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President Donald Trump participates in a bill signing ceremony Friday at the White House, where he is approving awarding the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team with congressional medals.The team is famous for its upset victory over the Soviet Union in what has since become known as the “Miracle on Ice,” and the win became a symbolic Cold War cultural victory for the United States. The ceremony was expected to begin at 3 p.m. Eastern and can be viewed here. Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed Senate Bill 1950 to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Illinois.The governor announced his decision with a press release Friday morning. “I have been deeply impacted by the stories of Illinoisans or their loved ones that have suffered from a devastating terminal illness, and I have been moved by their dedication to standing up for freedom and choice at the end of life in the midst of personal heartbreak,” said Pritzker. The governor said no physician, health care provider or pharmacist is required to participate in the option. Illinois House Minority Leader Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, responded with…

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The U.S. Postal Service is pushing forward with a major electric fleet overhaul funded partly by the Inflation Reduction Act, but an energy-policy expert warns rising costs could hit taxpayers and customers.EV chargers are being installed at a Bloomington facility as the U.S. Postal Service electrifies part of its 260,000-vehicle fleet. The $3 billion the USPS received from the Inflation Reduction Act covers only a third of the more than $9 billion needed, a gap Heritage Foundation analyst Diana Furchtgott-Roth says will likely push USPS back to Congress for more funding. “It was a poor decision. USPS vehicles run for…

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King Charles III announced Friday that he will be scaling back his cancer treatment in January as his health improves, claiming an “early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctors’ orders,” were behind the improvement.Buckingham Palace has not stated whether the king’s cancer was in remission, but told NBC News that the monarch had “responded exceptionally well” to treatment and that ongoing measures “will now move into a precautionary phase.” The king was diagnosed with cancer in 2024, forcing him to step back from public duties for several months. His daughter-in-law Kate Middleton was also diagnosed with cancer that same…

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It was straight outta Dem Playbook 101: when trying to make the case for–or against–a law or regulation, don’t argue the broad principle. Instead, highlight the most sympathetic individual case to play on the public’s heartstrings and put pressure on Republicans. On CNN This Morning, that ploy worked — almost. But then MRC alum Rob Bluey, the president and executive director of the Daily Signal, intervened to dump some serious rain on the liberal parade. In a discussion of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s appearance before the House Homeland Security committee yesterday, CNN focused on the case of Army veteran…

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Islamic extremists in Nigeria are reportedly plotting an attack for Christmas — which could result in hundreds of deaths and the displacement of many more if left unchecked, the head of a Nigerian news site told the Daily Caller. U.S.-based filmmaker, evangelist and founder of Truth Nigeria, Judd Saul, told the Caller that extremists are mobilizing units in preparation for a mass assault on Christian regions of Nigeria.Fulani militants appear to be rallying forces and supplies to strike Riom, Bokkos and Barkin Lotti of Plateau state, the Agatu region of Benue state and the Kafanchan region of Kaduna state in…

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The Federal Reserve in Washington. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesWASHINGTON—As markets await President Donald Trump’s announcement naming the next Federal Reserve chairman, the president has shared more details about his top candidates and what he is looking for in the person who will lead the world’s most powerful central bank.During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said he was leaning toward either former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh or National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett to lead the Fed.We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different browser. If the issue persists, please visit our…

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The US Navy delivered a list of potential punishments for Mark Kelly after he appeared in an insurrection video with five other Democrats. In it, he urged soldiers to rebel against their “illegal” or “unethical” orders. There were no illegal or unethical orders, as explained by another of the Seditious Six who appeared in the video, Elissa Slotkin. Former CIA official, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, recently encouraged a coup while speaking at a Brookings Institute conference. She seems to be so extreme that she thinks a coup is necessary. It’s hard to say what motivates Kelly, but it doesn’t matter. He…

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The US Navy delivered a list of potential punishments for Mark Kelly after he appeared in an insurrection video with five other Democrats. In it, he urged soldiers to rebel against their “illegal” or “unethical” orders. There were no illegal or unethical orders, as explained by another of the Seditious Six who appeared in the video, Elissa Slotkin. Former CIA official, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, recently encouraged a coup while speaking at a Brookings Institute conference. She seems to be so extreme that she thinks a coup is necessary. It’s hard to say what motivates Kelly, but it doesn’t matter. He…

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Washington state faces dangerous flooding after days of heavy rain. Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes, with the National Guard stepping in to assist. Officials warn that more evacuations could follow as rivers reach record levels and additional communities face the threat of rising waters. The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada for failing to provide voter-registration records requested by federal officials. So far, the department has filed 18 such suits against states for failing to comply with federal law. A separate lawsuit was also filed against Fulton County,…

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Getting my “boomer” credentials revoked was hurtful, but I’m here to make amends.PublishedDecember 12, 2025 5:57 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 12, 2025 5:57 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkA few days ago, I wrote about the most shocking deaths in rock history in honor of the 45-year anniversary of Beatles frontman John Lennon’s tragic murder.Since then, my email inbox has received plenty of chatter regarding who I left out.Some of you were polite, others were a little more forceful, and one guy even questioned my credentials as a self-proclaimed “Boomer.”That kind of hurtful language cuts deep, but I’m willing to make things right, so here…

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A Friday report by the California state auditor found over $5 million in improper spending across a handful of state agencies through waste, misuse or a failure to report.The problems cut across agencies from the California Air Resources Control Board to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Of nearly 2,700 cases reviewed between January 2024 and October, about 2,000 — roughly 74% — lacked enough information to investigate or were still pending review, the state auditor found.In the remaining cases, auditors gathered evidence in 604 matters, conducted independent investigations or follow-ups in 72 cases and referred…

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Screenshot WJCL Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Truth Social, Twitter, Youtube  A woman is recovering from life-altering injuries after police say she was the victim of a chemical attack near Forsyth Park on Wednesday night. Ashley Wasielewski, the victim, remains in a Georgia burn center after suffering third-degree burns. Police say she was walking near the park just before 8 p.m. when a man crept up behind her and poured an unknown chemical on her. They say she did not know her attacker, reports WJCL. Her friend, Connor Milam, said the call she received that night is…

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The AGs say the fee far exceeds the costs of processing H-1B petitions and creates an insurmountable financial barrier.(CN) — A coalition of 19 Democratic state attorneys general on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, claiming a new $100,000 fee to hire workers under the H-1B visa program is unlawful.In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, the AGs claim the agency implemented the large fee without proper public notice or comment. They say the high price tag flies in the face of Congress’s goals of helping U.S. employers retain highly skilled workers from other…

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The gaming platform Roblox is displayed on a tablet in New York on Oct. 30, 2021. Leon Keith /AP PhotoFlorida Attorney General James Uthmeier is taking further legal action against a popular children’s game, Roblox, adding to the dozens of other lawsuits against the company from families across the nation with similar allegations.Uthmeier’s office has a separate criminal investigation into whether Roblox’s actions—or lack of action—allowed or aided predators in targeting children. The Florida attorney general’s new lawsuit accuses Roblox of deceiving parents, failing to protect children from being groomed by predators and seeing graphic content, and misrepresenting its safety.We…

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AI-generated image by Grok: robot dystopia. Robot apocalypse is nearer than we imagine, according to Europol. If we may adapt two old sayings: ‘just because the liberals are constantly crying wolf, it does not mean that the wolf will never come’. Take, for example, the European obsession with constantly keeping the population in a panic with dystopian scenarios. While we are constantly dodging these catastrophic hoaxes, it is also true that every now and then, one of these scenarios may strike differently. A new report by the European Police (Europol) warns that, in a decade, ‘angry mobs of unemployed citizens…

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A TSA whistleblower has come forward to say she routinely witnessed Somalian immigrants flying out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport carrying suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars of cash and fake passports. “It seemed so lackadaisical that these people could get through the airport with all that cash,” the former TSA agent told Alpha News reporter Liz Collin, this week. “Time after time after time. It wasn’t a one time thing.” She said “it was frustrating to see it when I was a TSA agent and it’s certainly frustrating now watching this state’s administration.” During a press conference in St.…

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Authorities in Neenah, Wisconsin, on Thursday charged a longtime YMCA daycare worker with child neglect after she allegedly gave melatonin gummies to at least 10 toddlers without their parents’ permission, according to a criminal complaint. Annalee Salas Nitz, who told police she’d worked at the Neenah-Menasha YMCA Child Development Center for nearly 15 years, faces one misdemeanor count of neglecting a child where specified harm did not occur in connection with alleged dosing that stretched from Aug. 31 to Oct. 14, according to WBAY News. If convicted, she faces up to nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine. (RELATED:…

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Can Anyone Believe Anything? “The fire consuming you is the fire that tempers.” —EKO on “X” JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Tis the season to be flummoxed. Now you see what it’s like when all authority is suspect and nobody can believe anything. The question, of course, is how much of that is engineered by interested parties. . . and who are those parties? There’s the legion of monied orgs and foundations supported by sinister billionaires, starting with George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a bewildering matrix of worldwide political activism ops aimed at sowing Marxist-inflected chaos wherever a polity is…

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Louisville Antifa BLM protesters, from Twitter. “The leader of the Oklahoma City chapter of BLM was just charged by the Department of Justice with wire fraud and money laundering,” reports Pajamas Media: Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson was executive director of Black Lives Matter OKC…the organization received substantial charitable donations, despite not being officially registered as a tax-exempt charity…BLMOKC used its affiliation and sponsorship with Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ) to receive charitable donations, despite its non-charity status….a staggering $3.15 million ended up in Dickerson’s personal accounts, used for shopping sprees, a vacation, groceries, and real estate…her expenditures were for:…

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There should be no place for DEI in America, especially in public schools. The message is self-defeating.PublishedDecember 12, 2025 5:33 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 12, 2025 5:33 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkRep. Sarah Stalker is a Democrat lawmaker in Kentucky who is ashamed of her white skin color.In a speech this week defending diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in public schools, Stalker admitted she was in a state of self-loathing.”I’m going to be honest,” she began. “I don’t feel good about being white every day, for a lot of reasons.”Stalker then claimed that white people view life from a “point of privilege” that…

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The nearly two dozen Indiana Republicans who voted against the president’s redistricting plan Thursday are in political jeopardy as Trump allies rally together to take them out. Republicans’ bid to redraw district lines ahead of the 2026 midterms failed after 21 state senators broke with their party and voted with the Democrats to strike the effort down 19-31. Trump claimed on Thursday that he “wasn’t working on it very hard” on the plan, though some have reported the president was making last minute calls to whip votes in favor of the new map. (RELATED: Virginia Democrats Vow Counterstrike After GOP…

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In October, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) requesting review of the election records from the 2020 election.  These records had been previously ordered to be retained beyond the requirements of 52 USC 20701 due to pending litigation. Sheri Allen, the chairperson of the Fulton County BRE, obtained outside counsel, without submitting it to a vote of the Board, to respond to the DOJ that the records requested were not beholden to 52 USC § 20701 and, even if they were, they were not in the…

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Per Waterbury Hospital on Facebook Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter When Connecticut lawmakers pushed the UConn Health hospital acquisition bill through the November special session — without a public hearing — it was clear transparency was not the priority.   Now UConn Health, the state-run hospital system preparing to spend roughly half a billion taxpayer dollars acquiring Waterbury Hospital, has taken that secrecy a step further. Under the legislation rushed through the November special session — which authorizes UConn Health not just to purchase Waterbury Hospital but potentially to acquire additional struggling hospitals in the future — the financial stakes extend…

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Oh, I lurves me a good adventure story, and holy smokes – if it’s a real-life one? Man. They’re the best.Ones like when H. Ross Perot made the move to get two of his EDS employees who’d been taken hostage in Tehran and imprisoned right after the fall of the Shah. Advertisement OMG, edge of your seat stuff right there, and it was for reals.The unbelievable story of a Texas businessman who launched a freelance commando raid in IranIn a dungeon in eastern Tehran, a pair of American business executives languish, their business suits disheveled, their skin sallow from lack of…

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Oh, I lurves me a good adventure story, and holy smokes – if it’s a real-life one? Man. They’re the best.Ones like when H. Ross Perot made the move to get two of his EDS employees who’d been taken hostage in Tehran and imprisoned right after the fall of the Shah. Advertisement OMG, edge of your seat stuff right there, and it was for reals.The unbelievable story of a Texas businessman who launched a freelance commando raid in IranIn a dungeon in eastern Tehran, a pair of American business executives languish, their business suits disheveled, their skin sallow from lack of…

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Ducks coach responds to Notre Dame and other programs expressing frustration with committee selectionsPublishedDecember 12, 2025 5:09 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 12, 2025 5:09 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkDan Lanning does not have a lot of patience for teams complaining about missing out on the College Football Playoff. His Oregon Ducks team opens their playoff on Saturday, December 20 in Eugene against James Madison after finishing out an 11-1 regular season. Oregon deserved to get in as clearly one of the best handful of teams in the country. Its one loss was to an undefeated No. 1 Indiana Hoosiers team. The Ducks had quality wins…

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Democratic attorneys general applauded a federal judge’s ruling this week that the Trump administration can’t halt development of all wind energy projects.Proponents have long considered wind energy to be a clean, renewable energy source that produce electricity without burning fossil fuels. But opponents warn against turbines’ impact on wildlife and land. They also question wind power’s reliability and affordability. On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued an executive order halting all federal approvals for development of offshore and onshore wind energy projects. Approvals were stopped pending an indefinite federal review of wind leasing and permitting. Judge Patti Saris of the…

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The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it was ending family reunification parole (FRP) programs for migrants from certain Latin America and Caribbean countries, alleging abuse within the humanitarian parole process.The move comes as the Trump administration bolsters its efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and visa programs over national security concerns that stem from the Biden administration’s open border policies. The department is ending the FRP programs for migrants and their family members from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti and Honduras. “The desire to reunite families does not overcome the government’s responsibility to prevent fraud…

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Gov. Mike Braun, R-Ind., on Friday confirmed he would support efforts to bring primary challenges against the state GOP senators who voted against a redistricting effort.After the state House approved the revised congressional map, which would have given the Republicans an edge in all nine of the state’s congressional districts, state Senate Republicans voted down the proposal, which had the support of President Donald Trump. “I am very disappointed that a small group of misguided State Senators have partnered with Democrats to reject this opportunity to protect Hoosiers with fair maps and to reject the leadership of President Trump,” Braun…

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A sign for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington on Feb. 13, 2025. The Internal Revenue Service commissioner has the authority to revoke an entity’s tax-exempt status. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty ImagesU.S. criminal investigators identified $10.59 billion in financial crimes in fiscal year 2025, as the IRS’s law enforcement arm intensified enforcement against pandemic-era fraud schemes while continuing to broaden its reach beyond traditional tax cases to encompass cybercrime, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and national security investigations.IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) officials said on Dec. 12 that many of the agency’s fiscal 2025 enforcement results stemmed from multi-year investigations into pandemic-era fraud, which…

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Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, is officially running to keep his Senate seat come 2026. The Daily Signal was on the ground in Columbus to speak to Husted as he filed his paperwork on Friday morning with Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office. In the 2026 midterm election, Husted will likely face former Democrat Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his seat in 2024 to Sen. Bernie Moreno. At an event after the filing, Husted met with campaign supporters and filmed a video expressing enthusiasm not only for next year’s election, but also next year’s 250th anniversary of America. A Tight…

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Investors languished in the doldrums early this week, but once the Federal Reserve came to rescue with a rate cut equities rocketed upward.MANHATTAN (CN) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average cracked the 48,000-point mark this week, as investors rallied upon the Federal Reserve’s decision to slash interest rates.Markets began the week dropping slightly, but gorged on the morsels doled out by the Fed midweek, with the Dow gaining about 600 points Wednesday after the central bank cut interest rates for the third and final time this year.Things began to turn south again Friday, but the gains were significant enough to…

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Don’t you just love news article titles like “As vaccine orthodoxy crumbles, cancel culture allegedly hits federal immunization advisory panel”? This was posted by Just The News covering the dismissal of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) chair Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist, from Driscoll Physicians Group at Driscoll Children’s Hospital, which is part of DeTar Healthcare System. Milhoan was supposedly fired from his position because he is now chair of ACIP under the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The very real question is “has vaccine orthodoxy crumbled”? This question will…

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes warned parents Thursday that drug dealers are pushing “fruit-flavored” cocaine in candy-style flavors and marketing it to children and young women across the state, her office announced. Mayes’ office said law enforcement has started seeing “flavored cocaine” — including piña colada, strawberry, coconut and banana — emerge as a new product on the illegal drug market, with batches believed to appeal to women and younger users and potentially laced with deadly fentanyl. (RELATED: ‘I’m Not Going’: Andy Dick Refuses Help After Reportedly Overdosing On The Streets Of Hollywood)“We want everyone to stay safe and avoid…

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson made his first in-person appearance in court on Thursday. Tyler Robinson appeared in civilian clothing, however, he was restrained. Robinson, 22, was flanked by his three public defenders: Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, and Richard Novak. Tyler Robinson smirked, whispered and laughed with one of his lawyers before Judge Graf began the proceedings. The hot mic picked up some whispers but it was impossible to hear exactly what Robinson told his lawyer. According to a lipreader, Robinson told his lawyer that he thinks about the shooting ‘daily’ and said he isn’t sleeping at night. The New…

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Dr. Bazak Sharon accuses the university of inflating child abuse diagnoses by encouraging the manipulation of medical evidence that might have proved the innocence of parents and caregivers — all to secure lucrative grants.(CN) — A former University of Minnesota pediatrician filed a federal lawsuit against the university, its associated medical groups and several doctors on Friday, claiming his June 2023 termination was retaliation for exposing a fraudulent scheme to maximize child abuse prosecutions.Dr. Bazak Sharon accuses the defendants — including the University of Minnesota’s governing board and child abuse specialist Dr. Nancy Sanders Harper, among others — of civil rights…

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No doubt many of you cried near the end of the movie Awakenings. The movie, based on Oliver Sacks’ bestselling book of the same name, struck an emotional chord with many people for the same reason that Flowers for Algernon did, and it turns out to be about as based on real life as that depressing work was. Advertisement “In his journal, Sacks wrote that ‘a sense of hideous criminality remains (psychologically) attached’ to his work: he had given his patients ‘powers (starting with powers of speech) which they do not have.’ Some details, he recognized, were ‘pure fabrications.’— Steven Pinker…

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Why Is Europe Feverishly Preparing For World War III? By Michael Snyder If there is going to be peace, why are we witnessing the largest military buildup in Europe since the end of the Cold War?  When it comes to the major players on the geopolitical stage, it is far more important to watch what they do than it is to listen to what they say.  And right now the actions that the major European powers are taking are telling us that they are preparing for a huge war with Russia. Ukraine was supposed to be the final piece of…

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They’re really in a time crunch now…PublishedDecember 12, 2025 4:35 PM EST•UpdatedDecember 12, 2025 4:35 PM ESTFacebookTwitterEmailCopy LinkWe’re under two months away from the start of the Winter Olympics in Milan, and boy, someone should probably let the people building the hockey arena know that.The Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena has been at the center of controversy ahead of the men’s and women’s hockey tournaments at the upcoming Winter Games, and that started with reports that it was way behind schedule.A test event to make sure all aspects of the arena were firing on all cylinders, scheduled for this month,…

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 21, 2025. Evan Vucci/AP PhotoTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Dec. 12 that his agency soon will subject certain money-transfer businesses to “enhanced reporting requirements” to enable greater scrutiny of “funds going to areas of concern, such as Somalia.” In addition, some money-transfer businesses will be receiving “notices of investigations,” which will include IRS review, he said.Bessent gave that update 11 days after the Treasury Department began probing allegations that Somali welfare fraudsters in Minnesota were transferring ill-gotten gains to their native land, where terrorists allegedly…

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Western Washington has been hit by days of relentless torrential rainfall, triggering historic flooding that trapped families on rooftops, swept over bridges and caused widespread damage to homes. Washington remains under a state of emergency with evacuation orders issued for tens of thousands of residents, according to KATU. Gov. Bob Ferguson urged all affected individuals Thursday to immediately comply with instructions to evacuate. (RELATED: Geminid Meteor Shower: Here’s What To Know And How You Can See Highly Anticipated Event)“I understand that many in our state have experienced significant floods in the past,” said Gov. Ferguson on Twitter. “However, we’re looking…

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At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) on Dec. 12, 2015, 195 parties signed the Paris Agreement, vowing to cut their emissions in an effort to stave off global warming. Nonetheless, global emissions have increased over the last 10 years, according to recent data from the European Commission’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR). Though the European Union led the world in lowering emissions, they have still hit a record high, according to EDGAR.President Donald Trump exited the Paris Agreement through a day-one executive order. Some energy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the Paris Agreement was…

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The new version of Congress’s near-trillion dollar defense budget bill includes multiple provisions aimed squarely at reigning in War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026 includes multiple amendments that target key decisions made by Pentagon leaders, including a provision that would slash Hegseth’s travel budget pending the Pentagon handing over unedited footage of strikes against vessels in the Caribbean. The bill also requires the Pentagon to station at least 76,000 troops in Europe for more than 45 days and blocks major equipment removals, despite the admin’s goals in reducing European commitments.Additionally, the…

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