(B) Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) questions Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, alongside Chairman Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) (L) and fellow committee members, during a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee convened to hear testimony from top national security officials on potential worldwide threats. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (R) U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies before the House Committee on Homeland Security in the Cannon House Office Building on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee convened to hear testimony from top national security officials on potential worldwide threats. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Democrat Rep. Thompson slammed by Noem after downplaying D.C. Nat’l Guardsmen shooting as ‘unfortunate accident’: ‘It was a terrorist attack’

Mississippi’s sole Democrat representative, Bennie Thompson, referred to the November 26th shooting of two West Virginia National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., as an “unfortunate accident” during a hearing on Thursday, seemingly downplaying the horrific incident that shocked the nation.

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Trump: It’s ‘imperative’ CNN is sold as part of Warner Bros. Discovery merger talks, current owners ‘very dishonest group of people’

President Donald Trump recently asserted that it is “imperative” that left-wing news outlet CNN is sold alongside its parent company, as Warner Bros. Discovery prepares for a potential merger with Netflix.

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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.

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(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.

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