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.

Search-and-rescue teams have reportedly reached the crash site of the private jet carrying Libya’s Chief of General Staff, General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, near the Turkish capital of Ankara.

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the Trump Administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, in order to protect and support operations carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stating: “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.” The decision was dissented by Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch.

Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the Prime Minister of the internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) in Libya, has confirmed the death of his Chief of General Staff, General Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, and several other members of the delegation who visited Turkey earlier today, as a result of a plane crash on the outskirts of the Turkish capital of Ankara.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed to The War Zone that construction on the first two Trump-class battleships, USS Defiant (BBG-1) and a currently unnamed vessel, is not expected to begin until the early 2030s, with cost estimates still being firmed up and the Navy moving to award sole-source contracts for the design and preparation of the vessels to Bath Iron Works in Maine, Huntington Ingalls Industries in Mississippi, and Gibbs & Cox based in Virginia.

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to pursue the Guyana-flagged Iranian-linked sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T Bella 1, tonight in the Northern Atlantic, officials have told Reuters, with them currently waiting for “specialized” assets and personnel to arrive before attempting to board and seize the vessel, which fled east this past weekend after it was interdicted in the Southern Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela.

The White House has taken control of the U.S. Department of Justice’s official account on X, in an effort to temper and counter narratives related to the ongoing release of documents related to the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to sources who spoke with Axios.

Officials state that roughly 700,000 additional files still need to be reviewed before they can be released to the public, in clear violation of the timeline given by the Epstein Files Transparency Act - which required that all files be published by last Friday, December 19 - with small batch releases expected to continue into early January.

Former Chief of Police for the Northern Takhar Province of Afghanistan until the Taliban takeover in 2021, General Ikramuddin Saree, was assassinated by unknown assailants earlier today in the Iranian capital of Tehran.