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Allies of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are urging President-elect Trump to publicly reaffirm support for the House GOP leader to avoid a messy, protracted battle that could delay the certification of his own victory. "If we have some kind of protracted fight where we can’t elect a speaker — the speaker’s not elected; we’re not sworn in. And if we’re not sworn in, we can’t certify the election," Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. House lawmakers are returning to Washington, D.C., for a chamber-wide vote to elect the speaker on Friday, Jan. 3. Just days later, on Monday,...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has slammed Donald Trump’s proposal to retake the Panama Canal. Petro, a former Marxist guerilla and vocal supporter of Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the X platform that the number of illegal migrants crossing heading to the southern border would increase by “millions” unless Trump recognized the canal belongs to Panama. He wrote: Until the last consequences I will be on the side of Panama and the defense of its sovereignty. If the new US government wants to talk business, we will talk business, face to face, and for the benefit of our people,...

New Yorkers were up in arms Monday one day after an illegal Guatemalan immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping straphanger to death aboard a Brooklyn subway train — while bystanders did nothing. Horrifying video footage of the incident shows at least three gawkers — one of them seen filming the shocking fatal blaze on his phone — and an NYPD cop standing outside the subway car as flames engulfed the unidentified victim after the Sunday morning attack.n Nobody came to her aid,” said Guardian Angels founder and community activist Curtis Sliwa. “There’s no doubt that people don’t want to get involved....

Several people were injured and another was missing in the water after an explosion on a boat Monday at a marina in Fort Lauderdale, fire officials said. It happened just before 6 p.m. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue said they received multiple 911 calls reporting the explosion at Lauderdale Marina at 1900 SE 15th Street.

I had to tweak and twist around different titles before arriving at this “harmless” one all in a bid to avoid video demonetization. I would have loved to write a summary here or an introduction to this video but am scared of “violating” the rules of this platform. But know that we’re gonna hear some insane history regarding a particular Christmas song and its origin being rooted in slaaaavuury

Betsy Reed is the US editor of the U.K .Guardian. She happens to have a case of extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome. And she wears that bias proudly in order to fundraise from likeminded readers of the US edition of The Guardian to the extent that her bias comes off as flatly comical. You can read Reed making her pitch at the bottom of this Sunday article about a lost tribe of indigenous people deep in the Amazon. You can see Reed begin her pitch with this title: "Why you can rely on the Guardian not to bow to Trump –...

Two Georgia men who were convicted in the sickening sex abuse of their two adopted sons are headed to prison for the rest of their lives. A judge decided that married gay couple William and Zachary Zulock - once darlings of the LGBTQ scene in Georgia - will each serve 100 years in prison for sodomizing their young sons, recording the sex acts and providing videos of the abuse to other pedophiles, 11Alive reported. The horrific abuse was believed to take place when the boys were as young as three and five years old.

The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (1963)

A former police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was found guilty of leaking information to a former Proud Boys leader. United States District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson found Shane Lamond, the former head of the MPD’s intelligence unit, guilty of one count of obstructing justice and three counts of having lied to “federal law enforcement officials,” according to the Hill. Lamond was previously charged with alerting former Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio about a “warrant out for his arrest” prior to the January 6, 2021, riot at the United States Capitol. The Hill noted that...

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 following allegations of sexual harassment, is suing one of his accusers, a Northern Westchester native, for defamation. Cuomo, age 67, filed the lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court on Thursday, Dec. 19 against former staffer Charlotte Bennett, a Northern Westchester native, who accused the former governor of sexual harassment in 2021. Bennett had previously filed a federal lawsuit against former Gov. Cuomo in September 2022. However, she voluntarily dropped the lawsuit on Monday, Dec. 9, saying in a joint statement with her attorney that the former governor had used...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., spoke out Sunday to deny rumors spread on social media that she was expecting a baby. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, took to her Instagram story to blame what some believed was her pregnant appearance on extra portions eaten on Thanksgiving.Responding to a commenter who said she was “glowing,” the progressive Democrat revealed that a Republican congressman recently asked her the same pregnancy question on the House floor.“Everyone keeps asking me if I’m pregnant. Actually, a member, a Republican came to me on the floor this week and asked me if I was pregnant,” she said in a video....

TRANSCRIPT 0:03 [Applause] 0:04 Thank you thank you so much I'm honored to be here. President Joe Biden just pardoned Lee Harvey Oswald. If president Trump wants to make candidate of the 51st state one stipulation -- at least one of the Senators has to be a moose. Unlike Oprah I am not being paid to be here I'm here because I love my country and because Donald Trump surrounds himself with intelligent women who are very good-looking what a crowd wow there's got to be 15,000 people here which is double MSNBC's Prime Time viewership 1:18 Wow well what...

President Reagan's Address to the Nation on Christmas and the Situation in Poland from the Oval Office, December 23, 1981.

Finding a few flaky specs on your head isn’t anything out of the ordinary. But in your brow hairs? That might catch you off guard. Before you panic, eyebrow dandruff usually isn’t anything to worry about, Hope Mitchell, MD, board-certified dermatologist and founder of Mitchell Dermatology in Perrysburg, Ohio, tells SELF. That said, it’s not exactly a one-size-fits-all diagnosis either. Rather, those little white or yellowish crumbs could be signs of a few different issues that deserve your attention, like dry skin craving moisture, for example, or an underlying condition leading to irritation or inflammation. Below, we asked dermatologists to...

It was around Labor Day when I officially swore off network news. Election fatigue played a role in disconnecting, to be sure, but I’d also found an alternative: YouTube pundits who spend hours live on their channels dissecting the top water-cooler stories of the day and exploring every possible angle. They have names like Akademiks and Kempire, who specialize in hip-hop and pop culture; Emily D. Baker and the Florida Law Man, who break down legal headlines and filings; and titles like Popcorned Planet, Legal AF, The Art of Dialogue and, my personal favorite, Tisa Tells. As it turns out,...

@ZelenskyyUa I held a meeting of the Staff. We thoroughly analyzed our work with Syria after the fall of Assad and his escape. Today, the intelligence services presented their reports—the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine—as well as the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs. We are defining our strategy and concrete steps. Ukraine is interested in stabilizing the situation in Syria and the entire region and will support the necessary efforts of partners. We believe it is crucial for the security of the Syrian people and the region as a whole to remove any Russian presence...

A Florida businessman who is a key figure in the sex and drug allegations against former Congressman Matt Gaetz has called the House Ethics Committee’s biased investigation report “reckless,” demanding the retraction of multiple “demonstrably false statements,” The National Pulse can reveal.Lawyers representing Christopher Dorworth note that former Congressman Gaetz is not even under the Committee’s jurisdiction before explaining in a letter sent just hours after the committee’s report was leaked to the corporate media that it contains at least three falsehoods.The first involves an allegation that Gaetz invited people to Dorworth’s home on July 15, 2017. Dorworth states that...

3 fall into ocean after Santa Cruz Wharf collapses due to strong waves ahead of storm Monday, December 23, 2024 6:57PM 3 rescued after partial collapse of Santa Cruz Wharf Two people had to be rescued and another swam to safety after strong waves caused part of the Santa Cruz Wharf to collapse on Monday. Two people had to be rescued and another swam to safety after strong waves caused part of the Santa Cruz Wharf to collapse on Monday. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Three construction workers fell into the ocean Monday after strong waves caused part of the...

Keir Starmer must strengthen the rules around political donations to protect the electoral system from foreign interference, the Electoral Commission has said, amid rising concerns about Elon Musk’s plans to donate millions of pounds to Reform UK. Vijay Rangarajan, chief executive of the elections watchdog, said that linking donations to political parties to the UK profits of companies owned by foreigners was one of the urgent changes needed to retain the trust of voters. The move, which the Guardian understands is being considered by the government, could cap the amount that Musk, the world’s richest man, could donate through the...

We could use more people in Washington like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY.) He's one of the rarest of rare breeds in the federal government, a fiscal hawk - and he's unapologetic about it, especially now, in the Festivus season, which he has adopted as part of an annual observation. Granted, the made-up holiday of Festivus didn't start with the good senator. It was introduced to the national culture by comedian Jerry Stiller on the television show "Seinfeld," as a sort of Christmas alternative; he described it as "Festivus, a holiday for the rest of us." In the show's canon, a...