President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu watch fireworks together outside Mar-a-Lago during New Year’s celebrations.

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Zohran Mamdani was sworn in on the Quran as the new mayor of New York City.

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NEW: Somaliland agreed three conditions to be recognised by Israel:

1- the resettlement of Palestinians in Somaliland.

2- An Israeli military base on the Gulf of Aden coast.

3- Somaliland’s inclusion to the Abraham Accords.

— Somali President HSM

After the ball dropped in Times Square to mark the New Year, the AP cut to a same-sex couple kissing in the crowd, the same thing CNN infamously did last year.

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An Israeli journalist says that Israeli intelligence assisted in promoting the investigation into the Somali fraud in the US, which has existed for a decade, while the US and Israel are recognizing Somaliland, a separatist state of Somalia.

Netanyahu’s Clean…

Iranian protesters torched a IRGC-affiliated Basij base in the Chenar area of Asadabad, in Hamadan province, as unrest entered its fourth day.

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A childcare center that was named in the recent alleged Minnesota fraud scheme was raided by the FBI in 2015 for allegedly defrauding a state program.

The president told The Wall Street Journal that his daily use of aspirin contributed to the often-visible bruises on his hands.

Protests against the Iranian government have spread across 50 cities.

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Billionaires and other rich individuals, reported to have a combined net worth of $500B, per Chamath Palihapitiya, are leaving California to avoid the state’s punitive wealth tax.

David Sacks and Peter Thiel have already relocated their business operations.…

A musician on Will Smith's tour filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, saying the actor of told him he they have a "special connection."

Curtis Yarvin argues, in his latest Substack piece, that the window of opportunity for the Trump administration to conduct a regime change of the federal bureaucracy has closed, and as a consequence no meaningful, long-term change will come out of the administration.…

RT @GodzichTrey: As some of you may know, in less than 2 weeks I am bound for Nigeria to do what the mainstream media is unwilling to do. G…

Democrats have an 81% of winning back the House in the 2026 midterms, per Polymarket.

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SNAP welfare recipients react negatively to SNAP benefits being restricted to healthier food choices.

“It’s for the grocery, ain’t it?”

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In India, Kerala Police busted a fake degree racket, seizing 100,000 forged certificates from 22 universities.

Estimates suggest over 1 million were issued and used to secure jobs abroad.

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San Francisco’s mayor has signed a reparations bill that would pay eligible Black residents $5 million each, with no way to pay for it.

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Israeli billionaire Shlomo Kramer says America needs to limit its First Amendment to prevent antisemitism.

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Joe Rogan admits that drug overdoses are way down under President Trump.

Crime, specifically homicide, is down nationally, as well as suicide.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

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President Trump has declared that the United States is “locked and loaded” and prepared to come to the “rescue” of protestors in Iran.

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