Prime Minister Netanyahu supports the government move to silence Galei Tzahal (the IDF's Army Radio station), which has been viewed as a reputable independent media outlet in Israeli society for 75 years.
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Israel approves closure of IDF-controlled Army Radio | The Jerusalem Post
Army Radio commander Tal Lev-Ram has said that he would fight the closure, which Defense Minister Israel Katz has pushed for, before the High Court...
NYT - President Trump will announce that the Navy is to build a new “Trump-class” battleship, which will become the centerpiece of the president’s vision for a new “Golden Fleet.”
President Trump Announces Plans for New ‘Trump Class’ Warships
As Ukraine faces battlefield struggles, an ongoing corruption probe and pressure from the US, the Storm-1516 Russian disinformation operation is becoming more prolific and harmful, an analysis of NewsGuard’s database of 400+ false claims about the war shows. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/a-russian-influence-operation-surpasses?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
NBC News - President’s envoy, perceived as tilting to Russia, making end runs around the secretary of state in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
NBC News
Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio’s clashing diplomacy on Russia-Ukraine
Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he...
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects over national security concerns, contending that the towers and movement of turbine blades interfere with radar.
Fox News
Trump admin pausing all off shore wind project construction due to national security concerns
President Trump's Interior Department announces immediate pause on all large-scale offshore wind project leases, citing classified national securit...
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...