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  • Former Cranston mayoral candidate arrested on DUI charge

    12/23/2025 2:27:17 PM PST · by xxqqzz · 1 replies
    WPRI ^ | December 19, 2025 | Richard Baccari
    EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WPRI) — Maria Bucci, the chair of the Cranston Democrats and a former candidate for mayor, has been arrested and charged with driving drunk in East Greenwich. Body-worn camera video released by police shows that Bucci was pulled over on Division Road just after midnight Thursday. According to the police report obtained by 12 News, Bucci was stopped after an officer saw her swerving on the road. Her arrest was first reported by GoLocalProv. The report says Bucci’s vehicle had “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage” and she was slurring her words. “You know who I...
  • Woman stabbed to death inside Barnes & Noble in Palm Beach Gardens, suspect in custody

    12/23/2025 2:24:36 PM PST · by Governor Dinwiddie · 17 replies
    A woman is dead after she was stabbed inside a Palm Beach Gardens bookstore Monday evening, police confirmed with WPTV. Police responded to the Barnes & Noble at 11380 Legacy Avenue just before 8 p.m. and found a woman inside the store suffering from a stab wound. The victim, identified as 65-year-old Rita Loncharich, was taken to a local hospital, where she died from her injuries. Witnesses told police that the suspect, later identified as Antonio Moore, 40, ran out of the store after stabbing the victim. Police say Moore was located shortly after the incident. Arrest records show...
  • Two Mass. teens, one allegedly ‘heavily intoxicated,’ rescued from Mount Monadnock Authorities say the 18-year-olds were unprepared for their night hike.

    12/23/2025 2:21:50 PM PST · by xxqqzz · 6 replies
    Boston.com ^ | December 23, 2025 | Beth Treffelson
    Two teenage hikers in distress, with no food, water, warm clothes, or cold-weather gear, were rescued late Friday night after another hiker found them soaking wet and freezing after they fell into a brook on Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, officials said. According to a New Hampshire Fish and Game press release, at around 10 p.m. on Dec. 19, the other hiker called New Hampshire State Police, who contacted the Fish and Game Department to request a rescue of the two hikers in distress on the Ferry Spring Trail. Through contact via cellphone, officers found out that the two...
  • Disgraced ex-Prince Andrew loses his gun license in latest humiliation

    12/23/2025 2:16:01 PM PST · by xxqqzz · 6 replies
    NY Post ^ | December 23, 2025 | Anthony Blair
    Fallen royal Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has had his gun license revoked, the latest blow during his fresh round of humiliation over his ties to now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The former prince — who lost his royal titles over his ties to Epstein — agreed to give up his firearms certificate following a visit by specialist police to his home near Windsor Castle, according to the Sun. Scotland Yard confirmed that “firearms licensing officers attended an address in Windsor to request that a man in his 60s voluntarily surrender his firearms and shotgun certificate.” Princess Anne, Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, and Prince...
  • To prevent another Stockton tragedy, invest in violence intervention

    12/23/2025 2:01:47 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 6 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | December 23, 2025 | By Tinisch Hollins
    Last month’s mass shooting at a child’s birthday party in Stockton that left four people dead, 13 injured and more than 150 guests at the targeted event likely severely traumatized, should have been a rallying moment for California’s political leaders. In addition to calling for more gun control, elected leaders could have doubled down on support for crime victims — specifically by improving access to emergency financial assistance and trauma recovery services, as well as violence intervention programs. Available data shows these investment strategies to be effective in lowering crime rates.
  • REVEALED: Police were repeatedly called to Rob Reiner's Brentwood mansion for years before son 'murdered him and his wife'

    12/23/2025 1:59:08 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 10 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | December 23, 2025 | Josh Boswell
    Police had been responding to disturbances at Rob and Michele Reiner's Los Angeles mansion for over a decade – long before the Hollywood legend and his wife were found dead inside their home, the Daily Mail can reveal. LAPD records obtained by the Daily Mail show officers were called to the family's $13.5 million Brentwood property at least six times: in 2013, 2014, 2017, twice in 2019, and on December 14, the day the Reiners were killed. The 'calls for service' were for incidents ranging from alleged family violence to welfare and mental health checks. 'There's been quite a few...
  • Bank of America has a Surprising 'strong' call on the 2026 economy

    12/23/2025 1:56:31 PM PST · by SaxxonWoods · 2 replies
    TheStreet/MSN ^ | 12/23/2025 | Tobi Opeyemi Amure
    "You're heading into 2026 with one of the biggest banks on Wall Street telling you the economy can ran stronger than most people expect. Bank of America's Global Research team used its December 2025 outlook to stake out a clearly bullish position on next year's growth, especially in the US." Average inflation over the last 20 years: 2.52% Inflation today: 2.7% Not the end of the world.
  • Trump administration to start seizing pay of defaulted student loan borrowers in January

    12/23/2025 12:57:08 PM PST · by Red Badger · 45 replies
    CNBC ^ | December 23, 2025 | Annie Nova
    Key Points * The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. * More than 5 million student loan borrowers are currently in default, and that total could swell to roughly 10 million borrowers soon, the Education Department said earlier this year. ============================================================== The Trump administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default in early January, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. It will be the first time...
  • Land of Confusion: The Great Reset in Motion

    12/23/2025 12:40:47 PM PST · by MacNaughton · 10 replies
    DiscernReport ^ | 12/23/2025 | Colin Todhunter
    The global disruptions we have seen in recent years are frequently presented as a chaotic sequence of events: a ‘pandemic’, inflation, energy shortages and war. Little wonder that most people are confused. However, a structural analysis reveals a more deliberate controlled demolition of the 20th-century social contract.We are witnessing a transition from a productive capitalist model, which required a healthy mass labour force, to what Yanis Varoufakis calls a techno-feudalist order.The engine of this transition was a desperate financial stabilisation strategy carried out by means of a public health event. As identified by Professor Fabio Vighi, the global financial system...
  • Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to deploy National Guard in Illinois

    12/23/2025 12:35:18 PM PST · by DFG · 41 replies
    NBC News ^ | 12/23/2025 | Lawrence Hurley
    The Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed the Trump administration over its plan to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois over the strenuous objections of local officials. The court in an unsigned order turned away an emergency request made by the administration, which said the troops are needed to protect federal agents involved in immigration enforcement in the Chicago area. In doing so, the court at least provisionally rejected the Trump administration’s view that the situation on the ground is so chaotic that it justifies invoking a federal law that allows the president to call National Guard troops into federal service...
  • GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman launches Senate run in Wyoming

    12/23/2025 12:32:07 PM PST · by DFG · 16 replies
    NBC News ^ | 12/23/2025 | Brennan Leach and Bridget Bowman
    Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, is running for Senate in Wyoming next year, seeking to replace retiring GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis, who announced last week that she would not ​run for re-election. Trump quickly gave Hageman his "my Complete and Total Endorsement, writing in a Truth Social post hours after she launched her campaign that he knows Hageman well and she "is a TOTAL WINNER! Harriet has ALWAYS delivered for Wyoming, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate." Hageman, 63, was elected to be the state’s lone representative in Congress in 2022 after ousting then-Rep. Liz...
  • Enriching hospitals at taxpayer expense

    12/23/2025 12:18:08 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/23/2025 | Brian Garst
    We recently endured the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown as part of a fight over expiring healthcare tax credits. Democrats insist that Americans can’t afford Obamacare plans without the enhanced subsidies that were temporarily added post-COVID, which certainly raises questions about the efficacy of their Affordable Care Act. On top of proving a massive waste of time, the shutdown fight represented a misdirection of lawmaker energy. Rather than debating whether to paper over the healthcare affordability problem with yet another layer of subsidies, Congress instead should focus on finding cost-savings common ground like eliminating the abuse of the 340B drug discount...
  • The problem behind the buzzword, ‘affordability’

    12/23/2025 12:15:15 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/23/2025 | Jay Davidson
    The “economy” symbolizes survival at its most basic level. It is through an economic system that we gather items for our continued existence and, more importantly, for continued survival of our loved ones. So yes, it’s always the economy (affordability).Since the economy is so important to our basic survival, what economic philosophy best promotes and protects that system? Is it more government? Or more private enterprise? We need to answer this basic question before promoting another “solution.”Politicians would have you believe that another law or rule or some grand federal program will solve all our problems. They would have us...
  • The 2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed!

    12/23/2025 12:09:50 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/23/2025 | Joe Fried
    A few days ago, the Federalist reported that Fulton County, Georgia, had over 300,000 illegal early-vote ballots during the 2020 election. The votes were illegal because they were unsupported by poll worker signatures (contrary to Georgia law). In other words, the vote totals were miraculously born without a mother or father.Independent analysts have known of this evidence for years. Indeed, a reference to the phony 2020 votes is included on page 108 of my book (Debunked?), which was published three years ago:“All but two of the early vote tabulator closing tapes for 350,000 votes were unsigned. Thus, there was no...
  • EU leaders stand by Denmark after Trump appoints special US envoy to Greenland

    12/23/2025 11:58:40 AM PST · by Roman_War_Criminal · 10 replies
    France24 ^ | 12/22/25 | France24
    Denmark said Monday it will summon the US ambassador after President Donald Trump announced he had appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has threatened to annex. In response, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa said they stood "in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland". Denmark said Monday it would summon the US ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland who immediately vowed to make the Danish autonomous territory "a part of the US". Since returning to the White House in January,...
  • DOJ reverses Biden-era rule that allowed VA to commit abortions

    12/23/2025 11:51:37 AM PST · by ViLaLuz
    Live Action News ^ | Dec. 22, 2025 | Nancy Flanders
    .The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reversed a Biden-era decision that allowed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to commit abortions at the expense of taxpayers. ...
  • IRS CEO says over 94% of middle-class Americans will see tax relief

    12/23/2025 11:43:52 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 26 replies
    Fox News (Business) ^ | December 23, 2025 | Kristen Altus
    The first CEO of the Internal Revenue Service is reinforcing signals from the Trump administration that Americans could see the "biggest tax refund ever" in the new year. "We should expect exactly what the president said, as always happens," Frank Bisignano – also the commissioner at the Social Security Administration – said on "Mornings with Maria" Tuesday. "And the great leadership of the Treasury secretary has positioned us to be able to deliver in a whole bunch of ways for America." Bisignano confirmed that major tax refunds are expected in 2026, echoing President Donald Trump’s end-of-year address last week in...
  • Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sues to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center

    12/23/2025 10:40:24 AM PST · by DFG · 51 replies
    ABC News ^ | 12/23/2025 | Lauren Peller
    House Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sued President Donald Trump on Monday -- hoping to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lawsuit from the congresswoman, who serves an ex-officio member of the board, argues that the board’s vote to rename the building was illegal because an act of Congress is required for such an action. "This is a flagrant violation of the rule of law, and it flies in the face of our constitutional order. Congress intended the Center to be a living memorial to President Kennedy -- and a...
  • Globalist Fake Media Machine Attacks Trump, His Peace Efforts — Dmitriev

    12/23/2025 10:20:30 AM PST · by marshmallow · 8 replies
    TASS ^ | 12/23/25
    Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy commented on Donald Trump's opinion that the NYT newspaper poses a serious threat to national security and that its dissemination of false information should be stoppedMOSCOW, December 23. /TASS/. The globalist fake media machine, and not just The New York Times (NYT), has attacked US President Donald Trump, his peace efforts, and Russia, Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund has said. "It's not just the NYT. It's a globalist, well-funded, organized, and synchronized US/UK/EU deep-state-aligned fake media machine - targeting traditional values, common sense, economic prosperity - and...
  • Jimmy Fallon Has Told The Same Zohran Mamdani Joke On ‘The Tonight Show’ Three Times This Month: Is It Sloppy Writing Or An Elaborate Bit?

    12/23/2025 10:14:39 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    New York Post ^ | 12/19 | Radhamely De Leon
    Jimmy Fallon has been repeating the same joke about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani three times now on the NBC late night show, much to the confusion and skepticism of viewers. Fallon first cracked the joke during the Dec. 9 show. “It was so cold in New York City this morning, walking to work, I saw a Wall Street stockbroker spooning with Zohran Mamdani,” he said, earning quite the laugh from the audience that night. But that wasn’t enough for the NBC host. He then repeated it again a week later on Dec. 16, except this time he at...