The Daily Populous

Dan Bongino stepping down as FBI deputy director.

Dan Bongino has said he will leave his role as the FBI's deputy director in January.

Bondi, who oversees the FBI, wrote in a brief post on X on Wednesday that "Americans are safer" because of Bongino's FBI service. »

Venezuela has begun escorting oil tankers out of its ports with naval vessels following US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a “total and complete” maritime blockade targeting the country’s oil exports, The New York Times reported on December 17.

Trump announced the blockade late on December 16, framing it as pressure on Venezuela’s oil sector amid growing friction with Caracas.

“Once you impose a naval blockade, you’re only a stone’s throw away from using kinetic force.”. »

While we traditionally think of November as a huge sales month what with Black Friday and all, November 2025 was the worst November in video game hardware unit sales, and the worst in physical software dollar sales the U.S. has seen since 1995.

Or perhaps consumers are looking elsewhere for holiday gifting as the prices continue to rise in video game hardware.

Physical software sales, meanwhile, dropped 14% year-over-year to the worst November since 1995, the year Circana began tracking them. »

The sabotage in Poland is one of 145 incidents in an Associated Press database that Western officials say are part of a campaign of disruption across Europe masterminded by Russia.

But officials say each act — from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires — sucks up valuable security resources.

While the campaign places a heavy burden on European security services, it costs Russia next to nothing, officials say. »