👮‍♂️ 🇺🇸 Massachusetts authorities say Brown University shooter killed MIT nuclear scientist.

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🇺🇸 18 Navy SEALS Were Disciplined For Racist Harassment Of Black SEAL

One racist meme sent to the SEAL in 2022 was described in the investigation as "Slave in Chains." Another meme sent in 2022 was titled "Monkey Face" and depicted the SEAL in uniform with his face distorted to look like a monkey. A meme sent in 2023 compared him to the movie character Radio, a mentally disabled man played by Cuba Gooding Jr.

CBS News has learned that Rear Adm. Milton Sands, then the head of Naval Special Warfare Command, acted swiftly once the allegations surfaced in March. Sands has since been removed from his position by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The reason for his removal is unknown. 

In the complaint, the Black Navy SEAL said his name was scratched off two plaques where it once appeared alongside others serving on SEAL Team Four. On one of the plaques, the names are etched into a piece of wood under a hatchet adorned with Navy SEAL Tridents, the physical pin that signifies a SEAL.

The SEAL described the removal of his name as "A final, disgraceful act to make it clear that I was not welcome," and that it was "a direct and unmistakable act of hatred."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-seals-disciplined-racist-memes/

💸 🇺🇸 Jessica: Trump’s 1776 checks comes from congressionally allocated reconciliation funds, intended as subsidized housing for service members, a senior administration official confirms.

Watters: So we’re stealing the money from troops and giving it back to troops

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⚖️ 🇺🇸 Jury finds Wisconsin judge guilty of obstruction for helping an illegal immigrant evade federal agents

Wisconsin judge, Hannah Dugan, faces up to five years in prison after misleading ICE agents and allowing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, to escape.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/25b0jyvqtv/

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🇺🇸 The Trump administration has suspended the DV1 visa program that permitted the Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, entry into the country in 2017.

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🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇸 Senator Mike Lee introduced the Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act.

The bill authorizes Trump to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea outside the U.S.

Tim Burchett introduced the House version.

👤 Mike Lee on X: "Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer?"

"My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque."

"Time to take these pirates down."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/18/exclusive-patriots-of-the-caribbean-sen-mike-lee-bill-authorizes-privateers-to-combat-cartels-outside-u-s-borders/

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🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳⚡- The unidentified Chinese VLCC carrying Venezuelan oil has left the Caribbean waters, heading to China.

The tanker's current location is 11.61578, -61.79195, and is surrounded by four escort vessels (of the Venezuelan navy). The exact location of the escort vessels are shown in yellow on the map, surrounding the VLCC tanker.

Note, the shadow tanker is allegedly NOT under US sanctions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Ukraine has struck yet another Russian shadow tanker, QENDIL, but this time in the Mediterranean. The ship has suffered critical damage – no coast guard has yet responded to provide assistance.

🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: For the second time this week a Russian drone entered Turkish airspace.

A Russian Orlan-10 crashed near Izmit in the Kocaeli Province, just south of Istanbul.

📢 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Trump not ruling out war with Venezuela

"I don’t rule it out, no," he told NBC News in a phone interview.

But when he was pressed, he confirmed it was a possibility and said there will be additional seizures of oil tankers. Asked for a timeline, Trump replied: "It depends. If they’re foolish enough to be sailing along, they’ll be sailing along back into one of our harbors."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-not-ruling-war-venezuela-rcna250012

🇾🇪 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 As many as 20,000 Saudi-backed forces are gathering on the border of Yemen as the separatist Southern Transitional Council comes under pressure to withdraw from the huge territorial gains it has made in the last month in the vast, oil-rich governorate on Hadramaut in eastern Yemen.

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, predicted a full-scale resumption of fighting in Yemen could have consequences across the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. He urged all parties in Yemen, including external actors that “unilateral actions will not clear a path to peace, but only deepen divisions, raise the risk of wider escalation and cause further fragmentation”.

The STC, in talks in the stronghold of Aden last Friday, said it would not obey a Saudi demand to withdraw its forces, which first entered Hadramaut a fortnight ago and then moved into the neighbouring governorate of al-Mahra, bordering Oman. It has also tightened its grip by sending troops into a third governorate, Abyan.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/saudi-backed-forces-yemen-border-separatists-stc

🇺🇸 New Frigate will be Based on National Security Cutter, First FF(X) to be Built at Ingalls — USNI News

https://news.usni.org/2025/12/19/secnav-new-frigate-will-be-based-on-national-security-cutter-first-ffx-to-be-built-at-ingalls

☢️ 🇺🇸 New docs show the US defended plans to resume nuclear testing at a Nov. 10 CTBT meeting in Vienna, citing concerns Russia and China violated zero-yield moratoria and noting North Korea’s six nuclear tests. US says testing would begin “immediately” and transparently.

https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-testing-russia-china-ctbt-north-korea-2a579544cadd0e70d8eff1c4ea285756

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🇸🇦 🇦🇪 Saudi Arabia is intensifying efforts to contain the UAE and its partners in the Horn of Africa, including Ethiopia and the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

The UAE has increased arms shipments to the region throughout 2025, including to Ethiopia since November.

Saudi-Emirati competition in the Horn increases the risk of horizontal escalation on both sides of the Red Sea, including Yemen.

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