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(L) The Skipper oil tanker is seen off the coast of Venezuela on December 10, 2025. (Pam Bondi; X) / (R) U.S. troops are seen boarding The Skipper tanker from a helicopter. (Pam Bondi; X) / (L-Bottom) US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker amid tensions with Maduro

The United States Government has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, President Donald Trump announced.

Members of the National Guard patrol at Gallery Place Metro Station on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Members of the National Guard continue their presence, under an executive order by President Donald Trump, in the nation’s capital after two of them were shot by a suspected gunman, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan immigrant who had working ties with the CIA, killing Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and wounded Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe blocks away from the White House on November 26, a day before Thanksgiving. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) / U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event at Mount Airy Casino Resort on December 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. Trump discussed his administration's economic agenda and its efforts to lower the cost of living. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Federal judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment to Los Angeles

A judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot deploy the California National Guard in Los Angeles and must return the troops to the state’s control.

The legislation that authorizes annual Pentagon spending, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), moved to the Senate after being passed by the House on December 10, 2025.(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

House approves $900B NDAA package

The House of Representatives passed the annual defense bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026, highlighting the $900.6 billion budget that increases troop pay by 4%, supports developing technologies like the Golden Dome defense system, promotes military readiness, and helps deter China and Russia.

TOPSHOT - A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Christmas tree on December 5, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images)

Fed. Reserve cuts rate another quarter-point

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced on Wednesday that it would lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, a quarter-point cut, to 3.50%–3.75%.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 25: Joy-Ann Reid speaks onstage during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation annual Legislative Conference National Town Hall at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on September 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation )

Joy Reid shares video claiming ‘Jingle Bells’ is a racist song written as a ‘mockery of Black people’

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid shared a viral video on social media that claims the beloved Christmas song “Jingle Bells” is rooted in racism and was written “as a mockery of Black people.”

(L) This aerial view shows a treated wastewater river heading to the Pacific Ocean near Real Del Mar in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on August 12, 2025. Despite the work of a wastewater treatment plant, residents in Mexico's Tijuana see no difference in the quality of the water running through the Tijuana River. "Nothing has changed. The smell is intense," says local resident Marino Castro, "the water is brown and cloudy". The river is the subject of a common projet with the United States, seeking to end a longstanding transboundary sewage crisis. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP) (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) US President Donald Trump takes part in a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images) / (Background) This aerial view shows sewage at the Endho dam, in Tepetitlan, Hidalgo state, Mexico on August 5, 2024. The Endho Dam, in the state of Hidalgo, is highly polluted as the Tula River, which receives sewage from Mexico City through the Central and the Eastern Discharge Tunnels, industrial waste from the Thermoelectric Plant, the Pemex Refinery, and other companies in the area, flows into it. (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP) (Photo by ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump demands Mexico ‘take care of its water and sewage problem IMMEDIATELY,’ labeling it a ‘true threat’

In a somewhat ominous post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump accused Mexico of posing a cross-border sewage contamination issue hazardous to the United States, branding the nation a “true threat” to Texas and California residents due to its water and sewage problem.