In a five-point memo sent to CBS News staff on Sunday, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss laid out each of her reasons for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-on-notorious-el-salvador-prison-needed-additional-reporting">postponing</a> a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of illegal immigrants.
Weiss prevented the segment on El Salvador&#8217;s CECOT prison from airing on Sunday over concerns that the piece lacked important information, such as &#8220;the Trump administration&#8217;s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.&#8221;
The segment, spearheaded by CBS News journalist Sharyn Alfonsi, focused on interviews with some of the illegal immigrants who were sent to CECOT and have since been released. After Weiss pulled the story from Sunday&#8217;s lineup, Alfonsi claimed that it was for &#8220;political&#8221; reasons, arguing that if they hold a story because the government has not commented on it, they are becoming a “stenographer for the state.”
Weiss, however, argued that the segment did not attempt to go deep enough to present its viewers &#8220;with the full context they need to assess the story.&#8221; In the first point her <a href="https://x.com/thesimonetti/status/2003142908854313225">memo</a>, Weiss argued that other legacy media networks had already extensively covered the &#8220;horrific conditions&#8221; at the Salvadoran prison and CBS News needed to do more to &#8220;advance&#8221; the story to justify a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment.
&#8220;Last month, many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself,&#8221; Weiss said in her memo. &#8220;But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered, we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.&#8221;
The segment reportedly focused on highlighting the “brutal and torturous conditions” endured by those sent to CECOT. Despite CBS News pulling the segment domestically, it aired briefly in Canada and then was shared online.
Weiss urged &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; producers to &#8220;push harder&#8221; to set up interviews Trump administration officials, such as adviser Stephen Miller and border czar Tom Homan.
&#8220;At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing?&#8221; Weiss asked. &#8220;Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.&#8221;
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In her third point, Weiss criticized one of the angles of the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment, arguing that it focuses too much on the illegal immigrants sent to CECOT who do not have criminal histories and not enough on the violent criminals who have been removed from America.
&#8220;The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But what about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.&#8221;
Weiss also blasted the producers&#8217; decision to include analysis from students at the University of California, Berkeley, asking, &#8220;What does the analysis add?&#8221;
Weiss concluded by telling the staff that CBS News should better explain &#8220;the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due &#8216;judicial review&#8217;—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority,&#8221; Weiss argued. &#8220;There’s a genuine debate here.&#8221;
CBS News said on Sunday that the CECOT segment would air at a later date.

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Former Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse revealed on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, adding that he is &#8220;gonna die.&#8221;
Sasse, a 53-year-old husband and father of three, <a href="https://x.com/BenSasse/status/2003483746540965891">announced</a> the tragic news in a lengthy social media post, saying that the diagnosis is a &#8220;death sentence.&#8221;
&#8220;Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die,&#8221; Sasse wrote. &#8220;Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.&#8221;
Sasse, who represented Nebraska in the U.S. Senate for eight years, resigned from his seat in 2022 and, shortly after, was appointed the president of the University of Florida. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-gop-senator-ben-sasse-announces-he-is-stepping-down-as-university-of-florida-president">stepped down</a> from leading the University of Florida in July of 2024 after revealing that his wife was dealing with a serious medical condition and had suffered an aneurysm and a series of strokes. During his time as president of Florida, Sasse took a strong stance against anti-Israel protesters in the wake of Hamas&#8217; terrorist attack on Israel and said the university would &#8220;draw a hard line at unlawful action.&#8221;
Sasse was a staunch pro-life advocate in the U.S. Senate and constantly pushed the U.S. government to remain tough on China. He has also been a strong critic of President Donald Trump since Trump first stepped into the political spotlight in 2016.
The former Republican senator said on Tuesday, &#8220;I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad.&#8221; Sasse added that he is relying on his Christian faith to get him through his recent cancer diagnosis.
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&#8220;There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say &#8216;hope&#8217; when what we mean is &#8216;optimism.&#8217; To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.&#8221;

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A longtime custodian at Brown University said he alerted a security guard after seeing a suspicious man walking around campus at least 10 times in the weeks leading up to the mass shooting on December 13.
Derek Lisi told the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/metro/brown-custodian-saw-shooting-suspect/">Boston Globe</a> on Sunday that 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, who killed two students and wounded nine others, was peering into classrooms and pacing the college&#8217;s hallways weeks before his attack. Lisi said Valente was walking around the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building at Brown, where on December 13, the gunman opened fire, killing 19-year-old Ella Cook and 18-year-old Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov as they studied.
“He’d been casing that place for weeks,” Lisi said, adding, “I knew there was something off with him.&#8221;
Lisi said that he notified a staff member of a private firm he believed was working as a security guard about a suspicious person on two different occasions, adding that the staff member did not investigate. Brown uses Event Staffing Services, a private firm that provides security on campus. Event Staffing Services confirmed that one of its employees received a report of a suspicious person in December, but added that it is not responsible for investigating such reports, according to the Globe.
In the weeks before the shooting, the suspicious man was especially interested in room 166, according to Lisi. Room 166 is where the gunman shot multiple students days later.
“I thought it was someone trying to steal something,” Lisi said. “Every time he saw me, I think he thought I was security, because he would always walk away.&#8221;
Lisi said he recognized the suspicious man who had been walking around campus in the photos shared by police during the manhunt for the shooter. Providence, Rhode Island, police said that after the shooting, the custodian also told them that he had alerted campus security about a man who appeared to have been casing the campus.
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The Daily Wire reached out to Brown University for comment.
After hearing about the shooting at Brown, Lisi said he told a friend, &#8220;I hope it’s not the guy I’ve been seeing.&#8221; But after the police released the first images and videos of a person of interest, Lisi knew immediately.
“I knew it was him because I could tell by the walk,” he said. “He had a pretty distinctive walk.”
Lisi wasn&#8217;t alone in witnessing odd behavior from the shooter. A Brown faculty member told police that she saw a car matching the description of the suspect&#8217;s rental car slowly driving around campus just before the shooting. Another man, whom police identified as &#8220;John,&#8221; said that he saw the suspect acting suspiciously on campus in the days before the attack.
Valente, a Portuguese resident and former Brown student, was finally tracked down by police five days after the shooting, and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a storage unit he owned in New Hampshire. Authorities believe that Valente was also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was found shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on the morning of December 15.

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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry will serve as special envoy to Greenland as the president keeps his sights set on the large mineral-rich territory.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115760829286615399">said</a> that Landry, who previously served as a U.S. congressman and Louisiana&#8217;s attorney general, &#8220;understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World.&#8221; Landry said his appointment as special envoy to Greenland will not interfere with his job as governor.
“Thank you @realDonaldTrump!&#8221; Landry <a href="https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/2002950029494124986">wrote</a> on X. &#8220;It’s an honor to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S. This in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!&#8221;
After making a strong push to acquire Greenland earlier this year, the Trump administration has said little about the proposal, but the president has not forgotten about his goals for the northern territory that sits in a strategic position between North America and Russia.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-absolutely-considering-annexing-greenland-i-dont-take-anything-off-the-table">said</a> in March that he was discussing with his advisers ways the United States could take over Greenland, such as purchasing it from Denmark, and gave “100%” certainty that “we’ll get Greenland.” Greenland is currently a territory of Denmark but operates as a somewhat autonomous country.
“You have ships sailing outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we’re not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States,” Trump added at the time.
After Trump appointed Landry as special envoy on Sunday night, leaders in Greenland and Denmark expressed concern that Trump was once again making moves in his plan to take over the territory.
&#8220;We have said it before. Now, we say it again. National borders and the sovereignty of states are rooted in international law,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Premier Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-trump-landry-special-envoy-7df618b975f25f7a606ec84f6d82bff9">Associated Press</a>. “They are fundamental principles. You cannot annex another country. Not even with an argument about international security.”
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&#8220;Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders and the U.S. shall not take over Greenland,” the two leaders added. “We expect respect for our joint territorial integrity.”
The Trump administration argues that Greenland is vital to U.S. national security, while it could also provide the United States with rare earth minerals and oil. The Trump administration also wants to gain an advantage over Russia and China, which have both sought to influence and use Greenland for their own interests.

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Trump Taps Republican Governor As Special Envoy To Greenland: ‘Make Greenland A Part Of The U.S.’

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A Russian general and his assistant were killed by a car bomb in Moscow on Monday, with investigators saying it&#8217;s possible Ukrainian operatives orchestrated the attack.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who was head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed in the blast, along with his assistant, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-explosion-general-killed-sarvarov-73413ae5936609832f706ab26f864b3c">reported</a>. Russian authorities said that investigators &#8220;are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services.”
Sarvarov is the third senior Russian military officer to be killed by a car bombing in the past year. Ukraine has claimed responsibility for some of the assassinations, including the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who led Russia&#8217;s nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces. Kirillov was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-kills-top-russian-general-in-moscow">killed</a> last December by a bomb placed on an electric scooter outside his apartment building.
“Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical substances against the Ukrainian military,” a Ukrainian official said at the time. “Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable.”
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Russia arrested an Uzbek man who was charged with carrying out the attack last year on behalf of Ukraine. Putin called the assassination of Kirillov a &#8220;major blunder&#8221; by Russian security agencies.
Then in April, Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskali was killed in Moscow by a bomb placed near his parked car, according to the AP. Ukraine did not directly take credit for Moskali&#8217;s killing, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the time that he received a briefing on the “liquidation” of top Russian military officials, adding that “justice inevitably comes.”
The killings of top Russian military leaders have come as Ukraine has held off Russian forces for nearly four years. The exact number of casualties Russia has suffered since launching its invasion in February 2022 is unclear, but President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-lot-of-unnecessary-death-trump-drops-new-figures-on-russian-battlefield-losses">said</a> in August that he had been told that over 112,000 Russians have been killed during the &#8220;ridiculous war.&#8221; Trump has been pushing Putin to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine to end the bloodshed, arguing that Russia is taking the brunt of the losses.

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A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment on the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador, where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of illegal immigrants, was postponed by CBS News on Sunday, sparking controversy within the newsroom now led by Bari Weiss.
The segment was spearheaded by reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, who interviewed some of the illegal immigrants who were sent to CECOT and have since left the prison where they say they endured &#8220;brutal and torturous conditions&#8221; while incarcerated, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-correspondent-calls-decision-political-841ea812?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfvdbwaMHbjC_tduBBpNfrxbO3ws_qL0ncaSLYx572CvvS9lQNwYVUNXjT5dZM%3D&amp;gaa_ts=694937c8&amp;gaa_sig=EnNwFGlrqgHmB3-M_EO7xOfFABCTxj8DotddywZo-bUvRgIUmiMI7Hvm9965mlO7zYxNwLpubF-z3MFkxJoKHw%3D%3D">reported</a>. CBS News said Alfonsi&#8217;s segment would air at a later date after the company &#8220;determined it needed additional reporting.&#8221;
Democrats and the legacy media have focused much of their criticism of Trump&#8217;s massive deportation operation on the Salvadoran prison, where Trump has sent planeloads of people. The prison is used by El Salvador&#8217;s right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, to hold violent gang members and drug traffickers. Earlier this year, Bukele agreed to take in illegal immigrants deported by the Trump administration and place them in CECOT.
Weiss, who became CBS News editor-in-chief in October, was concerned about apparent bias in the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; CECOT piece and suggested adding an interview with a White House official, such as Stephen Miller, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html">according</a> to The New York Times. In a statement on Sunday, Weiss said that it&#8217;s common to hold stories and segments that &#8220;lack sufficient context&#8221; or &#8220;are missing critical voices.&#8221; She added that she looks forward to airing the CECOT prison segment &#8220;when it&#8217;s ready.&#8221;
“My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be,” she said.
Alfonsi, however, called the last-minute decision to pull the segment from Sunday&#8217;s show &#8220;political,&#8221; saying that the segment had already undergone extensive fact-checking and legal review.
“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one,” Alfonsi wrote. The journalist said that they had reached out to the Trump administration for comment, arguing that if they hold a story because the government has not commented on it, they are becoming a &#8220;stenographer for the state.&#8221;
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CBS News appears to be changing its approach to how it covers the Trump administration under Weiss after &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; has faced criticism for its seemingly anti-Trump tilt. Last year, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; was ripped for its editing of an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. President Donald Trump sued CBS News&#8217; parent company, Paramount, over the edits that he argued made Harris&#8217; answers sound more coherent. Paramount settled the lawsuit for $16 million amid a massive shakeup at the company, with billionaire David Ellison taking over.
After Ellison and Weiss took the reins of CBS News, leftists expressed concern about the network&#8217;s direction, while many people on the Right celebrated the change as a potential return to unbiased news reporting. President Trump, however, believes that CBS News has &#8220;gotten worse&#8221; under Ellison&#8217;s leadership. After &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; aired an interview with Trump ally-turned-critic Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this month, Trump said that CBS News is &#8220;NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME!&#8221;
&#8220;Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!&#8221; he added. &#8220;Oh well, far worse things can happen.&#8221;

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Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis announced on Friday that she will not seek re-election in 2026, becoming the fifth GOP senator to announce her retirement this year.
&#8220;Deciding not to run for re-election does [not] represent a change of heart for me, but in the difficult, exhausting session weeks this fall I’ve come to accept that I do not have six more years in me,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/CynthiaMLummis/status/2002116715845665055?s=20">said</a> Lummis, who has served in the Senate since 2021.
“I am a devout legislator, but I feel like a sprinter in a marathon. The energy required doesn’t match up,&#8221; the 71-year-old senator added.
Lummis joins a growing list of Republican senators who have announced this year that they will not seek to remain in the chamber, including longtime GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell (KY), Joni Ernst (IA), Tommy Tuberville (AL), and Thom Tillis (NC).
The Wyoming senator was a strong ally of President Donald Trump, who endorsed her in the 2020 election before Lummis went on to win the primary and general elections in landslide victories.
&#8220;I am honored to have earned the support of President Trump and to have the opportunity to work side by side with him to fight for the people of Wyoming,&#8221; Lummis added in her statement. &#8220;I look forward to continuing this partnership and throwing all my energy into bringing important legislation to his desk in 2026 and into retaining commonsense Republican control of the U.S. Senate.&#8221;
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Lummis&#8217; departure will likely not affect the balance of power in the Senate as Wyoming remains a reliably red state, but with her retirement, the GOP must now rally behind a new candidate in 2026. Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, who defeated Trump critic Liz Cheney in 2022, is considered a potential candidate to replace Lummis.
Before being elected to the Senate in the 2020 election, Lummis served in the U.S. House for eight years. She got her start in politics in the Wyoming House of Representatives at just 24 years old. Lummis became known as the &#8220;Crypto Queen&#8221; in the Senate for her work to develop U.S. regulations on cryptocurrency and establish a national Bitcoin reserve.
&#8220;We sincerely thank Senator Cynthia Lummis for her dedicated service to the people of Wyoming and congratulate her on a well-deserved retirement,&#8221; The Republican-aligned Senate Leadership Fund said. &#8220;Senator Lummis’ strong conservative record is unquestioned, and her list of accomplishments includes ensuring that the United States is the world leader in digital currencies and energy production. While she will be missed, we look forward to seeing many more great things ahead for Senator Cynthia Lummis.&#8221;

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The Justice Department will need more time to release all of the remaining documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, missing Friday&#8217;s deadline that was stipulated in the law signed by President Donald Trump last month.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6386705034112">Fox &amp; Friends</a>&#8221; on Friday that &#8220;several hundred thousand documents&#8221; would be made public on Friday, but &#8220;several hundred thousand&#8221; more documents won&#8217;t be released until the coming weeks.
&#8220;The most important thing that the attorney general has talked about, that [FBI Director Kash] Patel has talked about, is that we protect victims, and so what we are doing is we are looking at every single piece of paper that we are going to produce, making sure that every victim, their name, their identity, their story to the extent that it needs to be protected is completely protected.&#8221;
Blanche said that the dump on Friday will include numerous forms of documents, including photos. The Justice Department has been “working tirelessly” as it sifts through &#8220;every single document&#8221; to ensure that victims are protected before the information in the documents is made public. The bill passed by Congress and signed by Trump last month allows the Trump administration to withhold information on victims, including images of child sexual abuse.
Blanche added that President Trump &#8220;has said for years, that he wants full transparency, and he wants the Department of Justice to release everything that we can in respect to this investigation.&#8221; The deputy attorney general then blasted Democrats who are now focusing on the Epstein case after there was &#8220;radio silence&#8221; on the issue during the Biden administration.
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The Epstein investigation has plagued the Trump administration since the summer, when the Justice Department said that it found no evidence of an Epstein client list, and President Trump called the issue a &#8220;hoax.&#8221;
The Trump administration has also faced criticism from a few Republican lawmakers over its handling of the Epstein case. On Friday, Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002028539600912595">shared</a> an image of the bill signed into law by Trump, highlighting the sentence that requires the release of the files within 30 days.
&#8220;Time’s up. Release the files,&#8221; Massie <a href="https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2002051542787207310">said</a>.
The Justice Department did not say when on Friday it would release the hundreds of thousands of documents slated to become public. Neither did the Trump administration say when exactly the remaining files would be released.
So far, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee has released over 50,000 pages of documents and thousands of photos from the Epstein estate. While prominent politicians and powerful people, such as Trump and former President Bill Clinton, have been named in the files and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-release-batch-of-epstein-photos-featuring-trump-clinton-and-bill-gates">images</a> of them with Epstein have also been released. A photo obtained by The Daily Wire on Thursday shows Clinton and Epstein standing side-by-side.
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NEW: Photo obtained by <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a> shows Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein together. To my knowledge, this photo hasn’t been reported.
Massive trove of Epstein files are expected to be released tomorrow. <a href="https://t.co/OvFFbUQlXq">pic.twitter.com/OvFFbUQlXq</a>
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Both Trump and Clinton were close to Epstein at one time, but neither of them has been implicated in any of Epstein&#8217;s crimes, nor have they been accused of wrongdoing by any of Epstein&#8217;s victims.

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Michigan state Senator Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat who&#8217;s running for U.S. Senate in 2026, said in a video posted to social media on Thursday that she &#8220;would not be able to control&#8221; herself if she saw conservative Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in public.
The undated video, posted on X by Townhall, shows McMorrow answering a question from someone about the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. McMorrow, a Notre Dame grad and one of the Democratic leaders in the Michigan Senate, said that it makes her &#8220;furious&#8221; that Coney Barrett also graduated from Notre Dame.
&#8220;I talked to somebody yesterday who said they saw her with Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend. I was like, &#8216;I would not be able to control myself,'&#8221; McMorrow said. &#8220;That would be a bad— there would be beers thrown in people&#8217;s faces.&#8221;
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🚨WATCH: Democrat Candidate for Senate in Michigan Mallory McMorrow says that she would not be able to stop herself from hurling cans of beer at Amy Coney Barrett &amp; Brett Kavanaugh if she saw them in public.
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The Daily Wire reached out to McMorrow&#8217;s Senate office and her campaign team to ask about her comments, but they did not respond.
Conservative Supreme Court justices have been the target of intense criticism from Democratic leaders in recent years. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/chuck-schumer-supreme-court-comments-121960">called out</a> Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch by name and warned that they would &#8220;pay the price&#8221; if they voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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&#8220;You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,&#8221; Schumer added at the time. The Democratic leader was rebuked by many of his colleagues and by Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote, “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”
Then, in 2022, shortly after the court overturned Roe v. Wade, a trans-identifying male traveled to the home of Kavanaugh with plans to assassinate the conservative justice.
McMorrow is one of three Democrats who are seeking to replace retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. The 2026 election in Michigan will be one of the most closely watched contests in the country, as Republicans hope to capitalize on the open seat. McMorrow, 39, has served in the Michigan Senate since 2019 and became the Senate majority whip in 2023, where she has focused on advocating for abortion, especially after the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022.
Earlier this year, McMorrow rubbed shoulders with a radical leftist blogger who mocked Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated. In late September, McMorrow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-democrat-teams-up-with-leftist-blogger-who-mocked-charlie-kirk-after-assassination">attended a fundraiser</a> alongside Rebecca Schoenkopf, who, a day after Kirk was killed, published an article titled “Second Amendment Comes for Charlie Kirk.”

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Thursday that his government would move to crack down on antisemitism and increase visa oversight following last weekend’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack targeting Jewish people observing Hanukkah.
The Australian government, which is led by Albanese&#8217;s leftist Labor Party, is set to adopt a plan that was first proposed in July to go after people spreading “hate, division, and radicalization,” The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/18/what-changes-are-planned-to-australias-hate-speech-laws-and-how-will-they-work-ntwnfb">reported</a>. The proposal would give Australia&#8217;s Department of Home Affairs more power &#8220;to cancel or reject visas for those who spread hate and division.&#8221;
The plan would also create a &#8220;new aggravated hate speech&#8221; charge for religious preachers and leaders who promote violence and would develop a list of organizations led by people who engage in violent rhetoric or promote racial hatred.
&#8220;Every Jewish Australian has the right to feel safe, valued and respected for the contribution that they make to our great nation,&#8221; Albanese <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmneem1e89o">said</a> at a press conference. He added, &#8220;The terrorists, inspired by ISIS &#8230; sought to turn Australians against each other.&#8221;
Albanese has been criticized by many in Australia&#8217;s Jewish community for ignoring the rise in threats toward Jewish people since Hamas&#8217; terrorist attack on Israel more than two years ago. After Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, put forward a plan earlier this year to address antisemitism and “hate speech,” Albanese was accused of ignoring the proposal and failing to push back against antisemitism following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack. On Thursday, Albanese acknowledged that criticism from the Jewish community over his earlier inaction was valid.
&#8220;I accept my responsibility for the part in that as prime minister of Australia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But what I also do is accept my responsibility to lead the nation and unite the nation. Because what people are looking for at this time isn&#8217;t more division.&#8221;
The Australian government&#8217;s proposal to crack down on &#8220;hate speech&#8221; has drawn opposition from critics who argue it would further encroach on free speech. In the wake of last weekend&#8217;s antisemitic mass shooting, Australian leaders have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/australias-leftist-leaders-call-for-tougher-gun-laws-after-antisemitic-massacre">renewed</a> calls for &#8220;tougher gun laws,&#8221; with Albanese <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-beach-shooting-australia-announces-new-gun-buyback-plan/">announcing</a> another gun buyback plan on Friday to &#8220;get guns off our streets.&#8221;
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“If you’re not a farmer, you’re not involved in agriculture, why do you need these massive weapons that put the public in danger and make life dangerous and difficult for New South Wales Police?” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns asked.
The suspected gunmen who killed 15 people and wounded dozens more on Sydney&#8217;s popular Bondi Beach were inspired by ISIS, according to Australian authorities. Sajid and Naveed Akram, a father and son, are accused of targeting Jewish people. Naveed, who has been charged with terrorism, was on the Australian government&#8217;s radar over suspected ties to ISIS in 2019. Still, authorities at the time ultimately said there &#8220;was no indication of any ongoing threat or threat of him engaging in violence.&#8221;
Sajid, who was killed by police in the shooting, moved to Australia from India in 1998, and his children were all born in Australia, according to police. Since moving to Australia 27 years ago, Sajid had traveled to India just six times, and his family in India <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyvxke3wgko">said</a> they had &#8220;no knowledge of his radical mindset or activities,&#8221; according to officials.

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Inflation cooled in November, coming in lower than what economists predicted, a win for President Donald Trump as he becomes more aggressive in his messaging on the economy.
The consumer price index <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">report</a> released on Thursday shows that prices rose by 2.7% year-over-year, a drop from the 3% rate shown in the most recent report in September. The 2.7% rate is the lowest overall inflation reading since June and surprised experts who predicted that inflation would jump above 3%.
The Trump administration celebrated Thursday&#8217;s report and pointed to another metric, which shows that key services inflation has fallen to its lowest level since March of 2021. The key services inflation gauge, which takes out housing and energy costs and is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve, also came in at 2.7%.
&#8220;Thanks to @POTUS’ pro-worker economic policies, inflation has fallen to the lowest level since March of 2021,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SecretaryLCD/status/2001690975052148759">said</a> Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. &#8220;The facts are clear: President Trump is making progress to fix the affordability crisis caused by Biden and deliver relief for hardworking Americans.&#8221;
Zooming in on specific items in the consumer price index, food increased 2.6% year-over-year, while energy jumped 4.2%. Electricity was up 6.9% over the past year, and natural gas was up 9.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. November&#8217;s report comes after the federal government did not release a consumer price index report in October due to the record-breaking government shutdown.
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Harvard Economics and Public Policy Professor Ken Rogoff <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2001652780134732233">told</a> CNN that he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; by the inflation report.
&#8220;It was a better number than anyone was expecting,&#8221; Rogoff said, adding, &#8220;People were expecting it to be above 3%. It was well below 3%. I think the president will take this as good news. The investors will think that interest rates will get cut more. So, it was positive news. There&#8217;s no other way to spin it.&#8221;
The stock market also reacted positively to the news, with the Dow Jones, S&amp;P 500, and Nasdaq all making gains on Thursday.
Trump has been focusing on his economic messaging in recent weeks as the Republican Party gears up for the 2026 midterm elections. The president has blasted Democrats over their focus on the so-called affordability crisis, which he calls a &#8220;hoax&#8221; and argues that his economic policies are fixing the &#8220;mess&#8221; that he was left by former President Joe Biden.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-president-trump-addresses-nation-from-white-house">addressed</a> the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday night, touting his economic policies and announcing a &#8220;warrior dividend&#8221; of $1,776 for American service members. During his address, Trump also highlighted his aggressive immigration policies, arguing that the illegal immigrants who flooded the country under Biden had a negative impact on the U.S. economy.
Trump is set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-targets-battleground-north-carolina-to-spotlight-his-economic-record?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Trump+Targets+Battleground+North+Carolina+To+Spotlight+His+Economic+Record">visit</a> North Carolina, an important battleground state in the upcoming midterms, on Friday for the next stop on his tour, bringing his economic message directly to his supporters. North Carolina will be the second stop on Trump&#8217;s economy tour after he visited Pennsylvania last week.

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Investigators in Providence, Rhode Island, recovered physical evidence — including live ammunition and DNA — from the scene of the mass shooting at Brown University, where two students were killed, and nine others were wounded.
Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/brown-university-mass-shooting-manhunt-gunman-12-18-2025">confirmed</a> to Fox News on Wednesday that investigators are &#8220;in the process of examining that evidence,&#8221; adding, “And yes, we have some DNA that we manipulated and so it just progresses every day.” The development marks a major step in a case that has frustrated the public over the lack of information and footage on the person of interest.
Perez told Fox News that the investigation “progresses every day with forensics, it progresses every day with witness statements, and so yeah, we&#8217;re just trying to find out, and we are going to do our best.” But at a press conference on Wednesday, the police chief <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/brown-shooter-suspect-providence.html">admitted</a> that the gunman &#8220;could be anywhere.&#8221;
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Providence police and the FBI initially released grainy images and videos of a person of interest in connection to the shooting, sparking criticism from the public over the lack of security footage on campus. Authorities then released &#8220;enhanced&#8221; videos of the person of interest on Tuesday. The videos and photos show a person wearing a mask and a coat walking down streets in Providence before the shooting. Police also <a href="https://x.com/ProvidenceRIPD/status/2001391106148438334">released a map</a> showing the streets where the person of interest &#8220;is confirmed to have been present on the day of the incident.&#8221;
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ENHANCED VIDEO: We are releasing an enhanced video of the person of interest in the Brown University incident. Footage was captured on the East Side of Providence on Saturday afternoon before the incident.
Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have… <a href="https://t.co/mewBSflOiO">pic.twitter.com/mewBSflOiO</a>
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On Wednesday, Providence Police released images of a second person who they say “was in proximity of the person of interest&#8221; and asked the public for any information on the second person.
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Investigators are asking for the public’s help in identifying and speaking to the individual shown in these photos who was in proximity of the person of interest.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the tip line at 401-272-3121. <a href="https://t.co/DJ26rruuc9">pic.twitter.com/DJ26rruuc9</a>
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Students Ella Cook, a 19-year-old University College Republicans vice president from Alabama, and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old from Uzbekistan, were killed while they studied in a first-floor classroom in Brown&#8217;s Barus &amp; Holley building. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said that the older building has &#8220;fewer, if any, cameras&#8221; compared to other buildings on campus because of its age.
“So, there’s the back part of the building, the old part, and the front part, the new part,” Neronha said. “The shooting occurs in the old part towards the back.&#8221;

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