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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 13, 2025

One million households without power in Ukraine after Russia attacks energy grid

Chinese writers trying to question Japan’s claim to Okinawa.

China fertility facts of the day

At least 15 killed as gunmen open fire on Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

‘We are dying’: Cuba sinks into a health crisis amid medicine shortages and misdiagnosis

Thailand Considers Blocking Fuel Exports To Cambodia As Border Conflict Escalates

Shooting at Brown University Leaves Two Dead, Nine Wounded

Inside Minnesota’s $1B fraud: fake offices, phony firms and a scandal hiding in plain sight

DOT Finds Half Of NY Commercial Drivers Are Illegals, Threatens To Pull $73 Million In Federal Funding

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Ambush In Syria Leaves Two U.S. Troops, Civilian Interpreter Dead

South Carolina Facing a Measles Crisis

Suspect at Large in Brown University Shooting that Killed at Least Two, Injured Eight

Rep. Elise Stefanik is demanding the feds ramp up its probe into alleged Hochul administration bid-rigging on a $1 billion Medicaid homecare contract — after newly surfaced emails revealed state officials met with reps for the winner two weeks before bidding began.

Israeli Study Reports 100% One-Year Survival Using New Protocol for Advanced Hodgkin’s

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 12, 2025

Russia Intensifies Ukraine Offensive as EU Plans to Seize Moscow’s Frozen Assets

Russian Retaliation Strike Raises Stakes In Black Sea Shipping War. The Russian attack on the CENK-T cargo ship follows four recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil tankers.

Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles

A New National Security Strategy

Israel’s media has not learned the lessons of the October 7 massacre

Cartel recruitment in Jalisco: ‘There were two options: Undergo three months of training or be shot in the head’

Idahoan dies of rabies, then transmits it in donated-kidney transplant

Those celebrating the death of Jay Taylor belong to the sadistic online group “764,” named for the first digits of the zip code of the 15-year-old Texan who started it in early 2021, a few months before Jay Taylor’s death. The group seeks out unstable minors to drive them to severe self-harm. The members feign friendship, then manipulate, threaten and blackmail their victims to drive them to increasingly drastic acts of violence against themselves. On camera.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 11, 2025
It is a mistake.

Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout. The Institute for the Study of War disavowed the edit, removed the employee.

Combat Rescue Aircraft, Tankers Arrive In Caribbean As U.S. Military Buildup Accelerates

Median household income in 2024 was $83,730. That means for an average four-person household, the federal government spent $81,896.76, nearly the same amount that family would have earned in pre-tax income.

After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public.

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US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,”

China’s Oil Pumping Power Breaks All Records. Even at today’s record production levels, imports still cover roughly 70–75% of China’s crude demand — a structural reliance shaped by refinery design and rising consumption.

EA-18G Growlers Deploying To Puerto Rico An Indicator Of What’s To Come

One Year Since Robert Brooks’s Killing, Prison Chaos Has No End in Sight

There is a certain irony about complaining about about big business buying up farm land to build solar farms that apparently is lost on the people doing the complaining. Young farmer’s crusade to protect vanishing farmland pits her against solar developers in New York

US Natural Gas Output and Demand to Smash Records in 2025