A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp made billions of dollars last year from Chinese ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-tolerates-rampant-ad-fraud-china-safeguard-billions-revenue-2025-12-15/
VOA Korean was heard on the airwaves Monday for the first time in nine months, airing the same five-minute news bulletin three times in a row 15:30-15:45 UTC on 9310kHz.
The US military says its forces attacked โ€œdesignated terrorist organizationsโ€ smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three people one vessel and two on a second vessel.
President Trump files $10 billion defamation lawsuit in Florida against the BBC.
ABC News - At least one of the gunmen responsible for Sunday's terrorist attack at Bondi Beach had longstanding links to Australia's pro-Islamic State network, including to a notorious Sydney cleric.
NewsGuard - AI bots Grok and Gemini are used to push two viral falsehoods about a survivor of Sydneyโ€™s Hanukkah massacre. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/sydney-shooting-sparks-baseless-crisis?r=1g77q&utm_medium=ios
Arkansas public television will disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026.
President Trump signs an executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
"I wasnโ€™t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person,โ€ President Trump tells reporters when asked about the killing of actor/producer/activist Rob Reiner. โ€œHe was very bad for our country.โ€ image
President Trump says a lawsuit being filed "this afternoon or tomorrow morningโ€ against BBC for over how his Jan. 6 speech was edited by the Panorama TV program.