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No let-up in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza as Christmas dawns  CBS News Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israel-Hamas war rages  CNN Gazans Mourn After an Attack That Officials Say Killed Dozens  The New York Times Israel-Gaza war: Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel paying

Associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. (Image credit: Pavel Golovkin/AP)

Donald Trump faces many signs of potential political trouble; here are a few of them  USA TODAY

Supreme Court rejects Jack Smith’s request for justices to quickly hear Trump immunity dispute  CNN Trump’s Jan. 6 appeal filed in U.S. Circuit after Supreme Court won’t expedite  The Washington Post Donald Trump’s Pre-Christmas Legal Move Trashed by Attorney  Newsweek

Tourism is surging at Big Bend National Park and the surrounding region, transforming one of Texas’ wildest and most distant areas. 

Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny is now in a penal camp in northern Russia after going missing for more than two weeks, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh says on X. He had once again failed to appear at a court hearing via

The Gazan Health Ministry blamed Israeli airstrikes for the deaths as Israel’s military said it was reviewing the episode.

The jailed Russian opposition figure, who had been missing for more than two weeks, has been located at a penal colony in the country’s far north and is doing well.

One of Israel’s major challenges is to break up the extensive underground network that enables Hamas militants to elude Israeli forces, store weapons and launch surprise attacks.

‘Four years of getting even’: voters in former Trump stronghold mixed on possible second term  The Guardian US