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Tren de Aragua gang members arrested in NYC apartment next to daycare facility

Several suspected members of the bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA) were busted hiding out in a New York City apartment building located next to a daycare center, a law enforcement source tells Fox News, underlining how the gang has immersed itself among the general population in the sanctuary city.  The New York Post […]

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Driver Rams Christmas Market in Germany, Injuring Several

A vehicle drove into a Christmas market in a city in central Germany on Friday evening, wounding several people, according to videos posted online. The driver of the vehicle was arrested, according to local news reports. But there was no immediate information about any charges. The police could not immediately confirm the number of victims […]

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‘Gravy Day’ is an Australian tradition inspired by an unlikely Christmas song by Paul Kelly

NEW YORK — To many Australians, Saturday is more than just Dec. 21. It’s “Gravy Day,” all because of a lyric in one of the most unlikely Christmas songs ever written. “How to Make Gravy,” written by has become a holiday classic in Australia over the past few decades. It was cited this week by […]

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Fentanyl fuels record homeless deaths in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland

PORTLAND, Ore. — Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual county report released Friday that officials described as showing the peak of in the area. The report found that 456 homeless people died in the county in 2023 — the highest […]

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The World Is Falling Apart. Should I Scrap My Plans to Have Kids?

I have a question about planning for the future in light of the recent presidential election and the prospect of potentially having a dictatorship in America. I’m a 33-year-old woman. For a long time I’ve wanted to start a family. I’m about to start investing substantial money into family planning. In view of climate change, […]

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Why Trump is pushing hard to defuse the debt ceiling now and what it would mean for America

The debt ceiling is the unexpected debate in Washington this week after President-elect Donald Trump threw the annual holiday-season government funding talks into disarray. Trump wants to raise or eliminate the limit on how much the federal government can borrow. Doing so now would mean the much-debated move would happen on President Joe Biden’s watch […]

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The Fate of This Federal Program Helps Explain Trump’s Win

I thank Paul Gottlieb, an economics professor at Rutgers University, for inspiring today’s newsletter. He wrote to me recently to point out “one of the least-covered stories in economics during the Biden administration.” Namely, that “in mid-2022, the 50-year-old federal program known as Trade Adjustment Assistance was allowed to expire,” leaving it to hobble on […]

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