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\u2018There are no finer people than these, and there will be no finer couple. Congratulations to both – A deal made in HEAVEN!!!\u2019 Donald Trump writes
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President-elect Donald Trump congratulated Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt on their engagement in a post on Truth Social.
\u201cGreat news about Sean and Ainsley. They are officially engaged to be married! There are no finer people than these, and there will be no finer couple. Congratulations to both – A deal made in HEAVEN!!!\u201d Trump wrote on Friday morning.<\/a>
Hannity, 62, proposed to Earhardt, 48, over Christmas at their home church after years of long-distance dating, according to an announcement by Fox News<\/a> Thursday.
\u200b\u200b\u201dWe are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,\u201d the happy couple told the network.
Meanwhile, Trump<\/a> has posted his traditional rambling Christmas message calling out various foes, taunting adversaries, and reiterating his desire for U.S. territorial expansionism \u2014 including retaking the Panama Canal<\/a>, incorporating Canada<\/a> into the union, and buying Greenland<\/a>.
A Danish official said an announcement that the country is boosting defense spending for Greenland, was an \u201cirony of fate.\u201d
Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish defense minister, told the paper Jyllands-Posten <\/em>Tuesday that the country plans to spend a \u201cdouble-digit billion amount\u201d in krone \u2014 about $1.5 billion \u2014 to make sure they have a \u201cstronger presence\u201d in the Arctic.
Elon Musk<\/a> started 2024 as the controversial owner of a social media platform, but ends it as one of the most powerful individuals in the world and a key adviser to the incoming US president.
The debate around the billionaire has moved on dramatically over the last 12 months, from whether the way he was running X, formerly Twitter, would be viable or sustainable in the long-term, to whether Mr Musk\u2019s own influence over global politics through his wealth and social media megaphone made him a threat to democracy.
The biggest story of 2024 around Mr Musk has been has dramatic swing behind the US President-elect Donald Trump<\/a> ahead of the November election and how Mr Musk effectively reconfigured X into a vehicle to support the Republican candidate, alongside his personal fortune.
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The billionaire\u2019s control of X, formerly Twitter, has helped him expand his impact offline over the last 12 months.
Russia<\/a> has warned it \u201crules out nothing\u201d regarding nuclear testing in response to Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s \u201cradical\u201d position on the issue during his first term as president.<\/a>
Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, who oversees arms control, warned the United States that its nuclear arsenal is intended to \u201csober up\u201d countries on the \u201cbrink of direct armed conflict\u201d with Russia.<\/a>
Russia, the US and China are all undertaking major modernisations of their nuclear weapons just as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) of the Cold War era between the Soviet Union and the US is starting to fall apart.
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Ministers warned the US that its nuclear arsenal is intended to \u2018sober up\u2019 countries on the \u2018brink of direct armed conflict\u2019 with Russia
Elon Musk<\/a>, the world\u2019s richest man and President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a>\u201cfirst buddy,\u201d<\/a> revealed on Christmas night that he was using the medication Mounjaro for weight loss while dubbing himself \u201cOzempic Santa\u201d in a holiday-themed social media post.
The revelation also comes just a couple of weeks after he clashed with Trump\u2019s designated Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> over the widespread use and long-term benefits of GLP-1 inhibitors in battling obesity.
Posting to his social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Musk shared an image of himself dressed as Santa Claus next to a Christmas tree alongside the caption \u201cOzempic Santa.\u201d The post quickly went viral, gathering over 200,000 likes and 26 million views.
\u201cLike Cocaine Bear, but Santa and Ozempic!\u201d Musk added in a separate tweet.
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The world\u2019s richest man has clashed with incoming Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the role weight-loss medications should play in making Americans healthier and thinner.
The Trump administration is planning to jail immigrant families together in detention centers before they are removed from the country.
\u201cWe\u2019re going to need to construct family facilities,\u201d Tom Homan told The Washington Post<\/em> in a recent interview. \u201cHow many beds we\u2019re going to need will depend on what the data says.\u201d
Trump and Homan have repeatedly said that even U.S. citizen children of non-citizen parents are expected to be deported along with their families.
\u201cHere\u2019s the issue,\u201d Homan told The Post.<\/em> \u201cYou knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position.\u201d
Tom Homan says the administration will construct \u2018family facilities\u2019 for mass deportation plans, including removing citizen children with undocumented parents <\/p>\n

Trump has nominated Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera for U.S. ambassador to Panama, \u201ca Country that is ripping us off on the Panama Canal, far beyond their wildest dreams,\u201d the president-elect Trump announced on Christmas Eve.
\u201cFew understand Latin American politics as well as Kevin,\u201d Trump said.
Cabrera also served as state director for Florida in Trump\u2019s 2020 campaign and is vice chair of Miami-Dade\u2019s International Trade Consortium.
His nomination follows a seemingly random attack suggesting that the U.S. would seize control of the Panama Canal, part of a series of statements aimed at other countries in a signal that his administration is threatening U.S. territorial expansion to bully sovereign nations to his economic demands.
Panamanian President Jos\u00e9 Ra\u00fal Mulino fired back, emphasizing the canal would remain under Panama\u2019s control.
\u201cThe sovereignty and independence of our country is non-negotiable,\u201d he said.
Some of Donald Trump\u2019s most prominent critics are bracing for impact.
\u201cBy going after me they\u2019re just going to give me a platform,\u201d George Conway told The Independent.<\/em>
More from The Independent<\/em>\u2019s White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg on the critics preparing for a fight:
While some critics brace for Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, others are ready for a fight.
President Joe Biden spent Christmas Eve signing 50 bills into law, including one piece of legislation supported by Paris Hilton and another designating the bald eagle as the U.S. national bird.
Gustaf Kilander breaks them down:
The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is designed to hold teenage treatment centers and care facilities accountable
A video from aspiring Republican political figure Valentina Gomez shows her firing a handgun into the back of the head of a dummy tied to a chair with a black bag over its head.
\u201cIt\u2019s that simple, public executions for any illegal that rapes or kills an American. They don\u2019t deserve deportation, they deserve to be ended,\u201d she says.
The widely derided video has been condemned for glorifying \u201cthe type of vigilantism that has led to deadly consequences in our nation and feeds into the anti-immigrant lie,\u201d according to League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation\u2019s largest Latino civil rights group.
\u201cLULAC denounces violent crime in our nation and expresses its deepest condolences to its victims and their loved ones,\u201d the group\u2019s presidet Roman Palomares said in a statement.
\u201cHowever, we believe in the Christian principles of justice, not retribution. Using public executions as a hook to a politically motivated message fuels blind hatred. This kind of language is intended to appeal to an extreme base of individuals who believe the lie that all immigrants are here to harm others.\u201d
More on the backlash to the Gomez\u2019s latest stunt:
Valentina Gomez, who lost the race to become Missouri Secretary of State earlier this year, that undocumented persons who committed violent crimes \u2018deserve to be ended\u2019
Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the leaders of the Trump administration\u2019s incoming Department of Government Efficiency, blamed a series of 1990s TV sitcoms for what he saw as a decline in U.S. dynamism in science and technology, leading tech companies to hire more qualified foreign-born and first-generation workers over their mentally lazy American counterparts.
His comments follow wider tensions within the Trump coalition, which includes both far-right anti-immigration views, and an increasing embrace of the tech industry, whose workforce is highly diverse and made up of many immigrants and first-generation Americans.
The Independent<\/em>\u2019s Josh Marcus reports:
Trump coalition\u2019s hardline anti-immigrant stance is clashing with concurrent embrace of tech world, often highly diverse
Trump\u2019s inaugural fund is projected to raise more than $150 million, breaking the previous $107 million inauguration fundraising record that was set during the president-elect\u2019s first inauguration.
Previous Trump inauguration also set record
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