V oices, The Peoples News
December 13, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / ICE / Migrants / Gangs
U.S. to Require Live Selfies, Social Media Handles, and 10 Years of Phone/Email History for All ESTA Applicants. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has filed a draft rule that would make social media disclosure mandatory for citizens of 42 Visa Waiver Program countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and South Korea.
https://ktla.com/news/u-s-proposal-would-require-five-years-of-social-media-from-foreign-travelers/
Applicants for Trump’s newly released gold immigration cards could have wasted $1M if courts axe program
https://www.aol.com/articles/democratic-states-sue-trump-administration-202513520.html
‘I thought I was being kidnapped’: U.S. citizen reveals what happened when an ICE agent tackled him on his lunch break. This incident highlights concerns local leaders have about racial profiling as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents increase their presence in Minneapolis. The recent operation reportedly focuses specifically on Somali immigrants in the area.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/i-thought-i-was-being-kidnapped-u-s-citizen-reveals-what-happened-when-an-ice-agent-tackled-him-on-his-lunch-break-and-the-video-is-hard-to-watch/
Masked agents didn’t have ‘any evidence’ to snatch a Tufts scholar off the street. ICE is still trying to deport her. Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest has become a defining image of Trump’s campaign against Palestinian activism
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-arrest-deport-b2882839.html
13-Year-Old Boy ‘Handcuffed and Tackled’ by ICE Agents While Forced to Watch Father’s Arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBpDEd6h3CE
# Business / Industry / Corporations
You might not realize it, but your older car is protecting your privacy better than if you had a shiny new ride like your neighbor’s. This has been confirmed by the Mozilla Foundation. Automakers push to make accessing your car’s data a crime punishable by 3 to 5 years in federal prison. In a recent video breaking down the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the auto industry’s lobbying, Rossmann warns that accessing your own vehicle’s telematics data by bypassing a digital lock could, under law, be treated as a federal crime punishable by three to five years in prison. And instead of fighting that idea, he says, carmakers are leaning into it.
https://autos.yahoo.com/mozilla-automakers-personal-data-government-120000913.html
# Drugs / Trafficking
Lawrence O’Donnell Says Trump ‘Does Not Care About Drug Trafficking’ With 1 Potent Example. O’Donnell was referring to ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced in the U.S. last year to 45 years in prison, and said, “There is nothing more Donald Trump could do to prove that he absolutely does not care about drug trafficking.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lawrence-odonnell-says-trump-does-143717374.html
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes / IRS / Cryptocurrencies
For the first time since Trump’s tariff rollout, import tax revenue has fallen, threatening his lofty plans to slash the $38 trillion national debt
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-time-since-trump-tariff-194453702.html
US Mint unveils new coin after discontinuing pennies earlier this year. The U.S. Mint recently unveiled new coin designs for 2026 to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial), featuring historical themes like the Revolutionary War and Constitution on quarters, dimes, and half-dollars, with dual dates (1776-2026)
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2025/12/12/250-anniversary-coins-us-mint-2026-designs/87731728007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z112213p000450c000450d00—-v112213d–50–b–50–&gca-ft=43&gca-ds=sophi
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil / Power Plants
President Trump Signs Legislation to Unleash American Resources and Unlock Public Lands
https://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=418511
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM / Public Lands
States That Cut Environmental Agencies Face Crisis as Trump Deregulation Unfolds. Budget slashing and staff cuts have made states vulnerable to Trump’s efforts to dismantle the EPA.
https://truthout.org/articles/states-that-cut-environmental-agencies-face-crisis-as-trump-deregulation-unfolds/
Experts warn ongoing crisis at bottom of Pacific Ocean could be a direct threat to thousands of animals: ‘One of the largest … studies ever.’ Scientific expedition to the Calypso Deep, the deepest region of the Mediterranean Sea, researchers studied the area at 3.2 miles depth uncovered 167 objects, 148 of which proved to be marine garbage.
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/scientists-pacific-ocean-deep-discovery/13001/
Researchers issue warning after making alarming discovery deep in Amazon rainforest: ‘They need to be tackled.’ Systemic change is needed.
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/plastic-pollution-amazon-rainforest-biodiversity/
Researchers sound alarm after discovering ‘warning signal’ in Dead Sea: ‘It was a jarring moment.’ “[This] made it clear how deep and severe the phenomenon is.” The researchers relayed that the Kidron Stream is taking heaping amounts of trash from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea. As a closed basin, that material only leaves through human intervention. That made it a prime area of study for the scientists to see the full range and journey of plastics and microplastics.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/dead-sea-plastic-pollution-israel/
Strange Structures Revealed Beneath the Bermuda Triangle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK1D79R5RTM
There’s A Huge Underground Ocean You’ve Never Heard Of. Deep beneath Earth’s surface lies a hidden ocean so massive it could dwarf all the water in our rivers and seas, yet almost no one knows it exists. Scientists found it not as open water but trapped inside a blue, water-rich mineral called ringwoodite, buried hundreds of miles down in the mantle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXNWuTUtRGg
# FEMA / USAID
Bill Gates remains a relatively mild-mannered, non-political guy. But he’s also not going to ignore reality. ‘Nobody Wants to Take Responsibility for the Tragedy That’s Going on Here’: It’s not a coincidence, he says, that it’s coming after the Trump administration and other wealthy countries slashed foreign aid at the beginning of the year.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/12/bill-gates-foreign-aid-cuts-death-interview-00687062
‘Unlawful Executive encroachment’: Trump administration violated separation of powers by gutting preventive natural disaster FEMA program, judge rules
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unlawful-executive-encroachment-trump-administration-violated-separation-of-powers-by-gutting-preventive-natural-disaster-fema-program-judge-rules/
# Food / Farming / Agriculture / SNAP [Food Stamps] / FDA
Shoppers brace for sweeping supermarket shakeups under new January 1 ‘grocery’ law
https://www.the-sun.com/money/15608352/shopping-laws-store-changes-illinois-new-york/
West Texas Gets Water and Farmers Get a Bailout
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/12/08/trump-administration-announces-12-billion-farmer-bridge-payments-american-farmers-impacted-unfair
# General News / Boat Strikes
British Politician Jeremy Corbyn Agrees With Venezuela, Claims U.S. Seizure Of Tanker Near Its Coast Is An ‘Act Of Piracy.’ U.S. Lawmakers Condemn Trump’s Seizure of Venezuelan Oil Tanker: ‘Sleepwalking Us Into a War.’ Democratic Senator Mark Warner said of the seizure: “so they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat?”
https://www.latintimes.com/us-lawmakers-condemn-trumps-seizure-venezuelan-oil-tanker-sleepwalking-us-war-592494
# General News / Epstein / Maxwell
House Oversight Democrats release 19 photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein thah tie the convicted sex offender to President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, tech billionaire Bill Gates and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/newly-released-photos-epstein-estate-include-images-trump/story?id=128345597
Pardon-seeking Ghislaine Maxwell poised to drop damaging leaks to ‘send a message’— she wants an outright pardon, and she may have a strategy in the works to try to force Trump’s hand on the issue.
https://www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-maxwell-2674396107/
# Gov / Politics
White House staffers frantically boot press out of Oval Office after Trump comments. White House staff urgently rushed the press out of the Oval Office this evening after Donald Trump addressed the release of photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-staffers-frantically-boot-press-out-of-oval-office-after-trump-comments/ar-AA1SfVQj
House overturns Trump executive order in historic vote. The House voted 231-195 against Trump’s March order, which sought to strip the employees’ protections to negotiate for better pay, benefits and fair treatment.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/trump-order-union-rights-house-repeal
‘I am pissed off as hell’: Tennis legend who escaped a totalitarian regime has a warning for Americans about Trump. “I defected from a totalitarian regime and like hell am I going to be cowed again and be careful of what I have to say.”
https://www.sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-i-m-embarrassed-trump-country-martina-navratilova-sends-strong-message-publicly-calling-us-president
‘No President is legally allowed to tear down’ White House without review: National Trust sues to stop Trump’s White House ballroom. “No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review, not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the group wrote in the lawsuit. “And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-east-wing-ballroom-lawsuit-00689260
Trump administration says sign language services ‘intrude’ on Trump’s ability to control his image
https://apnews.com/article/american-sign-language-trump-white-house-7ac33c635cdefd22154d6eb7e47d3d55
Kristi Noem’s “Commander-at-Large” Says U.S. Citizens Need to Carry Proof of Citizenship: Cato Institute director of immigration studies David J. Bier replied to Reichlin-Melnick, “Citizenship used to mean something.”
https://2paragraphs.com/2025/12/kristi-noems-commander-at-large-says-u-s-citizens-need-to-carry-proof-of-citizenship/
Dem Senator Raises Alarm About Trump Bringing ‘Illegal and Dangerous Misuse of Lethal Force’ to Domestic Foes.
“If Trump is using this justification to use military force on any individuals he chooses… what’s stopping him from designating anyone within our own borders in a similar fashion and conducting lethal, militarized attacks against them?”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-military-us-citizens
‘Stop Arming Israel,’ Jewish-Led Groups Tell DNC Leaders at Party Summit. “The American public is demanding decisive action to end US complicity in the Israeli government’s war crimes by stopping the flow of weapons to Israel.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-voice-for-peace
Venezuela Condemns US ‘Piracy’ as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels. “I’m fairly gravely concerned that he’s sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela,” said one US senator. Donald Trump seems giddy about the prospect of stealing a Venezuelan oil tanker.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204292/venezuela-trump-piracy-keeping-oil-tanker
Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America. The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies. The United States has now amassed the largest military buildup in the Caribbean in decades, including the world’s largest warship, the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. Fifteen thousand U.S. troops are stationed in the region, on the ready.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-monroe-doctrine-2-0-outlines-imperial-intentions-for-latin-america/
# Gov / Politics / Global
Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of much-needed revenue.
https://theconversation.com/black-market-oil-buyers-will-push-venezuela-for-bigger-discounts-following-us-seizure-starving-maduro-of-much-needed-revenue-271896
# Law / Law Enforcement / Prisons / FBI / CIA
Mississippi governor orders release of man who served more than 10 years of illegal 15-year sentence
https://www.aol.com/articles/mississippi-governor-orders-release-man-072104763.html
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC] / Supreme Court
DOJ sues Georgia’s Fulton County for 2020 election records
https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/12/12/georgia-today-doj-sues-fulton-county-over-2020-election-records-senate-rejects
The Justice Department has now sued 18 states in an effort to access voter data
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642610/doj-voter-data-lawsuits-colorado-hawaii-massachusetts-nevada
# Medicare / Medicaid / Disability Benefits
Senate rejects both bills on ACA subsidies, all but ensuring premium hike in 2026. The Senate rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-senate-expected-to-vote-on-aca-subsidies-with-premiums-set-to-rise-in-2026
In echoes of Minneapolis, whistleblower says Maine company bilked Medicaid dollars. The company was founded by a Somali immigrant who later tried to run for office in his home country and allegedly sent money to fund a paramilitary force.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/whistleblower-alleges-massive-fraud-across-204900313.html
‘Tragedy in the making’: Top healthcare exec on why insurance will spike to subsidize a tax cut to millionaires and billionaires, warning that millions of Americans are about to be hit with higher premiums, lost coverage, and rising medical debt as Washington gridlock hardens.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tragedy-making-top-healthcare-exec-200946858.html
Trump Willing to Work With Democrats on Health Care
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5646004-donald-trump-democrats-health-care-aca-subsidies/
# Medical / Biologicals / Science / Research / Technology
Trump’s plan to limit student loans for nurses in his repayment overhaul is facing bipartisan backlash. The new limits would exclude advanced nursing programs from the higher professional degree borrowing cap.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-student-loan-debt-limits-nurses-bipartisan-backlash-repayment-overhaul-2025-12
Stanford Medicine study shows why mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/12/myocarditis-vaccine-covid.html
# Military / War Department
Navy delivers report to Hegseth on potential of punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/navy-delivers-report-hegseth-potential-182001111.html
Admiral leading US military strikes in Latin America steps down: “We must always be there for human rights.” In his remarks during a ceremony marking his relinquishment of command, the admiral emphasized the importance of supporting nations that believe in democracy and human rights.
https://www.tag24.com/world/admiral-leading-us-military-strikes-in-latin-america-steps-down-we-must-always-be-there-for-human-rights-3448803
# Transportation / Shipping
Trump admin threatens to withhold millions in federal funding from NY over noncitizen licenses
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-duffy-threatens-to-withhold-millions-in-highway-funds-from-new-york-over-flaws-in-immigrant-commercial-drivers-license-system
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