A Mexican Navy Beechcraft King Air 350i has crashed into Galveston Bay in Southeastern Texas while preparing to land at Scholes International Airport, with search-and-rescue operations currently underway by local authorities and the U.S. Coast Guard.

During today’s announcement of the Trump-class battleship by President Donald J. Trump, he stated that the class of ships will be equipped with hypersonic weapons, state-of-the-art electric railguns, high-powered lasers, and nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, likely similar to the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile-Nuclear (TLAM-N) which was removed from service sometime after 2010.

The Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T Bella 1, which the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have reportedly been in pursuit of since late Saturday, after attempting to board and seize the vessel in the Southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, has now fled into the Atlantic, according to ABC News.

The No.1 Reactor at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden has been placed into “temporary cold shutdown” after a fault was detected earlier today, with troubleshooting currently underway by Vattenfall, according to Aftonbladet.

Three people have been confirmed dead, after a Beechcraft King Air 350i with the Mexican Navy crashed earlier today into Galveston Bay in Southeastern Texas while on approach in heavy fog to Scholes International Airport. The King Air, which had taken off from Merida on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico this morning, was on a medical support mission and was carrying a pediatric patient who required specialized burn care provided at Shriners Children’s in Galveston. Eight passengers and crew were onboard the aircraft at the time of the crash, with three transported to hospital by ambulance and three dead, according to reports by the U.S. Coast Guard.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has resumed his demand for Greenland, stating earlier today during the event announcing the Trump-class battleship, “We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has spent no money, they have no military protection. They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago or something with a boat, well we were there with boats too I’m sure. So we’ll have to work it all out… We need Greenland for national security, not for minerals - we have so many sites for minerals and oil and everything - we have more oil than any other country in the world. We need Greenland for national security.”

The Danish Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, to demand answers to comments made this past weekend by President Donald J. Trump’s recently appointed Special Envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who publicly stated that the mission of his part-time role is to make Greenland a part of the United States. Trump’s appointment of Landry to this position without the consultation of Denmark, and statements made today by the President, have reignited tensions between the two allies over aggressive - almost belligerent - behavior towards Denmark by the Trump Administration over Greenland.

Despite crossing from the Caribbean into the Atlantic earlier today, the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are still in active pursuit of the Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T Bella 1, officials have told NewsNation.

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 earlier today, December 22, against an apparent cartel narco-trafficking semi-submersible in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and participating in cartel operations, with one male narco-terrorist killed in the strike, believed to have been a member of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO).

Everything from the footage of this strike suggests that this wasn’t conducted using a drone like most of the previous strikes, with the water splashes and visual flashes - likely from a GAU-23/A 30mm Chain Gun - suggesting that this strike was carried out by an AC-130J “Ghostrider” Gunship.

China expects to be able to fight and win a war on Taiwan by the end of 2027, according to a recent draft report by the Pentagon, with Beijing refining its military options to take Taiwan by “brute force,” adding that one option could include long-range ballistic strikes 1,500-2,000NM from China, likely targeting and presenting a significant challenge to U.S. Forces across the Indo-Pacific.

Despite recent aggressive statements from President Donald J. Trump and other members of the administration regarding the potential annexation of Greenland, traders on Polymarket seem to think it’s all just bluster, with the probability that Trump will acquire Greenland before 2027 currently sitting at only 6%.

The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces has announced that fighter aircraft with the Polish and Allied Air Forces have been scrambled in response to the ongoing Russian drone and missile attack against Western Ukraine, with ground-based air defense systems as well as radar reconnaissance systems having also been raised to their maximum state-of-readiness across Poland.

The U.S. Department of Justice this morning announced the release of 30,000 additional documents and files related to the case against convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, attaching a disclaimer to the release which reads: “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 Election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”

In a letter attributed to Jeffrey Epstein, written from prison the day before his mysterious death and addressed to fellow sexual predator Larry Nassar, Epstein stated, “Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.”

In an email from the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to an unknown individual, likely with the Justice Department, dated January 7, 2020, they state that, “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell Case.” Adding that Trump is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, with at least four of those flights also containing Ghislaine Maxwell. “On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then-20-year-old REDACTED. On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell Case.”

As part of today’s batch documents published by the Justice Department, a court subpoena directed at President Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, was released, dated October 5, 2021. The subpoena, filed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, demanded “Any and all employment records relating to REDACTED,” possibly Virginia Giuffre, in relation to the Justice Department’s case at the time against convicted sex offender and trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

In an email exchange with Ghislaine Maxwell, sent from an address labeled as “The Invisible Man” titled “Summer Camp” from August 16, 2001; an individual, only referred to as A, likely Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), talks about being at the “Balmoral Summer Camp for the Royal Family,” a reference to the British Royal Family’s residence in Scotland, while asking Maxwell is she has found him some “new inappropriate friends” in Los Angeles.

Horrific account from an alleged victim of Ghislaine Maxwell, obtained by the FBI in August 2020, describing sexual assault and torture by Maxwell alongside Prince Andrew, as well as being drugged by her father and forced to participate in “pedophile ring parties” at 6-8 years old in Surrey, England.

Following a meeting today with Turkey’s National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, a private jet carrying Libyan Chief of the General Staff, General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, and several other officials, has crashed near the Turkish capital of Ankara. Ankara’s Airspace has been temporarily closed, as has Ankara Esenboga Airport.

The U.S. Armed Forces moved a large number of special-operations aircraft and multiple cargo planes filled with troops and equipment into the Caribbean this week, as additional options are prepared for possible military action against Venezuela, according to U.S. officials and flight-tracking data seen by the Wall Street Journal.

At least 10 CV-22 “Osprey” Tiltrotor Military Aircraft, assigned to the U.S. Air Force’s 20th Special Operations Squadron, 27th Special Operations Wing, flew into the region Monday night from Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico, while C-17 Globemaster IIIs from Fort Stewart and Fort Campbell arrived Monday in Puerto Rico, possibly carrying troops from the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and 101st Airborne Division.