December 31st, 2025

• ​Thousands rally in Somalia against Israeli recognition of Somaliland - Somali president charges that Israel wants to move Gazans to Somaliland, build a military base there and have it join the Abraham Accords; Erdogan decries 'illegitimate and unacceptable' decision
• Somali president to visit Turkey after Israeli recognition of breakaway Somaliland - Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will discuss measures for 'national unity' and other 'regional developments,' after Ankara, Mogadishu both denounce Israel's decision on autonomous territory
• Turkey calls Israel's recognition of Somaliland 'illegitimate'
• Israel pushes U.S. to exclude Turkey from Gaza peace board
• Bennett: Netanyahu aides who 'served the enemy' in Qatargate deserve life sentence - Former premier, running in upcoming election against current PM, notes recent reports revealing details of scandal, alleges aides smeared Egypt to help 'enemy' Qatar
• 'Data is control': what we learned from a year investigating the Israeli military's ties to big tech - Our reporting revealed a symbiotic relationship between the IDF and Silicon Valley - with implications for the future of warfare
• Pentagon announces $8.6 billion Boeing contract for Israeli F-15 fighter jets
• Trump bear-hugs Bibi at Mar-a-Lago, warns Iran & Hamas of "hell to pay" if they don't de-escalate - but Trump's bizarre embrace of Turkey's Erdogan creates a 'super-stressor' moment for Israel - Trump signals openness to Turkish troops in Gaza and selling F-35s to Erdogan - why?
• Benjamin Netanyahu pushes back on 'fake spins' suggesting tension between him and Trump
• Netanyahu says Hamas must surrender all its rifles for Trump's peace plan to advance
• Heavy rains expose Hamas terror tunnel just hundreds of meters from Gaza border fence - Discovery highlights extensive work still needs to dismantle Hamas terror infrastructure
• Israel bars 37 nonprofits from Gaza, West Bank for not abiding by new guidelines - Israel says move won't affect aid; delicensing comes as 10 foreign ministers decry 'renewed deterioration of the humanitarian situation' in Gaza as rain floods tents
• Herzog warns politically appointed Oct. 7 probe may 'significantly harm' quest for truth
• Knesset advances bill to try October 7 Nukhba terrorists in special military court
• Smotrich urges sweeping counter-terror measures amid surge in attacks - The Israeli finance minister also urged personal responsibility, warning Israelis against employing "dangerous" Palestinian illegals
• IDF punishes troops who vandalized vehicles during rogue raid in Palestinian village
• Tear gas canister fired by IDF during West Bank raid sparks fire in Palestinian home
• Violence in Israel's Arab communities reaches record high in 2025 with over 250 killed - Deaths in Arab society from violent crime more than doubled under current government
• In positive meeting with PM Netanyahu, Trump expresses concern over escalation in Judea and Samaria
• Trump, top advisers asked Netanyahu to change West Bank policy during meeting - report
• Amid US scrutiny, Netanyahu asserts 'handful of kids' responsible for settler violence
• Hezbollah chief rejects 'Israeli-American plan' to disarm group - Naim Qassem said in a televised address that removing the Iranian terror proxy's weapons is "not in Lebanon's interests."
• Netanyahu says Iran seeking to reestablish missile and nuclear capabilities damaged in war
• After Trump's warning of strike, Iran threatens 'harsh' response to any attack - Pezeshkian warns against 'any cruel aggression' following US president's remarks alongside Netanyahu that he'd OK new action if Tehran rebuilds nuclear or ballistic missile program
• 'Rise Up!' Israel expresses support for new anti-regime protests in Iran - Mossad tells Iranian people, 'We are with you on the ground'
• Anti-Iran regime protests grow across country as Trump admin boosts demonstrators offering support
• Massive anti-regime protests break out across Iran; Exiled crown prince calls Iranians to protest 'for the fall of this system'
• Protests calling for 'death to the dictator' erupt across Iran - Students chant pro-women and anti-Khamenei slogans amid worsening economic crisis
• Massive protests rock Iran after currency sinks; Tehran shopkeepers shutter stores
• Iranian president urges government to heed economic protests - After Tehran storekeepers shutter their premises with rial currency hitting new low, Masoud Pezeshkian urges interior ministry to open dialogue with disgruntled traders
• In tit-for-tat, Iran designates Royal Canadian Navy a terrorist organization - Tehran says move is retaliation for Canada blacklisting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last year, doesn't specify ramifications
• Escalation in Yemen threatens to reignite civil war, widen tensions in Gulf region - UAE-backed separatists have upended a years-old political arrangement among anti-Houthi partners in Yemen after more than a decade of complex sectarian violence
• Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen port over separatist weapons shipment from UAE - No casualties reported in attack on Mukalla; Riyadh warns Abu Dhabi its actions in war-torn country are 'extremely dangerous'
• UAE says it will withdraw its remaining forces in Yemen after Saudi Arabia struck port city
• Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers as ceasefire holds - Thailand hands over 18 Cambodian soldiers after 155 days in captivity as a truce agreed over the weekend continues to hold
• Taiwan 2027: China's target date for potential takeover fast approaches
• Taiwan stays on high alert as Chinese ships pull back after massive drills
• Russia threatens to kill Zelensky and parade his body after stirring up fury over denied Ukrainian 'plot' to blitz Putin
• Putin residence drone attack dismissed as 'implausible' as Ukraine accusations mount
• Russia deploys hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in Belarus amid Europe tensions - Moscow has positioned nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles in Belarus, drawing Western scrutiny as tensions rise in the war in Ukraine
• Putin, Trump Do Not Support European-Ukrainian Temporary Ceasefire Idea, Kremlin Says
• More than 600,000 Russians plunged into darkness as Ukrainian drones strike Moscow
• Oil tanker pursued by the US appears to claim Russian protection
• Venezuela's Maduro Tries to Laugh Off U.S. Campaign to Crush Him - The South American strongman shows little sign of stepping aside
• CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast
• CIA Squad Smashed Venezuela With Powerful Weapon, New Report Reveals
• Peruvian shamans predict Maduro's fall, continued global conflicts in 2026
• Shamans Deliver Ominous 2026 Health Prediction for Trump - While a 2024 prophecy that "a nuclear war" would occur between Israel and Gaza did not come true - instead, a ceasefire was put in place - the shamans correctly predicted in 2023 that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori would perish within 12 months
• "We Have a Fool at the Federal Reserve" - Trump Announces Plans to Sue Fed Chair Jerome Powell for Gross Incompetence, Says he "Still Might" Fire Him
• The Fed admits it can't easily fix an economic problem it helped create
• 67% of increase in demand for rentals due to foreign-born, skyrocketing prices: HUD
• Minn Rep Tom Emmer calls to deport, denaturalize Somali immigrants guilty of fraud - Emmer said he would support changes to federal law if necessary to make that possible
• Say What? Liberal Politico Reporter Suggests Somali Daycare Owners Could Justifiably Shoot People for Asking Questions
• The Daycare Pirates of Somalia - Mainstream Media Calls It Islamophobia
• Health and Human Services Department Freezes All Childcare Payments to Minnesota as it Investigates Allegations of Widespread Fraud
• Shirley associate in viral video says he filed criminal complaint against Walz over daycare fraud allegations - Nick Shirley and 'David' wear sweatshirts with misspelled 'Quality Learing Center' branding during follow-up visit
• WA Somali-run daycare took $210,000 in taxpayer funds in 2025 but no childcare business appears to exist: report
• Kickbacks to parents a feature of daycare, autism programs at center of Somali fraud allegations in Minnesota
• Shocking unearthed footage shows parents pretending to drop kids off at a Minnesota day care center
• Surveillance Footage Reveals Somali Daycare Fraud Playbook - Scheme Dates Back to 2013
• Not Just Minnesota? Elon Musk Reacts as Internet Sleuth Sound the Alarm in Washington State - Hundreds of Somali-Run Child Care Centers Allegedly Lack Physical Addresses
• Biden Housing Scandal Explodes: HUD Report Reveals Over $5 Billion in Questionable Rental Aid, Including Payments to Dead People and Non-Citizens
• Fulton County's 315,000 Admission Goes Well Beyond Just "Unsigned Poll Tapes" - Including Illegal Tabulation, Rule Violations and Open Records Deception
• AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer - Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology
• Eurostar warns of 'major disruption' as power outage halts services between France and England
• 5.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Wadomari, Japan
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near Boyuibe, Bolivia
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits west of Macquarie Island
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Panguna, Papua New Guinea
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Yakutat, Alaska
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Mid-Indian Ridge
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Ruiz volcano in Colombia erupts to 19,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 18,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 17,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Manam volcano on Papua New Guinea erupts to 11,000ft
• Bomb cyclone spawns blizzard, tornadoes, rare seiche from Midwest to Northeast
• Three killed by floods and landslides in Andalusia, Spain
• It's 70 degrees in Iceland, and it's supposed to be 30
• Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded
• Train crash near Peru's Machu Picchu kills driver, injures dozens
• Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi moves into "haunted" official residence, where ghosts of Japanese soldiers from a century ago are reputed to reside
• 'Very Scary': Ex-Scientologist Leah Remini Sounds Alarm Over Religion's 'Infiltration' of Trump Admin
• Jill Biden's ex-husband's wife is found dead following 'domestic dispute' 911 call
• Germany hunts Christmas thieves after Ocean's Eleven-style bank heist
• Thieves drill into German bank vault and steal valuables worth millions
• Freed prisoners commit record number of violent crimes - Chief inspector of probation orders nationwide inspection as 'broken' penal system fails to rehabilitate inmates
• Horror: Career Criminal with Over 50 Prior Arrests Brutally Murders Man with Machete in Connecticut
• Turkey detains 357 suspected IS members in nationwide raids
• Texas man charged with trying to provide material support to ISIS: feds
• WSJ: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of 2025 - Terrorists are weaker and the border is secure, but chaos and conspiracy theories are spreading
• Not the Onion: Illegal Migrant Fugitive Busted Trying to Evade Capture by Hiding in Italian Nativity Scene Posed as One of the Three Wise Men
• Police Bodycam Footage Shows Officer Threatening to Arrest Cinnabon Employee Who Was Harassed and 'Threatened' by Somalis
• Trump Administration Sues Virginia for Giving Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition While American Taxpayers Foot the Bill
• The Trump administration's plan to close a 'huge loophole' in legal immigration
• Trump admin can share immigrants' Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules - Blue states sued to prevent Medicaid data from being used in deportations
• Disney to Pay $10 Million Penalty for Alleged Illegal Targeting of Children
• Nuns accused of multiple historical abuse charges against children
• Horrific - A little kid sings at a Pride Event in Folkestone, England - The child sings "I know you wanna take me home and take off all my clothes"
• Canadian actress demands government-assisted suicide to cure depression - "And it's been too much already," Claire Brosseau said of her life situation. "It's enough."
• Florida woman kills mom stricken with Parkinson's in assisted-suicide plot - Martha Jo Blake allegedly confessed that she and her mother had begun having the discussion around a year and a half prior about "death with dignity."
• 41 young men die in South Africa from circumcision procedures during initiation ceremonies
• A Deadly, Drug-Resistant Fungus Threatens People Around the World, Scientists Warn
• World's most contagious virus detected at two major US airports amid holiday traffic - With measles detected this month, officials warn that unvaccinated travelers are at risk
• Severe flu strain 'Subclade K' spreading through US
• He made beer that's also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
• WHO Instructs Governments to Track Online Anti-Vaccine Messaging in Real Time with AI: Journal 'Vaccines'- Believe in vaccines or be targeted
• Over 6 million Americans on Medicare will now need to get prior authorization from AI for these 17 procedures - A six-state pilot program will target 'wasteful care' under Medicare