The Israeli air force carried out over 300 airstrikes across Syria since rebels overthrew Assad over the weekend, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The UK-based observatory and Beirut-based Mayadeen TV, which has reporters in Syria, said Israeli troops are advancing up the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon. It was not possible to independently confirm the reports. The attacks targeted a range of locations, including research centres, weapons depots, airports, and...

A large brush fire is burning in Malibu Canyon near Pepperdine University, prompting some evacuations for residents.  The blaze, dubbed the Franklin Fire, was first reported a little after 10:45 p.m. near S. Malibu Canyon Road and Station Boundary just south of the Piuma area, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. 

The strategic importance of lithium is likely to have played a major role in the European Union’s blockbuster deal with Brazil, Argentina and three other South American countries, analysts say. After 25 years of talks, the EU and five Mercosur countries (an alliance which includes Paraguay, Uruguay and, newly, Bolivia) reached a highly anticipated trade agreement on Dec. 6. If ratified by the 27-nation bloc, the EU- Mercosur partnership will create one of the world’s biggest free trade...

Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) were sworn in Monday by Vice President Kamala Harris to serve the last three weeks of the terms of former Sens. Lephonza Butler and George Helmy, respectively. Butler and Helmy resigned over the weekend so that Schiff and Kim, both of whom won elections in November to full six-year terms starting in January 2025, could be appointed to assume their posts early. Schiff was also elected to serve the remaining length of Butler’s...

An apparent swatting call at the north Georgia home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., left a woman dead following a car accident involving local police. Greene took to social media on Monday to report that she was the subject of a bomb threat directed at her home. The congresswoman said the Rome Police Department’s assistant chief received the threat via email, prompting a bomb squad to be dispatched to her home. Greene says that this is not the first time she has been the subject of a...

New Jersey governor Phil Murphy signed a law on Monday to prohibit the banning of books in public and school libraries, diverging from the approach that Republican-led states have taken against LGBTQ+ or racially themed materials that conservative-minded parents find inappropriate for their children. “It’s the antithesis of all these book banning states that you see,” the Democratic governor said at the Princeton Public Library, where he signed the bill. “I’m incredibly proud to have signed...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a law Monday prohibiting book banning in state libraries and schools.  The law says school boards and the governing boards of public libraries need to create standards for how books are removed from shelves and how complaints are addressed.  Books will not be allowed to be removed based on “the origin, background, or views of the material or of its authors,” nor can books be censored based “on a disagreement with a viewpoint, idea, or...

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law. New Jersey becomes the latest Democrat-led state to enact a ban on book bans, joining Illinois and Minnesota. Murphy signed the bill at Princeton’s public library, a short walk from Princeton University’s ivy-draped campus and cast the legislation in the...

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by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream: God has been warning us over and over again about what is ahead.  Why is most of the population not interested in listening to such warnings?  Recently, a woman named Elizabeth Nebenfuhr reached out to me about a near death experience that she had as she was […]