Democrats in the House and Senate have written to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying they are worried the Department of Justice (DOJ) is favoring the clients of a particular attorney: her brother.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification " a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not mean full legalization, according to a source familiar with the planning and a senior White House official. Read more
Via Executive Order, Dummkopf Trumpf ordered various restrictions or a complete ban of people coming to the US from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, Gaza Strip/West Bank; Laos, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela.
Congress is preparing to use the War Powers Resolution's fast-track machinery to force a recorded vote on whether President Trump must end U.S. "hostilities within or against Venezuela" that Congress has not authorized.
Warner Bros Discovery will urge its shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance's $108.4bn (80.75bn) takeover bid as soon as Wednesday, according to reports. Paramount has said its offer is "superior" to a $72bn deal that Warner Bros struck with Netflix for its film and streaming businesses. Read more
The Republican Party has a problem in New York State. There is one person who can plausibly do something about it, but he refuses to get involved. And so, GOP operatives are currently busy tearing their hair out.
...believe them the first time. That is what Maya Angelou supposedly said, though note that all sources for that quote are secondhand. In any event, it's a good observation, whether Angelou came up with it herself or not.
An investment firm linked to Jared Kushner has abandoned a planned redevelopment in Belgrade. The decision follows protests, legal action, and growing anger over the removal of heritage status for the former army site. Read more
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer fired several rounds at another driver during a road rage incident near the entrance to the JFKIA central terminal. The CBP inspector said the other motorist began assaulting him after the two got into a fender-bender around 0450 HRS. The allegedly violent motorist, who had been driving a silver Mercedes with New Jersey plates, drove off with his rear window shattered.
There's a key factor limiting the power of a potential Democratic surge next year: the number of seats that are realistically competitive.
The government has launched an independent review of foreign financial interference in UK politics, after the jailing of a former Reform MEP for taking Russian bribes.
Pulitzer Prize board members just turned the tables on Donald Trump with discovery demands over the President's defamation lawsuit over Russia probe reporting awards. Trump launched the lawsuit against the board in 2022. Trump has repeatedly claimed to be in excellent health, even though he's been pictured daily with bandages on his pasty hand for ages now. And there's the MRI that the 79-year-old president feigns ignorance over. Now, court documents filed for the Pulitzer Prize Board demand that Trump hand over all tax documents and all documents concerning his medical or psychological health. The Trump case claimed the Pulitzer board was "perpetuating the absurdly false and defamatory narrative contrived by the President's political opponents: that he and his campaign somehow colluded with Vladimir Putin and the Russian government to gain advantage in the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
Two Republicans in Congress are calling for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the United States following the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia over the weekend, amplifying an increasingly brazen Islamophobic sentiment within the party. "It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible," Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) posted on social media Monday. "Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America." Fine's comments echoed those of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) in an X post on Sunday. "Islam is not a religion. It's a cult," Tuberville wrote on X. "Islamists aren't here to assimilate. They're here to conquer. ... We've got to SEND THEM HOME NOW or we'll become the United Caliphate of America."
On 10 Dec 2025, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS) arrested and charged Master Warrant Officer (MWO) Matthew Robar, a member of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, with multiple offenses pursuant to the National Defense Act (NDA). The investigation began in 2024 and focused on the unauthorized disclosure of safeguarded information to a Foreign Entity.
"On 15 Dec, at the direction of Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking. A total of eight male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions, three in the first vessel, two in the second, and three in the third."
The US military conducted strikes against three alleged drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing 8 people, according to US Southern Command. "On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters," SOUTHCOM wrote on X. "Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking."
