- Trump picks Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA. [Link]
- Trump selects retired General John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security. [Link]
- In the lame-duck, Congress is trying to push through a bill that will ban online gambling. [Link]
- Newly released documents from Edward Snowden shows the NSA determined who to bomb in Iraq in just minutes. [Link]
- The Ninth Circut Court of Appeals rules that the government does not need a warrant to search your emails if you are emailing someone overseas who is already the target of an investigation. [Link]
- The NSA and UK intelligence agencies are able to intercept phone calls made aboard aircraft. [Link]
- While the operation to take Mosul from ISIS is moving slowly, civilians continue to suffer. 82,000 people have been displaced in Mosul since fighting began in the region in October. Children inside Mosul are getting sick from drinking unsanitary water. 21 people were killed when a bus bomb exploded at a market. [Link]
- Iraqi warplanes kill at least 55 civilians when they bombed a market in the ISIS-held Anbar Providence. [Link]
- Wikileaks released emails showing links between Turkish President Erdogan’s son in law and ISIS. The emails reveal that Erdogan’s son in law has close ties with the Turkish oil company that bought ISIS oil. [Link]
- Gareth Porter details how the US airstrike on Syrian troops was preventable. [Link]
- Israel bombs a military airport in Damascus. [Link]
- US made bombs have been used by Saudi Arabia in 23 unlawful airstrikes in Yemen. The US continues to support the Saudi war effort in Yemen and sell Saudi Arabia more bombs. [Link]
