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Trump announces Christmas night strikes against ISIS in Nigeria

President Donald Trump announced on social media that the U.S. conducted a strike against ISIS in Nigeria on Christmas night.

"Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was."

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'Give us about three years': Jimmy Kimmel skewers Trump in Christmas plea to US allies

Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel skewered President Donald Trump in his alternate Christmas address this year, a speech that read like a plea to U.S. allies.

Kimmel was invited to give a Christmas Day speech billed as an alternative to the Monarch's annual address in the United Kingdom. During the speech, he acknowledged the problems Trump has created in the U.S. and across the globe, and implored American allies not to give up on the U.S. The address aired on Channel 4 on Christmas Day.

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'Blatant abuse of power': Lawyers sound off against RFK Jr.'s latest attack on health care

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest attack on transgender health care faced a wall of resistance on Wednesday after 19 states sued the Department of Health and Human Services.

Last week, Kennedy announced that HHS would stop funding health care providers that provide gender-affirming care to minors, a move that caused 19 states to sue the agency, Axios reported. The lawsuit claims the move exceeds Kennedy's authority as HHS Secretary and substantially violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal lawmaking procedures.

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Republicans are 'anxious' about having an unpopular Trump campaign for them in midterms

New York Times White House Correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs says Republicans are facing a tough decision and probably a delicate dance around how much to include an unpopular president in their re-election campaigns in 2026.

“We're talking about eight Republican seats, two Democrats, that … people are focused on and on the senate side of the capitol, we have battlegrounds … from the middle of the country going east: Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, Iowa, Texas, Minnesota,” said CNN “Inside Politics” anchor Dana Bash.

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'Un-American': Trump's 'soulless goons' accused of major violation with 'savior' statement

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in the hot seat on Christmas after her department released a statement that numerous observers flagged as a violation of the Constitution.

Homeland Security alarmed some critics when, on Christmas Eve, the department took to social media and wrote, "Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior."

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'Unfathomably cruel' Kristi Noem is rapidly 'falling out of favor with Trump': report

Author Melissa Gira Grant argues President Donald Trump appears to be tiring of United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

Before Trump’s second term, the idea that somebody like Noem would head the Department of Homeland Security seemed “beyond unlikely,” Grant writes in The New Republic. “But her cruelty once handed this power was foreseeable. If Noem’s name rang any bells for most people before the Senate confirmed her to head DHS this January (to their enduring shame), it was because she shot her 14-month-old dog to death in a gravel pit and included the grisly scene in her election-year memoir.”

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'I will break you!' Gloves come off as two major anti-Trump ex-insiders fight each other

Two former Trump insiders who are now activists against the president turned against one another in the run-up to Christmas.

Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani during Trump's first administration and was purportedly sent to Ukraine to help Trump and Giuliani make contacts there for the purposes of digging up negative info on Hunter Biden, has gone to war against former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen was previously convicted for campaign finance violations.

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'Something's rotten': Conspiracy theories fly as new DOJ Epstein note burned by both sides

Conservative and liberal powerhouses united around Christmas in their condemnation of a new statement about the Epstein files made by the Department of Justice, with some already notifying the investigative authorities.

The Justice Department on Christmas Eve made a surprising announcement, writing, "The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI have informed the Department of Justice that they have uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case."

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Internet erupts over Epstein file linking president to murder of baby

Raw Story on Christmas Eve reported on a file released by the DOJ which shows a purported victim linking Donald Trump to the currently still unverified murder of a newborn baby, and the internet erupted with people flagging the potential crime.

The day before Christmas, we reported that Trump's name had appeared on a newly released Epstein file in which a self-identified victim made allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan. The Justice Department released the file ahead of Christmas Eve in which an unnamed individual, on Aug. 3, 2020, was looking for an update on the status of their earlier complaint. The report listed the victim's unnamed uncle as the perpetrator and Trump as a witness.

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Pope's Christmas service includes 'unexpected gesture' seen as protest to key Trump policy

Pope Leo XIV made an "unexpected gesture" at his Christmas service that is being taken as a dig at Trump's key policy.

The pope, who has been accused of making "pointed remarks" aimed at Trump in the past, gave a Christmas speech largely devoid of political references. But the issue of immigration crept in, as Reuters reports:

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Observers pounce on Trump's hateful Christmas rant: 'Never get used to this insanity'

Donald Trump caused a stir among his critics when he released a Christmas screed attacking his perceived enemies.

The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to strike a familiar tone for his celebrations of various holidays.

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'Impossible to take at face value': CBS's boss shredded for blocking '60 Minutes' story

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait raked newly-installed CBS boss Bari Weiss over the coals for her controversial move to block the release of a "60 Minutes" report on horrific conditions at the foreign megaprison where President Donald Trump is shipping hundreds of migrants with no due process — and warned that her justifications for it are not credible in the slightest, given the context in which she was installed into the network in the first place.

"The year is 2029," wrote Chait. "President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, having spent years raging against Fox News as a propaganda organ whose very operation is illegal, has found a pressure point to control it. She enables its sale to owners who are friends of hers, and whose business depends on regulatory favors she has made a practice of doling out to allies. As the new editor in chief of Fox News, the owners installed Tim Miller, a skeptic of conservatism who has never previously worked in television news."

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