The University of Minnesota offered to pay children as young as five to play with transgender dolls with mix-and-match genitals.

 Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is part of the United Nations and “seeks to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies,” warned this week that Iran has grown close to developing nuclear weapons.

 President Joe Biden said Tuesday that there was “apparently” nothing “nefarious” about the mystery drones spotted throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S., saying his administration was watching the situation closely. 

 The federal government is currently in the process of hiring as many as 1,200 employees to work on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — employees who would be embedded into the permanent federal workforce headed into the Trump administration, according to a Daily Wire analysis of federal job opportunities.

 The Palestinian Authority (PA), which for years has had a “pay for slay” reward program for Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis, and the terrorist group Hamas, which committed the brutal October 7 massacre, are going to war in Samaria.

 The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) on Tuesday endorsed Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next director of national intelligence (DNI).

MicroStrategy has been making headlines with its aggressive investment in Bitcoin, accumulating around 439,000 Bitcoins. This strategy, led by CEO Michael Saylor, has been both praised and scrutinized. But what happens if Bitcoin’s price takes a nosedive? Let’s dive into the numbers and potential consequences.

MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Holdings: As of December 17, 2024, MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin stash is valued at approximately $46.92 billion, with an average purchase price of around $61,725 per Bitcoin. This substantial investment is a bold bet on the long-term value of Bitcoin.

 The Aurora Police Department detained 19 suspected illegal alien gang members from Venezuela on Tuesday following an incident that unfolded on Monday night.

 Congressional leaders unveiled on Tuesday another stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week, just days before the Christmas holiday.

Last week the Department of Justice’s inspector general released a report on some of the DOJ’s tracking of communications from media and congressional figures as part of its purported investigation into who was leaking classified information against President Donald Trump in 2017. Three significant bombshells about the Russia collusion hoax were hidden inside the dense and dry 100-page report.

For context, when Trump won the 2016 presidential election, anonymous Democrat operatives in the federal government and Congress began leaking like sieves as part of a coordinated effort to paint Trump as a mastermind spy who had worked with Russian President Vladimir Putin for decades in order to steal the election.

The Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second interim report on Tuesday addressing the events surrounding January 6, 2021.

The report not only highlighted widespread failures but also issued damning allegations against key members of the now-disbanded January 6 Committee.

“This interim report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities,” Loudermilk said.

The most explosive revelation from Loudermilk’s report pertains to the conduct of Liz Cheney. The report alleges that Cheney personally coached the committee’s so-called “star witness,” Cassidy Hutchinson, to alter her testimony—without Hutchinson’s attorney present.

Witness tampering is a federal crime.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, say the overnight armed home invasion at a local apartment complex that resulted in 14 suspects being detained was “without question a gang incident.” victimized their own race and their own ethnicity.”

Just before 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police were called to The Edge at Lowry Apartments in the 1200 block of Dallas Street for a reported armed home invasion in which victims were kidnapped and assaulted, the Aurora Police said.

After originally denying it, the Israel Defense Forces have now admitted that a group of settlers crossed over into southern Lebanon earlier this month after initially saying that the activists had only set up an encampment near an Israeli border community and were dispersed because the area was a ‘closed military zone’.

The settler group was led by the Uri Tzafon Movement, a Religious Zionist organization that regularly advocates for Jewish settlement in Lebanon which it claims 'belongs to the Jewish people'.

Here are the Top 10 Takeaways from the bombshell new J6 Interim Report:

1. Deleted Evidence Exonerating Trump, J6ers

The Pelosi-led January 6 Select Committee allegedly failed to archive significant portions of collected evidence, including over a terabyte of digital data and… pic.twitter.com/xrv02Mv6Mb

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) December 17, 2024

Payton McNabb had dreams of becoming a college athlete, until a volleyball spiked by a transgender competitor came within inches of killing her when she was 17 and forever changed the trajectory of her life.

Now, in the hopes of preventing history from repeating itself, she’s sharing her story in the new documentary “Kill Shot: How Payton McNabb Turned Tragedy Into Triumph,” created by the Independent Women’s Forum.

“If my story can in any way help prevent this from happening to at least just one woman or girl, then it was all worth it,” McNabb, now 19, told The Post. 

The Pentagon dismissed an order from President Donald J. Trump to use the National Guard to ensure safety on Jan. 6, intentionally delayed Guard deployment for hours, lied about it to congressional leaders, and used its own inspector general to cover it all up, a U.S. House report concludes.

After a two-year investigation, the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight put the blame for failure to get National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol on former Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, two Pentagon Army generals, and Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller.

“Over the past 24 months of this investigation, my subcommittee staff have faced incredible obstacles in pursuit of the truth; missing and deleted documents, hidden evidence, unaccounted-for video footage, and uncooperative bureaucrats,” said U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the subcommittee.

What Americans have a problem with is twofold.

First, Joe Biden spent months lying about how he wouldn’t pardon Hunter Biden because, unlike Donald Trump, he respects the justice system.

That was a lie.

And second, the pardon went well beyond the gun and tax charges as it covered any crime Hunter Biden may have committed between January 2014 and December 1, 2024.

Megyn Kelly said Joe Biden picked this specific 11-year time frame on purpose.

“And Hunter had no expertise in energy whatsoever. His dad was the sitting vice president of the United States, and he’s been pardoned. Now, why would you have to go back to all that stuff?” Kelly stated.

Kelly explained that Biden really wanted to shut down the possibility that the incoming Trump administration could investigate Hunter Biden’s alleged foreign influence peddling because it could tie back to the fact that Hunter Biden was allegedly selling access to Joe Biden.

The incoming former President Donald Trump has styled himself as an anti-war, pro-deal candidate, maintaining that the wars in Ukraine and Palestine would never have happened if he had been president during the past four years. He campaigned on this platform, even though it is demonstrably true that he is no dove.

The unprecedented amount of ordnance dropped in Afghanistan, the provocative assassination of IRGC General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, the arming of Ukraine with anti-armor Javelin missile systems—something even the hawkish President Barack Obama dismissed—and his general belligerence toward China are all examples of this. The list of anti-war, pro-deal incongruences goes on.

At any rate, President Trump has called for an end to hostilities in Lebanon and Palestine before he assumes office in January, asserting his desire to “get rid of the wars.” While he remains a foreign policy wild card, it seems plausible that a ceasefire deal could be reached before the holidays in late December. Such an outcome would be a public relations coup, positioning him as a peacemaker and dealmaker.

However, his harsh words at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago this past Monday complicate this image. Trump warned that if the Israeli hostages were not released, there would be “ALL HELL TO PAY.”

In the immediate wake of the Syrian government’s abrupt collapse, much remains uncertain about the country’s future – including whether it can survive as a unitary state or will splinter into smaller states as did Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, a move that ultimately led to a bloody NATO intervention. Moreover, who or what may take power in Damascus remains an open question. For the time being at least, members of ultra-extremist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) appear highly likely to take key positions in whatever administrative structure sprouts from Bashar Assad’s ouster after a decade-and-a-half of grinding Western-sponsored regime change efforts.

As Reuters reported on December 12, HTS is already “stamping its authority on Syria’s state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, deploying police, installing an interim government and meeting foreign envoys.” Meanwhile, its bureaucrats – “who until last week were running an Islamist administration in a remote corner of Syria’s northwest” – have moved en masse “into government headquarters in Damascus.” Mohammed Bashir, head of HTS’ “regional government” in extremist-occupied Idlib, has been appointed the country’s “caretaker prime minister.”

However, despite the chaos and precariousness of post-Assad Syria, one thing seems assured – the country will be broken open to Western economic exploitation, at long last.

The astronaut duo who flew the first-ever crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule will have to wait a little longer to rejoin us on Earth.

The next crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX's Crew-10, has been delayed to no earlier than late March 2025, NASA announced on Tuesday (Dec. 17).

Crew-10 was originally slated to fly in February, but it has been pushed back to allow time for SpaceX to complete work on a brand-new Crew Dragon spacecraft for the mission, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.

‼️Candace Owens.‼️ has the real story of why Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress.

It's worth listening to if you have 10 minutes. pic.twitter.com/GZfJJedUR7

— (Jason) Stands For Truth (@TrueJMitchell) December 17, 2024

Are we heading into a year that will be characterized by great turmoil?  Every year, a magazine known as “the Economist” publishes an issue that is dedicated to what is coming in the year ahead.  In the past, many of these issues have turned out to be eerily accurate.  For example, the cover of last year’s issue featured images of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin with very large missiles standing next to each of them.  Of course this ended up being one of the biggest news stories of 2024.  Ukraine started firing long-range missiles provided by NATO deep into Russian territory, and the Russians responded with long-range missiles of their own.  Unfortunately, it appears that the cover for this year’s issue could be previewing some very alarming events that are coming in 2025.

Despite desperate attempts by the Democrats to disguise what really happened on January 6, the truth is finally coming out.

A new DOJ report showed that there were dozens of FBI informants present at the Capitol riot, and even some liberals are outraged that they’ve been lied to by their own party.

Stephen A. Smith is one of them.

“Didn’t hear anything about that before the election. Didn’t hear anything about that when the quote unquote ‘insurrection’ was broached by Vice President Kamala Harris as a Democratic nominee,” Smith said in a recent rant on “The Stephen A. Smith Show.”

Google Maps users have been urged to act now to avoid permanently losing their important data.

Starting next year, the popular navigation app will begin deleting users' personal Timeline from its servers. 

Originally known as Location History, this feature tracks Google Maps users' every movement, keeping a record of places visited and routes taken.

However, according to emails received by Google Maps users, this feature is set to vanish from June 9, 2025, along with almost a decade of user data. 

Google says it will be moving users' movement history from the cloud to a more secure on-device option.

While this will give users more protection against hackers, it also means that any unsaved location history will soon be lost.

Once the change comes, Google Maps will only keep the last 90 days of Timeline data unless users make a backup to their personal device.