Trump Media announces $6 billion merger with a nuclear fusion company. 📄.pdf
Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, destroying what they describe as an entire Russian regiment. https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-forces-carry-out-assault-near-lyman-destroy-russian-regiment-military-says/
Australia’s opposition leaders calls for the prime minister to recall parliament to address the issue of antisemitism in the community in the wake of the Bondi terror attack.
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91.
In a nationwide address that major US TV networks are carrying live, President Trump announces 1,450,000 military members will receive a “warrior dividend” of $1776 before Christmas. image
“I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” announces Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
NYT - The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship.
(AP) — Months after President Trump refashioned a West Wing walkway into what he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame, he has added partisan and subjective plaques to the display.
Politico - Former special counsel tells a House committee his team found evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/jack-smith-trump-deposition-congress-00694730
“The FCC is not an independent agency,” its chairman, Brendan Carr, responds to a question from Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) who notes that the commission’s website says it is independent.