Emails from the FBI to Twitter released on Dec. 16 showed bureau officials flagging specific people for Twitter to take action against.

A Maricopa County judge granted Kari Lake permission to inspect some ballots from the 2022 midterm election.

Former President Donald Trump on Dec. 15 announced his plans to combat censorship as part of his 2024 presidential campaign. He also unveiled his new digital trading cards.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill to ban the app TikTok on federal devices.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Arizona, arguing that the state is illegally using federal property by building a makeshift border wall using shipping containers.

Republican senators introduced legislation that would ban TikTok from operating in the United States, citing concerns about TikTok’s parent company Bytedance and its affiliation with the Chinese regime. Meanwhile, 15 state attorneys general wrote a letter to Apple and Google on Dec. 14 demanding they increase their age ratings for the TikTok app.

Residents of a Connecticut town commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

An American citizen has been released as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Dec. 13 said he intends to ask the state’s Supreme Court for a grand jury investigation of “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines. He made the announcement during a roundtable on vaccine accountability.

Drs. Robert Malone and Peter McCullough, whose Twitter accounts were suspended during the COVID pandemic, confirmed that they are now able to post again.

U.S. prosecutors accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of making illegal campaign donations totaling in the “tens of millions of dollars.”