American entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman was officially sworn-in as the 15th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, during a ceremony this morning at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
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The White House has announced that the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed to the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, following a unanimous vote today by the Kennedy Centerโs Board of Trustees, which includes Richard Grenell, President; Jennifer Fischer, Vice Chair; Sergio Gor, Secretary; John Falconetti, Treasurer; and Elliot Berke, General Counsel.
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The White House has announced that the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts will be renamed to the Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, following a unanimous vote today by the Kennedy Centerโs Board of Trustees, which includes Richardโฆ
The Kennedy Center is the second building to Washington to be renamed for President Donald J. Trump this month, following the renaming two weeks ago of the United States Institute of Peace as the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I Controlled-Substance, in the same category at heroin and bath salts, to a Schedule lll Controlled-Substance, on the level as many prescription drugs such as ketamine, potentially paving the way for future federal decriminalization and/or legalization by Congress and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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On Wednesday morning, the Estonian Police and Border Guard detected and observed the entry of three officers with the FSB Border Service of Russia into Estonia, with the crossing occurring at a point on the Narva River near Lake Peipus across from Vasknarva. Estonia has protested the illegal entry and summoned Russian diplomats to demand an explanation, while the crossing has been officially denied by Russia.
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President Donald J. Trump has decided to endorse Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, who supports gun control and previously was the sole Texas Republican to oppose the Border Safety and Security Act of 2023, for Texas's 23rd Congressional District, instead of Second Amendment activist and media personality Brandon Herrera.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has officially signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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The โperson of interestโ in this past weekendโs mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, which killed two students, has been found dead via a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside of a storage unit at a facility in Salem, New Hampshire.
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U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced, that at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a series of strikes today, December 18, against two alleged narco-trafficking vessels operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessels were transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with a total of five suspected narco-terrorists killed in the strikes, three in the first vessel and two in the second, all believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).
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Authorities have identified the suspect in this past weekendโs shooting at Brown University and the murder of a professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday, as 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel NevesโValente of Miami, Florida, a previous student of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who was found dead via a self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier inside a storage unit in New Hampshire.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order earlier today declaring both December 24th, Christmas Eve, and December 26th, known in some countries as Boxing Day and to others as the day after Christmas, to be federal holidays, extending the vacation for millions of federal employees from one to three days for Christmas.
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On Tuesday, December 16, the U.S. Navy carried out the first-ever-launch of a new one-way attack drone, a copy of an Iranian Shahed-136, from the flight deck of the Independence-class littoral combat ship, USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32), while transiting the Arabian Sea. The drone, dubbed the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS), was launched and operated by Task Force 59 part of Task Force Scorpion Strike, a one-way attack drone squadron recently deployed to the Middle East.
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A Russian Orlan-10 Surveillance Drone has been discovered intact within the ฤฐzmit District, Kocaeli Province of Northwestern Turkey, roughly 50 miles to the east of Istanbul and over 350 miles from Russian-occupied Crimea and Mainland Russia, in what appears to be yet another major violation of NATO as well as Turkish Airspace.
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U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Phelan and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle announced today, less than a month after the cancelation of the Constellation-class frigate program, being built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin, that the Navy has selected the U.S. Coast Guardโs Legend-class cutter to be the basis for a new class of frigates, which will be constructed by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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