Trump suggests the US struck a target on Venezuelan territory two nights ago 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

This is nuts. 6 foot 3 Olympian accused of being a drug lord is on the FBI’s most wanted list 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

Richard Grenell, the Trump-appointed leader of the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, is threatening litigation against a musician who canceled an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert at the institution after Trump’s name was attached to the building www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection after Trump invited white South Africans. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/u...

The first line of Wikipedia under a random search for "Nigeria's oil": Nigeria is the largest oil and gas producer in Africa.

Trump said on Friday that a U.S. ‌military strike targeting ⁠ISIS in ​Nigeria was ‌originally supposed to take place Wednesday, but he ordered a delay. “They were going to do it earlier,” Trump ​told Politico. “And I ​said, ‘Nope, ​let’s give a ‌Christmas present.’" www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

‘Facts clash’ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

In an Italian village where cats outnumber people, everyone (including the cats) turned out to celebrate the birth of baby Lara, the village’s first baby in nearly 30 years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

He’s not letting up or backing down www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One relentless year (10 off your life) 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

Two years ago, James Nnaji was drafted into the NBA. Now, after playing in the development league, he’s headed to college hoops instead. on.wsj.com/4b8B4S1

A federal judge in New York on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining a British researcher whom it accused of promoting the online censoring of American viewpoints 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

A British anti-disinformation campaigner close to Keir Starmer’s chief of staff launched a legal challenge against the Trump administration after being told he could face deportation from the US www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Trump said the attack targeted Islamic jihadis who he asserted had been killing Christians. But Muslims have also been killed in Nigeria. “May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists,” Trump said. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

The US stuck ISIS in Nigeria. "The United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in ​Northwest Nigeria, who ​have been targeting ​and viciously ​killing, primarily, innocent Christians, ‌at levels not seen ‌for many years, ‌and ​even Centuries!" Trump ​said.

Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

Chuck Redd, a jazz musician, said he canceled his annual concert after President Trump’s name was affixed to the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

The New York Times is joining nearly 40 scientists on an expedition to Antarctica’s fastest-melting glaciers. Our reporter shared a look inside his survival training before the trip. Learn more and send our Climate team your questions: nytimes.com/antarctica?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus. And Ryu Lopez is among the rare cases.

After more than three weeks of counting and claims of fraud, Honduras declares the Trump-backed candidate, Nasry Asfura, winner of the presidential election www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel. "Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

The Justice Dept. says it may need a 'few more weeks' to finish releasing the Epstein files after, oh, more than a million documents potentially related to the case were discovered.

Critics compare the Trump offensive to the Iraq war, citing a familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric, security pretexts and oil interests. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As 2025 draws to a close, Trump power fades, Jonathan Lemire writes www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A law professor saw a glaring flaw in the Trump administration’s argument for deploying National Guard troops on American soil. So he fired off a friend-of-the-court brief. It handed the Trump administration a stinging loss in the Supreme Court. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, imprisoned after being found guilty of attempting a coup, has been transferred to a hospital to undergo surgery, in his latest operation following a 2018 stabbing attack. u.afp.com/S8AA

To create the 3-D view of the gilded Oval Office, The NYT took more than 600 overlapping photos, used a computer program that processed the photos and then synthesized them into a single 3-D representation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A dictator and a lawyer bonded over weight loss. It helped secure one of the biggest political prisoner releases since the collapse of Communism.

BREAKING: A federal judge says the Trump administration can move ahead with a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, providing a setback for US technology companies that rely on hiring skilled foreign workers

As we grow older, “loss becomes the primary condition of living,” Nick Cave says. “That doesn’t mean you’re in a hopeless, grief-stricken state all the time; it just means that you carry a deeper understanding of what it is to be human.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d8fWda

Danh C. Vo, the 37-year-old founder of the now-defunct VBit Technologies Corp., was accused last week of misappropriating more than $48 million of investor funds in a nationwide scheme that affected 6,400 people.

DOJ now says the letter from Epstein about Trump is fake because the handwriting does not match

(AP) — Supreme Court keeps block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in the Chicago area, for now.

Margaret Sullivan | Censorship by oligarchy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor surrendered his gun license after a visit from the Metropolitan Police, the BBC reports www.bbc.com/news/article...

Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil to leave prison for hernia surgery this week following the Supreme Federal Court's approval on Tuesday of a hospital transfer revistaoeste.com/politica/mor...

By ingratiating himself with Trump, Peter Navarro has become one of the world’s most influential economists. “The things he says now violate the most elementary principles of macroeconomics—stuff you learn in the first semester,” a Georgetown economist said. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mXtNxX

The Trump administration will begin to garnish the pay of student loan borrowers in default starting Jan. 7, the Department of Education said on Tuesday, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

Mistletoes are parasitic plants. Some have explosive fruits; some fling their babies to new branches they can infect. They can also cause abnormal growths called “witches’ brooms” that deform the branches and decrease the reproductive ability of the host. Romantic.

All that chaos and disruption -- for what? An NYT analysis found that many of the largest savings that DOGE claimed turned was wrong, fake or a mirage. Musk said it would reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. But federal spending went up. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Reuters - British police said on Tuesday ‌that comedian Russell Brand, 50, had been charged ‌with a new count of ⁠rape and another ​of sexual assault, involving two women. The ‌new charges followed five other assault charges made in April involving four other women.

Former Republican senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska said Tuesday that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and suggested he would not have long to live www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

(AP) — US consumer confidence falls again in December, sinking to the lowest level since Trump's tariff rollout in April.

Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” - George Bernard Shaw