Congress Narrowly Averts Authorities Shutdown — And Rejects Trump’s Debt Ceiling Instructions
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Denmark is boosting protection spending for Greenland. A Danish official stated Tuesday that the timing of the announcement, coming as President-elect Donald Trump made feedback that the U.S. ought to personal the territory, was an “irony of fate.”
This comes as Trump wished a “Merry Christmas to all” on Fact Social.
Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish protection minister, advised the paper Jyllands-Posten Tuesday that the nation plans to spend a “double-digit billion amount” in krone — about $1.5 billion — to ensure they’ve a “stronger presence” within the Arctic.
Trump stated Sunday that the “ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for the U.S. The U.S. navy operates a base in northwest Greenland.
After seemingly joking about Canada turning into the “51st” state, the incoming president fired off ominous messages alleging the Panama Canal and Greenland pose severe financial and nationwide safety threats to the USA and is perhaps focused for some type of annexation or buy.
In the meantime, the Home of Representatives is reeling after an ethics committee report into former congressman Matt Gaetz “determined there is substantial evidence” that he paid tens of 1000’s of {dollars} for {sex} and used illicit medicine whereas he was a member of Congress.
Trump points unusually quick Christmas message
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Gustaf Kilander25 December 2024 15:02
From halibut and sizzling canines to unlikely friendships: That is what occurs contained in the Senate lunch room
Throughout President Joe Biden’s last main handle on the economic system, he did what he does greatest: wax poetic in regards to the outdated days of the USA Senate, the establishment that outlined him. He advised an particularly instructive story about when he returned to the Senate as vp and went into the Senate eating corridor, the place a central eating room desk used to face. That’s had been Democrats and Republicans would as soon as meet and discuss.
“You walk in — a long table sitting, I guess, 16, 18 people on the right, parallel with the table,” he stated. “And you walk through an archway, and there was a table going the other way. One was the Democratic table. One was Republican table. And when there weren’t enough to sit at any one table, then they all sit together.”
Eric Garcia25 December 2024 14:45
Denmark boosts protection spending for Greenland following Trump’s ‘ownership’ feedback
Denmark is boosting protection spending for Greenland. A Danish official stated Tuesday that the timing of the announcement, coming as President-elect Donald Trump made feedback that the U.S. ought to personal the territory, was an “irony of fate.”
Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish protection minister, advised the paper Jyllands-Posten Tuesday that the nation plans to spend a “double-digit billion amount” in krone — about $1.5 billion — to ensure they’ve a “stronger presence” within the Arctic.
Trump stated Sunday that the “ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity” for the U.S. The U.S. navy operates a base in northwest Greenland.
The president-elect’s feedback are an enlargement of what he stated throughout his first time period, when he recommended that the U.S. purchase Greenland.
“Greenland is ours,” the territory’s Prime Minister Múte Egede stated in response on Fb Monday. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our years-long struggle for freedom. However, we must continue to be open to cooperation and trade with the whole world, especially with our neighbours.”
Gustaf Kilander25 December 2024 14:22
Texas buys billboards in Central America warning migrants of hazard of rape and abuse on journey to US
The state of Texas is paying an estimated $100,000 to put in on blunt and at-times graphic billboards throughout Mexico and Central America within the coming weeks within the hopes of deterring future unlawful immigration.
The Unbiased’s Josh Marcus experiences:
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 14:00
Trump requires loss of life penalty towards violent offenders
The political fallout stays ongoing for Joe Biden’s determination to commute the sentences of most individuals on federal loss of life row to life in jail.
In a Fact Social submit on Tuesday, Donald Trump promised to “vigorously” pursue the loss of life penalty towards violent offenders.
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote. “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”
Trump oversaw a historic 13 federal executions in workplace, essentially the most of any trendy U.S. president.
Right here’s extra on the Biden commutations.
Josh Marcus25 December 2024 13:00
‘Confused’ congresswoman tracked to nursing house shines highlight on troubling ageing points dealing with lawmakers
The invention by an area newspaper of a “confused” Texas Republican congresswoman dwelling in an assisted care facility after she dropped out of sight final month has triggered issues about ageing lawmakers clinging to their highly effective roles within the face of fears about diminishing competence.
The Unbiased’s John Bowden experiences:
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 12:00
Trump’s FCC nominee sends ominous letter to Disney CEO: ‘Americans no longer trust the national news media’
After Trump threatened to strip ABC’s broadcast license and compelled the community right into a $15 million settlement, the president-elect’s choose to guide the Federal Communications Fee warned its mother or father firm that Individuals “no longer trust the national news media to report fully, accurately, and fairly.”
In a letter to Disney’s CEO Bob Iger, Brendan Carr lamented the “erosion in public trust” in information media, and recommended ABC was partially guilty.
Inside Trump’s newest combat with the media, and what Carr – a Venture 2025 co-author — plans to do in workplace:
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 11:00
Colombia’s president denounces ‘American fascist’ Colombian-American calling for public executions of immigrants
Far-right Republican determine Valentina Gomez, who has made headlines for stunts like taking a flamethrower to banned books, is now calling for public executions for any immigrant within the nation illegally who “rapes or kills an American.”
“They don’t deserve deportation. They deserve to be ended,” she says in a video moments after taking pictures an effigy tied to a chair behind the pinnacle.
The caption reads “Public executions for any illegal that rapes or kills an American.” The video posted on X has been flagged for doubtlessly violating the platform’s “rules against Violent Speech.”
Gomez, who’s Colombian-American, got here sixth in an eight-person major for Missouri’s secretary of state, and final week she stated she’s transferring to Texas to problem congressman Dan Crenshaw’s seat
Colombia’s personal president referred to as her an “American fascist.”
“She is not just an American fascist. She is Colombian,” Gustavo Petro wrote in Spanish. “And being a migrant, what she wants is to unleash hatred against migrants. Most Americans are killed by Americans.”
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 10:00
ICYMI: Biden vetoes laws that will have allowed Trump so as to add extra judges to the federal judiciary
President Joe Biden has vetoed laws that will have added dozens of judges to the federal judiciary, dealing a blow to Trump’s incoming administration and his plans to construct on his first time period’s radical reshaping of the courts with extra right-leaning judges.
The bipartisan invoice would have awarded roughly 66 new federal judicial slots over the subsequent three presidential phrases. Trump would have been capable of appoint a primary batch of 25.
The invoice handed the Senate unanimously in August however lingered within the Republican-controlled Home for months, till after Trump’s victory within the 2024 election. It cleared the Home on a largely party-line in December.
The JUDGES Act would have elevated the variety of trial court docket judges in 25 federal district courts in 13 states, together with California, Florida and Texas, in six waves each two years by way of 2035.
The invoice “seeks to hastily add judgeships with just a few weeks left” within the present Congress, Biden wrote in a letter to lawmakers Monday evening.
“The House of Representatives’ hurried action fails to resolve key questions in the legislation, especially regarding how the new judgeships are allocated, and neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate explored fully how the work of senior status judges and magistrate judges affects the need for new judgeships,” he added.
“The efficient and effective administration of justice requires that these questions about need and allocation be further studied and answered before we create permanent judgeships for life-tenured judges,” the letter continued.
The invoice “would create new judgeships in states where senators have sought to hold open existing judicial vacancies,” efforts that recommend “concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now,” based on Biden.
(EPA)
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 09:00
John Bolton: I’m ‘very worried’ about how Trump would deal with ‘much more likely’ worldwide disaster
John Bolton, President-elect Donald Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser, stated that a world disaster is “much more likely” in the course of the Republican’s second time period.
Alex Woodward25 December 2024 08:00
