Raw Story reports: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who has for the last two weeks been relentlessly ridiculing scandal-plagued Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), proposed new legislation on Thursday night that’s named after his embattled soon-to-be colleague. However, the legislation in question is not meant as an honor. The kicker lays in the title, as Torres writes that “it will be called …

“Politicians do not believe they answer to a higher power. They’re a reflection of an American society and culture that has abandoned any fear of God, any respect for God, any respect for our founding principles. “This country was based on a fear and a respect in our rights coming from a higher power, from the most high God and …

Politico reports: House conservatives are upping their demands on Kevin McCarthy as he tries to lock down the speaker’s gavel. Their new price: a select committee with a huge scope of targets. While the Republican leader and soon-to-be committee chairs have already lined up a laundry list of investigations that will largely command the House GOP’s agenda next year, it’s …

The New York Times reports: Over the past few weeks, Twitter had stopped paying millions of dollars in rent and services, and Mr. Musk had told his subordinates to renegotiate those agreements or simply end them. The company has stopped paying rent at its Seattle office, leading it to face eviction, two people familiar with the matter said. Janitorial and …

The New York Post reports: Three months ago, Rep.-elect George Santos and his sister, Tiffany Lee Devolder Santos, packed their bags and left their two-year Queens rental in a bad state, The Post can report. The landlord and building owner of 151-47 12th Ave. in Whitestone told The Post the two always paid their rent on time, but left the …

CNN reports: Southwest Airlines says it’s set up to resume normal schedules on Friday after a tumultuous eight days that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed or stranded and prompted its executives to make apologies to the riding public and government officials. In a statement released Thursday — following another bruising day in which a further 2,362 flights were …

The Associated Press reports: Incoming Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday named a top Florida schools official as her pick to lead the state’s education agency, the latest signal of the direction of the Republican’s nascent administration. Sanders tapped Jacob Oliva, a senior chancellor at the Florida Department of Education, to serve as secretary of the Arkansas Department of …

From the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs office: On Dec. 21 (China Standard Time), a People’s Liberation Army – Navy J-11 fighter pilot performed an unsafe maneuver during an intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft, which was lawfully conducting routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace. The PLAN pilot flew an unsafe maneuver by flying …

The New York Times reports: The company was called Cleaner 123, and over the course of four months, it received nearly $11,000 from the campaign of George Santos, the representative-elect from New York who appears to have invented whole swaths of his life story. The expenditures were listed as “apartment rental for staff” on Mr. Santos’s campaign disclosure forms and …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Today would have been Marvel Comics leader Stan Lee’s 100th birthday. To celebrate, Disney+ has announced that an original documentary on the man will arrive at some time in 2023. Lee died at age 95 in 2018. He was the co-creator of Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four, among many others, and …

Politico reports: New guidelines sent to committees on Thursday and obtained exclusively by POLITICO lay out a messy, complicated process for how the speaker’s race will have a trickle-down effect on everything from paying committee staff to student loan repayments. “Committees need to be aware that should a House Rules package not be adopted by end of business on January …

Gothamist reports: New York City’s first licensed, recreational marijuana dispensary opened in the East Village Thursday afternoon, and other legal shops will follow in the coming weeks and months. Nobody is pretending the ability to buy weed at NYC stores is exactly new. Mayor Eric Adams recently announced a crackdown on the multitude of bodegas and smoke shops selling unregulated …

“It’s a big black eye for the GOP. How did he loan himself $700,000 for a successful ’22 campaign, while he only claimed like making $55,000 last year? I’ll never forget, I was at lunch with him a couple years ago, and he told me he was worth between $14 and $22 million and that always stuck with me. “What …

The Daily Beast reports: Kanye West is nowhere to be found, according to his former business manager Thomas St. John, who is currently trying to serve the disgraced music mogul with a $4.5 million lawsuit. According to a Dec. 19 court filing obtained by The U.S. Sun, the manager is looking for more time, at least until the end of …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: I like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because he’s not afraid to stand up against the woke agenda that the left is pushing down our throats. He stood up against Disney and he’s now standing up against the sexualization of children at a Christmas Drag Queen event. God bless you Governor DeSantis!

The New York Post reports: Josh Duggar is asking for a new trial by claiming federal agents unfairly “restrained” him and would not allow him to contact his lawyer during an interrogation at his Arkansas car dealership. Attorneys for the 34-year-old disgraced star of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” filed paperwork Tuesday appealing Duggar’s federal conviction on child pornography charges. …

USA Today reports: It’s not just thousands of people with canceled Southwest Airlines flights being stranded at airports across the nation, but also thousands of pieces of their checked in luggage – even if the owner never got on a flight.  Some passengers said they have been separated from baby gear, medicine and other important items. In the immediate aftermath …

Salon reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders today urged the Transportation Department to ensure Southwest’s chief executive pays a price for mass U.S. flight cancellations that have left passengers and employees stranded around the country, throwing lives into chaos and drawing further attention to the company’s business practices. Bob Jordan, who has worked for Southwest for decades and became the company’s CEO …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was responsible for feeding former President Donald Trump the bizarre conspiracy theory that Joe Scarborough had murdered a staffer back when he was a member of Congress, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin’s interview with the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The ex-president was also easily swayed …

The Hill reports: Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has been facing increasing scrutiny after a series of false claims he made about himself on the campaign trail came to light, called President Biden a liar in a tweet. Santos tweeted in August 2021, ahead of his eventually winning the Republican nomination and the election to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional …