The Daily Populous

Friday December 12nd, 2025 night edition

image for Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention, his attorney’s office says

Abrego Garcia’s attorney’s office confirmed he was released just before 5 p.m., the deadline the judge gave the government for an update on Abrego Garcia’s release.

Abrego Garcia had been held at Moshannon Valley Processing Center about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, front left, her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia, front center, and Attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, front right, attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

(AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File) Jennifer Vasquez Sura, front left, her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia, front center, and Attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, front right, attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“But Costa Rica had never wavered in its commitment to receive Abrego Garcia, just as Abrego Garcia never wavered in his commitment to resettle there,” the judge wrote.

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, and her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia.

(AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File) Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, and her husband Kilmar Abrego Garcia attend a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia. »

‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy

Authored by defenseone.com

Here are some takeaways from the unpublished version, which was reviewed by Defense One.

Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”.

After this story was published, the White House denied the existence of any version of the National Security Strategy other than the one published online. »

Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk

Authored by politico.eu

The assessment is one of the strongest warnings about the U.S. to come from a European intelligence service.

In October, the Dutch spies said they had stopped sharing some intelligence with their U.S. counterparts, citing political interference and human rights concerns.

"The USA's increasingly strong focus on the Pacific Ocean is also creating uncertainty about the country's role as the primary guarantor of security in Europe," the report said. »

Boston Data Show New Bike Lanes Successfully Shift Traffic, With Fewer Cars and Way More Bikes

Authored by mass.streetsblog.org
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"We can conclude that Better Bike Lanes projects built in 2023 and 2024 resulted in immediate and substantial increases in bike trips," the city's report concludes.

In the summer and fall of 2024, the City of Boston Transportation Department installed new bollard-separated bike lanes on several streets in downtown Boston, Back Bay, Allston, and Brighton.

Even before it had a safe bike lane, traffic counts recorded hundreds of daily bike trips on Boylston Street in 2022. »

Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI

Authored by techcrunch.com

It was chosen by the department’s then-DEI office, which has since been disbanded under Rubio amid the Trump administration’s anti-DEI directives.

The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.

Apparently, there were rumblings within the department in 2023 when Calibri was first adopted, the New York Times reported. »