Republican lawmakers slam Trump's “inappropriate” posts on Rob Reiner  —  President Trump is being condemned by both right wing and centrist Republican members of Congress for posting that director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were killed due to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid.  Then People Died of Cholera.  —  On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.  —  For four weeks, they had been working overtime …

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction  —  DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Inside Stephen Miller's Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State  —  Stephen Miller's ancestors first arrived in the United States in 1903.  That's when a man named Wolf Laib Glosser disembarked at Ellis Island after leaving behind his hometown in Antopol, a small town in the part of the czarist Russian empire that is now Belarus.

White House Rages at MAGA Senator Over Anti-JD Vance Plot  —  EATING THEIR OWN  —  Sen. Josh Hawley appears to be eyeing a primary run against Donald Trump's second-in-command.  —  MAGA administration insiders are apparently livid after GOP Sen. Josh Hawley launched what has been received …

Kash Patel should ‘take a lesson’ from RI, Magaziner says  —  The perpetrator of the mass shooting at Brown University that killed two and injured nine is still unknown after the “person of interest” located in part by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was released Dec. 14.

New York Young Republican Club gala draws white nationalist, far-right Germans as elected officials skip out … NEW YORK — Two months after prominent members of a national Young Republican organization were exposed for their role in a hate-filled, private group chat, the city-based chapter showed it's willing to welcome almost anyone.

U.S. Soldiers and Translator Killed in Syria Are Identified  —  The shooting attack in Palmyra, Syria, on Saturday struck Iowa National Guard troops.  Two were killed, along with an American civilian interpreter; three others were wounded.  —  The two Iowa National Guard soldiers who were killed …

Ukraine and U.S. divided over territory after intense negotiations  —  Two days of intense negotiations between Ukraine, the U.S. and European officials resulted in clear progress on security guarantees for Ukraine but left significant gaps on the issue of territory, U.S. officials told reporters on Monday.

FBI arrests 4 alleged members of radical pro-Palestinian group accused of plotting New Year's Eve bombings  —  FIRST ON FOX — Federal authorities say they disrupted a credible terrorist threat over the weekend, arresting four alleged members of a radical pro-Palestinian extremist group accused …

Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he'd do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’  —  Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero bystander who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi shooters on Sunday, has said that despite the immense pain he is in, he does not regret lunging at the gunman.

MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media  —  This isn't just about business; it's about democracy  —  Warner Bros. Discovery, which among other things controls CNN, has agreed to sell itself to Netflix.  But it isn't a done deal, because Paramount has made a rival, hostile bid.

Jared Kushner's Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Is Running Into Resistance  —  Deal to redevelop site bombed by NATO has become quagmire for U.S. president's son-in-law  —  For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.

Pentagon plan calls for major power shifts within U.S. military  —  If adopted, the changes would complement other efforts by the Trump administration to shift resources away from the Middle East and Europe. … Senior Pentagon officials are preparing a plan to downgrade several …

'I Didn't Vote for This': A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country … The road to the tiny hamlet of Marion in northwest Montana is lined with the thick trees of the Flathead National Forest, with modern homesteads of trailers and modest homes dotting clearings here and there.

Bondi Beach shooting gunman Naveed Akram was follower of pro-Islamic State preacher Wisam Haddad  —  By ABC Investigations's Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC NEWS Verify's Michael Workman and defence and national security correspondent Olivia Caisley  —  Loading...  In short:

‘Outrageous’: JetBlue pilot describes near-collision with Air Force plane off Venezuela  —  The airline pilot told air traffic control in Curaçao that the U.S. military plane was not identifying itself with a transponder. … A JetBlue pilot changed altitude to avoid colliding …

Sophomore Ella Cook ID'd as first victim in Brown University shooting  —  The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school's college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.

Underground Legal Clinics Offer a Lifeline to Migrants Facing Mass Deportation  —  At his clinic, John Sirabella is a hard man to talk to.  —  On a recent evening, in the back of a cavernous church basement, he led a training for over two dozen people gathered on folding chairs.

Brown University shooting live updates: Victim named as manhunt for shooter who killed two continues  —  Brown has canceled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control.  —  New details emerge in Brown University shooting: What we know  —  What we know

New Trump tariffs collection hits $200 billion, Customs says … The United States has collected more than $200 billion in tariffs this year as a result of new duties imposed by President Donald Trump since the beginning of 2025, the Customs and Border Protection agency said Monday.

Capitol agenda: House GOP at the Obamacare cliff  —  House Republicans are set to mark their final session week of 2025 with a muddled health care message that's poised to have a big impact — a nationwide spike in insurance costs after Obamacare subsidies expire in less than three weeks.

Woman says dad died a hero throwing bricks at Bondi Beach attacker, and “Australia's not a home for Jews anymore.”  —  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.

What the Noam Chomsky-Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us  —  Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly.  Epstein was one of them.  But that doesn't mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”  —  Pocket  —  Over his long life, Noam Chomsky—who turned 97 this month …

DOJ's Clinton Foundation probe marred by ‘conflicts of interest,’ obstruction by FBI's Andrew McCabe: whistleblowers  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's four-year-long probe into the Clinton Foundation was beset by “conflicts of interest” and obstruction by senior FBI officials …