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Rights groups say the demolition order, which will affect 100 Palestinian homes, is an attempt to ‘cage in’ Palestinians.

The Israeli military will demolish 25 residential buildings in the occupied West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp this week, according to local authorities.

Abdallah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem governorate where Nur Shams is located, told the AFP news agency on Monday that he was informed of the planned demolition by the Israeli Defence Ministry body COGAT.

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Monday set new January deposition dates for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, warning that continued refusal to testify in Congress’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation will trigger immediate contempt of Congress proceedings.

In a sharply worded letter sent to the Clintons’ attorney, David Kendall of Williams & Connolly, Comer rejected arguments that the former officials should be excused from appearing and accused their legal team of mischaracterizing the scope of the investigation while obstructing efforts to schedule testimony.

“The Committee has chosen the date of January 13, 2026, for the deposition of President Clinton and January 14, 2026, for the deposition of Secretary Clinton,” Comer wrote. “If your clients do not comply with these new dates, the Committee will move immediately to contempt proceedings.”

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The resurgence of the political right in Latin America and Mexico’s recently approved tariffs were among the issues spoken about at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday morning press conference.

Here is a recap of the president’s Dec. 15 mañanera.

Sheinbaum: Shift to the right won’t happen in Mexico 

Citing the victory of José Antonio Kast in Chile’s presidential election on Sunday as well as the results of recent elections in Argentina and Bolivia, a reporter asked the president about the shift to the right of “some voters in Latin America.”

Sheinbaum responded that the situation in “each country” would need to be analyzed to determine why voters in some Latin American nations have recently supported right-wing candidates and parties in large numbers.

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More details have emerged regarding the the gunmen who killed 15 people at an Australia beach.

In the new reports,  the police commissioner of New South Wales revealed the father and son who were behind the brutal shooting were allegedly motivated by ISIS.

A separate report from authorities in Australia revealed the son was previously under surveillance by an Australian intelligence agency.

The Guardian reported more on the new reports:

The father and son duo allegedly behind the Bondi attacked appear to have been inspired by Islamic State, the Australian prime minister says, as police confirmed they were investigating why the pair travelled to the Philippines last month.

The New South Wales police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, on Tuesday alleged Naveed Akram, 24, and his 50-year-old father, Sajid, had recently travelled to the Philippines.

Lanyon also alleged that IEDs and two homemade IS flags were found in a car registered to Naveed that was parked at the scene of Sunday’s shooting.

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I’ve often written for this site that the monstrous, prickly caricature of President Donald Trump usually portrayed by the media is a wild-eyed ruse.

His touching and humane response to finding out about the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing in 2020 has always been a moment that I’ve referenced as showing just how magnanimous Trump can be when his ideological foes perish.

Why, oh, why, couldn’t that Donald Trump have been present when famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife were allegedly murdered by their son in their California home on Sunday?

Instead, we got this version of Trump:

“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” the president posted to Truth Social on Monday morning. “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”

I mean this with zero exaggeration: That message should’ve literally been just the first line and last line, period.

Everything else is a disservice to anyone who’s ever defended Trump’s character from the relentless smears of the left and establishment media.

You simply do not speak ill of the dead, barring someone truly heinous (like, if you wanted to crack a Hitler joke hours after he offed himself, have at it).

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The daughter of one of the victims of Sunday’s Bondi Beach terror attack told CBS News on Monday that her father was “shot dead for being Jewish,” and she now believes Australia is not a safe home for Jewish people.

Sheina Gutnick said that her father, Reuven Morrison, a 62-year-old Soviet-born member of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Australia, was killed while attempting to stop one of the two gunmen during Sunday’s mass shooting, which Australian authorities have called an antisemitic terror attack.

“From my sources and understanding, he had jumped up the second the shooting started. He managed to throw bricks at the terrorist,” Gutnick told CBS News in Bondi on Monday, referencing an attempt to stop one of the gunmen that was caught on camera during the attack the previous day.

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Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Adrienne Blais did little Monday to challenge the defense’s legal arguments that her agency’s politically motivated fraud case against two attorneys and an aide for the 2020 Trump campaign is built on a prosecution “error.”

Blais didn’t need to do much. Liberal Dane County Judge John Hyland, who refused to recuse himself from the case after explosive allegations that a retired judge was the ghostwriter of Hyland’s earlier order, ruled that prosecutors had provided enough evidence to take the phony “false electors” case to trial.

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The EU’s top diplomat has warned it looks “increasingly difficult” to secure agreement among European leaders over a vital loan for Ukraine. Kyiv is fast running out of money and is desperately in need of an injection of cash to keep the country afloat and its army equipped with weapons.

Leaders from European states have been discussing a plan to give Kyiv a reparations loan financed by frozen Russian assets totalling €210billion. Most of that money (€185bn) is held in Belgium at Euroclear – a central securities depository in Brussels. The plan has met fierce resistance from Belgium’s prime minister Bart De Wever, who is demanding cast-iron guarantees of protection from Brussels from any Russian retaliation.

EU leaders will attend a crunch European Council summit on Thursday to discuss the reparations loan.

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European defense companies fell on Monday as talks over a potential peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine took a new turn.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said over the weekend that Ukraine was prepared to abandon the country’s longstanding aim of joining the NATO military alliance in exchange for alternative security guarantees to protect it from Russia. Joining NATO is unlikely given some members’ opposition, but the announcement marks a major policy shift by Ukraine.

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The Cambodian government has reported that over 300 000 Cambodian citizens have sought safety at camps for displaced people in border provinces, including Banteay Meanchey and Mongkol Borey.

The Thailand–Cambodia border conflict is part of a long-standing territorial dispute, driven by competing claims over several areas along the more than 800 kilometer frontier, including historical sites such as the Preah Vihear temple complex.

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A social media user appeared to make a threat against Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who referred the message to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The user appeared to post a heinous meme mocking the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk and added, “Your [sic] next buddy turn down the rhetoric.”

Former US Attorney Jay Town responded that the meme and the message could be prosecuted as a threat against the senator’s life.

Lee posted a screenshot of the alleged message, which was deleted from the X platform.

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Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that the FBI and Justice Department arrested four suspects tied to “Palestinian” (Islamic) extremism. The individuals were caught in Lucerne Valley building IEDs for attacks on five locations, including ICE agents and vehicles, in California’s Central District covering Los Angeles and Orange County. Each faces federal charges of conspiracy and possession of a destructive device; a fifth person was arrested in New Orleans for a separate plot. Officials called the threat massive and vowed to pursue such extremism.

A terror plot was foiled over the weekend .targeting five separate locations with the arrest of four suspected members of a “militant pro-Palestinian extremist organization.”

This is war. There’s only so long you can pretend it’s ‘just a couple of extremists.’

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Nick Reiner, the son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and producer Michele Singer Reiner, has been booked on murder charges in a case involving the death of his parents, announced Los Angeles County Chief Jim McDonnell.

“We have our robbery/homicide division handling the investigation. They worked throughout the night on this case and were able to take into custody Nick Reiner, a suspect in this case,” said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

“He was subsequently booked for murder and is being held on $4 million bail,” McDonnell added.

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The salaries for those working on the project range from $150,000 to $200,000 annually.

The Trump administration launched what is being called the “US Tech Force” as the president is seeking US dominance in the artificial intelligence industry. The new initiative will be comprised of around 1,000 engineers as well as others who will build out AI infrastructure and projects within the federal government.

The two-year employment program will work with teams that report to agency leaders in “collaboration with leading technology companies,” according to the launch website. “Upon completing the program, engineers can seek employment with the partnering private-sector companies for potential full-time roles – demonstrating the value of combining civil service with technical expertise,” the website adds.

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A conservative Christian woman from Alabama has been identified as one of the two fatalities from Saturday’s shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island that left at least nine others wounded.

Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore at Brown, was a parishioner at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, where Rev. Craig Smalley made the announcement during his Sunday service.

“Some of you haven’t heard, a lot of you have heard … [about] the tragedy yesterday at Brown University, the shooting of a number of people,” Smalley said.. “Tragically, one of our parishioners, Ella Cook, was one of those who was killed yesterday.”

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that its Civil Rights Division had filed a lawsuit against Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) over alleged racial discrimination against teachers in the school system.

The suit targets provisions in the district’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the teachers’ union, alleging that these provisions provide preferential treatment to certain teachers based on race, color, national origin, or sex. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

It claims that the CBA classifies teachers differently for decisions involving involuntary reassignment, layoffs, and reinstatement, depending on whether a teacher is considered a member of an “underrepresented population.”

According to the complaint, this results in teachers from such groups receiving protections or preferences not available to others.

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Another Black Lives Matter leader has been charged with financial crimes and accused of embezzling funds that were intended for the BLM chapter in Oklahoma City. Now, it makes one wonder, can anyone name one thing this organization has done to make Black people better off? No? That is what I thought. And are you surprised by this? No? I didn’t think so.

According to KOCO:

Reverend T. Sheri Amore Dickerson, a well-known activist in Oklahoma City, has been charged federally with wire fraud and money laundering, accused of embezzling funds meant for Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City, according to an indictment released on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Justice claims Dickerson deposited more than $3 million in returned bail checks into her personal account from Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City’s account from June 2020 to at least October of this year.

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is raising alarms over President Donald Trump’s aggressive push for mid-decade redistricting in Republican-led states, claiming the effort could intensify national divisions and even lead to “political violence.”

Paul’s comments came during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The senator was pressed on the Indiana State Senate’s recent decision to reject a Trump-backed redistricting proposal.

The president endorsed the mid-cycle map overhaul.

It’s one that analysts say would have added two GOP seats ahead of next year’s midterms.

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In 1996, Australia enacted some of the world’s strictest gun laws. In a mandatory “buy back” and confiscation, hundreds of thousands of firearms were taken from Aussie citizens. Less than two decades later, the Australian government was rounding up the unvaccinated and COVID-infected and putting them into concentration camps.

Gun laws in the Land Down Under are so strict that toy guns require licensing.

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Federal prosecutors say a group of far-left extremists plotted to bomb U.S. businesses on New Year’s Eve and then turn their sights on federal immigration agents in a follow-up wave of attacks.

According to a criminal complaint, four members of a cell calling itself the Order of the Black Lotus planned to plant pipe bombs at two American companies in Los Angeles as part of a scheme dubbed “Operation Midnight Sun.” The group is described as a splinter faction of the anti-capitalist Turtle Island Liberation Front.

After the initial bombings, the suspects allegedly planned to target ICE agents and their vehicles beginning in January or February 2026, hoping the explosions “would take some of them out and scare the rest of them,” prosecutors said.

Investigators said the New Year’s Eve plot involved backpacks packed with explosive devices, outlined in a handwritten plan recovered during the investigation.

The four suspects arrested were Audrey Carroll, 30, who used the aliases “Asiginaak” and “black moon”; Zachary Page, 32, who went by “Ash Kerrigan,” “AK” and “cthulu’s daughter”; Dante Garfield, 24, also known as “Cedar” or “Nomad”; and Tina Lai, 41, whose alias was “Kickwhere.”

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It would be hard to find a decent conservative who liked Rob Reiner’s politics — it will be impossible to find a decent conservative celebrating his death.

Reiner, 78, was found stabbed to death with his wife, Michele Singer,  in the couple’s Hollywood home on Sunday. Their middle child, Nick Reiner, is reportedly a suspect in their killing.

And the reaction across the political spectrum — compared to the September assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk — speaks volumes about American politics.

To the everlasting disgrace of the American left, Kirk’s killing was cause for celebration among his political opponents.

Reiner, however, an inveterate liberal even by Hollywood standards, had a different take. And in an October interview with “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” he showed what a difference decency can make.

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After the horrific attack at Brown University on Saturday evening that left two students dead and at least nine injured, there was some relief when authorities reported they had taken a “person of interest” into custody. However, the POI was released soon thereafter after Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that the evidence “now points in a different direction.”

Now, a frantic manhunt is underway on the Providence, RI, Brown campus and surrounding areas. A short while ago on this Monday afternoon, Rhode Island police issued new video which they hope will help lead to the suspect:

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Left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch demanded a boycott of CBS on Monday, saying progressives should seek to make an example of the network after it aired a town hall with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) CEO Erika Kirk.

Mrs. Kirk did a town hall with CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss that aired Saturday, during which she criticized those who justified the assassination of her husband and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Welch claimed Weiss was turning CBS News into a “propaganda channel.” (

“Okay. So during this Bari Weiss CBS takeover and her first town hall is to roll out Erica Kirk. Mind you, we have so many problems in our country right now. You have a massive financial, uh, economic burdens for so many working-class Americans,” Welch claimed. “You have inflation out the wazoo, health care, all of these things. and she is bringing out Erika Kirk and it’s all they’ve covered for a week straight at CBS News.”

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“And listen up, listener, we have agency and we have autonomy,” Welch continued. “Everybody needs to boycott CBS News. They do not get to just come in and say journalism doesn’t matter anymore, we are going to do a propaganda channel. Well, they can do it, but they can’t do it without our money. They cannot do it without our money. They cannot do it if we apply pressure to those advertisers. All of these fascists and all of these oligarchs think they control us and it’s our turn to remind them that we control them. Without our money, you’re nothing. Absolutely nothing. Look at what happened with Jimmy Kimmel.”

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Almost as quickly as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could pretend not to notice who shot up Bondi Beach on Sunday — a horrific act of Islamic terror against local Jews during Chanukah — the Labor leader announced swift action to insure that such an attack could never happen again.

“What swift action might that be?” I can hear you ask. “Roll up the ISIS cell in Sydney that apparently everybody knew about? Expel unassimilated foreigners? Teach Australian police to, I don’t know, shoot back right away instead of standing around with their thumbs up their you-know-whats?”

Nah. According to Albanese, what Australia really needs is more gun laws.

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The Little Sisters of the Poor have again asked a federal appeals court late Friday to block a nationwide ruling that rejected their protection from the federal government’s contraceptive mandate. Represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and Clement Murphy, the Little Sisters have spent more than a decade in court fighting to defend their ministry from a federal mandate forcing them to either provide contraceptives in their healthcare plan or pay tens of millions of dollars in fines.

They have already prevailed twice at the Supreme Court, including a 2020 ruling that upheld the federal conscience rule shielding them from the mandate. But Pennsylvania and New Jersey have fought in court to strip the Little Sisters of that protection. Earlier this year, a federal district court sided with the states, forcing the Little Sisters back to federal appeals court yet again.