Date: December 5, 2025
Host: Jim Schneider
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From Portland to Minnesota to Washington and beyond, once again, Jim had much to share from the news desk. Here’s a selection of stories from the first half hour:
–The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments over the legality of President Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship in the U.S.
–After nearly 5 years, Brian Cole, Jr., of Woodbridge, Virginia, the alleged January 6th pipe bomber, was arrested by the FBI yesterday.
–Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro has confirmed that he had a phone call with President Trump amid a major military build-up in the Caribbean and the threat of an attack on his country. He said the call, which occurred last month, was cordial.
–Two people who survived the U.S. military’s early September strike on an alleged drug carrying vessel were attempting to climb back onto the boat before it was hit a second time.
–Russia has begun evacuating its citizens from Venezuela.
–The White House has debuted a new page on its website aimed at lambasting media outlets over fake news coverage of the Trump administration.
–Democratic Senator Mark Warner is facing a firestorm after suggesting he believes members of the U.S. armed forces should save us from President Trump.
–Iranian-run, Soros-funded billboards, are urging soldiers to disobey orders.
–Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is at the center of a widening scandal as federal prosecutors continue to unravel one of the nation’s largest COVID-era fraud cases.
–My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed paperwork for a possible run as a Republican for the position of governor of Minnesota.
–Portland, Oregon’s tree lighting ceremony had almost no mention of Christmas but it did have chants of “Free Palestine!”
–The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered that a redrawn election map expected to increase Republican representation in Texas’s U.S. House delegation remain in place.
–The Indiana State House approved a new slate of congressional maps that tilts all nine congressional districts in favor of the GOP.
–Large scale voter fraud rocks Michigan.
–California’s top elected officials announced a new online portal with the stated purpose of having members of the public share information with the state’s Department of Justice about “potentially unlawful activity by federal agents and officers across the state.”
