisis, but we weren’t calling it that back then. How will President Trump ensure that the legacy media does not flip the script?” Leavitt responded, calling the media’s coverage of affordability under the Trump administration “a point of frustration” for both herself and the president. “It’s a great question, Eric,” she said. “It is part of the reason I kicked off this briefing today, setting the record straight with facts about the economic mess that the president inherited from his predecessor Joe Biden.” Leavitt called affordability a top priority for President Trump, offering several figures to demonstrate her point. Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships “Inflation has slowed to an average 2.5% pace; real wages are increasing roughly $1,200 for the average worker; gas prices are down in almost every single state across the country, in 22 states, it’s below $2.75; the tax cuts will go into effect next year; the best is yet to come, and the president is digging the country out of the economic hole that the previous administration put us in.” A separate and somewhat heated exchange came during questioning from CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, who asked, “If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, then why is he telling parents two to three weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children?” Leavitt responded, noting the president’s intention to bring manufacturing back to the United States: “Maybe you’ll pay a dollar or two more, but you will get better quality and you’ll be supporting your fellow Americans by buying American.” Collins followed up by challenging Leavitt on inflation — but the press secretary pushed back sharply. “There’s a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this press corps,” responded Leavitt. “My predecessor stood up at this podium and she said inflation doesn’t exist. She said the border was secure, and people like you just took her at her word. Those were two utter lies. Everything I’m telling you is the truth backed by my real, factual data, and you just don’t want to report on it because you want to push untrue narratives about the president.” Leavitt said she wishes “more people would remind the American public of how we got here and why.” “It does not mean the president is discarding the American people’s feelings. The president gets it better than anyone, which is why his entire administration has been focused on the economy and energy prices since day one.” She went on to describe Democrats as “the greatest con artists in history” who are “trying to claim ownership of an issue that they created.” Reporters also asked three separate questions about the selection of the next Federal Reserve Chair. Leavitt did not reveal when the announcement would be made, but reiterated that President Trump has long called for rate cuts. “I think the president has been quite clear about what he believes the Fed should be doing, which is lowering interest rates,” said Leavitt. She added that the president was pleased with the quarter point cut this week, but thinks “more should be done.”

Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, Jennifer Garner spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her mom and sisters. Some of her favorite memories involve home-cooked meals and time sitting around the family table. Jennifer and her mom, Pat Garner, had a unique opportunity to visit and cook in the kitchen from her childhood. Well, kind of. KitchenAid brought the family’s kitchen back to life in a studio, surprising Jennifer and Pat. When the mother and daughter walked into the room, the emotion became evident. Jennifer, in particular, loved the nostalgia. “This is where we would hang out, all our crafts happened right here with somebody looking through from that side,” Jennifer said. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KitchenAid (@kitchenaidusa) Jennifer Garner and Her Mom Had a Sweet Appreciation for the Kitchen Jennifer Garner’s mom told her daughter she felt very blessed to be back in that room, if only for a short time. “I think it’s a privilege to get to see where we used to be,” Pat said. Seeing Jennifer and her mom together in their old kitchen, making cookies, made fans misty-eyed with sweet nostalgia. “Oh myyyyy i can smell the cinnamon toast your mom would make us. and the time we made peanut butter cookies and forgot the sugar. i can’t believe how similar the kitchen is and how much it has transported me back in time with you both. i’d like to go build a pillow fort again in the den. feeling all the nostalgia, warmth, love. just wow,” friend shared. Others loved seeing Jennifer Garner and her mom’s reaction to the moment. “Every time I thought this couldn’t get more beautiful it did. From ‘I want my sisters’ to ‘it’s a privilege to see how we used to be. What a beautiful, beautiful thing,” another person wrote. “This is so beautiful- our best memories are made in the kitchen. Your mom is so sweet – and so are you. This corner of the internet needs MORE OF THIS,” a fan agreed. This story’s featured image can be found here.

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