The Daily Populous

Saturday December 27th, 2025 morning edition

image for FBI permanently closing HQ at J. Edgar Hoover Building, Kash Patel announces

The Brief The FBI is permanently closing the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

The FBI is permanently closing its headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, Director Kash Patel announced on Friday.

The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, July 21, 2025.

That building, Patel said, also needs some safety and infrastructure upgrades, but the FBI will move in once those upgrades are completed.

While most of the FBI headquarters staff will move to the new building, Patel said that several others will be reassigned to the field.

Patel did not give any timeline for those upgrades, or for when the Hoover building will be permanently closed. »

A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years

Authored by theguardian.com

But less so since March, when rapturous celebrations marked a rare occurrence: the birth of a child.

Lara Bussi Trabucco is the first baby to have been born in Pagliara dei Marsi in almost 30 years, bringing the village’s population to roughly 20.

View image in fullscreen Paolo and Cinzia received a one-off payment of €1,000, courtesy of the policies of Giorgia Meloni, on top of monthly child support. »

$400K lobster shipment hijacked en route to Illinois Costco locations

Authored by fox32chicago.com

The Brief A shipment of live lobsters bound for Illinois and Minnesota was hijacked before delivery, according to Rexing Companies.

A $400,000 shipment of live lobsters bound for Costco locations in Illinois and Minnesota was hijacked before delivery, according to the CEO of an Indiana-based logistics company.

Dylan Rexing, CEO of Rexing Companies, said the shipment was picked up in Taunton, Massachusetts, but never reached its destination. »