The Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted Monday to dissolve itself after Republicans in Congress rescinded $1.1 billion in federal funding, cutting off the primary government revenue stream that has long sustained NPR and PBS. The CPB began winding down operations in August, notifying 100 employees that most staff positions would be eliminated by the end of the fiscal year on September 30, with Monday’s vote making the closure official. In a press release, the CPB said the decision resulted directly from “Congress’s rescission of all of CPB’s federal funding and comes after sustained political attacks that made it impossible for CPB to continue operating as the Public Broadcasting Act intended.” President Donald Trump formally called on Congress to cancel public broadcaster funding over the next two years via a rescission request after the 2024 election. Congress approved that plan in mid-July, taking back $1.1 billion earmarked for public broadcasters over the next two years. “It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions [sic] Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social in mid-July. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created in 1967 to support radio stations in underserved areas. In recent years, conservatives have criticized the agency for funneling millions of dollars annually to NPR and PBS. As The Daily Wire previously reported, a Media Research Center (MRC) study found the taxpayer-funded PBS program “Washington Week with The Atlantic” consistently exhibited a staggering 93% negative bias against Republicans and the Trump administration over three months, despite claiming to provide “objective” political coverage. “The panelists spent 83 minutes opining on Republicans, focusing on Trump and his administration, in 93% negative fashion (77 minutes negative, six minutes positive),” the MRC report reads. House Republicans grilled NPR chief executive Katherine Maher in July on the organization’s bias against conservatives, focusing in particular on the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election — claims Maher attempted to walk back. Former NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who resigned after publishing an essay critical of the network’s leftward shift, was referenced by Republican lawmakers as further evidence of the outlet’s bias, The Daily Wire previously reported. In a text message to The New York Times, Berliner wrote that he believes the organization should “openly acknowledge and embrace its progressive orientation” and decline federal support, contradicting Maher’s claims of NPR’s supposed objectivity.

Over a dozen sanctioned oil tankers left port over the weekend in what appears to be an attempt to evade the U.S. blockade around Venezuela following the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, according to multiple reports. At least 16 tankers disguised or hid their locations after leaving Venezuelan ports in the wake of U.S. forces capturing Maduro, The New York Times reported. Four of the fleeing tankers appeared to leave Venezuela on Saturday, shortly after Maduro was detained by U.S. forces, and traveled north of Margarita Island, according to Reuters, which cited satellite images used by TankerTrackers.com. Some of the tankers have used a tactic called “spoofing,” which means they use fake ship names and misrepresent their positions. Reuters reported that most of the supertankers that left port typically transport crude oil to China. Four tankers that left port on Saturday were not authorized to do so, according to internal communications from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, according to the Times. Reuters, however, cited a source with knowledge of the paperwork who said that Venezuelan authorities cleared at least four tankers to leave the country and hide their whereabouts. A U.S. official did not confirm or deny reports of sanctioned oil tankers attempting to evade the blockade, telling The Daily Wire that the blockade remains in effect and is “focusing on sanctioned shadow vessels transporting sanctioned PDVSA oil.” Twelve other sanctioned oil tankers that fled in recent days have yet to be spotted. The departures could challenge President Donald Trump’s massive blockade of sanctioned oil tankers, which went into effect on December 16. Following the capture of Maduro on Saturday, Trump said that the blockade would remain in full force. Secretary of State Marco Rubio added on Sunday that the “quarantine” on Venezuelan oil would “remain in place.” “That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interests of the Venezuelan people are met. And that’s what we intend to do. So that leverage remains, that leverage is ongoing, and we expect that it’s going to lead to results here. We’re … hopeful that it does – positive results for the people of Venezuela, but ultimately, most importantly, for us in the national interest of the United States,” Rubio said. The United States seized one sanctioned oil tanker used by Venezuela in December, and U.S. forces boarded another tanker around 10 days later. The oil tanker seized by the United States on December 10 was involved “in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” according to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Trump said that the United States would keep the oil the tanker was transporting. The U.S. blockade was part of a military buildup in the Caribbean that ultimately led to the capture of Maduro over the weekend. After Maduro was in U.S. custody, President Trump said that the United States would take control of Venezuela until a peaceful transition of power could take place.

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News Stephen King adaptations Two Previously Announced Stephen King Adaptations Appear to Be Dead Thankfully, about four million other Stephen King adaptations remain By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 5, 2026 Credit: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons While several Stephen King adaptations have made it to a screen near you lately (I’m looking at you, The Running Man, IT: Welcome to Derry, and The Long Walk), there are at least two adaptations that seem to have fallen to the wayside. The first is The Talisman, a series of fantasy books King wrote with Peter Straub. Back in 2021, we found out that the Duffer Brothers were attached to adapt The Talisman novels into a series for Netflix, but in an interview with CBR for Stranger Things, Ross Duffer shared that “sadly, Talisman is no longer at Netflix, so we’re not involved.” The wording there is interesting, because it doesn’t mean that the project is completely dead, just that it’s no longer a project at Netflix. The Duffers, however, will also no longer be working for Netflix. The two signed a deal with Paramount last summer that begins when the pair’s Netflix deal ends in April 2026. That doesn’t necessarily mean they couldn’t be involved with an adaptation, though, of course, they said they aren’t at the moment regardless. Whatever the case, it appears certain that the brothers will not be working on The Talisman, whether or not the project continues on elsewhere. At least we know that as of July 2025, King is “almost done” writing a third Talisman novel, which is based on an idea he and Straub talked about before Straub’s death in 2022. The other project—the CW’s proposed adaptation of King’s short story, “The Revelations of ‘Becka Paulson”—is very definitely dead. In it, a woman accidentally shoots herself in the head with a nail gun but is totally, totally fine, except for the fact she now talks to a manifestation of Jesus who wants her to stop an apparent apocalypse. The CW announced the project way back in July 2020, but Matt Webb Mitovich broke the news via his newsletter, Matt’s Inside Line, that the network dropped the series after it was acquired by Nexstar in 2022. As part of that acquisition, the CW has moved away from scripted series (which includes canceling all of the Arrowverse shows) and is turning toward reality television and sports. ‘Becka Paulson, it seems, was also in Nexstar’s crosshairs. While these two projects are dead or at least delayed, don’t fret: there’s sure to be more King adaptations on the horizon, including Mike Flanagan’s takes on The Dark Tower series and Carrie. [end-mark] The post Two Previously Announced Stephen King Adaptations Appear to Be Dead appeared first on Reactor.

A network of leftist groups rapidly coordinated to protest President Donald Trump’s extradition of dictator Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to a new report.The same network continued its coordinated protests as Maduro appeared in court Monday, pleading not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges. “The U.S. has no political or legal authority to kidnap a foreign head of state,” Manolo De Los Santos, founder of The People’s Forum and a key leader in the network, posted on X Monday. BREAKING: President Maduro’s first statement in a U.S. court today has been: “I am the President of Venezuela and I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured in my home in Caracas.”The U.S. has no political or legal authority to kidnap a foreign head of state. pic.twitter.com/vcr8H6RSAe— Manolo De Los Santos (@manolo_realengo) January 5, 2026 Asra Nomani, a researcher who focuses on leftist movements, described the network in an analysis for Fox News Digital Saturday. A coalition of openly socialist and communist groups responded to news of Maduro’s ouster in real time, Nomani noted, mobilizing protests in an estimated 100 cities by Saturday. The same Marxist groups behind the pro-Maduro protests have also spearheaded leftist activism in the U.S. for years, she noted, including responses to the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. “For years, this cell has fomented anti-American hate in the U.S. under the cover of ‘anti-war’ protests, rallying activists after the 9/11 attacks to condemn the U.S. response, appropriating ‘anti-racism’ protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, marching with Antifa agitators, organizing antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and activating ‘working-class Americans to support Maduro and his regime in a war against ‘U.S. imperialism,” she writes. According to Nomani, the network includes De Los Santos and The People’s Forum, as well as the ANSWER Coalition, a nonprofit co-founded by openly Marxist Brian Becker. It also includes socialist news outlets BreakThrough News and the People’s Dispatch, the political Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the International People’s Assembly, which links communist parties and socialist movements worldwide. The protest group Code Pink, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Jodie Evans, is also part of the coalition. Evans is the wife of U.S.-born former tech executive Neville Roy Singham, who chairs the Marxist think tank Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The think tank’s director Vijay Prashad is also a member of the network. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Singham over his alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Prashad, meanwhile, posted a photo of himself with De Los Santos and Maduro in November 2021 touting elections in Venezuela. Elections in Venezuela today! @manolo_realengo and I with President @NicolasMaduro: sovereignty against imperialism. pic.twitter.com/la4CNit3fr— Vijay Prashad (@vijayprashad) November 21, 2021 Nomani recounts how the network activated in the hours after news of the Venezuela strike broke. The Network Activates The coalition of groups activated immediately after reports of U.S. strikes in Venezuela. “From a military intelligence perspective, experts say the overnight sequence bears the hallmarks of a pre-positioned influence network executing a rapid-response operation,” Nomani reported. “The synchronization of messaging, the staggered release of content across aligned platforms and the immediate transition from online agitation to physical mobilization point to an ecosystem designed not for spontaneous protest, but for ideological warfare.” BreakThrough News reported on the strikes, characterizing them as “an illegal bombing campaign.” BREAKING: The Trump administration has begun an illegal bombing campaign of Caracas, Venezuela, striking various parts of the city. pic.twitter.com/SeSfSzWh20— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) January 3, 2026 Ten minutes later, De Los Santos posted on X, condemning the strike as “illegal” and a “war crime.” Explosions now shaking Caracas.Trump has launched an illegal bombing campaign. Families, children, people sleeping in their homes across Caracas are under attack. Bombings confirmed in La Guaira, Fuerte Tiuna, La Carlota.This is a war crime. Stop the bombing of Venezuela! pic.twitter.com/8Ic1im2goc— Manolo De Los Santos (@manolo_realengo) January 3, 2026 The ANSWER Coalition chimed in less than an hour later, calling for protests. ?EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION: No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!Early this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon.This could be the start of yet another war, based completely on lies. Over 70% of… pic.twitter.com/Axr3KNnnXZ— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) January 3, 2026 The People’s Forum shared the call to action minutes later. ?NYC EMERGENCY PROTEST: No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!? Sat. Jan 3?2PM?Times SquareEarly this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon.This could be the start of yet another war,… pic.twitter.com/XWfX1sOuZZ— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) January 3, 2026 The Party for Socialism and Liberation also rushed to share the poster for Saturday’s protests. Stop the bombings — No U.S. war on Venezuela! Money for people’s needs, not the war machine!Find an action near you TODAY SAT JAN 3 at https://t.co/xn4mYaCue3 https://t.co/WUHFg7PWdN— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) January 3, 2026 Prashad posted, “Down with U.S. imperialism.” Code Pink joined the condemnations at around 6 a.m. This is a war crime.The terrorist United States has bombed Venezuela because it dared to defy its imperialist regime.We stand with the Venezuelan people. pic.twitter.com/f7cXnIqOqP— CODEPINK (@codepink) January 3, 2026 Maduro’s Court Appearance The same groups organized protests outside the New York City detention center where Maduro was held Monday. The People’s Forum urged activists to flock to Foley Square, outside the federal courthouse where Maduro appeared for his arraignment on Monday, tagging Code Pink and the ANSWER Coalition in the social media post. The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday, Jan 5 after having been illegally abducted by the Trump administration on Saturday. But New Yorkers won’t stand for illegal wars and kidnapping the President of a sovereign country.… pic.twitter.com/6FUuxHCvRH— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) January 4, 2026 The forum later posted footage of the protest. ?Happening now: As Nicolas Maduro & Cilia Flores make their first appearance in U.S. Federal Court, New Yorkers are outside the courthouse in Manhattan to protest the Illegal U.S. kidnapping of Venezuela’s President and First Lady. pic.twitter.com/JlAPbh1KkR— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) January 5, 2026 The Party for Socialism & Liberation, which printed posters for the event, also posted pictures on X. This navy veteran in San Francisco joined an emergency protest in response to Trump's escalations against Venezuela with a clear message: "no more foreign wars." pic.twitter.com/MfOybG5dYy— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) January 5, 2026 Nomani cited experts in describing the network’s actions as a “new threat matrix.” “Experts say the network that spent decades legitimizing and defending communist regimes abroad and now functions as a rapid-response influence force inside the United States is a new threat matrix that amounts to something the FBI and intelligence agencies investigate as malign foreign influence,” she wrote. The post ‘IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE’: Leftist Network Organized Protests Against Trump’s Capture of Maduro appeared first on The Daily Signal.