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Saturday, December 20, 2025

In Buffalo NY, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and NYS Governor Kathy Hochul (D) jointly announced a deal to cooperate on sharing nuclear power across their border; concomitantly the Ontario Premier publicly shunned Florida, encouraging Canadians to join his boycott of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' state.


A Namibian politician named after German dictator Adolf Hitler was declared the winner by a landslide in a local government election, according to official results published late Thursday. Read more


Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high. The four detainees, from Haiti, Nicaragua, Eritrea and Bulgaria, died between December 12 and 15, ICE notices said. While the incidents remain under investigation, ICE said two followed medical emergencies and two were believed to be the result of natural causes.


The Department of Justice (DOJ) finally released the first initial tranche of documents and photos pertaining to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and President Donald Trump appears to be completely omitted from the files despite his history with Epstein


A federal jury has acquitted a South L.A. man who was charged with stealing government property by towing an immigration agent's vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in Downtown Los Angeles earlier this year. Bobby Nunez was arrested Sept. 2 after he was accused of interfering with the detainment of Tatiana Mafla-Martinez while she live-streamed her Aug. 15 arrest. During the trial, the defense attorneys argued that the law enforcement vehicle was blocking the driveway to the complex and their client had moved it around the corner " just one block away. They said that the car was returned within 13 minutes. Read more


Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr "terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome, and early identification of autism."


Former Bedminster Club manager Justine Sacks is suing Dummkopf Trumpf for wrongful termination, alleging that guests were routinely served expired food, that kitchen staff were often drunk on the job, and "maggots and mold" infected the restaurant's soft serve ice cream machine.


US District Judge Gary Brown (EDNY) was so distraught with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant, he threatened to hold the government in contempt of court.


Friday, December 19, 2025

Seasons greetings, from your old friend Santa! Santa has been hard at work up at the North Pole preparing to deliver toys to all you wonderful girls and boys.

But lately, it hasn't been all candy canes and rainbows for old St. Nick, because some people don't like the fact that Santa started dating Mrs. Claus when she was just 14. Read more


Samuel "Anglo" Saxon (47), the Cincinnati Ohio-based ICE leader accused of strangling and beating a woman he lived with, is being incarcerated in the Butler County Jail along with ICE detainees.


The British House of Commons reports:

  • "China has been accused of conducting state-threat activities in the UK such as industrial espionage, cyber-attacks, and spying on politicians. The UK Government has responded by passing new legislation to counter state threats, while still trying to pursue stronger economic relations with China."


    Finland's government is facing heavy pressure and accusations of racism from several Asian countries after its representative to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a photo -- and some Finnish politicians posted their own photos repeating the gesture.


    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia's latest hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed in his country and is ready for use.


    Damning Recording of Trump 2020 Call Exposed: "Who's Gonna Stop You?"

    More evidence reveals how Donald Trump tried to overturn the results in Georgia's state election. Read more


    Thursday, December 18, 2025

    Kids, and kids at heart, race out to make a snowman after a winter storm blankets the ground. Just as every snowflake is unique, each snowman's size and accessories are limited only by its creator's imagination. Indeed, snowmen of all sorts have dotted front yards and public spaces for centuries. Yet they were not always the "jolly happy" figures immortalized in the song and animated television special "Frosty the Snowman."


    Craig Austin Lang (35, Kiev, Ukraine) was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in federal prison for killing a Floridian couple in 2018 in his effort to raise funds to fight the Nicolas Maduro government of Venezuela.


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