The Federal Communications Commission cleared SpaceX to use its Starlink broadband satellites to provide T-Mobile customers with direct-to-phone service. The T-Mobile license is the first collaboration between a satellite operator and wireless carrier to be approved by the FCC to provide supplemental cell coverage from space. “The Commission recognized that satellite-to-device connectivity can support critical public interest benefits, including ubiquitous connectivity, access to 911 service...

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line. Now they have a new fear: becoming the personal targets of the world’s richest man – and his legions of followers.

Syrian rebels in the last opposition enclave in northern Syria launched on Wednesday a wide-scale military operation against the Syrian army and seized territory in the first such advance in years, army and rebel sources said. The rebel offensive overran at least 10 areas under the control of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in northwestern Aleppo province, said a source in the operations room run by a coalition of insurgent groups led by the militant Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

President-elect Donald Trump will likely reverse President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a 1,200 mile project running from Canada to Nebraska.  Citing unnamed sources, Politico reported that Trump plans to take the action on his first day in office. While the news has been met with excitement over the jobs and economic activity it would bring, experts say Biden’s decision to kill the project has likely destroyed any chance it will ever be built...

President-elect Trump said he spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, saying she has agreed to "stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States" following threats this week to significantly tariff goods from Mexico. Trump vowed to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada if both nations failed to do more to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the U.S. Sheinbaum, who recently took office, said on Wednesday that Mexico would retaliate if Trump followed...

President Vladimir Putin has said Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 90 missiles and 100 drones in response to Ukraine's attacks with UK and US-supplied weapons last week. The co-ordinated assault unfolded over several hours with waves of drones and missiles flying across the length and breadth of Ukraine - the second attack of its kind this month. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said cluster munitions were used specifically against civilian and energy infrastructure. More...

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Marilyn Monroe, Dick Van Dyke and Orson Welles are related?!?

Marilyn Monroe, Dick Van Dyke and Orson Welles are related?!?