WSJ - Paramount amended its offer for WBD, with billionaire Larry Ellison agreeing to personally guarantee $40.4 billion of equity financing for the deal and publish records related to the family trust that backstops the deal. https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/paramount-amends-bid-for-warner-discovery-with-new-ellison-guarantee-035b0ce8?st=YnNnDJ&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Heritage Foundation professor resigns because the conservative think tank’s president “gave aid and comfort to the rising tide of antisemitism on the right.”
Reason.com
My Resignation From The Heritage Foundation
I sent this letter this evening to Dr. Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation.
WaPo - Texas Republican US Senator Ted Cruz considering another run for president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/22/ted-cruz-president-2028-vance-maga/
“We all thought that she looked dead.”
The Independent
Passengers claim grandmother who died on easyJet flight ‘looked dead’ while boarding
The woman was travelling with two medical professionals and a ‘fit to fly’ certificate, said the airline
The woman who became America’s oldest park ranger has died at the age of 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Hist...
Denmark’s foreign ministry today summoning the US ambassador to protest President Trump’s appointment of the Louisiana governor as special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex.
Berlingske
Kampen om Grønland – følg med her
Præsident Trump har ud af det blå udpeget guvernøren i delstaten Louisiana, Jeff Landry, som USAs særlige udsending til Grønland. Få reaktion...
A Russian general was reportedly killed early today when a bomb detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow.
The Moscow Times
Russian General Killed by Car Bomb in Moscow - The Moscow Times
A Russian general was killed early Monday when a bomb detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, Russian law enforcement authorities said, ma...
A notification from CBS' 60 Minutes that a report scheduled to air in this evening's program about El Salvador's notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) mega-prison has been postponed. image
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) — 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.