Happy New Year, News Viewers! Hopefully, this year will be better than 2025. Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting as long as it comes from a credible source, not some RW cesspit. Or, just chit and chat. Be safe and be joyful. Updates:

Former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith's testimony to the Republican led House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Gym Jordan, was released to the public -- on New Year's Eve. Smith led the prosecutions of Trump until Trump won the 2024 election, effectively ending any attempt at holding Trump criminally liable for his attempts to overturn a free and fair election, and for his concealment of classified documents at his Florida shithole Mar-a-Lago, and his obstruction of the DOJ to retrieve them.

Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting as long as it comes from a credible source, not some RW cesspit. Updates: Millions of Americans brace for higher costs amid ACA subsidies lapse. MS NOW's Arielle Hixson has the latest. — MS NOW (@ms.now…

Disclaimer: Because of the WSJ's paywall, News Views chose to use Mediaite's summary as our source so you can view the article in the event you do not have a subscription to WSJ: 5 Key Revelations From WSJ’s Bombshell Mar-a-Lago Epstein Investigation — Including Why He Was Banned by Trump The Wall Street Journal adds significant new detail to the long-scrutinized relationship between President 

Colorado is the recipient of Trump's first veto of his term, used to kill a major clean drinking water bill that would benefit 39 communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.  The Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act passed unanimously in the House and Senate, who sent the bill to Trump by voice vote, which suggests there could be wide margins to override the veto -- if Republican leadership can muster the fortitude to bring it for a recorded vote.

Time has shared seven good news stories that many have likely missed while trying to keep up with all of the doom and gloom of 2025. The Antarctic Ozone hole shrinks. The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk to its fifth-smallest size in more than three decades, according to NASA and the NOAA. The reduction was made possible by regulations on ozone-depleting materials, as well as a weaker polar vortex.

The Trump administration has brought back MAGA shill Lauren Chen, whose company Tenet Media was exposed by feds in 2024 as being bankrolled by Kremlin-funded RT to pay influencers like Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin millions of dollars to spread pro-Putin propaganda. Chen and her husband Liam Donovan, Canadian nationals, lost their visas under the Biden administration and went dark on social media when YouTube banned their channel.

Donald Trump confirmed on Monday the U.S. made a Christmas Eve strike on a boat loading facility in Venezuela, marking the first land strikes in the country since beginning a campaign for the regime change of President Nicolas Maduro. Asked if the CIA had carried out the attack, Trump said: "I don't want to say that. I know exactly who it was but I don't want to say who it was."

Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting as long as it comes from a credible source, not some RW cesspit. Ohio Man and Maybelline Model Plans His Next Moves: JD's 2028 plotting: Vance's next moves Vice President JD Vance plans to literally fly above MAGA's rising civil war — campaigning coast to coast in the midterms and sticking close to President Trump, while building support for an expected presidential run in 2028.

Julie K. Brown, investigative journalist, posted on X on Sunday after seeing her name on an American Airlines flight itinerary contained in an Epstein file document, which was recently released by the Department of Justice. Brown seemed shocked to see her flight information on a July 2019 trip to Florida in the newly released files attached to a grand jury subpoena.

According to court documents released Sunday night, the accused D.C. pipe bomber, Brian Cole, waived his Miranda rights after his arrest and gave authorities a detailed confession explaining his motives. After first denying any involvement in the matter, Cole said he planted the bombs because he felt “someone needs to speak up” for those who believed the 2020 election was rigged.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the U.S. offered security guarantees for the next 15 years during peace talks at Mar-a-Lago, even though Zelensky would like 50 years of security guarantees. Trump says they are "close to 95%" there. If there is an agreement on security guarantees, Zelensky still has two core issues still unresolved: Ukrainian territories and the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is currently in a Russia-controlled area.

Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds or talk among yourselves. Sunday’s blog has always consisted of missed headlines and a free chat! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend. For All Those 'Deep Thinking' MAGAts: Riddle Me This, Morons: Celebrity Death Watch: Brigitte Bardot, sex goddess of cinema, has died Brigitte Bardot, the international sex goddess of cinema in the 1950s and '60s, has died aged 91.

Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting as long as it comes from a credible source, not some RW cesspit. Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!: Updates: Record-breaking retirements in Congress. That’s not “frustration,” that’s people seeing the building on fire and heading for the exits. Expect more retirements in January.

Kennedy Center President Rick Grenell said the organization will seek $1 million in damages from jazz musician Chuck Redd after Redd abruptly canceled this year’s free Christmas Eve concert in protest of the center’s renaming to add Trump's name to the building that is a memorial to President John F. Kennedy. Grenell stated in a letter dated December 26, “Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution.”

Trump's lip-injected mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt, 28, announced on Fox News and in an Instagram post that she and her 60-year-old husband Nicholas Riccio are expecting a baby girl in May. Leavitt said she was grateful to Trump and Susie Wiles for their support, and for fostering a "pro-family" environment in the White House. The couple's first child, Niko, was born in July 2024, six months before they got married ahead of the pedophile President's second inauguration.

A British public broadcaster annually offers an "Alternative Christmas Message" to the monarch's Christmas message by choosing a high-profile figure. This year that message was delivered by Jimmy Kimmel to the audience of Britain's Channel 4. Kimmel admitted in his message that he was not aware of the issues in the UK, but declared that tyranny was booming across the pond with Donald Trump at the helm.

Gooooood morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday. I sure hope everyone had a nice holiday however you celebrate it or don't...perhaps a day of relaxation. We had family and friends over on Christmas Eve but because of our 'lovely,' weather, attendance was low this year. Speaking of weather---Fellow Californians: We're still not out of the woods yet. We're still under flood watch and one more day of this crap.

Get ready for another year of retail and restaurant businesses to completely shutter or downsize in the new year, following 2025's brick and mortar collapses that included Party City, Rite Aid, and Joann Fabrics. Carter's Babies and Kids clothing stores say tariffs have impacted their business, forcing closure of 150 stores over three years. “The Administration has implemented significant new tariffs on products imported into the United States from a wide range of countries,” Carter’s said in a press release.

In quite the different tone that he used with all those barely legal and underage girls, Trump talked with CHILDREN who inquirired as to the whereabouts of Santa Claus, according to NORAD’s “Santa Tracker.” At one point, he fielded a call from a child in Pennsylvania, and it went as one might expect. Trump spoke to the children on speakerphone in front of cameras and was connected with a five-year-old boy and his mother in State College.

Below, you will find some headlines and events we may have missed. Feel free to share what you have found interesting or....chit and chat amongst yourselves! Happy Holidays to all of you from News Views! Be safe, everyone! 'WINNING!': Supreme Court rules against Trump in National Guard case The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into Illinois over the objections of its governor.

The episode banned by CBS News Editor Bari Weiss is available for your viewing (dis)pleasure thanks to a Canadian outlet, Global TV, who posted it online. The segment includes interviews with Venezuelans who were deported to the El Salvador torture prison CECOT by the Trump administration. About 250 men were sent to CECOT after they were accused of being gang members of Tren de Aragua.

A fresh batch of documents released overnight from the Epstein files prompted the Department of Justice to issue a statement that defends Trump against the claims made about him in the records. Among the most juicy of Data Set 8: An e-mail dated January 8, 2020, from an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York cited flight records they had received the day prior.

Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds as long as they are not from some Fake News cesspool. Updates: "Stay Tuned! Bigly Announcement:" "Is this a breakup episode?" @gtconway.bsky.social explains the legal news to @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social one last time. — The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) December 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM…

Vice President and rejected eyeliner model for Maybelline, JD Vance, delivered a racially charged speech at this year's Nazi's Fest, Turning Point's 'America First conference. "In the United States of America, you don't have to apologize for being white anymore," he said. Vance also said the U.S. "always will be a Christian nation," adding that "Christianity is America's creed, the shared moral language from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond."