Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Ukraine, After Victory in Black Sea, Aims To Expel Russian Air Power From Crimea
Using homemade long range drones and cruise missiles, Kyiv is hitting targets from the Mediterranean to the Caspian.
Joy Reid Rejects Erika Kirk’s Hug Offer After the Liberal Commentator Suggested JD Vance Might Leave His Wife for Her
The former MS NOW host says, ‘It’s not the 1920s or the 1930s. You cannot come up to me, touch me, or touch my hair.’
More Than a Dozen Staffers Abandon Heritage Foundation for Group Led by Pence
Heritage accuses the former staffers of ‘disloyalty’ as it faces accusations of antisemitic tolerance.
Kash Patel, Already Criticized for Private Jet Use, Faces Fresh Scrutiny Over FBI’s New BMW Fleet: Report
Would Unwinding Trump’s Tariffs Really Be as Much of a ‘Mess’ as the Administration Claims?
Columnists
Flyers, Suspending Announcer for Vulgar Quip, Offer a Gut-Check Moment for the Culture
GOP Flips the Script on Democrats’ Battle Cry of ‘Affordability’ as Property Tax Revolt Gains Steam
Senator Maria Cantwell, With ‘Student-Athletes’ Raking In Name, Image, and Likeness Dollars, Blitzes Colleges’ Nonprofit Status
Editorials
Opinion
Beware of Overambitious New Year’s Resolutions
‘Never Mind’: Liberals Increasingly Walking Back From Apocalyptic Predictions Over Climate Change
Italy’s Meloni Helps Forge Compromise EU Loan To Keep Kyiv’s War Machine Running
City Council Push To Give Nonprofits First Option on Distressed Buildings Would Worsen New York’s ‘Affordable’ Housing Crisis
National
Weeks After Similar Challenge Was Rejected, Another Federal Lawsuit Seeks To Overturn Supreme Court’s Obergefell Gay Marriage Decision
The lawsuit argues the Supreme Court overstepped its authority when it legalized same-sex marriage.
D.C. Police Chief Steps Down Blasting ‘Haters’ Who Say She Incentivized False Crime Statistics
The chief, who served less than three years, declared she would never ‘compromise my integrity for a few crime numbers.’
Show Me the Money: Quarterbacks Are Driving Transfer Portal Frenzy
One player, T.J. Finley, hopes to play for a seventh school.
Retired Cop Sues After Being Thrown in Jail for 37 Days for ‘Simply Speaking His Mind’ About Charlie Kirk’s Murder
‘In America, we do not jail people for political speech,’ an attorney for the plaintiff says.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, an Outspoken Trump Critic, Reportedly Re-Signs With Network but Did He Take a Pay Cut?
CNN’s highest-paid star will not be leaving despite speculation that his giant salary was being eyed as a major cost-cutting target.
Touting Deal on Drug Prices, Trump Pivots to Pressing for Lower Health Insurance Premiums
The president hopes to replicate his success in negotiating lower drug prices at a future meeting with health insurance executives.
Foreign
Pakistan Offers Platter of Incentives To Get in Trump’s Good Graces
A careful courtship appealing to the president’s favorite subjects moves a once-scorned South Asian nation into a preferred partner.
Will a New Mideast War Erupt Over Iran’s Growing Ballistic Missile Arsenal?
‘The threat is significant, and needs to be confronted soon, but we must do it in consultation with America and with its backing,’ a former Israeli intelligence official tells the Sun.
With Incentives Aplenty, Maduro’s Inner Circle Hasn’t Cracked — Even Under Trump’s Pressure
Despite indictments, sanctions, extradition deals, and a massive military buildup, Venezuela’s power clique refuses to budge.
South Korean Democrats Push for Access to Demilitarized Zone in Move To Undermine Korean-American Alliance, Woo North Korea’s Leader
The American general in charge of U.N. Command in the DMZ says civilian access will weaken South Korea’s security.
Talks Ongoing, but Timelines and Borders Are Elusive in Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal
All sides say weekend meeting in Miami was ‘constructive’ though sticking points are tacky.
Another High-Profile Heist at Paris Mimics the Antics of a Pink Panther Film
A second adventurous theft this year gives France the title as home to the most imaginative scoundrels.
Politics
‘Never Trump’ Lawyer, Commentator George Conway, an Ex-Republican, Files To Run as a Democrat in Deep-Blue Manhattan Congressional District
Conway is the ex-husband of Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
Bill Clinton Urges Trump To Release All Epstein Documents Referencing the Former President, Citing Use of ‘Insinuation’ by DOJ
Photos of Clinton have featured prominently on Republicans’ social media pages since the first tranche of files were released Friday.
Senate Democrats Try Again To Require Federal Firearms Licensing
The proposal — introduced by Senator Booker for a third time — would allow the Justice Department to revoke anyone’s ability to own a gun.
JD Vance, After Days of Backbiting and Infighting, Plays Peacemaker at Turning Point Conference
The vice president is rallying the troops headed into what could be a difficult year for the GOP.
Massie, Khanna Announce Push To Impose Rare Congressional Punishment on Bondi for Withholding Epstein Files
The attorney general would be charged with ‘inherent contempt’ for not releasing the entirety of the case files on Jeffrey Epstein despite a law signed by President Trump mandating she do so.
Editorials
Opinion
Beware of Overambitious New Year’s Resolutions
‘Never Mind’: Liberals Increasingly Walking Back From Apocalyptic Predictions Over Climate Change
Italy’s Meloni Helps Forge Compromise EU Loan To Keep Kyiv’s War Machine Running
City Council Push To Give Nonprofits First Option on Distressed Buildings Would Worsen New York’s ‘Affordable’ Housing Crisis
Popular
Jack Smith, Grappling With an Emerging Republican Onslaught, Demands a Megaphone To Denounce Trump in Public
Bill Clinton Urges Trump To Release All Epstein Documents Referencing the Former President, Citing Use of ‘Insinuation’ by DOJ
Flyers, Suspending Announcer for Vulgar Quip, Offer a Gut-Check Moment for the Culture
Would Unwinding Trump’s Tariffs Really Be as Much of a ‘Mess’ as the Administration Claims?
Vice President Vance Whiffs at Turning Point’s Parley
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