The Washington Post's readership reportedly cratered during Joe Biden's presidency — and the Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet lost $100 million last year alone — as the embattled paper continues to suffer an exodus of top talent.

The left-leaning publication drew about 2.5 million to 3 million daily users to its site last summer, a fraction of the 22.5 million daily visitors at its peak when Biden took office in January 2021, according to internal data shared with Semafor.

The plummeting site traffic led the business to lose around $100 million on weak subscription and ad revenue in 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported.

WaPo took a hit to its bottom line after reportedly 250,000 readers canceled their subscriptions following Bezos' decision to kill an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris just weeks before the election.

The Washington Post had 54 million digital visitors last November — down from 114 million in November 2020, according to global media analytics firm Comscore.

A top advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon has been fired after an undercover investigation caught him on camera admitting he's working with generals on a 'stop-Trump' effort.

Former FBI Special Agent Jamie Mannina - an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, was confirmed as having been let go following an undercover exposé by James O'Keefe's OMG Media.

An official inquiry into a notorious 2018 Novichok poisoning case has found the victim briefly emerged from a coma, revealing information which wholly undermined the British government's narrative. While the medical professional she told was muzzled, mainstream media has ignored the new finding.

On March 8, 2018, just four days after being hospitalized for having allegedly been contaminated with novichok, which is said to be the world's deadliest military grade nerve agent, Yulia Skripal was roused from her coma. Upon waking up, she communicated to an intensive care consultant that she and her father, the turncoat former Russian spy, Sergei, had been "sprayed" with an uncertain substance while dining at a restaurant, before their collapse — and not at their home, as claimed by the UK.

The revelation, which runs completely contrary to widespread reports that Yulia spent almost a month in critical condition before regaining consciousness, stems from recently-disclosed transcripts of an official British inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, who supposedly died after having inhaled novichok from a sealed perfume bottle.

The US instructed Ukraine to target the TurkStream gas pipeline after sabotaging the Nord Stream sub-sea connectors in 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed.

On Monday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Kiev had launched an unsuccessful attack with nine kamikaze drones on a gas compressor station near the village of Gaikodzor in Russia's Krasnodar Region. The site is crucial for the operation of the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian natural gas to Türkiye and several other European nations, via the Black Sea.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that the United States may have been involved in an attempt to sabotage a gas facility.

"I have a firm belief that the US needs no competitor in any fields, starting with energy," Lavrov stated.

Neil Oliver delves into how LA's devastating wildfires symbolise the collapse of Western civilisation.

With 25 lives lost, 200,000 people evacuated, and billions in damage, the flames reveal more than just environmental neglect—they expose a dangerous culture of nihilism and self-destruction.

From empty reservoirs under Gavin Newsom's watch to slashed firefighting budgets by Karen Bass, these failures reflect the broader erosion of truth, responsibility, and the values that built the West.

Is this the final chapter for Western civilisation?

Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report, says the real work for the Trump Administration is happening now. CAF is a financial expert and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.) who managed hundreds of billions of dollars in her career. CAF says this is a fight within the Trump Administration that is summed up by those who will fight for freedom and sovereignty and those who want America under Deep State control. CAF explains,

"You had a lot of people who voted for Trump that wanted to see him protect freedoms. You also have a lot of people voting and donating for Trump because they think he can get them the control grid. The centralization and decentralization are both hoping Trump will give them what they want. . . . Trump has to do something that works economically. The first day, Trump will be asked to fill the top 10 or 20 positions. Ultimately, after you fill the cabinet and the other top positions, then there are another 10,000 positions to be filled. The President does 1,000 positions, and those thousand do the rest of about 10,000 positions. The guys who want the control grid are trying to get their people in place. The guys who want freedom are trying to get their people in place. . . . After you get the people in place, it's going to have to be battled out one policy at a time. . . . So, this is trench warfare, and it's not going to be decided by the election. It's going to be decided by the staffing and the policy debate that happens day after day.

The two leaders are expected to sign a landmark agreement on bilateral cooperation, according to a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian this week to discuss prospects for further expansion of bilateral cooperation, according to the Kremlin.

Pezeshkian will visit Moscow on January 17, according to a statement issued by the Kremlin on Telegram on Monday.

It is planned that the two leaders will discuss a wide range of important issues, including trade and investment, transport and logistics, and humanitarian matters.

They will also talk about current regional and international events, according to the Kremlin. After the meeting, the presidents will sign the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and Iran and will then meet with media to provide statements.

Acknowledging the situation on the ground is a major step toward bringing the conflict to an end, Michael Waltz has said.

It is not possible to "expel every Russian from every inch" of soil claimed by Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula, incoming US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz has admitted.

Acknowledging "that reality" has become a major step toward resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, Waltz told ABC News in an interview on Sunday, adding that this idea is now in the process of being accepted by Ukraine's backers. Waltz stated:

"Everybody knows that this [conflict] has to end somehow diplomatically. I just don't think it's realistic to say we're going to expel every Russian from every inch of Ukrainian soil. Even Crimea - President-elect Donald Trump has acknowledged that reality, and I think it has been a huge step forward that the entire world is acknowledging that reality."

Waltz suggested that accepting the fact that returning to Ukraine's original post-Soviet borders is unrealistic now opens the way to addressing the question of "how do we no longer perpetuate this conflict and how... we no longer allow it to escalate in a way that drags in the entire world."

There has reportedly been a breakthrough at the Israel-Hamas talks in Doha. Talks in Qatar about ending the conflict between Israel and Hamas are close to succeeding, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said.

Israel declared war on the Palestinian group after the October 7, 2023 incursion from Gaza that claimed over 1,100 lives. More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave since.

Sullivan told reporters on Monday. "We are close to a deal, and it can get done this week." He said the proposal in question had been outlined by US President Joe Biden last June and involves "a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza."

A "breakthrough" was achieved shortly after midnight, according to Reuters, while Israel's Channel 12 described the developments in Doha as "dramatic" and claimed that a ceasefire could be announced as early as Tuesday.

Israel has accepted the proposal, which is now awaiting final approval by Hamas, multiple outlets in Tel Aviv have claimed. Both sides are reportedly eager to announce a deal before US President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20.

Turkey has strongly rejected a proposal to deploy French troops along the Syrian border to establish a secure zone aimed at easing tensions with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group Ankara considers a terrorist organisation.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Friday during a live press conference in Istanbul, said:

"Some small European countries participating in military operations in Syria under the US umbrella are attempting to further their own interests by speaking out on certain issues, but this brings no real benefit to themselves or the region.

"We do not engage with countries that try to hide behind America's power while advancing their own agendas."

Ankara has warned of a potential cross-border offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the SDF, if the group does not comply with Turkish demands.

Fidan reiterated that foreign fighters within the SDF, which is supported by the US, must leave the country, along with cadres from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), even if they were Syrian nationals.