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.”

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.