Republican Rep. Thomas Massie announced that he and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna are drafting inherent contempt charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files.

President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Sunday plans to build a new, larger, and more modern aircraft carrier to replace the ageing Charles de Gaulle and bolster France’s maritime power.

“The United States Coast Guard is actively pursuing a sanctioned dark fleet vessel involved in Venezuela’s illegal sanctions evasion. It is sailing under a false flag and is subject to a judicial seizure order,” a U.S. official told Fox News, responding to reports that another vessel was boarded and seized this morning in the southern Caribbean.

Western intelligence agencies have recently observed unusual activity by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, including coordinated movements of drone, ballistic missile, and air-defense units, along with abnormal command-and-control signals, deployments, and logistical activity. The developments have prompted heightened monitoring, sources familiar with the assessments told Iran International.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released footage from tonight’s large-scale retaliatory operation against ISIS strongholds and affiliated sites in Syria, known as Operation Hawkeye Strike. American and Jordanian forces employed more than 100 precision munitions, launched from aircraft and ground-based systems, to strike and destroy over 70 ISIS targets across northern and central Syria.

Court documents say that Jeffrey Epstein threatened to burn down an unidentified victim’s home if she disclosed that he had stolen and sold photographs of her sisters, who were 12 and 16 at the time, taken at a swimming pool in September 1996.

U.S. Air Force F-15E “Strike Eagle” multirole strike fighters and A-10C Thunderbolt II “Warthog” close air support aircraft, along with U.S. Army AH-64E “Apache” attack helicopters, launched from bases across the Middle East to take part in tonight’s large-scale retaliatory strikes against ISIS-affiliated targets in Syria.

On Tuesday, December 16, the U.S. Navy conducted the first-ever launch of a new one-way attack drone—modeled on Iran’s Shahed-136—from the flight deck of the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) while transiting the Arabian Sea. The drone, known as the Low-Cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS), was launched and operated by Task Force 59 under Task Force Scorpion Strike, a one-way attack drone unit recently deployed to the Middle East.

Footage appears to show ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles being launched from U.S. Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) during tonight’s large-scale retaliatory strikes on ISIS-affiliated targets in northern and central Syria.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle announced today that, less than a month after canceling the Constellation-class frigate program being built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin, the Navy has chosen the U.S. Coast Guard’s Legend-class cutter as the foundation for a new class of frigates. The ships will be constructed by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Huntington Ingalls Industries recently ended production of the Legend-class National Security Cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard after completing ten vessels. Due to significant ongoing delays and a substantial construction backlog at HII, the first frigate based on the NSC design is not expected to be completed until 2030 or later.