Actor George Clooney, his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and their two children have obtained French citizenship. The couple ditched Hollywood with their 8-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, and have been living in France. “You know, we live on a farm in France. A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it. But now, for them, it’s like – they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life,” Clooney said in an interview about the family’s life in the French countryside, according to Fox News. “I was worried about raising our kids in L.A., in the culture of Hollywood. I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life,” he added. AU REVOIR: George Clooney, his wife Amal, and their twin children have officially become French citizens. The actor said the family relocated to France to escape Hollywood culture and raise their children with more privacy and normalcy. “I was worried about raising our kids in… pic.twitter.com/b4BJcZSzOu — Fox News (@FoxNews) December 29, 2025 Fox News has more: In addition to his family home in France, George reportedly owns an estate in England, a villa on Lake Como in Italy, and another property near his family in Kentucky, People reported. Fox News Digital has reached out to Clooney’s representatives for comment. During his Esquire interview, Clooney talked about living in France, away from the glamor of Hollywood. “France – they kind of don’t give a s— about fame,” he said. “I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.” “Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” President Trump commented on Truth Social. “Remember when Clooney, after the now infamous debate, dumped Joe during a fundraiser, only to go onto the side of another stellar candidate, Jamala(K!), who is now fighting it out with the worst governor in the Country, including Tim Waltz, Gavin Newscum, for who is going to lead the Democrats to their future defeat,” Trump continued. “Clooney got more publicity for politics than he did for his very few, and totally mediocre, movies. He wasn’t a movie star at all, he was just an average guy who complained, constantly, about common sense in politics,” he added. Full post: BBC shared further info: The family’s new citizenship was made public in the Journal Officiel, where French government decrees are published. Their farm in Brignoles, in the south of France, serves as the family’s primary residence. The couple purchased the home in 2021. Didier Brémond, the city’s mayor, told local media that their decision to become French citizens was a testament to “his love for our country”. He told broadcaster BFMTV that the Clooneys are “a very simple and very accessible family”. “Here, he wants to live normally, and that’s what he is trying to do,” he said.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is facing intense criticism for commenting that the state of college sports is “an absolute crisis.” “An absolute crisis. Congress NEEDS to act. For months, I’ve been working night & day to try to bring Republicans and Democrats together to save college sports. If we fail to do so, it will be an utter tragedy. And it’s happening right before our eyes,” Cruz said. The Texas Republican’s remarks were in response to a post highlighting the difficult predicament for the Iowa State Cyclones football program, with the team returning only 17 players on its roster. The Cyclones lost head coach Matt Campbell, who departed the program to take the vacant job at Penn State. An absolute crisis. Congress NEEDS to act. For months, I’ve been working night & day to try to bring Republicans and Democrats together to save college sports. If we fail to do so, it will be an utter tragedy. And it’s happening right before our eyes. https://t.co/XOekKlF3Th — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 29, 2025 Fox News explained further: Cruz introduced a bill in 2023, two years after NIL was born, in hopes that tighter regulations would help college sports nationwide. Instead, we’ve seen programs paying for top players through NIL deals, while the transfer portal has allowed players to move from school to school each year. Cruz is one of the top lawmakers in support of the Student Compensation and Opportunity through Rights and Endorsements (SCORE) Act, which would give the NCAA a limited antitrust exemption in hopes of protecting the organization from potential lawsuits over eligibility rules and would prohibit athletes from becoming employees of their schools.” “The SCORE Act is the free market, individual liberty, limited government fix to the ‘name, image, and likeness (NIL)’ issue in college athletics,’” a letter addressed to House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., read earlier this month. The groups in favor of the SCORE Act said the bill is the “common-sense way” to establish rules and preempt confusing state laws in the NIL era. “H.R. 4312 prohibits trial lawyers from suing under federal or state antitrust law. It also provides that athletes receiving NIL compensation need not be employees of these universities, protecting them from compulsory unionization. This means student-athletes can be treated as small business owners, not unionized workers,” the letter added. The conservative groups framed the SCORE Act as being a better plan than the “Student Athlete Fairness and Enforcement (SAFE) Act,” which has mostly been backed by Democrats. The SCORE Act has at least scored some bipartisanship support in the House. Critics blasted Cruz for his post, saying college sports should not be among his priorities as a member of Congress. C’mon Ted. Priorities. — ClownBasket (@ClownBasket) December 30, 2025 That isn’t an enumerated authority under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, Ted. — Doni (@DoniTheMisfit) December 31, 2025 Oh LORD are you people out of touch. — Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) December 30, 2025 I'm starting to think you guys WANT a revolt w BS like this pic.twitter.com/sbmdSEuyN7 — Murray (@AnarchoNexus) December 31, 2025 Jesus Christ dude, with everything that's going on in this country right now and you're "working night and day" to save the Iowa State University football team? — Joel Grus (@joelgrus) December 30, 2025 What does the government have to do with college football? It’s not your job to fix it, work day and night doing your job. Like cutting spending and reducing the cost of living… — Sara Higdon (@SaraHigdon) December 31, 2025 We’re being ripped off by Somali pirates for billions and this is your crisis? — Dale Stark (@DaleStarkA10) December 30, 2025 So you’re saying you’ve been working night and day on something to do with College sports… is that what you are saying? — SETH WEATHERS (@sethweathers) December 30, 2025 I'm sorry I'm not aware of Congress' authority over college sports — Tactical Wisdom (@DolioJ) December 30, 2025 I don't remember voting for this. — The Lectern Guy (@lecternleader) December 30, 2025 Nobody cares about sportsball anymore Ted. We care about real issues. — Joshua Done (@JoshuaDone) December 29, 2025 Rome is burning and @tedcruz is worried the gladiators won’t keep us distracted much longer. — Political Blasphememes (@PBlasphememes) December 30, 2025 NJ.com noted: Campbell’s departure has resulted in at least 36 players leaving, according to College Sports Network, including quarterback Rocco Becht and leading tackler Marcus Neal. The losses have left Iowa State focused less on postseason ambitions and more on simply staying afloat. Now the job of rebuilding falls to Jimmy Rogers, hired away from Washington State on Dec. 5. Rogers is in the process of re-recruiting players and assembling a new staff. Iowa State’s situation is becoming more common in today’s college football. The rise of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) and constant coaching changes have made the sport unstable, with rosters changing almost overnight. NIL refers to the ability of college athletes to earn money from endorsements, sponsorships, appearances, and other commercial uses of their personal brand.

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Former Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot unleashed a verbal attack on an X post by senior U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory K. Bovino, slamming his actions as unconstitutional and shameful while ominously warning of his impending "day of reckoning."

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New York City’s Democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has named Ramzi Kassem — an attorney who previously represented Al Qaeda terrorists — to serve as the city’s chief counsel in his administration. “I will turn to Ramzi for his remarkable experience and his commitment to defending those too often abandoned by our legal system,” Mamdani said of Kassem, adding, “City Hall will be stronger with him in it, and our work of building a more prosperous city for all will have a powerful advocate.” “My sincere hope is that New Yorkers who have long felt on the margins of this city, the homeless veteran straining to survive, the patient searching for the care that they need, an immigrant trying to get by will feel that they now have leaders in their corner who understand their struggles and care to fight for them,” Mamdani continued. “That is the city I want to build. The prosperity I intend to deliver and the leadership that has too long been lacking.” Christmas Sale – Get 40% off New DailyWire+ Annual Memberships Kassem said that the appointment, to him, represented a chance to give back to the city he loved: “I grew up in war-torn countries in the Middle East, authoritarian regimes, and New York City was really my first stable and permanent home. This is an opportunity for me to repay that debt. I’ve been trying to repay that debt ever since I came to this country, ever since I immigrated.” Critics argued that Kassem, who once represented al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Darbi in court, was a strange choice to be chief counsel in a city that was devastated by an al Qaeda-linked terrorist attack on 9/11, 2001. Al-Darbi pleaded guilty in 2014 in connection with a plot to bomb the French oil tanker MV Limburg off the coast of Yemen. He was convicted in 2017, and in 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration transferred him to the custody of Saudi Arabia. He also represented Mohammad Mani Ahmad al-Qahtani, who allegedly attempted to assist in the 9/11 hijacking and was held in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for two decades. Kassem, who was teaching law at City University of New York at the time, had been working with students over the course of a decade to get him returned to Saudi Arabia. They succeeded in doing so in 2022. In more recent history, Kassem represented pro-Hamas Columbia University agitator Mahmoud Khalil — and prior to that, he served in President Joe Biden’s White House Domestic Policy Council as a senior policy adviser. NEW: Zohran Mamdani announced the nomination of Ramzi Kassem as Chief Counsel of New York City. Kassem returned to America from the Middle East in 2001, inspired by 9/11 to defend an Al Qaeda terrorist. “I found myself pulled in the direction of doing rights work domestically… pic.twitter.com/Duxc04q3b3 — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 31, 2025 New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino responded to the appointment, saying, “Less than 25 years after thousands of New Yorkers were killed on 9/11, the Chief Counsel of New York is going to be an Islamist lawyer who came to this country after 9/11 specifically to defend the very Al Qaeda terrorists we were fighting against. The fact that our immigration system post 9/11 even allowed him to step foot into the country is a monumental failure. Disgraceful isn’t a big enough word for what’s happening here. The federal government must get a LOT more involved in New York. We cannot allow these people to go unchecked.”

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