• Top News
  • AP/FOX News/Wall Street Journal: US forces stop oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as Trump follows up on promise to seize tankers
  • The Hill: Hegseth hails new seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker
  • Washington Post: Trump faces narrowing options on Venezuela action
  • FOX News: DOT cracks down on thousands of illegal immigrant truckers as agency looks to holiday travel: Duffy
  • New York Post: Feds scour terror watch list of 18,000 as it’s revealed just 1 of 3 Afghan suspects was on it
  • Just the News: Noem says Trump admin has located more than 129,000 ‘unaccompanied children’ Biden admin lost
  • New York Post: Brown University shooter made multiple trips to Boston for surveillance before deadly attack: sources
  • Daily Caller: Brown University Shooter Dead For Days Before Discovery
  • FOX News: Brown University, MIT shootings: Are elite US universities prepared for targeted violence?
  • CNN: As officials uncover more information about the Brown and MIT professor shooting suspect, key questions remain
  • AP: How surveillance technology and the ‘Reddit Detective Agency’ helped search for a killer
  • FOX News: State Department spokesperson says ‘America first’ immigration policy is needed
  • Wall Street Journal: California Cuts Back on Costly Immigrant Healthcare
• Opinion – Op-Eds
  • USA Today: [Venezuela] Trump’s lethal fixation on Venezuela is about oil, not drugs
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Washington Post: Four ICE detainee deaths in four days spark alarm as arrests grow
  • FOX News: DHS fires back at Senate Dems over ICE detainee death claims: ‘Trying to twist data’
  • FOX News: DHS packages latest ICE arrests as ‘Christmas gift to Americans’
  • USA Today: All she wants for Christmas is to be deported. ICE won’t let her go.
  • New York Post: [NY] Smirking suspect in brutal murder of cabbie dumped in NYC reservoir is illegal migrant: feds
  • FOX News: [NY] ICE lodges detainer for illegal immigrant charged in brutal killing of New York taxi driver
  • Washington Examiner: [NJ] New Jersey Democrats cry foul after ICE detainee dies of ‘suspected natural causes’
  • Univision: [MD] Arrested by ICE despite being born in Maryland: the case of a young woman whose citizenship is in dispute
  • Daily Signal: [MN] Ilhan Omar Can Accuse ICE With No Proof
  • Yahoo! News: [TX] 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
  • Los Angeles Times: [CA] Jury acquits L.A. man who towed immigration agent’s car during TikTok influencer’s arrest
  • Univision: [CA] “ICE took someone from here” Campaign of 100 signs for those detained and families affected by immigration arrests
  • Univision: [Cuba] Migrants say they asked to be deported to Cuba, but ended up at Guantanamo Bay.
• Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • NPR: Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown
  • AP: [Honduras] Trump administration restricts 2 Honduran election officials’ visas over special vote count
• Customs and Border Protection
  • Breitbart: Biden Border Crisis Fallout: Terror Gang Tren de Aragua Charged in Massive ATM Malware Scheme
  • CBS News: [WA] Border Patrol rescues driver from Washington floods
• Coast Guard
  • FOX News: Cruise ship chaos mounts as deaths, crimes on board shatter illusions of safety at sea, experts warn
  • New York Post: [FL] Desperate search for 2 men underway after fishing boat found empty off Florida coast
• CISA/Cybersecurity
  • FOX News: [TX] Data breach exposes 400,000 bank customers’ info
• National Security News
  • Univision: [Venezuela] “It is an illegitimate regime,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the Maduro government.
  • Washington Post: [Venezuela] Trump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets. Here’s the history.
  • Washington Examiner: [Ukraine] Gabbard denies US intelligence that warned Putin has war goals beyond Ukraine
  • Reuters: [Ukraine] US, Russian officials meet in Florida for more Ukraine talks
  • Wall Street Journal: [Syria] Strikes on Islamic State Pound a Foe the U.S. Once Thought Defeated
  • Reuters: [Syria] US hits ISIS in Syria with large retaliatory strikes: officials

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