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Disney put together a stellar 2025 thanks in large part to two movies that hauled in over $1 billion each globally. The live-action Lilo & Stitch was the first film of the year to cross the $1 billion mark, while Zootopia 2 proceeded to surpass that number in an astonishing 17 days to wrap up 2025. Considering Disney’s immense success with theatrical releases throughout the year, their decision to pull the plug on one of the most recent movies was more than a bit surprising. However, thanks in large part to its tremendous international struggles out of the gate,
The House Majority Whip has some strong — very strong — thoughts on the current fraud scandal engulfing his state.
There’s just one problem: The message isn’t quite landing the way he’d probably like it to.
Minnesota GOP Rep. Tom Emmer took to X on Monday and absolutely torched the Somali immigrants who’ve been busted in the Gopher State’s ongoing fraud debacle. “I’m calling for the denaturalization and deportation of every Somali engaged in fraud in Minnesota,” Emmer posted, before truly unleashing in a follow-up statement.
With New York about to embark on a dangerous voyage piloted by Zohran Mamdani, a singularly radical mayor hell-bent on shredding the policies that have kept Gotham afloat, now is a good time to explore how the city got into and out of earlier mayoral-made crises.
Over the past 50 years, national recessions, Wall Street crashes and the horrors of 9/11 took turns challenging New Yorkers’ legendary toughness.
But during that span, there have been just two clear brushes with civic collapse.
These were not solitary events, nor did they result from national policies or mistakes made by people living outside the five boroughs.
Rather,
During peak holiday travel, one of the most infectious diseases was detected at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
A case of measles was identified in a passenger at terminals B & C on Dec. 12, according to a New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) press release.
"Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin," the release says.The rash usually begins as flat red spots that appear on the face at the hairline and spread downward to the neck, torso, arms, legs and feet."
Linda Stevenson, the current wife of Jill Biden’s ex-husband Bill Stevenson, has died after police were called to investigate a “domestic dispute,” according to reports.
Police in New Castle County, Delaware, were called to a home at about 11:15 p.m. on Sunday to investigate a possible domestic dispute, according to WDEL.
Inside, they found Linda Stevenson unresponsive. Despite efforts to revive her, she was later pronounced dead.
Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s southern port city of Mukalla on Dec. 30, saying the strike targeted a shipment of weapons it said had arrived from the United Arab Emirates to support separatist forces.
Riyadh followed the attack with a demand that UAE forces leave Yemen within 24 hours and warned that Saudi Arabia’s national security remains an inviolable “red line.” The UAE later said it would withdraw its remaining forces from the country.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both influential members of OPEC, which is scheduled to hold a virtual meeting on Jan. 4, 2026. Any prolonged dispute between the two could complicate efforts to maintain consensus on oil output policy,
In stark contrast to the unprincipled reactions of both Barack Obama and Old Joe Biden when the Iranian people took to the streets in previous years to protest against the bloodthirsty mullahs of the Islamic Republic, President Donald Trump didn’t hesitate to remark on the unrest in Iran on Monday, and to declare his support for the courageous Iranians who are putting their lives on the line for freedom after enduring 46 years of tyranny.
Trump made it clear that he was "not going to talk about overthrow of a regime." He also made clear, however, that the nationwide demonstrations that have once again engulfed Iran have ample justification.
President Trump's name being added to The Kennedy Center has really upended the world of performing arts in the Nation's Capital.
As RedState's Katie Jerkovich reported just a few weeks back, the White House announced that The Kennedy Center would officially be rebranded as The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts – or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short – after its board of trustees voted to rename it. The move came after Trump and Ric Grenell, Trump's handpicked interim president of the storied performing arts center, have spent much of 2025 working to modernize and upgrade the facility and its offerings.
If there's one thing the fraud scandals in Minnesota have affirmed for us beyond how deep the fraud and corruption go in the Democrat-run state, it's how utterly rotten to the core the corporate media industrial complex truly is.
Oh, they'll be quick to tell you how much "reporting" they've done on some of the scandals, some of which date back several years. But what they'll leave out is that in most cases it was either bare minimum reporting, stories that came in response to investigative digging done by others, or reporting designed to discredit the accusers and cast doubt on the allegations against the Somali community and their Democrat
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of late President John F. Kennedy, has died shortly after announcing she had a terminal cancer diagnosis, the JFK Library Foundation said Tuesday. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," read a message from her family on the institution's Instagram account, alongside an image of Schlossberg. Schlossberg, 35, who had a career as an environmental journalist, wrote in an essay published by The New Yorker last month that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024, shortly after the birth of her second child. She underwent
There are few things members of the legacy media hate more than free and “unfettered” conversations, which means there are few things they love more than the censorial European technocrat.
Thus, to absolutely no one’s surprise, certain members of the American press have come to the defense of the five Europeans hit last week with visa restrictions by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“Trump administration sanctions five foreigners it considers at odds with American values: Russians? Chinese? Iranians? No, Europeans who fight disinformation and online abuse but stand accused by Trump officials of censorship,” writes New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker.
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Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation replies
Ray Hulser, the then-head of the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section (PIN), withheld information from the U.S. Attorney's Office investigating the Clinton Foundation under Trump 1.0. Hulser would later downplay and/or provide inconsistent details concerning the Clinton Foundation probe to both Trump 1.0's DOJ and Special Counsel John Durham's office. In spite of -- or maybe because of -- that history, Special Counsel Jack Smith selected Hulser to help lead the criminal witch-hunt against Trump, with Hulser personally recommending Smith subpoena the toll records of nearly a dozen Congressional Republicans.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Gives Green
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Light for Warrantless Searches of Public’s
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has handed a major victory to the surveillance state, ruling that Americans can no longer claim a “reasonable expectation of privacy” over what they type into Google.
According to the court, authorities can perform warrantless searches of the public’s Google history because everyone already knows they’re being tracked.
In a decision released Tuesday, the court upheld the use of a sweeping “reverse keyword search” that allowed police to obtain a convicted rapist’s Google search history without a warrant, not by targeting a suspect, but by pulling data on everyone who searched a particular address
The geniuses who are planning New York’s energy future think that they can make intermittent wind and solar generators work to power the electrical grid by the simple device of providing some battery storage. The idea is that when there is abundant wind and sun, they can store up the power for use during those calm and dark periods in the winter. How much battery storage will that take? It’s a simple arithmetic calculation, but none of our supposed experts have taken the trouble to crunch the numbers.
In a Christmas week sting operation in partnership with the New York Police Department, the Dallas Police Department, the Midlothian, TX Police Department, the Euless, TX Police Department, the FBI NY field office, and the FBI Dallas field office, 21-year-old John Michael Garza Jr. of Midlothian, TX was arrested for allegedly funding the international terror group ISIS as well as supplying bomb-making implements to a person he assumed was an "ISIS brother." In reality, it was an undercover agent. Garza gave details to the undercover agent on how to mix the components and offered to send an instructional video on how to build the bomb.
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.
The drone strike, the details of which have not been previously reported, targeted a remote dock on the Venezuelan coast that the US government believed was being used by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to store drugs and move them onto boats for shipping, the sources said. No one was present at the facility at the time it was struck, so there were no casualties, according to the sources.
Actor turned left-wing activist George Clooney and his family have taken French citizenship, a publicly available government decree confirmed.
Le Monde reported on Monday that Lexington, Kentucky-born Clooney, his wife, British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and twin children Ella and Alexander were all granted French citizenship this month as per the contents of a naturalization decree published by the Official Journal of the French Republic on Saturday, December 27.
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson will undergo a "major operation" on Tuesday. Hanson, 72, a famed author, scholar and conservative commentator, frequently appears on Fox News Channel. He shared the news of his procedure last week on his podcast "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words."
"I’m having a major operation, and I’ve got a major problem, and I’m going to have a major effort to solve it, and that’s all I can do," Hanson told listeners.
During an impromptu press availability beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump responded to a question about a drone attack against the personal residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Trump noted that he was informed of the attack by President Putin during an early Monday phone call between the two leaders.
According to Russian media, confirmed by Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Putin’s presidential residence in the Novgorod region, more than 400 kilometers (249 miles) northwest of Moscow, was targeted by 91 drones. Russia has vowed retaliation saying, “targets had already been selected.” President Trump’s response is prompted below: (Video)
Shocking unearthed footage shows parents
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pretending to drop kids off at a Minnesota
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Shocking unearthed video from a 2018 state fraud case shows Minnesota parents dropping their children off at a day care center and then leaving with the kids moments later — as authorities probe a rampant billion-dollar fraud scheme in Minneapolis.
In the surveillance footage, dated 2015 and obtained by Fox 9, parents are seen signing their kids into the facility so providers could bill the state for full days of care for children who didn’t actually attend.
On some days, no families would even show up at all, but the day cares would still claim reimbursements from the government, the outlet reported at the time.
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-04) had a few choice words for the latest move by several blue state leaders who have blocked a huge promise President Donald Trump made to workers to cut taxes on tips and overtime.
In a post on X on Monday, Johnson reacted to a New York Post piece about how Democrat-run states like California, New York, and Illinois have declined to give hardworking Americans a state-level tax break after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) (aka the “Working Families Tax Cut Act") exempted federal taxes on overtime pay and tipped wages. The provision takes effect January 1.
The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as a part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said Monday, though he said he would prefer an American commitment of up to 50 years tp deter Russia from further attempts to further seize its neighbor's land by force. U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Zelenskyy at his Florida resort on Sunday and insisted that Ukraine and Russia are "closer than ever before" to a peace settlement.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears on Fox News for an interview with Bret Baier. (snip) gives some context and details to the 20-point plan organized between him and the EU Leaders, currently being reviewed and modified by President Trump,
(snip)) Within the security guarantee proposal there are troubling signs. . Zelenskyy describes it as a bilateral agreement between the USA and Ukraine, with similar constructs to the NATO alignment. A non-NATO pact between the U.S. and Ukraine that commits us to his defense if Russia would advance another attack. A 15-year guarantee committed in U.S. law through the U.S. House and Senate.
I think it is undeniable at this point that Donald Trump has carved his name onto the list of the top five most consequential American presidents of our lifetimes - and perhaps in American history - just based on actions taken in 2025 alone.His policies as it relates to illegal immigration, for instance, with mass deportations of criminal illegals as well as his aggressive push to once and for all end birthright citizenship (the Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against Trump's executive order on this issue next spring), are unlike anything we've seen in modern history. And he's only just getting started.