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https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-reportedly-says-kyiv-willing-to-drop-nato-membership-accession-demands/

Ukraine is willing to drop demands for NATO accession should the U.S. and Europe offer sufficient security guarantees in ongoing talks on a proposed peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was reported to say on Sunday.

“We are talking about bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the United States — namely, Article 5-like guarantees ... as well as security guarantees for us from our European partners and from other countries such as Canada, Japan and others,” Zelenskyy told journalists in a group chat, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Ukraine and European leaders are working on a U.S.-drafted 20-point peace plan that includes territorial concessions to Russia.

Zelenskyy has said that he hasn't heard back from the White House on his proposed revisions to the plan.

Zelenskyy's comments come while German, British and French officials on Sunday are reportedly discussing the proposals to end the Ukraine war, ahead of a meeting on Monday that’s to include the leaders of those countries.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with Zelenskyy, who will be received by Merz in Berlin on Monday.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/maga-civil-war-candace-owens-trump-policies

MAGA's civil war is draining the movement of its political muscle, leaving it defenseless as the Trump administration revisits policies previously opposed by the base.

Why it matters: MAGA's grassroots strength lies in its ability to rally influencers, politicians and activists behind a hard-charging conservative agenda. That superpower is faltering amid a cascade of bitter personal feuds.

"There's no focus on anything philosophical or even ideological right now," The National Pulse's Raheem Kassam told Axios.
"It's all just a cacophony of grifters tussling over audience and ego. So, corporate America gets to wield power with the admin virtually unencumbered by scrutiny from the base," he added.

Driving the news: Washington advanced a series of policies over the past week that would have triggered significant MAGA backlash at earlier points in the administration.

This time, the reaction was mostly crickets — drowned out by online convulsions over Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, a MAGA podcaster's sexuality, and antisemitism.

Artificial intelligence: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to gut state laws that regulate AI — a major initiative pushed by the GOP's tech allies.


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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5646722-trump-cnn-sale-pressure/
CNN is finding itself in a familiar place as its parent company prepares to spin the network off as part of a megamerger: President Trump’s crosshairs.

Trump has indicated publicly and privately he wishes to see CNN operate under new ownership, a scenario that could come to fruition if Paramount, a massive media company increasingly friendly with the president, wins a hostile takeover bid for the cable news network and other assets belonging to Warner Bros. Discovery.

“It’s imperative that CNN be sold,” Trump told reporters at the White House this week. “I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed this sentiment hours later from the West Wing podium, pointing to a testy exchange she had with CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins on Thursday as “evidence” the outlet is in need of an editorial overhaul.

The latest line of attack underscores the frosty relationship between Trump and the cable news channel going back years.

CNN took heavy criticism from the right for its aggressive coverage of Trump’s first term and has made attempts to balance its coverage more recently, but it remains one of the president’s top mainstream media punching bags a year into his second administration.

His seizing on the Warner Bros. Discovery sale process is signaling the president sees CNN as vulnerable and is eager to make journalists at the outlet squirm, media and political observers say.

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WALTON COUNTY, Fla (WMBB)- The Walton County Sheriffs Office is responding to claims about a shooting that left one man dead.

On Thursday, WCSO deputies responded to a call about a shooting on Pioneer Drive in Defuniak Springs.

Deputies took 44-year-old Michael Rediker into custody and eventually charged with one count of open murder, battery, and three counts of aggravated battery.

Today gun rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse posted a video on social media outside of the Walton County Jail, where Rediker is being held, claiming that Rediker was attacked and acted in self-defense.

Rittenhouse made headlines in 2020 after he was arrested for shooting and killing two people during a protest. He was eventually acquitted.

WCSO sheriff Michael Adkinson responded to his claims in a rare video.

“I don’t normally take the time to speak to public comments on cases, certainly not open cases. But in this particular situation, a murder that occurred yesterday in walton county, I feel compelled to respond to what I can only call wildly irresponsible I would say motivated by many factors,” said Adkinson.

According to Adkinson, Rediker allegedly entered the victim’s property via tractor, had a physical altercation with the victim’s wife, and then shot the victim in the head.

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/suspect-charlie-kirk-killing-makes-first-in-court-appearance-2025-12-11/
Dec 11 (Reuters) - Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, made his first in-person court appearance on Thursday as a judge heard arguments on what level of media access should be allowed in the high-profile criminal case.
Robinson, wearing a dress shirt and striped tie, talked with his lawyers, at times smiling, after he was brought into the Provo, Utah, courtroom in handcuffs and shackles. Robinson's parents and brother were present, his lawyer Richard Novak said. His mother wiped away tears as he entered, according to a Salt Lake Tribune reporter present in the courtroom.
Local television stations showed an armored SWAT truck in the convoy of vehicles that brought Robinson, 22, to the courthouse about four miles (6 km) from where Kirk, 31, an ally of President Donald Trump, was shot dead on September 10.
U.S. District Court Judge Tony Graf heard arguments from Robinson's attorneys who want to ban cameras from the courtroom in a case that has drawn extraordinary media attention. David Reymann, an attorney representing media organizations, called on the court to grant his clients access to recordings and transcripts from closed-session court hearings in the case.
"We don't want the chaos that is out in the media in this courtroom," said Robinson's attorney Staci Visser.
Graf scheduled a December 29 video call to give his ruling on media access and set May 18-21 for an in-person preliminary hearing.
At the request of state prosecutors, Graf designated Erika Kirk, Kirk's widow, as the victim representative in the case.
Robinson is accused of firing a single round from a rooftop that killed Kirk during a Turning Point USA event on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Salt Lake City, as Kirk debated with students.

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/12/ron-johnson-asks-bondi-to-investigate-dane-county-judge-overseeing-fake-elector-case/87733283007/

MADISON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate a Wisconsin judge overseeing a case involving felony charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign attorney over his role in the 2020 scheme to overturn the election result.

Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and former campaign attorney for Trump, faces felony forgery charges over his role in a plan to get slates of false Trump electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to persuade Pence to reject Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

Troupis this week sought to compel all Dane County judges to recuse from his case, citing past grudges, and accused a retired judge of secretly drafting an order issued by Dane County Judge John Hyland, the judge overseeing the case — an allegation the retired judge called "a fantasy."

Johnson's appeal to Bondi to review the allegation comes days before Troupis is scheduled to appear in court over the charges.

"Mr. Troupis represented President Donald Trump in Wisconsin in the 2020 election and, because of his role as the president’s attorney, his life has been upended by unceasing political persecutions currently led by Wisconsin’s attorney general," Johnson wrote in the letter.

"Mr. Troupis fittingly described this anti-Trump lawfare as 'the Jack Smith case being tried in Wisconsin and President Trump is going to be tried in absentia.'"

In his order, Hyland said Troupis claimed without evidence "that every judge in Dane County harbors some personal animus toward him and, as a result, recusal of the entire bench is required."

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https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/trump-starting-land-strikes-drugs-venezuela-latin-america-maduro/

President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.

“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office.

The US president for days has been pledging to broaden the effort, which comes after the Pentagon has launched a series of attacks on what it has called drug-smuggling boats in international waters off the coast of South America.

While Trump’s posturing has largely been seen as a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he on Friday insisted the land targeting may not only impact Venezuela.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Venezuela,” he said, adding that “people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets.”

Trump has justified the actions in part by framing the fight against drug smuggling as akin to combat operations. He told reporters that if overdose deaths were counted like combat deaths, it would be “like a war that would be unparalleled.”

Striking targets on land would represent a major escalation, and Maduro earlier this week said that if his nation came under foreign attack, the working class should mount a “general insurrectionary strike” and push for “an even more radical revolution.”

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https://thehill.com/business/5647288-budweiser-free-beer-covid-19-vaccines/
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — Budweiser is rewarding adults who have received the COVID-19 vaccine with a free round of beer.

Budweiser sat out of this year’s Super Bowl to reallocate funds for COVID-19 vaccine education and awareness. Now the “King of Beers” continues to drive that message by rewarding those who rolled up their sleeves for the shot.
How can you get a free round of beer:

Budweiser is rewarding people 21 and older who show they’ve been vaccinated with a free round of beer.
Consumers can upload proof of vaccination (i.e. a selfie with their vaccination sticker) to ABeerOnBud.com to enter to receive the free beer.
The prize comes in the form of a $5 virtual debit card that can be used to purchase one Budweiser beer.

The company is sharing its “Reunited with Buds” ad featuring the Clydesdales and puppy set to Queen’s legendary hit “Don’t Stop Me Now.”

The new version of the spot encourages consumers to get a vaccine and contribute to the safe return to bars. It ran for a short time over the summer, and Budweiser is bringing it back to respond to the countrywide excitement for a safe reopening.

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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-lost-control-broke-three-160727663.html

A man “lost control” and broke the arm of a crying baby he was supposed to be looking after. Ra-shawn Oluwatobi, 27, put his hand on the three-month-old boy’s shoulder and deliberately pushed down on him after becoming frustrated with the baby's wailing.

After breaking the boy's arm, Oluwatobi reportedly panicked and placed the crying boy in a sleeping bag in his mum's bedroom at her house. Later that day, he sent a message to the baby's mum - who was not present at the time of the assault - telling her he had "f***ed up" and hurt the baby's arm.

The mum initially could not see anything wrong with her baby, but took him to Alder Hey Children's Hospital the next day after noticing he appeared to be having trouble moving his arm. There a scan revealed he had suffered a spiral fracture to his right upper arm bone.

Oluwatobi, of Laurel Road, Fairfield, was arrested, and later pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm without intent.

At Liverpool crown court today, December 12, prosecutor Matthew Dixon said: "The defendant was at the baby's mother's house, minding the baby. The baby woke up and the defendant gave him a bottle. He started crying and the defendant tried to stop him, but nothing the defendant did seemed to be making any difference.

"After a short while the defendant got annoyed and put the baby down on a chair. He then lost control and put pressure down on the baby's right shoulder, pushing down with one of his hands. The simply caused the baby to cry even more.

"He checked the baby's arm and saw that it was drooping, and panicked and put the baby in a sleeping bag in his mother's bedroom."

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https://mynews4.com/news/nation-world/gallery/oversight-democrats-release-more-photos-from-epsteins-estate-of-clinton-trump-bannon-bill-gates-ghislaine-maxwell-microsoft-robert-garcia

More photos released from Epstein's estate of Clinton, Trump, Bill Gates

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-clinton-gates-included-in-epstein-photo-trove-00688628

Photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein tie the late, convicted sex offender to President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, tech billionaire Bill Gates and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

These men and others are featured in the roughly 95,000 photos the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received from the Epstein estate as part of its ongoing investigation. House Democrats publicly released 19 photos Friday morning.

“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” said the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, in a statement. “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”

The White House and other individuals in the photographs beyond Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Justice Department is required to release the full tranche of Epstein-related documents by Dec. 19, per the terms of legislation Congress passed last month.

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US set to lose measles elimination status: The ‘house is on fire’

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5647002-measles-status-outbreaks-kennedy/

Measles outbreaks are spreading across the U.S., and the nation is likely to lose its status as a country where the disease is eliminated, something that infectious disease specialists say is directly related to President Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

South Carolina this week quarantined at least 254 people after confirming more than two dozen measles cases in the state. It’s the latest in what has been the worst year for measles in the U.S. in recent history.

An outbreak in West Texas this year saw more than 700 confirmed cases since January and the deaths of two children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 47 reported outbreaks in the country this year.

“This is a very clear example of the damage that the anti-vaccine movement has done in the United States,” said Fiona Havers, adjunct associate professor at the Emory School of Medicine and a former infectious disease staffer at the CDC.

Kennedy was one of the country’s most well-known anti-vaccine advocates when Trump named him to lead the HHS. Since taking power, Kennedy has moved to remake the nation’s vaccine advisory board and other parts of the government to reflect his vision.

A nation loses its distinction as a country where measles has been eliminated when it sees at least 12 months of sustained transmission.

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Truly a woman of the working class!

https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/aoc-splurged-nearly-50k-on-pricey-hotel-stays-dining-and-renting-puerto-rico-concert-venue-where-bad-bunny-performed/

AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped almost $50,000 on hotels and meals in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of this year — as well as renting a San Juan venue where she was caught on tape grooving at an August Bad Bunny concert.

AOC’s principal campaign committee shelled out $680.52 on July 28 to stay at the lavish Hotel Palacio Provincial, along with another $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and a whopping $9,440,79 on Sept. 29, according to third quarter federal campaign finance filings — even as the “Squad” rep on her social media accounts denounced gentrification that was taking place on the island.

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i dont use 4chan but i hear people post manifestos here. does where's the one for the active brown shooter

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3rjw1xnqdvt

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https://nypost.com/2025/12/13/us-news/georgia-woman-ashley-wasielewski-suffered-severe-burns-after-being-doused-with-toxic-chemical-in-random-park-attack/

A Georgia woman suffered severe burns to her face and body after being doused with a toxic chemical in a random attack while she was strolling through a park — and her sadistic assailant is still on the loose.

Ashley Wasielewski, 46, was walking laps around Forsyth Park in Savannah Wednesday night after attending a Christmas program at a nearby church when a stranger approached her from behind and poured the corrosive liquid over her head, according to her devastated friends and family.

She let out a blood-curdling scream as the chemical burned her skin, ate through her clothing, and melted her car’s key fob in her pocket.

“She was instantly like, ‘Why are you pouring water on me?’ And then her skin started to burn,” said her close friend Connor Milam, who described Wasielewski as a giving person who often volunteered in her community and provided essential items to the homeless.

“She looked down and her pants were starting to burn off her body. She started screaming. They didn’t rob her. They didn’t take anything from her. This was a random person in the park who went out of their way to disfigure another human being.”

Wasielewski was rushed to the Augusta Burn Center, where she’s being treated for second- and third-degree burns over half her body, including her face, scalp, hands and legs, according to her son Westley.