Politico - At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/cisa-acting-director-madhu-gottumukkala-polygraph-investigation-00701996
(AP) β€” The US Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.
Australian Prime Minister Albanese booed and heckled at vigil for terrorism victims.
More than 130,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco are without power.
Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed. image
(AP) β€” At least 16 files disappeared from the DoJ’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein β€” including a photograph showing President Trump β€” less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
At least seven elephants were killed after an express train this morning hit a herd of the pachyderms in Assam, India. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/many-elephants-killed-by-rajdhani-express-in-assam-train-ops-hit-9852149
The Epstein files are out, and the lawmakers who forced their release are not satisfied.