Matt, A new geography game is driving people crazy. It challenges users to "pack" countries into each other. Harder than it looks.
Trump's racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation. The rant is abhorrent and factually incorrect, but it does hold one truth " the Trump administration's vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision " in other words, through ethnic cleansing. Read more
A mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday left at least 10 people dead and 11 others injured, according to authorities. The New South Wales Police Force confirmed on X that ten people were killed in the shooting, including one of the suspected shooters. The second alleged gunman is in critical condition. Read more
National broadcaster ABC reports that New South Wales Police are responding to reports of an active shooter at the site, one of the country's most iconic beaches. Meanwhile, the Sydney Morning Herald is citing reports of "multiple shots fired" at Bondi, adding that it is unclear if anyone has been injured. Two people are in police custody at Bondi Beach, New South Wales police have said in a statement.
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million " not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library. Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf and several junta members have informally discussed the idea of pre-emptively pardoning an array of Trumpf advisers, policymakers, and other malefactors who the Dotard-in-Chief believes will likely be criminally investigated once Democrats are back in power.
Last month US military forces raided a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, making this incident the first time in several years US forces had intercepted a ship travelling from China to Iran in order to seize their cargo.
UNICEF: "UNICEF knows that 82 children have been killed in Gaza since 10 October which is a staggering pattern, and it needs to stop." These child fatalities are part of a broader toll of at least 386 people killed and 980 wounded or maimed by the IDF since the so-called ceasefire' began.
The United States will lift sanctions on Belarusian potash in the latest sign of a thaw between Washington and the isolated autocracy. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, met the country's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for talks in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Friday and Saturday. A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western isolation and sanctions for years.
Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year.
A Cincinnati-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor is being held in Hamilton County Jail on $400,000 bond after allegedly strangling his partner. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations official Samuel Saxon, 47, was arrested on Dec. 5 after police say he attacked a woman he lives with in their Corryville apartment. In court Monday, an officer testified that police have been called to the apartment roughly two dozen times in the last year and a half. Prosecutors also detailed a long relationship between Saxon and the victim that began when she was 18 years old and he was in his 40s. Court records state Saxon's arrest followed observations of bruising on the woman's neck and accounts from witnesses who said he put her in a chokehold in the apartment's hallway. Prosecutors noted the woman has reported serious injuries in past incidents linked to Saxon, including a broken nose in 2018 and a broken pelvis in April.
Rep. Don Bacon, a senior member of House Armed Services Committee who does not plan to run for reelection next year, has long taken exception to Donald Trump's approach to Russia " but the Nebraska Republican has escalated his criticism following the administration's release of a new policy document. The 2025 National Security Strategy that the White House made public Dec. 5, raised eyebrows in Washington for mentioning Russia only in passing while criticizing European allies. The strategy reflects Trump's apparent predilection for Russia and his cordial relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "They're saying he's the new Reagan. He's the new Chamberlain," Bacon said of Trump, an apparent reference to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's description of Trump in a Dec. 6 speech as "the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan." Read more
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The State Department is retroactively promoting hundreds of additional Foreign Service employees, after unilaterally changing the criteria and the panels of individuals who oversee this process.
Adm. Alvin Holsey, who oversees military operations in Latin America, retired Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration's deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region. He handed over command one year into a posting that typically lasts three to four years, transferring duties to his top military deputy during a ceremony at U.S. Southern Command headquarters near Miami.
The US ambassador to the UN has accused Rwanda of leading Africa's Great Lakes region toward war, just over a week after a peace deal was signed in Washington to end the decades-long conflict. US President Donald Trump Trump hailed the deal between DR Congo's President Flix Tshisekedi and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame as "historic" and "a great day for Africa, great day for the world". Read more
