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The Washington Post reports: A federal judge indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to curb birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors, a decision that is likely to mean the executive order will not take effect as planned later this month. U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a preliminary injunction after a court hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, …

CBS News reports: Emergency crews are responding to an explosion in Northeast Philadelphia after a small medical jet crashed in the area of Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue, Philadephia police confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia. The plane was going from Philadelphia to Springfield, Missouri, leaving the Northeast Philadelphia Airport when tragedy struck. Two people were aboard the plane, according to …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans that could total trillions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday. The White House had planned to start …

The Guardian reports: Hamas has told multiple outlets that its delegation has handed its approval of the proposed ceasefire deal to mediators in Qatar and Egypt. A Hamas official said the group’s leader, Khalil al-Hayya, has delivered approval of the ceasefire agreement to mediators in Doha, Al Jazeera Arabic and Sky News are reporting. BBC is also reporting that a …

The Associated Press reports: A divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White House. Trump turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort …

Variety reports: Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later in that decade, died Dec. 16 at age 84, her family announced Thursday. The family’s obituary for Anita Bryant Day, as she was …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge in New York City on Monday said that Rudy Giuliani was in contempt of court for failing to properly respond to requests for information as he turned over assets to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment granted to two Georgia election workers. Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled after hearing Giuliani testify for a …

The Washington Post reports: President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced on 34 counts of falsifying business records ahead of his swearing-in on Jan. 20, a judge ruled Friday. The decision to schedule the sentencing Jan. 10 almost certainly means Trump will be the first felon to serve as a U.S. president. Trump was convicted in May of falsifying business records …

NBC News reports: Reps. Keith Self, R-Texas, and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who each voted for other Republicans earlier in the voting process, just changed their votes to back Johnson. The switch likely gives Johnson the votes to become speaker. This switch happened after Johnson went to the cloakroom for discussions with Reps. Norman, Self, Perry, Harris, Higgins and Cloud. Many …

The Daily Mail reports: The Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has reportedly been evacuated after a Cybertruck exploded outside the front doors. A Cybertruck – made by Trump croonie Elon Musk’s company Tesla – was seen in a fiery blaze outside the front revolving doors of the hotel, social media video showed. Large orange flames were seen crawling out …

ABC News reports: A man in a white pickup truck, who was “hellbent” on killing as many people as possible, drove around barricades and plowed his vehicle through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, leaving at least 10 dead and injuring dozens of others early Wednesday, city and federal officials said. In addition to going at a …

The New York Times reports: At least 10 people were killed and 30 more were injured after a vehicle drove into crowds on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street overnight, according to New Orleans city officials. An online video stream from the popular nightlife area showed police officers gathered in a cordoned-off area of the street. The incident occurred at the intersection …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Former President Jimmy Carter, a man who redefined what a post-presidency could be, died Sunday. He was 100. Carter, who lived longer than any other U.S. president, entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia in February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays. The only Georgian ever elected to the White House, Carter left office …

Mediaite reports: Matt Gaetz filed a suit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent the public release of a scathing report resulting from an investigation into allegations of his sexual and drug misconduct. According to CBS congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane, Gaetz’s argued in his bid for a restraining order to block the report’s …

CBS News reports: Former Rep. Matt Gaetz was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News. Those were among the findings of …

The Daily Mail reports: A car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, leaving at least one person dead and between 60 and 80 people injured. The driver of the car, reported to be a dark BMW, was arrested following the crash which took place at 7:04pm today, …

The Washington Post reports: Police in Madison, Wisconsin, are searching for a motive after a student at a private, K-12 Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, killed two people and injured six on campus on Monday. The shooter is also dead. Police Chief Shon F. Barnes had said in an earlier news briefing that the shooter had killed four, but the …

The New York Post reports: Multiple people were injured in a shooting Monday morning at a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, according to reports. The shooting broke out just before 11 a.m. at Abundant Life Christian School, a K-12 Christian school in the state’s capital, and multiple injuries were reported, according to Channel 3000. Roads around the school are …

The New York Times reports: The F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, told bureau employees on Wednesday that he intends to resign in January, bowing to the reality that President-elect Donald J. Trump had publicly declared his desire to replace him. The announcement comes after Mr. Trump said in late November that he intended to nominate Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist, …

The New York Times reports: The man being questioned in Altoona in connection with the killing of Brian Thompson is Luigi Mangione, 26, according to three law enforcement officials. Mangione, who was detained in a McDonald’s this morning, was carrying identification with his name on it, along with fake I.D., one of the officials said. He has not been charged …