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Citizen Frank
January 09, 2025
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, January 8.
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The National Guard have now been called in to help exhausted firefighters battling six separate fires as the apocalyptic skies of Los Angeles continue to fill with smoke.
Two new blazes broke out last night in the Hollywood Hills and Studio City – forcing first responders to redeploy their already-scarce resources to the burnt landscape.
The latest fires mean huge swathes of iconic southern California real estate from Malibu to Santa Monica, and from Pacific Palisades to Runyon Canyon, are ablaze – impacting millions caught off guard by the unprecedented spread and carnage.
Police arrested a man trying to enter the U.S. Capitol with a machete and three knives Wednesday as former President Jimmy Carter, who died in late December, lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
The arrest took place just hours before President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to visit the Capitol to pay his respects to Carter and meet with Republican senators.
The man, 44-year-old Mel Horne of Washington, D.C., was stopped when police officers spotted the machete in his bag during an X-ray screening in the Capitol Visitor Center just after 2 p.m. ET, according to the U.S. Capitol Police.
President-elect Trump is leaving the rest of his GOP trifecta hanging on their reconciliation stalemate.
Republican leaders on both sides of the Capitol have no interest in going against Trump. He has the power to quickly end this debate, but that’s no closer after Wednesday’s meeting with the Senate GOP.
Trump pitched the idea of a single “beautiful bill,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told reporters after the meeting. That’s where the momentum is headed, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said.
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., introduced the “Panama Canal Repurchase Act” on Thursday that would allow the U.S. president to enter negotiations over buying the Panama Canal and moving it under U.S. control.
President-elect Trump has discussed the issue recently.
“President Trump is right to consider repurchasing the Panama Canal. China’s interest in and presence around the canal is a cause for concern,” Johnson said in a statement.
Just days after the new members of the United States Senate were sworn into office, Democrats in the upper chamber have already taken steps to delay the confirmation hearings of one major nominee for President-elect Donald Trump’s second Cabinet.
As reported by Axios, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), who serves as the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is delaying Republican efforts to hold confirmation hearings as early as next week for former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (R-Hawaii), President-elect Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Warner’s excuse for the delay is that the committee has allegedly not yet received certain materials from Gabbard, including her FBI background check, ethics disclosure, and her pre-hearing questionnaire.
President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump paid their respects to the late President Jimmy Carter as he lay in state on Wednesday night.
The Trumps arrived at the U.S. Capitol just before 5:30 p.m. and were greeted by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
The Trumps stood solemnly and silently for more than a minute before Carter’s casket as they paid their respects to the 39th president of the United States.
An OnlyFans content creator was recorded propositioning a fast food employee for sex, but she was turned down after the worker told her he was “a Christian man.”
Bonnie Blue, 25, is a controversial OnlyFans creator who targets 18 and 19-year-olds to have sex with her.
Viewers had mixed reactions when Blue shared the video on her TikTok account. In the clip, the content creator enters a Five Guys branch and asks an employee where she can find “five guys” and inquires whether he’s “on the menu.”
An Ohio teacher who resigned after refusing to use students’ preferred pronouns and names will receive a $450,000 settlement from her school district.
Vivian Geraghty sued the Jackson Local School District in 2022, and the settlement was reached last month, the New York Post reported over the weekend.
She was aided in her suit by Alliance Defending Freedom, which released a statement to NBC4 late last week.
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