Villages, Florida bodybuilder Donna Lynn Cacciatore, 56, got some good news in a pretrial hearing over her assaulting her husband Joseph, 69, back in August, as the charge of felony battery on a person over the age of 65 was dropped to a misdemeanor, Villages-News.com reports. Joseph, who filed for divorce in May, accused Donna of hitting him in the shins and thighs in an attempt to provoke him into attacking her, which presumably would’ve ended with Donna beating the absolute shit out of the registered Republican Joseph. The multi-medal winning bodybuilder also threw a remote through the television, shattering the screen, per the Sumter County Sheriff’s arrest report.

Protestors carrying a banner saying “No to Obligatory Vaccination, No to the Health Pass,” stormed the legislature of the French overseas department of Guadalupe on Thursday, the AP reports. No one was injured in the mini-insurrection, but a Christmas tree was knocked over. Regional Council President Ary Chalus agreed to meet with the mostly peaceful protestors to hear them out.

Having swept through college campuses, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is causing havoc with the college football bowl season, causing the cancelation of one and a lineup change in another.

Friday’s Hawaii Bowl was abruptly canceled Thursday after one of the two competing teams, the University of Hawaii, pulled out because so many of their players had tested positive for the coronavirus, were injured, or were transfering from the school.  With a losing 6-8 record, Hawaii normally would have been excluded from a bowl appearance, but because so many eligible teams declined the invitation, they were selected.

The Gator Bowl, to be played on New Year’s Day, will have a new lineup as Texas A&M, the 23rd ranked team in the nation, pulled out because the team’s roster was devastated by the coronavirus, with the head coach saying “we just don’t have enough scholarship players available to field a team.”  The Rutgers Scarlet Knights will now take on #20 Wake Forest on New Year’s Eve.

Miranda Devine, an Australian journalist and Fox commentator who is not even based in the United States, tells the Fox audience that it’s fer-sure that Hillary Clinton is lobbying for the DNC to replace Joe Biden with her at the top of the ticket for 2024… based on nothing at all.

I think it tells you more about the state of the Democratic Party than it does about poor America, that they are even considering Hillary Clinton, that she isn’t just being laughed out of school for popping her head up above the parapet, from so desperately and so obviously having her hand up and saying “pick me, take me!” The master class, so-called, that she gave the other day that people pay $20 a month to watch, in which she read her undelivered victory speech and then cried at the end of it with no real tears, that was her begging the American people and begging the Democratic Party to look at her as the alternative to Joe Biden, because after all, she is younger than him. … It’s going to be a nightmare. And really, the subtext is that only Hillary Clinton, who was so narrowly cheated of victory against Donald Trump in 2016, only she can save America. And that is her shtick. She won’t stop – she will do it until her last breath, she wants to vindicate herself.

A former president of South Korea who was impeached for corruption and fraud charges in 2017 and convicted a year later will be pardoned of her crimes by the government of South Korea in a mass commutation at the end of the year, the Associated Press reports.

Park Geun-hye, 69, received a twenty year prison sentence following her conviction.  She reportedly is in poor health which has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.  Park has denied her guilt in the case and claimed that she is the victim of a political vendetta.

“We should move into a new era by getting over the pains of the past. It’s time to boldly pull together all our strengths for the future rather than fighting against each other while being preoccupied with the past,” President Moon Jae-in said in a statement.  “In the case of former President Park, we considered the fact that her health condition has deteriorated a lot after serving nearly five years in prison.”

Poor Goebbels wannabe Stephen Miller.  He claims that his wife, Frau Linkmeyer, is expecting their second child shortly, and they’re having problems finding supplies for the spawn, and of course he’s blaming Joe Biden.  Why they didn’t keep things from the birth of their first dhampir is a mystery.  And there are plenty of spawn supplies at places like Ikea and Target, if you step foot among the commoners.

Nearly one million new cases of coronavirus were reported on Thursday, by far the highest number of daily new cases recorded since the pandemic began, according to the data aggregator worldometers.

On Thursday, 973,256 new cases were reported, just over 900,000 cases reported briefly in the spring.  The omicron variant now accounts for most of the new cases reported, but fatalities remain relatively low versus earlier in the pandemic.

United and Delta airlines announced the cancelation of more than 200 flight on Christmas Eve as the carriers face crew shortages due to the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Reuters reports.

The two airlines also canceled dozens of flights Thursday as employees throughout the workforce started to call in sick after being diagnosed with COVID.  While some passengers are stranded at airports, the airlines said they were announcing the cancelations as early as possible and they’re trying to contact passengers individual to help them make other arrangements.

“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation. As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to cancel some flights and are notifying impacted customers in advance of them coming to the airport,” United said.

Six anti-vax Trump supporters were turned away from the Trump Grill in Trump Tower because they refused to prove they were vaccinated and refused to wear masks.  The group became so unruly that the restaurant management called police to remove the group.  One Trumper claimed they must be allowed to dine there because they had a reservation.  (The police officer helpfully informs the group that reservations are not a Constitutional right and do not override city health requirements.)  Another claims that it’s the restaurant’s responsibility to prove they’re a risk, not their responsibility to prove they’re not.  And finally, one says, “Trump is a fraud if he’s enforcing this!”

An oil company whose drilling lease on Native American lands was revoked by the Obama Administration in 2016 is suing to have the license reinstated so it can drill in an area of lands sacred to tribes in the US and Canada, the Associated Press reports.

Solenex LLC, a Louisiana-based oil exploration company, held the lease on the lands in the Badger-Two Medicine area of northwestern Montana near the Blackfeet Reservation since 1982 but never drilled on the land because of various legal and regulatory challenges.  The lease was canceled during the Obama Administration by under then-U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, a decision that has been upheld by various court decisions.

The land, near Glacier National Park, is part of the creation story of the Blackfoot Nation in both the US and Canada.  Tribal leaders have opposed drilling on the site since Ronald Reagan issued the first permits.  In its lawsuit, Solenex claims the federal government illegally abdicated its jurisdiction over the permit by outsourcing its rulings to the Blackfoot Nation.

Two Georgia election workers who became the target of conservative ire after being named in debunked election fraud conspiracy theories have filed a lawsuit against former New York City mayor (and Nosferatu cosplayer) Rudy Giuliani and cable propaganda network One America News, the Federal News Network reports.

This is the second lawsuit filed by Ruby Freeman and and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss for defamation and harassment stemming from the November 2020 election:  earlier this month, the pair filed a lawsuit against the conservative website The Gateway Pundit.

The lawsuit claims that the network and Giuliani continued to restate and amplify claims that Freeman and Moss engineered an effort to rig the 2020 presidential election even after the ballot count had been verified multiple times and Republican state officials vouched for the accuracy of the election results.

Four of the Duggar sisters, featured in the reality television series “19 Kids and Counting,” are suing in federal court to have records of the police investigation into their brother Josh fondling them kept sealed, the Associated Press reports.

In 2017, Jill Dillard, Jessa Seewald, Jinger Vuolo and Joy Duggar originally filed the lawsuit against local law enforcement officials and officials from the city of Springdale and Washington County, Arkansas.  However, because of various criminal investigations surrounding Josh Duggar, the court delayed hearing the trial.

The Duggar sisters claim officials released too much information when discussing the case with the media, allowing the public to identify which sisters were the victims of Josh Duggar’s sexual abuse.  There are nine sisters in the family, so it’s possible the specific identities of these four sisters could have remained anonymous given the potential victim pool being “any Duggar daughter.”

“Such expedition, consistent with the lower courts’ expedited treatment of this case, is warranted because Of the indisputable importance and urgency of the Select Committee’s investigation.The Select Committee is investigating a deadly assault on the United States Capitol, the Speaker of the House, the Vice President, and both Chambers of Congress, and a dangerous interruption of Congress’s constitutional duty and the peaceful transfer of power.”

“The Executive Branch has agreed that the Select Committee needs the governmental records at issue here so that the Committee may properly fulfill its essential legislative mandate and prevent future violent attacks on the Federal Government. Delay would inflict a serious injury on the Select Committee and the public by interfering with this mandate. The Select Committee needs the requested documents now to help shape the direction Of the investigation and allow the Select Committee to timely recommend remedial legislation. The public has a significant interest in the expeditious consideration of remedial measures aimed at securing the safety and soundness of our democratic processes and institutions. Under the direction of President Biden, the Executive Branch has recognized the Select Committee’s interest in obtaining prompt access to the identified materials” says the House counsel in a motion filed to the Supreme Court, asking them to move on the case no later than January 14th. The House intends to submit a full brief on the 30th.

A Sumner County, Tennessee man strangled a kangaroo to death after the animal kicked his wife while the couple were trying to lure the kangaroo back to its enclosure in a neighbor’s yard, WKRN Nashville reports.

The kangaroo, named Carter, had escaped its enclosure at Hope and Chris Lea’s home in White House, according to the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, but it was still on their property when two of their neighbors, a husband and wife, tried to lure Carter back into the enclosure with some food.  The animal’s enclosure is a fenced area on the Lea’s property, which is entirely fenced in.  The couple had called Chris Lea to tell him the animal was loose, and they volunteered to wrangle it, although Chris told them he would be home shortly to deal with the situation.

As the couple tried to find the feed, the kangaroo kicked the wife.  The husband then strangled the animal to death because the only thing that can stop a marsupial with a pouch is a Tennessean with opposable thumbs.  After being killed, Carter was surrounded by baby kangaroos the Leas care for. 

Pinellas County (Florida) sheriff’s deputies arrested a Florida man after a traffic stop when they found baggies of cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around the suspect’s penis during a pat-down, the Associated Press reports.

The unnamed suspect denied the drugs were his, but failed to convince the deputies that he was innocent.  Searching his vehicle, they also found a handgun and a quantity of marijuana.  Deputies also found marijuana on the passenger in the car.  The driver was arrested for suspected DUI and possession of marijuana.

The Texas Parole Board rescinded its recommendation to Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott to posthumously pardon George Floyd for a 2004 conviction on a minor drug charge on Thursday, citing a “procedural error,” the Texas Tribune reports.

The governor’s office cited “procedural errors” as the reason the board rescinded Floyd’s and 23 other recommendations for commutations, although they did not specify what those errors were.  The governor’s office, however, left the door open for the board to resubmit its recommendations in the future.

“The Board will review and resolve procedural errors and issues related to any pending applications in compliance with their rules,” Abbott press secretary Renae Eze said in a statement. “As a result of the Board’s withdrawal of the recommendation concerning George Floyd, Governor Abbott did not have the opportunity to consider it. Governor Abbott will review all recommendations that the Board submits for consideration.”

New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio officially disinvited the unvaccinated and unmasked from the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration held at its non-virtual malware site called Times Square, per the NY Post’s Nolan Hicks. The crowd size will also be reduced nearly 75%, from 58,000 to 15,000.

The jury found Kim Potter guilty of two counts of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright.

After four days of deliberations, the jury in the trial of former Brooklyn Park, Minnesota Kim Potter for the shooting death of unarmed Black motorist Daunte Wright in April found her guilty.  Potter, 49, was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death of 20-year-old Wright.  Potter has maintained that she intended to use her Taser on Wright, who was being detained and resisting arrest, but mistakenly fired her pistol, killing Wright.  This shooting happened in the midst of the Derek Chauvin murder trial, in which the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty of three counts of murder in the death of George Floyd.

“The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind,” pre-deposed dictator Donald Trump claims.  “We would’ve had a 1917, remember the Spanish flu.  [FACT CHECK:  The Spanish flu pandemic started in 1918.]  Remember the Spanish flu killed maybe 100 million people.  [FACT CHECK:  General consensus is that around 50 million people died of the Spanish flu worldwide.]  Actually, it ended the First World War [FACT CHECK:  World War I ended four months before the official outbreak of the flu in February 1918] ’cause the soldiers was, a lotta people don’t know that.  The soldiers got so sick, it was a terrible thing.  There were no vaccines.  There were no anything [sic].  I came up with a vaccine, with THREE vaccines [FACT CHECK:  scientists whom Trump now dismisses as frauds and fakes created the vaccines].  All are very, very good.  Came up with three of them in less than nine months, it was supposed to take five to twelve years.”

NBC Washington’s Scott MacFarlane reports Capitol rioter Joe Hutchinson can leave home confinement to be best man at wedding of and throw a bachelor party for his co-defendant and fellow Capitol rioter Josh Doolin next weekend. Both will have to wear GPS ankle monitors during the wedding festivities, and Doolin is in extra hot water for being caught with an AK-47 at his house since the riot. Their buddy Jonathan Pollock is still a fugitive, but is not likely to show up at the wedding, Hutchinson’s lawyer told the judge Wednesday.