Indiana Lt. Gov: Trump Threatened To Withhold Funding If We Didn’t Redistrict
The Indiana Senate made it clear to the Trump Admin today that they do not want to be partners with the WH. Indiana told the WH today they don’t want to be a good partner to the Trump Admin and I suspect the WH will look to partner with other states before us.”AdvertisementThe Lt. “President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action threatened. Indiana’s state senate voted down the unprecedented effort 19-31, with a majority of Republicans giving it a thumbs down. Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAdvertisement“It’s time to say no to pressure from Washington DC,” Indiana state Sen. Spencer Deery, a Republican, told NOTUS after the vote.
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December 13, 2025 00:24 UTC
Republicans Holding On To Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Conspiracy Theory
AdvertisementCiting bank records, cell phone data, license plate scanners and surveillance video, the government has said Cole assembled the two pipe bombs from materials he purchased over the course of two years. “So they figured if they planted a bomb there that they could rush into the Capitol and go, ‘Stop the objections! AdvertisementIn their January 2025 report on the unsolved pipe bomb case, Loudermilk and Massie said the bombs served as a diversion that helped rioters breach the Capitol. “According to public reports, you were working as a government employee of the Department of Commerce on January 6, 2021, when you discovered a pipe bomb near the RNC,” Loudermilk’s letter said. Loudermilk became Republicans’ point man on their Jan. 6 counter-investigation after the original Jan. 6 committee, the one led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
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December 12, 2025 23:24 UTC
19 More Photos From Epstein’s Estate Released, With Many More To Come
LOADING ERROR LOADINGDemocrats on the House Oversight Committee released 19 new photos from the estate of late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, some of which feature President Donald Trump. The images also include Epstein hanging out with filmmaker Woody Allen, and another of Epstein sitting across a desk from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. A photo released by House Democrats on the Oversight Committee shows a bowl of Trump-branded condoms in an undated photo. House Oversight CommitteeEarlier this month, Democrats on the committee released 10 photos and four videos that showed parts of Epstein’s infamous ― and creepy ― island property. House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said the committee plans to post the bank records online.
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December 12, 2025 23:02 UTC
20 Of The Funniest Posts About Cats And Dogs This Week (Dec. 6-12)
If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog, let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious posts about pets. Each week at HuffPost, we scour Bluesky, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, to find the funniest posts about our furballs being complete goofballs. He knows the sound of a crunching apple now so he’ll wake up from his nap to get some apple. pic.twitter.com/hvO0wBHEhG — jake rhodes (@jakebrodes) December 11, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement@jeffhamilton.bsky.social/Blueskythis is what being alive in December feels like pic.twitter.com/TAWudrrULJ — yuuii (@yuuiichive) December 11, 2025@amutepiggy.bsky.social/BlueskyLars the reindeer was raised in the house alongside dogs, and he clearly thinks he is one. pic.twitter.com/WzwvJfnwtB — The Associated Press (@AP) December 11, 2025Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementRelated...Read the original on HuffPost
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December 12, 2025 22:15 UTC
I Wrote A Letter To My Future Self. Life Didn’t Turn Out That Way.
Right now, I’m living on Parkman Avenue in Silver Lake with Greg (still my boyfriend – is he my husband yet?) The important thing to know about me right now is: I’M HAPPY. I’ve been forced to look at the person I was before 20 years of life happened to me. AdvertisementGreg has been my partner, best friend, and the love of my life for nearly 24 years. Whatever happens, please know I’m rooting for you.”I won’t try to guess what happens next.
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December 12, 2025 21:33 UTC
Experts Warn You Should Never Share These 5 Things With ChatGPT — And What You Can Do If You Already Did
LOADING ERROR LOADINGIt’s becoming increasingly common for people to use ChatGPT and other AI chatbots like Gemini, Copilot and Claude in their everyday lives. If you’re thinking about using an AI chatbot to get a leg up at work, tread lightly. “Many AI chat platforms operate on shared infrastructure, and despite strong security postures, your input may still be logged for ‘model improvement,’” he said. AdvertisementMalorny via Getty Images AI chatbots like ChatGPT have streamlined people's lives in many ways, but there are risks when it comes to sharing information. What if you already shared this info with an AI chatbot?
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December 12, 2025 20:31 UTC
Jimmy Kimmel Has A Rich Response After Getting A Check With Trump's Name On It
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December 12, 2025 19:42 UTC
The Indiana Republicans Who Crushed Trump’s Redistricting Plan
LOADING ERROR LOADINGTwenty-one Republicans in the Indiana state Senate rejected President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign for new congressional maps that would have eliminated the state’s two House seats held by Democrats on Thursday. Michael Conroy via Associated PressBray, the leader of the Senate caucus, opposed Trump’s redistricting push from the beginning and became the face of the president’s ire. In statements issued in November and after Thursday’s vote, he made clear that he believed that redrawing congressional districts was not the best way for Republicans to gain seats in the Indiana congressional delegation. Advertisement“Indiana Senate Republicans want to see a Republican majority in Congress at the midterms,” Bray said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s “vulgarity,” as Bohacek called it in the CNN interview, was just another reason not to vote for redistricting.
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December 12, 2025 19:34 UTC
Trump Wrings Laughs Out Of Somalia Hate At Congressional Ball
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December 12, 2025 19:30 UTC
'Daily Show' Has A Word With Marco Rubio Over His 'Pathetic' War On Fonts
“Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta mocked Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday over his war on “woke fonts.”“Wait, what — what the **** is a woke font? Was it a font offended by the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad?” Kosta quipped. Buzz: ‘Daily Show’ Flips Trump’s Unhinged Tariff Metaphor Into A Perfect PunchlineEarlier this week, Rubio ordered diplomats to switch from Calibri to Times New Roman for official documents. “That means if Calibri was woke, then ramps are woke. Whatever happened to good ole American font names like Kyle or Chad?”Check out more of Kosta’s Thursday monologue on “The Daily Show.”Related...Read the original on HuffPost
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December 12, 2025 17:16 UTC
Trump Sued By Preservationists Seeking Review Over White House Ballroom Project
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December 12, 2025 17:03 UTC
Danish Intelligence Report Warns Of U.S. Military Threat Under Trump
LOADING ERROR LOADINGCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The United States is using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against friend and foe alike, a Danish intelligence agency said in a new report. The Danish Defense Intelligence Service, in its latest annual assessment, said Washington’s greater assertiveness under the Trump administration also comes as China and Russia seek to diminish Western, especially American, influence. Advertisement“For many countries outside the West, it has become a viable option to forge strategic agreements with China rather than the United States,” read the report, which was written in Danish. AdvertisementTrump has also refused to rule out military force in Greenland, where the United States already has a military base. “The United States is leveraging economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to assert its will, and the possibility of employing military force – even against allies – is no longer ruled out,” the report said.
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December 12, 2025 16:36 UTC
U.S. Preparing To Seize More Tankers Off Venezuela's Coast, Sources Say
The seizure was the first interdiction of an oil cargo or tanker from Venezuela, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2019. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe U.S. has assembled a target list of several more sanctioned tankers for possible seizure, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. AdvertisementA reduction or halt in Venezuelan oil exports, the main generator of revenue for the Venezuelan government, would strain the Maduro government’s finances. Advertisement“The cargoes were just loaded and were about to start sailing to Asia,” said a trading executive involved in dealing and shipping Venezuelan oil. Many of the vessels in the shadow fleet that transport sanctioned oil are old, their ownership is opaque and they sail without top-tier insurance coverage.
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December 12, 2025 15:59 UTC
Iran Arrests Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi, Supporters Say
LOADING ERROR LOADINGDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday. AdvertisementThere was no immediate comment from Iran over its detention of Mohammadi, 53. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. Advertisement“Alikordi was a prominent figure among Iran’s community of human rights defenders,” the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said Thursday. Mohammadi had been serving 13 years and nine months on charges of collusion against state security and propaganda against Iran’s government.
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December 12, 2025 15:59 UTC
25 Last-Minute Christmas Gifts To Order Now
Amazon has a vast library of e-books for Kindles that can be instantly downloaded and sent to anyone with this cult-favorite reading device. Amazon even gives you the option of gifting books to others. We are pleased to see that the New York Times Bestseller "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy made the cut, as this was one of HuffPost's Best Books of 2025, chosen by two members in the HuffPost newsroom In this Reese's Book Club Pick, a woman washes up on a small island near Antarctica. As she's nursed back to health by the very isolated Dominic Salt and his three children, it soon becomes a very real possibility that Dominic and this mysterious woman could start a life together, except it turns out neither one of them is telling the truth about who they are or why they're there. Part romance, part mystery and part thriller, "Wild Dark Shore" is full of "breath-taking twists."
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December 12, 2025 15:56 UTC