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54+ min ago (152+ words) 11 KILLED AT HANUKKAH PARTY (Main headline, 3rd story, link) Related stories:BONDI BEACH BLOODBATHTERRORISTS TARGET JEWSRABBI, CHILDREN SHOT Drudge Report Feed needs your support!" Become a Patron Help us verify you as a real visitor Our system has indicated that your user behaviour is potentially automated. News Group Newspapers Limited does not permit the access, collection, text or data mining of any content from our Service by any automated means whether directly or through an intermediary service. This is stated in our terms and conditions. News Group Newspapers prohibits automated access, collection, or text/data mining of its content, including for AI, machine learning, or LLMs, as per its terms. For commercial use inquiries, contact [email protected]. Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago (746+ words) As the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transitioned from internet meme to real-life government reform effort, the agency claimed it would achieve many far-reaching, seemingly improbable goals. It was going to'slash $2 trillion in federal spending, eliminate burdensome and unconstitutional regulations, upgrade the federal government's "tech stack," evict the woke deep state, and, time permitting,'balance the budget. When it launched, both DOGE supporters and critics seemed to believe the agency was striving for the wholesale dismantling of the federal government. As the dust settles one year later, we can get a more accurate sense of how much DOGE has done to shrink and streamline the federal government. Its cost-cutting efforts have been unsuccessful, but it did accomplish quite a bit toward shrinking the federal government's workforce. The Trump administration's deregulatory'drive has been moderately successful, although it's debatable how much credit…...

2+ hour, 18+ min ago (205+ words) The sun rises also. God's taunt: the relentlessness of repetition; the unyielding promise of possibility. So gentle, yet so violent. A brown box lingers on the front steps, aching for evisceration's gift. Begging to unburden itself. A soul ensconced within'laid bare in literary flesh, fixed in ink, and marketed for mass consumption. A cry for help. The sound of an American flag being raped. Rain threatens, as it so often does. Yet there she lies'the woman who made poor decisions, blonde detritus of America's unraveling'caged in corrugated cardboard wrung from wood pulp, mouth taped shut. Bound in a parchment vault of buried recollections, witness transcripts, assassination plots. Page on top of page on top of blood-stained page. No one will believe her now. Like the cheap vessel of her carceral stasis, she existed to be torn apart and discarded. To…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago (339+ words) "In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles," Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, once quipped. At some point later in his career, perhaps he muttered to himself, "In order to survive a full term as prime minister, you need way more than the ability to split a sea and have God give you two inscribed tablets on a mountaintop." But as Amit Segal's A Call at 4 AM: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions That Shaped Israeli Politics demonstrates, one seems to need divine intervention to survive years at the head of the world's only Jewish state and emerge unscathed by public opinion, war, or scandal. He adds that had Trump been Israeli, he would have delayed the 2020 elections "by just a month, until the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, and won in…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago (442+ words) In fact, there is little Connelly's protagonists do not know or cannot do, even if it has nothing to do with the plot. In Connelly's first Lincoln Lawyer novel, Haller gets into his Town Car while his driver, Earl Briggs, is listening to rap: "Who was that you were listening to?" I asked him. "Um, that was Three Six Mafia." Over the years I had become knowledgeable in the subtle distinctions, regional and otherwise, in rap and hop-hop. Connelly's characters frequently appear in each other's books. Bosch, who is Haller's half-brother, was in the second Lincoln Lawyer novel, The Brass Verdict (2008), and several others since. Bosch and Ballard regularly work together, and Haller has appeared in five Bosch novels since the 2009 Nine Dragons. In The Proving Ground, Haller is joined by McEvoy, who uses his tech expertise to help Haller…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago (128+ words) Justice Department Unveils New Charges in Alleged Russia-Backed Cyberattacks WASHINGTON'The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled additional federal criminal charges against a Ukrainian national accused of participating in cyberattacks "and other computer intrusions against key infrastructure "in support of Russian interests. The defendant, Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, was charged in a second indictment in the federal court in Los Angeles for her alleged support for a group the "Justice Department identified as NoName057(16). President's New Air Force One Jet From Boeing Delayed Again DHS Invalidates Union Contract Covering 47,000 TSA Officers, AFGE Vows to Challenge US Seized Tanker Near Venezuela Just as Warrant Was Set to Expire, Court Document Shows Engine Failure Forces United Airlines Flight to Return to DC-area Airport...

2+ hour, 22+ min ago (102+ words) Lindsey Vonn Places 2nd in a World Cup Downhill a Day After Becoming Oldest Winner at Age 41 T. MORITZ, Switzerland'Lindsey Vonn nearly did it again. The 41-year-old American finished second in a World Cup downhill on Saturday, a day after becoming the oldest winner in the circuit's history. Crypto Mogul Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for $40 Billion Stablecoin Fraud Fernando Mendoza Wins the Heisman Trophy as College Football's Top Player Arctic Air Sweeps South as Residents of the Pacific Northwest Remain on Guard After Severe Flooding Actor Peter Greene Dies at 60...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago (115+ words) DHS Invalidates Union Contract Covering 47,000 TSA Officers, AFGE Vows to Challenge WASHINGTON, Dec 12U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday terminated the collective bargaining agreement covering 47,000 Transportation Security Administration officers, the department said in a statement. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the airport screening officers, said it would file a lawsuit to challenge the decision. Justice Department Unveils New Charges in Alleged Russia-Backed Cyberattacks US Seized Tanker Near Venezuela Just as Warrant Was Set to Expire, Court Document Shows Engine Failure Forces United Airlines Flight to Return to DC-area Airport Russian Bombers Join Chinese Air Patrol Near Japan as Tokyo-Beijing Tie Strains...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago (154+ words) US Seized Tanker Near Venezuela Just as Warrant Was Set to Expire, Court Document Shows WASHINGTON'The U.S. government carried out its seizure of the M/T Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday just as a judge-signed warrant was set to expire, according to the document which was unsealed on Friday. The warrant, which was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui on Nov. 26, gave the Trump administration until Dec. 10, 2025 to seize the vessel. The seizure is the first of a Venezuelan oil cargo amid U.S. sanctions that have been in force since 2019. DHS Invalidates Union Contract Covering 47,000 TSA Officers, AFGE Vows to Challenge Engine Failure Forces United Airlines Flight to Return to DC-area Airport Russian Bombers Join Chinese Air Patrol Near Japan as Tokyo-Beijing Tie Strains Trump Administration Waives $16.7 Million in Fines for American Airlines Over Wheelchair Issues...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago (437+ words) A hero bystander has been caught on camera bravely tackling a gunman after shooters opened fire at a Jewish event in Sydney, Australia. Revellers had been enjoying a happy evening of celebration at the world famous Bondi Beach close to the city when two gunmen got out of a car and started shooting. In an incredible piece of video shared on social media, one of the suspected gunmen can be seen firing shots before he is approached by a man who hides behind parked cars to get close. In an instant the man then leaps on the gunman and wrestles with the attacker before he manages to disarm him and turn the weapon on the terror suspect. A Jewish Hanukkah celebration had reportedly started in the area of the shooting, according to ABC News - although there has been no official…...