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Whether you love or loathe Christmas, it’s hard to deny just how stressful the season can be. Gathering gifts, decorating, reconnecting with family members and if you’re hosting Christmas Dinner... AdvertisementThankfully, one psychologist, Nathan D Iverson PhD has found a way to apply the leadership value of 70-20-10 to holiday stress and you know what? The 70-20-10 rule for Christmas stress70% - ‘hard moments we didn’t choose’We are ALL familiar with them. Iverson says: “Often, they help us laugh a little at ourselves—which is a form of grace we don’t give enough credit.
“Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta mocked Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday over his war on “woke fonts.”“Wait, what — what the **** is a woke font? Was it a font offended by the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad?” Kosta quipped. Buzz: ‘Daily Show’ Flips Trump’s Unhinged Tariff Metaphor Into A Perfect PunchlineEarlier this week, Rubio ordered diplomats to switch from Calibri to Times New Roman for official documents. “That means if Calibri was woke, then ramps are woke. Whatever happened to good ole American font names like Kyle or Chad?”Check out more of Kosta’s Thursday monologue on “The Daily Show.”Related...Read the original on HuffPost
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LOADING ERROR LOADINGCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The United States is using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against friend and foe alike, a Danish intelligence agency said in a new report. The Danish Defense Intelligence Service, in its latest annual assessment, said Washington’s greater assertiveness under the Trump administration also comes as China and Russia seek to diminish Western, especially American, influence. Advertisement“For many countries outside the West, it has become a viable option to forge strategic agreements with China rather than the United States,” read the report, which was written in Danish. AdvertisementTrump has also refused to rule out military force in Greenland, where the United States already has a military base. “The United States is leveraging economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to assert its will, and the possibility of employing military force – even against allies – is no longer ruled out,” the report said.
The seizure was the first interdiction of an oil cargo or tanker from Venezuela, which has been under U.S. sanctions since 2019. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe U.S. has assembled a target list of several more sanctioned tankers for possible seizure, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. AdvertisementA reduction or halt in Venezuelan oil exports, the main generator of revenue for the Venezuelan government, would strain the Maduro government’s finances. Advertisement“The cargoes were just loaded and were about to start sailing to Asia,” said a trading executive involved in dealing and shipping Venezuelan oil. Many of the vessels in the shadow fleet that transport sanctioned oil are old, their ownership is opaque and they sail without top-tier insurance coverage.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday. AdvertisementThere was no immediate comment from Iran over its detention of Mohammadi, 53. She received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating women's rights and freedom and is currently on leave from prison. Advertisement“Alikordi was a prominent figure among Iran’s community of human rights defenders,” the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said Thursday. Mohammadi had been serving 13 years and nine months on charges of collusion against state security and propaganda against Iran’s government.
Amazon has a vast library of e-books for Kindles that can be instantly downloaded and sent to anyone with this cult-favorite reading device. Amazon even gives you the option of gifting books to others. We are pleased to see that the New York Times Bestseller "Wild Dark Shore" by Charlotte McConaghy made the cut, as this was one of HuffPost's Best Books of 2025, chosen by two members in the HuffPost newsroom In this Reese's Book Club Pick, a woman washes up on a small island near Antarctica. As she's nursed back to health by the very isolated Dominic Salt and his three children, it soon becomes a very real possibility that Dominic and this mysterious woman could start a life together, except it turns out neither one of them is telling the truth about who they are or why they're there. Part romance, part mystery and part thriller, "Wild Dark Shore" is full of "breath-taking twists."
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Tim Walz (D), opened up about receiving concerning messages in the past few days after speaking out against President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr.’s attacks on her father, saying she is stepping back from social media for her family’s safety. Advertisement“But when it comes to my safety and my family’s safety, there has to be a line there and in the past few days, there have been some things that have crossed that line,” she continued. It is so clear that your dad does not love you, or if there is any love there, it’s not for your compassion, like my dad loves me, but instead your cruelty,” Hope Walz said about the 47-year-old Monday. AdvertisementTim Walz's daughter, Hope Walz (far left), said she is stepping back from the internet for her family safety due to "scary" messages she received days after speaking out against President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. AP Photo/J. “I’m always going to be someone that stands up for what is right and for the little guy, but I think right now, I just have to look out for my family and my family’s safety,” Hope Walz said.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe U.S. may soon require foreign tourists to hand over five years of social media history in order to enter the country. “Social media history is not a neutral data point,” she said. “Five years of social media history is not about verifying identity,” Molnar said. “Other countries do conduct digital screenings, but requiring five years of social media history places this proposal on the more aggressive end of the spectrum,” Trifari said. “Making five years of social media mandatory for visa-waiver visitors is significantly broader than other countries’ requirements,” Casewit said.
Photo by MART PRODUCTION: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-black-leather-jacket-sitting-on-brown-wooden-floor-7277896/ Woman in black leather jacket sitting on brown wooden floorGrief can make you feel like you’re walking in a daze. Add to this the twinkling lights and forced fun at Christmas, you can feel completely out your depth. “Many people will be facing this Christmas without their loved ones.”We may be feeling lonely but none of us are alone in this. In time, you may find that the pain eases and you feel more able to cope and participate again. How long it takes will vary from person to person, and there is no ‘right’ length of time.”Help and support:
I was one of 140,000 participants and one of 19% who chose the longest possible amount of time for delivery: 20 years. The author on the day she gave birth to her son, John. The author with her son, John, in Vermont. I know you’re gonna do the absolute best you can over the next 20 years. Whatever happens, please know I’m rooting for you.”I won’t try to guess what happens next.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGKylie Kelce heard Travis Kelce admit that he and girlfriend Taylor Swift don’t fight, and the Not Gonna Lie podcaster had some thoughts. “I haven’t gotten into an argument ― never once,” the NFL star said with a laugh during a recent interview with George Clooney on he and brother Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. AdvertisementWhen Kylie Kelce, who is married to Jason, was asked by commenters to give her two cents on the matter, she joked that her “husband was oddly quiet during this segment.”“He did ask a couple [of] clarifying questions. Clooney has famously asserted before that he and his wife, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, have never argued in their 10-plus years together. “To George Clooney’s credit, I would not argue with Amal either.
Mubashir, a 20-year-old Somali American citizen, said he was taking his lunch break in Minneapolis when a federal agent abruptly tackled him. Video that officials played at the press event captured two agents shoving Mubashir into a stairwell and handcuffing him. A subsequent clip showed an agent putting Mubashir in a chokehold and pushing him down into the snow before placing him in a vehicle. Mubashir, 20, speaks out about his experience getting violently arrested by federal agents. I thought it was a random person assaulting me or kidnapping me.”Mubashir said the agent didn’t tell him to stop or say that he was with ICE.
