Russia doesn't seem to agree with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's assessment that the country is "fully committed" to achieving peace with Ukraine.
A global INTERPOL operation against the illegal trafficking of wild fauna and flora has led to the seizure of nearly 30,000 live animals and the identification of 1,100 suspects.
On 25 Dec 2025, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intercepted 19 asylum seekers of Haitian origin near Havelock, in Quebec's Monteregie region, during dangerously cold temperatures after receiving an alert from the US Border Patrol.
Participants in the World Naked Bike Ride face attacks as Britain becomes less tolerant of nudity.
The state's parole board has released 39 "emerging adult" murder convicts who were originally sentenced to life without parole, but who later became eligible after a court ruling. The Massachusetts Parole Board has issued 51 parole decisions since the Supreme Judicial Court last year ruled that emerging adults who were 18 to 20 at the time of the offense cannot be sentenced to life without parole. Read more
In a post on Truth Social earlier today, Donald Trump reminded everyone of Jeffrey Epstein - and he seems to be reverting back to his claim that much of it is a hoax. Read more
Defense attorney Joe Tamburino, who is not affiliated with the case, reviewed the decision and analyzed it for KARE 11 News. He says Judge West ruled that the state's case "relied heavily on circumstantial evidence," and that she believed the state didn't rule out other "reasonable inferences." "That in fact, there could have been other reasonable theories other than guilt in this case. That's what it comes down to," Tamburino said. Despite the ruling, even Judge West wrote that she is "troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise Health." Read more
Brief post-Christmas thoughts on Christianity and politics - Charlie Sykes
sh*t, what do we do now?
Big news for the USA!' The Dotard-in-Chief gleefully posted that he callously slashed 271,000 federal jobs since seizing power on 20 Jan 2025, even as polls show Americans are deeply dissatisfied with his inept mishandling of the US and global economy.
"At the direction of the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, and in coordination with Nigerian authorities, on 25 Dec 2025 USAFRICOM conducted strikes against ISIS terrorists in Sokoto State of Nigeria."
More trouble in MAGAville:
Nearly the entire legal and economic policy staff of the Heritage Foundation is departing the conservative think tank, and many will be taking up posts at Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a nonprofit founded in 2021 by former Vice President Mike Pence. The mass exodus represents a dramatic rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts in the wake of his refusal to retract an October video defending Tucker Carlson for conducting a friendly interview with the antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
A 2020 clip of a Fulton County election worker testifying under oath that she observed 100% of military absentee ballots go to Biden is now resurfacing amid the new revelation that over 300,000 ballots were illegally counted in Fulton County. Official: "I estimated that somewhere between 80 and 90 percent were going to Joe Biden. Throughout the day it kept making me sicker and sicker every time I saw another Biden, Biden, Biden, and then I'm going through batches"100 percent of the batches were Biden. I find that statistically impossible."
Ethan Nielson and his sister, Ryley, had smiles on their faces as they looked up to the top of the Alberta Children's Hospital on Wednesday, watching superheroes rappelling down the brightly coloured building. Five months ago, Ethan was hit by a truck in his community of Cranston and suffered severe injuries.
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Since then, the nine-year-old has defied every odd that's been thrown at him, his mother Melanie Nielson says, earning him his own superhero name: Awesome Ethan.
In the first video in our Luke-Acts series, we explore the amazing events surrounding the birth of Jesus. The humble conditions of his family and their low status in Israelite society foreshadow the upside-down nature of Jesus' Kingdom. Read more
Two people were taken to the hospital after a federal immigration agent shot someone in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
