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🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP

1.⁠ Maduro confirmed he spoke with Trump, calling the conversation “cordial” and “respectful,” and saying he welcomes renewed dialogue and diplomacy if it leads to peace rather than conflict.

2.⁠ The State Department has reissued its highest-level warning for Venezuela, urging Americans to avoid all travel or leave immediately due to rampant crime, kidnappings, wrongful detentions, collapsing infrastructure, and the absence of U.S. consular services.

3.⁠ Macron met Xi in Beijing to push China toward a Ukraine ceasefire and reset Europe-China trade ties, urging Beijing to curb support for Russia while also trying to fix Europe’s huge trade imbalance and secure Chinese investment amid shifting global power dynamics.

4.⁠ ICE arrested a third Afghan national from Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome - an alleged ISIS-K supporter found just miles from D.C. - prompting DHS Secretary Noem to blast the program after two National Guard members were already shot by another Afghan refugee days earlier.

5.⁠ Trump demanded mass Somali deportations and said Rep. Ilhan Omar should be expelled from Congress and the country, accusing Minnesota’s Somali community of fraud, corruption, and “destroying” the state.

6.⁠ The U.N. overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding Russia immediately return thousands of abducted Ukrainian children and stop forced adoptions and indoctrination - a rebuke that landed just a day after Trump’s envoys met Putin in Moscow.

7.⁠ Netanyahu said Israel is on the verge of an “powerful and terrifying” AI revolution, urging the country to harness its advanced technologies for global good while warning of the immense risks that come with them.

8.⁠ Democrats released selective new photos and videos from Epstein’s island - showing rooms, equipment, and creepy details but not the answers people want - prompting GOP accusations that the drop is a politically convenient, cherry-picked “transparency” stunt.

9.⁠ Dozens of U.S. lawmakers are urging Global Magnitsky sanctions on Pakistan’s Gen. Asim Munir over abductions, torture, rigged elections, and even threats against U.S. citizens.

10.Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Jack Smith to testify under oath on December 17, saying the former special counsel must finally answer questions about how the Trump prosecutions were run after several of his deputies have already been deposed.