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December 13, 2003: U.S. forces capture Saddam Hussein, finding him cooped up in a spider hole close to his hometown of Tikrit. The Iraqi president had been in hiding for nearly eight months following the Bush administration’s invasion of his country. Upon being extracted from his underground hideout, Hussein reportedly told his captors that he was willing to negotiate. |
U.K. Indefinitely Bans Child Puberty Blockers |
The United Kingdom extended its ban on puberty blockers for children on Wednesday, citing guidance from a panel that described the practice’s risks as “unacceptable.”
"Children's healthcare must always be evidence-led," Britain’s health secretary Wes Streeting said in a statement. "The independent expert Commission on Human Medicines found that the current prescribing and care pathway for gender dysphoria and incongruence presents an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people."
The rule is a step in the right direction. Befuddled children struggling with their “gender identity” should receive help, love, and care from adults, not drugs to affirm their confusion. The latter is cruel. Read more.
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White House Says New Jersey Drones Are Not Actually Drones |
Biden adviser John Kirby claimed Thursday that many of the recent New Jersey “drone sightings” were actually lawfully operated manned aircraft, not drones.
“Upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully,” Kirby told reporters. “The United States Coast Guard is providing support to the state of New Jersey and has confirmed that there is no evidence of any foreign-based involvement from coastal vessels. And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace."
A joint FBI and DHS statement said authorities would continue to investigate the sightings and confirm whether they continue to purportedly believe them to not really be drones.
Take their reports with a grain of salt. “There are no aliens” is the exact kind of thing an alien would say. Read more. |
Lawmaker Threatens to Kill Republicans |
Police arrested incoming West Virginia lawmaker Joseph de Soto on Thursday after he allegedly threatened to kill five elected Republicans.
According to the criminal complaint levied against him, de Soto threatened the murders after being voted out of his position during a Republican caucus meeting. When asked what he meant, the 61-year-old medical doctor reportedly said God had called on him to commit the heinous acts.
De Soto switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in the days before issuing the threats, according to a West Virginia GOP spokesperson. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison. Read more.
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Trump Blasts Biden’s “Foolish” Ukraine Policy |
Donald Trump bashed Joe Biden’s decision to permit Ukraine’s use of American-provided missiles inside Russia in his Time Person of the Year interview, expressing his vehement disagreement with the unnecessary escalation.
"I think the most dangerous thing right now is what's happening, where Zelensky has decided, with the approval of, I assume, the president, to start shooting missiles into Russia,” the president-elect said. “We're just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done."
Trump is refreshingly correct. Biden’s dangerous decision legitimately risked nuclear war even though the Kremlin has repeatedly expressed willingness to negotiate. For the sake of world peace, the new administration can’t arrive soon enough. Read more.
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Here’s What Else Trump Told TIME Magazine in His Person of the Year Interview |
Donald Trump’s Person of the Year interview covered a wide range of subjects and issues, including January 6th, immigration, grocery prices, foreign policy, abortion, and more.
During the conversation, the president-elect did not rule out the possibility of a war with Iran, declined to say if he trusts Israel’s prime minister and notorious welfare recipient Benjamin Netanyahu, said “a vast majority of [election justice protestors] should not be in jail,” and promised to do “whatever it takes” to deport illegal immigrants.
Time published the interview’s full transcript Thursday. The magazine estimates that it takes a little under an hour to read.
Review the full version here and a summary here.
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Xi Jinping to Attend Inauguration? |
The Trump transition team announced its inauguration invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, adding to the growing list of world leaders potentially traveling to Washington for the historic swearing-in.
Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt reportedly celebrated the invitation, calling it an example of Trump "creating an open dialogue with leaders of countries that are not just our allies but our adversaries and our competitors too.” She went on to say that "world leaders are lining up to meet with President Trump because they know he will soon return to power and restore peace through American strength around the globe."
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán is also considering attending, and transition officials have granted Emmanuel Macron, Javier Milei, Justin Trudeau, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Prince William private time with the president-elect since Election Day.
Xi’s attendance would make history. According to the State Department, a foreign leader has never attended an American transfer-of-power ceremony. Read more.
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DOJ Admits to FBI Planting Human Sources on January 6th |
The DOJ admitted Wednesday what many had long suspected: The FBI participated in January 6th.
According to a highly anticipated official review, 26 of the FBI’s confidential human sources were in that day’s election justice protest crowd, but only three of them were assigned by the bureau to be there. FBI policy states that the Bureau pays sources who are instructed to be at a certain event for their time.
Although the report stresses that no sources were encouraged or authorized to enter the Capitol, one still did. Two other sources who were not on official duty also entered the building. Read more.
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Nancy Pelosi is reportedly working behind the scenes to crush Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to become the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s top Democrat, allegedly making calls in support of the position’s other candidate, Congressman and cancer patient Gary Connelly.
Although the Democrats are set to hold the minority in both houses of Congress, whoever assumes the Oversight Committee position could wield enormous power should the majority flip in 2026. The chair is one of only three congresspeople with the authority to issue subpoenas without a committee vote or consultation with the ranking member.
Pelosi’s specific reasoning for opposing Ocasio-Cortez’s leadership is unknown, but the two have shared a rocky relationship since the latter arrived in Congress. In 2018, AOC participated in a sit-in protest outside Pelosi’s office. Read more. |
“Strangest Interview I’ve Ever Conducted”: Inmates Engage Reporter in Wild Televised Exchange |
Luigi Mangione’s fellow Pennsylvania prison inmates participated in an outrageous and impromptu TV interview on Wednesday, shouting answers to a commentator’s questions out their jail windows where an at-the-scene crew’s microphones could pick up their voices.
NewsNation journalist Alex Caprariello was reporting on Mangione’s prison conditions from outside his facility when his segment was interrupted by a distant voice screaming, “Luigi’s conditions suck!” Once Caprariello and studio host Ashleigh Banfield realized the inmates were watching their broadcast from inside the prison’s walls, they began asking them questions through their TV and awaiting shouted answers from the inmates.
“No,” the prisoners screamed when asked if Mangione had a television in his cell. The facility’s food is “terrible” and “B.S.,” they shrieked after Banfield read their cafeteria’s menu. Watch the wild exchange here.
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Believe All Women? Former Stripper Admits to Lying About Rape Claims |
Former exotic dancer Crystal Mangum admitted Wednesday that she falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of raping her in 2006.
“I testified falsely that they raped me when they didn’t, and that was wrong,” Mangum said during a podcast appearance. When pressed on why she told such an egregious and damaging lie, she said she “wanted validation from people and not from God.”
The investigation into her claims was a mess. The district attorney pursued first-degree rape charges but eventually recused himself from the case after lying about DNA evidence that would have cleared the accused. The attorney general declared the players innocent, citing a glaring lack of evidence to support Mangum’s claims. And the players have since pursued civil litigation to restore their reputations.
At the podcast’s end, Mangum, now a convicted murderer, said she hoped the men whose lives she tried to destroy could forgive her. That would be remarkably gracious of them. Read more. |
In Case You Missed It: Non-Spanish Speaker Wins Spanish Scrabble Championship |
A New Zealand man won Scrabble’s Spanish-language world title last month despite not speaking Spanish.
The strategy was simple. Rather than learning the actual Spanish language, competitor Nigel Richards spent a year blindly memorizing the storied tongue’s Scrabble word list en route to being crowned its champion. The feat was not new for Richards; in 2015, he became the French language Scrabble world champion, despite not speaking French.
The 57-year-old Richards, a professional Scrabbler, also holds five English-language world titles. “I don’t think he’s ever read a book, apart from the dictionary,” his mother reportedly said after his most recent triumph. Read more.
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Time Magazine naming Donald Trump its Person of the Year is no surprise. It has granted the honor to every U.S. president in their election year this century. Trump won the White House, so he won the award. It’s that simple.
Next year’s accolade will be more telling. Time says it gives the honor to the person who “has done the most to influence the events of the year.” As president, Trump will have a golden opportunity to do just that and plenty of places to start. Let’s name just a few.
America’s open border is allowing questions about the nation’s sovereignty to become genuinely worth asking. A country without a border is not really a country at all. Joe Biden’s allowance of millions of people to illegally flood in through the South continues to jeopardize America’s safety, economy, and social fabric, transforming the world’s most powerful country at a rate it cannot handle. If Trump fixes that, which shouldn’t be hard, he’ll be well on his way to being 2025’s most influential person.
The ruling class is deliberately rigging the economy to hurt everyday Americans. Credit card debt now exceeds $1.1 trillion, but no interest rate limit exists. The gap between the upper and lower classes continues to expand, but the carried interest loophole allows wealthy career Wall Street traders to pay lower tax rates than elementary school teachers. Truck driving, one of America’s most common sources of income, is on the verge of extinction, but the government is doing nothing to save the profession’s workers. Earnestly striving to make the economy functional for all Americans would be another vital milestone in the president-elect’s bid for a Time award repeat. His proposal to cap credit card interest rates at 10% would be an excellent place to start.
And despite the media’s underreporting, the wars across the Atlantic are legitimately on the cusp of becoming regional or global conflicts. America’s funding of both is not helping. In the name of peace, Trump should use his leverage to force the warring parties into good-faith negotiations with the legitimate aim of stopping the bloodshed. Hundreds of thousands of people have perished in the U.S.-funded conflicts in Israel and Ukraine. Stopping that would earn Trump a Nobel Prize.
Everyone knows the president-elect loves recognition. It motivates him and makes him uniquely beholden to his voters. Now that he’s entering his second term, all the praise in the world is at his fingertips. He just has to do a great job.
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