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🚨 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 Charges against the cartel members included murder, robbery, extortion, kidnapping, money laundering, and drug trafficking. Read more 👇 https://theepochtim.es/b821xj

🚨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 $𝟗𝟎𝟏 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐰 The White House said the bill will support the president’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda. Read more 👇 https://theepochtim.es/spqrqx

🚨 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 $𝟗𝟎𝟏 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐰 The White House said the bill will support the president’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda. Read more 👇 https://theepochtim.es/spqrqx

🚨 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐀𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡 The White House said the bill will support the president’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda. Read more 👇 https://theepochtim.es/spqrqx

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐒𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 $𝟗𝟎𝟏 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐚𝐰 The White House said the bill will support the president’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda. Read more 👇 https://theepochtim.es/spqrqx

🚨🇺🇸 Trump Administration to Reclassify Cannabis “We have people begging for me to do this, people that are in great pain,” Trump said during the Oval Office signing ceremony. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/cci7fm

🚨 Former NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle Dies in Plane Crash NASCAR legend and hall of fame nominee Greg Biffle was on a private jet that crashed while landing Thursday morning in Statesville, North Carolina, the state highway patrol has confirmed. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/fd1g2k

🚨 Democrats Demand Vote on ACA Credits House Democrats on Dec. 18 demanded Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) bring legislation extending Affordable Care Act tax credits to the House floor before lawmakers leave Washington for the holidays, saying that a discharge petition has now secured the votes to force action after four Republicans joined the Democratic effort. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/pbrot6

🚨🇺🇸 DOJ Indicts 2 in $7 Million Food Stamp Fraud Scheme The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that two men in Massachusetts were indicted in an alleged $7 million food stamp fraud scheme Read more: https://theepochtim.es/k8m2ct

🎄 The Carol That Paused a War On a frozen Christmas in 1914, singing soldiers brought peace and goodwill to a battlefield. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/dmeos3

🚨 6 More Indicted as $18 Billion in Medicaid Billing Reviewed U.S. First Assistant Attorney Joe Thompson announced indictments against a half-dozen new suspects in a pair of recently identified welfare fraud schemes. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/0lpntf

🚨 New Flu Variant Spreads in US Areas across the United States and Europe are seeing an increase in a new influenza variant, researchers say, although it’s not yet clear if a new flu variant is causing more severe disease than usual in people. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/7qeeaj

🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump Issues Demand to Venezuela President Donald Trump said on Dec. 17 that Venezuela must return oil, land, and other assets it seized from U.S. companies years ago, suggesting that the uncompensated expropriations are one of the reasons behind his administration’s newly announced blockade of sanctioned oil tankers traveling to or from the South American country. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/es99v6

🚨 US Government Admits Fault in DC Plane Crash The U.S. government on Dec. 17 admitted negligence by federal employees in the Jan. 29 midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/8ei65n

🚨 Trump Media to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Company President Donald Trump’s media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), said on Dec. 18 that it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with nuclear fusion firm TAE Technologies in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion, an ambitious tie-up the companies said was a bid to help “power America’s technology revolution.” Read more: https://theepochtim.es/ad27fq

🚨 Health Officials Move to Cut Funding for Transgender-Related Procedures for Children Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials on Dec. 18 announced new steps they’re taking to cut down on breast removal and other “sex-rejecting” procedures for children. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/3caizg

🚨 Ghislaine Maxwell Sends Request to Court Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal court on Dec. 17 to set aside her sex trafficking convictions and 20-year prison sentence, citing “newly discovered evidence.” Read more: https://theepochtim.es/tnm08z

🚨 New Revelations in Minnesota Fraud Scandal: State Lawmaker While a man nicknamed “Person One” awaits trial on federal charges for allegedly laundering $1.1 million in taxpayer dollars, he and his wife continue to collect payments from other government programs, a Minnesota state lawmaker said on Dec. 17. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/hkitp9

Yes indeed, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Just thinking about Christmas—falling snow, crackling fires, twinkling lights—brings up all the warm feelings. Some spots take the spirit of the season to its Yuletide max. Here are five of the best places to catch the holiday magic. Read more ⤵️ https://theepochtim.es/ufqerm

🚨 Plane Crashes in NH Neighborhood A pilot was taken to the hospital with injuries Wednesday after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern New Hampshire, authorities said. Read more: https://theepochtim.es/dspu9t