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When it comes to celebrating Christmas, the White House has always been one of the historic places Americans can look to for beautiful displays and decorations – and this year is no exception.

Since 1961, when Jacqueline Kennedy first introduced an official Christmas theme for the White House, the first lady has taken charge of decorations. This year social media users are highlighting the start difference between Melania Trump's decorations and greeting versus that of former first lady Jill Biden.

Here is Mrs. Trump's video from X, in which she announces this year's theme, "Home Is Where the Heart Is":

"The video includes beautiful music, tasteful decor, and even prominently features the nativity," notes Not the Bee.

"But we must never forget what we suffered through when former first lady Jill Biden was running things. … You had the tacky streamers and weird circus theme:"

Two years ago, Mrs. Biden raised more than a few eyebrows with a video featuring a fanciful video take on the Christmas classic ballet "The Nutcracker."

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Two lawmakers in the United Kingdom have suggested requiring death coaches for those participating in the nation's assisted suicide programs.

Essentially, they want "death doulas" for people.

Doulas actually are those who provide guidance and counsel to another person going through a significant health-related episode, such as childbirth, miscarriage and more.

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A menacing video threatening the lives of Northern Ireland elected lawmakers who are allegedly ignoring the flood of illegal aliens and the destruction of Christian culture is sparking an investigation by police.

A group calling itself the New Republican Movement posted the video showing three armed and masked men in front of an Irish flag complaining about "the level of disrespect shown to the people who put you into power."

"This cannot be ignored any longer," one man reads from a prepared statement. "We are proud men of Ireland. We are patriots. Your policies and decision-making in regards to flooding our community with undocumented, military-age men is not acceptable.

"We will not sit back any longer and watch our culture and religion destroyed by the people we put in power. Also, the sexual indoctrination of our children in schools has not went unnoticed either.

"The New Republican Movement will take immediate action against anyone who threatens our ways of life and the safety of our women and children. We have your addresses and know your movements. Every one of you are legitimate targets as of today."

The threats were made against officials in Newry, Mourne and Down, where the District Council voted in September to become a designated "Council of Sanctuary," similar to American "sanctuary cities" acting as a safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers.

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A driver was rescued from likely death after a commercial cargo truck veered off a snow-covered highway in West Virginia, leaving the semi-truck cab dangling for five hours off a bridge nearly 100-feet above the ground.

According to a report at Fox Weather, at roughly 6:25 a.m. Tuesday, first responders from Hurricane Fire Department were dispatched to U.S. Route 35 in Mason County.

According to local first responders, technicians from several responding departments implemented three rope systems using two heavy "wrecker" trucks, Fox reported, operating one as an anchor to the bridge and the other to secure the dangling truck to prevent it from plummeting to the ground below.

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In the wake of dozens of Somalians in Minnesota being convicted and sentenced for fraud, to the tune of $1 billion of taxpayer funds, and President Trump saying that immigrants from the African nation "contribute nothing" to the nation, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara is advising people to call 911 if they see masked individuals in their neighborhood – a reference to some ICE agents who've worn masks to protect themselves from doxxing and other risks.

"Provide as much information as possible. … We will immediately respond," O'Hara said at a city press conference.

The chief says he has reminded his officers "of their duty to intervene" in such incidents, during which someone's "civl rights" may be at risk.

During a Tuesday Cabinet meeting, Trump said, "I don't want [Somalians] in our country – I'll be honest with you," saying that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somalian immigrant, is "garbage."

In response to news that federal immigration officials are planning an enforcement crackdown in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey declared he will not work with ICE, as he began to speak in a very halting Somali mid-speech.

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At the same news conference, Somalian Minneapolis City Council Member Jamal Osman called Trump "racist, xenophobic and islamophobic" and then, again, began speaking in a foreign language, saying, "Now, I would like to switch into Somali to speak to my community."

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The Ten Commandments, although cited repeatedly by America's Founding Fathers and widely recognized as the moral code on which the U.S. was founded, in recent years have faced an orchestrated suppression campaign.

A decade ago, Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, facilitated a recognition of the moral code in the state's court building, and was removed from office for that.

He was promptly re-elected by voters to the same post.

Now the fight over those laws from God is pending in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

It is First Liberty Institute and Heather Gebelin Hacker of Hacker Stephens LLP who have filed an amicus brief with the court on behalf of 46 members of Congress including Sen. Ted Cruz, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson, and Rep. Chip Roy.

They are supporting the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

"First Liberty's recent Supreme Court victories in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District make clear that displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools is constitutional," explained Kelly Shackelford, chief of First Liberty.

"Our religious heritage and the best of the nation's history and traditions acknowledge the Ten Commandments as an important symbol of law and moral conduct with both religious and secular significance. Government hostility to religion and our religious history is not the law."

The issue is that judges at the entry level of the federal court system have stopped laws in Texas and Louisiana that call for posting the rules in schools.

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A recent City Journal investigation uncovered the fact that Minnesota state taxpayers likely are the biggest single source of funding for the Muslim terror network of al-Shabaab.

And now U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed that the federal government is investigating the scandal that has developed on the watch of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz.

It is hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars being diverted to terror.

Now Bessent has said an investigation is under way.

Bessent confirmed the agency is "investigating allegations that under the feckless mismanagement" of Joe Biden in Washington and Walz in Minnesota, taxpayer money in the state was ending up in the hands of terrorists.

He said the agency is "acting fast to ensure" tax dollars are not going to "funding acts of global terror."

A report at Breitbart said it is the vast Somali community in Minnesota that has manipulated social welfare programs to gain access to hundreds of millions of dollars, and forwarded much of that to Somalia, where al-Shabaab takes a cut.

The City Journal documented, "Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots."

The fraud scheme "has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab," the report said.

The report noted one source confirmed, "The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer."

"If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with 'low barriers to entry' and 'minimal requirements for reimbursement.' Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million," the research charged.

But costs in 2021 alone totaled $21 million, and since then annual totals have been $42 million, $74 million, $104 million.

Prosecutions already have developed because of the alleged fraud. Already, there have been 56 people who admitted guilt in a $250 million "Feeding Our Future" fraud, the report confirmed.

That purportedly was to provide daycare assistance, but it used "fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices" to demand reimbursement of nearly $200 million.

"In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya," the report confirmed.

This week, both President Donald Trump and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went scorched earth on Walz.

Trump himself highlighted a report by investigative journalist Amy Mekelburg of the RAIR Foundation in which she indicated: "Minnesota is being systematically transformed – its people replaced, its cities being turned into foreign enclaves, its future rewritten by mass migration and soaring immigrant birth rates, all by design."

The president also posted video of Somalis celebrating their culture in Minnesota.

Leavitt charged, "Somali immigrants have been ripping off American taxpayers."

Also on Monday, a group of Minnesota state government employees confirmed they had warned Kamala Harris, unsuccessfully running as a Democrat for president last year with Walz as her sidekick, about Walz' "his incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation."

"For public awareness, we did write to Kamala Harris and the DNC – multiple times – warning them about Tim Walz & his incompetence, fraud scandals and retaliation," wrote the Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees account, representing some 480 employees.

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A man who says he is a woman is suing the federal government over restrictions in his job at the Transportation Security Administration that do not allow him to "pat down" female travelers.

A Western Journal report published at the Gateway Pundit explains Danielle Mittereder is suing over rules from the Department of Homeland Security establishing those limits.

That restriction followed an executive order from President Donald Trump against recognizing transgenderism claims in the federal government.

The claim being made by Mittereder is that the policy violates federal civil rights law.

According to the report on the recently filed lawsuit, Mittereder began working at the TSA in 2024 and now is stationed at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.

He claims because he is not allowed to pat down women, his job prospects are being hurt.

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President Donald Trump closed his final Cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday with a ferocious message to Somali immigrants including Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota who "complain and do nothing but bitch."

'I don't want 'em in our country, I'll be honest with you," Trump said of the immigrants who have penetrated Minnesota in large numbers.

"Somebody will say, 'Oh that's not politically correct.' I don't care. I don't want 'em in our country. Their country's no good for a reason. Their country stinks. … I could say that about other countries too."

Trump said America is on the brink of disaster if the trend continues.

"You know, our country's at a tipping point. We could go bad," he explained.

"We could go one way or the other. We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage to our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."

The president continued: "These aren't people that say, 'Let's go, come on let's make this place great.' These are people that do nothing but complain. And from where they came from, they got nothing.

"You know, if they came from paradise, and they said this isn't paradise, but when they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don't want 'em in our country. Let 'em go back to where they came from and fix it."

As WorldNetDaily reported Tuesday, a recent City Journal investigation uncovered the fact that Minnesota state taxpayers likely are the biggest single source of funding for the Muslim terror network of al-Shabaab.

And now U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confirmed the federal government is investigating the scandal that has developed on the watch of Democrat Gov. Tim Walz.

On Monday, both Trump and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went scorched earth on Walz for what some say is a surrender of the state to Somalia.

Trump himself highlighted a report by investigative journalist Amy Mekelburg of the RAIR Foundation in which she indicated: "Minnesota is being systematically transformed – its people replaced, its cities being turned into foreign enclaves, its future rewritten by mass migration and soaring immigrant birth rates, all by design."

"Minneapolis already holds the largest Somali population in the U.S. – a hub for Shariah push and radical recruitment. You can see it on display at the Somali Culture and Music Night held this weekend."

"This isn't assimilation. It's colonization," Mekelburg concluded.

Trump said sarcastically in reaction: "Welcome to Minnesota – Great job Governor Walz!"

Leavitt held a White House press briefing Monday, during which she scorched the Democrat governor, saying "Somali immigrants have been ripping off American taxpayers."

She said, "59 [Somalis] have been convicted for their roles in fraud plots that have stolen $1 billion from taxpayers."

"In one scheme, and this is egregious, a nonprofit and its affiliates with the Somali migrants claim to have fed tens of thousands of American children during the pandemic. They were reimbursed for those meals by taxpayers. However, federal prosecutors found that almost all of those meals were never even delivered to hungry children."

"In fact, those organization's leaders spent the money on houses, luxury cars and real estate in Turkey and Kenya."

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President Donald Trump is set to convene a meeting at the White House Monday at 5 p.m. ET to discuss the next steps regarding Venezuela.

Key members of Trump's cabinet and national security team are expected to attend, including War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Additionally, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller will be present.

President Donald Trump indicated Thursday night that the U.S. might "very soon" start targeting alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land. This would expand operations that have primarily concentrated on the Caribbean Sea. Trump and Hegseth have confronted the threat directly in recent months by conducting military airstrikes against them in the Caribbean.

Does the U.S. have a moral and strategic imperative to intervene military? Breck Henderson, a retired Navy Reserve Officer and retired nuclear engineer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, recently wrote in his Substack that "military action against the Maduro regime is not just justifiable, but imperative."

What are others saying? WorldNetDaily spoke to national security expert and retired Army Lt. Col. Darin Gaub, who agreed: "I support military action to curb or eliminate the expansion of communism in the Western hemisphere." For Gaub, "all such action must be taken within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution."

While he shares Trump's and Hegseth's serious concerns about drug trafficking, viewing it as major threat to the people of the United States, he also expresses a less frequently discussed concern: Venezuela is "an ideological launchpad for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other aligned nations and people who seek to attack the United States' soft underbelly," explained Gaub.