- It's not as though the political pressure hasn't been mounting.... 
- Nuclear arms are an important part of America’s national security, the vice president has said... 
- DHS issued new travel guidance requiring foreigners, including green card holders, to be photographed at all U.S. ports of entry starting Dec. 26.... 
- Martin Scorsese made films that are part of the American songbook, as quintessential in their way as “Washington Crossing the Delaware” or “The Old Rugged Cross.”... 
- Cameron Crowe's The Uncool, an unusually fine and thoughtful showbiz memoir, shows it is possible to balance professional goals and private morality.... 
- ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero... 
- Dr. Mildred Muhammad was marked for death by her ex-husband, a former Army soldier who would later be identified as the "D.C. Sniper."... 
- Dozens of other boats joined the caravan, which included one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons and a Spanish influencer nicknamed “Barbie Gaza.”... 
- At a secret location in rural Ukraine, columns of attack drones are assembled at night and in near silence to strike deep inside Russia.  Since the summer, Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has ramp... 
- Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in Tanzania's commercial capital Friday to demand the national electoral body stop announcing election results that have sparked protests, leading to th... 
- The day after the stunning jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris, officials from across Washington's world-famous museums were already talking, assessing and planning how to bolster their own security.... 
- President Donald Trump announces nuclear weapons testing program while meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping amid ongoing government shutdown and SNAP program concerns.... 
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug makers have recalled more than a half-million bottles of the blood pressure medication prazosin hydrochloride over concerns it may include a cancer-caus... 
- President Donald Trump called on Republican senators to use the nuclear option to end the filibuster in the Senate to end the shutdown.... 
- ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero... 
- The two countries’ militaries have held talks in the Indian capital to explore new areas for defense collaboration... 
- What began as a system designed to make victims whole has become one in which financiers gamble on corporate risk aversion.... 
- The Church must be willing to go into some “very dark places” to share the Good News of Jesus Christ, says evangelist Ben Jack. ... 
- A long-term moving average indicator offers hope to bitcoin bulls. ... 
- ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero... 
- The Rev. Walter Kim, president of the NAE in the U.S., delivered a personal devotional message about the reconciling power of the Gospel at the WEA GA. ... 
- A Coinbase CEO prank resolved one market with a single sentence. Ackman’s warning about “rigged odds” in a $22 million Polymarket election shows the opposite: it now takes institutional-scale money to... 
- President Donald J. Trump continues to shake Washington to its core, highlighting and reforming issues that have been on the... 
- The immediate focus is whether Dogecoin can stabilize above $0.18 and avoid further declines.... 
- evens the playing field...