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What Happened Today – December 9, 2025

Ghislaine Maxwell federal booking photo July 2020 MDC Brooklyn

Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex trafficker serving 20 years, faces new exposure as a federal judge ordered her sealed records released by December 19 after Trump dropped opposition. (Federal booking photo)

“Send her back,” chanted a crowd in Pennsylvania Tuesday night. Hours later, ICE agents pepper sprayed a crowd in Rep. Omar’s Minneapolis district and detained a 20-year-old American citizen. The president falsely told speechgoers that prices are “coming down very substantially.” Meanwhile, Navy F/A-18s spent 30 minutes circling the Gulf of Venezuela in the closest … Read more