Sec. Rubio opens his year-end press briefing: "The core principle behind our foreign policy needs to be our national interests... We are in favor of foreign policies that will make America safer, or stronger, or more prosperous — hopefully all three, but at least one of those."
Secretary Wright on the reopening of Three Mile Island: "What we're doing right now is... accelerating a force that will drive down electricity prices and help make sure America leads in the AI race against China."
🔥 Louisiana: ElementUSA investing $850M to build a rare earth and critical minerals refining facility, creating 200 jobs with an average salary of about $90,000 a year — expected to create an additional 545 indirect jobs. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c64b784edac68ebf1f4949fcee28c44459cab5b641e714e339fabcb1bf19dbaf.file
First responders perform CPR on victims after knife attack in Taipei, Taiwan. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/24ad2351c4a9d3a6fd83a7b9b3a8e951e12e81d0db13ab575d367241337d5148.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d59d65f5be9b967cd89fd21af691b4adab91e205576e11de48aa672b9d4592df.file
BREAKING: Knife attack in central Taipei, Taiwan leaves 3 dead and 5 injured after assailant detonates smoke bombs at the main train station. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d59d65f5be9b967cd89fd21af691b4adab91e205576e11de48aa672b9d4592df.file
OUTRAGEOUS: Australia’s prime minister announced that hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/13d2f876788b05a568fa99b456bb12dda1c20d5bd9ba10ca593e0185b7b9ccdb.file
Students at a university in Bangladesh were forced to carefully time their jumps off an escalator on Monday after it suddenly sped up, prompting them to leap off and quickly clear the path for others still coming down. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9b3f23f445e461e43d49dcfa89b63321e00c32476b7f33f0db428dd8f3d502c3.file
For the first time, Ukraine’s SBU has struck a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The QENDIL tanker was hit by aerial drones, suffered critical damage, and is now unusable for its intended purpose. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/170f67a15e9ecbb85faeb0fae0b68bb3e53f31304a7747a39f48e8faa15b2232.file
BROWN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT: "Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente was enrolled at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001. He was admitted to Brown's graduate school to study in the Masters of Science PhD program in physics." "During his time with Brown, Neves-Valente was enrolled only in physics classes. The majority of physics classes at Brown have always been held within the Barus & Holley classrooms and labs..." "I think it's safe to assume that this man, when he was a student, spent a great deal of time in that building for classes and other activities." "He has no current active affiliation with the university or campus presence." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9da46a7f82721c30cc18fb178513d52f9d17df8a890c3b3b89bd957d88c04660.file
The suspect in the Brown University shooting is believed to have acted alone, police chief says. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f4061517f649f0bc5a5461b5fe1198324aadbeb28dcf3a4378d1ced2a1e906bb.file