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Jeremy Renner is in “critical” but stable condition following an accident involving a snow plow at his Lake Tahoe home. Renner was attempting to clear his driveway after a massive winter storm inundated the Lake Tahoe region last week. The two-time Oscar nominee was airlifted to a Reno-area hospital with “extensive injuries.” https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1609894954679033857 TMZ further reports: According to a neighbor, the plowing machine — called a Snowcat — accidentally ran over one of Jeremy’s legs, and he was losing a lot of blood from the injury. We’re told another neighbor, who’s a doctor, was able to put a tourniquet on…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced a significant victory against a notorious transnational criminal organization. Agents recently arrested an MS-13 gang leader in suburban Washington, D.C. Herberth Bonilla-Garcia, 40, was apprehended during a targeted raid in Manassas, Virginia. Bonilla-Garcia hid in the United States after earning a spot on El Salvador’s most-wanted list. He was previously deported from the U.S. in 2006 and 2012. Just the News’ Madeleine Hubbard has more: “Herberth Bonilla-Garcia has a history of unlawfully entering the U.S. and this time he apparently did so to escape justice in his home country,” Assistant Removal Operations…

The House Ways and Means Committee has released six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. The announcement marks the culmination of a years-long legal battle and offers a detailed account of the billionaire’s recent financial history. Per CNBC: The panel voted last week to make the returns public with redactions of sensitive information after a lengthy legal battle over making the documents public. The Ways and Means Committee last month obtained Trump’s personal and federal income tax returns for the years 2015 to 2020. It had sought the records since 2019, when Trump was president, and he tried to block…

A prominent member of the Jan. 6 Committee announced last night that he has a “serious but curable form of cancer.” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., revealed the news to the world in a statement Wednesday evening, noting that he will begin outpatient treatment. The New York Times further reports: Mr. Raskin, 60, who is a member of the House Jan. 6 committee and was recently chosen to become the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said he had diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and would soon begin a course of outpatient chemo-immunotherapy. “I expect to be able to work through this…

The final defendant and co-leader in the plot to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) learned his fate Wednesday. A judge sentenced Barry Croft Jr. to 19 years and seven months behind bars. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence. A Grand Rapids-area jury found Croft and fellow co-leader Adam Fox guilty of kidnapping conspiracy charges and attempting to obtain a weapon of mass destruction. They planned to use explosives to demolish a bridge to ease their escape. The New York Times reports: The man, Barry Croft, a truck driver who had spoken of wanting to foment civil war and had…

The Jan. 6 Committee is ready to vote on whether the Justice Department should pursue at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump. Per ABC News: The Jan. 6 committee is preparing to urge the Department of Justice to prosecute former President Donald Trump on criminal charges during its business meeting on Monday, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The committee has been debating the move for months and is largely symbolic. Obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States are two charges the committee plans to include in their criminal referral, according to…

A federal judge has put the Biden administration’s attempt to end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy on hold. At least for now. The policy requires asylum-seekers to stay in Mexico while U.S. authorities process their claims. Federal Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk has stayed the administration’s termination orders until litigation concerning President Biden’s bid to end the policy is resolved. NBC News explains: Kacsmaryk’s ruling is a setback for President Joe Biden, whose administration first sought to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, when he took office in January 2021. The Supreme Court said in…

It’s official, the Biden administration is suing Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R). The Department of Justice filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, claiming his makeshift border barrier has trespassed on 10 miles of federal lands. The Washington Examiner has more: “In installing shipping containers on National Forest System lands, Arizona has widened roads and cleared lands for staging areas … cut down or removed scores of trees, clogged drainages, and degraded the habitat of species listed under the Endangered Species Act,” the lawsuit states. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1603185602228256770 The Biden administration asked the court to order Ducey to…

Confidence is growing in the Federal Reserve’s battle against inflation. The Fed slowed its ongoing rate hike amid signs inflation cooled in November. Although it remains high. Speaking to reporters, Fed Chair Jerome Powell conceded that the central bank still has “more work to do.” https://twitter.com/business/status/1603119138536554496 The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System voted unanimously to slow down to a 50 basis-point hike after four consecutive 75 basis-point hikes. Observers don’t expect the Fed to cut interest rates again until 2024. The Hill has more: “The committee decided to raise interest rates by 50 basis points today a…

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is making headlines after implying that Moscow would adopt a first-strike nuclear policy, which he euphemistically called a “disarming strike.” Putin’s comments come days after he said the threat of nuclear war was rising. Per Bloomberg: “We’re thinking about this,” the Russian president told reporters after a summit in Kyrgyzstan. “If we are talking about a disarming strike, perhaps we should think about using the approaches of our American partners,” he said, citing what he called US strategies to use high-accuracy missiles for a preventive strike. The comments were Putin’s second on the nuclear issue this…