- Over 400 people were charged with crimes in a health care scheme that used fraud and unnecessary opioid prescriptions to steal $1.3 billion from Medicare and Medicaid. [Link]
- Kid Rock confirms that he will run for Senate in Michigan. [Link]
- A public sector union has filed a grievance against Western Michigan University. The union is upset the university is using goats to maintain some of the ground on campus. [Link]
- The power vacuum left by El Chapo is causing a war in Mexico. [Link]
- The US will put sanctions on some Chinese banks as a way to target North Korea. [Link]
- Somali pirates and al-Shabaab are allies in Somalia. [Link]
- Al-Shabaab kidnapped a top Kenyan government official. The government official was freed, but three were killed in the attack. [Link]
- Some of Trump’s advisors are pushing him to use more private defense contractors in Afghanistan. [Link]
- Israel and Palestine agreed to a US-brokered water deal. [Link]
- The Pentagon expects ISIS to become an insurgency as it loses territory. [Link]
- Several videos show Iraqi forces beating and killing detainees in Mosul. [Link]
- Turkey has agreed to by four S-400 air defense systems from Russia. [Link]
- Trump says he is working with Russia to create a second ceasefire in Syrian. [Link]
- The Washington Post’s editorial on the Yemen conflict misrepresents the war. The Post failed to mention the US role in supporting the Saudi-led war. [Link]
- The media have ignored the disaster in Yemen. Millions of Yemeni are at risk of starving to death. [Link]
- Nassar Arraybee reports that Sudanese fighters are supporting the Saudi coalition in Yemen. [Link]
- The US doubled the amount of mid air refueling it provides to the Saudi coalition fighting in Yemen after Saudi Arabia bombed a funeral in October. [Link]
