Unbiased headline news – President-elect Donald Trump on Monday gave his backing to House Speaker Mike Johnson to remain in the position for the 119th Congress.
Trump announced his “total and complete endorsement” of Johnson, R-La., on his Truth Social platform early Monday morning. He praised the Louisiana congressman as a “good, hard-working, religious man” and expressed confidence that Johnson “will do the right thing, and we will continue to win.”
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South Korean authorities said Monday they have requested a court to issue an arrest warrant for suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol over allegations of insurrection and abuse of power tied to his failed attempt to declare martial law.
The request comes from a joint investigation team comprising officials from the police anticorruption office and the defense ministry. The team is seeking to detain Yoon after he failed to respond to three prior subpoenas for questioning about his December 3 martial law declaration. Similar arrests of former leaders such as Roh Tae-woo, Chun Doo-hwan, Park Geun-hye, and Lee Myung-bak occurred only after they left office.
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A federal appeals court on Monday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s effort to overturn a jury’s verdict from last year, which found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that “Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings” and found he “has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.”
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The fund responsible for compensating victims of Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme began its final disbursement this week, distributing an additional $131 million to investors who were defrauded.
Payments are being sent to 23,000 victims globally, bringing total recoveries to 94% of the losses suffered. Federal prosecutors noted that the majority of these victims were small investors who lost less than $500,000 in the massive fraud.
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Three high-end watches, including a $9,000 Rolex, stolen from actor Keanu Reeves’ Los Angeles home have been recovered in Chile, police said.
Chilean authorities reported that a man was arrested in Santiago on Saturday in connection with the theft, as part of a larger local operation. The suspect, whose identity has not been disclosed, is now in custody. One of the recovered watches is a Rolex Submariner engraved with the “John Wick” actor’s name.
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The funeral for former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 100, is scheduled for Jan. 9 at Washington National Cathedral.
According to the Carter Center, Carter will also lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda after Congress extended the invitation to his family. The 39th president, a peanut farmer’s son who rose to the nation’s highest office, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by loved ones. He had recently become the longest-lived former U.S. president.
