REGIME CHANGE: Islamic rebels over the weekend toppled the brutal 53-year reign of the Assad family forcing President Bashar al-Assad to flee the country.   After an 11-year civil war, the rebels broke out and quickly rolled up major cities until Saturday …

MANHUNT ENDS: After nearly a week of mystery, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania detained 26-year-old Luigi Mangione in a McDonald’s restaurant as the suspect in the Manhattan sidewalk assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, and …

MANHUNT: The murder of the United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan this week ripped open the vitriol about health insurance companies. Internet posters did not mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson … they vented their anger with healthcare coverage. …

MANHUNT: New York police released facial photographs of a young white man said to be a “person of interest” in the sidewalk assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday. They say the man may have stayed for several days at …

MANHUNT: New York police are hunting a man who gunned down the  CEO of one of the country’s largest health insurance companies yesterday morning outside a Manhattan hotel in what appears to have been a planned hit. Brian Thompson, 50, from Minnesota, …

TRANSITION TROUBLE: CBS News reports that Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, will be short of enough Senate votes to win confirmation.  The network says this morning that Trump might replace Hegseth with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, …

POST PARDON DEPRESSION:  Republican politicians and some Democrats are outraged by President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter even while President-elect Donald Trump and some of his political appointees have vowed to seek revenge against Trump’s legal and political enemies. …

PARDON HIM: President Biden went back on his word yesterday and pardoned his son Hunter, issuing a blanket pardon for all the federal crimes his son did or may have committed going back to 2014.   Hunter Biden faced possible prison time …

IN TRANSITION: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had dinner last night in Florida with Donald Trump to discuss the president-elect’s threat of imposing tariffs on his country’s exports to the US. Trump has threatened Canada, Mexico, and China with steep tariffs …

CEASE FIRE: As Israeli forces kept up ferocious bombing in Lebanon yesterday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government agreed to a cease-fire to suspend fighting against Hezbollah militants for 60 days and possibly longer if both sides hold fire.   The …