'Unlike anything!' Trump unveils ostentatious upgrades to MAGA-fied Kennedy Center www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...

A Homeland Security spokesperson erupted this week after attorney Victoria Slatton accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully arresting her client, who Slatton says is an American-born U.S. citizen.

More than 40 million Americans under winter storm warnings or weather advisories as heavy snow expected.

A U.S. judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed, after the U.S. permanent resident sued officials over an entry ban.

Trump's dismantling of USAID has triggered an acute shortage of HIV medication in Zimbabwe: Only Sex workers could afford lifesaving treatment. “Our suppliers are greedy nurses and related staff at Parirenyatwa Hospital, who sell us the drugs for $5 a packet,” a sex worker says. (Published July)

The Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model is launching in six states starting next year.

Trump taps second-generation immigrant to help ban immigrants

Lawmakers in about two dozen states passed new child care programs this year, often backed by business leaders concerned with recruiting and retaining workers. See which states help subsidize child care:

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Tens of thousands have been taken by masked, armed men working for DHS on the streets of LA, D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Charlotte, and others. Agents have loosed an attack dog, unleashed pepper spray, violently yanked people from their cars and chased them out of stores. trib.al/J5dhV3F

Mamdani’s team may discover what so many major corporations seem to forget: Even without bells and whistles, customer service that simply does what it is supposed to do can go a long way to ensure brand loyalty. The same is likely true for voters.

President Trump exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An EPA official provided guidance to the company, according to emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times. It’s one of many efforts by the Trump administration to weaken or waive environmental protections.

David Baldacci has written more than 50 suspense and legal novels. Now, the author and his wife are tackling a major real-world problem. https://to.pbs.org/3Yvw9Dv

Separatists in southern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Friday of targeting their forces with airstrikes, something not formally acknowledged by the kingdom after it warned the forces to withdraw from governorates they recently took over. https://to.pbs.org/4jenkqZ

A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him.

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Attorneys for the man accused of killing iconic rapper Tupac Shakur are pushing to suppress evidence that was collected in what they say was an unlawful nighttime search.

More than 800 storm victims around Helene-battered western North Carolina have applied for FEMA’s voluntary program that would enable the government to buy out their properties. So far, they say, not a single approval has come through.

The Trump administration wants to control how data centers connect to the power grid. on.wsj.com/4q2lOem

What makes the current moment especially dangerous is how openly this agenda is being articulated—and these ideas are being laundered through think tanks, legal strategies, and policy roadmaps designed for immediate implementation. trib.al/VIsWxCg

Apples, oranges and bananas are sold in abundance in supermarkets throughout the country. But some say the most American fruit is one you’ll likely never see in the produce department, and it’s one you’ve probably never heard of. https://to.pbs.org/4o9epsl

GOP senators demand Trump go hard on 'ruthless murderer' ahead of high-stakes meeting

Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justice. Read The Big Take ⬇️

Exclusive: Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at an eastern Belarus ex-airbase, which could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two US researchers found by studying satellite imagery reut.rs/4pgbA8V

The United States hasn’t given up its pursuit of the massive, rusted oil tanker it chased into international waters near Venezuela last weekend, and officials are now contemplating moving additional resources into the area to forcibly board the ship, people familiar with the matter said.

⚡️Trump says Russia-Ukraine peace has 'good shot,' New York Post reports. "I think they want to do it now, and I think that Russia wants to do it. But every time one wants to do it, the other doesn’t," Trump told the New York Post in a Dec. 26 phone call.

⚡️Russia's mass missile attack injures 5 in Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting. A fire was reported in the city’s Holosiivskyi district, while debris fell in the Obolonskyi and Desnianskyi districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the morning of Dec. 27.

Pete Hegseth says the Defense Department “does not do climate change crap.” But a new report suggests that the Pentagon is engaging with the issue in one serious way: Stockpiling dozens of critical minerals, it is threatening the energy transition by hoarding valuable resources.

President Trump said that he delayed U.S. military strikes in Nigeria until Christmas Day to deliver a message to groups he alleges are targeting Christians. https://to.pbs.org/3YMABO2

Henry Sakamoto, a prominent leader in Portland’s Japanese American community who helped bring cherry trees to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park downtown, has died at age 98.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board complained Friday that America's whiskey industry is reeling from the consequences of President Donald Trump's tariff policies, as major distillers make dramatic moves to weather the economic storm.

An independent counsel has demanded a 10-year prison term for South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The nominee for the Army’s top lawyer thinks the government can punish reporters who solicit or publish unauthorized information. Urge your senators to reject this anti-press nomination using our easy action center tool:

“People were dying in our backyard,” said Pastor Daniel Simmons of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, whose members helped establish the Samaritan Clinic in 2007. “It wasn’t because they didn’t want to go to the doctor. It was because they couldn’t afford it.”

President Donald Trump faced blunt criticism from an unlikely venue on Friday as a Fox News panelist warned that his political influence is rapidly deteriorating with key voting blocs – and may be beyond repair before the midterms.

Thailand and Cambodia agree on ceasefire, Cambodia Defence Ministry says https://aje.io/tzveip

Ukraine war briefing: Kim Jong-un celebrates sharing ‘blood, life and death’ with Russia

President Trump ended his posting spree with a Merry Christmas message to constituents. Then, as a somewhat ominous sign off, he wrote: “Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”

The shocking brutality behind Gaza’s crumbling ceasefire

⚡️Russia's mass missile attack targets Kyiv ahead of upcoming Trump-Zelensky meeting. Several waves of explosions were heard across the capital, according to Kyiv Independent reporters, as well as in Kyiv Oblast, where power outages were reported in the town of Brovary following the strikes.

In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.

A white Afrikaner from South Africa who came to the United States expecting preferential refugee treatment from the Trump administration found himself blindsided when he ended up in handcuffs.

Reporter @dfriedman.bsky.social contacted the Pentagon about a top Pete Hegseth aide. The next day, far-right influencer Jack Posobiec threatened to write a scurrilous story about him.

ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, keeping kids out of school and parents from work, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.

Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.

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A New York Republican-turned Democrat who once voted for President Donald Trump went scorched earth over the president's "total chain of lies" during a C-SPAN broadcast Friday of Washington Journal.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)

Every Sunday, protesters from Florida and beyond go to the notorious immigration jail and advocate for its closure