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Holiday Horror: 65-Year-Old Lady Stabbed in Bookstore
(José Niño, Headline USA) A peaceful evening of browsing turned deadly when 65-year-old Rita B. Loncharich was fatally stabbed by a complete stranger while reading a magazine inside a Palm Beach Gardens bookstore just days before Christmas. According to a WPTV report, the horrifying incident unfolded around 7:53 p.m. on Monday, at the Barnes &…
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WATCH: Report: Americans are Still Paying Off Credit Debt from Last Christmas
(The Center Square) If your last-minute Christmas shopping requires a credit card, you are not alone. According to a new WalletHub report, many Americans are still paying off credit card debt from last Christmas. “What we found is that through the end of the third quarter 2025, we’re sitting at a credit card debt of…
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ICE Agents Shoot at Van that Tried Running Them Over
(Headline USA) Federal immigration agents shot at a vehicle that allegedly tried running them over on Wednesday morning during an enforcement and removal action, striking one person and injuring another, officials said. A spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department said neither person had life-threatening injuries, and both were taken to the hospital. Anne Arundel…
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Christmas Eve Eve Gold Rush: $4,500 Gold, $70 Silver, and a New Monetary Regime
(Money Metals News Service) Mike Maharrey kicks off this Money Metals Midweek Memo a day early, calling it a “Christmas Eve Eve” episode and warning up front that it will be shorter and more informal. But even in holiday mode, he says he can’t ignore what’s happening in metals right now, because the move is getting hard…
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Deranged Gunman Kills State Trooper Inside Delaware DMV
(Headline USA) After a gunman shot a Delaware state trooper inside a DMV office near Wilmington on Tuesday, the wounded trooper pushed a nearby employee to safety before the gunman shot him again, killing him, authorities said. A police officer then confronted, shot and killed the gunman. The trooper, who has not yet been named, was…
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DOJ Drags Feet on Epstein Files
(Headline USA) The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday’s congressionally mandated deadline. The Christmas Eve announcement came hours after a…
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Huckabee Says Iran Didn’t ‘Get the Full Message’ in Last US Bombing as Israel Pushing for Another War
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Monday that Iran “didn’t get the full message” following the US airstrikes that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities in June, comments that came as Israel is pushing for the US to support another attack on the country. “Iran, I don’t know if they ever took…
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Trump Says US Will Keep Seized Venezuelan Oil and Tankers
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US will “keep” the Venezuelan oil and two tankers that it seized off the coast of Venezuela as his administration is escalating a blockade on the country. “We’re going to keep it. Maybe we’ll sell it. Maybe we’ll keep it. Maybe we’ll use it…
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Record School Spending Fails to Reverse Decline in Test Scores
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) As national education spending per pupil rises, student enrollment is dropping and test scores across the United States are falling, which raises concern over how effectively taxpayer dollars are being used in public schools. Since 2002, K-12 public school spending has increased by more than 35%, yet enrollment has dropped…
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Brown University Had Forewarning about Mass Shooter
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A custodian who works at Brown University has told local media that he warned his school numerous times about a suspicious person who turned out to be the man who killed two students and wounded nine others in a Dec. 13 mass shooting. The custodian, Derek Lisi, told Providence outlet WPRI…
