Journalist Bari Weiss released part five of the “Twitter Files” on Dec. 12, showing what appear to be conversations between Twitter employees before former President Donald Trump was banned from the platform. The employees apparently acknowledged Trump didn’t violate guidelines.

The Biden administration says it has plans to meet with Russian officials this week to negotiate for Paul Whelan’s release.

Abu Agila Masud, the Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, is extradited to the United States and appeared in a federal court in Washington, D.C.

Elon Musk revealed on Dec. 9 that Twitter shadow-banned certain political candidates ahead of elections. Former President Donald Trump also responded to the revelations in the latest batch of Twitter Files.

Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said she is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an Independent.

Sam Brinton, a Biden administration nuclear official, is charged with luggage theft for a second time.

A nonprofit group has discovered 48 new overseas police stations with ties to China’s communist regime, including two previously unknown facilities in Los Angeles and New York City.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 8 passed a defense funding bill that would force the termination of the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate if it is also approved by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden. The chamber also voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act—the bill that codifies a portion of a Supreme Court ruling that says same-sex marriage is a right.

New York Times staffers go on strike for the first time in over 40 years, asking for higher pay, better benefits, and the right to work remotely if their position will allow it.

While professional basketball player Brittney Griner was freed from prison and is expected to return to American soil on Dec. 9, U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan remains behind bars in Russia on espionage charges that he and the U.S. government say are false.