AT WAR: The US abstained yesterday as the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution in support of an indefinite pause in fighting to allow the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The US had negotiated language that it would not …

PRISONER SWAP: The US has traded a man close to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro for 10 Americans held in Venezuela as well as Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis, who escaped the US after being convicted of bribing Navy officials.   Six of the Americans were …

December 20, 2023 Vol. 12, No. 2069 TRUMPED: In an historic first, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump cannot be on the state’s primary ballot next March because of his actions involving the January 6th insurrection. The court ruled that the …

FROM THE FRONT: A NY Times/Siena College poll found that 57 percent of registered voters disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the Israeli/Palestinian war and that 46 percent to 38 percent believe that Donald Trump could handle it better.  …

RUDY, OH RUDY!: A federal jury in Washington has ordered former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudolph Giuliani to pay $148 million in fines and restitution for emotional suffering for falsely accusing two Georgia election workers of switching votes in …

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS: The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could upend the prosecutions of hundreds of January 6th rioters and even dial back the federal charges against former President Donald Trump accusing him of attempting to overturn his election defeat. …

AT WAR: With Palestinian deaths creeping toward 20,000, President Biden said yesterday that Israel is beginning to lose support for its ferocious war on the Hamas militant organization.    Coinciding with Biden’s statement, the UN General Assembly voted yesterday by a three-quarters …

ORANGE ALERT: Special Counsel Jack Smith has skipped the appeals court level and asked the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Donald Trump has presidential immunity from criminal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.    The court said they would …

AT WAR: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is “narrowing the window” for a new truce, the Qatari prime minister declared as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, “dozens of Hamas terrorists” had surrendered and “this is the beginning of the end for Hamas.”    The …

AT WAR: Israeli soldiers yesterday failed at an attempt to rescue hostages held in Gaza. A military spokesman said, “The forces raided a Hamas site and eliminated terrorists who had taken part in the abduction and captivity of hostages.”    Hamas said that an …