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Thursday, December 18, 2025

Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford said Wednesday that the agency lost up to 500 air traffic controller trainees ....


WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump discussed a draft copy of a book by lawyer Alan Dershowitz that examines whether Trump could constitutionally serve a third term as president, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Trump's flirtation with the idea of a third term has alarmed opponents and constitutional experts, who say it would test the 22nd Amendment of the US Constitution, which Congress approved after Franklin Roosevelt was elected four times. The 22nd Amendment states in part that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." But Dershowitz said he told Trump on Tuesday that the Constitution was not clear on the issue. He said that during an Oval Office meeting, he handed Trump a draft of the book, titled "Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?"


At the White House annual Hanukkah candle-lighting on Tuesday, Dummkopf Trumpf bleated that mega-oligarch Miriam Adelson pledged $250 million to him in order to seek a third term.


Russia President Vladimir Putin lashed out at European leaders, deriding them as "little pigs," braying that Russia would achieve its territorial goals in Ukraine either through diplomacy or by military force.


Wednesday, December 17, 2025

'Members of Congress were informed yesterday that war is approaching and it will be declared during Trump's address,' Carlson said on the Judging Freedom podcast.


In his speech tonight, there are rumors that Trump will announce that a state of war exists between America and Venezuela. It seems as if the President of Peace is trying to fit in a little war into his busy schedule. War is coming ... it's just a matter of when.


European Christmas markets are opening this year under tightened security and rising operational costs, as officials across Germany, France and other parts of Europe respond to what authorities describe as elevated threats to public safety. In Germany, spending on security for public events " including Christmas markets " has increased by about 44% over the past three years, according to a new survey by the Federal Association of City and Town Marketing. Berlin's main market launched this season behind concrete barriers, enhanced video surveillance, and an expanded private security presence. Several smaller municipalities warn that the added requirements may force them to scale back or cancel markets next year. Read more


The greatest composer of all time only lived to be 56 years of age and the Grand Maestro had so much, much more music to compose. One of the torch-bearers at Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral was the pioneering Franz Schubert who lived in the shadow of the great composer in Vienna. Schubert, himself a musical visionary, worshipped Beethoven at a distance and even though both composers lived in Vienna at the same time, there is no evidence to support that they ever met. Beethoven's 9th Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Ode to Joy') is the national anthem of the European Union (EU). In Japan, "Ode to Joy" is played nationwide on Christmas and New Year's Eve.


Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump's Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway


First Lady Melania Trump made the last-minute decision to skip a solemn dignified transfer ceremony to honor two U.S. service members killed in action in Syria. President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Chief of Staff of the Army General Randy George attended the ceremony for the Iowa soldiers on Wednesday. Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, were killed in the Syrian desert on Saturday.


The U.S. Coast Guard has allowed a new workplace harassment policy to take effect that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to "potentially divisive" despite an uproar over the new language that forced the service's top officer to direct that both would remain prohibited.


Donald Trump could be forced to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth if he goes ahead with his $10billion lawsuit against the BBC. Lawyers for the broadcaster are said to be considering launching an aggressive defence. And they could make the US president face questions about his actions during the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021. A source close to the case told the Mirror: "The moment Trump filed this case, he opened the door. He thinks he can attack the BBC for $10bn. But he could expose himself to questioning that could finally pin down what he did, what he knew and when."


The commander of the arm of the U.S. military responsible for President Donald Trump's illegal military occupations of American cities said he is willing to conduct attacks on so-called designated terrorist organizations within the U.S. This startling admission comes after months of extrajudicial killings of alleged members or affiliates of DTOs in the waters near Venezuela, which experts and lawmakers say are outright murders.


Pro-Kremlin nuns from Belarus, operating stalls at Christmas markets across Europe, are raising funds to directly support Russia's war in Ukraine.


For the first time in history, maritime drones disabled a submarine. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) deployed underwater drones to attack a Kilo-class Russian submarine in the port of Novorossiysk, causing it critical damage and rendering it ineffective.


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.


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