Flight tracking data shows Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's plane today passed through the airspace of Greece, Italy and France - all State Parties to the Rome Statute. Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Q: Some are saying Russia's recent attacks show Putin isn't serious about peace TRUMP: Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also. I don't say that negatively. There have been explosions in various parts of Russia. I don't think it came from the Congo. I don't think it came from the USA.

Comedian Toby Morton bought the trumpkennedycenter.org domain in August, months before President Trump's hand-picked board announced it would add his name to the "John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." The homepage is now live.

"A Guatemalan man has become the first person to die in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas. His wife of 25 years was deported from the same camp without a chance to see her dying husband." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Could Mary and Joseph travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem today? Without the checkpoints, illegal settlements and separation wall, the 100km (63-mile) trip could take less than two hours by car today. But under current conditions, the journey would be a very different one." @aljazeera.com

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2026. ¡Feliz Navidad! 🎄✨

The US State Department said it would deny visas to former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and four others in protest of European regulation of social media. www.dw.com/en/us-bans-e...

President Donald Trump announces new class of U.S. battleships named after himself. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Statement from some Epstein and Maxwell survivors: "It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities"

White House officials have revised what they call the "Presidential Walk of Fame," installing plaques beneath portraits of former US presidents that reflect Donald Trump's own views, including branding Joe Biden as "the worst president in American history."

The US struck multiple targets in Syria that the military says are tied to ISIS, in retaliation for an attack there that killed two US troops. The operation is being dubbed "Hawkeye Strike" in honor of the two Iowa National Guard soldiers. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The US Department of Justice announced it will not release all Epstein files by today's deadline. The deadline is mandated by a bill that got near-unanimous support in Congress, and was later signed into law by President Trump.

Unveiled: The facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. now reads "THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS." The law creating the center prohibits renaming it.

Workers have already started adding President Trump's name to The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, Trump's hand-picked board voted "unanimously" to rename the cultural center. The law creating the center prohibits renaming it.

The Kennedy Center changed the name of the center on their homepage, but left the "Our Story" section intact - including this section highlighting that the center became the "John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" by an act of Congress.

President Donald Trump's hand-picked Kennedy Center board voted "unanimously" to rename the national cultural center in Washington, D.C. to the "Trump-Kennedy Center." The board's decision will likely face legal hurdles, as the law creating the center prohibits renaming it.

"Congratulations to President Kennedy," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says announcing that the Kennedy Center Board renamed the center to the "Trump Kennedy Center."

The White House has now installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Trump's predecessors. Pictures via @penguinsix.bsky.social.

Two hours to go for US President Donald Trump's live address to the nation at 9 p.m. ET today.

U.S. President Donald Trump is ordering a blockade of all "sanctioned oil tankers" into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country's authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.

Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast says he supports a possible US military intervention in Venezuela. "It solves a gigantic problem for us," he commented in Buenos Aires today.

In a "Restricting and limiting the entry of foreign nationals to protect the security of the United States" proclamation, the White House just announced that "the entry into the United States of nationals of Syria as immigrants and nonimmigrants is hereby fully suspended."

BREAKING: The Trump administration expands travel ban to include Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan and Syria.

OAS Chief reacts to the new U.S. National Security Strategy: "I need to respect every country's foreign policy," Secretary General Albert Ramdin tells DW News. "If there are consequences which may disturb peace and stability in the region, I am sure that matter will come to the OAS"

Now: Argentinian President Milei welcomes Chilean President-elect Kast in Buenos Aires.

El Colegio Alemán de Santiago felicita a su exalumno José Antonio Kast (generación 1983) por su elección como el próximo Presidente de Chile y le desea "lo mejor en la tarea que emprende" al servicio del país.

President Donald Trump just reacted to the Chilean election results, calling President-elect José Antonio Kast "a very good person" that "ended up winning quite easily." Trump adds he looks forward to paying his respects to Kast.

On BBC News talking about Kast's victory in Chile's presidential election. Hours after polls closed a candidate conceded congratulating the winner. The president called the president-elect committing to a smooth transfer of power. Let's never take all those things for granted.

Chile: First results point to a thumping victory for far-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast.

Polls opened in Chile for a runoff presidential election that pits José Antonio Kast, from the far-right Republican Party, against Jeannette Jara, the incumbent leftist government's coalition candidate from the Communist Party. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The U.S. State Department calls UNRWA "a Hamas subsidiary that was complicit in the atrocities of October 7" in an official statement.

New reel: South Florida is home to the largest Venezuelan immigrant community in the United States. But as tensions between the Trump administration and the Maduro regime escalate, some feel torn. We spoke to some of them.

Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Laurate María Corina Machado has arrived in Oslo, Norway. Picture via AP's Amanda Pedersen Giske.

On this day in 1945, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American author to be awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.

The U.S. Coast Guard seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, officials told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

A judge ruled that the Trump administration had kept National Guard troops in Los Angeles illegally and ordered an end to the deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a Federal Register notice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Breaking: Eileen Higgins will be Miami's next mayor-the first woman in the city's history and the first Democrat in nearly 30 years elected to the office. The signs at her election night watch party have been switched to "Mayor-elect."

The German government has rejected criticism of Europe contained in the new US national security strategy, saying it continues to view Russia as a threat to its security. www.dw.com/en/germany-n...

Departing from DCA earlier today

Kremlin: Trump's new defence strategy "consistent" with Russian vision. Kremlin spokesman Peskov says Trump's National Security Strategy removes wording describing Russia as a direct threat and instead calls for cooperation with Moscow. @telegraph.co.uk

As Merz meets Netanyahu, HRW says Berlin should "press Israel to end its repression of Palestinians, halt weapons exports, impose targeted sanctions against Israeli officials implicated in ongoing grave abuses (...) and commit to executing all ICC arrest warrants." @phfrisch.bsky.social

Jerusalem today: German Chancellor Merz shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has been under an ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes since November 2024.

A new government website lists journalists and media outlets that Donald Trump's administration considers liars. Experts say the move endangers free media ― and thus erodes democracy in the US. www.dw.com/en/how-white...

Jerusalem: German Chancellor Merz tells Israeli President Herzog he comes "as a long-standing friend of Israel." While "actions of the Israeli army in Gaza" presented "us with some dilemmas," Merz says "in principle we have no differences: Israel has a right to defend itself."

President Donald Trump puts on his FIFA Peace Prize medal awarded to him by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, right, before the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FIFA awards President Trump its first "FIFA Peace Prize." FIFA President Infantino gifts Trump a gold trophy, a medal and a certificate, adding that the prize is given "on behalf of football-loving people around the world."

It's FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw day!

U.S. soccer legend Cobi Jones at the mixed zone of "An evening with MLS" at Audi Field.

Final preparations at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center for tomorrow's FIFA World Cup 2026 Final Draw. U.S. President Trump, Mexican President Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Carney will be in attendance.