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🚨U.S. IRAN ATTACK: Cyber Weapons Key
🎢STOCKS LOSING WEEK: Trump Whipsaw
🔫ICE: Another Shooting In Minneapolis
💸TRUMP TARIFFS: SCOTUS Ruling Soon
🏅TRUMP GETS NOBEL PRIZE: Yea, Right💤
⚾️KYLE TUCKER: To Dodgers for $240M
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🚨U.S. IRAN ATTACK: Will Use Cyber Weapons
U.S. military action in Iran could come shortly, as President Trump appears to have decided on a strike, Reuters reports. But, Trump said Iran had stopped killing protesters and wouldn’t execute those it accused of trying to topple the government, appearing to narrow the possibility that the U.S. was about to launch military strikes against the country. Turns out while the slaughter of protesters appears to have stopped — it’s only because residents are being held hostage in their homes by machine gun-wielding security forces that have flooded the streets, according to the New York Post.
Still, the Pentagon is moving a carrier strike group from the South China Sea to the Middle East.
Cyber Warfare Will Be Key to the U.S. Strike.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, former Cyber Czar for the Department of Homeland Security, on NewsNation.
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🎢STOCKS LOSING WEEK: Trump Whipsaw
STOCKS down for the week on fears the U.S. will become entanglement in Iran amid other worries running the gamut from threats to the Fed’s independence, to heightened geopolitical risk, after Trump said he might impose tariffs on countries “if they don’t go along with the U.S. owning Greenland.”
It also comes as the White House attempts to address consumers’ affordability concerns that have weighed on President Trump.
Still, Main Street is hurting! A.I. is expected to replace many jobs in the year ahead. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 for the month, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000 according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4% in a separate report. All indications of a stagnant job market.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans expect A.I. to slash jobs.
Polls showing President Trump’s approval rating on the economy are at a dismal 33% as people struggle to make ends meet.
Kingsview’s Scott Martin on NewsNation says it’s a tale of two economies.
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📉By The Numbers At The Close
Dow 🔻 44 pointsS&P 500 🆙 0.08%Nasdaq 🆙 0.06%Gold 🆙 $4600Bitcoin 🔻 $95K🎢Bitcoin On Wild Ride
Bitcoin sinking after hitting $125,000 in October.
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🏅TRUMP GETS NOBEL PRIZE: Yea, Right💤
American and Political leaders in Norway have condemned the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s “absurd” decision to present her Nobel peace prize medal to Donald Trump, accusing the president of being a “classic showoff” who takes credit for other people’s work.
The Nobel laureate gave her medal to Trump at the White House on Thursday “in recognition [of] his unique commitment [to’] our freedom”. Several hours later, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Machado “presented me with her Nobel peace prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect.”
The Nobel Committee has said the prize cannot be transferred, but it has been sold in a few auctions over the award’s history.
🧑⚖️WE’RE SCREWED: Trump Says If SCOTUS Negates Tariffs
President Trump, demonstrating his fine command of the English language, just posted on Truth Social — “WE’RE SCEWED” if the Supreme Court were to rule against his administration’s tariffs.
“If the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this National Security bonanza, WE’RE SCREWED!” he posted.
The Supreme Court could hand down as soon as this week a decision on whether President Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs are legal.
Justices sounded skeptical during legal arguments. Even some conservative justices joined their liberal colleagues questioned whether Trump has the power to impose such far-reaching duties.
A ruling against Trump could be devastating and force him to return billions in tariffs collected from U.S. trading partners.
Supply-Chain Expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels says Trump accomplished a great deal on tariffs at his summit with China’s Xi:
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There was no US/China deal on TikTok announced at the Trump/Xi Summit though there are reports a deal is close.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, tells NewsNation , “No matter a deal or not, China still has dangerous access to YOUR personal information.”
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🖕🏼FORD EMPLOYEE; Trump Gives Him The Finger
A Ford employee has been suspended after a verbal exchange with President Donald Trump that led to Trump flipping off the employee during the president’s visit to Ford Dearborn Truck Plant.
In the incident the president is reported to have made an obscene gesture in return to the worker.
Trump visited the factory where Ford assembles its F-150 pickup ahead of a planned speech before the Detroit Economic Club. It was a visit that started off well and by and large was positive, Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford told the Detroit Free Press on the sidelines of the Detroit Auto Show late Jan. 13.
🔫ICE: Another Shooting In Minneapolis
This is America in 2026: President Trump wrote on social media
“THE DAY OF RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION” is coming for Minnesota
without elaborating.
An Venezuelan immigrant was shot in the leg by an ICE agent in Minneapolis after he allegedly fled during a traffic stop and beat the “ambushed” officer with a snow shovel Wednesday evening, the Department of Homeland Security said. The suspect was behind the wheel when he tried to get away from federal immigration officers at around 6:50 p.m. local time, but he crashed into a parked car, according to DHS.
Minneapolis is in a state of siege, an escalation of tensions between residents and ICE agents as the Trump administration intensifies its immigration crackdown after the killing of Renee Good by an immigration officer last week.
New video shows a different view from the ICE agent’s perspective:
Minneapolis and much of the country is on edge following the deadly shooting of a woman. Federal officers are descending on streets in what they say is an effort to find undocumented immigrants with criminal and dangerous backgrounds.
Protesters are venting their outrage, the governor is demanding that the state take part in the investigation from which the FBI has shut them out, and that city’s schools cancelled classes for the rest of the week as a precaution. Protests spread to New York, Chicago, Boston, Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere as fresh demonstrations in Minnesota resulted in clashes with masked federal agents.
The political finger-pointing—from both sides—captured the tension that is building in the country over President Trump’s deportation agenda. The Minneapolis mayor is furiously demanding the agency “get the f–k out” of the city, as is the Governor.
The agent who appeared to be clipped by her car drew a handgun and fired three shots at close range, killing the woman and causing her vehicle to speed out of control and crash down the block.
The woman fatally gunned down is identified as 37-year-old American, Renee Nicole Good, a beloved and “compassionate” resident of the Twin Cities, her mother said.
The shooting occurred while ICE officers were “conducting targeted operations,” and a woman in a vehicle allegedly “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” was fatally shot, according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, but city and state officials call that account false, demanding an end to the immigration crackdown. Calls are mounting for a Congressional inquiry.
Good’s killing, and the administration’s instantaneous defense of it, is the latest in a series of ICE-related deaths in which video and eyewitness accounts eventually cast doubt on government claims of justification.
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⁉️EPSTEIN: Bill, Hillary Clinton Refuse To Testify
Former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton skipped their depositions before the House Oversight Committee regarding late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, forcing the panel’s chairman to weigh bringing contempt of Congress proceedings.
“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,” the ex-first couple wrote to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), according to a letter first reported by the New York Times.
“For us, now is that time,” the former first couple added.
Jeffrey Epstein is seen kissing, cuddling little girls in new photos released by the DOJ.
Hundreds of thousands of documents and pictures including this one with a shirtless Jeffrey Epstein sitting near a small child, have been released.
BUT, because the Justice Department is withholding some documents by citing ongoing investigations or national security concerns, the release is reigniting the furor over what or perhaps who’s in the sex-predators files. In addition many of the files are heavily redacted. One of the redacted files, amounting to 119 pages and entitled “Grand Jury NY,” was entirely blacked out.
President Trump’s name was rarely mentioned in the released documents, as the White House sought to make political hay of the release of photos of Bill Clinton.
In a letter to members of Congress, Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, said that the Justice Department had identified 1,200 names of victims of Jeffrey Epstein or relatives of victims, and that it had redacted or withheld any materials that could reveal their identities.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released photos from the estate of the late pedophile featuring a who’s who of celebrity, royalty and political power
One image depicted Clinton reclining in a hot tub with a person whose face had been blacked out. In many of the photos of Mr. Clinton, he was only person whose identity could be discerned. The files provided little or no context for the pictures.
A spokesman for Clinton suggested that the White House had engineered the release of the photos to distract from Trump’s own relationship with Mr. Epstein.
Other pictures released took more of a peverse sexual tone, with several photos showing quotes from Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita written across various parts of a woman’s body. In one picture, the quote is written on her foot, another shows the quote on her chest, and one has the quote written on her neck.
🇮🇱ANTISEMITES: Trump-MAGA Has No Room
President Trump says the MAGA movement doesn’t have room for people with antisemitic views, his most direct public statement yet.
“I think we don’t need them,” he said during an interview with The New York Times, when asked whether such people had a place in his coalition. “I think we don’t like them.”
Trump’s comments stand in contrast to Vice President JD Vance, who said last month that the party did not need “purity tests.”
“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform,” Vance said at Turning Point USA’s annual gathering, AmericaFest.
🛢️VENEZUELA: YOUR Tax $ To Rebuild Oil Industry
President Trump has suggested YOUR tax money could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuela’s infrastructure to pump and ship oil for years to come. But, as President Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting and said that Venezuela is “uninvestable.”
And now Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump wants to buy Greenland with YOUR tax money. Rubio says he will meet with officials from Denmark next week about Greenland. Rubio’s comments on Capitol Hill came as the Trump administration has amped up its rhetoric about taking over Greenland, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.
🧩Venezuela & Greenland:
It’s About The Oil and More
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Americans are now paying an average of around $2.80 at the pump, the lowest level since early 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration.
President Trump claims Venezuela will turnover as much as 50 million barrels of oil to the US, worth roughly $2.8 billion, saying the oil will be sold with profits controlled by him:
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent in Venezuela and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” President Trump said. Yes, that’s you the taxpayer.
Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other federal charges in a New York courtroom, telling the Judge he was ‘Kidnapped’ and is a prisoner of war.
The federal judge ordered them detained pending a trial that could be more than a year away.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers that recent administration threats against Greenland didn’t signal an imminent invasion and that the goal is to buy the island from Denmark, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump again said the U.S. will “run Venezuela” until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” of power can be arranged. Trump did not say whether U.S. forces would occupy Venezuela, although he added he was not afraid of “boots on the ground.” It comes after the U.S. military captured Maduro in a weekend strike on Caracas.
Delcy Rodríguez, previously Maduro’s vice president, was sworn in on Monday as Venezuela’s interim leader. She has red to work on a “cooperative agenda” with the U.S. but also condemned what she described as its “illegitimate military aggression.”
Venezuela has declared a state of emergency. At least 80 people were reportedly killed in the U.S. attack, including Cuban troops guarding Maduro, military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official. President Trump said that no American troops had been killed. He said, however, that some service members had been injured.
The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading a drug-trafficking organization that represented a national security threat, while Trump has also made reference to the country’s vast oil reserves.
The United Nations will meet on Venezuela today. It recently issued a report detailing more than a decade of killings, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary detention by Maduro and his henchmen against political opponents. He stole Venezuela’s presidential election in 2024. He has fueled economic and political disruption throughout the region by instigating an exodus of nearly eight million migrants.
🛳️U.S. BOARDS 5th OIL TANKERS
The U.S. boarded a sanctioned oil tanker, the fifth one intercepted, in a move set to inflame tensions between Washington and Moscow.
U.S. forces earlier seized a sanctioned oil tanker that eluded a blockade around Venezuela and has been reflagged as a Russian vessel, escalating a confrontation with Moscow after the ouster of its ally, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
The U.S. military issued a statement on X saying that forces had “seized” the vessel for violating U.S. sanctions.
The Coast Guard boarded the tanker after a roughly two-week pursuit. Guardsmen encountered no resistance or hostility from the crew, an official said.
Meanwhile, near the Caribbean, U.S. forces seized the Sophia, another oil a tanker. In a social-media post, U.S. Southern Command said that the vessel was operating in international waters and conducting illicit activities, and that the Coast Guard was escorting the ship to the U.S.👵
📺CBS:Trump to Dokoupil-I’m Why You Have Job
President Trump bluntly told Tony Dokoupil of “CBS Evening News” he owes his new job — and his paycheck — to Trump’s 2024 election victory, making the assertion straight to the news anchor’s face during a live interview.
The remarks came during an exclusive sit-down Tuesday at a Ford plant in Detroit, where the president linked Dokoupil’s recent promotion to the Trump-era approval of the Paramount-Skydance merger and seemed to take a dismissive tone about the anchor’s compensation.
Asked about the overall economy, Trump took a highly personal approach with Dokoupil, whose hiccups since taking the anchor gig have generated a steady stream of headlines.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Day Of Reckoning
Senators elected this year won’t be able to ‘kick the can’ any longer —Social Security’s future insolvency is their problem.
After years of Congress sidestepping the issue, the lawmakers will have to confront the program’s challenges before their new six-year terms conclude. Recent projections pegged late 2032 as the moment when Social Security’s reserves and incoming tax revenue won’t yield enough money to pay full benefits
Failure to act would trigger automatic benefit cuts. Acting is no picnic either, because raising revenue or reducing promised payments could be politically painful.
🩺 FLU CASES: Highest in 25 Years
If it seems like this year’s flu season is a lot worse than it normally is, that’s because it definitely is…the US is at its highest level of respiratory illness since at least the 1997-98 flu season, according to the CDC.
New government data for flu activity through the week of Christmas — showed that by some measures this season is already surpassing the flu epidemic of last winter, one of the harshest in recent history.
The data was released the same day that the Trump administration said it will no longer recommend flu shots and some other types of vaccines for all children.
Forty-five states were reporting high or very high flu activity during the week of Christmas, up from 30 states the week before.
💉VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS CUT: Blame RFK Jr
The CDC announced updated recommendations for childhood vaccines with some significant changes. The new guidelines recommend fewer shots and are facing pushback from many doctors and public health experts.
Under the new guidelines, the CDC recommends all children be vaccinated against 11 diseases, a decrease from the 17 immunizations previously recommended.
The vaccines recommended under the new guidelines include diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (whooping cough), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and human papillomavirus (HPV), as well as varicella (chickenpox). (Some vaccines, such as the MMR shot for measles, mumps and rubella, protect against multiple diseases.)
🪦KENNEDY CURSE: Tatiana Schlossberg Dead
Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died following a battle with terminal cancer.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation said in a statement. “She will always be in our hearts.”
Tatiana Schlossberg was just 35 years old, and is just the latest in a long line of tragedies to hit the Kennedy family.
She's survived by her husband, George Moran, their young son and daughter, as well as her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and siblings Rose and Jack Schlossberg.
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🏈NFL PLAYOFFS
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Now we know every matchup that will start the road to Super Bowl LX.
The Seattle Seahawks clinched the NFC’s No. 1 seed with a win over the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday. The Panthers took the final spot in the NFC thanks to some help from the Atlanta Falcons, they clinched the NFC South.
The Denver Broncos were able to beat a Los Angeles Chargers team that elected to rest key starters to grab the top seed in the AFC. The loss moved the Chargers down the AFC wild-card race, but allowed them to rest their starters ahead of the playoffs.
The Steelers used Sunday Night Football to cash the final ticket to the dance in a wild finish to close out the year. Here’s a look at the final playoff picture of the 2025-26 season.
🗞️FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Disappearing
As we head into 2026 Freedom of the Press is in greater danger than ever and it comes from the man who is supposed to uphold that constitutional guarantee— President Donal Trump.
In one of his latest rants on Truth Social the President writes:
If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated?,” He then answered his own question: “I say, YES!”
While the FCC cannot cancel broadcasting licenses for TV networks such as ABC, CBS, and NBC, they can pull the licenses of their owned and operated local stations.
Trump further accused the New York Times of “endangering national security”, calling the newspaper “a serious threat” in another rant on his Truth Social platform.
“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,” he wrote.
“Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT”.
Trump said The Times published what he described as false and misleading reporting and accused it of biased coverage, without providing any evidence to support the allegations.
📺60 MINUTES: Watch Report Bari Weiss Spiked
Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, has called for CBS News staff who criticized the network's decision to pull a segment of 60 Minutes to be fired.
In a move that drew harsh criticism from its own correspondent, CBS News abruptly removed the segment on Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a brutal prison in El Salvador.
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The decision to pull the report was made after Bari Weiss, the new controversial editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment. CBS News said in a statement that the segment would air at a later date and “needed additional reporting.”
Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent who reported the segment, rejected that criticism in a private note to CBS colleagues on Sunday, in which she accused CBS News of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.
Correspondent Scott Pelley expressed frustration at Weiss’s handling of the situation and raised questions about her management style. He asked why she had weighed in at the last minute after not attending five screenings of the segment as it was being completed.
The last-minute decision immediately provoked speculation about corporate interference as CBS’ parent, David Ellison-led Paramount, continues its pursuit of WBD. Trump previously criticized the show’s Marjorie Taylor Greene interview and complained again last week that 60 Minutes has “treated me far worse since the so-called ‘takeover.’”
🎥NETFLIX/WARNER: Paramount Bid Rejected
Paramount has amended its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, with billionaire Larry Ellison agreeing to personally guarantee $40.4 billion of equity financing for the deal and publish records related to the family trust that backstops the deal.
Warner Bros. Discovery earlier recommended shareholders reject Paramount’s unsolicited all-cash bid for the company saying it believes Netflix’s proposal for its studios and HBO Max streaming service is still superior.
Paramount has launched the hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers, escalating the battle with Netflix for the movie and TV giant.
It comes as President Trump raised potential antitrust concerns around Netflix planned acquisition of the company. Trump says the deal “could be a problem” because of the size of the combined market share.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and Paramount CEO David Ellison have been courting President Trump like contestants on the Dating Game. Sarandos met with the President last month to grease the skids for his acquisition. Ellison last week met with Trump officials to lobby against the Netflix deal.
Trump shockingly says he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of its parent Warner Bros. Discovery – a signal that he may prefer an offer by Paramount Skydance to purchase the media conglomerate instead of Netflix.
Netflix started as a company mailing videotapes of rented movies in red envelopes to your home, now it wants to transform Hollywood.
Netflix has used technology to disrupt the movie and TV industries, from the way consumers rent movies and TV shows, to the way in which new series are released and even the economics of how entertainment is made.
Netflix offer for Warner Brothers Discovery—a $72 Billion dollar deal— would join the world’s top streaming service with one of Hollywood’s classic studios.
But the deal faces a great amount of regulatory scrutiny .
Prior to the closing of the sale, Warner Bros Discovery would complete the planned spinoff of cable channels including CNN, TBS and TNT.
Netflix is already the world’s largest streaming service, with more than 300 million subscribers. Bulking up with Warner Bros. Discovery assets would create a monster with greater leverage over theater owners and entertainment-industry unions. It could force smaller companies to merge as they scramble to compete. Hollywood is worried.
The big winner: Warner CEO David Zaslav, who is poised to become a billionaire if the deal closes.
The big loser: Paramount Skydance Chief Executive Officer David Ellison, who kicked off the bidding for Warner Bros. with multiple unsolicited bids.
Newly-hired CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss saw the network’s ratings decline for her first town hall special with Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The special, which aired at 8 p.m. on Saturday, averaged 1.5 million viewers — a whopping 20% decline in viewers compared to the year-to-date average for the hour, which previously was airing a third hour of “48 Hours,” according to preliminary Nielsen ratings data released Tuesday.
For the all-important 25- to 54-year demographic, ratings tanked 44% to 237,000, the agency said.
🛍️Buy Now Pay Later -or is it-Buy Now Regret Later❓
Cyber Monday spending grew more slowly in the U.S. then Europe, a new phenomenon that partly reflects the impact of President Trump’s trade war on tariff-stung shoppers. Global online spending increased about 5%, while US spending rose by 2.6%, according to Salesforce.
Bargain-hunters clicked their way online to spend $12 Billion on Black Friday weekend, 5% more than last year.
But many consumers are financing their purchases with Buy-Now-Pay-Later plans. The Consumer Guy with warnings from Mark Scribner of Wealth Enhancement Group:
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💊WEIGHT LOSS PILL: Approved BY F.D.A
The FDA just approved a pill version of Novo Nordisk's popular weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide), making it the first daily oral GLP-1 medication for weight management and heart risk reduction, expected in early 2026, offering a needle-free option with similar efficacy to the injectable, a major step in the growing obesity treatment market.
The company’s stock has popped 7% on the approval.
🎤BARRY MANILOW: Lung Cancer
Barry Manilow has lung cancer and will reschedule his January shows to undergo surgery.
The 82-year-old singer-songwriter revealed the diagnosis in a statement shared via Instagram. He said that he recently had bronchitis for two periods of multiple weeks, so his doctor ordered an MRI out of precaution.
“The MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed,” he wrote. It’s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early,” he said. “The doctors do not believe it has spread, and I’m taking tests to confirm their diagnosis,” he added.
Manilow is “going into surgery to have the spot removed,” forcing him to reschedule the January shows on his Christmas: A Gift of Love concerts.
🥃JIM BEAM: Stops Production-Booze Struggles
It’s enough to drive you to drink!
Jim Beam, the country’s largest maker of bourbon, has announced a year pause in production amid challenges facing the American whiskey industry.
The decision is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits sector, which has seen sales drop.
The situation will likely get worse as 2025 draws to a close: At the end of October MGP Ingredients, which distills whiskey on contract for other brands, reported a 19% drop in sales for the third quarter.
🌎TRUMP WORLD ROCKED: Susie Wiles Tell-All
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles held nothing back in a series of on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple, in which she compared President Trump’s personality to that of an alcoholic, said that Vice President JD Vance has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” accused Elon Musk of being an “avowed ketamine” user and criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
“The Trump era is ending,” declared former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci. “When top advisors feel emboldened to speak so candidly, something’s up.
Wiles herself denied that her comments had been characterized incorrectly and taken out of context.
Writer Chris Whipple says, “Everything is scrupulously in context... There isn’t a single fact or assertion they’ve challenged in the piece. It’s on tape, as is every assertion that Susie made.’
🎥ROB REINER’s SON Charged: Murders Of His Parents
Jake and Romy Reiner, the children of Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, are speaking out for the first time after their brother, Nick Reiner, was arrested for allegedly killing their parents.
“We now ask for respect and privacy, for speculation to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our parents to be remembered for the incredible lives they lived and the love they gave,” Jake and Romy Reiner said in a statement.
The Los Angeles District attorney announces Nick Reiner is being charged with two counts of murder in the death of his parents.
Rob Reiner’s son Nick reportedly hacked his father and mother, Michele, to death after a massive blow-up at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party.
They reportedly ended up in a “very loud argument’’ — possibly because Nick was back on drugs and refusing yet another round of treatment, after at least 17 stints in rehab since age 15.
Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested on Sunday night and is being held in a jail in Los Angeles County on $4 million bail.
The legendary director and his wife of 36 years were reportedly found Sunday afternoon by their daughter, Romy — who immediately told cops the killer was another family member, TMZ reported.
Officers were called to the home where they discovered the couple with stab wounds.
“It is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michele and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we ask for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time,” Reiner’s family said in a statement.
Reiner, 78, was the son of a pioneering television comedian Carl Reiner. He became a popular sitcom actor himself in ‘All in the Family” before directing a slate of beloved films including “This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “The Princess Bride.” He went on to become a force in California and national Democratic politics, championing gay marriage and early childhood development programs.
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🕯️CHANUKAH MASSACRE: 16 Dead In Australia
The shooters who attacked a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach appear to have been inspired by Islamic State, Australia’s prime minister said, as investigators looked into the planning behind the country’s deadliest mass shooting in nearly 30 years.
Police say the death toll has risen to 15 plus a gunman killed in the shooting, with the attack designated as a “terror incident” targeting the Australian Jewish community gathered for the first day of Chanukah.
Mal Lanyon, the chief of New South Wales police, says after one of the gunmen was killed on the scene, a second suspect has been arrested.
“As a result of the circumstances of the incident… I declared this to be a terrorist incident,” Lanyon says. The New South Wales police said the the two gunmen were a father and son.
“This is a targeted attack on Jewish Australians on the first day of Hanukkah, which should be a day of joy,” said Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister. He added: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian.”
🔫BROWN U./ M.I.T. Shooting Suspect Found Dead
Person of interest in the Brown University shooting has been Lund dead in New Hampshire. The authorities found the man’s body in a storage unit in Salem, N.H. They added that they believe he was also connected to the killing of an M.I.T. professor this week.
The information about a possible connection between the two incidents was developed in the last 24 hours as detectives working on both cases compared notes.
On Saturday afternoon, two Brown students were killed and nine others were injured in a mass shooting on the Rhode Island campus. The gunman fled the scene and has not been identified.
On Monday night, MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was found shot at his home in the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline. Loureiro, 47, died on Tuesday at the hospital.
🧑🏭ISIS ATTACK 2 US Soldiers Killed In Syria
President Trump has vowed “serious retaliation” after two American soldiers and a translator were killed by an ISIS gunman in Syria.
The US-led forces were conducting counter-terrorism operations against the Islamic State in the north-east of the country when the terrorist opened fire.
The ambush also left three US servicemen injured.
Authorities added that the lone gunman was engaged and killed.
Trump said: “We mourn the loss of three Great American Patriots in Syria, two soldiers and one civilian interpreter.
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🚬SMOKIN’: Trump Orders Pot Rules Relaxed
Cannabis stocks HIGHER as President Trump eases restrictions on marijuana.
Trump has ordered marijuana reclassified as a less dangerous drug, a move that represents one of the biggest shifts in US policy toward cannabis in decades.
Trump has discussed the idea with marijuana industry executives, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
The Amplify Seymour Cannabis ETF (CNBS) rallied more than 19%.
🏆AND THE OSCARS GO TO: YouTube
In news that is sending shock waves across the entertainment industry, the Oscars ceremony — which has aired on traditional TV for 70 years — will be moving to YouTube starting in 2029 and will be streamed by the Google Owned company through at least 2033.
ABC will continue to air the Oscars — long the world’s most watched awards telecast — through the 100th edition of the awards show in 2028. After that, the ceremony will be available live and for free to over 2 billion people around the world on YouTube, and to YouTube TV subscribers in the U.S.
🤖A.I.: Trump Signs Order to Cut State Laws
President Trump signed an executive order that aims to override state laws on artificial intelligence.
The order would allow the Justice Department to punish states with rules deemed restrictive for AI, in a move to bring the U.S. under one federal standard. Silicon Valley executives had been lobbying the president to ban state AI laws that they said could cause the U.S. to lose the AI race to China.
White House AI czar David Sacks said Thursday that the government planned to keep laws protecting children’s safety but target certain state regulations deemed onerous.
At the local level, many voters objected to the spread of data centers, the building blocks of AI’s advance, whose huge demand for electricity is getting linked to bigger household bills. That affordability issue now has political traction. It helped Democrats score major wins in Virginia and New Jersey.
🧑🏭TRUMP: U.S. May Seize MORE Oil Tankers
The U.S. may seize more oil tankers according to the White House, after it took over a tanker off the coast of Venezuela, loaded with crude oil.
President Trump has been engaged in a pressure campaign on the government of President Nicolás Maduro, whom he has labeled a terrorist drug cartel leader. Maduro vowed to “kick in the teeth” of America after the seizure.
President Trump claims the tanker is the largest ever to be seized, and says “other things” would be coming soon.
Asked what would happen to the oil on the seized oil tanker near the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said: “Well, we keep it, I guess.”
Venezuela’s government called the seizure a “barefaced robbery and an act of international piracy” aimed at stripping the country of its oil wealth.
Top military officers showed senior members of Congress video of a Sept. 2nd attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, and defended the follow-up strike that killed two survivors. Lawmakers left the closed-door meetings with starkly different conclusions: Democrats said the video deepened their concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s military campaign, while several Republicans said they were satisfied it was lawful.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a cabinet meeting that he never ordered Admiral Bradley, a special operations commander, to carry out the second strike which destroyed the boat and killed two survivors, though he defended the officer’s actions.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stepped up his war of words against Hegseth, calling him a “12-year-old playing army.”
In a separate incident the Pentagon’s watchdog has reportedly found that Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants.
🚨NATIONAL GUARD: Suspect Charged With Murder
U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died after being shot in Washington, D.C.; the second soldier who was shot remains in critical condition.
The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is to be charged today with first-degree murder. The alleged gunman is an Afghani who worked with C.I.A.-backed military units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Officials call the attack a “targeted shooting” by the lone gunman, who guardsmen tackled after the shootings.
Trump called for “reverse migration” in the US after announcing that the soldiers had died from her injuries. Trump proposed measures such as permanently pausing admissions from “third world” countries and revoking citizenship for some naturalized migrants.
Defense Secretary Pere Hegseth says Trump, who was in Florida at the time of the shooting, has ordered him to deploy 500 more national guard troops to the nation’s capital.
Trump has called the operation “the most successful public safety and national security mission in the history of our nation’s capital,” and earlier this week he said, “We haven’t had a murder in six months.” Data from the local police shows at least two dozen homicides since the Guard was deployed to the city.
National Guard troops are barred from carrying out police duties under the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which precludes the military from domestic law enforcement.
Last week, a federal judge ordered a temporary suspension of the deployment, which began in August, finding that it is likely illegal.
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⚾️ METS: Two Stars Leave For More Money
A big hole in Mets pitching.
Edwin Díaz and the World Series champion Dodgers are in agreement on a deal, The Post’s Jon Heyman confirmed. The sides agreed on a three-year, $69 million contract, a record average annual value for a reliever.
The Mets offered three years and $66 million with modest deferrals, The Post’s Joel Sherman reports, and they expressed there was wiggle room to go higher.
And slugger Pete Alonso has a new home.
The Polar Bear is headed to the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million contract.
Alonso is coming off a season in which he hit 38 home runs.
🗳️ MIAMI: Elects Dem Mayor Over Trump-Backed Candidate
Eileen Higgins became the first Democrat to win the Miami mayoral office in three decades, defeating Trump-backed Republican Emilio González.
The mayor’s race was the latest to draw national attention in the wake of recent gubernatorial and other elections in which Democrats won or outperformed expectations. Though the Miami mayor’s powers are limited and the contest was officially nonpartisan, the race became infused with broader issues over affordability and Trump administration policies on immigration and the
👨🏭UKRAINE: White House Pushes Peace Plan
Vladimir Putin could return to the world stage under a European peace plan that agrees to allow Russia back into the G8.
The offer was made in a counter-proposal to Donald Trump’s 28-point plan, which heavily favoured Russia.
The European plan contains several concessions, including a cap on the size of Ukraine’s army and a commitment to elections that could see Volodymyr Zelensky removed from power – a key demand of Moscow.
Following an emergency summit in Geneva, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said on Sunday night that the US was now “making some changes” to its peace plan.
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🤖MORE JOB CUT WOES: Blame AI
New data shows it was the worst October for layoff announcements since 2003 as companies slashed jobs to save money, pared back pandemic-era hires, and planned ahead for artificial intelligence, according to the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Employers announced 153,074 cuts last month, compared to 55,597 cuts in October 2024.
Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees this year, and as many as 30,000 employees in the near future, driven by ‘Artificial Intelligence integration’.
The job cuts will affect departments including human resources, cloud computing, and advertising, to reduce costs.
Also sighting A.I. advances, UPS has since last year reduced its work force by 48,000 employees, the company said on Tuesday, in a cost-cutting drive aimed at bolstering profits and winning back investors.
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A news special on Britain’s Channel 4 titled “Will AI Take My Job?” investigated how automation is reshaping the workplace and pitting humans against machines. At the end of the hour-long program, a major twist was revealed: the anchor, who narrates and appears throughout the telecast reporting from different locations, was entirely AI-generated.
And this song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent shockwaves through the music industry, with artists getting vocal about the AI-generated hit.
The new country tune, “Walk my Walk” by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month.
🏠50 YEAR MORTGAGE: Good, Bad or Ugly
The Trump administration is working on a plan to introduce a 50-year mortgage.
A 50-year mortgage would make it easier for buyers to qualify for a home loan compared with the standard 30-year mortgage. But it comes at the cost of a significantly higher interest payment over the life of the loan, and homeowners would also be much slower to earn equity.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says the American dream is turning into the American nightmare:
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🎶Keep on Rockin’🎶
Listening to music in your senior years could cut your dementia risk by 40%.
Older adults who listened to music at least once a week had a significantly lower risk of dementia, according to a new study in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.:
Always listening to music was associated with a 39% reduced dementia risk and better global cognition and memory scores.
Playing an instrument was associated with a 35% reduced dementia risk, but no significant association with changes in cognitive test scores over time.
Regularly engaging in both music listening and playing was associated with a 33% decreased risk of dementia and 22% decreased risk of cognitive impairment no dementia.
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🤳A PICTURE: Worth A Thousand Words
Need we say more about Trump destroying the White House East Wing and building a Ballroom?
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🤖ROBOT UMPIRES: Called Up to Bigs for 2026
Human umpires may be called ‘OUT’ soon!
Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season.
Major League Baseball’s competition committee approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026.
Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra innings. Challenges must be made by a pitcher, catcher or batter — signaled by tapping their helmet or cap — and a team retains its challenge if successful. Reviews will be shown as digital graphics on outfield videoboards.
New York Yankees outfielder Austin Slater, one of four players on the competition committee, said three voted in favor after getting support from 22 of the 30 teams. All six management reps voted in favor.
“I think with any sort of technology, there’s not 100% certainty of the accurateness of the system,” Slater said. “I think the same can be said of umpires. So I think it’s just coming to grips with the impact that technology is going to have and whether or not we were willing to live with that error that was associated with the system, even if the error is very, very miniscule.”
Big league umpires call roughly 94% of pitches correctly, according to UmpScorecards.
💻A.I. : Coming For YOUR JOB
Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Very low rates of Americans with jobs are quitting or being fired each month. But those on the unemployment rolls are now staying there longer than at any time since before the pandemic.
Employers are instead experimenting with AI to make their workforces more productive,
Get this: President Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed.
Uber is just the latest example of artificial intelligence coming for your job.
The company has just announced a partnership to deploy more than 20,000 robotaxis over the next six years as demand for driverless cars kicks into high gear.
As part of the partnership, the ride-hailing company is teaming up with Lucid, the electric vehicle maker, and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup. Under the agreement, Uber will invest $300 million in Lucid. Nuro will develop the self-driving technology that Lucid will use to supply Uber with robotaxis over the course of the deal and receive a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment.
The rapid adoption of AI has stirred up worry among many workers, as it is still unknown exactly what the impacts of the technology will be.
The automation of Amazon warehouses is approaching a new milestone: There will soon be as many robots as humans.
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon has deployed more than one million robots in those workplaces, Amazon said. That is the most it has ever had and near the count of human workers at the facilities.
Meta shares hit a record intraday high, underscoring investor interest in the company’s new ‘AI super-intelligence’ group.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on an AI hiring blitz amid fierce competition with rivals such as OpenAI and Google-parent Alphabet.
“Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.,” Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said in an interview last week with author Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind.”
Microsoft will layoff another 9,000 employees. The move is the latest instance of cost-cutting by Big Tech companies as they spend heavily on artificial intelligence. It may also be tied to growing efficiency at these businesses.
🛫RUSSIAN: Drones Shot Down Over Poland
Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine, with the NATO member calling the incursion “an act of aggression.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was in “constant contact” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Tusk has called for an emergency meeting of the NATO council of ministers, a government spokesman said.
Poland’s military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine.
Leaders across Europe condemned the incident as the latest sign of escalation from the Kremlin, which has rebuffed President Donald Trump's bid to broker peace talks.
Russia labeled the accusations “
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🇺🇦UKRAINE: Trump Fails To Get Putin To Agree To Ceasefire
President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin on a plan to halt fighting in Ukraine for 30 days.
Putin agreed to a limited cease-fire against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but remained defiant to a full ceasefire.
It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his Oval Office blowup with President Donald Trump was “regrettable,” adding that he stands ready to work under Trump’s “strong leadership” to get a lasting peace.
The shouting match blew up plans to sign a minerals deal.
Exiger’s Kit Conklin tell’s NewsNation the US really needs those minerals.
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🛫Airplane Safety Worries For Your Next Trip
Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
A Jeju Airlines plane burst into a deadly fireball during a failed belly landing in South Korea, killing 179 people.
If your fear of flying has ramped up in recent months you’re not alone. More than half of travelers say recent news of aircraft and airline incidents has affected the way they book travel.
The latest problem: turns out new Boeing and Airbus jets have parts made from titanium, sold using fake documentation.
Exiger President Carrie Wibben tells NewsNation it raises concerns about the structural integrity of those planes.
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💻Hackers Take Advantage Of Airline Computer Glitch
It keeps getting worse!
Regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled flights after the airline’s global tech outage, which forced Delta to cancel more than 5000 flights.
CrowdStrike now warning its customers: hackers are trying to exploit the computer outage.
➡️Exiger’s Katie Arrington with the fallout:
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🚌Childcare Economic Crisis
The Cost of Childcare Is Out Of Control. What Will President Trump Do?
Debbie Bermudezof IMAGINE EARLY LEARNING with the problems on NewsNation
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🎯 Chinese Slave Labor Making Your iPhone
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says that shiny-new iPhone you want to buy may be made by Chinese slave labor. Vance named China the biggest threat to the U.S. & Democratic VP Candidate Tim Walz agrees.
While Apple denies it uses slave labor, China and Supply Chain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation many US companies unknowingly use Chinese slave labor, and that needs to stop now.
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