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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed that he has made progress with Ukrainian delegates on the U.S.-drafted 28-point peace proposal as the Trump administration continues to push for an end to the war.

Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic institution in Nigeria have escaped captivity. The children, aged between 10 and 18, reportedly made their individual escapes between Friday and Saturday. However, the crisis continues for 253 schoolchildren and 12 teachers who remain held by their kidnappers, according to the Most Rev. Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, […] The post 50 of the 353 Kidnapped Nigerian Children & Teachers Escaped appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has yet to address a string of deadly violence in Chicago, including a brutal public transit attack on Monday, where a 26-year-old woman was set on fire by a career criminal, and a deadly shooting on Friday that followed the city’s official Christmas tree lighting ceremony.  After Friday’s shooting, President Donald Trump offered to send in the National Guard. The president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday, “The people are chanting, BRING IN TRUMP!!!”  The president has now made several offers to send in the National Guard. “Pritzker needs help badly, just doesn’t know it yet. I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC. Chicago will be safe again,” he stated in September, per ABC News.  Earlier this week, a 26-year-old woman was set on fire by career criminal Lawrence Reed on Chicago’s public transit system. Reed doused the woman in gasoline before setting her on fire, per the New York Post. After his arrest, Reed allegedly shouted, “burn b*tch” and “burn alive b*tch.”  Following the incident, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson requested expedited funding for Chicago’s transit system.  “All I can say is that as awful and as horrific as this tragedy is, this is an isolated incident,” stated Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. “The level of accountability that has to happen at this moment, I trust that the federal level will do its part.”  President Trump said on Saturday’s Truth Social post that his offer of federal support is being denied. “Governor Pritzker and the low IQ Mayor of Chicago are refusing Federal Government help for a situation that could be quickly remedied.”  Friday’s shooting left eight people injured and one person dead after the city’s official Christmas tree lighting ceremony, CBS News reported.  Mayor Johnson said he wants parents to step up and help address gun violence.  “I am the first person to recognize that we have more work to do in this city,” he said after Friday’s shooting. “We need parents, guardians, and other responsible adults to do their best to accompany young people to large, unsanctioned gatherings where weapons are likely present.”  Governor JB Pritzker has yet to comment on either incident and did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire. 

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Friday’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS was more feistily anti-Trump than usual, with moderator Jeffrey Goldberg leading the panel into various anti-Trump segments, including the president’s fraught relationship with the mainstream press. Goldberg used Trump’s spat with two female reporters in the White House press pool to label Trump, an equal-opportunity insulter, as a sexist, while defending the honor of Trump-hating ABC News reporter Mary Bruce. JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Leigh Ann, let’s go to this issue of the relationship between Trump and the press. It’s not hard to notice that while he can express contempt and anger toward male reporters, he seems to be bothered, especially by female reporters here. Watch just a couple of moments of this with me. DONALD TRUMP clip: Quiet. Quiet, Piggy. I think you are a terrible reporter. It`s the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who`s highly respected, asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question. You`re a terrible person and a terrible reporter. GOLDBERG: What is going on here, do you think with him? Is it just pure misogyny where he has a double standard, that he believes that reporters should not behave in a subordinate way? LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: Yes. I mean, the word, insubordinate, just speaks so broadly about how he thinks. Caldwell had to admit that for a sexist, Trump has oddly surrounded himself with prominent female staffers, though she found a loophole to maintain that the president was still sexist. CALDWELL: But I will say on woman -- on the female thing, women reporters notice this. It is a topic of conversation among me and my friends constantly about how he treats female reporters. I will say, if you speak to someone like Kellyanne Conway, who says Donald Trump is great to women, look, she was the first female campaign manager, first female chief of staff, that there's high level women all around him, but those are women who are not challenging him. Those are women who are there to support him. And reporters are there to challenge the president, and that's what he doesn't like. Goldberg’s fellow Atlantic journalist Toluse Olorunnipa also said Trump’s recent attacks contained “real animosity” and were “steeped in misogyny and also seem really personal.” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker went on a tangent about the White House press corps becoming Trump’s personal pep squad, with right-leaning outlets getting more access (as if it the press pool was ideologically balanced before Trump came along). There was plenty of snark directed at those new right-wing media companies. Peter Baker: ….Here's the consequence of the White House taking over control of the White House press pool, which no other president, Republican or Democrat, had ever done. They now control who is in that room. And what that means is that there are fewer mainstream journalism outlets, or whatever phrase we want use, and a lot more of these outlets that are frankly propaganda or politically, ideologically in favor. Goldberg: What are their names just so people at home know what we're talking about? Peter Baker: Well, I mean, obviously, Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend is in there. And I remember the scene -- Goldberg: That's the name of the network, Marjorie Taylor Green's boyfriend television network. Peter Baker: I'll let the networks speak for themselves. Jonathan Karl: Michael Lindell's network. Goldberg: Michael Lindell, the pillow guy, yes. ABC’s Karl repeatedly stuck up for his network’s chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce, another Trump target, who previously parroted happy talk about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness and even provided his team her questions in advance. Karl: So, the public, of course, doesn't see a difference it doesn't understand. And the fewer and fewer actual reporters in there challenging him, like Mary Bruce, the more and more he gets angry about that. Baker piled on, claiming “a lot more of these outlets that are frankly propaganda or politically, ideologically in favor." So no big change from the old days of the White House press corps, then?