Trump has claimed that the US had "knocked out" a "big facility" as part of the US campaign targeting alleged drug boats in Latin America and against Venezuela. read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., suggested House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is "under direct orders from the White House" and doesn't truly lead House Republicans. read more
When Republican state Rep. Jim DeSana voted earlier this month to cut $645 million in work project funding, he unknowingly axed about $2 million in state funding meant to repair the roof of a building named after his father. read more
China's military announced Monday it was mobilizing army, navy, air and rocket units around Taiwan in major military drills to test what it said was combat readiness and to send a "serious warning" against any push for Taiwanese independence. read more
A $400,000 shipment of lobster was stolen as it was headed for Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota by a driver impersonating a legitimate carrier. read more
Garry Kasparov: By speaking with Trump in advance, Putin positions Russia's interests as the backdrop against which Ukraine's requests will be evaluated. read more
ProPublica published a list of investigations you may have missed due to America's governing turmoil. One is the story of Zolgensma, a gene therapy drug which gives baby's born with a rare disease a real chance to grow up and live normal lives. Despite being developed with help from taxpayers and nonprofit charities, the drug's maker debuted the drug with a $2-million per dose price tag, which set the stage for other gene therapy drugs to also have million dollar prices. ProPublica dug into the records to show how the drug was developed and why it debuted at such a high cost. "Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation." read more
The New York Time's M. Gessen writes an opinion piece on Sweden's longest criminal trial. Characterizing the often mundane hearings as "the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes." The trial examines the actions of oil company executives working to succeed in the war-torn Sudan in the 1990s. read more
From Grandma being confused by the monthly text donations she subscribed to or parents asking if they should be concerned about a youngster admiring Nick Fuentes, The Bulwark writers report back from Christmas with their families. "That's an underappreciated feature of our political age: It's not just that things are bad, it's that they're relentlessly so. You can't turn it off. You can't escape it. You can't distinguish between real and fake, good and bad, normal and abnormal. The stuff keeps piling up." read more
Jeff Tiedrich: what the hell do they imagine they're doing? read more
President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic complaining to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 2025. read more
A second pilot involved in a midair helicopter crash in southern New Jersey has died from his injuries, police said in a statement Monday. read more
Miami Herald's Julie K. Brown wrote on X, "Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?" "As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me?" Brown asked. Brown's groundbreaking reporting began in 2017, and was published in The Herald as a three-part investigation called "Perversion of Justice" in November 2018. According to The Herald's website, the series "awakened the world to a decades-long injustice suffered by dozens and perhaps hundreds of young girls, many of whom had never spoken about their abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein." read more
The federal government is investigating a potential social-services aid fraud scheme in which hundreds of millions of dollars intended for a federally funded nutrition program was allegedly used instead for lavish purchases. read more
As ACA subsidies ("Obamacare') are set to expire on 31 Dec 2025, more Americans are getting sicker and sicker: NYS logged the most flu cases ever recorded in a single week, measles is spreading like wildfire across the US, whooping cough cases are increasing in West Virginia, and Florida reports more cases of dengue fever and chikungunya. read more
Donald Trump has said a deal to end the war in Ukraine is "closer than ever" but has admitted that "thorny" questions over the future of the eastern Donbas region have yet to be resolved, after a two-hour meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida. read more
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